There is a poem in my daughter’s textbook, which is very strange. The poem is like this
Once you go two or three miles,
There are four or five houses in Yancun.
There are six or seven pavilions,
eighty or ninety flowers.
This poem uses ten consecutive numbers, which makes the poem very strange.
Who wrote this?
I checked it out, oh my god, it’s amazing.
The author is a science student, Shao Yong, a famous mathematician and Neo-Confucianist in the Song Dynasty.
This little poem has only four short sentences and uses all ten numbers. It has a hazy artistic conception and is very charming. It is a masterpiece describing the pastoral scenery of the mountain village. It is charming in just a few strokes. Spring color.
For thousands of years, no number poem has been more highly regarded than this one.