In the sound of firecrackers, the old year passed; The warm spring breeze ushered in the New Year, and people happily drank the newly brewed Tu Su wine. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, who are busy taking off the old peach charms and replacing them with new ones.
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.
Yuanri is a seven-character quatrain written by Wang Anshi, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty.
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.
January: the first day of the year (formerly known as the first day of the first lunar month).
The poem "January 1st" describes the exciting and joyful scene of the new year's day, expresses the author's thoughts and feelings about political innovation, and is full of cheerful and positive spirit.
Literary appreciation
This poem describes the scene of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new in the Spring Festival. A piece of firecrackers sent away the old year, drinking mellow Tu Su wine and feeling the breath of spring. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, and every family's peaches are replaced with new ones.
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 Spring Festival and captures the representative details of life: setting off firecrackers, drinking Tu Su wine and changing peach symbols, which fully shows the joyful atmosphere of the New Year Festival and is full of rich life breath.
"Firecrackers are one year old, and the spring breeze warms Tu Su." Setting off fireworks on New Year's Day is an ancient custom that has continued to this day. In ancient customs, every year on the first day of the first month, the whole family drank Tu Su wine, and then wrapped the dregs in red cloth and hung them on the doorframe to "exorcise evil spirits" and avoid the plague.
The third sentence, "Every family lives", inherits the previous poems, which means that every family is bathed in the light of the early spring sunrise. The last sentence describes the forwarding discussion. Hanging peach symbols is also the custom of the ancients. "Always replacing new peaches with old ones" is a sentence pattern of compression and ellipsis. The new peach omits the word "character" and the old peach omits the word "peach", so they are used alternately because of the limitation of words per sentence.
Poetry is a human voice. Many critics have noticed that the artistic conception and reality expressed in this poem also have their own metaphor and symbolic significance. Wang Anshi's poems are full of cheerful and positive fighting spirit, because he was the prime minister at that time and promoted the new law.
Wang Anshi was a famous reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. During his tenure, just as people replaced the old with the new, he abolished the old politics and implemented the New Deal. Wang Anshi is full of confidence in the New Deal, so it is particularly cheerful in his poems.
This poem praises the birth of new things, which is as full of vitality as "the spring breeze picks up"; "Tomorrow" shines on "thousands of families". This is not an ordinary sun, but the beginning of a new life. Political reform has brought a bright future to the people. At the end of the sentence, "new peaches are often exchanged for old peaches" shows the poet's satisfaction and joy at the victory of political reform and the improvement of people's lives.
It contains profound philosophy, pointing out that new things always replace declining things.
Although this poem uses line drawing technique, it tries its best to exaggerate the festive atmosphere, and at the same time, it expresses its thoughts through the custom of updating on January 1 ST, which is implicit but not revealing.
References:
Yuanri-Baidu Encyclopedia