Traditional Festival Verses

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The ancient poems describing traditional festivals include: "New Year's Day", "The Night of Ching Ming", "Snow on New Year's Eve", "Lunar Night in Gui Zhou", "New Year's Eve", "Lanterns on the Fifteenth Night of the First Moon", "Yuanxi in Bianjing", "The Night on the Fifteenth Day of the First Moon", "Sheng Chazi - New Year's Eve", and "Looking at the Moon on the Fifteenth Night", and so on.

1, Song Dynasty Wang Anshi "New Year's Day":

The sound of firecrackers is the sound of the first year of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel.

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

Translation:

The old year is over with the sound of firecrackers, and with the warm spring breeze, we are enjoying drinking Tusu wine.

The rising sun shines on thousands of households, all of which have taken down their old peach talismans and replaced them with new ones.

Theme: This poem describes the lively, joyful and moving scene of renewal on the first day of the New Year, and expresses the author's ideological feelings of political renewal.

2, Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi "Qingming Night":

Good wind and misty moon on the night of the Qingming Festival, the blue brickwork and the red Xuanxuan assassin's house.

Walking alone around the corridor, I rested again and again, listening to the strings and pipes and watching the flowers in the dark.

Translation:

The night of Ching-ming is characterized by a clear wind and hazy moonlight, with green stone steps and red balustrades, and this is the residence of the assassin's chief.

Walking alone in the winding corridor, listening to the sound of distant stringed music silently admiring the flowers blooming in the courtyard.

Theme: This poem describes the poet's leisurely mood as he walks alone in the gyrating corridor on the night of the Qingming Festival, singing, listening to the sound of strings and pipes in the distance, and admiring the flowers under his eyes.

3. Lu You of the Song Dynasty wrote "Snow on the Night of New Year's Eve":

The north wind blew snow at the beginning of the fourth shift, and Jiarui Tianjiao and the year of the new year.

Half a cup of butcher's tassel has not yet been raised, and the grass in front of the lamp is writing peach symbols.

Translation:

At the beginning of the fourth night, the north wind brought a heavy snowfall; this auspicious snowfall given to us by Heaven came on the night of the New Year's Eve, signaling a good harvest for the coming year.

Before I could raise my glass half-full of tusu wine to celebrate the New Year, I hurriedly wrote the peach symbols to welcome the spring in cursive script by the light of the lamp.

Theme: The whole poem depicts the poet's writing of peach symbols on New Year's Eve in preparation for the celebration of the New Year, which expresses the poet's joy and anticipation for the coming of the New Year.

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