What are the stories of two writers changing their poems?

Wang Anshi is a native of Linchuan, Fuzhou (now Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province), and one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties.

In the second year of Xining in Song Shenzong (1069), after Wang Anshi became prime minister, he was determined to reform and implement the new law, which was resolutely opposed by big landlords and bureaucrats, and he became an official in a few years. He was bored in Beijing and decided to go back to Nanjing to see his wife and children.

In the spring of the following year, Wang Anshi went south from Bianjing to Yangzhou, took a boat to Jinling (Nanjing, Jiangsu) in the west, passed through Jingkou (Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), and crossed the river in Guazhou. The boat docked and stopped walking. Standing at the bow, he looked west, but when he saw the faint green hills, surging rivers, spring breeze and green fields, as well as the bright moon in the sky, he missed his relatives in Jinling Zhongshan (also known as Purple Mountain) even more. He walked into the boat, took out a pen and paper, just thought about it, and wrote a poem entitled "Boarding Guazhou":

A water room in Guazhou, Jingkou,

Zhongshan is separated by only a few mountains.

The spring breeze came to Jiang Nanan again.

When will the bright moon shine on me?

After writing, Wang Anshi felt that the word "to" in Spring Breeze and Green Jiang Nanan was too dead, and he couldn't see what it was like when the spring breeze arrived in Jiangnan. After thinking for a while, he began to circle the word "to" and changed it to "to". Later, I thought about it and felt that the word "country" was not appropriate. Although the word "Guo" is more vivid than the word "Dao" and describes the passing away, it is still not enough to express a person's urgent mood of returning to Jinling. So I circled the word "country" and changed it to "gold" and "full". This has been changed more than ten times, but Wang Anshi still hasn't found his most satisfactory word. He felt a little headache, so he went out of the cabin and looked at the scenery to rest his mind.

Wang Anshi went to the bow and looked at Jiangnan. The spring breeze blows, the grass dances, and the wheat waves fluctuate, which makes it more vibrant and picturesque. He felt refreshed and suddenly saw the spring grass green. Isn't this the word "green" I'm looking for? A word "green" expresses the moving scene of the whole Jiangnan full of vitality and spring. Thinking of this, Wang Anshi was very unhappy. He ran into the cabin and took out a piece of paper. He changed the sentence "Spring breeze comes to Jiang Nanan again" in the original poem to "Spring breeze is green in Jiang Nanan".

In order to highlight his hard-won "green" word, Wang Anshi deliberately wrote the word "green" bigger and more eye-catching.

A "green" word makes the whole poem vivid and vivid. The word "green" became what later generations called "poetic eye". Later, many articles about word refining took him as an example.

In the early spring of one year, the poet Wang Anshi went from Yangzhou to Guazhou Ferry and anxious to return, hoping to return to his apartment in Zhongshan, Jinling as soon as possible-he has been suspended since the failure of political reform and has lived here ever since. He intends to cross the Yangtze River by boat first, land at Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) on the other side, and then rush back to Zhongshan overnight.

As dusk approaches, the ship has approached the south bank, so it's time to go ashore. The poet couldn't help looking to the west, only to see the mountains and peaks, stretching into the distance, and finally being covered by clouds, not seeing Zhongshan outside the sunset. But it's not far, you know, from Jingkou to Jinling, there are only a few peaks in the middle! As soon as the ship landed, Wang Anshi jumped ashore first. Suddenly, a spring breeze blew, with an intoxicating fragrance of flowers. Ah! The pace of the poet just caught up with the pace of spring, and his feet stepped on the green carpet in the south of the Yangtze River. Back to the north bank of Wangjiang, there are only gray twilight and rolling smoke waves ... At this time, a bright moon rises in the east and will accompany the poet to go home overnight and reunite with his relatives. On a whim, Wang Anshi casually sang a quatrain:

Guazhou is at the mouth of Beijing, separated by several mountains.

The spring breeze came to Jiang Nanan again. When will the bright moon shine on me?

He repeatedly recited and thought along the way, and always felt that the word "to" in the third sentence was too mediocre and not appropriate enough. Later, it was changed to "country". I have seen it several times, but it is not good. Changed to the word "Jin"-"Spring breeze has entered Jiang Nanan again", hey, what does it look like? Not good! He said to himself, and then changed the word "people"-"Spring breeze filled the south bank of the river again". Alas, the more he changed, the more outrageous he became. The poet abandoned the word "person" and ran for more than ten miles. He thought and thought, changed and changed, but he couldn't find a suitable word. Finally, he suddenly thought of the green mountains, green waters and green plants he saw on the boat ... Isn't green a symbol of spring in the south of the Yangtze River? Why not use a "green" word? So the poet chanted loudly:

"Spring breeze is green in Jiang Nanan"-what a green word!

Wang Anshi decided to use the word "green" instead of "to", "to", "to" and "to". The next day, when the poet returned to his apartment in Zhongshan, he immediately copied the poem in his manuscript.

The poet wanted to use a verb to express the scene of spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but he finally chose an adjective as a verb, which is "adjective usage". "Green" not only means "green", but also means "blowing green", which is the personification of spring breeze and adds dynamic beauty.

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The Story of Su Dongpo's Changing Poetry

On one occasion, Su Dongpo went to Wu Zhai, Wang Anshi's study, to look for Wang Anshi. When Wang was away, he saw a poem written in only two sentences on the desk of Wuzhai-"The moon crows several times, and the yellow dog lies in his heart." Su Dongpo looked and looked, wondering. How do you call the bright moon in the branches? How can a yellow dog lie on a flower heart? Thought it was wrong. So I changed my pen and changed the poem to "The moon shines in the sky and the yellow dog lies in the shade." After Wang Anshi came back, he was extremely dissatisfied with Su Shi's revision of his poems and demoted him to Hepu.

