The tile-burning workers dug and dug all day, and all the soil in front of the door was dug up, but there was no tile in their house. Those rich people live in high-rise buildings covered with tiles without even touching their fingers.
I went to town yesterday and came back with tears in my eyes. Those who wear Luo Qi are not silkworm farmers. Silkworm girl
I went to the city to sell silk yesterday, and when I came back, my tears wet my sweat towel. It's not silkworm farmers who wear silks and satins.
Silkworm Girl is a five-character quatrain written by Zhang Yu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem reveals the shocking social reality that "the exploiters get nothing for nothing, and the workers have no clothes and no food" through what the sericulture peasant woman sees and feels when she goes to the city to sell silk, and shows the poet's sympathy for the working people and dissatisfaction with the oppression and exploitation of the ruling class.
The creative background of Silkworm Girl;
Compared with the chaotic situation in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties for more than a hundred years, the social situation in the early Song Dynasty was much more stable on the surface. The broad masses of people worked hard and worked hard to produce, which enabled the economy to recover and develop rapidly.
However, in order to consolidate its rule, the ruling class wantonly exploited and used its material wealth to pamper the former kings, ministers and huge bureaucratic landlord groups. Changyu tried again and again, and deeply realized the sufferings of the people. This poem was written by the poet to expose this phenomenon of exploitation and oppression after witnessing the hard work of the workers.
Refer to the above information: Baidu Encyclopedia-Silkworm Girl (Zhang Yu's Poetry)