Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan"
Wang Anshi once excerpted "The Mountain with Birdsong is More Secluded" to the ancient poem "The wind evens the flowers but they still fall".
The auspicious grass sprouts and divides into tongues, and the famous flowers gather pistils and form dragon balls
The couplets on the two pairs of pillars in Mengxi Garden, Shen Kuo's former residence, are a high-level summary and evaluation of Shen Kuo's life:
Immerse yourself in the East China Sea, West Lake, South Sichuan and North Country, and the mountains and rivers in Mengli are particularly magnificent;
It covers everything from astronomy to geology, humanities and physics, and I have written about it from time to time.
Several volumes of strange cultural relics are unintentionally mixed with green ink;
In the first juncture of the twelfth lunar month, sailing south and driving north are for the common people.