(The old year will pass and the new year will begin) Clean the house, wash away the dust of the past, burn a column of incense, and worship heaven and earth.
Everything in the world is bidding farewell to winter and welcoming the arrival of the new year. After tonight, the year will be over.
The fire in the brazier is burning, and the firecrackers are endless. The New Year's Eve dinner began, and I heard people toasting their elders with pepper and cedar wine.
Farmers have known in advance that next year will be a bumper harvest year, because the snow in winter has not melted yet.
original text
New Year's Eve
[Song] Dai Fugu
Sweep the huts to clean up the hubbub and worship the nine heavens.
Everything comes in spring to send wax, and tonight is the end of the year.
Make a fire and roar with bamboo, and then listen to the praise of pepper when you are old.
Wild travel predicts that farming will be good and snow will not disappear in three winters.
Pinyin chú yè
New Year's Eve
sǎo chú máo shè dí chén xiāo，y zho Qing Xiāng Xiāng bàIjiǔXiāo
Sweep the huts to clean up the hubbub and worship the nine heavens.
wàn wíng chūn sòng cán là，y nián Jie júzàI jón Xiāo。
Everything comes in spring to send wax, and tonight is the end of the year.
This is a good example.
Make a fire and roar with bamboo, and then listen to the praise of pepper when you are old.
yèyèzh nóng shìháo，sān dōng Rui XuèwèI quán Xiāo。
Wild travel predicts that farming will be good and snow will not disappear in three winters.
To annotate ...
1 residual wax: residual winter. In ancient times, December was the twelfth month.
Jiao Zan: Praise the flowers. Pepper, wine soaked with pepper. Chronicle of Jingchu's Age: "At the beginning of the year, I used to use pepper wine, and the pepper flowers were fragrant, so I picked flowers as tribute bottles."
works appreciation
"Everything sends residual wax in the spring, and the end of the year is tonight", which tells readers the author's mood on New Year's Eve at that time. It can be seen from the word "can" that the author's "one-year ending" is "not ideal".
In the book Making a Pot of Fire and Roaring Bamboo, Chinese New Year, I only listen to Zanthoxylum bungeanum, telling readers that there are folk customs such as "lighting a fire", "setting off firecrackers", "guarding the old age", "eating flowers" and "boasting Zanthoxylum bungeanum".
"Three winters of snow have not completely disappeared" is a scene of "snow has not completely disappeared" at that time. From Predicting Good Agriculture and Xue Rui, we can see that the author still hopes to "live a good life" in the coming year.
Brief introduction of the author
Dai Fugu (1 167—— about 1248), a Chinese character, often lives in Shiping Mountain in Nantang, hence his name Shiping, Shiping Yinqiao and Tiantai Huangyan (now Taizhou, Zhejiang Province), a famous Jianghu poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Later generations were Dai Liankui, an official of Qing Dynasty.
He studied with Lu You and wrote poems. His works were influenced by the poetic style of the late Tang Dynasty and had the style of Jiangxi Poetry School. Some works express patriotic thoughts and reflect people's sufferings, which is of practical significance. In his later years, he summed up his experience in poetry creation and wrote On Ten Poems in poetic style. He was an official all his life, wandering the rivers and lakes, and then returned to his hometown to live in seclusion. He died in his eighties. He is the author of Shi Pingshi, Shi Pingci and Shi Xinping Yu.