Vernacular interpretation:
Wang Mian, a native of Zhuji, when he was seven or eight years old, his father asked him to herd cattle on Longshang, but he sneaked into the school building secretly. Listening to the students read, I would remember it silently. Sometimes I would forget to take the morning glory when I came back at night. Sometimes someone would bring the cow back and blame him for trampling on his field. His father would get angry and beat him severely with whips and sticks. Even after the beating, he still wouldn't change. ?
His mother said: "My son is so obsessed with reading, why not let him do what he likes?" Wang Mian then left home and lived near the temple. He came out at night and sat beside the Buddha statue. Sitting on his lap, holding a book and reading by the light of the lamp in front of the Buddha statue, he read until dawn.
Most of the Buddha statues are made of earth and are hideous and terrifying. Although Wang Mian is a child, he faced them calmly as if he had not seen anything and was not afraid at all. Hanxing of Kuaiji heard about this and thought he was strange, so he took him as a disciple and studied Confucianism. Later, he became a master of Confucianism. After Han Xing's death, his disciples treated Wang Mian with the same respect as they treated Han Xing.
Wang Mian's father had passed away at that time, so he took his mother to Yuecheng District to support her. Later, because his mother missed her hometown and returned to her hometown, he bought a white cow and dragged his mother's car, while he followed behind the car wearing old clothes and a hat. The children in the countryside rushed to watch and laughed. Wang Mian also laughed.
The author Li Xiaoguang wanted to recommend Wang Mian to be a government official. Wang Mian scolded: "I have fields to cultivate and books to read. How can I still be willing to stand in the government office all day holding papers?" "Are you going to be enslaved here?" He often lives in a small building. When a guest comes, the doorman will tell him that he wants the guest to climb up before the guest can go up. An envoy passed by Yuecheng and asked to see him on his horse, but he refused.
The envoy was less than a few hundred steps away when he leaned on the building and roared, which made the envoy very ashamed. Wang Mian passed the imperial examination many times, but failed every time. He sighed: "This is something that even children feel ashamed of. How can I indulge in it?" Then he gave up. He hired a boat to go down to Soochow, crossed the river, entered Huai, Chu and other places, and visited famous mountains and rivers.
Sometimes he met a talented knight and talked about the heroic deeds of ancient times. They immediately drank together and recited poems to express their generosity, sorrow and indignation. Others called him a crazy slave. When I went north to Yanjing, I stayed at the secretary Qing Taibuhua's house.
Tai Buhua recommended him to serve in the History Museum. He said: "You are so ignorant! In less than ten years, this place will become a place for foxes and rabbits to play. Why should I be an official?" He was going to go there that day. Returning to the south, he met his friend Lu Sheng who died in Luanyang, leaving only two young daughters and a book boy in Yanjing. He didn't know what to do.
After Wang Mian found out, he traveled thousands of miles to Luanyang, retrieved Lu Sheng's bones, and took his two young girls back to their home. After Wang Mian returned to Yuecheng, he declared that the world was about to be in chaos. There was nothing going on in the country at that time, and some people accused him of being arrogant. He said: "I am not arrogant, who else is?" So he took his wife and children to live in seclusion in Jiuli Mountain. Plant three acres of beans and double the amount of millet.
Plant a thousand plum blossoms and five hundred peaches and apricots. They also planted taro in a piece of land, and more than a hundred scallions and leeks each. In addition, water was diverted to dig ponds and more than a thousand fish were raised. He built three huts and named them Plum Blossom House. Wang Mian once wrote a volume imitating "The Rites of Zhou" and carried it with him at all times, not showing it to others.
I took it out to read late at night, then touched the book and said, "As long as I don't die and meet the Ming Dynasty with this book, I can accomplish careers like Yi Yin and Lu Shang." When the wind was nice and the sun was shining, he would take paper and write poems, writing thousands of poems non-stop. They were all very powerful and made everyone who read them so excited that their hair stood on end. When guests come, they don’t need the courtesy of host and guest, and they don’t feel tired even after chatting all day long.
Eat food as soon as it is delivered without delay. He is very good at painting plum blossoms, no less good than Yang Buzhi. Many people asked him to paint, and he decided how many meters he needed to change based on the length of the scroll. Some people laughed at him and he said: "I use this to support myself. Do you think I like to help others paint?" Not long after, an uprising broke out in Ruying, just as Wang Mian said.
After Zhu Yuanzhang captured Wuzhou, he was about to attack Yue City. He found Wang Mian, asked him to be his staff, and appointed him as a consultant to join the army. Unexpectedly, he died of illness in just one night. Wang Mian was tall and tall, with a beautiful beard, and he was upright and ambitious. It is a pity that he died before he could realize his ambitions.
The original text of "The Biography of Wang Mian" by Lian of the Ming Dynasty and Song Dynasty:
Wang Mian was a native of Zhuji. When he was seven or eight years old, his father ordered him to herd cattle on the mountain and steal the school to listen to the students reciting books. , I often remember it silently after listening to it, and forget about the cow when I return home at dusk. Sometimes a cow comes to plow the fields, and the father angrily scolds it, but it is no longer the same as before. The mother said: "My son is so crazy, why don't you listen to what he does?"
