"Who knows how much hard work has gone into each and every grain of rice in the bowl?" a Chinese proverb asks, urging us to be grateful to farmers. Well, how much do we know about the water buffalo, which has toiled away in our rice paddies for thousands of years?
我們常說「誰知盤中餐，粒粒皆辛苦」，感謝的是農夫；對為我們耕田服役千年的水牛，又瞭解多少呢？