Original text:
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.
The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.
Translation:
The old year passed with firecrackers, and Tu Su wine was enjoyed in the warm spring breeze. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, and they all take down the old peach blossom symbols and replace them with new ones.
Precautions:
January: The first day of the first lunar month, that is, the Spring Festival.
Firecracker: the sound made by the ancients when they burned bamboo. It was used to ward off evil spirits and later evolved into setting off firecrackers. Except for one (yí) year old: after one year old, the word "one" is used in front of the fourth "disyllabic", which means tone sandhi and the second (upper) pronunciation. Except, passed away.
Tu Su: Also known as "Tu Su", "Tu Su" was originally a kind of broadleaf grass, a southern folk custom, and some houses were painted with Tu Su grass as decoration, so this kind of house was called "Tu Su". Another way of saying it refers to Tu Su wine, and drinking Tu Su wine is also the custom of the ancient New Year in China. On New Year's Day, the whole family drinks this wine soaked in Tu Su grass to ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics, so as to live longer.
Thousands of households: describe many portals and dense population.
Bend: the bright and warm appearance at sunrise.
Peach: Fu Tao is an ancient custom. On the first day of the first lunar month, people write the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on a mahogany board and hang them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Also called Spring Festival couplets.
Appreciate:
This poem was written at the beginning of Wang Anshi's New Deal. In order to get rid of the political and economic crisis faced by the Song Dynasty and the constant intrusion of Liao and Xixia, 1068, Song Shenzong summoned Wang Anshi to "turn to the right repeatedly", and Wang Anshi immediately wrote to advocate political reform. The following year, he devoted himself to politics and presided over the political reform. In the New Year of the same year, Wang Anshi wrote this poem in association with the new atmosphere at the beginning of the political reform.
This is an impromptu work about welcoming the New Year in ancient times. Based on folk customs, it sensitively absorbs the typical materials of ordinary people during the Chinese New Year and grasps the representative details of life: setting off firecrackers, drinking Tu Su wine and changing peaches, which fully shows the happy atmosphere of the Chinese New Year and makes life colorful. It expresses the author's thoughts and feelings about political innovation and is full of cheerful and positive fighting spirit.