Lin Bu (lin bu)
Lin Bu (967-1028), courtesy name Junfu, was a famous reclusive poet in the early Northern Song Dynasty. According to the family tree, starting from the Five Dynasties, he lived in Changle, Fujian Province, and passed down to the 11th generation. Four brothers, Chuan, Chuan, Ruan and Yi, moved to Fenghua and Xiangshan. Lin Bu's father Yi settled in Huangxian Village, Dali (today's Huangxian Village, Qiucun Town, Fenghua City). Bu is the 12th generation grandson of the Lin family, and his former residence is in Fenghua Dama'aokou (today's Damao'ao). One is said to be from Qiantang, Hangzhou (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Shaogu studied mechanics, loved ancient times, and was familiar with hundreds of schools of classics and history. The book states that he is aloof and self-satisfied, likes to be indifferent, is content with poverty, and does not seek glory and wealth. As he grew up, he roamed the Jianghuai River and lived in seclusion in the West Lake of Hangzhou after he was more than 40 years old. He often traveled to various temples in the West Lake in a small boat and interacted with eminent monks and poets. With lakes and mountains as companions, it is said that more than 20 years are not enough to live in the city, and he lives his whole life in civilian clothes. Whenever guests arrived, he would ask the door boy to let the crane fly. When Lin Bu saw the crane, he would return in a boat. Prime Minister Wang Sui and Hangzhou County Governor Xue Ying both respected him as a person and loved his poems. They often went to Gushan to sing with him and gave him salary to rebuild a new house. He sang poems with Fan Zhongyan and Mei Yaochen. In the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1012), Emperor Zhenzong heard of his name and gave him grain and silk, and also ordered the prefecture and county to save him. Although Bu is grateful, he is not proud of it. Many people tried to persuade him to become an official, but they were all politely declined. He has never been an official, never married, and has no children, but he likes to plant plums and raise cranes. He calls himself "the plum wife is his wife and the crane is his son." He is known as the "plum wife and the crane son." When he was old, he laid his own tomb beside the hut, and wrote a poem: "The green mountains on the lake are opposite the hut, and the bamboos in front of the tomb are sparse. Maoling will ask for the manuscript someday, and I am still glad that there was no Zen book." After writing the poem, he abandoned it. Never retained. Someone asked: "Why not record it for posterity?" The answer was: "We have obscured the traces in the woods, and we don't want to use the name of the poem for a while, what about future generations?" Someone who was interested secretly memorized it, and more than 300 poems were passed down to the world. He died in the sixth year of Tiansheng (1028) at the age of sixty-one. His nephews Lin Zhang (Chaosan doctor) and Lin Bin (Yingzhou order) went to Hangzhou together to attend the funeral. When the governor heard about it, the official mourned him, gave him the posthumous title of "Mr. He Jing", and buried him beside his old house in Gushan. There are now three lyrics and more than 300 poems. Later generations compiled four volumes of the "Collected Poems of Mr. Lin Hejing", among which "Returning to Siming and Saying Farewell to the King at Night" and "Sending Ding Xiucai Return to Siming" are works of homesickness. There is a biography in Volume 457 of "History of the Song Dynasty". The Palace Museum Painting Museum has a collection of poetry volumes.
He is good at painting things, but he cherishes his paintings and never passes them on. The calligraphy is made of Gongxing cursive and is thin, straight and strong. The writing style is similar to that of Ouyang Xun and Li Jianzhong, but the clear and vigorous part is particularly wonderful. It is a long poem, and its language is lonely and solemn, written from the heart, with many strange sentences, but it has not been saved in the manuscript. The style is clear and distant, mostly describing the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, reflecting the reclusive life and leisurely taste. For example, the Qilu poem "Going up to the guest room at Gushan Temple to write a wish" is cool, quiet, leisurely and distant, which is a typical embodiment of his poetic style. The two lines in the poem "Little Plum Blossoms in the Mountain Garden", "The sparse shadows are slanting across the clear and shallow water, and the faint fragrance floats in the moonlight at dusk" successfully depict the quiet and fragrant grace of the plum blossoms, and are known as the masterpiece of plum blossoms throughout the ages. Lu You said that his calligraphy was superb and unparalleled. Su Shi highly praised Lin Bu's poetry, calligraphy and character, and wrote a poem and postscript to his book: "The poem is like Dongye (Mengjiao) without saying cold words, and the calligraphy is like Liutai (Li Jianzhong) with less meat." Huang Tingjian said: "The king restored calligraphy The most superior person is that every time I see him, his illness will be cured without medicine, and his hunger will be full without food." A poem by Shen Zhou of the Ming Dynasty said: "I love the old man who is thin and hard, and the clouds are so plump that the West Lake is green. True comment, several lines are clear and translucent with ice jade, as if the wind is overflowing, this word and this man are extremely vulgar."