mei yao chen
Famous sentence: ten fingers don't touch mud, and scales live in the building.
Guide reading
Mei (1002— 1060) was born in Xuancheng, Xuanzhou (now Anhui). Xuancheng was called Wanling in ancient times, so it was called Mei Wanling. In the third year of Injong (105 1), he was called to try and was given the background of Jinshi. His poetic style is simple and unpretentious, which is called "Wanling Style". There is a collection of Mr. Wan Ling.
Original poem
When making pottery in front of the door, there is no tile in the house.
Ten fingers never touch mud, and scales live in the building.
To annotate ...
Potter: A worker who fires pottery. ② Pottery: used as a verb here, making pottery by borrowing soil. 3 scales: the tiles on the roof are like layers of fish scales.
Translate poetry
Dig out the soil in front of the door to burn bricks,
There is not a tile on my house.
Those ten people whose fingers have never been stained with mud,
But there are brick high-rise buildings.
Make an appreciative comment
Many of Mei's works are full of sympathy for the people, and this little poem is such a work. It focuses on a kind of social inequality and describes the facts that people know in vivid language: there are two kinds of people in this society, one is those who get something for nothing, and the other is those who get something for nothing. On the one hand, people who burn tiles hard have no tile houses, on the other hand, people who don't burn tiles live in big tile houses.
The examples described in the poem are typical, the language is vivid and exaggerated, the tone is calm and profound, and the method of artistic contrast is used, which has strong expressive force and good results.