According to legend, after Wang Anshi became prime minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, he often read poems sent from all over the country in his spare time. One day, he saw a poem written by a scholar in Guangdong: "Butterflies dance in pairs, and the trees in the cicada sing." The bright moon calls in the sky, and the yellow dog lies in his heart. " He read the first and second sentences and nodded in praise; Seeing the third and fourth sentences, I couldn't help laughing internally. Upon inquiry, it was written by a scholar who had not seen it for many years. Wang Anshi thought, how can such a confused scholar be admitted? So, he changed the last two sentences to: "The sky is bright, and the yellow dog lies in the shade.
Later, Wang Anshi failed in political reform and was forced to resign as prime minister, so he went to various places to play. One day, he came to Chaozhou. In the evening, when the bright moon was in the sky and the flowers smelled fragrant, Wang Anshi went to the garden of his apartment to enjoy the moon. Not long after, a gardener came to catch the yellow dog bug. This insect sleeps in the flower heart at night and wastes flowers. As he spoke, the gardener caught one and showed it to Wang Anshi. That's a yellow caterpillar.
Just as Wang Anshi was looking at the yellow dog bug by moonlight, he suddenly heard a bird song in the air, which was extremely melodious. He was surprised because birds don't crow at night! The old gardener said, "This is a rare local bird. It often sings at night. When the moon is in the sky, it sings more happily, so the locals call it the bright moon bird. "
Wang Anshi felt guilty after listening to the old gardener's words. He remembered that a few years ago he changed the Poem of the Moon written by a scholar, which was a big mistake made by his ignorance. Later, Wang Anshi made a special trip to visit the scholar and apologized in person.
This short story tells us that we should never judge what we don't understand by subjective impression. Some things seem strange, but maybe they are not. It's just that you may be ignorant or shallow, and you can't see the truth behind it.
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It was about the time when Su Shi was an official in the imperial court. Before he was relegated, one day, he went to Wu Zhai, Wang Anshi's study, to find Wang Anshi. During Wang's absence, Su Shi saw a poem written in only two sentences on Wu Zhai's desk-"When the moon barks, the yellow dog lies down." 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, so he was demoted to Hepu. After Su Dongpo arrived in Hepu, one day, he went out for a walk and saw a group of children shouting in front of a pile of flowers: "Yellow dog Rollo, black dog Rollo, come out quickly!" 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. He asked the child, "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. When you meet the ringing birds in the tree, ask others, "What kind of bird is this?" 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.
However, later generations commented that Wang Anshi was too narrow-minded as a prime minister. Although he knows the local customs, he should not set up a Wutai poetry case because Su Shi wrongly corrected two of his poems, put Su in prison and then gave it to others casually. What's the difference between doing this and doing a literary prison? In fact, Wang Anshi punished Su Dongpo in history and corrected two poems by mistake. So Su Shi demoted Huizhou first and then Danzhou.
References:
Yellow dog _ Baidu encyclopedia