Ode to the First Sun
Author Zhao Kuangyin
The sun is shining brightly at the beginning, and thousands of mountains are like fire.
A round instantly ascended to the sky, driving away the stars and the waning moon.
Appreciation: There are different records of the original text of this poem in the Song Dynasty. The one here is based on "Gengxi Poetry Talk", while Chen Yu's "Zang Yi Hua Fu" records this: "I want to come out of the future." When the light comes out, the mountains and mountains are like fire. In a moment, they chase away the remaining stars and chase away the moon."
Zhao Kuangyin (March 21, 927 - November 14, 976). , named Yuanlang, nicknamed Xianghaier and Zhao Jiuchong. His ancestral home is Zhuojun (now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province), and he was born in Jiamaying, Luoyang. He was a military strategist and martial artist from the Five Dynasties to the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. The son of Zhao Hongyin (Xuanzu of the Song Dynasty), the commander of the Protectorate Capital, his mother was Du (Empress Dowager Zhaoxian).
The greatest contribution and achievement of Zhao Kuangyin's life was to restore the unification of the Huaxia region and end the nearly 70-year war between feudal vassals and towns since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. The people who had suffered so much from the war finally had a peaceful production and living environment, creating good conditions for social progress, economic development, and cultural prosperity.
Zhao Kuangyin, as the terminator of the chaos of the Ten Kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the pioneer of the Song Dynasty, is an important figure in Chinese history who connects the past and the future. He has perfect personality charm: he is pure in heart, hates evil as much as he hates hatred, is generous, open-minded, studious and tireless, diligent in government and loves the people, strict with himself, not close to others, advocating frugality, setting an example, etc. He is not only instrumental in changing the extravagant culture since the Five Dynasties. It has a great demonstration effect and is deeply talked about by later historians.