Wang Anshi, New Year's Day
The roar of firecrackers, the old year has passed; The warm spring breeze ushered in the New Year, and people happily drank the newly brewed Tu Su wine.
The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.
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Wang Anshi's "Yuan Day" [appeared in the ninth lesson of Unit 3, Grade 3 of Chinese published by People's Education Press, and also appeared in Unit 7, Book 7 of Soviet Education Press, "Two Ancient Poems"] can be regarded as a leader in writing Yuan Day poems.
He not only recorded the customs of New Year's Eve and January 1st in the Song Dynasty, but also wrote the scene of welcoming the New Year in the Tang and Song Dynasties, expressing his philosophical concept: "In addition to firecrackers in one year, the spring (or easterly wind) sends warmth into Tu Su. Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones. It is said that they were sent away for a year with firecrackers. In the warm spring breeze, the whole family likes to drink Tu Su wine.
"Tu Su wine" is a kind of wine soaked in grass, which was a folk custom at that time. On the first day of the first month, every family drinks Tu Su, and the order is young first, then long. Lu Tong, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said in his poem "Except Night": "Cherish this night diligently, and it lingers. Don't say goodbye when the candles run out, the cock crows old and new. ..... who will be the last person to win the cup tomorrow ";
Su Zhe, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in his poem "In addition to Japan" that "Tu Su (Tu Su wine) is drunk at the end of each year, and it has been 70 years". At the end of both poems, the old people's drinking custom is mentioned. Drinking probably started just after midnight in the New Year. Tu Su, also known as "Tu Su" and "Tu Su", was the custom of drinking Tu Su in ancient Yuan Dynasty. People in the Yuan Dynasty drank Tu Su wine because of a legend or story: "Legend has it that it was the name of a grass temple.
Once upon a time, someone lived in a grass temple. Every year except at night, they leave a patch in the well, let the bag soak in the well, take water on January, put it in a bottle, and drink it for the whole family to avoid catching the plague. Today, people have their own way. They don't know their names, but they are called Tu Su. The last two sentences in Wang Anshi's poem say that during the vigil, thousands of families will have a red sun, and then they will exchange new peach symbols for old ones.
Fu Tao also involves another custom: It is said that there is a big peach tree in Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, under which there are two gods, tea and Lei Yu, who can eat hundreds of ghosts. Therefore, it is useful to draw the custom of Er Shen to ward off evil spirits on the door with red boards. The Story of Jingchu Times: "On the first day of the first month, a picture was posted on the henhouse, with a reed rope hanging on it and a peach symbol inserted next to it. All ghosts are afraid of it." After the Five Dynasties, Shu began to write couplets on the board, and then changed the book into paper, which evolved into the later Spring Festival couplets.
Lu You wrote a poem: "A peach symbol is scrawled in front of a lamp before it is lifted" (Snow at Night), which is a vivid record of this custom.