Salt boats sail on the Daixi River, and only fishing boats come from the river.
The salt shop was originally opened by the rich man, and the salt seller came by boat.
The boss is a man who makes money, and the poor is a man who beats his chest.
Don't be a salt dealer. If you shoot an arrow through your chest, you will accomplish nothing.
Salt is a necessity, but there is no salt in western Hubei. Eating salt depends entirely on salt dealers trafficking from other places. This song vividly depicts the relationship and different situations between the rich man, the salt dealer and the back foot who transports salt into the mountain, and it is conceivable that the reality of ordinary people's life is "fighting for rice and salt".
There is a description of the poor life of all kinds of poor people, such as Pato the Tailor:
Mr. pox has a pockmarked face. It turned out to be a sick shell.
Carpenters have no benches to sit on, and tailors wear cloth slippers.
Another example is The Trumpeter:
Drummer Drummer crouched at the gate.
Three bowls of meat and two bowls of wine, just like others look at dogs.
Artisans of various occupations are indispensable in people's lives, but they can't make a living by hard work, and their status is humble and they are not respected. The bitterness of life made them sing their hearts out.
Sing songs about the hardships of long-term and short-term workers, such as "a mass of blood in my heart";
Half a day after lunch, half a year after June,
Long-term workers only look at the full moon, and short-term workers only look at the sun.
Five pounds of iron hoes, one pick a day, dig black.
Holding a fruit bubble, doing evil in previous lives.
It's hard to help people, either lifting or picking.
The shrimp climbed onto the plow and knew when it would stick out.
Helping long-term workers suffer from annual losses, and three meals are not correct.
A bone fell to the foreign minister and a pair of eyes fell.
Think about it silently, but I can't think of the first three or the last four.
Tuanyu stepped on the back of the cow and endured a mass of blood in her heart.
Although it is hard work for many years, it still leads to poverty and yearning and expectation. It is despair, then the curse of poverty, and the complaint and resistance to the rich. Please see "Long-term workers are only poor": Tung trees are beaten only for oil, and long-term workers are only poor.
Poor is poor on the land. If you want to shoot sparrows, you have no stone head.
Another example is "Don't be afraid of the boss glaring":
The boss doesn't care about the life of a long-term worker, Jiazi and Ugly muddle along year after year.
Run three miles on the ridge and three inches off the ground.
Not afraid of the boss glaring.
The poor, the long-term workers and the rich are two different kinds of people. There is a sharp opposition between squeezing and being squeezed. Please watch a play "The poor don't make friends with the rich":
The poor should not make friends with the rich. The intersection of the poor and the rich is hard and boring.
Father-in-law has money and light, but he has long hair when he sees the poor.
My father-in-law's birthday arrived yesterday, and the husband and wife paid a New Year call.
There are also many gifts, radish and cabbage are all big choices.
I also carried a jar of sweet mash and put two pieces of red glutinous rice outside.
Go to my father-in-law's house and call him New Year.
You can't pour tea without cigarettes. Wrinkle your nose and call it Xiao Mo!
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It's good to be silent on the mat, a few bowls of Chinese cabbage and tofu strips,
A bowl of belly is not fried well, and two bowls of fat are hair.
I was not satisfied at the dining table, so I added half a bowl of tea.
When my grandfather saw that I had eaten too much, his eyes bulged out like urine.
When the couple saw something bad, they sat down and fled.
There was a cry outside the trough door, forever denying the old miscellaneous hair.
The style and emotional appeal of "The Bitter Daughter-in-law Song" are similar to that of "The Song of Long-term Workers", which mostly praises feudal marriage, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and their unfortunate situation, and expresses strong sadness by singing short songs about Long song. For example, the song of a bitter daughter-in-law: the first month, the first month came, and my husband's family asked to be a matchmaker.
Two men, two horses and two rich men are matchmakers.
Flowers bloom in February, and the husband's family wants a big sedan chair.
Two people, two horses and two sedan chairs, go to the door to get married and carry people.
