The ancient poem "Yuan Ri"

The ancient poem Yuan Ri:

The first day of the lunar month

Wang Song Anshi

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.

Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones.

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1, January day: the first day of the first lunar month, that is, the Spring Festival. Yuan: The original meaning is first, and it is extended to first, first.

2. Firecrackers: At first, bamboo was burned to make it burst and make a sound to ward off ghosts and evil spirits, and later it evolved into setting off firecrackers.

3. Tu Su: It refers to Tu Su wine. Drinking Tu Su wine is a custom of ancient New Year in China, in order to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and seek longevity.

4. Qingqing: It looks bright and warm at sunrise.

5. Fu Tao: During the Spring Festival, people write down the names of two gods, Shen Tu and Lei Yu, or draw idols on mahogany boards and hang them by the door to drive away evil. Later, it was called Spring Festival couplets.

Wang Anshi (1021-1086), a native of Linchuan in the Northern Song Dynasty, died in a famous name. Li Qing was a scholar in two years, and Jia You wrote thousands of books in three years, and put forward the idea of political reform. Song Shenzong Xining two years (1069), served as deputy prime minister, promoting the new law.

The following year, he paid tribute to Tong Zhongshu and Zhang Xiaping (Prime Minister), dismissed from office in the seventh year of Xining (1074), and resigned again in the ninth year of Xining (1076), and retired to Jiangning Banshan Park. First create Shu Guogong, then change Jing Guogong. The world calls it "king".

Wang Anshi was a great statesman and reformer in ancient China, as well as a great thinker and writer. His writing style is vigorous, tough and thin, and he is one of the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".

His poems are vigorous and fresh, and he is good at reasoning and rhetoric. In his later years, his poetic style was subtle and profound, profound and simple, and he became a school of his own, known as "Wang Ti" in the world. His poems are full of nostalgia and nostalgia, with broad artistic conception and simple images, creating a unique emotional world for literati. There are Wang Linchuan Collection and Linchuan Collection.