Author: Shao Yong
The old snow has not yet disappeared, and the new snow is embracing the house.
The old snow has not yet disappeared, and the new snow is now crowding the house.
The sun is not shining, and the wind is blowing.
People have their own tongues, and they can't speak.
Author's introduction:
Shao Yong (1011-1077), word Yaofu, born in Fanyang (present-day Zhuozhou Dashao village, Hebei), moved to Hengzhang (present-day Kangjie village, Linxian, Henan) with his father, Shao Gu, at an early age, and in the fourth year of the Tian Sheng era (1026), Shao Yong, at the age of sixteen, went with his father to ****cheng Sumenshan, where he divined his residence. Afterward, he learned Hetu, Luoshu and Fuxi Bagua from Li Zhicai, and became a great success in his studies. He also wrote Huangji jingshi (The Emperor's Pole in the World), Guanmu xiaoyi (The View of Things Inside and Outside), Xiantian tu (The Map of the First Heaven), Fishing and Woodcutter's Questions and Answers (Fishing and Woodcutter's Questions and Answers), Ichuan yangjianji (Collection of Ichuan yangjian), and Plum Blossom Poems. In the seventh year of Jiayou (1062), he moved to the south of Tianjin Bridge, west of Tiangong Temple in Luoyang, and called himself Mr. Anle. When he traveled, he must sit in a small cart and be pulled by one person. Song Renzong Jiayou and Song Shenzong Xining early, two times to be raised, are said to be sick not to go. He died in 1077 at the age of sixty-seven. He was given a posthumous title of Kangjie by Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty in the midst of the Yuanyou era.