Yuan-ri meaning

January 21 refers to the first day of the first month.

January refers to an auspicious day. There are many aliases for January Day, such as Yuanshuo, Jacky, Zheng Dan, Duanri, New Year, Yuan Chun and so on. Yuan means "start", and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; "Yuanri" means "the first day". Now it generally refers to the first day of the first lunar month.

The original poem of "January Day": Amid firecrackers, the spring breeze from send warm enters Tu Su. The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old. Yuanri is a seven-character quatrain written by Wang Anshi, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The whole poem implies that the old year passed in the sound of firecrackers; The warm spring breeze ushered in the New Year, and people happily drank the newly brewed Tu Su wine. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, who are busy taking off the old peach charms and replacing them with new ones.

Appreciate:

This poem describes the scene of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new in the Spring Festival. A piece of firecrackers sent away the old year, drinking mellow Tu Su wine and feeling the breath of spring. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, and every family's peaches are replaced with new ones.

This is an impromptu work about welcoming the New Year in ancient times. Based on folk customs, it sensitively absorbs the typical materials of ordinary people during the Spring Festival and captures the representative details of life: setting off firecrackers, drinking Tu Su wine and changing peach symbols, which fully shows the joyful atmosphere of the New Year Festival and is full of rich life breath.

It is a metaphor and praise for the successful implementation of the new law. This poem eulogizes the birth of new things, and is as full of vitality as Spring Breeze Warming Up. It also contains profound philosophy, pointing out that new things always replace declining things. The change of peach characters reveals the theme of "getting rid of the old and getting rid of the new"