Zen master Guan Xiu became a monk at the age of seven. He was poor all his life. He visited many places in the motherland. It can be said that Guanxiu Zen Master is a famous painter and monk. Guan Xiu's talent is outstanding all his life. He is not only good at poetry and painting, but also has some opinions on calligraphy. Among these fields, his painting ability is the most remarkable. He is also very good at painting portraits of monks. The arhats he painted are unique and innovative. His poems mainly criticize bureaucrats for oppressing the people. One of the songs, "Give Money to Your Dad", was dedicated to Yue, and he liked it very much after watching it. But Guan Xiu was unhappy and asked him to change a sentence in the poem to forty states, saying it was written truthfully. Since there are no forty states, how can he change them at will? It can be seen that Guan Xiu does not follow suit.
Guan Xiu is a monk. Perhaps we will think that he has nothing to do with political officialdom and is bent on fasting and chanting Buddha. Actually, it is not. Guan Xiu is very disgusted with corrupt officials who don't do practical things for the people. He is very concerned about people's living conditions. In his own poems, he also strongly condemns corrupt officials who exert various pressures on the people. He dares to say and do, and he is never afraid of the so-called repression in officialdom. Guan Xiu's attitude towards life is very casual. He eats and walks in the street. He looks very casual and doesn't care about the suggestions. Perhaps his generous and natural attitude helped him live to 89.
The title of Guan Xiu Zen Master is also an affirmation of him by later generations.
Guan xiubi
There are many styles of Guan Xiu's poems, and the writing brush is one of them. As soon as you see the title of the poem, you will feel that it must be an expression of love for the pen, and then contact Guan Xiu's background, so that the background of writing this poem is clear, which is also in line with Guan Xiu's way of writing poetry. Because Guan Xiu made great achievements in calligraphy, he loved his pen for practicing calligraphy, so he wrote a poem to express his love for it.
The poem "Pen" is neither too long nor too short, and consists of eight poems. The main meaning of the first four sentences is to praise the greatness of the pen and his feelings when practicing calligraphy. No matter who starts practicing calligraphy, they will feel very tired and hard, but they must stick to it. The pen for practicing calligraphy will always be by your side. When you want to practice successfully, the contribution of the pen appears. From the beginning, I decided to practice calligraphy. At first, it was a little difficult. Not only do I write badly, but I also feel very hard. Therefore, the meaning of the first four sentences is to express the difficult scenes and feelings when Guan Xiu just started practicing calligraphy. The last four sentences are still descriptive pens. When I first started writing, I didn't know where the pen should stop and where it would end, but as long as I practice more, I will gradually find the feeling. The last two sentences are the essence of the whole poem, "Why can't you be five colors, you are always willing to help * * *", which means that as long as you keep practicing, you will never become a calligrapher, showing your determination to practice calligraphy and make achievements in calligraphy.
This poem written by Guan Xiu roughly describes the content of calligraphy, with simple but rich feelings, that is, the love of pen and calligraphy.
Camellia guanxiu
The poem Camellia was written by several poets. Now let's introduce this poem written by Master Guan Xiu. On the surface, this poem describes a plant. In fact, after understanding the poem, I found that Camellia is just a metonymy, and Guan Xiu wants to express another meaning.
Camellia is very short, with only four poems, but it expresses what Guan Xiu wants to express incisively and vividly. The first two sentences mainly describe that camellia blooms in this sunny weather, but Guan Xiu feels that even if such beautiful camellia blooms, it is lifeless and has no gorgeous feeling. Such a beautiful camellia has lost its aesthetic feeling, which shows the repressed feelings in Guan Xiu's heart. Guan Xiu used "scarlet blood" to describe camellia, which was intended to express his satire on some social phenomena with the help of camellia.
Because in the society at that time, the court did not do practical things for the people at all, but squeezed the people everywhere, making their lives more and more bitter. The description of the last two sentences mainly revolves around the word "resentment". Camellia withers because new camellia grows on the branches and leaves. The word "resentment" melted in this environment, indicating that Guan Xiu's inner resentment was against the court, because the court squeezed the people and filled them with anger and resentment. So summing up this poem is to express Guan Xiu's dissatisfaction with the inaction of the court at that time through camellia. Combined with Guan Xiu's life, although he is a monk, he has always been concerned about the living conditions of the local people. Although he is not a court official, he has a heart that loves the people. Many of Guan Xiu's poems show similar feelings. Therefore, this Camellia poem written by Guan Xiu is in line with his own feelings.
Guan jiangnv
Guan Xiu is a monk who is good at writing poems and painting. Meng Jiangnv is a legendary protagonist, crying for the Great Wall. Because they live in different times, the origin of these two people must not be in contact.
By consulting historical materials, we know that their origin is this: because Guan Xiu is a monk who is good at writing poems, the legendary story of Meng Jiangnv has changed because of Guan Xiu's poems. Because in the previous historical narrative, although this legendary story has a history of thousands of years, the content of the story has also undergone some changes, but in general, the narrative situation has not been divorced from historical facts, but only some small details have been added or deleted, which will not have a big impact. But in Guan Xiu's hands, it was really amazing change, because Guan Xiu was very prestigious at that time, and everyone would believe something he said. This poem written by Guan Xiu is about Meng Jiangnv's crying and the crying person has passed away. They were very hungry and chased everywhere. Such an exaggerated story completely changed Meng Jiangnv's story, and everyone believed it was such a legendary story. But later generations all know that the content described in Guan Xiu's poem is really no different from the previous story. He subverts the whole story.
It can be said that Guan Xiu's imagination is very rich, but this imagination is inconsistent with the facts and has little practical significance.
The above content is the relationship between Guan Xiu and Meng Jiangnv. They are not friends, nor the kind of relationship that has holidays, but are linked by a poem.