In March, it was Qingming, but it was a pity that my parents had a heart.
For a while, the plate is not big, and when it is big, it will be given to others.
In April, when transplanting seedlings was busy, my brother asked me to send tea soup.
Little feet and big shoes, cry one step at a time.
In May, it is Duanyang, and water is carried into the kitchen every day.
The bucket is long and far, and I think of my parents crying.
In June, trees are shaded and peonies are in bloom.
Flowers, red flowers and green flowers are all the same, among which I am cold.
In July, July 7th, planting millet early means eating it early.
Good tea and good rice are eaten by others, and the rest of the tea and light rice are mine.
Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the grain harvest was sweaty.
My father-in-law cursed my mother-in-law, and they all treated me like a slave.
September, September 9, everyone makes wine,
Other people's wine tastes good, but I don't taste my wine.
October, October is big, I work hard to grow crops.
Mung bean wheat is planted in the first year and used in famine in the second year.
In winter months, winter solstice and cold days, it freezes and snows heavily.
I have a cucumber in my hand.
In the twelfth lunar month, Bodhisattva Xu wrote a letter to her family.
Crying parents don't care, this number will die.
The protagonist of the bitter daughter-in-law Song Li, since the girl entered the door to be a daughter-in-law, is completely a slave image, without the pleasure of labor, emotional comfort and happiness between husband and wife. This is a social custom cultivated by the inferiority of feudal tradition, which doomed the daughter-in-law's low status and bitter fate. So Tujia people in western Hubei call their daughter-in-law kannika nimtragol. However, kannika nimtragol is also dissatisfied with this enslaved reality, and they also give a cry of resistance. Please look at a song "Kannika nimtragol":
Sleeping God, sleeping God, people can't help sleeping,
I only hope that my in-laws will die early and my daughter-in-law will be a good person.
(Mother-in-law asks: "What is it? ! ")
Kannika nimtragol warily sings again:
Sleepy, sleepy, you can't help being sleepy.
I only hope that my in-laws will live to be a hundred years old, but at the foot of a big tree.
Although the daughter-in-law has been separated from her husband and wife and suffered mental pain, many poor people in Tujia areas in western Hubei have become lonely bachelors because of their life difficulties, but bachelors encounter another kind of misfortune. Please look at two "bachelor songs":
Bachelor, bachelor, bachelor's bed,
Sleep like two rolling cows with a thin knife beam in the middle.
I slept until midnight and sang a song. The next door said I was poor and happy.
Who knows that I am a bachelor and can't sleep without a wife?
Speaking of being single, it's very hard, and no one can mend the clothes when they are broken.
I ate a lot of rice with starch and wore a lot of chicken ass.
Because of poverty, many bachelors can't get married all their lives and live a lonely and inferior life. They are humorous and seem to be crying out their grievances, implying resentment against suffering. There are many exhortation songs about managing a family and being a man in daily life in life songs, which are also very thorough and instructive. Such as "convince Langer":
I advised my husband to read articles attentively, read more poems and books than others, and become famous all over the world.
Second, advise my lang not to make a statement. Wool pen is five minutes long, like a killing gun.
Three, advise my brother, advise you not to gamble, ten bets and nine breaks, and a few whereabouts.
Fourth, advise me to be good and not to go to the streets if I have nothing to do. Nowadays, the streets are full of flowers and money.
Fifth, it is unreasonable to persuade the younger brother to eat less wine and eat more glasses of wine, but he is bullied by others.
Sixth, advise my husband not to go to bed early, get up early in three days and get up late in two days.
Persuade slaves not to make friends with leprechauns, who have no conscience and are not close to their relatives.
Eight advise slaves to make friends and not lose their families. An ugly wife is priceless and cannot be used as dung grass.
9. Persuade slave enemies not to do business, and make money by doing business, which is eye-catching.
I don't know if I should listen to all ten things. If Xiao Lang doesn't listen, it will be a waste of the slave's heart.