Meng Jiao's ancestral home is Pingchang (now northeast of Linyi, Shandong). He lives in Luoyang (now Henan). When his father Ting Jun was a lieutenant in Kunshan County, he was born in the suburbs. Meng Jiao lived in poverty in his early years and traveled to Hubei, Hunan and Guangxi. When Zhang Jianfeng was guarding Zhenyuan Xuzhou, the suburbs went to pay homage. At the age of 46 (45), he began to enter the Jinshi, and there is a poem "After the Senior High School Entrance Examination": "There was no limit to boasting in the past, but now there is no limit to debauchery; Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, and you can see Chang 'an flowers all in one day. ".Then return to the east and go to Bianzhou (now Kaifeng, Henan) and Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (80 1 year), he served as the governor of Liyang in the south of the Yangtze River.
His masterpiece Ode to a Wanderer was written in Liyang. I often took pleasure in writing poems when I was in office. If I can't write poetry, I won't go out. Therefore, I am called a "poetry prisoner". I don't care about Cao, and I was fined half a salary. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Henan people Yin and Zheng Yuqing tried their best to help them compete for land and water transportation in Henan and settled in Luoyang. At the age of 60, his mother died. Zheng Yuqing guarded the apricot garden and acted as a staff officer, trying to evaluate things. Jiao was invited to Ganxiang (now Lingbao, Henan), and Yuanhe died of sudden illness in nine years. Meng Jiao's friend Han Yu and others raised 100 yuan for his camp burial, and Zheng Yuqing sent someone to give 300 yuan "permanent support for the widow".
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In the Tang Dynasty, people thought that Meng's poems were a kind of "Yuanhe style", "Yuanhe has fallen" and "learning is too exciting for Meng Jiao" (supplemented by Li Zhao's Tang Shi). At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Wei wrote a picture of the poet's subject and object, and regarded it as a "lonely and bitter owner". Song Dynasty poets Mei and Xie Ao, Qing Dynasty poets Hu Tianyou, Jiang Kun and Xu Chengyao were all influenced by him. After Han Yu and Li Guan, there are also some related works, such as Xiu, Huang Tingjian, Fei Zhou, Pan Deyu, Liu Xizai, Chen Yan, Qian Zhenqian and Xia Jingguan. There are Su Shi, Wei Tai, Yan Yu, Yuan Haowen and Wang Kaiyun who hold derogatory views. Both he and Jia Dao are famous for their bitter songs. Su Shi called it "thinness on an isolated island" (Yu Wen in Sacrifice to Liu Zi), and later commentators took Meng Jiao and Jia Dao as the representatives of bitter poets. Yuan Haowen even ridiculed him as a "poet prisoner" ("Thirty Poems").
The current Biography of Meng Dongye's Poems is 10, which was compiled and published by the Northern Song Dynasty. Huang Pilie Shu in the Northern Song Dynasty is no longer visible. Lv Xinyuan's shadow copy of the chicken bone pavilion in Song Dynasty belongs to Japan today. There are two popular books: Ji Gu Library Book and Xiaomin Zhu Mo Book. Four series of Ming Hong in Ye Tibetan were photocopied in Hangzhou. 1959, People's Literature Publishing House published Hua Chen's Revision of Meng Dongye's Poems, with Meng Jiao's chronicle and memorial collection. Annotations include Chen Yanjie's Meng Dongye's Poems and Xia Jingguan's Selected Poems and Comments on Meng Jiao. For deeds, please refer to Mr. Han Yu's Epitaph, Biographies of the Old and New Books of the Tang Dynasty, Chronicle of Mr. Meng Dongye in Xia Jingguan and Chronicle of Tang Meng Jiao in Huachen.