Every Grain of Rice Comes Hard-Won

"Hoeing grain beneath the midday sun, sweat falling onto the earth below. Who knows that every grain in the bowl comes from hard toil?"

Li Shen's poem "Toiling Farmers" is known by heart by almost everyone, literate or not, from elegant scholars holding fans to burly, dark-skinned men, from little children to white-haired elders.

So here's the problem: there's nothing wrong with the poem itself. If anything, the blame can only fall on the line "Hoeing grain beneath the midday sun."

Why? Because the protagonist is named Qi Dangwu! Qi Dangwu absolutely hates that joke! And what's more, his junior schoolmate is named Shen Chuhe!

I just want to ask, what century are your names from? What century?!!

Weren't you supposed to be fresh young people of the twenty-first century?!!!!