The story of the famous ancient poet The story of the famous ancient poet 1
Wang Zhihuan’s flag pavilion painting wall
One day, the winter clouds were low, Snowflakes are flying. Three poets, Wang Changling, Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan, came to Qiting to drink and enjoy the snow. When the interest was getting stronger, suddenly, a group of opera actors and actresses came to the pavilion for a banquet. The three poets immediately moved to sit aside and watched quietly around the fire. Just listen to the musicians playing music, and the singers clearing their voices and getting ready to sing.
When the three poets saw this, they discussed it privately. Wang Changling said: "The three of us are equally famous in the poetry world, and it is difficult to distinguish between the superior and the inferior. Today, when I listen to the singer singing, whose poem is included in a song, I will draw a horizontal line on the wall of the pavilion, and finally determine the winner and the winner. What do you think? How?" Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan agreed happily.
The first singer sang Wang Changling's "Farewell to Xin Jian at the Furong Tower". The poem was: "The cold rain comes to Wu at night, and I see off my guest in Chushan in the bright morning. Relatives and friends in Luoyang are like asking each other, and a heart of ice is in jade. Pot." Wang Changling was very proud and quickly drew a mark on the wall of the pavilion.
After singing, another singer continued to sing: "Opening the suitcase with tears..." This was Gao Shi's "Crying Single Father Liang Jiu Shaofu", and she also shouted excitedly: " A quatrain"! He also drew a mark on the wall.
The third singer spoke again: "The Golden Palace will open on the broomstick..." This is Wang Changling's "Long Letter of Resentment". He excitedly drew another mark and said proudly: "Two quatrains! "
Wang Zhihuan is usually very conceited and thinks that he has already become famous. Now he sees that none of the singers sang his poems, and he feels a little unhappy. So he stabilized his sitting position, cleared his throat and said to Wang Changling and Gao Shi beside him: "These are ordinary singers. They can only sing the popular poems of "lower people", but they can't sing some elegant articles of Yangchun Baixue. Dare to sing, only high-level singers are qualified to sing the kind of poems I wrote! "
He pointed to the youngest and most beautiful singer among the singers, with flowing maidens, and said: "She is the only one among the female singers who is qualified to sing my poems. When she sings, if it weren't for my poems, I would never dare to compete with you for the rest of my life, and I would be willing to be inferior; if she sang my poems, you would all have to worship me as your teacher! "
"Okay! "Wang Changling and Gao Shi both praised in unison.
Not long after, the young and beautiful singer with double hairdos really stood up and sang, and she sang Wang Zhihuan's "Liangzhou" in one breath. "Ci".
Far above the Yellow River, there is a lonely city called Wanren Mountain.
Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows?
The song is sad and sweet. Touching the heart.
After listening, Gao Shi and Wang Changling praised in unison: "My dear friend, your poem is indeed better than mine. It's a good poem. It's really a good poem!" "The Story of a Famous Ancient Poet 2
The Story of Li Bai Jumping to the Moon
In front of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, there is a Wende Bridge. I heard from the elders that every winter on the 15th day of the lunar month, the moon shines When I stood on the bridge and looked towards the water, the moon's shadow reflected in the water was divided into two halves: half on this side of the bridge and half on the other side of the bridge. Why is there a segment here? Story.
It is said that Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once came to Jinling (now Nanjing) and rested in a restaurant next to Wende Bridge. It happened to be the fifteenth day of the winter lunar month. He sat alone in a restaurant admiring the moon, drinking and reciting poems. Li Bai loved the moon most in his life, saying that it was clean and beautiful. That night, he looked up and saw the moon in the sky, which was white and round. A few drinks. At midnight, Li Bai took advantage of the wine and went downstairs to the Wende Bridge. When he lowered his head, he suddenly saw the moon falling into the water. When the river moved, the white moon shadow was added. There were black stripes.
