There are some poems about the working people in "The Book of Songs", such as "Cutting the Sandalwood" that we have learned in our Chinese textbooks: Cutting down the sandalwood in the rough places, leaving it on the dry side of the river, the water is clear and rippled .
No crops, no crops, and three hundred grains of grain? If you don’t hunt or hunt, how can there be a county in Hu Zhan’erting? That gentleman is not a vegetarian! The Kankan cuts are radiating, and they are placed on the side of the river. The river water is clear and pure. If there is no harvest and no harvest, 30 billion will be taken away? If you don’t hunt or hunt, how can Hu Zhanerting have the characteristics of a county? That gentleman is not a vegetarian! The wind and waves are cut, and the river is placed in the river. The water is clear and flowing.
No crops, no crops, and three hundred grains of crops? If you don't hunt, you won't hunt. Hu Ji, burdened with light, panic, scolded, and spent money with Han Kuozhan. Are there any county quails in Erting? That gentleman is so unsatisfied! There is another song that is also relatively famous, "The Charcoal Seller" by Bai Juyi The charcoal seller was cutting firewood to burn charcoal in the southern mountains. His face was dusty and smoky, his temples were gray and his fingers were black.
Where do you get money from selling charcoal? The clothes on your body and the food in your mouth. Poor clothes, only the clothes are thin, and I am worried and wishing for the cold weather.
At night there is a foot of snow outside the city, and at dawn I drive a charcoal cart through the ice tracks. The cows are trapped and the people are hungry. The sun is getting high and they rest in the mud outside the south gate of the city.
Who is Pian Pian riding here? The messenger in yellow is in white. He holds the document in his hand and pronounces the edict, returns to the carriage and shouts at the oxen to lead them north.
A cart of charcoal weighs more than a thousand kilograms, and the palace envoy will regret it. Half a piece of red gauze and one foot of silk are tied straight to the cow's head and filled with charcoal.
There are also Du Fu's "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", namely: "Xin'an Officials", "Tongguan Officials", "Shihao Officials", "Newlywed Farewell", "Elderly Farewell" and "No Home Farewell". Abbreviation. These six poems were planned and arranged by Du Fu in March of the second year of Qianyuan (759).
In March of that year, the Tang Dynasty's 600,000-strong army was defeated in Yecheng, and the country's situation was very critical. In order to quickly replenish their troops, the rulers implemented an unrestricted, unsystematic, and inhumane Rav policy.
Du Fu witnessed these phenomena with his own eyes, and wrote these six poems with conflicting and painful feelings. This war is different from the brutal militarism during the Tianbao period. It is an effort to save the nation and survive.
So, while Du Fu profoundly exposed the darkness of military service and cursed "Heaven and Earth will never be merciful," he had to support this kind of military service; he not only sympathized with the people's pain, but also had to comfort and encourage those who The "middle-aged man" who has not yet become a teenager comes to the front line. Under the unbearable cruel oppression, wives persuaded their husbands and mothers sent their children to the battlefield one after another. Some old women even gave their lives.
While exposing the cruelty and cruelty of the ruling class, Du Fu praised the broad masses of the people with infinite sympathy and gratitude, and with vivid and vivid writing. "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells" have different expression techniques. The so-called "Three Officials" include question and answer narration, while the "Three Farewells" are purely entrusted to the travelers.