After Su Dongpo arrived in Hepu, one day, he went out for a walk and saw a group of children around a pile of flowers, shouting, "Yellow dog Rollo, black dog Rollo, come out quickly!" Rollo rollo, rollo rollo. "Out of curiosity, Su Dongpo went over and asked the child what to shout. The child said, let's tell the bug to come out quickly so as to catch it. Su Dongpo looked closely at the flower and saw several yellow and black insects as big as sesame crawling in the stamen. Ask the child again what kind of bug is this? The child said: yellow dog bug, black dog bug. Su Dongpo left the flowers and came to a banyan tree. He met a crisp birdsong and asked others, what is this birdsong? Others replied: this is called the bright moon bird. At this time, Su Dongpo suddenly realized that he had wrongly corrected Wang Anshi's poems.

Another time Su Dongpo visited Wang Anshi. When Su Dongpo came to Xiangfu, Wang Anshi was sleeping and was led by the housekeeper Xu Lun to Wang Anshi's east study for tea.

After Xu Lun left, Su Dongpo saw that the bookcases on all sides of the wall were closed and locked. There were only pens and inkstones on the table, and nothing was left. He opened the inkstone box and saw that it was a green inkstone, which was very radiant. The ink in the inkstone pool was not dry yet. I tried to cover it, but suddenly I saw a paper corner under the inkstone box. When I took it out, it turned out to be two unfinished poems, and I recognized the poem "Chanting Chrysanthemum" written by Prime Minister Wang. Su Dongpo did Sarah laugh: Don't say goodbye for three days, don't have a hole in the sky. When he was an official in Beijing, the old teacher wrote thousands of words without thinking. Three years later, it's different. This poem has only written two sentences, but it has never been rhymed. It seems that Jiang Lang has exhausted his talents. Su Dongpo picked it up and read it again: last night, the west wind crossed the garden, blowing yellow flowers and gold everywhere.

Su Dongpo's ridicule of these two poems is nonsense. He thinks that the wind is famous all year round: spring is a gentle wind, summer is a fragrant wind, autumn is a golden wind, and winter is a north wind. The first sentence of this poem says that the west wind belongs to gold and the autumn is popular. With the golden wind, the leaves are yellow and the fragrance is scattered. The yellow flower mentioned in the second sentence is chrysanthemum. This flower blooms in late autumn, and its nature belongs to fire. Dare to fight with autumn frost is the most durable. With the increase of age, it will burn dry and will not fall. Isn't it wrong to say "yellow flowers blow to the ground" Su Dongpo couldn't help licking the ink with a pen and rhyming to continue his poem: autumn flowers are not as good as spring flowers, he said to the poet carefully.

Soon, Wang Anshi entered the East Study Room, saw the manuscript of the poem, asked why, recognized Su Dongpo's handwriting, and hesitated in his heart: "Su Dongpo is still frivolous despite repeated setbacks." Qu Yuan's Lisao contains the poem "Evening Banquet and Autumn Chrysanthemum". He refused to admit that he was a poor scholar, but laughed at the old man! Tomorrow morning, I will play the son of heaven and lower my rank for the people. "He thought," Wait a minute, he doesn't know that the chrysanthemum in Huangzhou has lost its petals, and he can't be blamed! ""Later, Xu Lun was asked to have a look at Huguang's official vacancy register. As a result, it was found that only Huangzhou area lacked a representative Ying Yong. In the early morning of the next day, the Prime Minister Wang secretly played the son of heaven. Su Dongpo was too weak and was demoted to Huangzhou. Only Su Dongpo has personal grievances against Wang Anshi's change of poetry. There is nothing I can do but be grateful.

The next day, Su Dongpo left Beijing and arrived in Huangzhou on a starry night.

Su Dongpo made friends with Shunk Chen Jichang in Huangzhou. However, hiking, drinking, writing poems, military affairs and people's feelings have nothing to do with autumn. Time flies, and it's another year. On September 1st, when the weather was fine, Su Dongpo suddenly remembered, "The dean of Dinghuiyuan once gave me several kinds of chrysanthemums to plant in the backyard. Why not enjoy it today? " When Chen Jichang visited, Dongpo was overjoyed and took him to the back garden to see chrysanthemums. Walking under the chrysanthemum stand, I saw gold all over the ground and no flowers on the branches. Su Dongpo was too surprised to speak. Chen Jichang asked, "Why is Zi Zhan so surprised to see the petals of chrysanthemum drop?" Su Dongpo said: "I often don't know the season. I generally think that this flower is just anxious and does not fall. " Last year, when I was in Prime Minister Wang's mansion, I saw his poem "Chanting Chrysanthemum" which said: "Last night, the west wind crossed the garden, blowing yellow flowers everywhere." My younger brother only said that Old Master Q made a mistake, and he added two sentences: "Autumn flowers are not as good as spring flowers, so be careful to sing with poets." . But I don't know that the chrysanthemum in Huangzhou really fell! The old prime minister demoted me to Huangzhou to show me chrysanthemums! Chen Jichang smiled: "Yes! "Su Dongpo sighed:" My brother was demoted, and I only thought it was a personal grudge of Prime Minister Wang. Who knew he was good? I was wrong. I will be modest and prudent in the future and will not laugh at others easily. Alas, it's really nothing, you haven't gained wisdom! "

Later, Su Dongpo went to Beijing to apologize to Wang Anshi.