1几搭𧜖⿱艹⿻几二几冷㳥
2占吒丐刧𥙩𫯳終
3𠄼澄𨑮祸𫨩庒渚
4⿰氵⿱己乂𣎃堆吝固拱空
5故𢶸咹𥸷𥸷吏孔
6扲朋爫漫漫空功
7餒尼𠸠别羕尼𠰚
8辰𠓀傕停於丕衝
Lấy Chồng Chung
Sharing a Husband
Hồ Xuân Hương
A bitter poem of eight lines about being a co-wife. While one wife lies warm under the quilt, the other lies in the cold; the husband comes “twice a month, if at all”, and the effort she puts in is like work for hire without pay. She ends by thinking that, had she known, she would have stayed single.
Transcribed by the community of Chunom.org.
1几搭𧜖⿱艹⿻几二几冷㳥
2占吒丐刧𥙩𫯳終
3𠄼澄𨑮祸𫨩庒渚
4⿰氵⿱己乂𣎃堆吝固拱空
5故𢶸咹𥸷𥸷吏孔
6扲朋爫漫漫空功
7餒尼𠸠别羕尼𠰚
8辰𠓀傕停於丕衝