This poem reveals the pain and ambivalence of charcoal sellers.

The poem that reveals the tragic situation and ambivalence of charcoal sellers is: the poor are naked, and they are worried about charcoal and would rather be cold.

I pity him for wearing only thin clothes, but I'm worried that charcoal won't sell. I hope it's colder. His thin clothes should be warm. On the contrary, the old people forced by life are "worried about charcoal and cold." In order to sell more charcoal, he would rather endure double cold. This ambivalence profoundly shows the tragic situation of charcoal sellers.

Translation of Charcoal Man

An old man who sells charcoal cuts wood and burns charcoal in Nanshan all the year round.

His face was covered with dust and smoke, his temples were gray, and his ten fingers were blackened by charcoal.

What is the money from selling charcoal for? Buy clothes to wear and food to eat in your mouth.

It's a pity that he only wears thin clothes, but he is worried that charcoal can't be sold, hoping it will be colder.

It snowed a foot thick outside the city at night. In the morning, the old man ran over the frozen wheel tracks in a charcoal car and hurried to the market.

Cattle are tired and people are hungry, but the sun has risen very high and rested in the mud outside the south gate of the market.

Who is the man riding two horses? They are eunuchs, eunuchs in the palace.

The eunuch held the official document in his hand, but said it was the emperor's order and shouted to pull the cow to the palace.

A load of charcoal, 1000 kilograms, was insisted by eunuch officers. The old man is reluctant to give up, but he is helpless.

Those people hung half a horse's red yarn and a silk on the cow's head as the price of charcoal.