As the saying goes, there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Li Bai and Su Shi were the two most sought-after poets and literati in ancient China. "Li Bai is wine and Su Shi is tea." Both of them were literary overlords at the peak of Tang and Song Dynasties. If they are selected into the top ten gifted scholars in the history of China, they will surely occupy the top three positions.
If two great writers can span hundreds of years and have a "face-to-face" drinking and wisdom-fighting poem, what kind of sparks will they collide?
Interestingly, it is these two super writers in history who personally led people to mine.
But when you think about it, it's not surprising. Since ancient times, minerals have been one of the most important substances for human survival and development. Even now, "mine at home" is synonymous with wealth.
So, what does the world-famous poet Li Bai do for a living? This is a mystery for thousands of years. But in real life, he doesn't sell poems for a living, nor is he a rich boy. It can be inferred from his poems that he used to open copper mines and lead mines, and he traveled long distances to sell them himself.
Li Baigan and his party have deep feelings and have been mining for at least ten years. "I love Tongguan music, in case I don't come. If you need to ask about dance sleeves, the Buddha will do all the five Songshan Mountains. " "Huangshan crows, shrimp stays in the lake." "affirmative copper mining, hibiscus water bath. At four o'clock in the morning, the Milky Way is full of people. Going to the building tomorrow morning, there are many ups and downs in Dragonair. When you hold an axe, cut the clouds forward. " There is another cloud: "Take the lead in clearing the stream bank and climb the mountain when the time comes." ..... These poems written by Li Bai are inseparable from the mine.
The place names in the poem are all in Tongling and Guichi, Anhui. Even before the Tang Dynasty, this was the producing area of copper and lead. Mining needs to be sold. Ore is transported from here to the market in Yangzhou. At that time, Yangzhou's status was equivalent to that of today's Shanghai, with "rows of boats, traffic and valleys", developed handicraft industry, long-standing reputation for bronze mirrors, exquisite jewelry and jade carvings and prosperous shipbuilding industry. The smelting and casting of ores and products are completed in Yangzhou. Although it was forbidden to sell copper, lead and tin privately and use copper as a tool in the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, it was also stipulated that those who mined copper, lead and tin should be bought by the government.
Ore is fortunate to be escorted by this world-class poet himself. Li Bai escorted ore with the ship many times, and people were on a journey, full of poetry. Look at the mountains and water during the day, and enjoy the moon and drink and write poems at night. Many masterpieces handed down from ancient times were sung in the course of work, which added infinite charm to the weather in the prosperous Tang Dynasty!
In order to have a deeper understanding of Li Bai's economic life, the author extensively consulted the information about him and his poems, and came to the conclusion that Li Bai is a good boss. He often mingles with laborers, eating, living and working together. In his poems, there are many references to Wusong Mountain, which is a mining area, located in the west of Nanling Copper Mine. On a hot summer day, Li Bai went to the "Copper Well Burning Furnace" to work with the workers.
Some people don't understand Li Bai's "grasping with both hands" when he is busy writing poems, thinking that he is eager to seek immortality and learn Taoism, saying that this is his negative side. The basis: he used lead and Dan medicine. This is a supplementary meeting, because an alchemist doesn't need much lead, and he doesn't need to collect it himself, let alone transport it. To say the least, even so, why did Li Bai write "lead mining" in his poem? Isn't it more elegant to write "collecting herbs"? It can be seen that "mining lead to clear the stream bank" and "helping copper miners" are his occupations.
When Su Shi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, served as the satrap of Xuzhou, he cared about the sufferings of the people and led them to find mines and successfully dug coal (Carboniferous).
Su Shi's Carboniferous Age is the earliest poem with coal as its theme in China. Su Dongpo left a precious poem "Carboniferous Period" more than 900 years ago, which is the earliest and most valuable written record of coal discovery in China so far. Su Shi said in the preface of this poem: "There was no Carboniferous period in Pengcheng. It was not until December of the first year of Yuanfeng that the survivors came to the north of Baitu Town in southwest Guizhou. They use iron smelting as a soldier, sharper than usual. " Pengcheng is now Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Su Dongpo was the satrap of Xuzhou at that time.
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Didn't you see that the rain and snow the year before last damaged pedestrians and the residents in the city were blown apart by the wind?
Half a bundle of wet wages, knocking at the door at dusk has nowhere to change.
Unexpectedly, there are treasures in the mountains, and they are aboveboard.
No one knows the paste, and the fishy wind blows away.
Roots and seedlings are endless, and thousands of people inspire thousands of people to see them.
The more you throw mud, the more brilliant it is.
The chestnut forest in Nanshan is gradually resting, and the stubborn mine in Beishan is forging.
Cast a hundred chain knives for you and cut the whale into ten thousand pieces.
"Carboniferous Age" wrote the scene of Xuzhou people's coal mining in full swing and in high spirits. The ancients called coal Carboniferous because it was a burning stone, so it was different from charcoal. The name Carboniferous comes from Wei and Jin Dynasties and has been passed down to this day. Carboniferous is the most common name in ancient times. Baitu Town mentioned in Carboniferous sequence is located in Xiaoxian County, 25 kilometers southwest of Xuzhou. A poem made this mountain city famous in the world. According to the local records of Xiaoxian County, Baitu Town was named after the production of white kaolin. With a population of more than 30,000, it governs 17 administrative villages. The Tang Dynasty was once a ceramic production base. In the first year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, craftsmen discovered coal while digging white mud. At that time, Su Shi knew that Xuzhou and Xiaoxian were under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou.
Su Shi is a good leader who "serves as an official and benefits one party". The winter after he took office, it was snowing heavily, the cold was abnormal, firewood fuel was seriously scarce, let alone smelting iron, and even residents' heating and cooking became a problem. Mayor Su observed people's feelings, actively organized manpower and went to look for coal. So there is what is described in the preface of this poem. Su Shi deserves to be an uninhibited person. He didn't mention the hardships of finding coal resources, but the excitement of benefiting the people with coal was vividly expressed in his poems.
The Carboniferous discovered by Su Shi in Xuzhou can be used as the "sweet cake" for heating. Ouyang Xiu recorded this in the Record of Returning to the Field: "Someone left Yu Qingquan and cookies behind, and (Cai) heard about it and sighed,' The cookies came late, which made me polish my pen.' ..... Qingquan, place name; Cookies, Carboniferous, are used to burn incense, and a cake of fire can burn all day. Ouyang Xiu's Cookies, Yang Shen's Collection Outside the Mountaineering Temple in the Ming Dynasty, and Song's Heavenly Creations are all related records. For example, Yang Shen's "Collection outside the Holy Temple" contains: "Tamping the Carboniferous period is the end, sifting it lightly, and making pear juice into cakes, which can be burned all day."
In the Song Dynasty, people's quality of life was generally good. At that time, the capital of song dynasty had used coal (burning stone in the west) instead of wood for cooking and heating. At that time, in the west, wood was used for making fires, cooking and heating. "There are millions of households on the side, and no one burns wages." Sima Guang, a great historian, once criticized the extravagance of the world: in recent years, the customs are particularly extravagant, with soldiers dressed like servants and farmers stepping on silk. Some western scholars even said that the living standard of a European monarch at that time was not as good as that of a soldier guarding the city gate in the capital of song dynasty.
I really want to travel through thousands of years to ancient times and see with my own eyes how Li Bai and Su Shi, two great writers, lifted their clothes and started mining. I think such a scene must be very interesting.