-Zeng Guofan
The silence of spring is because I don't want a long stream of water, and the shadow reflected on the water is like sunny days and breezes.
The delicate lotus flower bud shows a sharp corner from the water, and a naughty little dragonfly stands on its head.
The window is green, the room is sunny, a cup of tea and two books of poetry. On Sunday in late spring, I read Yang Wanli's biography and Yang Wanli's poem by the window and turned to Xiaochi, a well-known masterpiece.
This was written by Yang Wanli when he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown in the summer of two years (1 175). The natural pleasure of sunshine, softness and tranquility is in line with his indifferent state of mind.
It is the scenery of the West Lake in June, which is really different from other seasons.
Lotus leaves will not turn green the next day, and lotus flowers are particularly bright red in the sun.
This song "See Lin Zifang at Dawn in Jingci Temple" is as well known to women and children as "Xiaochi". Sharp lotus flowers and standing dragonflies, green leaves and lotus flowers reflecting the sun the next day have become the brand symbols of Yang Wanli in Song poetry, which have long been printed in the eyes of school children.
Yangwanli stone statue
Reading Yang Wanli, who is known as a "generation poet", I always see the fire in Yongzhou field, the soul of millions of poems and the poet's soul singing for 30 years, dissipated in the smoke and dust in Yongzhou field 800 years ago.
In late spring and April, I came back from the wilderness of Yongzhou. In the misty rain, my thoughts were still immersed in the landscape of the Tang Dynasty in Liu Zongyuan's Eight Records of Yongzhou, and I lingered in Yang Wanli's poem "Little Moon on Xiangjiang River".
Yongzhou was called Lingling before Sui Dynasty. In the ninth year of Huang Kai (589), Yongzhou was appointed as the general manager, and Yongzhou and Lingling merged into one, which is the transportation hub from the Central Plains to Lingnan. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the economy and culture were relatively prosperous. On the Xiangjiang waterway and the ancient bridge road leading to Guangdong and Guangxi, a large number of cultural celebrities come and go. They either demoted to exile, envied their achievements, or lived in seclusion.
Yongzhou ancient city
855 years ago, Yang Wanli, a native of Jiangxi Province, appeared on the post road leading to Yongzhou and took office in Lingling County, Yongzhou Prefecture in the autumn wind and cold rain of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Yang Wanli, the "Four Poets of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty, came to Lingling with his parents and relatives. In his spare time, he flaunted fishing boats, visited Sanxiang, explored the fishing creek, visited Liuzi Temple, missed the past of Suixi, gathered in Mao Ting at night, and smelled frogs drunk. Yang Wanli and Liu Zongyuan, who was demoted as a Sima in Yongzhou as early as 350 years ago, naturally have different situations and moods.
He left 66 poems and/kloc-0 articles in Hunan. Except for a few poems about current affairs and seeking medical treatment for illness, most of them are recorded in the interesting life of making friends in Yongzhou and Hunan, such as "The stone is still thin, but Yuxi is cold." ("Send the Second Secretary Peng") "Foolish water can be diligent in dreaming, how can ordinary people be lazy to meet it?" ("To the Outside of Yongzhou") "In front of Liuzi Temple, spring has been disabled, and the new spring day is extremely cold." ("Crossing a Hundred Schools, Crossing Four Qualities")
On the Yongzhou field where Liu Zongyuan and Yang Wanli visited, they cleared the worldly filth and traveled through time and space, returning to the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty. I'm looking for that fire, which gathered the flame of the soul of Song poetry.
I wandered around the noisy downtown, looking for the former official residence of Cheng, Lingling County, Northern Song Dynasty 800 years ago, and spying on the place where the poetic soul was placed.
I visited the ancient Xiaoshui Ferry, which is not old for thousands of years, hoping to meet an ancient "precious tower" and live in the best place for poetic souls. The official residence of the Northern Song Dynasty has long been occupied by the modern reinforced concrete jungle.
Xizi Tower was built in Song Dynasty. Burning paper with words is an important embodiment of the ancient concept of "respecting paper with words". Influenced by the imperial examination system, the ancients believed that words were sacred and lofty, and words written on paper could not be profaned at will. Even waste paper should be burned sincerely and respectfully.
Chating Town Xizi Building
In the Southern Song Dynasty, in an era when "respecting words and paper" was sought after, in Lingling, in the hot summer of July, Yang Wanli, who had already enjoyed the title of poetry circle, burned thousands of poems before he was 36 years old! In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, paper was also expensive, with thousands of poems. It took half an hour to copy hundreds of Zhang Gui paper and burn it. In the hot Yongzhou, this fire will lick up the people who started it and turn the poet's heart yellow. What did the poet see in the fire Doesn't he have any regrets in front of a pile of ashes? ?
Liumen Bamboo Lane is faintly visible, and willow branches are nowhere to be found. Only the ancient trees are hidden, and only the Yuxi River is clear and deep. When I was walking on the bluestone road in Liu Zi Street, and my footprints coincided with the ancient scars, I suddenly discovered the secret of Yang Wanli's heartbeat in front of the flame of that poem 800 years ago.
The lens can be traced back to Yang Wanli more than 60 years ago, that is, in March of the third year of Chongning (1 104), Huang Tingjian of Yizhou, Guangxi was demoted and took a boat to Wuxi, where he saw the "Three Cliffs" with his own eyes, leaving a magnificent seven-story "Cliff Back Monument" and staying in Lingling County for several months.
Yang Wanli studied Jiangxi Poetry School in his early years, and learned from Huang Tingjian and Chen Shidao. It was during the Lingling period that his poetry creation formed his own style. Imagine how long it took Yang Wanli to think and meditate when he read Huang Tingjian's poems about Yongzhou scenic spots and historical sites in Lingling, and how eager he was to get rid of his rut. In the fourth year of Lingling, that is, the thirty-second year of Shaoxing (1 162), at the age of 35, he realized that it was impossible to be unique by imitating Jiangxi's poetic style blindly, and his heart gradually gathered a fire.
One day in July, he suddenly took out more than 1000 poems of his own and lit a fire. He seemed to see something in the firelight. Is it the landscape of Yongzhou, Liu Zongyuan's calligraphy and clever strokes that show Yang Wanli's poetic heart? Like Phoenix Nie? On the whole, he broke the poetic style he always followed. His poems went out of the box and began to have the flavor of Yang's brand, which laid the foundation for a generation.
Zhang Xiaoxiang and Fan Chengda, who graduated in the same year as Yang Wanli, also swam in Yuxi and Wuxi. In the wilderness of Zhou and Yongzhou, there is a famous saying "Lingling is so romantic" and "When will I go to Xiaoxiang with you". Yang Wanli's improvisational Yongzhou scenery poems, just like the essays on the same subject written by students in those years, have a natural, fresh and lively "truth".
It suddenly dawned on me that the soul of thousands of poems burned by Yang Wanli was placed in Xishan, Yuxi, and rested in Xiangjiang River in Xiaoshui?
Brief introduction of the author
Feng Rongmei is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior editor, a columnist, an author of essays and notes, and a member of the "Liuyang River West Bank Poetry Society". Over the past 20 years, he has devoted himself to the field investigation of Huxiang cultural sites, written a series of historical and cultural essays such as The Old Shadow of Daozhou and The Pursuit of Ancient Scholars in Hunan, and set up reading and historical prose columns in many newspapers and periodicals.