Mian went to live in Yiseng Temple, sneaked out at night, sat on the lap of the Buddha, held the policy and illuminated the long bright lamp, and read it, and the sound was loud and clear. . There are many earthen Buddha statues, they are ferocious and terrifying, crowning children, as if they are missing. Han Xing in Anyang heard about it, so he was admitted as a disciple and studied as a Confucian scholar.
Mian repeatedly tried to win the imperial examination, but failed. He sighed and said, "This boy is so embarrassed, how can I drown him?" He abandoned it. Buy a boat and go to Soochow, cross the river, enter Huai and Chu, and see famous mountains and rivers. Or when you meet a talented knight and talk about ancient heroes, you drink wine and drink, and sing generously and sadly, people will denounce you as a crazy slave. Traveling north to Yandu, the secretary of the library, Qingtai Buhua, lives in the family.
Tai Buhua recommended him to the library, and Mian said: "You are an honest fool! In less than ten years, foxes and rabbits have been wandering around, why should I be a high-ranking official?" He will soon go to Nanyuan and meet his friends in Wulin. Lu was born and died in Luanyang, but his two young daughters and one boy stayed in Yan. They had no one to rely on. Knowing this, Mian traveled thousands of miles to Luanyang to collect the remains of the deceased, and also took the two daughters back to the home.
After Mian returned to Yue, he again said that the world would be in chaos. At that time, there was nothing happening in the sea, and he might have dismissed Mian as an arrogant person. Mian said: "I am not the one who is fooling, so who should be fooled?" So he took his wife and children and hid in Jiuli Mountain, building three thatched cottages.
It was titled Plum Blossom House, and it was written in a volume imitating "The Rites of Zhou." Deeper into the silence, he lit up the lamp and satirized, then stroked the scroll and said: "I am not about to die, hold on to this to meet the Lord of the Ming Dynasty, Yi and Lu's career will not be difficult."
When the weather is good, Cao Gu Fu There are hundreds of poems, all of which are full of anger and anger, and make readers' hair stand upright. Even if a person does not serve as a guest or host, he will never get tired of talking. You don’t have to say goodbye even when you’re ready to eat.
He is good at painting plum blossoms and does not reduce Yang Buzhi. The seeker looks at each other shoulder to shoulder and takes the length of the silk as the difference in rice. People laugh at it. Mian said, "If I use this to support my health, how can I become a painter for others?" Not long after, Ru Ying's troops rose up.
The emperor took the Mian from Wuzhou and sent him to the shogunate to discuss joining the army. He died of an illness overnight. Extended information
Writing background:
Wang Mian was a painter and poet in the late Yuan Dynasty and the author of "Zhuzhai Collection". His deeds are widely circulated among the people. This article records his life. He was born in a peasant family, and through his own hard study, he eventually became a Confucian scholar.
He has an arrogant personality and refuses to stoop to being a small official who "prepares slaves". He has foresight and sees that the world will be in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, so he refuses to become an official and lives in seclusion in Jiuli Mountain to sell paintings. Make a living. Song Lian's Wang Mian is vivid and vivid, with outstanding personality, which was later used in "History of the Ming Dynasty".
Song Lian has been sick since childhood and his family is poor. However, he is smart and studious and is known as a "child prodigy". He once studied under Wenren Mengji, Wu Lai, Liu Guan, Huang Shu and others. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he resigned from the court and began to practice Taoism and write books.
In the early Ming Dynasty, he was hired by Zhu Yuanzhang and was respected as the "Five Classics" teacher, giving lectures to Prince Zhu Biao. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), he was ordered to major in "History of the Yuan Dynasty". When he became a Hanlin scholar, he accepted the imperial edicts and made imperial edicts. At that time, most of the court etiquette was formulated for him.
In the tenth year of Hongwu (1377), he resigned and returned to his hometown due to old age. Later, his eldest grandson Song Shen was implicated in the Hu Weiyong case and was exiled to Maozhou. He died of illness in Kuizhou on the way at the age of seventy-two. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, he was given the posthumous title "Wen Xian", so he was called "Song Wen Xian".
Song Lian and Liu Ji are both famous for their prose creations, and are called "the ancestors of their generation". His prose may be simple and concise, or graceful and elegant, each with its own characteristics. He admired Taige literature and his writing style was honest and elegant, which provided a model for the literary creation of subsequent "Taige style" writers. Most of his works were combined into seventy-five volumes of "The Complete Works of Scholars of the Song Dynasty".
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Song Lian went to the imperial court to revise the "History of the Yuan Dynasty". It started in February, and Song Lian and Wang Hao were the presidents. In June, he was appointed as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, a middle-level doctor, a professor of imperial edicts, and a concurrent major in national history. In August of the same year, "History of the Yuan Dynasty" was completed, and Song Lian was appointed as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.
In the third year of Hongwu (1370), because Ouyang You and other Confucian scholars collected the deeds of the Yuan Dynasty and returned them to the court, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to revise "History of the Yuan Dynasty" on the sixth day of February, and still appointed Song Lian and Wang Ye as presidents. By July 1st, the whole book was completed. In July, he was demoted to Hanlin editor due to loss of court.