Pic Description: "Meng Xi Bi Tan" initially referred to as "writing," said Shen Kuo in the preface: "I retired at the forest, secluded never collected from. Think on weekdays and off the speaker, when the record regarding the pen, then if the Times words, XIAORAN shift day. The person with the talks, only, brush it, that the "writing". "descendants is called a" Meng Xi Bi Tan, "This book's a book with the background and Shen Kuo's later life is not divided open. According to legend, Shen Kuo more than thirty years old "taste to a dream, a hill board, flower, such as follow-Jin, and tree cover on it, the mountain under the water clarity, dream pleasure, will be seeking home Yan." After that dream often to their place, Xining Decade (1077), Shen Kuo went to Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng) office, a Taoist on Shen Kuo said that the victory Runzhou mountains and cloud-gun people have to attract buyers, Shen Kuo then submitted the money to purchase thirty thousand cord. More than ten years later, he Feng Zhao northbound through Runzhou, "to the purchase of the land, suddenly the tour is a dream, because No. mengxi" ("Jingkou Qijiu Biography" Volume I), and later moved to his Xiequan Jia Runzhou "mengxi" Park, where eight is a living and live life like ideal world, until the last moment of life. Descendants of the Shen Kuo mengxi Park finishing, amend, supplement the "writing", as a "mengxi" the word can be said that the best memorial to him. Song Shen Kuo live in an age positive economic and cultural prosperity, study, changes occurred in the historical period. In the classical studies or philosophy, the Song by Henry Han and Tang Chapters of the study carried out a study with a sense of emancipation innovation, since the Han Dynasty in China created a rare in the history of active academic atmosphere; same time, the Song also face internal and external problems political reality, the academic exploration combined with social practice, trying to show in the social reform school used by the world economy. In this style of study, led by "Pursue" of, and explore the origin of things, becoming the new trend of society, Shen Kuo is in this style of study under the influence of the talent. Of course, even more importantly, with the vast majority of scholars to focus mainly concentrated in the Confucian classics, and often despised be seen as "fluff" all kinds of skills different, Shen Kuo pay attention to "Pursue nature" to explore the origin of matter . The mystery of nature to explore and learn "hundreds of hands of its business to the micro" and learning as important as the location of the Confucian classics, and his generation of great scientists have become the crucial factor. Shen Kuo life up to 40 kinds of writing, and "Meng Xi Bi Tan" is his most important works, devoted his life to the assiduous efforts of science and culture. "Meng Xi Bi Tan," recorded in many anecdotes, Shen Kuo is a mystery of nature, have always had a strong interest in the best reflection, although many anecdotes Shen Kuo does not give to explain, but because of his record, later became useful scientific data. "Meng Xi Bi Tan" One came to be after when the people and the world of great concern. People praised Shen Kuo "Bo learned the most consistent"; "encyclopedic knowledge, a rare moment of their horses. By the conversation by writing, in astronomy, arithmetic, temperament, medical art of divination, able to invent research, insight into the origins." Moreover, Shen Kuo in many ways have their own ideas. He describes in detail the first time, the compass needle, record the presence of magnetic declination; the earliest three-dimensional map of the model; he shoots the first study of fossils similar to Yan'an underground and make "gone with before, but rather to base air wet bamboo" scientific inference; and stone walls under the Taihang Mountains on the cliff was covered with dense clam shells and pebbles and other remains of snails, sea infer changes in the Taihang Mountains region. "Oil" is the term Shen Kuo started the first, and predicted that "this matter will be big firms after the world, from the beginning to whom." In mathematics, the gap plot his first surgery and will circle method, the number of proposed high demand and the differential arc length formula and find the approximate formula, and so on. In particular, he rejected the traditional valuable social prejudices, summarize and record from the lower classes "Commoner" and the craftsmen of the invention, such as mud Bi Sheng invented movable type, is dependent on "Meng Xi Bi Tan," the records and summary, was able to promote and spread. He also briefed the famous building "Craftsman" is written by Yu Hao already lost "Wood Classics" book content, and the engineering design of Yu Hao made a scientific elucidated. "Meng Xi Bi Tan," the writing style also reflects the "dignified not Tiao" feature, so from a literary point of view, it may well be a concise, lively writing Essays. Shen Kuo not only in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, geology, medicine, agriculture, forestry science and other scientific technology has made remarkable achievements, but also in the epigraphy of the development, music (Yan Yue) study and appreciation of painting and calligraphy and other cultural collections have made outstanding contributions on the subject. Four Archives of the article said he "has a foundation in science, also made by Wang Ya-age support flooded with canonical, its forty-six, tables, Kai, especially dignified not Tiao, with the ancient legacy of the Fan." To commemorate the "whole of China's most prominent figures in the history of science" (Needham language), July 1, 1979, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences found that an asteroid station (No. 2027) named "Shen Kuo" .
