In my hometown, Suizhou, Hubei Province, a Tang Dynasty poet named Liu Changqing once came to make a secretariat. He is now the mayor of Suizhou, calling himself "Liu Suizhou". Well, that's the one who wrote, "The sunset is far away, the weather is cold and the house is poor; Chai Men smells dogs barking and returns to people in the snowy night. " Poet.
There is an author named Xue Xiaomei who wrote the story of "Liu Suizhou" and Suizhou, which is really the luck of Suizhou and the luck of Suizhou people.
A person needs to love a place more, in order to integrate that place into his name and become a symbol of his life? This place is not his hometown, nor the place where he has stayed for the longest time in his life, but it must be his favorite place in his life, right?
Fortunately, there was once a young man named Emperor Wendi, who came to Suizhou in high spirits as a secretariat, and later became an emperor, taking the country as Sui!
Fortunately, there was once a poet named Liu Changqing who came to Suizhou as a secretariat in his later years. Since then, he has a new name: "Liu Suizhou" and named his collection "Liu Suizhou Collection"!
This is a place that makes Suizhou people proud. Because of this, Suizhou people have another reason to love their hometown!
Liu Changqing was born in Xuancheng, Anhui. Liu Changqing's name comes from Sima Xiangru, a famous poet in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Xiangru was jealous of Lin Xiangru, so he changed his name to Lin Xiangru. Liu Changqing named Sima Xiangru's ci in the hope that he could become an article like Sima Xiangru and get the chance to be reused by the imperial court.
There is no exact research on his date of birth and death. The Complete Tang Poetry contains 509 poems by Liu Changqing in 5 volumes, ranking ahead of Yan Zhenqing and Li Bai. Mr. Wen Yiduo thinks that his birth year was 709 AD and his death year was between 789 and 79 1 year. In other words, Liu Changqing experienced four dynasties, namely Xuanzong, Suzong, Daizong and Dezong, which was an era when the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline.
He is a contemporary poet with Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei. He is famous for his five-character poems and is known as the "Five-character Great Wall", which should also be famous in the world at that time.
In the feudal society of "everything is inferior, only reading is high", reading and examination are the only way for the bottom intellectuals to get ahead and step into the upper class. Liu Changqing is no exception. When he was young, he studied in Songshan, and the road to scientific research was full of twists and turns. In the early days, he tried again and again, and fell out with Sun Shan many times. He finally became a scholar in his 40 s, but before the list was announced, the Anshi rebellion broke out.
After Tang Suzong ascended the throne, the dawn of fate finally shone into Liu Changqing's life. He was appointed as a county commandant in Changzhou County, a subordinate of Suzhou, almost equivalent to the current police chief, in charge of theft, but he was soon framed and imprisoned, but fortunately he was released by Amnesty. He was demoted to be the captain of Nanba in the wild state.
On his way to Nanba, he happened to meet Li Bai, a great poet of Yelang who was exiled. They had a good time drinking. When they left, he wrote "I will go to Nanba to leave Li XII", one to express my anger and the other to commemorate this meeting:
The flowers on the river urge the owners, and Poyang Ying reports to the countryside for spring;
Who pities this parting? Wan Li Castle Peak sent the minister away.
Later, he was ordered to return to Suzhou, and with the help of Ada, the transshipment ambassador, he started a grass-roots patrol, and after that, he stayed. As can be seen from Liu Changqing's poems, during this period, he often traveled to and from Hunan, Hubei and other places to inspect and urge tax collection and transshipment. During this experience, Liu Changqing suffered the second injustice in his life: he was framed for taking bribes of 200,000 yuan.
