In 827, Liu Yuxi, who had been exiled for 23 years, began his return to Chang'an. He first went to Luoyang, the companion capital, while Bai Juyi also returned to Luoyang from Suzhou. On the way, the two great poets met in Yangzhou. The happiest things in life are when sweat meets sweet rain, when you meet an old friend in a foreign land, when you have a wedding night with flowers and candles, and when you are named on the gold medal list. "Meeting an old friend in a foreign country" is one of them.
Two people who are both fallen from the world, drinking and mingling at the banquet, with fine wine in their hands and a bright future waiting for each other, how can they not be allowed to write poems to communicate with each other.
Bai Juyi first wrote "A Drunken Gift to the Twenty-Eight Envoy Liu":
He brought me a glass of wine and drank with you, and I beat the chopsticks with you and sang songs. The poem says that the hand of the country is just you, but there is nothing you can do if your life is on your head.
The scenery is always lonely, and the official positions in the dynasty are wasted. I also know that the reputation of a couple has been lost, but twenty-three years has been too much.
In order of seniority among his family peers, Liu Yuxi was the twenty-eighth, so Bai Juyi called him "Liu Twenty-eight".
Bai Juyi cherished each other, but it was a pity that Liu Yuxi wasted 23 years of good time. He used this idea to attract jade, which would lead to Liu Yuxi's best poems in his life. At this moment, they are like two clouds with positive and negative poles, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers just to collide with the brightest sparks at the moment of meeting:
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The desolate land of Bashan and Chushui has been abandoned for twenty-three years. Nostalgic, I recite the flute poems in the air, and when I go to the countryside to read them, I feel like a dead person.
Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased trees. Today I will listen to a song of Junge, and for the time being I will be refreshed by a glass of wine.
I have been a stranger in a foreign country for 23 years, and then I return to the starting point of my dream, but I am like the woodcutter who encounters an immortal chess game on the way. After a game of chess, the ax handle is rotten, and he can only carry the rotten axe. Going down the mountain, the vicissitudes of the world have already changed.
In 23 years, some dead trees can see spring again, but some people can no longer wait and are buried in winter. Liu Yuxi didn't think about what he had lost in the past 23 years. He only thought about the fact that he had lost a good friend, Liu Zongyuan, the friend who had always been with him. Now he is still there, but the close friend of life and death is no longer there.
So at this moment Liu Yuxi sang Xiang Xiu's "Reminiscence of the Past" for his friend. During the Western Jin Dynasty, Xiang Xiu and Ji Kang were good friends. Ji Kang was killed because he was dissatisfied with the Sima group that was in power at that time. Once, Xiang Xiu passed by Ji Kang's old residence and heard his neighbor playing the flute. The sound of the flute reminded him of his murdered friend, and he wrote a "Reminiscence of the Past" in grief and indignation to commemorate Ji Kang.
Liu Yuxi’s vision traveled through thousands of years and thousands of miles, and returned to thirteen years ago, when he and his friend Liu Zongyuan went to Xuandu to see the peach blossoms.
Liu Zongyuan was demoted together with him ten years ago, and ten years later, he was recalled to Chang'an together with him.
After coming back, Liu Yuxi wrote a poem "A play for gentlemen who watch flowers": "When the red dust of the purple road blows in the face, no one does not want to see the flowers return. In Xuandu, there are thousands of peach trees, all filled with Liu After the man left, he fell into disgrace."
Some people felt very unhappy when they saw this poem, so they told the emperor that Liu Yuxi was "unfit to serve in court because he was using evil to bring chaos to the government."
So Liu Yuxi was demoted again, and was demoted to the farther and more miserable Bozhou, which is now Zunyi. Liu Zongyuan was also demoted to Liuzhou.
When Liu Zongyuan learned that he had been demoted to Liuzhou and Liu Yuxi was banished to Bozhou, he couldn't help crying...
He was crying not because he was demoted again, but because: " Yu Xi has an old mother who lives in a barbarous area in the southwest. How can we travel together with her? If the mother and son live in different places, we will be friends forever. How can Hu Ren see this?" He said that Liu Yuxi and his elderly mother should be taken care of, and his old mother should not be allowed to go to that remote place with him.
So Liu Zongyuan asked the court for instructions, hoping to exchange with Liu Yuxi: "I am willing to exchange with Liu Yibo. Although he is seriously offended, I will not hate him to death." Later, someone helped to speak, and Liu Yuxi was demoted to Lianzhou, Guangdong. .
They left Chang'an together and sent each other to Hengyang. When they parted, Liu Yuxi said to Liu Zongyuan, your Guijiang River will flow through my mountains, and you must miss me: "The Guijiang River flows eastward through the mountains." At the foot of the mountain, we look at each other and chant "Something to Think About". "If you don't miss me, I will look at the Gui River and chant "Something to Think About" every day: "I heard that you have other thoughts, pull them and destroy them, and burn them when the wind blows. It's ashes. From now on, I will never miss you again."
Farewell to Hengyang, Liu Yuxi crossed Wuling and went south to Lianzhou, while Liu Zongyuan went up the Xiangjiang River and arrived at Liuzhou.
