"Wu Yeer: Mocking the Greedy Man".
A grain of rice needle is worn and eaten, and a penny is cut and charged, but the mouth is ambiguous. Look at children like mud swallows, love money like blood flies. In the night of nothingness, they all saved gold and silver, and they all made bread to satisfy hunger.
Interpretation: A grain of rice is eaten with a needle, a penny is cut into several pieces to spend, and every word and deed is a conscience. Treat children as hard as swallows in mud, and treat money like bloodthirsty flies, and they don't let go at all. I have been accumulating money day and night, but in the end I still draw bread to satisfy my hunger.
This song describes the world as loving money as life and doing anything for money, portraying the image of such people who are insatiable and extremely selfish, implying the author's great irony for the greedy. Xiao Ling exaggerated with the help of appropriate metaphors, and vividly depicted the behavior and mood of the greedy man.
A grain of rice is worn and eaten, and a penny is cut and charged", at the beginning, two extremely exaggerated, but familiar specific images are used - a grain of rice is eaten with a needle, and a penny is cut into several pieces to spend, outlining the ridiculous and contemptible demeanor of a greedy man, which suddenly touches on one of the important characteristics of this type of character - miserliness.
This kind of caricature technique is often used in the satirical works of folk literature, which is straightforward, pungent and happy, with vivid images, and in one sentence. "But the opening is ignorant", it can be said that it further debunks the essence of the character of the greedy man. For the sake of money, they have a conscience all the time. Although the three words "but opening" are ordinary but profound, they expose the soul of the greedy man who exudes the smell of copper, which is simple and thorough, not ambiguous at all, and also reflects the characteristics of folk language.
Next, the author uses two metaphors to describe the two different forms of expression of the greedy man's philosophy of life, but the essence is the same: "Look at children like mud swallows, love money like blood flies." They treat their children like swallows that build a nest in the mud, and they work hard, and they are really "willing to be horses and cattle for their children"; Treat money like a bloodthirsty fly, sucking desperately, and not letting go of it at all. Both of these attitudes are actually manifestations of the insatiable and extremely selfish character of such people. Not only do they plan for themselves, but from the point of view of feudal patriarchy, they also have to plan for future generations. For this reason, they do not hesitate to harm others and benefit themselves, and they are desperate to grab money. These two sentences are a high summary of the character traits of greedy men by the people who are experienced in life, and the metaphors are popular, which are common phenomena in life, but they are all used appropriately.
The greedy man is so greedy, but the result is: "Saving gold and silver at night, they all make bread to satisfy hunger!" "Accumulating money day and night, in fact, gold and silver treasures are nothing, and in the end it is "painting bread to satisfy hunger", all in vain, and it is empty.
This small order satirizes the people and things that often exist in society, and the fate of such people can be imagined by the reader. They hurt nature and reason, and accumulate wealth by unscrupulous means, but in the end, they either harm themselves for wealth, or they are involved by their children, and even harm their children, and they rarely achieve good results. The author uses the allusion of "painting bread to satisfy hunger" to summarize their fate, which has an endless aftertaste and is thought-provoking.