This is a poem about 2700 years ago, written as an instruction on how to be a farmer in the iron age (the other four ages are: golden age, silver age, bronze age, and age of heroes) for his brother. It might be the earliest moral instruction before the Bible, which argues that labour is the only good way for human survival.
There are some views that we may think unreasonable today: you cannot urinate with standing posture facing the Sun; you cannot urinate on the road side during the travel; you cannot urinate into the rivers or lakes; you cannot masturbate; you should hire a woman slave and ox to be a good farmer; management is the most important thing to run a farm; boys should be married in their thirties, and girls should be married in their twenties; you need to choose special days for all of your activities...
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