Wang Anshi was a figure in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is not only a politician, but also a writer. Wang Anshi closely combined his political ideal with his literary creation. Wang Anshi wrote a lot in his life, with as many poems as 153 1 first.
It is actually very simple to understand Wang Anshi's poems. His creative career can be divided into two periods, one is the early stage, and the other is the late stage. This dividing line is the dividing point of Wang Anshi's strike 1076. Wang Anshi's pre-poems include political poems, epics, farewell poems and fable poems.
1, political poetry: For example, the masterpiece People in Hebei is a political poem. At that time, Liao and Xixia invaded the Northern Song Dynasty, but the imperial court was wronged for perfection, humiliated for peace, and constantly plundered the people's money and cream for peace, which caused the bottom people to live in poverty, thus putting forward their own opinions and reforming politics. These works are all poems in the form of discussion, but they are loved by future generations because of their sincere feelings and profound thoughts.
2. Poems about objects: The portraits of two songs in Ming Dynasty, Confucius, Mencius, Shang Yang, Sean, Fan Zeng, Jia Sheng, Xie An and Du Fu, all belong to poems about objects, which are a combination of ideological and artistic features.
3. Fable poems: Uncle Tong Chang's "Giving Wild Goose Anger" and "Bald Mountain". I have always used fables to express my theme, which is ingenious and intriguing.
4. Reward other poems: Reward Uncle and Farewell to the South Preface are typical works of this kind.
5. Mourning for an old friend: "Remembering three poems of Wang Fengyuan" This is a work written for an old friend, Wang Ling, which is deeply touching. There are also Weeping for Mei and Hurting Du Chun.
6. Wang Anshi's later works have limited themes and mostly praise nature. There are many works about scenery, such as Lonely Tung, Gu Song and Plum Blossom.
The Story of Wang Anshi and Su Shi
Wang Anshi and Su Shi were both famous figures in the Northern Song Dynasty. They not only served as officials in the same dynasty, but also worked for the Song Dynasty, and they were all great writers at that time. However, their political views were different, and Wang Anshi advocated political reform.
Su Shi opposed Wang Anshi's political reform. According to records, Su Shi was persecuted by reformists for opposing political reform. What is the dispute between Wang Anshi and Su Shi? The story of Wang Anshi and Su Shi is the story of killing each other and loving each other. The story that Su Shi changed Wang Anshi's "Chanting Chrysanthemum" has been passed down to this day.
At that time, Su Shi went to see Wang Anshi, who was taking a lunch break. When Su Shi was waiting for Wang Anshi in his study, he happened to see Wang Anshi write half of the poem "Last night, the west wind crossed the garden and yellow flowers blew everywhere". I feel strange that the chrysanthemum is yellow, but it won't fall, so I can't help but write "autumn flowers are not as good as spring flowers, saying that I will sing with the poet carefully." After writing Su Shi, he felt that this was inappropriate and left in a hurry. As a result, Wang Anshi demoted him to Huangzhou.
It suddenly dawned on Wang Anshi when he arrived in Huangzhou. It turned out that Wang Anshi demoted him to Huangzhou to see Jin Juhua. There is also the story of Wang Anshi saving Su Shi. At that time, Wang Anshi promoted the new law, and Su Shi often wrote poems to satirize the court. The reformers were embarrassed, so they told Song Shenzong that he wrote poems to satirize the imperial court and ended up in prison.
Wang Anshi was resting at home at that time. After he learned of this, he wrote to the emperor overnight, urging him not to kill Su Shi, a gifted scholar, because of his words. So Song Shenzong released Su Shi and demoted him to a remote place to be an official.