An old man selling charcoal cuts wood and burns charcoal in the mountains in the south all year round.
His face was covered with dust, which was the color of smoke burning, his temples were gray, and his ten fingers were burnt black.
What is the money for selling charcoal for? Buy clothes, buy food in your mouth.
Pity that he is wearing thin clothes, but he is worried that charcoal can't be sold, hoping it will be colder.
At night, it snowed a foot thick outside the city. Early in the morning, the old man drove a charcoal wheel to the market.
Cows are tired and people are hungry, but the sun has risen very high. They are resting in the mud outside the south gate of the market.
Who is that proud man riding on two horses? It was the eunuchs in the palace and eunuchs who did it.
The eunuch, with documents in his hand and the emperor's orders in his mouth, shouted at the petrified palace.
A load of charcoal, more than 1000 kilograms, eunuch attendants to drive away, the old man is helpless, but there is no way.
Half horse red and full of silk, char to the bull's head.
According to the sequence of events, the poem describes the tragic process of selling charcoal, and it is hard to transport charcoal to the market, and charcoal is plundered by imperial envoys. Bai Juyi expressed his feelings for the people with poems, reflected the bitterness and pain of the working people with the image of selling charcoal Weng, and criticized the palace market, one of the evils in the middle Tang Dynasty, and the cruel exploitation of the working people by the ruling class.