文／唐‧拾得（生卒年不詳）

富貴浮雲未足誇，

民間風氣太奢華，

漫將兩字逢人勸，

勤儉由來好起家。

──選自《寒山詩集》

Eliminating Lowly Words

Shide （Years unknown, Tang Dynasty）

English translation: John Balcom

（ed. John Gill & Susan Tidwell）

Wealth and honor are like floating clouds

and not worth flaunting,

The ways of the common people are

too extravagant.

Let me give you some advice in two words:

Diligence and thrift. This is the good way

to start a family.

── from Collected Poems of Hanshan