1. Because Bai Juyi’s poem says: The beauty of April in the world is gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple begin to bloom. When Shen Kuo read this poem, he was very surprised and commented in a sarcastic tone: "Since 'the beauty of April is gone', how can it be that 'the peach blossoms begin to bloom'? Great poets also wrote such contradictory sentences , It can be said that "a wise man must make a mistake after thinking a lot""
2. But in fact, this poem is not contradictory. Later, Shen Kuo discovered that there was a preface in front of it, which read: "(Dalin Temple) ) The mountains are high and deep, and the season is very late. It is in the second month of the month, and the peach trees are blooming, and the grass and people are still short. " Shen Kuo read this with emotion. Said: "It's all because I don't study carefully and have too little experience!"
So Shen Kuo later went on a field trip to Mount Lu in April and saw with his own eyes the scene described in Bai's poem, so he wrote it in "Mengxi Bi Tan" It points out: "There are March flowers on the flat ground, but April flowers in the deep mountains. This is the difference between high and low terrain."
3. This story comes from the primary school text "Mistaken Comments on Flower Poems", the original text As follows:
In the late spring of the twelfth year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty (817), Bai Juyi and 16 friends traveled to Lushan, Jiangxi, and wrote many poems, one of which was "Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple":
The beauty of April in the world is over,
The peach blossoms in the mountain temple are beginning to bloom.
Eternal regret has no place to return in spring,
I don’t know where to turn!
One day, Shen Kuo, a famous scientist and writer in the Song Dynasty, read this poem and was very surprised. He commented with a sarcastic tone: "Since 'the beauty of April is gone', how can it be that 'the peach blossom begins'" What about 'in full bloom'? The great poet also wrote such a self-contradictory sentence, which can be said to be 'a wise man will make a mistake'. After saying this, he forgot about it.
Unexpectedly, one year at the turn of spring and summer, he went to a mountain for inspection and saw the wonders in Bai Juyi's poems: In April, the flowers at the bottom of the mountain withered, but the peach blossoms on the top of the mountain were red, and suddenly I wanted to read Bai Juyi's poems, but then I realized that I had mistakenly blamed the great poet, and also discovered the influence of altitude on the seasons: due to the low temperature in the mountains, spring arrives later than down the mountains.
Later, he found a poem by Bai Juyi to read, and found that there was a preface in it. The preface said: "(Dalin Temple) has high mountains and deep mountains, and the season is extremely late. At the time of Mengxia month, it is like February. In the sky, pear blossoms (flowers) are beginning, and the grass in the stream is still short. The weather of the people is different from the settlements on the plains.
Shen Kuo read it and said with emotion: "It's all my fault for not studying carefully and having too little experience!" ”