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Which traditional festival is depicted in the poem "The Spring Breeze Brings Warmth to the Tu Su"?

This poem describes the traditional Chinese festival of Spring Festival.

The New Year's Day

Wang Anshi

The firecrackers sound the end of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

A thousand doors and tens of thousands of tels, always changing the new peach for the old one.

Interpretation (1) Yuanyi: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, i.e. Spring Festival.

(2) Firecracker: the sound made by the ancient people when they burned the bamboo to make it burst. Used to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, later evolved into firecrackers. A year in addition: a year is over. In addition, passed away.

(3) Tusu: "refers to Tusu wine, drinking Tusu wine is also an ancient New Year's custom, on the first day of the New Year, the whole family drank this wine soaked with Tusu grass to drive away evil spirits and avoid plague, and to seek longevity.

(4) Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of households: describing the numerous portals and dense population. 曈: bright and warm at sunrise.

(5) Peach: Peach talisman, an ancient custom in which people wrote the names of two deities, Shentian and Yubi, on peach boards on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar and hung them next to the door to suppress evil spirits. It is also used as a spring scroll.

The vernacular translation: The old year is over with the sound of roaring firecrackers; the warm spring breeze brings in the New Year, and people joyfully drink the newly-brewed Tusu wine. The rising sun shines on thousands of families, who are busy removing the old peach talismans and replacing them with new ones.

Wang Anshi (December 18, 1021 - May 21, 1086), courtesy name Jiefu, number Banshan, Han nationality, a native of Linchuan, was a famous Northern Song Dynasty thinker, statesman, writer and reformer.

In the second year of Qingli (1042), Wang Anshi received his bachelor's degree. He served as a signing judge in Yangzhou, a magistrate in Yin County, and a general judge in Shuzhou, with remarkable political achievements. Xining two years (1069), served as Counselor of Political Affairs, the following year, presided over the change of law. Because of the opposition of the old guard, Xining seven years (1074), dismissed. A year later, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty reappointed him, but he was dismissed again and retired to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuanyou (1086), the conservatives gained power, and the new laws were abolished, so he died in Zhongshan, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Imperial Minister". In the first year of Shao Sheng (1094), he was awarded the posthumous title of "Wen", so he was called Wang Wen Gong.

Wang Anshi devoted himself to the study of Confucianism, writing books and making speeches, known as the "general Confucian", the creation of "Jinggong Xinxue", to promote the formation of the Song Dynasty, the formation of doubt and change the ancient style of learning. Philosophically, he used the "five elements" to explain the generation of the universe, which enriched and developed the idea of ancient Chinese simple materialism; his philosophical proposition "the new and the old are mutually exclusive" pushed the ancient Chinese dialectics to a new height.

In literature, Wang Anshi had outstanding achievements. His prose is concise and precise, short and concise, with distinctive arguments, strict logic and strong persuasive power, giving full play to the practical utility of the ancient texts, and ranked among the "Eight Great Poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties"; his poems, "Learning from Du", are good at reasoning and rhetoric, and his poetic style of the later years is implicit, deep, profound and unforced, and he is known as the "Eight Great Poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties". In his later years, his poetic style was implicit and deep, deep and gentle, and he made a name for himself in the Northern Song Dynasty with his style of abundance of spirit and far-reaching rhythms, which is known as "Wang Jinggong's Style"; and his lyrics were about writing objects and remembering ancient times, with a vast and pale mood, and an image of light and far-reaching simplicity, which created a world of feelings unique to the scholars and men of letters. There are "Wang Linchuan Collection", "Linchuan Collection Gleanings" and other survivors.