My mother died young, and my father, Zuo Xi, was born in a small official. He used to be a magistrate in Taiyuan and Yiyang, and then he was promoted to a counselor in the temple.
Zuo Si was mediocre when he was a child. Later, he heard from his father that his childhood qualifications were far inferior to his father's, so he worked hard and became a famous scholar in the Jin Dynasty.
Zuo Si was born in a poor family. Although he was brilliant, he failed repeatedly under the door-to-door system at that time, so he had to express his ambition and contempt for dignitaries in his poems and praise the hermit's lofty.
Zuo Si's piano music is "Zhao Yin", which is included in "Magic Secret Spectrum", and two poems of the same name are quoted in the explanation. In addition, some people think that Autumn Moon in Mao Ting and Thinking of Friends in the Mountains are his works, and these works are permeated with the idea of seclusion.
People often say: Luoyang has been full of talented people since ancient times. Zuo Si, a famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, is one of the talented people in Luoyang in ancient literary world.
The Old Biography of Zuo Si's Works consists of five volumes, but the survivors have only given two of them, with 14 poems. Sandu Fu and Ode to History are his representative works.
The completion time of Zuo Si Biezhuan in Sandu Fu, Zuo Si Zhuan in the Book of Jin and Shi Shuo Xin Yu is quite different. According to Fu Xuancong's textual research, Sandu Fu was written before the destruction of Wu in the first year of Taikang (280). In addition, modern Jiang Liangfu thinks it is 29 1 (Chronicle of the Continental Plain), while Liu Wenzhong thinks it is "difficult to determine" (Biography of Zuo Si, a famous writer in China). In Preface, Zuo Si criticized predecessors' prose as "extravagant words without proof, although beautiful", and proposed that prose should be based on its origin. In the process of writing this poem, he asked Zhang Zai, who had been to Sichuan, about Min Qiong. I also want to be a secretary of Lang, so I can read a lot of local chronicles. Therefore, the system of Sandu Fu is grand and the events are extensive. Although he emphasized that the literary thought of seeking truth from credit information was inevitably extreme, it also made Sandu Fu reflect the social life in the Three Kingdoms period to some extent. After the publication of Sandu Fu, Zhang Hua was amazed, with Huangfu Mi as the order and Zhang Zai and Liu Kui as the notes. Brief introduction of Quan Wei. For a time, very rich people competed to write articles, so that "Luoyang paper is expensive." This is not only because of the rich literary talent of Sandu Fu itself and the re-fu in the literary world at that time, but also because it contains the content that attracted the attention of the ruling and opposition parties at that time: marching into Soochow and unifying the whole country. Although the writing technique and style of this Fu are similar to Ban Gu's Fu for Two Cities and Zhang Heng's Fu for Two Cities, its ideological theme is not the traditional "satirizing one person". Therefore, Sandu Fu occupies an important position in the later great Fu. Zuo Si also has a lyric poem "Baifafu", which is simple in language, humorous in writing and implicit in feelings, which is completely different from Sandufu. It adopts the allegory of the dialogue between hair and people, and sharply criticizes the social reality of "pursuing fame and profit, being expensive is cheap".
The representative works of Zuo Si's poems include eight poems about history, which can be found in Selected Works. "Ode to History" has been a poem since Ban Gu, and the author's meaning is slightly seen in the retelling of objective facts, while Zuo Si's "Ode to History" is a complex historical fact, integrating ancient and modern, and even quoting classics, "praising the ancients and seeing their own temperament" (Shen Deqian's "Ancient Poetry Source"). Zuo Si had a strong heart of statecraft in his early years, and considered himself a brilliant Gao Xiongzhi. "Zuo Yi became Jiang Xiang, and he decided to be Hu" (No.1), hoping to make a difference. But under the pressure of the gate valve system, he was always incompetent. In the second poem "Ode to History", with the artistic image of "the valley is loose, the seedlings are left on the mountain, the stems are inch by inch, and the shadow is a hundred feet", he profoundly exposed the unreasonable phenomenon of "the world is high and handsome"; In the seventh song, he recited the bumpy experience of ancient sages and pointed out sadly: "There are no strange things in the world, but they stay in the grass." He made a fierce attack on the dark reality of killing talents, and his sharp writing style was rare in Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The poem "Ode to History" also expounds his attitude and ambition in life by praising the ancients, claiming: "Although it is expensive, it is regarded as dust. Although the humble laugh at themselves, it is as heavy as a thousand miles. " Therefore, Zhong Rong, a critic of the Liang Dynasty, said that Zuo Si's "literary allusion is based on resentment, which is quite precise and allegorical" (poem).
The basic feature of Ode to an Epic is to express profound realistic content in ingenious artistic form. Zhong Rong said that Zuo Si was "wild", which was a prejudice limited to Qi Liang's fashion, but later critics disagreed. In fact, Zuo Si is not "literary". He often uses antithetical sentences, but it doesn't hurt to be plain; He pays attention to practicing words and sentences, without losing nature; His ancestors narrated the Han and Wei Dynasties rather than the rigid archaize, and he wrote elegantly, such as "A thousand clothes and a thousand feet, full of Wan Li flow" and "Long whistling stirs the breeze, no Dongwu", all of which are vivid poems. The poem "Ode to History" is simple in language, full of emotion and vigorous in momentum. Although it expresses the inner depression and distress, it does not reveal the emotional appeal of depression and decadence. Poems in full swing echo the sadness of endless ambition and are close to the generosity of Jian 'an literature. Therefore, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wang Fuzhi once said: "The Three Kingdoms were reduced to the Western Jin Dynasty, with unhealthy writing style and ancient hearts. Those who come to our country are in no hurry to return. " (Selected comments on ancient poems) Zhong Rong called Zuo Si's style of chanting epic poems "Zuo Si's style". Zuo Si Li Feng once had an influence on Tao Yuanming. Zuo Si's artistic image of "pine at the bottom of a ravine" was also borrowed by Fan Li in the Southern Dynasty and Wang Bo in the early Tang Dynasty to express his intellectual anguish.
Zuo Si also wrote two poems "Introduction", which were beautifully written. Among them, "there is no need for silk and bamboo, and the mountains and rivers have clear sounds", which is very appreciated by future generations. A poem of a charming girl has simple language and sincere feelings, and the love for her little daughter is vividly on the paper. Tao Yuanming's Responsibility, Du Fu's Northern Expedition and Li Shangyin's Proud Poems were all influenced by it. In addition, he also has a Miscellaneous Poem and two Mourning for Sister. The former is similar in style to epic poems, while the latter is a four-character poem, elegant and dignified.
Zuo Si's works are included in Complete Poems of Ancient Three Generations, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties and Poems of Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties by Kai.
Zuo Si was born in poverty and was ugly, but he regarded honor and disgrace as floating clouds and fame and fortune as dirt. He devoted all his energy to his study and literary creation and wrote many famous sentences that have been passed down to this day. In Jizhong, after the publication of Sandu Fu, it was warmly praised by all walks of life in the government and the public, and it was popular in Luoyang for a while, and your house rushed to copy it, so the paper price in Luoyang market became expensive. Since then, "Luoyang paper is expensive" has become a famous allusion, which is often used to praise some of them for spreading quickly and widely.
The Luoyang city in Zuo Si's Sandu Fu has long been turned into ruins by ruthless historical storms, and today's Luoyang city is incomparable at any time in history. I believe that if Zuo Si was born again a thousand years ago and saw today's Luoyang, there will be more beautiful and colorful Sandu Fu popular on the streets of Luoyang, and there will be a new story of "Luoyang paper is expensive"!