Li Bai and Du Fu, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, their friendship is familiar to everyone, but in front of another pair of poets, Yu Guang is much dimmer.
This pair is Bai Liu.
Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi, one is a poet and the other is a poet demon.
At first Liu Yuxi didn't know Bai Juyi. His good friend was Liu Zongyuan. In middle school, Liu and Liu often discussed poetry, participated in the new concept poetry competition together and won the first prize together.
Young and famous, he was once called "Liu Liu" by the poetry circle.
Until I graduated from high school, one went to play racing and the other ran a magazine. Gradually alienated.
Liu Zongyuan went to the literary prose circle and developed very well. At the same time, he gradually became more and more unwilling to reconcile with Liu. Liu Yuxi, on the other hand, stayed in the poetry world, braving the wind and waves and forging ahead. Because of his extraordinary talent, he soon became the leader of the Wulin League in the Middle Tang Dynasty.
Liu Yuxi wrote this poem as soon as he was satisfied:
On the main road of the city, pedestrians are constantly flowing, and the dust is blowing on their faces. People say that they have just seen flowers coming back from Xuandu.
There are thousands of peach trees in the Xuanmiao Temple, all of which were planted after I was exiled to Beijing.
Liu Yuxi, male, has a problem. He didn't leave the door open. Many people can't stand arrogance. For example, the poem above offended all colleagues and bosses.
This poem is translated into modern Chinese, which means: Manchu is an idiot who flatters. If I hadn't been demoted, I would have you today.
Liu Yuxi, who had just been demoted for ten years and was recalled to Beijing from a remote mountainous area in Hunan, was unanimously looked down upon by insiders and was immediately demoted to a more remote mountainous area in Guangdong to cool off.
Although I am no longer in the Jianghu, there are legends about me everywhere in the Jianghu. Even though he was banished to the ends of the earth, Liu Yuxi's position as the first brother in the poetry world remained unchanged, which made those opponents very unhappy.
Many people are not convinced. If you want to wrestle with Liu Yuxi, you must completely defeat Liu Yuxi, a vicious and arrogant person in Datang, in talent and career.
However, after working for half a year, I haven't found anyone who can compare. Just when everyone was disappointed, a man appeared.
One day, someone handed a stack of poems to the anti-Liu Yuxi Federation, and one of them shocked four people:
The endless grassland on the plain,
As each season comes and goes.
Wildfire never devours them,
They have grown taller in the spring breeze.
Big talent, it depends on this man to defeat Liu Yuxi!
What's your name?
Bai Juyi.
Actually, Bai Juyi didn't come for an appointment. On the contrary, he came for an opportunity to meet Liu Yuxi.
After this time, Bai Juyi became famous in Beijing, and he was finally qualified to talk to Liu Yuxi. Later, Bai Juyi was as upright as Guo Jing and threw a hundred poems to Liu Yuxi.
Others thought they could beat rachel, but rachel watched with delight-this man is just my type.
The more he watched it, the happier he became. He gave Bai Juyi a hundred songs as soon as he struck the table. There is a song:
Yin Jun sent me hundreds of poems to sit alone.
Qin Yu is silent in the clear night, and Shu Qi stands in the wind in the spring.
No one was found again, and the fairy clothes abandoned the knife ruler.
The world wants to find each other, and there is nowhere to find it in four dimensions.
(Pronunciation zhuó, when cutting, cutting)
Your 100 poem spent a romantic spring night with me. They are just like the clothes of immortals, ethereal, beautiful and flawless. How can there be such a surprise in the world? You must be sent by heaven to save my empty soul!
Since then, the two have exchanged powder, exchanged WeChat and often interacted in the circle of friends. You express your feelings and I express mine. Poetry, of course.
However, although they interact a lot, they are thousands of miles apart and have never had a chance to meet.
Don't!
This kind of very much in love and flirting is not what everyone wants to see at all, okay!
Everyone is here to watch the fun, and the bright white must be torn apart!
The matter fell into the hands of the anti-Liu society. It is not difficult to plan a confrontation.
So it was circulated in the rivers and lakes that Liu Yuxi, the best in the world, and Bai Juyi, a peerless genius, were about to compete at the peak.
When the opportunity came, Liu Yuxi was transferred to the mayor of Suzhou, and Bai Juyi happened to be the mayor of Hangzhou nearby. The two heads are so close for the first time. This lively PK finally came into reality.
Who is the boss of the summit?
The rivers and lakes responded enthusiastically and it was hard to get a ticket.
The happiest person is Liu Yuxi's opponent. They celebrated each other and shouted slogans together:
"It's amazing and exciting to beat rachel!"
The audience at the meeting was very excited, and Liu Yuxi and Bai Juyi were even more excited-after all, this was the first time they had chatted online for so long and met offline.
On that day, Bai Juyi personally struck chopsticks and made a generous elegy. He wrote this:
You drank wine with me for me, drank wine with me, and we played chopsticks and sang songs together.
Although your poetry is first-class and can be called a national champion, it is doomed that you can't get it.
Dou Rong's eyes are decent, but you stay lonely for a long time. Full officials have their own satisfactory positions, but you are empty.
I also know that you should be very tired, but these 23 years have been too much loss.
If you want to sing a song, you will know that you are feeling glory among thousands of people, but you can't see your eyes, but you are shining with tears. ...
Bai Juyi, this is not confrontation, this is a naked confession!
Liu Yuxi was deeply moved when he heard the confession of his bosom friend, and sang Bai Juyi's song "Enjoy Lotte for the First Time in Yangzhou" impromptu:
The mountains were desolate and silent for twenty-three years.
Homesickness is empty, and everyone in my hometown is rotten.
