"Plum Blossoms"
A plum tree in front of Baiyu Hall blooms for whom it falls.
Only the spring breeze cherishes us the most and comes back once a year.
There happens to be a plum blossom in front of Baiyutang, but for whom is it blooming? Who is it withering for? Fortunately, spring breeze understands it, appreciates it, and cares about it. For the sake of the spring breeze, plum blossoms come on time every year, bloom on time, and are never late.
This is a poem about plum blossoms and one of the more distinctive ones among Wang Anshi's many works. The whole poem is also very interesting, and this poem is a very typical collection of poems. Famous lines from four poets were used to form a new classic. Collection poetry is to apply the famous lines of predecessors into one's own works. Each line is directly applied, which seems very simple. In fact, this also requires strong writing skills for the creator, as well as the The works you read must be familiar, only in this way can you use new ideas.
Wang Anshi’s poem used the Tang Dynasty poet Jiang Weihan’s “Spring Girl’s Resentment” in the first sentence; then he used the Tang Dynasty poet Yan Yun’s “Falling Flowers”; and finally The two sentences respectively use famous lines from Yang Juyuan's "Breaking Willows" and the poem "Send Away" written by Zhan Maoguang's wife in the Song Dynasty. The four poems were separated by Wang Anshi and then reassembled to form a new classic, which is very interesting to write. This kind of work is actually not to be missed and is worth reading carefully.