Cai Yong (133- 192), the word uncle. Chen Pixian (now Weishi County or Qixian County, Henan Province) was a famous minister, writer and calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the father of a talented woman. Cai Yong successively served as an imperial minister, minister of history, assistant general and left commander-in-chief, and was named the township head of Levin, known as "Cai Zhonglang" in history. He is an outstanding scholar comparable to Qu Yuan in literature and Zeng Shen in filial piety.
Cai Yong was knowledgeable and brilliant when he was young. He likes literature, mathematics, astronomy and is good at music. In the third year of Jianning (170), Cai Yong was recruited by Situ Qiaoxuan and entered the official career. Soon, he became a magistrate of Heping County and was called a doctor. He studied in Dongguan School and was promoted as a negotiator.
Emperor Ling of Han loved Ci Fu, so many people were appointed because of their good writing style, which attracted many people with bad intentions and was promoted by Emperor Ling in violation of regulations, thus causing resentment. In the sixth year of Xiping (177), Emperor Ling wrote a letter of remorse and ordered his ministers to explain their feasible measures to govern the country. Cai Yong made a report on the seven requirements put forward by Chen.
After the book was delivered, Emperor Ling personally greeted the auspicious atmosphere in the northern suburbs, held a ceremony to avoid peace, and issued a letter to demote all those who had been promoted illegally before. Cai Yong was exiled because he often wrote about Chen's gains and losses, being an honest official, offending some courtiers and being slandered and framed. Although Emperor Ling loved his talent and forgave him, Cai Yong was afraid that he would not be spared because all the people he loved were framing him, so he fled for his life and went to the land of Wu Hui, where he lived for twelve years.
In the sixth year of Zhong Ping (189), Emperor Ling died, and Dong Zhuo was a commonplace, specializing in state affairs. He heard that Cai Yong was very talented and forced him to join the army despite Cai Yong's refusal. Dong Zhuo values Cai Yong's talent, while Cai Yong values it. In the first year of Chuping (190), he worshipped Cai Yong as the left corps commander and moved to Chang 'an with Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, making him the head of Levin.
In the third year of Chuping (192), Dong Zhuo was killed and Cai Yong sighed. Wang Yun thinks that this is a traitor who sympathizes with the country and a henchmen of Dong Zhuo. Cai Yong was imprisoned to death. Cai Yong once collected the history of the Han Dynasty. Before the disaster, he didn't want to give up his unfinished wish. He wrote that he would rather accept the punishment of engraving his forehead and cutting off his feet in order to continue to complete the history of the Han Dynasty. Most literati sympathized with him and wanted to save him. Qiu Ma Ridi expressed his feelings to Wang Yun, saying, "Berger is an outstanding scholar who knows China affairs very well. This should be a grand ceremony for a generation. What's more, I am loyal and filial, sitting in a nameless position. What's the point of not being punished? " But Wang Yun was unmoved. Cai Yong was eventually unjustly killed, and the life of a generation of prodigies ended at the age of 60. All ministers and scholars deeply regret this. After hearing the news of Cai Yong's death, Zheng Xuan, a famous Confucian scholar, sighed and said, "Who will decide what happened in the Han Dynasty?" .
Cai Yong failed to become a historian, but he was an outstanding writer. He is good at ci fu and is the last master of ci fu in Han Dynasty. Most of his poems are short poems, with diverse materials, close to life, fresh language, often outspoken, full of social feelings and artistic appeal. His masterpiece is Shu Xing Fu. The whole fu is short and pithy, with profound feelings and criticism, and it is a masterpiece of lyric fu at the end of Han Dynasty.
Cai Yong's essays are neat and elegant, and they are highly respected in the old society. Cai Yong can do almost anything for all kinds of styles, including poems, words, titles, inscriptions, praises, Julian, remonstrance, comments, arbitrariness, exhortation, explanation, recitation, female training, seal script, plus wishes and chapters. Cai Yong wrote more than 400 poems. Because of the years of war at that time, the manuscript was not preserved and handed down. It was all written by my daughter Chae Yeon with amazing memory.
Cai Yong is also a great calligrapher. Cai Yong is famous for its seal script and official script, especially official script. Its word structure is rigorous, its stippling is pitching, its style is changeable, and it has the evaluation of "Cai Yong's book is profound, refreshing and powerful". The created "Feibai" calligraphy style has a great influence on later generations and was rated as "wonderful and strange" by the book end.
Cai Yong is a musician and a performer. When Dong Zhuo was in power, he appreciated his musical talent. At a banquet, Cai Yong often played drums and piano. When Cai Yong was in Wudi (present-day Jiangsu and Zhejiang), he heard the sound of a piece of paulownia wood bursting in the fire. Knowing that it was a good piece of wood, he picked it out and made it into a piano. The timbre was wonderful. But the tail of the wood was still burnt, so people called it the symphonic piano at that time.
After Cai Yong was killed, Jiao was kept in the Royal Library. It is said that when Emperor Qi Ming was in office, he took out his piano and asked the guqin master Wang Zhongxiong to play it. Wang Zhongxiong played for five days in a row, improvising "Hate Song" for Ming Di. Later, it was passed on to Li Jing, the master of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and later presented to Zhou Zhou. After Li Yu's death, he belonged to Songshi. It is said that Wang Fengnian, a native of Kunshan in the Ming Dynasty, also collected the symphonic piano made by Cai Yong.
Cai Yong's General Classics and History is also a Confucian scholar. In the fourth year of Xiping (175), Cai Yong felt that the classics were far away from the writings of saints, and there were many mistakes in words, which were far-fetched by vulgar Confucianism and delayed students. Cai Yong asked Zhengding to write the Six Classics, and Emperor Ling approved it. Cai Yong wrote the scriptures on stone tablets for craftsmen to engrave, and set up the imperial academy Gate, which is called the Shijing. It is the first Shijing in China. Later Confucian scholars took this as a classic.
Cai Yong loved books all his life, with more than 10,000 books. In his later years, he gave all his books to RoyceWong. There are more than 4,000 books in his family, and he is a bibliophile.
Cai Yong, a dutiful son, is famous in history. His mother was ill for three years, and Cai Yong never took off his clothes. He slept for 70 days, regardless of Xia Dong or climate change. After mother died, she built a house next to the tomb, lived and watched, and everyone obeyed the etiquette. He is also very filial to his elders. He lives with his uncles and their brothers, and three generations have not separated. Everyone in the village praised his character. Cai Yong's filial piety story is still in the textbook.
Cai Yong's hometown is disputed. The two sides of the dispute are Weishi County and Qixian County in Kaifeng, Henan Province, both of which belonged to Guchenliu County. According to legend, Caizhuang, also known as Cai Xiang, is located in the south of Weishi County, Henan Province 17.5km, and is the birthplace of Cai Yong. Weishi Cai Yong Tomb is located in Dazhu Village, 5 kilometers south of Caizhuang, Weishi County. Pi Town in Qixian County is also considered as the hometown of Cai Yong. Both Weishi County and Qixian County have built Cai Yong's hometown monument and Cai Yong Cultural Park and other related structures. In Lushan Mountain, Yuzhou, Henan Province, Xiaoyao Mountain is the first peak in the territory of Yu, and the tomb of Cai Yong, the governor of Hanzhong, is under its shadow. Its tomb is located in Dongbaisha Town, Beibaisha Reservoir, with beautiful lakes and mountains and new scenery. It is a tourist attraction. There is also a tomb of Cai Yong in the north of xia zhuang Natural Village, Xi 'an Village, Dongan Community, Huangli Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province.