Today, May is peaceful, and the pomegranate poems enter Zen.

Thousands of thick green branches and a little red do not need too much to make the moving spring scenery more beautiful.

This is Wang Anshi's famous couplet of pomegranate flowers, which is full of trees and has only one flower.

The red one refers to the pomegranate flower. Spring colors, scenery. Dotted with a red flower on the dark green background, the picture suddenly becomes lively and enchanting; the beauty and preciousness of the pomegranate does not lie in its colorful, enchanting and sparse leaves, but the flower becomes more and more beautiful. It looks bright and charming.

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Wang Anshi (December 18, 1021 - May 21, 1086), named Jiefu, nicknamed Banshan, was granted the title of Duke of Jing. He is known as King Jinggong in the world. Posthumous title, also known as Wang Wengong. A native of Linchuan (now Fuzhou). An outstanding politician, writer and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. One of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties".

His poems are good at reasoning and rhetoric, good at using allusions, and have brilliant insights. His style may be powerful and powerful, or it may be profound and graceful. In 1069, when he was appointed as the governor of political affairs, he introduced political reforms such as the Young Crops Law, the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, and the Recruitment Law, which had a profound impact on the social economy of the early Song Dynasty. He was hailed by Lenin as "China's greatest reformer in the eleventh century." There are "Wang Linchuan Collection", "Linchuan Collection Supplements" and so on.

Wang Anshi was born into a family of officials. He was studious and well-read since he was a child. He traveled with officials in the north and south and came into contact with some social realities. Understand the painful life of farmers. Therefore, he set up the ambition to "rectify the world and change the customs" at a young age. After he became a Jinshi at the age of 22, he successively served as Huainan push official, Yinxian magistrate, Shuzhou general judge, Changzhou magistrate, Jiangdong prison judge and other positions. , are able to sympathize with the people's sentiments and eliminate disadvantages and bring benefits to the local area.

When he was appointed as a magistrate in the third year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1058), he wrote thousands of words to Renzong of the Song Dynasty, deeply exposing the decadent atmosphere of the official system, imperial examinations and extravagance, and requesting political reform and strengthening Border Defense proposed the financial management principle of "collecting the world's wealth to provide for the world's expenses", but it did not attract the attention of the imperial court.

Reference materials:

Tencent News--Summary and Appreciation of Wang Anshi’s Works