It is recorded that when he was appointed as the transfer judge, he offended his boss Wu Zhongru, that is, the observer of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. Wu Zhongru falsely accused him of taking bribes of 200,000. At that time, Yuan Wailang's monthly salary was 18, and the next year was 2 16. According to Wu Zhongru, Liu Changqing is equivalent to embezzling wages for nearly a thousand years, which is amazing. If the situation is true, Liu Changqing will be sentenced to death. Wu Zhongru, whose name is unknown, has a wide network of contacts. He is the son-in-law of Guo Ziyi, the first hero of Datang Zhongxing. Liu Changqing has no advantage in position or background. Obviously, Wu Zhongru wanted to kill Liu Changqing. Fortunately, Miao Piqing, the supervisor of the DPRK, was sent to investigate the case and cleared Liu Changqing. Liu Changqing was demoted to Sima Zhou Mu. Sima is a very special official position, with no real power but salary.
Liu Changqing, who had a narrow escape, once wrote a poem for Mupi, who handled the case impartially: "It's hard to reach far away, but it's easy to slander heaven. The sheep intestines remain the same, and the tiger's mouth takes off the rest of its life. " Liu Changqing used such words as "as wrong as a sheep's intestines" and "the rest of his life is at stake", indicating that his life was at stake at that time, which was very dangerous.
Liu Changqing is a scholar and a small official, but the complexity of officialdom is far beyond his imagination, and he almost lost his life. Being framed is hard to argue.
A few years later, 56-year-old Liu Changqing was appointed as Suizhou secretariat. In the Tang Dynasty, the secretariat was the chief executive of a county. For Liu Changqing, this is an opportunity and stage to display his talents.
However, Liu Changqing's official career is really poor. In June of the second year of Jianzhong, Liang Chongyi was rebelled by the host in Shannan, and the court sent Li Xilie to conquer. Suizhou is the host of Shannan, located in the war zone. Because of bad years, floods and droughts, Li Xilie once stopped attacking and asked Liu Changqing to collect taxes for military use, which made him miserable. So he wrote poems to plead with Li Xilie's aides.
To make matters worse, after Li Xilie defeated Liang Chongyi and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, Suizhou fell into the hands of Zhao Jichang, the Ministry of Li Xilie. Liu Changqing had to retire quietly, and his post of secretariat was naturally cancelled.
Born in troubled times, after several years of ups and downs, I finally failed. This kind of thing, fame and fortune, is indispensable in terms of time, place and people. How can he dominate by himself?
Like some intellectuals, he has great ambitions to revitalize the country and help the people, but the cruel reality in front of him makes him suffer greatly. He also questioned life and turned his inner struggle into one sentence: "If the master meets, the blue robe will miss the Confucian scholars today." A word "wrong" revealed his feelings of loss, unwillingness and regret several times.
This is a long journey, with ups and downs, repeated setbacks, slander, demotion and dismissal. He must have yearned for Li Bai's chivalrous and free life, but he is not Li Bai. In his bones, he still wants to live this life after joining the WTO. Despite the storm, he still insists on being an official, neither greedy nor supercilious. Let alone in troubled times, even in peacetime, it is difficult for a stubborn scholar to maintain his character and integrity in officialdom.
Gao Zhongwu, a critic in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Changqing had an official position, but he made a mistake and was exiled twice, which he deserved." Xin, a scholar in the Yuan Dynasty, said in the biography of talented people in Tang Dynasty: "Changqing is the best in the world, quite vulgar, but with great power, so people know that she has been wronged when she moved away." From the mouth of the two critics, it is obvious that his character is really too straightforward, and it is inevitable to anger the powerful. People who stick to the truth, dare to speak and remonstrate, and are not afraid of offending their superiors are having a hard time no matter what times, and there are problems of the times and personality.
He was demoted many times in his life, which made him taste the warmth and coldness of this world. Having lived in many wars in various places, he has an empty ambition and cannot show it. In a blink of an eye, he can only write poems to express his feelings. Liu Changqing wrote 9 poems and/kloc-0 articles during his tenure as a secretariat in Suizhou. These poems truly reflect his mood and situation in Suizhou.
