Original text:

The sound of firecrackers marks the end of a new 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; 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.

Expanded Information

Wang Anshi (1021-1086), courtesy name Jiefu, was known as Banshan Jushi. He was named Duke of Shu, and later renamed Duke of Jing. He was later renamed Duke of Jing. He was also known as "Duke Wang Jing". He was a native of Yanbu Ling, Linchuan County (present-day Dengjiaxiang, Linchuan District). In the second year of Qingli (1042), he was admitted as a scholar. In the third year of Jiayou's reign (1058), he wrote a book of 10,000 words, proposing a change of law. In 1069, he was appointed as the Counselor of Political Affairs by Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty to implement the new law.

The following year, he was appointed as the Minister of Pingzhang (平章事). Xining seven years (1074) dismissed the prime minister, the following year, reappointed prime minister; Xining nine years (1076) again dismissed the prime minister, retired to Jiangning (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) half of the mountain garden, sealed Shuguo Duke, soon changed to Jing, known as Jing Duke. He died posthumously. During his reign, he and his son Wang Chuan and Lu Huiqing annotated the Book of Songs, the Book of Shang, and the Book of Zhou, which was then called the New Meaning of the Three Classics.