Where does the poem Yuan Ri come from?

It is a seven-character quatrain "January Day" written by Wang Anshi, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem describes the scene of 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.

The whole poem is as follows:

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.

The translation is as follows:

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.

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Creation background

1068, Shenzong called Wang Anshi to "go to the right again and again", and Wang Anshi immediately wrote to advocate political reform. The following year, he devoted himself to politics and presided over the political reform. During the Spring Festival in the same year, Wang Anshi saw that every household was busy preparing for the Spring Festival, and he wrote this poem with emotion when he thought of the new atmosphere at the beginning of the political reform.

works appreciation

Wang Anshi was a famous reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. During his tenure, just as people replaced the old with the new, he abolished the old politics and implemented the New Deal. Wang Anshi is full of confidence in the New Deal, so it is particularly cheerful in his poems.

This poem praises the birth of new things, which is as full of vitality as "the spring breeze picks up"; "Tomorrow" shines on "thousands of families". This is not an ordinary sun, but the beginning of a new life. Political reform has brought a bright future to the people.

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