[Song] Zhang Yu (2)
I went to town yesterday.
I came back with tears on my face. ④
Black and blue (5) Luo Qi (6),
Not a silkworm raiser.
To annotate ...
① Silkworm (c2n) female-a woman who keeps silkworms. Silkworm, an insect, spits silk as an important textile raw material, which is mainly used for spinning silks and satins.
② Zhang Yu (Y *), a poet in the Song Dynasty. The year of birth and death is unknown. Few words are stupid. Pixian, Yizhou (now Pixian, Sichuan) people. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan, calling himself Mr. Baiyun. His works include White Clouds.
(3) the city-doing business, buying and selling goods. This refers to selling silk.
Towels-handkerchiefs or other small pieces of cloth are used for wiping.
All over the body
6. Luo Qi (Q! )-the floorboard of silk fabrics. Luo, plain or thin silk. Silk fabrics with patterns or patterns. In poetry, it refers to clothes made of silk.
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A woman who lives in the countryside and raises silkworms for a living went to the city to sell silk yesterday. When she came back, she was in tears, and the sad tears even soaked the towel. Because the people she saw wearing beautiful silk clothes in the city were not silkworm farmers who worked as hard as her!
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Zhang Yu's poetry works are not many, but this "Silkworm Girl" has made him occupy a place on the big stage of China's classical poetry. Silkworm Girl, written in the Northern Song Dynasty, is full of satire and criticism of the society at that time. At that time, the feudal court, while wasting too much, compromised with foreign enemies, which increased the burden on the people and made life miserable. In this context, the poet described the experience of an ordinary woman who worked all day and didn't often go to town. She has been raising silkworms and selling silk for a living in poor rural areas. The whole poem is like telling a story: a woman went to town yesterday to sell silk, but she came back crying. Because she saw that people in silk clothes in the city were rich and powerful. Working people like her, even if they have raised silkworms all their lives, are unable to put on the "Luo Qi" ... This poem reveals the unreasonable reality that rulers get something for nothing, which is very convincing. There is no comment or profound association in the whole poem, but readers can easily feel the actual meaning of the poem and the poet's thoughts and feelings between the lines. Ancient poems fully expressed the author's dissatisfaction with the society at that time and expressed his deep sympathy for the working people.
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