第二十七卷金玉奴棒打薄情郎TheLadyWhowasaBeggar-edX.PDF

Feng, Menglong, Gu Jin Xiao Shuo 古今説言 Ming Edition 第二十七卷 金玉奴棒打薄情郎 The Lady Who was a Beggar 1 “Golden Jade Slave Hit the Disloyal Lover with a Stick” A Selection from Feng Menglongs Yushi mingyan 喻世明言 1 Golden, pronounced as jin in Chinese, is the surname of the female prognostic. Yunu is her given name, which literarily means Jade Slave. However, the name of the female prognostic should not be taken as containing any symbolic meaning in the story. Yunu was simply a popular girl ’s name. 枝在墻東花在西 自從落地任風吹 枝無花時還再發 花若離枝難上枝 A branch east of the wall; its flower in the west, naturally falling to the ground and blowing with the wind. When the branch loses its flower, it can regrow another, but once the flower is gone, it is hard to attach to another branch. 這四句，乃昔人所作《棄婦詞》，言婦人之隨夫，如花之附于枝。 枝若無花，逢 春再發；花若离枝，不可复合。勸世上婦人，事夫盡道， 同甘同苦，從一而終； 休得慕富嫌貧，兩意三心，自貽后悔。 These four lines are the Lyrics on Abandoning My Wife by someone of the past. They describe a wife following her husband like a flower attached to a branch: when the branch is without flower, it grows flowers again in the springtime, but when the flower leaves its branch, it cannot join a branch again. The lyrics admonish the wives of the world to serve their husbands with all their ability, remaining together in joy and in difficulty as one until the very end, and not to envy riches and begrudge poverty, with shifting intentions and changing heart, which naturally brings regret. 且說漢朝一個名臣，當初未遇時節，其妻有眼不識泰山，棄之而 去，到后來悔之 無及。你說那名臣何方人氏？姓甚名誰？那名臣姓朱， 名買臣，表字翁子，會稽