The roar of firecrackers, the old year has passed; The warm spring breeze ushered in the New Year, and people happily drank the newly brewed Tu Su wine.
The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.
Poem title: Yuan, Day and Song: Wang Anshi
Translation:
The old year passed with firecrackers, and Tu Su wine was enjoyed in the warm spring breeze. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, and they all take down the old peach blossom symbols and replace them with new ones.
Precautions:
1, January day: the first day of the first lunar month, that is, the Spring Festival.
2. Firecrackers: the sound made by the ancients when they burned bamboo. It was used to ward off evil spirits and later evolved into setting off firecrackers.
3. Except: death.
4. Tu Su: It refers to Tu Su wine, and drinking Tu Su wine is also a custom in the ancient New Year in China. On New Year's Day, the whole family drinks this wine soaked in tussah, which can ward off evil spirits, avoid epidemics and prolong life.
5, thousands of households: describe many portals and dense population.
6. Qingqing: It looks bright and warm at sunrise.
7. Peaches: Fu Tao is an ancient custom. On the first day of the first lunar month, people write the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on a mahogany board and hang them by the door to ward off evil spirits. Also called Spring Festival couplets.
This poem was written at the beginning of Wang Anshi's New Deal. In order to get rid of the political and economic crisis faced by the Song Dynasty and the constant intrusion of Liao and Xixia, 1068, Song Shenzong summoned Wang Anshi to "turn to the right repeatedly", and Wang Anshi immediately wrote to advocate political reform. The following year, he devoted himself to politics and presided over the political reform. In the New Year of the same year, Wang Anshi wrote this poem in association with the new atmosphere at the beginning of the political reform.
Poetry describes the scene of the Spring Festival, draws lessons from folk customs, sensitively absorbs the typical materials of ordinary people during the Spring Festival, and grasps the representative details of life: setting off firecrackers, drinking Tu Su wine and changing peach symbols, which fully shows the happy atmosphere of the New Year and is full of life.
The work uses the technique of line drawing, trying to render a festive atmosphere full of joy, and at the same time relying on the custom of the first day of January to express his thoughts, which is implicit but not revealing.