In the long history of China, Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was praised as a "poetic fairy" by later generations because of his romantic feelings and majestic demeanor, and often stayed in the vast starry sky. However, during his life's trek, he visited the same town several times and described his infinite concern for the town and its people with many poems.
Fangcheng county, located in Nanyang basin, has this honor.
In 70 1 year, a baby boy was born among Li Hakka, a military attache who was demoted from the Central Plains to Broken Leaf City in the Western Regions (now tokmak, Kyrgyzstan). Because the mother dreamed of the arrival of Taibai Venus during childbirth, she named the baby boy "Taibai". At the age of 4, Li Bai moved back to his hometown in Changlong County, Mianzhou (now jiangyou city, Sichuan) with his parents. Li Bai, a 5-year-old student, 10-year-old student of poetry, books and a hundred schools of thought. Influenced by the family martial arts tradition, he learned both martial arts and martial arts from an early age, especially fencing. /kloc-when he was 0/5 years old, he not only shocked the whole village with poems, but also traveled all over Jiangyou with his sword.
The richness and broadmindedness of the prosperous Tang Dynasty not only nourished many young talents like Li Bai, but also gave them proud souls who advocated freedom and pursued a perfect life. 18 years old, Li Bai began to travel all over Bashu. Great rivers and mountains, comfortable world style, relaxed style of study, bathed in this young soul, wandering in the ancient mountain temple, the Taoist concept of advocating nature and enjoying mountains and rivers deeply infected him.
In Emei Mountain, Li Bai met an elderly young man by chance. This man is Yuan Danqiu, and his hometown is far away from Fangcheng County, Henan Province. He has traveled far and wide since childhood, and he is proficient in Taoism and metaphysics. In Li Bai's view, he seems to have walked out of a fairyland, handsome and free and easy. After a few short sentences, the two seemed to be old friends who had known each other for thousands of years. They looked at each other with tears and said goodbye to each other.
Li Bai himself may not have thought that in a few years, he would respectfully dedicate 12 poems to this passerby, and another 1 1 poem * * * was counted as 23 poems, referring to the immortal Dan Qiusheng in his eyes; Even their relationship has risen to the height of "I am the master and the opposite sex is the family", which is unique in Li Bai's life with others. Yuan Danqiu of the Tang Dynasty, whose literature and classics are not found in Li Bai's poems, is famous in history.
In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (AD 725), Li Bai left Bashu with youthful ambition and went down the Yangtze River to return to Hubei and Henan from Jinling (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), Huiji (Shaoxing) and Yangzhou. The mountains and rivers in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were also clear and heavy because of Li Bai's long journey. Along the way, it seems that Li Bai has become a famous poet sought after by thousands of people, and Li Bai has completed his life transformation from cocoon to butterfly in his walking.
Suddenly one day, the news that Li Bai, a "famous poet", came to Fangcheng from Nanyang spread like wildfire in a remote small county. Zhang county magistrate sent people to inquire about the situation, and finally invited Li Bai, the lieutenant general of Dacheng Mountain in the southeast of the county, to his house as the guest of honor. Above the banquet, Li Bai took a keen interest in a picture of a fierce lion hanging on Zhang Fu Hall, and immediately drunkenly wrote a poem entitled "Painting Lions in Fangcheng Shaogong Hall":
In Zhanggong Hall, the Chinese wall is shining with snow.
The lion in the picture is fierce and vigorous.
Stunned, my bones are scattered.
Sawtooth holds frost, claw holds moon.
Holding a squat to get angry, that's called building embarrassment.
Always looking at the face in a daze, the immortal will not rest.
This song, which is suitable for the occasion, made Zhang county magistrate overjoyed.
After bidding farewell to the county magistrate, Li Bai couldn't wait to find a secluded place in Fangcheng Temple. At this time, Yuan Danqiu, who lives in seclusion in Shimen Mountain dozens of miles north of Fangcheng, was surprised to hear that Li Bai had come to Fangcheng. He hurried to the county to meet his confidant, from Dacheng Mountain to the county government, and then to Fangcheng Temple. When he saw Li Bai shaking his head and singing softly in the long corridor in the temple, he couldn't help shouting: "Taibai Xiandi wants to kill him as his brother." Li looked back, and the two walked quickly together, holding hands and looking at each other with tears in their eyes. I don't know where to start. ...
