Xie Lingyun "found another way" to go to sea, and acted with the same speed as the unruly celebrities. Ren Fan went to the seaside, "the front peak shines half of the river", and he turned back a hundred miles, just for one sentence, which was extremely elegant. Gu Kuang applied for the director of the Linhai Grass-roots Salt Bureau on the grounds that "I want to write about the appearance of the sea and the ears of the mountains."
About Gu Kuang, people are familiar with an anecdote about him and Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi tried to go to Chang 'an at the age of sixteen. At that time, he was not famous. He took the manuscript to visit his predecessor Gu Kuang. Gu Kuang is a great poet. Seeing the word "Bai Juyi" in the manuscript, he said: "Chang 'an is expensive, I'm afraid it's not easy to live in vain! "Wait for Gu Kuang to see" the grass crosses the plain and comes and goes with the four seasons; Wildfire never completely devoured them, and they grew taller in the spring breeze, "he said." It's easy to write such a poem! "
There is also a romantic story related to Gu Kuang, which is the love of red leaves. Bai Meng's Skill Poem in the Tang Dynasty said that during the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a red leaf was found in the downstream running water, which was engraved with a poem: "Once you enter the deep palace, you will not see spring every year. Talk about a leaf and give it to your lover. " Knowing that the ladies-in-waiting were lonely and sad in the palace, Gu Kuang wrote an inscription on the red leaves: "The flowers fell into the deep palace, and the ladies-in-waiting of Shang Yang were heartbroken. If you don't go to the Guandong River, who do you send to Ye to write poems? " After the topic is finished, put the leaves into the upstream running water and let it pass into the palace with the water.
As for the ending of this matter, unofficial history said that Tang Xizong was very happy when she heard of The Legend of Red Leaves, and released the maid-in-waiting who wrote this poem to the palace, thus fulfilling her marriage with Gu Kuang. During the war, Gu Kuang found the maid-in-waiting who wrote this poem and married her.
I always thought that poem about red leaves was not very reliable. There are many versions of the story of "Red Leaves Confess". The leading men are Gu Kuang, Jia Quanxu, Lu Wo of Xuanzong, and Yu You of Nuo. But I hope this legend will happen to Gu Kuang, because Gu Kuang once lamented that "it is hard to say that there is only love in this world"-perhaps it is unknown whether Gu really has this strange feeling.
Gu Kuang arrived in Linhai at the end of two years (763) or later. Taizhou was a barbarian place at that time, but Gu Kuang did the opposite and volunteered to exercise at the grassroots level on the grounds that "I have to write my looks." The reason why my colleagues don't believe this is that I was born 1000 years later than Gu Kuang, which feels a bit far-fetched.
Gu Kuang came to Taizhou for another reason, I guess.
First, he is fed up with the faces of people in officialdom and has long wanted to find a quiet place. Gu Kuang's temperament is Geng Jie. He doesn't want to be flattered, but he offended many powerful people. In North Korea, Gu Kuang and He are the most likable. He is the Yue people (Shaoxing people) and Gu Kuang is the Wu people (Suzhou people). They are all "southerners" with southern accents, so courtiers laugh at them as "southern gold revives middle earth", which means that southern gold can only shine in the north. He, who is known as the "Siming fanatic", wrote a poem: "The clam is filled in a silver plate, and the water shield in Jinghu Lake is like silk. Recently, the songs in the countryside are very nice, but they are blocked by Wu Er. " -You don't like southern clams and water shield very much. When eating, no matter where it is produced, why are you so picky about southerners? There is a hint of disapproval in your words, but the wording is still euphemistic.
Gu Kuang began to write, which was much meaner than him. He said: "Fried shrimps in silver plates, water shield in Jinghu Lake is a mess. The son of Han is married to the wife of Wu, and the son of Wu is the grandfather of Han. " -in the poem, CSI and I are both southerners, but we southerners went to the north, married northern girls and gave birth to northern children, and we southerners became your northerners' fathers.
Later, he wrote a poem "Ode to Seagull", mocking the courtiers, saying that he was a bird visitor from Wan Li, fell in love by mistake, and borrowed one to keep me alive. Now that Phoenix has gone to Wutong and died, all she sees are kites and eagles, which makes people very helpless. So presumptuous, will naturally make many enemies in officialdom. Gu Kuang's character was "disobedient", so he was "excluded by the public" and was demoted to an official many times.
Gu Kuang chose to come to Taizhou, probably because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one can restrain him. He is happy to have a clean ear.
Another possibility for Gu Kuang to come to Taizhou is a cultural trip. Chang 'an to Tiantai Mountain is a famous cultural tourism route in Tang Dynasty, and many poets in Beijing go there for sightseeing. With a turn of his mind, Gu Kuang came up with a method of temporary work at the grassroots level.
