What do you mean, jealous of peony is useless, but ashamed to kill roses?

Give birth to a peony for nothing, and I am ashamed to kill a rose —— Peony in Kaiyuan Temple by Xu Ning, 2005, 1 1, 2 1, 15:04:20, Zhejiang online news website, Xu Ning (date of birth is unknown), Tonglu, Tang Dynasty. The first time I went to Chang 'an, I didn't become famous because I didn't want to show off my talents or pay homage to the dignitaries. Before returning to South, he wrote a poem to bid farewell to assistant minister Han Yu: "Bai Yuan is the only person I have ever met in my life, and there is no clothes in the world. I don't want to cry first, and the white-headed wanderer will return in vain. " He criticized the social phenomenon that only fame was valued at that time, but not the real thing. Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou. One day, he visited Kaiyuan Temple and saw a peony poem by Xu Ning, which was greatly appreciated. He invited him to drink with him and came back drunk. Later, he competed with Zhang Hu, who was famous for his poetry, but he felt ashamed of himself and Bai Juyi won the prize. In the Tang and Yuan Dynasties, he was promoted to Jinshi, and the official was assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance. Xu Ning's poems are simple and unpretentious, with lofty artistic conception and smooth and natural brushwork. "The title of the country of Jinyun Dinghu Lake": "The Yellow Emperor can't return with a flag, and there is a stone in the air. Sometimes the wind rolls the lake waves and scatters into blue sky and rain. " As a swan song, no one dared to ask later. Xu Ning's calligraphy was famous for a while. According to "Xuanhe Shupu", "Xu Ning, the book has its own way, and the brushwork has its Confucian style, which is not regulated by the book." Mo Bao, whose two poems "Yellow Crane Tower" and "Meng Si in Jason Wu" were collected by the court in Song Dynasty. Source: Zhejiang Online Author: Editor: zhejiang comrade