Original text

Trumpet, suona, small tunes and loud tunes. The traffic of official ships is chaotic, and it all depends on you to raise your voice.

The army is worried when the army hears it, and the people are afraid when it hears it. Where can I tell what is true and what is false?

What you see blows over this house and hurts that house, just blow all the water and make the geese fly away!

Translation

The trumpet and suona play short songs, but the sound is very loud. The official ship traffic is frequent and chaotic, all relying on you to improve your reputation and status.

The army is worried when they hear it, and the people are afraid when they hear it. Where can we tell what is true and what is false?

Seeing this caused some families to lose their fortunes, while others were severely damaged. The rivers dried up and geese flew away, and their families were destroyed!

About the author

Wang Pan is known as the crown of Nanqu. A Sanqu writer and painter in the Ming Dynasty, he was also knowledgeable in medicine. The courtesy name is Hongjian, a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu. When he was young, he failed to take the imperial examination and never held an official position in his life. He indulged himself in landscapes, poetry and painting, built a tower in the west of the city, and sang and chanted with the literati all day long, so he called himself "West Tower". During the Zhengde period, the eunuchs were in power. When ships arrived at Gaoyou, they often blew trumpets and harassed the people. He wrote a satirical poem "Chao Tianzi: Ode the Trumpet". He is the author of "Wang Xilou Yuefu", "Mr. Wang Xilou Yuefu", "Wild Vegetables" and "Xilou Rhymed Poems".