Li Bai was so drunk that he just thought the moon was stained by the river water. He didn't even bother to take off his boots, so he jumped off the bridge to catch the moon. After a jump, the moon was not caught, but the moon in the water was broken, and the story was passed down like this. Later, people built a "de platform" next to Wende Bridge. It is said that that was where it was. The place where the great poet Li Bai admired the moon. The story of the famous ancient poet 3
The life of the poet Liu Changqing
Liu Changqing's poem was famous during the Dali period of the Tang Dynasty, and the name of the poem was in "Dali". He called himself the "Five Character Great Wall" and was extremely confident in his poetry achievements. At that time, people often referred to Liu Changqing as Qian Qi, Lang Shiyuan and Li Jiayou. He said disdainfully: "Today's people call them Shen, Shen, and Li Jiayou." Song, Wang and Du were followed by Qian, Lang, Liu and Li. How can Li Jiayou and Lang Shiyuan keep up with Yu? "He wrote poems everywhere, often not even writing his surname, and signing only the word "Changqing".
Although Liu Changqing was famous for his poems, his official career was quite bumpy. When he was 33 years old, he was appointed to Suzhou As a county lieutenant in the subordinate Changzhou County, Liu Changqing was very capable in "making orders in an orderly manner and not bullying officials". Within a year, he was promoted to Haiyan Order (today's Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province), and was later appointed by the great bureaucrat Wu Zhongru. He was framed and imprisoned in Suzhou. In the first year of Qianyuan (758), he was demoted to the position of Nanba Wei in Panzhou, which is now the area around Gaozhou County and Dianbai County. He was the military officer in charge of a county.
On the way to exile, Liu Changqing met Li Bai who had returned from being pardoned in Baidi City. Liu Changqing wrote a poem as a gift to Li Bai:
I will go to Nanba to Yugan to bid farewell to Li Twelve
The flowers on the river urge me to ask for the gift, and the Poyang oriole announces the spring in my hometown.
Who will pity this farewell? The joys and sorrows are different. Thousands of miles of green mountains send me away.
One of the two is being pardoned, the other is being demoted, one is happy and the other is sad, so their moods are naturally different. Two top figures in the poetry world of the Tang Dynasty met in such a situation, which made people feel doubly miserable.
When passing through Changsha on his way to Nanba in Panzhou, the poet felt that Jia Yi was demoted in the Han Dynasty, and wrote the popular "Passing Jia Yi's House in Changsha", using the name of chanting history to express his anger. The emotions are vented vividly:
Three years later, he was banished to the official position, but the Chu guest was left to be sad forever.
After the autumn grass left alone, the sun set in the cold forest.
How do you know that the Chinese language has Dao but is weak in kindness? How do you know that the Xiang River is ruthless?
Where the lonely mountains and rivers are crumbling, why should I pity you to the end of the world?
In the fifth year of Dali (770), Liu Changqing served as the transfer judge of E-Yue as a member of the Jixiao Temple. Soon he offended his immediate boss Wu Zhongru, the observation envoy of E-Yue. Wu Zhongru was the son-in-law of Fenyang King Guo Ziyi. He also falsely accused Liu Changqing of embezzling 200,000 yuan of public funds. As a result, Liu Changqing was demoted to Sima of Muzhou (now Chun'an, Zhejiang). Gao Zhongwu said that he "had an official position, but he was tough and committed crimes. He was demoted twice and took it upon himself."
When Liu Changqing was serving in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he once had a conversation about poetry with poet Li Jiayou and other celebrities at Wucheng Kaiyuan Temple. The female Taoist priest Li Jilan was also present. Li Jilan was also a famous talented poet at that time. She knew that Liu Changqing had a "hernia" and often had to use a cloth bag to hold up his scrotum to reduce the pain. So she joked with Liu Changqing and recited a poem by Tao Yuanming. : "Mountain Qi is getting better day by day." "Mountain Qi" is a homophone for "hernia". Liu Changqing immediately replied to Tao Yuanming's poem "All the birds are happy to have support", and everyone laughed.
