Tao Yong, a native of Chengdu, was very poor when he was a teenager. Later, due to civil strife in Sichuan, he had to wander around. What he expressed in his own poems was:
Poverty and illness combined, idleness as a teenager.
However, Tao Yong worked very hard in his studies, so he was admitted to the Jinshi in the eighth year of Emperor Wenzong Daiwa (834), which was strongly affirmed by most celebrities at that time, laying a solid foundation for his official career.
But at first, he was a little "arrogant" and didn't pay much attention to his relatives and friends. Therefore, his old uncle Li Jingzhi, after failing to be admitted to Jinshi, was treated with arrogance by his nephew, and returned to his hometown of Yunnan in a rage. When crossing the Three Gorges, Li wrote a poem satirizing Yong, which said:
Although there are few geese near Hengyang, isn't there even fish in Bashu?
After receiving this poem, Yong felt ashamed of his rudeness. Since then, my correspondence with uncle and nephew has increased. In the sixth year of Xuanzong (852), Tao Yong became a doctor of Mao Shi in imperial academy. During this period, Yong's poetry became more and more famous, and he had contacts with a number of famous poets such as Jia Dao, Yin and so on. Moreover, he is quite proud of his poems, which can be compared with the famous poets Xie Xuancheng and Liu Wuxing in the Six Dynasties.
At that time, there was a scholar named Feng, who was said to be alert. One day, Feng came to Yong's official residence to meet him. The doorman asked him about his friendship with Yong Zhijun, and Feng said that he was an old friend of Yong Taishou. So Feng was led into the door, but Yong, who got up to meet him, didn't know Feng, so he scolded angrily, "I never knew you. How can you talk nonsense about our friendship! "
And this Feng actually replied unhurriedly: "I have read many of your masterpieces. Although you are not around, aren't our hearts connected? " With these words, Feng began to recite Yong's famous sentence loudly:
Be a prophet of green grass,
The nearby white lotus fish is unknown.
Tao Yong was immediately shocked. At this time, I saw Feng still chanting:
A closed door is often like a disease,
It is not poverty that blooms in the courtyard.
After reciting seven words, Feng began to recite five-character poems:
In autumn, rivers enter the gorge, and rainy nights invade the building. ...
Proud of poetry, always proud of poetry, I am happy to talk to Feng at this time. Moreover, when Feng was leaving, Yong was deeply moved by the admiration of the other party, so he took out a rather generous gift as a travel expense to express his deep gratitude.
Tao Yong, who was appointed as the secretariat of Asia, still maintained this conceited style. There is a bridge outside Yazhou called Love Bridge. When people say goodbye, they must break up here. Once, Yong saw his friend across the bridge, but his men told him seriously that you can stop now because you have reached the "tired bridge". Yong was shocked and said, "People only say that emotions are endless. How can there be endless things? " After that, he ordered his men to get a pen quickly; At this time, he thought of the meaning of the ancient Yuefu poem "Folding Willow" and immediately renamed the bridge "Folding Willow Bridge". At the same time, he also wrote a poem about his above opinions and carved it on the stone of the bridge:
Never except for feelings. What is the bridge of feelings?
From then on, it was renamed "Folding Willow", which made him hate every article. ③
After the poem "Tao Yong" spread, it quickly became popular. When people leave, even those who don't leave on the Qiao Liu Bridge often read Tao Yong's poems to express their profound meaning of leaving.
Publishing House: ① Chronology of Tang Poetry, all poems of Tang Poetry and Yunxi Friendship are called "Li Jingzhi"; However, the biography of talented people in the Tang Dynasty called it "Li", which is unknown and inaccurate. (2) According to Jian Jie Lu, Chronicle of Tang Poetry, Biography of Talented People in Tang Dynasty, etc. As for the claim that the bridge is in Jianxian County, the Dictionary of Appreciation of Tang Poetry is probably not true. 3 title, a "name"; For, difficult, all read flat voice. Tao Yong's poems are full of smoke and shadows, and blue is completely dark. Maybe Xiang Jun came to wash, and Junshan looked at the mirror face to face. -Tao Yong's poem Junshan/Dongting in the Tang Dynasty.
Xiangshan reflects to the sky, clear water and green mountains, a set of sky.
Maybe Xiang Jun came to wash, and Junshan looked at the mirror face to face. The scenic spot of lishuiqiao and Nishikoji is oblique, and the sun is as high as your home. There are many similarities between the gardens and alleys in the village, and there are spring flowers everywhere. -Tao Yong's "Journey to the West Friends Villa" in the Tang Dynasty.
The west path of lishuiqiao is oblique, and the sun is still high.
There are many similarities between the gardens and alleys in the village, and there are spring flowers everywhere. Wild flowers and birds visit thousands of friends in spring, but monks in Toubaishan are hard to know. Tourists in the world will never meet again, and they will only look at pictures all their lives. -Tao Yong's "Mountain Trip" in the Tang Dynasty
Wild flowers and birds have strange words, but the monks in Toubaishan are hard to know.
Tourists in the world will never meet again, and they will only look at pictures all their lives. See more poems by Tao Yong.