1. "Untitled·It's hard to say goodbye when we meet" Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin

Original text:

It's hard to say goodbye when we meet, the east wind is powerless The flowers are gone.

Spring silkworms will not run out of silk until they die, and wax torches will not dry until they turn to ashes.

When you look into the mirror at dawn, you are worried about the clouds on your temples. When you sing at night, you should feel the cold moonlight.

There is not much way to get to Pengshan, and the blue bird is diligent in visiting.

Translation: It is a rare opportunity to meet, and it is even more difficult to part ways. Moreover, the weather of late spring is about to end with the east wind, and the flowers have faded, which makes people even more sad. A spring silkworm spins a cocoon and spins out all its silk only when it dies. A candle burns out and turns to ashes before the tear-like wax drips dry.

When a woman dresses up and looks in the mirror in the morning, she is only worried that her lush, cloud-like hair will change color and her youthful appearance will disappear. If a man moans and cannot sleep at night, he must feel the cold moon encroaching upon him. The other party's residence is not far away from Penglai Mountain, but there is no way to get there and it is out of reach. I hope there will be a messenger like a blue bird who will diligently visit my lover for me.

2. "Silkworm Woman" Song Dynasty: Zhang Yu

Original text:

I entered the city yesterday and came back with tears in my eyes.

Those who are covered with silkworms are not sericulture people.

Translation: A woman who lives in the countryside and raises silkworms for a living went to the city yesterday to go to the market and sell silk. When she came back, she was in tears, and her handkerchief was even soaked with sad tears. Because when she saw people in the city wearing beautiful silk clothes, they were not hard-working silkworm farmers like her at all!

3. "Silkworm Woman" Tang Dynasty: Du Xunhe

Original text:

Pink is completely colorless, how could you know that there is glory in the world. ?

Every year I tell you that I work hard on silkworms, but I am covered in ramie.

Translation: My face is sallow and has no luster. I don’t know what glory and wealth there are in the world. Every year they say I work hard raising silkworms, why do I wear ramie clothes?

4. "The Song of the Silkworm Woman" Song Dynasty: Xie Fangde

Original text:

When Zigui crows at the fourth watch, he looks at the thick silkworms and is afraid of the thin leaves.

If you don’t believe in the willow moon above the building, the beauties singing and dancing have never returned.

Translation: The cuckoo bird cries out of the window at the fourth watch, waking up the silkworm woman to get up and take care of the silkworm babies. She is worried that the lack of mulberry leaves in the past few days will affect the silkworm babies spinning silk and forming cocoons. The sound of singing and dancing can be heard from far away. Could it be that it is late at night and the singing girls feasting in the high-rise building have not returned to sleep?

5. "Song of Silkworms" Five Dynasties: Jiang Yigong

Original text:

Working so hard that the cocoon will not fill the basket, and the silk reeling under the lamp will be longer. ?

I don’t know where I came from, but I am greedy and have mandarin ducks embroidered on my clothes.

Translation: The cocoons obtained through hard work are not full in the basket, and the silkworms are boiled late at night and the silk is longer than the silk. The nobles don't know how hard it is to raise silkworms when they wear silk silk. They are just greedy for the embroidered mandarin ducks on their clothes.