I was kicked out because of "King Chicken of England"
Wang Bo was born in Longmen County, Jiangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. Because he can write fluent articles at the age of six, he is also called a child prodigy. Later, he passed the imperial examination and was named Chao Saburo. Through the introduction of the examiner, he went to Pei to work as a compiler. At that time, Pei Wang also liked this talented young man very much.
One day, the king of England and Pei Wang had a chicken fight, so Wang Bo wrote an article "The King of England's Chicken" to entertain them. I never thought that this article would spread to Tang Gaozong. Tang Gaozong was very angry when he read this article. He said angrily, "crooked talent, crooked talent." Tang Gaozong thought that Wang Bo was deliberately alienating the prince, so he reprimanded him and drove him out of Pei Wang Fu.
Because Wang Bo has no talent, his first demotion in his life left him a profound lesson. So what did Ji write to make him so angry? The problem still lies in the word "ba". Tang Gaozong's original words recorded in historical materials, if translated into vernacular, are as follows: Mozi turned around when he passed by Chao Ge because he felt that he had violated his once said "Don't sing in the morning", and Ceng Zi didn't go in because he wanted to enter an alley that won his mother a reputation. Now this article written by Wang Bo seems to have caused conflicts between princes.
Why is the problem with this bang? You should know that an election campaign is an ancient document used to condemn a hostile country or rebellion. Although on the surface, Wang Bo wrote only a chicken, Tang Gaozong thinks what he wants to express is that "the weak chicken should be eaten, and the strong chicken should strut".
Therefore, Tang Gaozong flew into a rage. He feels that in this article, social relations have changed gradually. You know, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, infighting has often happened between brothers, and even Tang Gaozong has experienced this kind of thing. He was worried that this was the beginning of discord between princes, so he drove Wang Bo out of Pei Wangmi.
The second failure in life
After Wang Bo was demoted, he went to Sichuan to find his friend Du Sande. Du Sande takes Wang Bo to travel every day. In Sichuan, he wrote "Zaqu" specially. Zaqu ". When Wang Bo returned to Chang 'an, he found that his clothes became smaller, and he had to make more clothes. When I was in Chang 'an, I wrote a poem "Farewell to Deputy DuDu's appointment in Shu" specially for Du Sande to express his feelings of farewell. Among them, there is a famous line "However, China has our friendship, and heaven is still our neighbor", which shows the deep relationship between them.
Later, his friends recommended him to join the army in Zhou Guo, so that he could re-enter the official career, but Wang Bo was caught in a major crisis in his life. An official slave named Cao Da committed a capital crime. First, Wang Bo secretly protected the man, and then he killed him for fear of getting into trouble. The Book of the Tang Dynasty once recorded that this may be because his colleagues deliberately framed Wang Bo for his arrogance, which is also very possible. However, whether framed or not, he was sentenced to death. At that time, Wu Zetian suggested changing Yuan to Shangyuan, so she escaped death.
Preface to Wang Teng-ting, a famous masterpiece through the ages
However, his father was exiled to Annan (present-day Vietnam) thousands of miles away because of his accomplices, so in 675, he decided to start from Luoyang and go south along the canal to apologize to his father, and then when passing by Nanchang, he created the famous Teng Xu.
At that time, Yan Yubo was presiding over the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Wang Teng Pavilion. It turned out that he wanted his nephew Wu Weiguan to preface, and everyone understood his intention. So when people are asked, they either say that they don't know how to learn, or they say that they are drunk and shirk, while Wang Bo just says: I can write. At that time, Yan Yubo felt that he would lose face and left on the spot.
An article "Preface to Wang Teng Pavilion" surprised the scholars present. When it was shown to Yan Yubo, he praised it, saying that Wang Bo is really a contemporary genius and should be immortal. But Wu is very dissatisfied. He said on the spot that this article has been circulated for a long time, and Wang Bo plagiarized the articles of the sages. Yan Yubo was surprised and asked, "What do you know?" Wu recited the whole article at once. In fact, Wu is also a talented person who never forgets anything. Then Wang Bo asked him, "Can this article be orderly?" Wu dui said, "chaos", so he wrote another poem, prefaced the article, and then left without saying goodbye.
After Wu's lies were exposed, everyone praised the preface to the pavilion and found that a word Changjiang () was missing from the preface. Everyone speculated that Yan Yubo sent someone to chase him. Wang Bo's servant said, "My son made a promise before, and one word is worth 1000 yuan." So Yan Yubo asked people to take money to find Wang Bo. He was surprised and said, "Why ask more? How dare you leave a word blank? " When everyone was puzzled, Wang Bo said: "Empty people are empty, and the Yangtze River is empty outside the threshold." . Everyone praised it as a word, and it was really a genius in the world.
This preface to the Pavilion is extremely difficult, but Wang just improvised the sentence "Sunset and loneliness, autumn water and sky are the same color". How can you not be a child prodigy? Compared with his previous work The Golden Eagle, Wang Bo is still radiant, but he is more sophisticated and smooth. However, it also represents the growth of Wang Bo. Without the ups and downs in life, he could not have improvised such an article eight years ago.
Genius ending
The following summer, Wang Bo met his father who was demoted because of his own troubles. Although his father's life was very difficult, he still encouraged Wang Bo with the poem in Wang Bo's article: "If you are poor, you will never fall into the sky." A year later, Wu Zetian saw this "Teng Xu" and showed it to Li Zhi. After reading it, Li Zhi appreciated it very much, hoping to reuse this talented young man, and sent his men to look for Wang Bo everywhere, but he still couldn't find it when he arrived. When Wang Bo was on his way home from visiting his father, he drowned because his boat capsized. He is only 26 years old.
Perhaps it was jealousy of talents that made Wang Bo die young. Although his life is short, his poems remain in people's hearts forever.