Whether he was alive or dead, Wang Changling's name was loud enough. His friends such as Li Bai, Wang Wei, and Wang Zhihuan were all not ordinary people, but future generations hardly know what he did in this life. Passed. From a broad perspective, Wang Changling was only a deputy department-level cadre, so the official history, which compiled genealogies for emperors, generals and ministers, only recorded a few lines about Wang Changling. Even the cause of Wang Changling's death was unclear and confusing. However, Wang Changling was in trouble when he was alive, so he probably doesn't care what happens after his death. ?
Poetry and wine are romantic, and he is known as the King of Seven Wonders?
Wang Changling was born in a prosperous age, but his life has never been very good. Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan were also frustrated at that time, so the three of them hung out together when they had nothing to do. During the Kaiyuan period, it was snowing one day. The three of them were extremely bored and went to a restaurant to kill time. ?
Beside them there were a dozen performers from the symphony orchestra having a party, and soon four more graceful singers came. The three of them looked on coldly and murmured to each other: The three of us have been famous in the world for a long time, and we still don’t know the ranking of each other. Today we will see which of our poems is used the most in the songs they sing, then who will be considered the best. ?
After a while, a singer sang "Cold Rain Lianjiang Night Enters Wu", and Wang Changling drew a line on the wall: One for me. Then one of them sang "The opening of the dowry is full of tears," and Gao Shi drew a line on the wall: "My song." The next song was Wang Changling's "Feng Broom and the Golden Palace Opens". Wang Zhihuan dismissed it at first glance: these singers are all vulgar and poor, and they are all singing the stuff of lower-level people. Pointing at one of the elegant beauties: If the poem she sings later is not my poem, I will never dare to fight with you for the rest of my life; if it is my poem, you will kowtow to me here. ?
The three of them waited with playful smiles for a short time. The elegant beauty began to sing Wang Zhihuan's "Yellow River Far Above the White Clouds". Wang Zhihuan asked the other two: "You old man, am I not talking nonsense?" The three of them couldn't help laughing. ?
This is the story of "Pavilion Painting on the Wall" that was widely circulated later. The poems of Wang Changling and Wang Zhihuan sung by the singers were all Qijue, and Wang Changling was nicknamed the "Sage of Qijue". Later generations who have good intentions ranked seven of the best among the seven masterpieces of the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Changling accounted for two of them. Among them, "Out of the Fortress" was praised by Wang Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty as the most outstanding work of quatrains in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Fuzhi, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, even advocated Wang Changling as the best among the seven quatrains of the Tang Dynasty. ?
Words are no better than running a 100-meter race. You can hold a stopwatch and rank them in order. Therefore, this kind of ranking is more of a joy for self-entertainment. A few years ago, a publishing house ranked a list of modern literary masters. The first place was Lu Xun, the second place was Shen Congwen, not to mention this, the third place was the hero Jin Yong, which attracted as much saliva as rain. Among the so-called seven best songs of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, who is also good at seven specialties, does not have one. Therefore, Wang Changling's Qijue is the best, and this single championship is just a family opinion. ?
Drinking Meng Haoran to death after a heavy drinking session?
Of the three people who drank together at the beginning, only Gao Shi turned around and the other two fell into decline. Wang Changling has been in politics for more than 30 years. Not only has he been unable to secure a position, he has also spent most of his time in poverty in various places. ?
The furthest time, Wang Changling was sent to Guangdong for causing trouble, but fortunately he was recruited back a year later. On the way back to the capital, Wang Changling stopped by Meng Haoran's place and spent two days shopping. Meng Haoran had just recovered from the sore on his back. When he saw Wang Changling, he became energetic and forgot all about the taboos about being sick. He went out to drink and make fresh food for a few days. ?
Unexpectedly, Meng Haoran was afraid of these things, which would cause the disease to relapse. There was no cure, and Meng Haoran passed away. Meng Haoran risked his life to accompany the gentleman. Wang Changling was like him, and he also had a casual temper. He was demoted twice because he didn't take things seriously, but the only time Wang Changling regretted this behavior was probably this time . The imperial court seemed to have forgotten about Wang Changling and asked him to do a painless job in Nanjing, where he stayed for eight years. Wang Changling was bored after get off work, so he opened a poetry cram school in his spare time, just like the overwhelming number of postgraduate entrance examination classes, English classes, computer classes, etc. these days, they are all part-time training to make extra money. This is the first amateur training class in the history of global education, and Wang Changling is the first person to create it in the world. ?
Wang Changling organized the teaching materials in his poetry cram school and wrote a poetry theory book "Poetry Gesture". Now that celebrities are becoming famous, even young people in their early 20s are rushing to write memoirs and autobiographies, seizing the time to make as much money as possible. Unlike today, the ancients wrote books only when they had no idea. Cao Xueqin and Wu Jingzi were all poor people throughout their lives. ?
