A sentence in "Charcoal Vendors" expressing the ambivalence of Charcoal Vendors: Poor people are naked, but they are worried about charcoal and wish to be cold.

Selling Charcoal Weng is one of the poems of New Yuefu written by Bai Juyi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. It can best reflect the tragic experience and ambivalence of the charcoal seller: the poor man is wearing clothes, he is worried about charcoal, and he hopes that charcoal is cold.

I pity him for wearing only thin clothes, but I'm worried that charcoal won't sell. I hope it's colder. Reflects the inner contradictions of the elderly.

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Selling Charcoal Weng is the thirty-second poem of Bai Juyi's New Yuefu Group. Bai Juyi wrote New Yuefu in the early years of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (AD 806), when the court market was at its most rampant. He has a good understanding of the court market and deep sympathy for the people, so he can write this touching "charcoal man".

This poem embodies the creative characteristics of Bai Juyi's new Yuefu in art: vivid image, prominent theme, popular and vivid language and concise and complete narrative. In the typical image of selling charcoal Weng, the poet summarized the bitterness and bitterness of the working people in the Tang Dynasty, and reflected the darkness and injustice of the society at that time in the small matter of selling charcoal.