From then on, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi could only look out of the window and exchange letters to express their lovesickness. Only then did they realize that many lovesickness poems in Tang poetry and Song lyrics were originally written by men to men. And the mood of lovesickness is as graceful and graceful as love.
After Liu Zongyuan arrived in Liuzhou, his health deteriorated day by day. Before his death, he wrote a will, asking his servant to hand over the manuscript to Liu Yuxi after his death. The letter said: "Unfortunately, I died in exile, and I will leave the manuscript to Liu Yuxi." Tired old friend. "In 819 AD, Liu Zongyuan passed away.
At this time, Liu Yuxi was holding his mother's coffin and walking on the way back to Luoyang. When he passed Hengyang, he met the servant who delivered the message. Liu Yuxi thought it was Zi Houyuan who said that he would receive what he wanted to say to him on the way.
Liu Yuxi also wanted to see what Zihou wanted to say to him, but when he received the letter, he realized that it was not Zihou's wishful words, but an obituary! Liu Yuxi couldn't help but screamed wildly, how could it be possible? When my mother passed away, you sent people to comfort me three times, were still worried about my illness, and told me that you would write to me again to say what you wanted to say. How is that possible? ! I didn't see what you wanted to say to me, but what I saw was a cold obituary. Yes, what Zihou wanted to say to Mengde, Mengde will never hear again. Those words are the same as The man passed by and disappeared from both places:
"Oh, what a pain! I'm sorry, I just suffered a murderous attack from Min. Before I left my post, three envoys came to pay my respects. They were worried about my decline and illness. , The message was affectionate and polite, and the secret was repeated. On the way to Hengyang, there was a messenger from Liu who suddenly accepted the obituary and screamed like crazy. After asking for a long time, I burst into tears, and my soul was shaking. I heard the sound of your suicide note, which was so sad that it pierced my bones."
" ", in Hengyang in 819, the trumpet sound of "ahhhhhhhh" a poet who lost his confidant stirred up. He didn't know how to resolve this sudden pain, so he could only use his tuba to tear apart the blue sky and ask questions. Heaven and earth asked Zihou, why did you just let him go like that! Why did you just go like that!
Later Liu Yuxi wrote a letter to Han Yu and asked Han Yu to write an epitaph for Liu Zongyuan. The matter of exchanging Liuzhou for Bozhou was recorded on the stone tablet and passed down through the ages. Later, Liu Yuxi spent his whole life sorting out Liu Zongyuan's posthumous works, and also tried his best to raise funds and publish them so that they could be published.
At this time, the 23-year-old boat has passed the time of Ten Thousand Mountains. Liu Yuxi only feels sad for losing his good friend Liu Zongyuan, but he does not regret for himself the wasted years, nor does he regret for the world that he is not at the center of the world. Because "Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased trees." The world will not stop sailing and thousands of trees will not spring because of his absence. And he himself has already traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, and I have not yet reached the future. How, I have passed the key point.
As Zhang Xiaofeng said: "The physical body will die. Today's red pink is actually tomorrow's skull. The talent and wisdom in my mind at this moment is nothing more than a small feast for his youth. However, in this life, this life It is still a blessing. I am willing to be a dead tree in the winter. As long as the flowers of early spring are as poetic as wine, I vow to smile freely even when the earth turns to mud, turns to dust, and turns to smoke, because I have survived. , is a victory, you are qualified to cheer.
Enjoy it at the peak of life. Enjoy life at the trough of life, and make me feel lucky. I know my own resilience, and both make me endlessly happy."
Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased tree. This is not a person giving up at the end, but a life. Congratulations on the coming of winter and spring. A piece of sunken boat once wanted to drain the river that was thousands of miles long. A piece of diseased tree once made thousands of pear trees bloom. It was a journey of people climbing to high altitudes. But at this moment, after traveling through thousands of mountains and dangers, it brings Dressed in rags and with a mind full of vicissitudes of life, standing on the mountains that I passed by, I gained the height to overlook life. Thousands of mountains come and go. I am just a small footprint on this tidal peak. I will eventually be pushed by the waves behind the Yangtze River and the traces will be wiped out by the waves ahead. But when I hit the ground, I am just a piece of sand on the bank, a stone on the road, and a bridge. The dust makes the young children jump for joy, content and high-spirited, and start their journey of life. I am the old man I met on the road in the Tang poem, with his temples as white as snow, walking one mile and two miles, and stopping four times and five times. , so what if you watch the young man with a silver saddle and a white horse with a dream neighing away in the spring breeze? I would like to use the sunken boat as a warning sign for the ups and downs of the rivers and lakes, and I would like to use the diseased trees as a signpost for the direction of life, so I look at it with peace of mind as thousands of sails race by and thousands of trees bloom.
In 23 years, he has experienced too much. At this time, Liu Yuxi said, "People who go through hard times start to be serious, and after reaching the ninth level, they are happy to be humble." , Only things that the body can bear will have weight. With weight, the mind will be stable. Facing the moment of impending success, there will no longer be ecstatic, but calmly watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, unfazed.