Of course, these two reasons are unacceptable. He told his colleagues that the reason why he went to the grassroots level was to go deep into life-"I want to write my appearance." This reason is a bit unreliable, and colleagues don't believe it. "People are still jealous." Gu Kuang is too lazy to say more. He packed his bags and came straight to Taizhou.
Gu Kuang's position is the supervisor of the new pavilion in Linhai (equivalent to the director of the Salt Bureau, and the supervisor here is located in Yongquan New Pavilion). Linhai was the distribution center where Taizhou sea salt was transported to Chuzhou (now Lishui), Wuzhou (now Jinhua), Quzhou and other places in the Tang Dynasty. Gu Kuang was the first governor of the new pavilion. He came to Taizhou as the director of the Salt Bureau, and the painter Wang Mo was his deputy. This Wang Mo is the crazy painter who splashed ink with his body that I mentioned in Cigarettes.
Gu Kuang entered the rooftop from Tongxi, Xinchang. On the way, I wrote a poem "From Tongxi to Chicheng": "Lingxi stays in Lingshan, and graceful high-rise buildings are idle to the moon. In the dream of a crane in the middle of the night, I hesitated to play the piano. "
He went boating and singing, and at dusk, he stayed at Lingxi Post Station near Lingxi, which is called "Lingxi lodge" in the poem. Downstream, Chicheng Mountain is getting farther and farther away, and he is disappointed. He wrote in his poem: "I can't see the distance to Lingxi, but I can see the sincere sign in the building." I don't know who will cross the stone bridge in heavy clouds? "
Along Shifengxi, he took a boat to the west gate of Taizhou City. After the war, Linhai was quiet. There are many weeds outside Wangjiangmen, and the river slowly flows eastward. He wrote in Living by the Sea: "This is a place where people have fought in the past years and have never walked. Ten thousand people are speechless, and only Tingzhou spring grass is born. "
Gu Kuang spends a lot of time at the seaside, but business comes second. He likes traveling, writing poetry and painting, meditation and monasticism.
Gu Kuang believes in Taoism. When he was young, he learned the method of being convinced by Taoism and cultivated the function of "avoiding food all day". He used to be a Taoist and was naturalized as a Taoist. "Talented Persons in the Tang Dynasty" even said that he was an alchemist and worshipped Beidou, as light as a feather. His mind is full of thoughts, "I admire you for taking a bamboo stick, but I hide my peach blossom." What he wants to do is not a high official, but a fairy middleman like Ge Hong. "Ge Hong in the Immortal Period"-Ge Hong who hid in Tiantai Mountain during the Three Kingdoms period made him yearn for it.
Gu Kuang lives on the edge of Jinzi Mountain, near the sea. It is said that at that time, a Taoist named Huang Hua practiced on Towel Mountain, drank morning dew, inhaled three sets of true qi, practiced for many years, and finally became an immortal. When he rose to the sky, the headscarf fell off and became a towel with two peaks. On the mountain, there is the Hua Xu Cave for his alchemy and the Immortal Bed for meditation. For Gu Kuang, who believes in God and believes in God, Jinzishan is indeed a quiet place without desire, where he devotes himself to practicing Buddhism, "taking emptiness as the heart, feeding on cheese bait stones and practicing Buddhism." I hope one day I can become an immortal like Huang Hua.
It didn't take long for the director of the Salt Bureau to work, and Gu Kuang left Linhai. His achievements in Linhai are unknown, but he left some poems for later generations to recite.
Gu Kuang has a poem: "A few white hairs on your head make your career green." Like the aftertaste of dusk, the artistic conception is beautiful. He has a fresh poem "On the Stream": "Lianxi picks women, and the boat is afraid of shaking the wind. Startled, the water clouds are dazzling. " The scenery is absolutely charming and heartbreaking. However, my favorite is the last song in "Three Living in the Sea":
Who lives near Shuangfeng Lan Ruo,
Autumn bells are accompanied by lonely smoke.
The bird flew away from the mountain,
On the moon, people in the green forest didn't sleep.
This poem is lofty, quiet, beautiful and spacious, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people. It seems to smell of dust. Maybe he retired when he became a monk in Golden Mountain. Gu Kuang once wrote a poem, "Everything in the world is empty". Fame and fortune are like floating clouds, and suddenly become empty. He who sees through the world finally abandons his official position and lives in seclusion in the mountains.
In order to commemorate this great poet, later generations built the "Ji Weng Pavilion" on Towel Hill near the sea. Zhongweng is Gu Kuang's word.