He was not only a poet and calligrapher, but also a patriotic minister and politician of Zhong Jun in Tang Dynasty.
"Night light even chicken, is a person reading a book. Black hair doesn't know how to study early, and Bai Shoufang regrets studying late. " This well-known and most widely circulated book "Encouraging Learning" was written by Yan Zhenqing.
He is one of the four calligraphers of "Liu Yan Ou Zhao" in regular script, and his own "inkstone style" is vigorous and vigorous. Together with Liu Gongquan, he is called "Yan Liu" and "inkstone Liu Jingu".
For a long time, inkstone has been studied and copied by calligraphy lovers.
As the saying goes, words are like people. His calligraphy embodies Yan Zhenqing's noble qualities of integrity, faithfulness and unyielding, and perfectly combines his virtuous personality with the beauty of calligraphy.
"The Book of the Tang Dynasty" records: "Being lonely and poor, lacking paper and pens, learning calligraphy by sweeping the wall with loess".
Yan Zhenqing lost his father at the age of three and was taught to write by his learned mother since childhood. Because of his poor family and lack of money to buy paper and pens, Yan Zhenqing practiced calligraphy on the wall with yellow mud in a bowl as an inkstone and a brush as a pen.
Yan Zhenqing, a 25-year-old scholar, used to be a temple supervisor and consultant. Yang, a traitor and cousin of Yang Guifei, was driven out of Beijing at the age of 45 and went to the plain as a satrap because of his selflessness.
The Qing Dynasty's "Plain County Records, Arts and Literature Records" records that when the poet Cen Can bid farewell to Yan Zhenqing and left Beijing, he wrote a poem "Send Yan Pingyuan" as a gift. In the poem, "The suburbs are beautiful in the north, and the wind has not stopped."
Pingyuan County has a dangerous geographical location and tough folk customs, and the wind of robbery has never stopped, revealing his concern for Yan Zhenqing's trip.
However, the bigger problem is that Pingyuan County is within the jurisdiction of An Shi Rebellion.
Soon after Yan Zhenqing took office, he realized that An Lushan had the ambition of rebellion. At this time, there was no evidence of an Anshi Rebellion in Yan Zhenqing. Besides, An Lushan was his boss and was deeply loved by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Yan Zhenqing had to play it by ear.
When it was raining in Pingyuan County, Yan Zhenqing took the opportunity to build a city wall, accumulate food and grass, and secretly recruit. At the same time, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the Anshi Rebellion, Yan Zhenqing pretended to be a scholar on the surface, boating on the lake, holding an oil lamp with friends, and being carefree completely dispelled the vigilance of the Anshi Rebellion, so it was not difficult to be a scholar.
When everything was ready in Yan Zhenqing, An Lushan rebelled in Fanyang with 150,000 soldiers.
Wherever the irresistible rebels went, the defenders either abandoned the city and fled, but failed to break it or surrendered. An Lushan easily captured most counties in Hebei, and only Pingyuan County was fortified with iron walls.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty promulgated "There are no loyal ministers in the twenty-four counties of Hebei?" Feeling, Yan Zhenqing before the imperial edict, has stood up against the rebels.
Tang Xuanzong said, "I don't know who Zhenqing is, but here's what I did!" " "I didn't care about Yan Zhenqing at ordinary times. I didn't expect him to be like this. "
In fact, Yan Zhenqing is even better than the Tang Xuanzong imagined.
He and his cousin, Yan Gaoqing, the magistrate of Changshan County, set out to send troops to 17 counties on the same day. Everyone took Yan Zhenqing as the leader, with an army of 200,000 and more than 20,000 body count. The confidence of counties and counties increased greatly, and they pursued the victory, killed the rebels and defenders, and successfully recovered fifteen counties.
In this turmoil related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing made outstanding contributions and lost more than 30 lives of Yan family. He was full of loyalty and died for his country.
The Draft of Sacrificing a Nephew, praised by later calligraphers as "the second running script in the world", was a tearful eulogy written by Yan Zhenqing when he learned that his little nephew Ji Ming was also killed by the rebel sword.
After eight years of Anshi Rebellion, Yan Zhenqing was finally named the founding father of Luxian County by Li Yu, and returned to Chang 'an at the age of 68.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty was already exhausted, and there was chaos inside and outside the imperial court.
Yan Zhenqing is still upright, and the DPRK "deviant" tit for tat, argued, in the Dade dynasty.
Qilu, the prime minister at that time, has always held a grudge against Yan Zhenqing and tried his best to exclude Yan Zhenqing. He used Huaixi to make our Li Xilie rebellion and persuaded Tang Dezong to send Yan Zhenqing, who was nearly eighty years old. Tang Dezong actually agreed.
When the imperial edict came out, the minister of the DPRK was frightened to disgrace, and this order was a death warrant.
Yan Zhenqing didn't know Qilu's malice, but he accepted the mission and died for his country.
Before he left home for Li Xilie military camp, he was ready to die for his country. According to Zi Jian, at this time, Zhenqing and his son wrote only to "serve the family temple and comfort the orphans".
After being detained by Li Xilie, Yan Zhenqing still adhered to moral integrity in the face of numerous threats and inducements.
Li Xilie was furious because his younger brother was killed in the rebellion and sent eunuchs to kill Yan Zhenqing.
The eunuch arrived and said to Yan Zhenqing, "There is a letter!"
Yan Zhenqing immediately made two obeisances.
Then the eunuch said, "The emperor will die for you." .
Yan Zhenqing said, "The old minister didn't complete his mission, and he deserved to die, but when did the emissary come from Chang 'an? "
The eunuch replied, "From the girder."
Yan Zhenqing thundered: "It turned out to be a traitor, how dare you call it a letter!"
Yan Zhenqing was finally strangled at the age of 76.
Hearing the news of Yan Zhenqing's murder, all the soldiers of the three armed forces wept bitterly.
Tang Dezong abandoned the court for him for five days, and gave a posthumous gift to Stuart and posthumous title as "Wen Zhong" (the biography of Yan Zhenqing in the New Tang Dynasty: Huai, Shuo Bao mourned his return, and the emperor abandoned the court for five days. )
Zhao Gou and Song Gaozong awarded the title of "Loyalty and Righteousness" to Yan Zhenqing Temple, honoring it as a god.
Yan Zhenqing lived in four dynasties, namely Xuanzong, Suzong, Daizong and Dezong. "Only talents are excellent, and loyalty is the truest portrayal of his life." .
We should learn from Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy as well as his moral character between the lines.
"Make a word first, people have strange words since ancient times."