潍县[1]署中画竹潍县署中画竹呈年伯包大中丞括
[清]郑燮
衙斋[2]卧听萧萧[3]竹，
疑是民间疾苦声。
些小[4]吾曹[5]州县吏，
一枝一叶总关情[6]。
注释：
[1]潍县：今山东潍坊市。
[2]衙斋：官署书房。
[3]萧萧：竹枝摇动的声音。
[4]些小：小小，指官职卑微。
[5]吾曹：我辈。
[6]关情：牵动感情。
Written on a Picture of Bamboo[1]
Zheng Xie
I listen in my office to rustling bamboo;
It seems to complain of its woe as people do.
Petty official, I should try to play my part;
To ease shivering leaf as sorrow-laden heart.
注释：
[1]This quatrain was written on a picture drawn by the poet for Governor Bao.
“Painting Bamboo in Weixian County Office Presented to My Uncle Bao Dazhong Cheng Kuo” is a seven-character quatrain written by the Qing Dynasty poet Zheng Xie. The poem first describes the sounds heard in the county office one night, then associates it with the suffering of the people, and finally expresses the poet’s ambition to take the people’s livelihood as his own. The poem uses metaphors to reveal the poet’s deep concern for the fate of the people.
