What does the charcoal burner mean?

Charcoal-burning Weng is a character in Charcoal-selling Weng and a poem in New Yuefu written by Bai Juyi, a poet in Tang Dynasty.

Through burning charcoal Weng's experience, this poem profoundly exposed the corrupt nature of the "palace market", gave a powerful whip to the ruler's crime of plundering the people, satirized the corrupt social reality at that time, and expressed the author's deep sympathy for the lower working people, which has strong social typical significance.

Appreciation of the whole poem:

This poem has profound ideological content and artistic characteristics. What can the poet do with the money from selling charcoal? These words show the only hope that the old man who is almost on the verge of life can have. This is the center of the whole poem. All other descriptions focus on this poetic eye. In the way of expression, contrast and contrast are flexible.

The fate of the old man, highlighting his old age with "grey temples" and the hardships of "reducing salary and burning charcoal" with "dust fireworks", set off the desolation and viciousness of Nanshan and aroused people's sympathy.

All this reflects the burning of old people's hopes: selling charcoal to get money, buying clothes and food. The old man wears simple clothes, and then uses the "one foot of snow" at night and the "ice trace" on the road as a foil, which makes people feel that the old man is pitiful.