What does it mean that the moon is calling in the sky and the yellow dog is lying in the flower heart?

It means: the bright moon birds crow at night, and the bright moon is more joyful in the sky. At night, the yellow dog bug sleeps in the flower heart.

Allusions:

When Wang Anshi was prime minister, a scholar in Chaozhou (now Guangdong) visited Wang Anshi and asked him to change his poems. The original poem is written like this: "The bright moon is whistling in the sky, and the yellow dog is lying in the heart."

Wang Anshi laughed off the poem. What's the name of the moon? Why is the yellow dog lying on Xiaohua's heart? So he began to change these two sentences to "the bright moon shines in the sky and the yellow dog lies in the shade of flowers", which is wise. Chaozhou people smiled after watching and said nothing.

Later, when he traveled to the south, he found that there was a bird in the south called "the bright moon" with a euphemistic voice. There is an insect called "yellow dog", which often flies around in the flower heart. Wang Anshi realized that the two poems were correct, but he changed them for others.

Extended data

This story tells us that we must persist in proceeding from reality when thinking about problems and doing things; Specific problems should be analyzed in detail.

Because I didn't know the truth, I even made a joke, saying that matter determines consciousness and everything starts from reality. The author's "yellow dog" and "bright moon" are appellations with local characteristics, so it is necessary to analyze specific problems.

A similar story

Among the cautionary stories compiled by Feng Menglong, there is an article called "Three Difficulties of Wang Anshi Su Shixue", in which Wang Anshi taught Su Dongpo several short stories. There is such a story:

One day, Su Dongpo went to visit Prime Minister Wang Anshi, who happened to be not at home. Su Dongpo saw a draft of a poem chanting chrysanthemums on Wang Anshi's desk, and then wrote the first two sentences: last night, the west wind crossed the garden and yellow flowers were blowing all over the ground.

Su Dongpo believes that "west wind" is autumn wind and "yellow flower" is chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum is the most cold-resistant and durable. How can you be blown down by the autumn wind if you dare to fight with the autumn frost? It would be a big mistake to say that the west wind "blows yellow flowers everywhere". Whether Wang Anshi is his predecessor or not, this arrogant academician picked up a pen and continued his poem: Autumn flowers are not better than spring flowers, and he said that he should sing carefully with poets.

After Wang Anshi came back, he read these two poems and was very dissatisfied. In order to teach Su Dongpo a lesson with facts, he demoted Su Dongpo to Yingyong, Huangzhou.

Su Dongpo lived in Huangzhou for nearly a year and went to Chongyang in September. On this day, the wind just stopped. Su Dongpo invited his friend Chen Jichang to enjoy chrysanthemums in the backyard, only to find chrysanthemums falling petals and gold everywhere. At this time, he remembered the past that continued Wang Anshi's poems and realized that he was wrong.

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