1, full text
This sentence is from a poem titled "Singing the Horn to the Emperor" written by Wang Pan, a writer of Sanqu in Ming Dynasty, and included in Wang Xilou Yuefu. The full text is as follows:
Trumpet and suona, the music is short, but loud. The official ship is like a mess, and it depends on you to improve your prestige. The army listens to the army, and the people listen to the people's fear. Where can I see the truth? Look at some people's stones, so that some people's vitality will be blown away, and the family will be ruined!
2. Translation
Horn and lock, the music is short, but loud. There are a lot of ships coming and going in the yamen, and it is up to you to raise your reputation. Soldiers are worried about soldiers, and people are afraid of soldiers. Where can I tell the truth from the false? Some people are ruined when they look at it, and some people are seriously injured. Only the water was dried and the goose flew away.
3. Introduction to the work
Blowing the Horn to the Emperor is the representative work of Wang Pan, a writer of Sanqu in Ming Dynasty, which was written to satirize eunuchs. Although the whole song did not mention a eunuch positively, it vividly portrayed their ugliness, filled with contempt and indignation for eunuchs in a relaxed humor, and expressed the voice of the people.
The whole song expresses emotion by borrowing things, vividly depicts the ugly behavior of eunuchs, satirizes and exposes the evil deeds of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and expresses people's hatred.
4. Introduction to the author
Wang Pan (about 1470 ~ 1530) was an essayist in the Ming Dynasty. The word hung-chien. No, it's the west building. Gaoyou (now Jiangsu) people. I have been a student, tired of its bondage, abandoned it, never responded to life again, and indulged in landscape poetry and painting. Building a building in the west of Gaoyou city, talking and laughing with celebrities, because of the name "West Building".
His Sanqu has a wide range of themes. During the period of Zheng De, eunuchs were in power, and when the ship arrived in Gaoyou, they blew trumpets to disturb the people and made a satirical song "Singing the Horn to the Emperor".
Wang Pan Sanqu has 65 poems and divertimentos? 9 songs, all belonging to Nanqu. He is the author of Wang Xilou Yuefu, a Qingming Day Tour in Jiangyin, Mr. Wang Xilou Yuefu, Wild Recipes, and Poems on the West Building.