深化臺灣核心文獻典藏
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National Taiwan University
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乞食改良新歌

New folk lyrics complimenting on building shelter for beggers

1935 ✦ ──── 昭和 10 年 the 10th year of Showa Era

這本歌仔主題描述萬華地方,施乾善士設置愛愛寮收容乞丐之事。作者一方面表揚施善士蓋此收容所幫助乞丐是行善,一方面也替施乾受到社會上負面批評釐清問題。文中更透過歷史上不少成為名人、偉人的乞丐例子,說明幫助乞丐的行為值得受人尊重。

This folk lyrics work was to talk about the Wanhua District where there was a shelter home built just for beggars by a philanthropist Shi Qian. The writer, on one hand, praised the good deeds of Shi Qian for establishing the shelter, while also trying to defend for him, from point of view of social issue, for all the criticism on the charity he had done for beggars. The writer gave examples of many famous or great people who were once poor so as to assert that those who help others in need should be respected.