"Walking dew"
If you are tired of walking dew, why don't you stay up all night, saying that the dew is too much?
Who says a bird has no horns? Why did you pass through my house? Who says a woman is homeless? Why rush me to prison? Although I am imprisoned quickly, the room and family are not enough!
Who says a mouse has no teeth? Why wear my clothes? Who says a woman is homeless? Why speed up my lawsuit? Even if I sue quickly, I won’t obey!
Notes
①Yeyi (yeyi): wet appearance. 行(hang): road. Dew: There is dew on the road. ②Suye: This refers to early night, that is, when it is still dark. ③Said: Same as "wei", meaning fear. ④Corner: peck, mouth. ⑤Female: Same as "ru", you. Homeless: Having no family. This refers to not yet married. ⑥Speed: Incur. Prison: Litigation, litigation. ⑦Insufficient: It means that there are insufficient reasons for asking for a wife. ⑧Tang: wall, wall.
Translation
The road is wet with dew,
Don’t you want to get on your way early?
I'm afraid there will be a lot of dew on the road.
Say birds have no mouths?
How to peck through my house?
Who said you haven’t gotten married yet?
Why should you send me to jail?
Even if you send me to jail,
It’s not enough to start a family.
Who said mice have no teeth?
How to penetrate my wall?
Who said you haven’t gotten married yet?
Why should I be sued?
Even if you let me go to court,
I will never obey you.
Appreciation
This poem was written by an unknown woman who refused to marry a man who already had a family. The man obviously resorted to rape and torture, but the author did not give in and expressed his will in poetry.
Even by today's standards, this kind of integrity is worthy of praise and praise.
Integrity is a manifestation of the subject’s value. It is completely different from the value scale represented by money. Integrity is to maintain certain inner values, such as dignity, personality, ideals, etc., regardless of sacrificing actual actual interests, or even paying the price of blood and life. Therefore, it shows the lofty spiritual pursuit and realm of mankind.
Money represents actual actual benefits. When people only focus on the actual interests in front of them, it is entirely possible to sacrifice their spiritual pursuit of values ??and become like a walking zombie, only focusing on the rotten fish and shrimps in front of them. When a person becomes a slave to money, he completely loses the characteristics of a person and loses himself. As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. This is only partly true. Only money-making machines (machines have no life, no self-awareness, therefore no self, just a thing) will die for money.
There are indeed things in life that are much more important than money. Scholars can be killed but not humiliated. Humiliation is a mockery and ridicule of human dignity, and a contempt and obliteration of human value. For this, it is certainly worth paying the price of life. Being reduced to a slave and someone else's plaything should be regarded as the most miserable situation in life. In order to refuse and get rid of this situation, it is certainly worth paying the price and life. What we read from the poem is the awe-inspiring courage to say "no". This requires fearless spirit.
However, nowadays we rarely dare to say "no".