"Huainan shake off the customer, water long hatred. The early geese bid farewell to the old customs, and the autumn wind entered the ancient city pool first. The waist badge is made with the gift of the falcon emperor, and the crown shows white hair. I am disappointed that I will leave before you, Hanyang old man remembers. " This is a poem written by Liu Changqing in the first year of Suizhou. After his good friend Yu Mou left his job and returned to Beijing, Liu Changqing got the news, went to the East Building of the Han Dynasty to intercede, and expressed his feelings of farewell to his friends and his understanding of life, before reporting his white hair.
In the second year of Suizhou's secretariat, Liu Changqing boarded Renqian Building and wrote a poem titled "Climbing Renqian Building to Appreciate His Son-in-law Li Mu". The whole poem is as follows: "The breeze is beautiful, and the setting sun blows cymbals. Looking back, a new chapter is at the waist. Non-talents are slandered by officials, and there is no rumor about being a politician. Save three households and send six articles in the rest of the year. Spring grass gives birth to Chu, and ancient trees pass the Sui Dynasty. Thanks to the East Bed guests, the pond is free from loneliness. " At present, the former Laishui Hotel in the northern section of Lieshan Avenue in Suizhou City is the site of the north gate of Suizhou ancient city wall. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a tower on the city wall called Renqian Tower, and there was a bridge on the moat outside the city gate called Renqian Bridge. Now that the remains have gone, we can only feel that scene from poetry.
Liu Changqing is good at sketching the scenery in detail. His poems are picturesque, rich in meaning and endless in imagination. Such as "Lotus Mountain Master in the Snow":
The setting sun is far away, the weather is cold and the house is poor.
Chai Men heard dogs barking and went home on a snowy night.
In the cold wilderness, facing the wind and snow, there is a hut to live in and a bowl of rice to satisfy hunger and keep out the cold, which is a great gift of life. Isn't it a kind of affectionate comfort for Liu Changqing who is in a difficult life?
In "Send Che Ling to Guru", there is also "the bell of bamboo in the temple is low at dusk". Pilgrims' hats, with the setting sun, are getting farther and farther under the green hills. "A few words, like a clean-shot, Sanskrit-haunted MV, show the quiet demeanor of monks and the feelings of poets who are frustrated but leisurely and indifferent. It is a famous landscape poem in the Tang Dynasty.
His poems are not as free and easy as Li Bai's, nor as neat as Du Fu's. The first reading is relatively dull, but I can appreciate the delicate feelings expressed in the poem. He was as famous as Wei, another famous poet at that time, and was called "Liu Wei Poetry School".
Poetic critics of past dynasties also praised his poems. Huang Fushi, a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty, once said this when criticizing the grandiose style of some literati: "There is no place in the poem to talk about Liu Changqing, and Ruan Ji has been called a veteran. There is no word Luo in the language, and Song Yu has been called a sinner. " This shows Liu Changqing's fame. Lu also said in the Inscription of Liu Suizhou's Collected Works: "Suizhou poetry, after beauty, will surely become a giant." Xue Xue's "A Spoon of Poetry" said: Liu Suizhou is "so proud that he can laugh with Shaoling." Although these comments are inevitably flattering and inaccurate, we can also see that he can be compared with Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty.
Fortunately, the setbacks in officialdom did not make him a successful politician, but made him a great poet. His poems have beautiful artistic conception and are our eternal spiritual wealth.
I think this brilliant poet's secretariat must win the love and support of Suizhou people. During his stay in Suizhou, he must have had a lot of warmth and emotion. He must be full of passion and want to do something big. He even wants to spend the rest of his life here. Although Suizhou is not his hometown, he has regarded it as his hometown. When others call him Liu Suizhou, a sense of pride arises spontaneously ... but he can live in troubled times and be safe and sound.
But none of this matters. Everyone still remembers him, remembering this poet who has always been upright and stubborn but likes to be called "Liu Suizhou". On countless snowy nights in winter, a person walking alone can't help but think of what he wrote: "Chai Men smells dogs barking, and the snow at night returns to people."