
豆燃豆萁,
Lighting the bean stalk to boil the beans,
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豆在釜中泣。
and of this the beans thus wailed:
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本自同根生,
“Borne are we of the same root;
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相煎何太急
should you now burn me with such disregard?”
Written by 曹植 (Cáozhí)
Created during the Three Kingdoms period (220 – 280 AD)