夏畦
xià​qí

to work in the fields in summer

夏畦 xià​qí
to work in the fields in summer
(literary) to work hard in the fields during the hot summer; often used as a metaphor for toiling in labor
to flatter
(literary) to fawn over or flatter others; originally from a passage in Mencius comparing the physical strain of forced laughter to the exhaustion of working in summer fields