The author of "Spring Night" is Wang Anshi, from the Song Dynasty
Spring Night
The golden stove is full of incense and the sound is faint, and the breeze is blowing and cold.
The spring scenery makes me sleepless, and the moon moves the shadows of flowers onto the railings.
Translation:
The night is already deep, the incense in the incense burner has already burned out, and the water in the clepsydra is almost running out. The spring breeze in the second half of the night brings bursts of chill to people.
However, the scenery in spring is distracting. As the moon moves, the shadows of flowers and trees quietly climb up the railing.
Wang Anshi (December 18, 1021 - May 21, 1086), named Jiefu and Banshan, Han nationality, was born in Linchuan (now Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province). He was a famous thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty. Politician, writer, reformer.
In the second year of Qingli (1042), Wang Anshi became a Jinshi. He has successively served as Yangzhou signing magistrate, Yinxian county magistrate, Shuzhou general magistrate, etc., with remarkable political achievements. In the second year of Xining (1069), he was appointed as the counselor of political affairs. The following year, he became the prime minister and presided over the reform. Due to opposition from the conservative faction, Xi was dismissed as prime minister in the seventh year of Xining's reign (1074). A year later, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty took up the post again, then dismissed him and retreated to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuanyou (1086), the conservatives gained power and all new laws were abolished. Yuran died of illness in Zhongshan and was given posthumously to the Taifu. In the first year of Shaosheng (1094), he received the posthumous title "Wen" and was called Wang Wengong in his later life.
Wang Anshi devoted himself to the study of Confucian classics and wrote books. He was known as the "Tongru Confucian" and created the "Jinggong New Study", which promoted the formation of the ancient style of study in the Song Dynasty. In philosophy, he used the "Five Elements Theory" to explain the generation of the universe, which enriched and developed ancient Chinese simple materialist thought; his philosophical proposition "new and old are eliminated" pushed ancient Chinese dialectics to a new height.
In literature, Wang Anshi has made outstanding achievements. His prose is concise and sharp, short and concise, with clear arguments, strict logic and strong persuasiveness. It gives full play to the practical function of ancient prose and ranks among the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties"; Focusing on reasoning and rhetoric, his poetic style in his later years was subtle, profound, profound and unforced. He became a unique style in the poetry circle of the Northern Song Dynasty with his rich and spiritual style, which is known as "Wang Jing Gong style" in the world. His poems are nostalgic and nostalgic for the past, with a vast and vast artistic conception and a distant image. Simplicity creates an emotional world unique to scholar-bureaucrats and literati. There are "Wang Linchuan Collection", "Linchuan Collection Supplements" and so on.