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, all poets were full of entrepreneurial enthusiasm and actively pursued their careers, and none of them wrote books. The only person who wrote poetry theoretical works in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was Wang Changling. From this, we can know that he was probably very injured in Nanjing. It is said that because of this period of working as a part-time teacher, Wang Changling was nicknamed "Poet Master". ?
Wang Changling was already miserable enough in Nanjing, but the imperial court made matters worse for him by once again relegating him to a remote area in Hunan. Wang Changling lived in poverty in Hunan. He carried his books and piano when he went in and out, and asked his old servants to pick up fallen leaves and branches along the way and use them as firewood for cooking. Although he was unlucky, Wang Changling still did a good job in his work. His political reputation in Hunan was good, and his poems were famous all over the world. People often knelt down on the road to ask for poems from him.
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There is still a Furong Tower in Hunan, which is a local memorial to Wang Changling. However, the Furong Tower mentioned in Wang Changling's eternal masterpiece "Farewell to Xin Jian at the Furong Tower" was in Jiangsu, when he was killing his ambitions in Nanjing. Despite this, this guy still shouted "A heart of ice is in a jade pot", and his anger did not diminish at all. ?
Being murdered, the reason is still unknown?
Seeing that Wang Changling's stay in Hunan was catching up with the record in Nanjing, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Yang Guifei's fragrant soul acted as a scapegoat. , Tang Suzong himself announced that he had ascended the throne and overthrew his father, and the world was in chaos. ?
Wang Changling left Hunan at this time and looked northeast. Later generations did not understand where he was going, but judging from the ending, he went to his destination. In Anhui, the governor Lu Qiu Xiao killed Wang Changling, who was less than 60 years old that year. Similarly, no one knows why Lu Qiu Xiao wanted to kill this "poet master", but judging from what happened later, in official terms, this Lu Qiu Xiao's personality may be a little twisted, or in layman's terms, a pervert. ?
Shortly after Wang Changling's death, Prime Minister Zhang Hao concurrently served as the commander of the Henan Military Region and started a war with the rebels. At that time, Songzhou was besieged by rebels and the situation was critical. The defender asked Zhang Hao for help. Zhang Hao traveled all night to kill Songzhou, and at the same time asked Lu Qiuxiao, who was closer, to quickly send troops to rescue. Everyone knows that the military orders are like mountains, and if you don't do it, you will lose your head, but Lu Qiu Xiao doesn't know what is wrong with him, and he just doesn't move as if he didn't see Zhang Hao's military orders. ?
By the time Zhang Hao arrived, Songzhou had already fallen. Zhang Hao was about to kill Lu Qiu Xiao. Lu Qiu Xiao even asked for mercy, saying that he had parents to take care of at home and begging for his life. Zhang Hao choked him back with one sentence: Who will take care of Wang Changling's parents in their old age? ?
According to military law, Lu Qiu Xiao was beaten to death. ?
As for Wang Changling, perhaps because people don’t understand too much, later generations have regarded him as a myth. Legend has it that Wang Changling passed by Madang Mountain in a boat. The boatman said that he would worship the gods when he came here. Wang Changling asked his servants to take the sacrifices and go ashore to worship the gods. He also dedicated a pair of straw sandals to the god's wife and wrote a poem to show his respect. After the boat had sailed for a while, I discovered that I had forgotten to take out the knife I had just bought in my straw sandals. Soon a 3-foot-long red carp jumped on the boat, opened the fish's belly, and found the knife inside. ?
Maybe the gods only returned Wang Changling's sword, but did not bless his fate. He had great ambitions throughout his life, but he was always just a small official who was sent around. His poetic grace has been admired by generations, but later generations do not even know his exact age and place of birth. ?
■Introduction?
Wang Changling, courtesy name Shaobo, was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He was born in about the first year of Wu Zetian's holy calendar (698) and died in about the fifteenth year of Xuanzong Tianbao. (756). A native of Jingzhao Wannian (now part of Xi'an City). His family was relatively poor. In the 15th year of Kaiyuan, he passed the imperial examination and was awarded the title of Secretary Provincial School Secretary. Later, he was awarded the title of Sishui Wei, and then moved to Jiangning Cheng. He was banished to the barbaric land twice in his life: once in the autumn of the 25th year of Kaiyuan, he was convicted and banished to Lingnan; once in the autumn of the 6th year of Tianbao, he was demoted to Long Biaowei for the so-called "not protecting the careful conduct". After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, he fled to the Jianghuai area and was killed by Lu Qiuxiao, the governor of Haozhou. There is "Wang Changling Collection". ?
Wang Changling was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Yin Fan's "Heyue Yingling Collection" regarded him as a representative of "character" and praised his poems as "Zhongxing's masterpieces", and the number of poems selected was the highest in the entire collection. All these show his status in the poetry world. ?
The "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" evaluates Changling's poems as "dense in thought and clear in thought". His Qijue is particularly outstanding, even comparable to Li Bai's, so he is dubbed the "Sage of Qijue" Number. Especially his frontier fortress poems, which are fluent and high-spirited, are highly praised by future generations.