Spring silkworms cocoon and take silk, and autumn harvest is not taxed.
2, if you don't work hard enough, you will hate it for a long time. -"Singing Silkworm" Jiang [Five Dynasties]
Hard-earned cocoons are not enough baskets, and silkworm boiling in the middle of the night is longer than silk.
3, crimson wax and other tears, Wu silkworm lingering. -"Duanzi Liu Xia Sheng Ge Yuan" Yan [Song]
Candles accompany people to cry, and spring silkworms spin silk, telling endless sadness and lingering.
4. Zigui crows at four o'clock, like a thick silkworm afraid of thin leaves. -"Silkworm Girl" Xie Fangde [Song Dynasty]
The cuckoo crows at four o'clock outside the window, waking up the sericulture woman to take care of the silkworm baby, fearing that the lack of mulberry leaves will affect the silkworm baby's spinning and cocoon formation these days.
Silkworms will weave until they die in spring, and candles will drain the wick every night. -"Untitled" Li Shangyin [Tang Dynasty]
Spring silkworms don't spin silk when they die, and wax oil like tears can drip dry when candles are burned to ashes.