The poem ‘Seeing Several Fishing Boats Embarrassed by Public Soldiers on the River’ is a five character quatrain written by Yuan Hongdao of the Ming Dynasty. The first two lines of the poem describe the desolate scene of a fisherman with frost on his fishing rod at dawn and clothes covered in thin reed fluff; The last two sentences describe the social situation behind the fisherman, where land that was not registered with the government was also reclaimed by officials. It expresses the author’s anger towards an unfair society and sympathy for the impoverished and disadvantaged living conditions of the lower class people.
《江上见数渔舟为公卒所窘》是明朝的袁宏道写的一首五言绝句。诗中前两句描写了黎明时分鱼竿上的霜以及沾满了芦苇花绒单薄的衣服渔翁的凄苦景象；后两句记叙了渔夫身后，没有在官府登记的土地也被官差收回的社会现状。表达了作者对不公社会的愤怒和对积贫积弱生活窘破底层人民的同情。
袁宏道·《江上见数渔舟为公卒所窘》
钓竿拂晓霜，衣薄芦花絮。
一亩不籍官，也被官差去。
Yamen Runners Pressganging Fishermen on a River
Yuan Hongdao
They go fishing at dawn amid frost,
Wearing clothes thinly padded with reed catkins.
Though there is not a mu of land registered as theirs,
They are drafted to do unpaid services all the same.
