高振霄 行书:郑遨《富贵曲》
【释文】美人梳洗时,满头间珠翠。岂知两片云,戴却几乡税。
【款识】振霄。
【简析】
此诗语言清浅,讽旨颇深。诗人仅仅抓住富室女子首饰之华美珍贵这样一个典型事物进行渲染,深刻地揭露出贵戚显宦、地主富室生活的奢靡浮华。
不仅如此,含蓄也当是此诗的一个艺术特色。诗写一个富室女子的两片云髻就花费了“数乡”农民所缴纳的赋税,这就说明,她们所挥霍的并非他物,而是广大农民的血汗钱,从而以诗的语言形象地揭示了封建社会赋税的剥削本质,对农民的苦难寄寓了深刻的同情。
【Simple Translation】
This poem has a shallow language but a deep satirical meaning. The poet only seizes a typical thing such as the luxurious and precious jewelry of the rich women to render, and profoundly exposes the extravagant and pompous life of the noble relatives and prominent officials and the rich landlords.
The poem is also characterized by its subtlety. It is written that the two pieces of cloud buns of a rich woman cost the tax paid by the peasants in “several villages”, which shows that what they squandered was not something else but the hard-earned money of the peasants, thus revealing the exploitative nature of feudal society’s taxation in the language of the poem and expressing deep sympathy for the suffering of the peasants.