Original text:
If it rains, the moon will not open, the evil wind will howl, and the turbid waves will be empty; The sun, moon and stars are hidden, and the mountains are hidden; Business travel is bad and ruined; Twilight is boundless, tigers roar and apes crow. When you go to the temple building, you are homesick, sad, sad and sad.
Translation:
Like continuous rain, it doesn't clear up for months, the cold wind howls, the turbid waves rush to the sky, the sun and stars hide their brilliance, and the mountains disappear; The mast fell, the paddle broke, and businessmen and passengers could not come and go; In the evening, the sky was dark, the tiger was roaring and the ape was crying.
When (businessmen and tourists) board the building, they will be homesick when they leave the country, and they will worry about being slandered and satirized. All they can see is the depressing cold scene, and they will be extremely sad.
Source: Yueyang Tower-Song Fan Zhongyan
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Creation background
This article was written in Li Qing for six years (1046). Fan Zhongyan lived in the era of internal troubles and foreign invasion in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the internal class contradictions became increasingly prominent, eyeing the foreign Khitan and Xixia. In order to consolidate the political power and improve this situation, the political group headed by Fan Zhongyan began to carry out reforms, which was later called the "Qingli New Deal". However, the reform violated the interests of the feudal big landlord class conservatives and was strongly opposed by them.
The emperor's determination to reform was not firm. Under the oppression of the conservative bureaucratic group headed by Queen Ether, the reform ended in failure. After the failure of the "Qingli New Deal", Fan Zhongyan offended the Prime Minister Lv Yijian, and Fan Zhongyan was relegated to Dengzhou, Henan. This article is about Dengzhou, not Yueyang Tower.
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