In Liu Changqing’s life, there were only a handful of such happy days. His life was desolate and he suffered three military disasters. It is said that in the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan (755), he may have been promoted to Jinshi, but he has not yet After the list was unveiled, the Anshi Rebellion broke out.
In the first year of Shangyuan of the Tang Dynasty (760), Liu Zhan, the deputy envoy of Xijiedu and the governor of Songzhou, rebelled. The imperial court ordered Tian Shengong, the commander of Pinglu Army and Horses, to send troops to attack. After Liu Zhan was defeated and killed, Tian Shengong went to Jianghuai University After ten days of plundering, the originally prosperous and prosperous Wujun area suddenly became dilapidated and depressed. Liu Changqing wrote a poem to record this event:
Returning from Jiangxi to his old official residence
But seeing his fellow officials being happy and sad again, how lucky is he to have a return date in this life.
The guests in the empty court were shaken off when they arrived, and the people in the old city were scattered and scattered.
When I passed by the wild goose on the Xiang Road, I lay down in Jiangcheng and listened to the pounding of clothes.
Mr. Lao asked about the customs and customs of the south. Doesn’t Jia Yi know about Changsha?
In the second year of Emperor Dezong's reign (781), Liu Changqing was appointed governor of Suizhou. In the first year of Xingyuan (784) and the first year of Zhenyuan (785), Li Xilie, the governor of Huaixi, was separated and became the king. He fought fiercely with the Tang Dynasty army in Hubei, causing the people to suffer miserably. A poem written by Liu Changqing called "The camp was going to reward Lu Shiyu, the fashionable book was to interrogate Xiangyang, the army was sent to the eastern border of Han Dynasty to serve the emperor, the state was adjacent to bandits and thieves, there was water and fire again, and the poem was forced to collect taxes to see the edict". The scene when he greeted the imperial army.
I didn’t dare to lie down in Huainan, so I came to the camp of the Han general.
I accepted Ci Zhan’s Zuo Yue, and helped the disease to resist the previous command.
The well is taxed and the quails are happy, and the jug of pulp is greeted by cranes.
The water returned to the broken bank, and the beacon reached Baigu City.
Thousands of cavalry return in the evening, and the autumn wind unites five soldiers.
Kong Zhang was talented and strong, and he wrote books sooner or later.
The 74-year-old Liu Changqing, with a full head of white hair, patched clothes, and wine and wine from taxes, happily welcomed Lu and Shi when they went to Suizhou to attack the rebels. How tragic and desolate this is. Stories of famous ancient poets 4
Du Fu once made a living by selling medicine
When Du Fu was about 35 years old, he arrived in Chang'an, the then capital, where he was attacked by the political conspiracy of the treacherous minister Li Linfu. , failed to pass the exam, and was in dire straits financially. In order to maintain his livelihood, he managed to find a side job - selling medicine: delivering medicine as a condition for accepting help from others, the painstaking efforts involved are really hard to describe. .
The second time Du Fu sold medicine was in Gansu. In 759 AD, at the age of 48, he arrived in Qinzhou (now Tianshui, Gansu), where his life became even more difficult. There are more sentences about collecting medicine, making medicine, and selling medicine in his poems. For example, in the twenty poems of "Qinzhou Miscellaneous Poems", there is a saying that "if you take medicine, you will never come home, and you will have a son when you answer the door." It can be seen that even Du Fu's wife was involved in medicine at this time. He worked hard to irrigate and cultivate various medicinal herbs. At the same time, just like before in Chang'an, he sent people to deliver medicines to the city from time to time in exchange for "drug prices."
The last time the poet sold medicine seemed even more miserable. In 770 AD, Du Fu was 59 years old. He was so poor that he had no place to live on land and had to live on a boat. In Tanzhou on the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River, the old, frail and sickly Du Fu set up a medicine stall in the fish market to support his family. In the winter of this year, this great poet passed away.
From the history of Du Fu selling medicine, we can deeply feel how miserable the fate of talented poets was in the old society!