That night, Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu were in Fangcheng Temple, drinking and having fun, pushing cups for a change until dawn. Two old friends, who have a heart in mind, tell each other about their worries after parting, talk about the internal and external troubles in reality, and explore the ideal meaning of life; More topics are their concern for Taoism. At that time, the country's top-down admiration for Taoist thought greatly influenced the young people in these two progressive times. Li Bai traveled around with a sword and visited all kinds of hermits. Taoist metaphysics always runs through the lines of his poems, advocating nature, pursuing freedom and loving life, forming an exaggerated and romantic creative style. Yuan Danqiu devoted himself to seclusion and practice, taking Hu Ziyang, a famous Taoist at that time, as his teacher, and made friends with celebrities instead of Wenda.
The next day, Li Bai wrote "Talking about Xuanzuo with Yuan Dan Qiu Fangcheng Temple" and recorded the meeting:
In the vast dream, I was the only one who felt it first.
Turn to the wind and fire, fake cooperation.
Eliminate confusion and doubt and appreciate the essence.
Look at this body carefully, because you can get a silent photo.
Only by recognizing the situation before and after can we know the beauty of gold.
Fortunately, people live in Zen, sit and talk with jade.
He and I are both bitter and sad, and Yunshan is very different.
The breeze gives birth to emptiness, and the moon smiles.
I am very satisfied with the Purple Palace, and I will always look at it.
Later, carrying the spirit of wine and poetry, they arrived at Shimen Mountain, where Yuan Danqiu lived in seclusion, arm in arm. Known as the peak of "nerd" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he once set up a museum to give lectures here. Time flies, although by the time of the Tang Dynasty, this library had been changed into a Taoist temple, but people still used to call it "Shimen Mountain in Gao Feng". This is a quiet place, away from the hubbub and customs, and an excellent place for health and monasticism. Li Bai lived here for more than a month, and everything about Shimen Mountain in Gao Feng was deeply imprinted in his memory, which became a place that Li Bai couldn't get around all his life.
A few years later, Li Bai and his friends set out from Nanyang and went to Shimen Mountain for the second time. Because of the same interests, Lu Yu ranger Wang Da wrote a song "Give Wang Da a leaf and persuade him to live in Shimen Mountain in seclusion", urging Wang Da and Yuan Danqiu to live in seclusion in Fangcheng. The luggage in Fangcheng is particularly comfortable this time. While constantly telling friends in the same industry about the benefits of Shimen Mountain, I walked in front as a guide by memory. And expressed the relaxed and happy mood at that time with the poem "Looking for the Mid-Autumn of New Year's Day in Shimen Mountain, Gao Feng":
There is no prophase for seclusion, and it is not far to take advantage.
It was difficult to cross the dark cliff, and it suddenly got late.
I have never been poor for three or four mountains, and I have experienced ever-changing situations.
When you are silent, you will see the clouds when you walk.
Takamatsu is in a good month, and the autumn colors in the empty valley should be clear.
The mountains are beautiful and endless.
Dan Qiu shouted at each other from a distance and suddenly ignored me.
Then build a poor valley, and you will know that you have nothing to do.
Happy for a long night, Xiao Qing dialect is still there.
At this time, Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu completely lost their modesty and formality when they first met. They talked and laughed freely, just like their two long-lost brothers, Fangcheng, mountains and rivers and valleys, as if they were Li Bai's own hometown.
After leaving Fangcheng again, Li Bai still didn't stop. He traveled all over China, calling on celebrities in a hurry. Until the autumn of the first year of Tianbao (742), when people reached middle age, they were called into Beijing (Chang 'an) by the orders of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and entered imperial academy with generous treatment. He changed from a "ranger" to an official career and devoted himself to an ambitious political career.
