Li Mengyang's "Self-Traveling" expresses: The author expresses his feelings about the current situation, "The swan is not as good as the oriole, and the shaking of the tree is often met with earthworms. How can I say that you should rest now", which is even more generous and fierce. This upside-down world situation, "Those who steal hooks will punish those who steal the country," contains my true feelings.
1. The original text of "Since the Journey"
Since the sky tilted to the northwest, all the water in the world flows eastward. He said bitterly that things in the world are not upside down, and those who steal hooks will be punished by thieves of the country. Don't you see the treacherous hero, the evil young man and the fat ox? Dong Sheng wrote a book and found it successful. The swan is not as good as the oriole, and the thieves laugh at Confucius. What can I tell you now?
2. Introduction to the author of "Since Traveling"
Li Mengyang (1473～1530) was a Chinese writer in the Ming Dynasty. The word Xianji, the number Kongtongzi. A native of Qingyang (now part of Gansu). Born into a humble family. He became a Jinshi in the seventh year of Hongzhi (1494) and served successively as head of the Household Department and deputy envoy of Jiangxi Province. He was jealous of evil and was imprisoned for impeaching the eunuch Liu Jin with a draft memorial.
In view of the shortcomings of Taige style poems and articles being the same, Li Mengyang was determined to advocate restoration to change the bad writing style. He was the leader of the first seven sons. He advocated studying the Wei and Jin Dynasties in ancient poetry and studying the prosperous Tang Dynasty in modern poetry. He had great influence at that time. But he placed too much emphasis on style and French style and failed to seek innovation from retro. In his debate with He Jingming, he was driven by emotion and his arguments were extreme, which led to him being stubborn.
It has even embarked on the path of plagiarism, killing the vitality of poetry creation. I regretted it in my later years. He wrote many Yuefu and ancient poems, some of which embody the author's political ideals of reform, which are of more practical significance.
Poems such as "The Horse Drinks in the Morning and Sends Chen Zi Out of the Fortress" and other poems. His Yuefu and Songxing had some artistic achievements, but they sometimes showed traces of carving. Its seven rhymes are dedicated to Du Fu and contain many magnificent words. He is the author of 66 volumes of Kongtongji.
Li Mengyang’s wonderful things
1. Crossing the Yangtze River
Ding Ji, a native of Runzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, was appointed by the imperial court to serve as an academic and political official in Guangdong, and he had to cross the Yangtze River on his way to his appointment. Relevant parties have prepared pig heads, sacrificial sheep and other tributes for him, please sacrifice to the water god. Ding Ji smiled and said: "Are you sailing? Sometimes it floats and sometimes it sinks. This is a matter of weather. Why does the water god care about it?" So he crossed the river without offering sacrifices to the water god.
When the boat was in the middle of the current, a storm suddenly arose, causing the boat to capsize and sink. Later, Li Mengyang took up the post of academic administrator in Jiangxi and had to cross the Yangtze River to take up his post. Relevant parties prepared tributes for him to sacrifice to the water god, and used Ding Ji's example to convince him.
After hearing this, he was furious and ordered his followers to tie up the statue of the Water God and throw it into the river. Pointing at the sinking statue of the Water God, he said: "Throw the Water God into the river when he should be here." Where to go." After that, he took a boat across the river, but nothing happened. ("Zhongzhou Wild Records")
2. Reporting on the Resistance Class Salt
During the reign of Emperor Wu Zong, the eunuchs Wang Zan and Cui Guo reported to the court that 12,000 yuan of salt from the pseudo-official salt of the Changluyun Division should be used He was brought to Nanjing to sell off the money, and then used the money to buy brocade weaving materials for the palace. Li Mengyang, Wang Zongwen, Xu Tingyong and others from the Ministry of Household Affairs said to Shangshu Hanwen: "This is the first time for the newly enthroned Holy Emperor to manage the government. He should not sell official salt to make brocades for the palace."
Hanwen According to this opinion, Emperor Wuzong was informed and agreed to only give 6,000 citations. Emperor Wu Zong asked the cabinet ministers: "Why didn't the Ministry of Revenue give them all?" He replied: "When the eunuchs loaded official salt, they carried a lot of private salt in the middle, which harmed people along the way and delayed the taxation and transactions of official salt. The late emperor followed him In the past few years, I have made up my mind to rectify the management of salt.
This is the top priority for you to continue to rectify it!" Emperor Wu Zong was very unhappy and said: "Is it possible that the affairs of the world are only managed by a few eunuchs. Is it bad? For example, among ten people, there are still three or four good people, right?" Cabinet minister Liu Jian and others withdrew and submitted another memorial, urging Emperor Wu Zong to handle the matter in accordance with the opinions of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The emperor had no choice but to obey.
("Xu Shuxian Tongkao")