Sixteen Different Traditional Chinese Culture Ancient Poetry Appreciation "Yuan Ri" Wang Anshi

In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su.

Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms.

Translations

The old year has passed in the sound of firecrackers, and the warm spring breeze is greeted with a cheerful drink of Tusu wine.

The rising sun shines on thousands of households, all taking off the old peach charm and replacing it with a new peach charm.

exegesis

First Day: The first day of the first lunar month, that is, the Spring Festival.

Firecrackers: The sound made by the ancients when they burned bamboo to burst. It was used to drive away evil spirits, and later evolved into firecrackers. One (yí) years apart: The year has ended, the word "one" is used in front of the fourth sound (desounding) word, "one" is transposed, and the second sound (Yangping) is read. Except, pass away.

Tu Su: refers to Tu Su wine, drinking Tu Su wine is also a custom in ancient New Year's Day, the new year's day of the whole family drink this wine soaked in Tu Su grass, in order to drive away evil and avoid plague, to seek longevity.

Thousands of households: Describe the many portals and dense population.

Dawn: The bright and warm appearance of sunrise time.

Peach: Peach charm, an ancient custom, at the first day of the first lunar month, people use peach wood boards to write the names of the two gods, Shendi and Yulei, hanging next to the door, used to suppress evil. Also known as the Spring League

Appreciation

This is a piece of the ancient to welcome the New Year's scene, based on folk customs, sensitively absorb the typical materials of the people's Spring Festival, grasp the representative details of life: light firecrackers, drink TuSu wine, change new peach charms, fully show the happy atmosphere of the New Year, full of strong life atmosphere. It expresses the author's thoughts and feelings about reforming politics, and is full of cheerful and positive spirit of hard work.

"In addition to the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su." The practice of setting off firecrackers during the New Year's Festival has a long history and continues to this day. According to ancient customs, on the first day of the first lunar month every year, the whole family drank Tusu wine, and then wrapped the dregs with a red cloth and hung them on the door frame to "drive away evil spirits" and avoid the plague.

The sentence "A thousand doors and a thousand households on the day of dawn" continues the previous poetry, which means that every household is bathed in the light of the early spring sunrise. The closing sentence describes the forwarding argument. Hanging peach charms, this is also a custom of ancient folk. "Always replace the new peach with the old character" is a sentence form compressed and omitted, "new peach" omits the word "fu", and "old character" omits the word "peach", which is used alternately, because of the limit on the number of words per sentence of the seven absolutes.

Poetry is the voice of the people. Many commentators have noticed that the mood and reality of this poem also have its own figurative symbolism, and Wang Anshi's poem is full of cheerful and positive spirit of motivation because he was serving as the prime minister at that time and implementing the new law. Wang Anshi was a famous reformer during the Northern Song Dynasty, and during his tenure, just as people replaced the old peach symbol with a new peach symbol, he abolished the old government and implemented the new policy. Wang Anshi was full of confidence in the New Deal, so it was particularly cheerful when reflected in the poem.

This poem is to praise the birth of new things as "spring breeze to send warmth" full of vitality; "dawn day" illuminates "thousands of doors", this is not the ordinary sun, but the beginning of a new life, the change of law brings the people a piece of light. The closing sentence, "Always replace the new peach with the old charm", expresses the poet's joy and joy at the victory of the change of law and the improvement of the people's lives. It contains profound philosophies that point out the law that new things always replace things that have fallen. Although this poem uses a white painting technique, it strives to render a festive atmosphere of joy, and at the same time, it uses the custom of renewal of the first day to pin its thoughts on its own, and it is expressed implicitly.