栽桑
细听邻妇低眉说，年年育蚕苦无叶。
山童执筐入市卖，一称百钱犹未惬。
更兼春雨土窗寒，忍见蚕饥头戢戢。
买丝织绢输官外，空借邻机闲一月。
阿姑卒岁无繻裤，小儿露骭风吹裂。
今时县官清且明，课民务本令必行。
担桑赪肩荷锄去，青青布种环郊城。
明年家养一百箔，巷响缫车楝花落。
满笼新丝白雪香，听赛蚕官鼓声乐。
Listening intently to the neighbor's wife with lowered eyebrows, talking about how difficult it is to raise silkworms every year without leaves. The mountain boy carries baskets to the market to sell, but even with a hundred-money weight, he is still not satisfied. Coupled with the cold soil window in spring rain, it's heartbreaking to see the hungry silkworms with twitching heads. Buying silk to weave into bolts and exporting them outside the city, but still borrowing a neighbor's loom for a month. The elder girl spends the year without sufficient clothes, while the young child's feet are exposed to the wind and grow cold and crack. Now the county officials are fair and wise, instructing the people to focus on agriculture and ensuring that their orders are followed. They carry mulberry branches on their backs and hoe their way through fields, planting green crops around the city walls. Next year, they will raise one hundred reels of silk in their own homes, and the sound of silk reeling carts will echo through the alleys as the catkins fall from the beams. The new silk in the baskets is as white as snow and fragrant, and they listen to the drum music of the silk competition officials with joy.
《栽桑》这首诗，以其细腻的笔触和生动的情节，为我们描绘了一幅古代农家栽桑养蚕的生活画卷，字里行间流露出劳动人民的辛勤与期盼，以及对美好生活的向往。
开篇“细听邻妇低眉说，年年育蚕苦无叶”，诗人借邻妇之口，道出了养蚕人家的辛酸——桑叶稀缺，成为育蚕路上的第一道难关。这轻轻一叹，不仅是对现状的无奈，也是对来年丰收的渴望。随后，“山童执筐入市卖，一称百钱犹未惬”，山童带着满筐的希望入市售卖，换来的却是微薄的收入与不满，生活的艰辛由此可见一斑。春雨绵绵，土窗透寒，蚕儿饥饿，头攒动的样子（“头戢戢”），让人心生怜悯，更添几分生活的不易。
“买丝织绢输官外，空借邻机闲一月。”这句话揭示了农民在辛勤劳动后，仍需将大部分成果上交官府，自家仅能勉强维持生计，甚至有时还需借用邻家的织机，空闲一月，生活的重压与无奈跃然纸上。家中老妇（“阿姑”）终年无新裤可穿，小儿的腿（“骭”）裸露在寒风中，皮肤被风吹裂，这些细节描写，深刻反映了农民生活的贫困与艰辛。
然而，诗笔一转，提到“今时县官清且明，课民务本令必行。”这里，诗人对官府持正面评价，认为官员清廉明智，鼓励农民回归农业根本，实施有效的政策。这为后续农民积极栽桑养蚕埋下了伏笔，也预示着希望与转变。于是，“担桑赪肩荷锄去，青青布种环郊城”，农民们肩挑桑枝，手握锄头，满怀希望地在城郊广泛种植桑树，一幅生机勃勃的劳动图景展现在眼前。
终于，“明年家养一百箔，巷响缫车楝花落。”预示着丰收的到来，家家户户养蚕百箔，缫车声声，伴随着楝花的飘落，构成了一幅和谐美好的画面。而“满笼新丝白雪香，听赛蚕官鼓声乐。”更是将丰收的喜悦推向高潮，新丝如雪，香气四溢，蚕官比赛的鼓乐声中，洋溢着农民们对丰收的庆祝与对未来的憧憬。
整首诗通过对比与转折，既展现了农民生活的艰辛与挑战，又传递了在政策引导与个人努力下，生活逐步向好的希望与乐观精神。诗人以细腻的情感、生动的场景，勾勒出一幅幅生动的农村生活画面，让人在阅读中既能感受到历史的厚重，又能体会到人性的温暖与坚韧。