However, at this time, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was immersed in the lingering honey juice with Yang Yuhuan's imperial concubine, and the whole Tang Dynasty was shrouded in a heavy crisis of bureaucracy and rebellion. Li Bai, who can't display his ambition, can only write some works such as Gong Xing Yue Ci and Qing Ping Le for the sake of "beauty all over the world", which is far from his political ideal of "talking about Yan Guan and seeking the skills of emperors" in his early years. When he is depressed, he drinks every day to drown his sorrows and despises dignitaries. After drunkenness, "the son of heaven told him not to get on the boat, calling himself Brewmaster", and even inadvertently made the historic feat of "letting (Yang) the imperial concubine hold the inkstone and (Gao) Lux take off his shoes", which planted the seeds that his career would surely end in failure.
In the late spring and early summer of 744 AD, Li Bai was "repaid" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Although he has the glory of "five flowers and a thousand dollars", it is difficult to hide all kinds of worries about infinite loneliness and political frustration. In the extreme pain of life, Li Bai invited Cenxun, a good friend in Nanyang, to meet Yuan Danqiu at Shimen Mountain in Fangcheng.
When an old friend meets him, Li Bai's resentment against reality, disappointment with society and resentment against life, like a flood that opens the floodgates, pours out from generate irresistibly.
Li Bai couldn't wait to spend all the money given by the emperor to get drunk. The three people gathered in Guaihe Town, the beautiful Baixiugou Fangcheng, drinking wine to their heart's content. When Li Bai was drinking and having fun, he wrote a magnificent poem "Putting (qiāng) into wine" which has been circulated for thousands of years:
Have you seen how the water of the Yellow River flows from the sky to the sea and never returns?
Have you seen the lovely hair in the bright mirror in the high room, although it is still silky black in the morning, it turns into snow at night?
Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he wants to go, and never point his golden cup at the moon empty! .
Since God has given talents, let them be used! As for the money, although it is scattered, it will get together again.
Cook a sheep, kill a cow, sharpen your appetite, and let me, 300 bowls, take a big drink! .
Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng can drink and drink endlessly.
Let me sing you a song! , please listen to me:
What are bells and drums, delicacies and treasures? Let me get drunk forever and never be rational! .
Ancient sober people and sages were forgotten, and only great drinkers can be immortalized.
Chen bought a barrel of wine with 10 thousand gold coins at a banquet in the temple, and everyone laughed and said one-liners
Why do you say, my master, your money is gone? , to buy wine, we drink together! .
Five horses, a thousand daughters, change this boy for good wine, and we can eliminate the worries of generations! .
There are many poems about drinking in Li Bai's life, such as "wine beats, songs change water with swords", which is the feeling that teenagers don't know the taste of sorrow; "Heaven and earth love wine, and love wine is worthy of heaven" and "contemporary people don't like drinking, but use it safely in name only" are all high-sounding reasons for drinking; "Tulips in lanling wine, amber light in a jade bowl" is an inner portrayal of eager to drink; "Where flowers go, I laugh at Ji Hu Restaurant", "Life is sad, I drink and climb stairs", which is the background of real living conditions; "But since the water is still flowing, although we cut it with swords, raising our glasses to eliminate our worries is even more worrying", which is a confused thought when life is difficult; "The son of heaven doesn't get on the boat, calling himself Brewmaster" is drunk and arrogant. ...
"Into the wine" put aside everything that started and wrote wine with wine. Because of wine, just like a drinker bathing in a wine jar, he can't save himself, and his thoughts are unconstrained and unrestrained. There is not only the great boldness of vision sweeping the world, but also the great leap of sturm und drang, the great wisdom that dominates everything, and the great understanding of innocence. In the poet's pen, only binge drinking is the real pursuit of life, and only drunkenness is the highest realm of life. Cattle, sheep and livestock are just delicious food on the wine table, and gold and silver treasures are just a dead letter when changing wine. At the end, the reason why the poet wants to tell everyone the truth of "living in a drunken dream and not wanting to wake up" is because the eternal hatred that cannot be eliminated is tightly pressed in his heart. Such pure drinking and drunkenness can only be revealed when the poet is frustrated to the extreme; Such wanton boasting can only be revealed in front of your most reliable confidant.
In this way, Li Bai pushed the most romantic poems in his life to the extreme in that little-known small town in the Central Plains. Then, along the rugged and bumpy Datang, the pace kept moving forward. With the aging of Li Bai, a huge Tang Dynasty fell into turmoil and decline ... leaving a lonely figure only for Fangcheng, the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the vast historical time and space.