Guizhou Rongjiang folk song reaches thirteen

1. When I was thirteen years old, my parents gave me books to read. I had tea and rice three times a day. It was easy to read but hard to memorize.

2. A person who cultivates to twenty-three is like a lotus paired with a peony. The lotus is paired with the peony. It is easy to pick flowers but difficult to embroider.

3. When I was thirty-three years old, my friend invited me to go to Yunnan. I wanted to go to Yunnan to buy horses, and also wanted to go to Beijing to get saddles.

4. If you cultivate to forty-three, you will have trouble doing business. If you are rich, you will be a man, but if you have no money, you will be in trouble.

5. Cultivate yourself to the age of fifty-three. It’s hard for you to go to the plate. If you don’t have firewood at the kitchen door, you can fetch it by yourself. If you don’t have water in the urn, you can fetch it by yourself.

6 After cultivating to sixty-three, a rattan basket can carry water to high mountains. How can a rattan basket carry water? How can an old man become a young man?

7 After cultivating to the age of seventy-three, my waist is still hunched over and my back is sore. If you want tea, you can't get enough tea; if you want rice, you can't get enough rice.

8 A person who cultivates to eighty-three is like a rotten boat going down a steep beach, using tofu as the bottom of the boat and lamp grass as wormwood stalks. When he reaches ninety-three years of cultivation, he goes to Yangguan with gongs and drums. Beat gongs and drums to go to the pass, and never want to go back. When you have cultivated to one hundred and thirteen, burn a lot of money to guide you, pack a lot of paper to guide you, and return to the Western Heaven wholeheartedly.