Original text:
There are some plums in the corner, and cold ling opens them alone.
I knew from a distance that it wasn't snow, because there was a smell coming.
Several plum blossoms in that corner bloom alone in the cold. Why do you know from a distance that Bai Meihua is not snow? Because there is a faint plum blossom fragrance.
Extended data:
Creation background
In the first year of Xining, Song Shenzong (1068), Wang Anshi published Nothing Important in this Century, advocating "enriching the people" to save the "poor", enriching Qiang Bing and carrying out comprehensive reform.
However, the opponents kept slandering and discussing. In the spring of the seventh year of Xining (1074), there was a great drought and the hungry people were displaced. Wang Anshi went on strike. In February of the following year, Wang Anshi visited again. After nine years in Xining (1076), he was discouraged after being stopped again, gave up political reform and retreated to Zhongshan. At this time, the author's lonely mentality and difficult situation have the same effect as the frosty plum blossom, so he wrote this poem.
Plum blossom is a five-character quatrain written by Wang Anshi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. In poetry, the power and noble character of plum blossoms are used to express those people who, like poets, can adhere to ethics and morality, advocate justice, and are not afraid of crowding out and hitting the country's prosperity in a difficult and harsh environment.
Wang Anshi's poetry is bounded by two strikes in the ninth year of Xining (1076), which can be roughly divided into two stages, with obvious differences in content and style.
The previous works mainly focus on "If injustice is heard", paying attention to social reality, reflecting the sufferings of the lower class, with obvious tendency and straightforward style; After retiring from politics in his later years, his mood gradually became dull, and a large number of poems about scenery and things replaced the previous political poems.
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