The Book of Songs Shuoshu
Shuoshu: Big mouse. None: Don't. Millet: a kind of grain, generally referring to grain. Three years old: many years, a long time. Guan: Serve. Female: Same as "makeup". Don't care about me: just don't care about me. Rats, rats, stop eating our food! I have served you for years in vain, but you never care about my life or death.
This is a poem that satirizes the exploiters for nothing and harms the people, showing the hatred and hatred of the ancestors for these people. Rats are universally acknowledged as bad people who are not beneficial or harmful. The Book of Songs wrote this harmful essence into literary works for the first time, and since then it has created a precedent for using mice to compare corrupt officials, wicked people and exploiters. Later, literary works about mice abound. Although there are only metaphors (mice) in this poem, and the noumenon (exploiters) is not revealed, readers can make an analogy according to their extremely similar essential characteristics (unearned gains and insatiable greed). This metaphor is apt and vivid, with shallow meaning and strong irony.