Apocryphal
"Young parrot, willow tower." This is a sentence from Sikong Biaosheng's "Shipin". Two sentences of Chen Mansheng's Sima Collection said: "Green Phoenix, Wutong Courtyard." Annotation: "Zhang Ziye's Ci." I asked my great uncle Shanzhou to write and post it. Scholars love the beauty of their craftsmanship and happily write about it. After searching Ziye's poems, these two sentences were not found, so it was probably Sima's fabrication. Talent and good deeds are often the case.
Test Notes
1. Youthful Parrot, Willow Tower:
Sentence from "Thirteenth of the Twenty-Four Poems·Spirit".
The desire is endless, and the phase is coming.
The bright ripples are at the bottom, and the strange flowers are in their first birth.
Youthful parrots, willow towers,
When people from Bishan come, their glasses are full of sake.
The anger goes far away, and it is not ashes of death.
The wonderful creation of nature, who can control it.
[Translation] It is difficult to fully reflect the human spirit, and it will appear at the appropriate moment. Good poetry is like clear water that can reach the bottom, and like a strange flower that is about to bloom. In the spring light, parrots are singing, willows cover the towers in the water, elegant scholars from the green mountains are floating in the sky, and I drink sake to soothe my feelings. The works show vitality and are not rigid or dull. It is written so subtly that it is assimilated with nature, who can criticize it?
2. Sikong Biaosheng: Sikong Tu (837-908) was a poet and poetry critic of the late Tang Dynasty. The character means saint, and he calls himself Zhi Feizi, and he is also called the layman who tolerates humiliation. His ancestral home is Linhuai (southeast of today's Sixian County, Anhui). He moved with his family to Yu Township in Hezhong (now Yongji, Shanxi) since he was a child. In the tenth year of Xiantong's reign (869), Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty took the examination and was promoted to Jinshi. In the fourth year of Tianfu (904), Zhu Quanzhong summoned him as the Minister of Rites. Sikong Tu pretended to be old and incompetent and was released. In the second year of Kaiping in the Later Liang Dynasty (908), Emperor Ai of the Tang Dynasty was killed. He went on a hunger strike and died at the age of seventy-two. Sikong Tu's achievements mainly lie in poetry theory, and "Twenty-Four Poems" is an immortal work. "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" contains three volumes of poems.
2. Chen Mansheng: The real name is Chen Hongshou (1768-1822), with the courtesy name Zigong, nickname Mansheng, Laoman, Manshou, Mangong, also known as Jiagu Pavilion Chang, Xuxi Yuyin, Zhongyu Xianke, Zhongyu Taoist, a native of Qiantang (now Hangzhou), Zhejiang, lived during the Qianlong and Jiaqing years. As one of the "Eight Masters of Xiling", he is the author of "Zhongyuxianguan Copy", "Zhongyuxianguan Collection", "Zhongyuxianguan Seal Collection", "Sang Lianli Guan Collection", etc., and his stage name is obvious. He is good at ancient prose and carving, and is famous for his calligraphy and seal cutting. He is proficient in literature, calligraphy, painting, and seal cutting, and is extremely talented.
The purple clay pot "Mansheng Pot" co-produced with others is very famous.
〔Press〕Why is it called "Sima"? Chen Mansheng only served as the magistrate of Liyang County, and later he was appointed as a river worker.
2. Zhang Ziye: Zhang Xian (990-1078), courtesy name Ziye, was a native of Wucheng (now Wuxing, Huzhou, Zhejiang). He was a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty and was known as "Zhang Anlu". He is good at writing slow words, and is as famous as Liu Yong. He is skillful in making words. He was known as Zhang Sanying because he made good use of the word "shadow" in three places. He is the author of "Anlu Collection" and has many long tunes. Zhang Xian once served as the magistrate of Anlu County. He was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Tiansheng's reign, and became an official and a doctor in Shangshudu. In his later years, he retired to Huhang and traveled with Mei Yaochen, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others. Yuanfeng died in the first year of his reign at the age of eighty-nine.
〔Press〕A pear tree crushes the begonia protagonist.
3. Bachelor of Shanzhou: Liang Tongshu (1723-1825), whose courtesy name was Yuanying and whose name was Shanzhou. He also signed himself as Buweng and Xinwu Changweng. He was the son of the great scholar Liang Shizheng. A native of Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou). A famous calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. In the Renshen year of Qianlong (1752), Enke became a Jinshi. Because of his upright temperament and indifference to fame and fortune, he retired after his father's death. During the Jiaqing period, he was awarded the title of bachelor's degree. He is good at calligraphy. He first studied Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, and later adopted Su and Mi's calligraphy. He changed in his later years and became famous outside the city for his vigor. He is also good at poetry and is the author of Pinluo'an Yiji.
Liang Shanzhou's calligraphy was very famous at the time, and some people from abroad (Japan, Korea, Ryukyu) admired it and were proud to have a piece of his work. Foreign historians often spend large sums of money to purchase his works.
Liang Shanzhou only used Xu Xubai's paper and pens of Xia Qishan and Pan Yuenan to write, while when engraving stones, he only used Chen Yunpiao, Chen Rugang and Feng Minghe. As a result, Xubaizhai's paper became very popular, and Xu made a fortune from it. Xia Qishan, Pan Yuenan and others also became rich.