In the intermittent sound of rain, Lu You wrote a seven-melody on the donkey's back, entitled "Light Rain on Jianmen Road": "Dust and wine stains accumulate on clothes, and you will be lost in a long journey." Is this group a poet? The drizzle drifted into the sword gate. "Riding a donkey into Shu reminds Lu You of Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi, Cen Can, Yuan Zhen and the poet Guan Xiu. He rode a donkey from Hangzhou to Shu.
Poets have been in Shu since ancient times.
From the perspective of literary history, Lu You's worries do not seem to be out of thin air.
Han Yu once said that "Zhong Shu" not only comes from Zhong Shu, Li Bai and Su Shi. This is a generation of literary leaders, but it seems that scholars from other parts of Sichuan can also write more beautiful sentences with the flavor of a clock book.
Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo and Luo all entered Shu in the early Tang Dynasty. Lu, a Beijinger, spent nearly a quarter of his 50-year life in Bashu, far away from home. He is a young descendant of the royal family in Hedong, Wang Bo. Because an article on cockfighting was expelled from Shu, it was treated warmly in Shu. Although there are political setbacks and wasted years in Sichuan, life in Sichuan is full of trips to Bashu and poems and songs, which endows the "four great masters" with different life experiences from the Central Plains or Guanzhong, which can be described as "leaving the east corner and cutting mulberries". After visiting Sichuan, the "Four Masters" gave full play to Bashu's generous gifts in their poems, swept away the decadent colors of early Tang poetry and created a fresh and simple style of writing.
Cen Can, a frontier poet, visited Sichuan at the age of 5/kloc-0. He got used to frontier life and eventually died here. Gao Shi, like him, came to Sichuan from the barren frontier in his fifties and became the best poet of our time. Although Gao Shi was a soldier, he seldom wrote poems in Shu, but he gave another person support in life. Instead of singing, it helped him get another creative spring in Rongcheng, and that person was Du Fu.
The Anshi Rebellion and the frustration of personal career forced Du Fu, who was desperate, to make a living in Shu. Du Fu, who has been wandering all his life, left Sichuan for nine years with the most stable and prosperous poems, traveling all over Sichuan from east to west and from north to south. He wrote most of Du Fu's existing poems here, among which the famous ones are Song of Autumn Wind Breaking the Cottage, Sending Flowers, Imperial Army Recovering the Yellow River, Five Monuments, Watching Gong Sundaniang Disciples Dance Sword, Eight Poems in Autumn and Zhu Zhici.
On the Jinjiang River in Chengdu, there is a Wangjiang Tower in memory of the poetess Xue Tao. Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi, three great poets in the Tang Dynasty, came to Chengdu one after another. And Xue Tao had poems and songs. Liu Yuxi likes Zhu Zhici, a folk song in central Sichuan. During his life in Bashan and Shushui, he carefully studied the folk songs in the middle of Shu, and turned the folk songs into the poetic style of literati.
With Jia Dao, a bitter poet who likes to watch closely, Li Shangyin who chats on rainy nights, Wen who looks ugly but can sing with a fork, and even unknown foreign poets who go in and out of Sichuan, time has quietly come to the Song Dynasty. Huang Tingjian, a Taoist priest in the valley who opposed Wang Anshi's political reform, came. Huang, known as the leader of the "four sons of Sumen", was treated with courtesy and banquet in his hometown, although his career was bumpy. Fan Chengda came with the appointment of Song Xiaozong. When Fan Chu first arrived in Rongcheng, he sighed happily: "Chengdu is a happy country, which is really a great blessing." The man appointed as the special envoy of Sichuan has been in Shu for two years. He not only made great achievements, but also wrote many poems.
Lu You, a patriotic poet, also came from Hanzhong by donkey. During his eight years in Sichuan, he traveled to most parts of Sichuan, which not only made his poetic style more mature, but also left his "Jiannan Poetry Draft", indicating that he was "obsessed with Sichuan". Judging from his topic, what he said is correct.
It is easy for Shu to write poetry.
Spread out a map of China, and you will find that Sichuan, located in the southwest corner of China, is the richest, though the most closed. Therefore, all the imperial courts in the past dynasties regarded Chengdu Plain as "an acre of land divided into three parts" outside the central imperial power. Occupy this basin, enter the world, and then retreat to Tianfu. From the Qin Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it was the princes who destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, while the central dynasties in all previous dynasties decided the world by taking Shu first. Whenever the Central Plains is filled with smoke, Shu often becomes a refuge for Chinese culture. Not only the harem concubines and nobles will take refuge in Shu, but also the officials and scholars will follow the emperor's footsteps and avoid war and take poetry as their friends.
Peace in the world, peace in the world. Shu has often become a big city in China. There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty that "one benefit is another benefit". Apart from the fertile south of the Yangtze River, Sichuan is the most prosperous place in China. Whether it is war or peace, the entertainment style of Shu people has never changed. Scholars in Shu don't need to escape the war to make a living, like those in other places. They have more leisure time to travel and write poems. On a sunny day, sitting in a teahouse on the street, making a cup of tea on Mengding Mountain, finding a few like-minded friends to sing together, making peace with street vendors' cries, mahjong and the rolling waves of Jinjiang, all kinds of emotions, such as the sadness of distant officials, the hardships of Shu Dao, the pain of relegation, the rare sigh and the frustration of life, will gather, be written and spread.
In addition to those who volunteered to "try their luck" in Sichuan, the civil service system in the Tang and Song Dynasties also pushed literati to Sichuan. During the Tang Dynasty, especially after the Song Dynasty moved south, Shu, as an important town in the upper reaches of the capital, had a particularly important military position. Once it changes, it may affect the national situation between breathing and looking around. Therefore, ministers who are not close friends are not enough. Under the civil service politics in Tang and Song Dynasties, the identities of scholars and officials were often highly unified, especially in Song Dynasty. Scholars who entered Shu were basically bureaucrats from imperial examinations, and a large number of official poems similar to "All the world is king" were produced.