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Firecrackers are traditional festivals described in Tu Su's poems, except for the spring breeze.

New year's day.

Source: Wang Anshi, author of Yuanri? Song dynasty

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.

Translation:

In the sound of firecrackers, the old year passed; 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.

Analysis:

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.

Author:

Wang Anshi, named Fu Jie, was born in the Mid-Levels. Linchuan, Fuzhou (now Fuzhou, Jiangxi). China was a politician, writer, thinker and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Li Qing two years (1042), Wang Anshi Jinshi. He has successively signed judges in Yangzhou, magistrate in Yinxian and judge in Zhou Shu, and achieved remarkable results. In the second year of Xining (1069), he was promoted to participate in politics by Song Shenzong, and the following year he worshipped the minister and presided over the political reform. Because of the opposition of the old school, Xining went on strike for seven years (1074). A year later, it was used again by Zongshen, and then it retired to Jiangning.

In the first year of Yuan You (1086), the Conservative Party gained power and the new law was abolished. Wang Anshi died in Zhongshan at the age of 66. Tired as a teacher, posthumous title "Wen", known as Wang Wengong.

In literature, Wang Anshi made outstanding achievements. His prose is concise, short and pithy, with clear arguments, strict logic and strong persuasiveness, which gives full play to the practical functions of ancient Chinese prose and ranks among the "eight masters of Tang and Song Dynasties". His poems are "thin but difficult to learn from Du Fu" and good at reasoning. In his later years, his poetic style was subtle, profound and simple, and he was unique in the poetic style of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was known as "Wang Ti" in the world. His poems are full of nostalgia and homesickness, with broad artistic conception and simple images. There are works such as Linchuan Collection.