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He is a famous writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, one of the representatives of graceful and restrained poets, and a master. He is Zhou Bangyan. Mr. Wang Guowei, a famous scholar who enjoys a high reputation in the world, once commented on his ci-Lao Du in Ci, which shows how high his ci was in the Song Dynasty and even in China. Today, we will appreciate ten poems by Zhou Bangyan, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, and appreciate his writing charm.
According to records, Zhou Bangyan was born in Hangzhou. When he was young, he was bohemian and unrepentant, and the villagers didn't like him. But he especially likes reading books and reading all kinds of ancient books, and puts a lot of energy into three books of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
Perhaps because of the increase of experience, Zhou Bangyan gradually realized the frivolity when he was young, so he went to Beijing to study alone in order to get a tight job. Because of his profound knowledge, Zhou Bangyan was appreciated by the emperor and began his official career.
Although Zhou Bangyan had the ideal of making contributions in his heart, perhaps because he didn't have the political ability of a big official, he didn't get a higher promotion on the road of being an official, and he served as a small official all the year round. And his heart is sensitive, afraid of the waves in officialdom. His political attitude of preserving our sanity is more obvious, which is also a big reason why he can't get a higher promotion.
The so-called "lost corner, harvested mulberry" has made his literary achievements in officialdom. He became a master of graceful and restrained school in the late Northern Song Dynasty. He absorbed the richness of literature, the elegance of Wei Zhuang, the lingering of Feng Yansi, the profundity of Li Houzhu, the implication of Yan Shu, the elegance of Ouyang Xiu and the richness of Liu Yong, and so on, which gathered the strengths of others and made his ci have a family style.
It is worth mentioning that Zhou Bangyan was a great musician in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is proficient in temperament and organically combines the beauty of music with the beauty of words.
He is also an observant scholar with keen insight into the attitudes of people and things. Therefore, he embodies meticulous description in his ci, which can enlarge the details infinitely with short words and show the movements and characteristics of people and things to readers with the most appropriate description. I have to admire Zhou Bangyan in this respect.