沈括错评桃花诗大林寺桃花【唐】白居易人间四月芳菲尽,山寺桃花始盛开。长恨春归无觅处,不知转入此中来!唐朝元和十二年(817年)春末,白居易和16位朋友结伴游江西庐山,写下著名的《大林寺桃花》。宋代著名的科学家、文学家沈括读了这首诗,非常惊讶,带着讥讽的口吻评论道:“既然‘四月芳菲尽’了,怎么会‘桃花始盛开’呢?大诗人也写出这样自相矛盾的句子,可谓‘智者千虑,必有一失’呀!”说完,他也就把这事忘掉了。一年春夏之交,沈括去游山,见到了白居易诗中的奇景:四月天气,山下众花凋谢,山项上却是桃花红艳。他猛然想起 Shen Kuo misappraisal Taohua Shi Dalin Peach [Don] Bai Juyi April Fang Fei to do, Yama Temple peach blossoming. In the late Tang Dynasty and the end of the twelfth year (817), Bai Juyi and his 16 friends traveled together in Jiangxi Lushan and wrote the famous Dalinsi Peach Blossoms. Shen Kuo, a famous scientist and writer in the Song Dynasty, read this poem and was very surprised and commented with a sarcasm: “Since April Fantasia did it, why would the peach blossoms begin to bloom?” the poet also wrote. Such a paradoxical sentence can be described as ’a wise man must have a certain amount of confidence, and he must have lost it!’” Then, he also forgot about this matter. At the turn of the spring and summer of the year, Shen Kuo went to the mountains to see the wonders of Bai Juyi’s poems: In April weather, the flowers in the mountains faded. On the mountains, there were peach blossoms. He suddenly remembered