This poem comes from Yuan Ri, a seven-character quatrain written by Wang Anshi, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem describes the wonderful scene of people's excitement and family happiness on New Year's Day, and expresses the author's joy at the victory of political reform and the people's happy life.
original work
The first day of the lunar month
Except for the one-year-old in firecrackers,
The spring breeze brought warmth to Tusu,
Thousands of families are dying,
Always trade new peaches for old ones.
Translation:
In the rumble of firecrackers, the old year has passed, people are one year older, and the spring breeze has brought warmth. Every family is drinking Tu Su wine, bathing in the warm sunshine of early spring, and every family has replaced the old peach symbol of last year with a new one.
Tu Su: It refers to Tu Su wine.
Puppy day: refers to the sunrise from dark to bright.
Fu Tao: It refers to the couplet posted on the door, which was called Fu Tao in ancient times.
Extended data:
Wang Anshi (102 1 year1February 81May 2, 0861day), Han nationality, Linchuan Mid-Levels, was a famous thinker, politician, writer and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Li Qing two years (1042), Wang Anshi Jinshi. He has successively signed judges in Yangzhou, magistrate in Yinxian and judge in Zhou Shu, and achieved remarkable results. In the second year of Xining (1069), he served as a political commissar, met with the Prime Minister the following year and presided over the political reform. Because of the opposition of the old school, Xining went on strike for seven years (1074). A year later, Song Shenzong was put into use again and retired to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuan You (1086), the Conservative Party gained power and all the new laws were abolished. Yu Ran died in Zhongshan and was posthumously given to a teacher. Shao Shengyuan (1094) was named "Wen", so he was called Wang Wengong.
Wang Anshi devoted himself to the study of Confucian classics and wrote books, which was praised as "learning Confucianism", initiated "learning Gong Jing" and promoted the formation of the style of study in the Song Dynasty. Philosophically, he expounded the formation of the universe with the theory of "five elements", which enriched and developed the thoughts of China and ancient naive materialism. His philosophical proposition of "dividing the old from the new" pushed China's ancient dialectics to a new height.
In literature, Wang Anshi made outstanding achievements. His prose is concise, short and pithy, with clear arguments, strict logic and strong persuasiveness, which gives full play to the practical functions of ancient Chinese prose and ranks among the "eight masters of Tang and Song Dynasties". His poems are "thin but difficult to learn from Du Fu" and good at reasoning. In his later years, his poetic style was subtle, profound and simple, and he was unique in the poetic style of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was 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.
Wang Anshi-Baidu Encyclopedia