On one side of the boat, Qian Fan races; At the head of the sick tree, every year is a spring shower.
Today, listen to you sing a song, drink a glass of wine and cheer up.
Since you sent me a song, I will reply to two songs: the past need not be mentioned, and there are many storms in life. And you are here, which is a miracle of life.
Bai Juyi slowly handed it over: "Liu Mengde is a great talent, great!"
Liu Yuxi took Bai Juyi's hand and said, "Bai Letian loves you so much!"
All right, sprinkle a flower, and the two will get married. Get married in Anda.
Are you disappointed in the people who engage in activities? Awkward or not?
There are only two people left at the party ... it's a beautiful night. ...
Since then, the communication between poetry and prose has never stopped, whether living together in Chang 'an and Luoyang or living apart.
In October of the fifth year of Daiwa (83 1), Liu Yuxi met Bai Juyi who was working in Henan on his way to his post. The two faced each other day and night, drinking and reciting poems all day long.
They spent 15 days on their honeymoon and left together. Bai Juyi braved the heavy snow to bid farewell to Liu Yuxi, and Bai Juyi sang at the dinner:
Liu Langxian didn't get up,
Tai Su and Tai Su are separated by clouds and water.
This wine comes from 100%.
Horseheads walk three thousand miles.
Liu Yuxi immediately replied:
When will Los Angeles come back?
Old friend, old friend, I have lost weight today.
Don't be in the snow for a while,
Eventually, the clouds will fly one by one.
Bai Juyi wiped her tears. Come on, let's drink this cup, three cups. I don't know when I can see you again. Liu Yuxi took his hand with relief. Parting is only temporary. Next time we meet, we will "fly away from each other".
Think about it carefully, this photo is simply beautiful ... Later, Li Shangyin listened to their story and probably wrote "Although my body doesn't have bright wings like a phoenix, I feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn".
But their love is not over yet.
Knowing that Bai Juyi loves cranes, Liu Yuxi managed to get a Huating crane and gave it to Bai Juyi when he arrived in Suzhou.
At that time, express delivery was not as developed as it is now. This gift is probably from a team.
Bai Juyi was very happy and immediately wrote a poem thanking Liu Yuxi, saying that this Huating crane was "a precious treasure".
Knowing that Bai Juyi loved to drink, Liu Yuxi became pregnant with the ability to make wine. He also sent superior glutinous rice from Suzhou. Bai Juyi saw this and be in heaven danced and wrote: "Shame on the old friend and pity the lonely, and send joy for three thousand miles."
Bai Juyi drinks homemade glutinous rice wine and video chats and dances with Liu Yuxi. That scene is really appetizing.
Do Mrs Liu and Mrs Bai know that you two are so close?
In the days when I didn't see Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi sorted out their chat records every day. The first three volumes of Bai Liu's Chorus Collection have been completed, and each volume contains hundreds of songs.
The mountains and rivers are separated, and these chat records are their spiritual food before going to bed after work. In contrast, it is ridiculous to accompany your wife.
The long separation between the two places has hurt Bai Liu.
I wish we could work together sometime. I also want to buy a house in the community and live across the hall! Rachel often sends out such feelings.
It won't be long, Lao Liu. Bai Juyi often comforts him.
Finally in the first year of Kaicheng (836), Liu Yuxi was transferred back to Luoyang to meet Bai Juyi.
They don't have to live far away, and finally they can buy a house together. One lives in Lu and the other in Jixian. Look at the window.
This is great. After years of brewing, I finally became a neighbor. You can carpool at work and watch a play side by side after work.
It is convenient for them to meet often and sing together. This year, the fourth volume of Bai Liu Chorus has also been completed.
This is the best record of their love.
"to see the sun, for all his glory, buried by the coming night." Li Shangyin really loves to write their stories into poems.
After just seven years together, Liu Yuxi passed away. Bai Juyi, in his twilight years, was deeply saddened by his best friend Xie Shi, and tearfully wrote Two Poems of Mourning Minister Liu Mengde:
The four seas are as famous as Bai and Liu, and they have to be prepared for a hundred years.
With poverty and illness, I will retire from leisure and I will die in my life.
A glass of wine hero jun and Cao, the article slightly graceful I know autumn.
Hyun-ho died, but he should have gone down the river in a tiny place.
This is the last song that Bai Juyi sang to Liu Yuxi: Lianlian, we are good friends for a hundred years. He died at the age of 97 and Naiheqiao waited for three years.
A few years later, Bai Juyi also passed away. Poets and demons in the Tang Dynasty will meet again in another world.
Although the poet is gone, his feelings will last forever. Those left behind poems and stories, as well as lasting friendship. After thousands of years, it's like old wine, and it lasts forever in Micari.
Each of us has such a friend. He is your Bai Juyi and you are his Liu Yuxi. Men are called brothers and women are called girlfriends. Sometimes I am closer than your wife, and sometimes I know you better than your parents. I can listen to you in the middle of the night, understand your sadness and remember your happiness.
In primary school, we played with slingshots, climbed trees and dug nests together.
When I was in junior high school, I saved game cards together and exchanged novels.
Let's go clubbing in high school, cut class.
I helped you chase girls in college.
After graduation, I will listen to your work and entrepreneurship.
Save your life in times of danger and give you motivation in times of loss.
He knows everything you say, even if you don't talk, he can understand your mind.
What kind of feeling is this? Maybe no one can sum it up clearly, but when I think of him, I will be moved inexplicably and happy for a while.
Besides parents and partners, he has been with you for most of your life. Just like Liu in a previous life, he washed away the memory of returning to the world to continue to get together.
Everyone has such friends and many memories.
So it is no problem to write poems with friends. Poetry of friendship, that will be your own story.