Economic prosperity and strong national strength naturally promote the unprecedented prosperity of culture. Especially in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was a brilliant era, and the most ancient and modern Tang poems were read by the world. It is common that people can praise Li Bai with their mouths open and recite Du Fu with their mouths closed. However, in the glorious long river of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, not only poets and saints shine brightly, but also the complicated poetic style. As a young and famous romantic poet, Li He is brilliant and accomplished, and can even keep pace with Du Li. For example, the famous saying of China people, "If there is love in the sky, it will be old", was written by Li. And after this poem appeared, no one in the Tang Dynasty could take the next sentence. It was not until the Song Dynasty 200 years later that an alcoholic poet took the next sentence.
Li He was born in Tang Dezong period (middle Tang Dynasty) after the Anshi Rebellion, and lived in a dilapidated aristocratic family in Fuchang, Henan (now Yiyang County, Luoyang, Henan). Li Hejia, a great poet, was originally an authentic noble family. His distant ancestor was Li Liang (Zheng Wang), the uncle of Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was a distant branch of the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty and was also related to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty at that time. However, after historical development, Li He's father's Li family has declined, and he can only live in seclusion in a small county town as an impoverished aristocrat. To what extent is the Li family down and out? Even after a generation of Empress Wu Zetian became emperor, she slaughtered the royal family in Li Tang. I didn't know that the royal family had such a distant relative.
When Li He's father, Li Jinsu, can be seen, the Li family has long been famous, and the decline of his family is unknown. Therefore, his father Li Jinsu was only employed as a petty official in his early years. Li He, a poet, is proud of his aristocratic lineage, but he is forced by the embarrassment of life. He wrote in the poem "Seeing the Wei Brothers Enter the Pass": "I live on the mountain and I have an acre of land." The rain at night calls the renter, and the bell rings secretly. "Describe the hardships of the family at that time. The premature aging of the family is out of reach, and with the death of his father Li Jinsu, the family situation is even more bleak. Because of this, Li He can only change his fate through the imperial examination.
Fortunately, Li He is a young genius, and his poems have long been famous. He can write poetry at the age of seven and is very good at "speed reading". According to historical records, when Han Yu, Huang Futi and other great writers heard that his name was suspicious, they went to his house and asked him to write poems face to face. Li He happily wrote an article "Gao Xuanguo", which greatly surprised Han Yu and Huangfu Ti. Since then, Li He has moved to the capital. Talent is enviable, but Li He is still very diligent. Li Shangyin, a great poet, once wrote in Li Hechuan: "Since childhood, a constant slave rode a huge donkey and carried an ancient treasure bag. When he got anything, he threw the book into the bag." This shows that he is diligent and diligent.
/kloc-At the age of 0/5, Li He was as famous as Yi Lee, a social celebrity at that time. At the age of eighteen, Li He paid tribute to Han Yu, a great official, with a masterpiece. For a time, Yanmen's Taishouxing quickly became the hottest hot article in the literary world, especially the sentence: "Dark clouds crush the city and the sun shines." It has been sung countless times by later generations.
It can be said that becoming famous at a young age should have been a prelude to the imperial examination and its implementation. Unfortunately, Li He was envied for his outstanding talent. He said that Li He's father's name was Li Jinsu, and the word "Jin" was homophonic with the word "Jinshi", which violated the law of "father taboo" in Tang Dynasty. As a son of man, it should be taboo, so you can't take the Jinshi exam. Although Han Yu, a great poet, later defended him with "quality is in the law" and "learning is in the canon", he was finally helpless, so Li He had to give up the road of being a scholar.
Because of the taboo between his father's name and the imperial examination, Li He could not take part in the imperial examination, but he was ambitious but failed to get his wish all his life, which was a great blow to Li He. In many of his poems, his desire to make contributions to the country is reflected, such as "Why don't men take Wu Gou and gather 50 states in Guanshan Mountain", "Jintai reported to the king and helped Yulong die for him" and so on. Although he later returned to Chang 'an, Yin Guan served as Li Lang, and he was imprisoned in Chang 'an for three years. As an official for three years, Li He made a group of intimate friends, but he also saw a lot of social darkness. At the same time, he created many works reflecting social reality and attacking darkness.
Because there is no hope of relocation, fame and fortune, grief and indignation are getting deeper and deeper. Coupled with the death of his beloved wife, Li He was depressed and ill, and finally chose to resign and retire. After his resignation, he was full of ambition, but he had nowhere to put it to use, and his anguish in his heart could be imagined. So on the way from Chang 'an to Luoyang, Li He wrote a seven-character poem "Golden Tongxian Ci Han Song". Li He used the history of the immortals of gold and bronze to express the feeling of the rise and fall of the country and his own anguish. In particular, the phrase "A withered orchid sends visitors off on Xianyang Road, and if the sky is sentient and old" is more like a heavy sigh, and the sad mood spreads.
Although He's poem "If there is love in the sky, the sky will be old" is extremely sad, it has become the great love of many people when it comes out. Scholars have picked this sentence out of the poem and specially compiled it into the first couplet of the couplet to see who can get a wonderful second couplet. It can be said that there are many talented poets in the Tang Dynasty, but no matter how hard people try, the bottom line can't reach the artistic height of the top line. In this way, time flies. In the end, no one in the Tang Dynasty could get a reasonable bottom line. Slowly, everyone thinks this poem is "wonderful", and I'm afraid it can't compare with it.
With the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Rebellion, it was not until the Song Dynasty two hundred years later that the second half sentence appeared. Song Dynasty is another glorious era in the history of China literature, with many outstanding literati. Some of them wrote "If there is love in the sky, the sky will grow old" in the poem of He in the Tang Dynasty, which stumped countless talented people and beautiful women. Once, no one was right. Although there is a saying that "the heart is clear and the heart is self-evident" and "the sea is self-drying", it is far-fetched. Finally, Shi Yannian, a talented poet, had a party with his poetry friends. Someone talked about this couplet again. Shi Yannian was drunk and his talent broke out. As soon as he heard someone talking about it, he casually said the couplet "The bright moon as long as there is no hate", which shocked four people and was widely sung by the people in the ruling and opposition parties.
Later, Sima Guang, a great writer, also wrote: "Li Changji's song" If there is love in the sky, the sky will be old ",and Man Qing (Shi Yannian's word) thinks that" if there is no hate in the moon, people will grow up ". Since then, some people have gone one step further, spelling the words of Li Bai, Li He, Su Shi and Shi Yannian into a wonderful couplet with neat antithesis and distant artistic conception: ask heaven for wine, and the sky will grow old if it is affectionate; Until I raised my cup, I asked the moon, the moon as long as it has no hatred. This couplet, with neat antithesis and lofty artistic conception, includes the famous sentences of three great writers and the absoluteness of Shi Yannian. It is a platter in the history of China literature and is worth playing.
I wonder if it has anything to do with last name. The Tang Dynasty and the Li Dynasty produced three outstanding romantic poets: Li Bai, the immortal poet, Li Shangyin, the master of the Seven Rhymes, and Li He. Li He is as famous as Shi Gui, and as famous as Li Bai, Du Fu, poet Wang Wei and Shi Fo. Li He is often called a "ghost talent" by later generations, and his poems are also called "the words of a ghost fairy". He was a romantic poet in the middle Tang Dynasty and the third great romantic poet in the history of China literature after Qu Yuan and Li Bai. Unfortunately, every day is a holiday, and the young Li He died at the age of 27. His untimely death also made China's ancient literature lose its treasure. Many people in later generations think that if God gives Li He a few more years, what he can achieve with his talent may be comparable to Li Bai.