The Day of the First Moon
[Song Dynasty] Wang Anshi
The sound of firecrackers is heard at the end of the year, and the spring breeze is sent into the Tuosu.
In the spring breeze, the sun rises.
In the spring breeze and the rising sun, every household lights firecrackers, drinks Tulku wine, and is busy taking off the old peach charms on the doors and replacing them with new ones affixed to the door gods. The author has chosen these most typical festive scenes of the New Year to show a picture of folk customs rich in life.
▐ “New Year’s Day at the Tian Family
[Tang Dynasty] Meng Haoran
Last night the bucket returned to the north, and this morning the year rose to the east.
I am already a strong servant, but I am still worried about farming without any salary.
I am a farmer with no salary. I am a ploughman in the mulberry field and a shepherd boy in the hoe.
The families in the fields are saying that the year is rich.
Gu Wenjun: Last night the handle of the Big Dipper turned to the east, and this morning the year began again. I am forty years old, and although I have no official position, I am still worried about farming. I am near the farmer who is plowing in a field full of mulberry trees, carrying a hoe and working with a shepherd boy. The farmers speculate about this year’s harvest, and all say it will be a good year.
▐ “New Year’s Eve
[Song Dynasty] Wen Tianxiang
The sky and the earth are empty, the years have gone to the hall.
The end of the road is frightened by wind and rain, and the poor side is full of snow and frost.
The life of the year is about to end, the body and the world are forgotten.
There is no more dream of Tu Su, and the night is not yet over.
The verses are simple and calm, without the boldness of “Heaven and earth have righteousness”, without the generosity of “leave your heart to shine”, but only show the great hero’s desire to get together with his family to drink Tu Su wine on New Year’s Day, and even reveal a trace of loneliness and pathos between the lines.
▐ “Meeting at the House of Zhang Shaofu in Le Cheng on the Night of the New Year’s Eve
[Tang Dynasty] Meng Haoran
In the past, we used to know each other very well.
The first time I saw the film, I was in the middle of it.
The old song is sung by plum blossoms, and the new song is sung by cypress wine.
The guests are happy to go anywhere, and they do not see each other for years.
Gu Wenjun: After dark, the red candles are lit and a banquet is arranged to celebrate the New Year, with friends sitting next to each other. During the banquet, the singer sang the old song “Plum Blossom”, and everyone drank freshly steamed cypress wine, exchanging cups and glasses, and occasionally playing the game of drinking order, wandering around and having fun everywhere.
▐ “New Year’s Day
[Qing Dynasty] Kong Shangren
The white hair is not overwhelming.
Cut the candles to dry the night wine, pour the bag to share the money to buy spring.
Listen to the burning of firecrackers in the hearts of children, see the exchange of peach symbols of old interest.
The drums and horns of plum blossoms add one more, five nights of laughter to celebrate the New Year.
Gu Wenjun: The first four lines are about New Year’s Eve, the fire around the New Year, drinking wine to spend the night. The third line is a transition, which is a gift. The third line is a transition, using the gift of spring money to imply that the old year has gone and the new year has come. The next four lines are devoted to New Year’s Day. The next four lines are about New Year’s Day, when firecrackers are lit, peach charms are exchanged, and music is played. The New Year’s worship. Between the lines, Kong Shangren’s sincere childlike heart leaps.
▐《癸巳新年夕偶成》(其一)
Qing Dynasty] Huang Jingren
A thousand laughing families are late to speak, worrying about the potential from the outside of things to know.
The city bridge quietly people do not know, a star like the moon to see many times.
The night of New Year’s Eve, time passes slowly amidst the laughter of thousands of families. The poet was lonely and isolated, standing alone on the city bridge, looking up at the starry sky for a long time and falling into contemplation.
▐ “New Year’s Composition
[Tang Dynasty] Liu Changqing
The new year is very close to my heart, and I weep alone by the sky.
The old man is living under the people, and the spring return is before the guest.
The ape in the mountain is the same at dawn and dusk, and the willow in the river shares the wind and smoke.
It has been like Changsha Fu, and it is now a few more years.
The poet naturally misses his hometown and family in the New Year. But the poet was relegated to a distant land in the sky, thousands of miles away, and could not return, so he had to weep alone.
▐ “Welcoming Spring
Ye Xie (Qing Dynasty)
The rhythm of Hongjun is the same, the shoulders and the hubs are happy.
The spring is in a thousand doors and ten thousand houses.
Gu Wenjun: The arrival of spring is written from the point of view of the trees. The plum blossoms and willows show their new posture, while the pine trees, which are not carved in winter, seem to have an old look. People in the spring festival drink too much butcher’s wine for joy, and the sound of laughter resounds through the clouds.
▐ “New Year’s Day (Yulouchun)
[Song Dynasty] Mao Pang
The year drips to the end of the lotus flower leakage, the blue well butcher’s soda Shen frozen wine.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into.
The beauty of a thousand long lives, and the cypress leaves and pepper flowers are fragrant.
I know few people in my drunken hometown, but I only know the old friends with the East.
The lotus flower drops sent away the old year. In the well hanging frozen wine, the dawn cold invasion, the willow branches of the slender body, has revealed the new spring breath. Although there are beautiful girls and singers to make wine, the lyricist is surprised by the early spring weather, as if he has seen his old friends after a long time. It is a novel idea, and it is very interesting.
▐ “New Year’s Greetings
[Ming Dynasty] Wen Zhengming
I don’t want to meet but to visit, the famous paper is full of my cottage in the morning.
I also throw a few papers with others, the world’s feelings are too simple not too false.
I don’t ask for a meeting, but only wish to greet them by sending them stickers, so my house is filled with all kinds of expensive stickers in the morning. I also follow the trend of sending posters to others, and people only dislike the simplicity and slowness, not the fact that it is only an empty ritual.
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