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Old Crone

Yang Weizhen 1296-1370 Old crone Old crone At the age of seventy plus nineteen years In my youth already married, can't you see?!?

Lǎo Kèfù

Yáng Wéizhēn 1296-1370 Lǎo kèfù Lǎo kèfù Xíngnián qīshí yòu shījiǔ Shàonián jiàfū shèn fēnmíng

Translator:

Dongbo 東波

Notes: The brutal founder of the Ming Dynasty, 朱元璋 Zhu Yuanzhang 1328-1398, summoned Yang Weizhen to court and ordered him to become an official. Already old, Yang Weizhen refused and sent this rather cheeky poem as his reply. Surprisingly the emperor allowed Yang to return home as a retiredscholar.

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