Selling Charcoal Weng is the thirty-second of Fifty Poems of New Yuefu written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem expresses the general situation with an example, describes the hardships of an old man who burns charcoal for a living, deeply exposes the corrupt nature of the "palace market" through the experience of selling charcoal Weng, and gives a powerful whip and blow to the ruler's crime of plundering the people.
An old man who sells charcoal cuts wood and burns charcoal in Nanshan all the year round. His face was covered with dust and smoke, his temples were gray, and his ten fingers were blackened by charcoal. What is the money from selling charcoal for? Buy clothes to wear and food to eat in your mouth. It's a pity that he only wears thin clothes, but he is worried that charcoal won't sell at a good price, hoping it will be colder.
It snowed a foot thick outside the city at night. In the morning, the old man ran over the frozen wheel tracks in a charcoal car and hurried to the market. Cattle are tired and people are hungry, but the sun has risen very high and rested in the mud outside the south gate of the market. Who is the man riding two horses outside the cloud nine? They are eunuchs, eunuchs in the palace.
The eunuch held the official document in his hand, but said it was the emperor's order and shouted to pull the cow to the palace. A load of charcoal, 1000 kilograms, was insisted by eunuch officers. The old man is reluctant to give up, but he is helpless. Those people hung half a horse's red yarn and a silk on the cow's head as the price of charcoal.
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Poems of Tang and Song Dynasties compiled by Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty: Things are written directly, but the meaning is self-evident, let alone a judgment. Chen Yinque's Notes on Bai Yuan's Poems: Those who live in the palace city are the most seriously ill people in the late Zhenyuan period and should be included in Lotte's New Yuefu.
And it was learned by Lotte, so this article is very vivid. What's more, this article tells a story directly, which is no different from that contained in Shi Wen, except that it is not discussed at the end, which is slightly different from other articles, but its feelings are self-evident.