The most famous lines in Wang Wan's "Mooring below Beigu Mountain" are "The sea sun rises out of the last of the night; the river's spring breaks into the old year."
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The prime minister 张说 so admired the "sea sun" couplet that he wrote it out himself and hung it in the government hall as a model of poetry. The same poem also gave 潮平两岸阔，风正一帆悬.
