My mother died young, and my father, Zuo Xi, was born as a petty official. He worked as a prefect of Taiyuan and Yiyang, and later he was promoted to the imperial court.
Zuo Si was mediocre when he was a child. Later, he heard his father tell people that his qualifications were far less than his father's, so he became angry and worked hard, and became a famous scholar in Jin Dynasty.
Zuo Si was born in a poor family. Although he was a great talent, he failed repeatedly under the system of gate valve at that time, so he had to express his ambition and contempt for dignitaries in his poems and praise the hermit's lofty.
Zuo Si's piano music is Zhao Yin, which is included in the Magic Secret Score, and two poems of the same name are quoted in the solution. In addition, some people think that Autumn Moon shines on Mao Ting and Thinking of Friends in the Mountains are his works, and these works are permeated with the idea of seclusion.
People often say that Luoyang has produced talented people since ancient times. Zuo Si, a famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, was one of the talented people in Luoyang in the ancient literary world.
Zuo Si's works have five volumes in the old biography, but only two books and 14 poems are given to the surviving ones. The poems of Sandu Fu and Yong Shi are his representative works.
The writing time of Sandu Fu, Zuo Si Zhuan in the Book of Jin and Zuo Si BieZhuan in Shi Shuo Xin Yu Literature are quite different. According to the textual research of Fu Xuancong, Sandu Fu was written before the destruction of Wu in the first year of Taikang (28). In addition, Jiang Liangfu thinks that it was written in 291 (Chronicle of the Continental Plain), and Liu Wenzhong thinks that it is "difficult to determine" (Zuo Si, a review of famous writers in China). In the preface, Zuo Si criticized the predecessors' prose, which was "extravagant words without verification, though beautiful", and proposed that the prose should be "based on its essence" and "based on its essence". In the process of writing this fu, he once asked Zhang Zai, who had been to Sichuan, about Min Qiong. I also want to be a secretary lang, so that I can read a lot of local records. Therefore, Sandu Fu has a grand system and a wide range of events. Although his literary idea of emphasizing the truth-seeking of credit information is inevitably extreme, it also makes Sandu Fu reflect the social life in the Three Kingdoms period to some extent. After the publication of Sandu Fu, Zhang Hua was amazed, with Huangfu Mi as the preface and Zhang Zai and Liu Kui as the notes. A brief explanation of Wei quan. For a time, very rich people competed to write, so that "Luoyang paper is expensive." This is not only because of the rich literary talent of Sandu Fu itself and the re-fu in the literary world at that time, but also because it contains the contents that attracted the attention of the ruling and opposition parties at that time: marching into Soochow and unifying the whole country. Although the writing techniques and styles of this Fu are similar to those of Bangu's Fu on Two Capitals and Zhang Heng's Fu on Two Capitals, its ideological theme is not the traditional "exhortation to satirize one". Therefore, Sandu Fu plays an important role in the later great Fu. Zuo Si has another lyric poem "Bai Fa Fu", which is simple in language, humorous in writing and implicit in feelings, which is completely different from "Sandu Fu". It adopts the allegory of the dialogue between hair and people, and sharply criticizes the social reality of "pursuing glory, being expensive and being cheap".
The representative works of Zuo Si's poems are eight poems in Ode to History, which are found in Selected Works. "Ode to History" has been a poem since Ban Gu, and the author's intention is slightly seen in the retelling of objective facts, while Zuo Si's "Ode to History" is complicated with historical facts, integrating ancient and modern times, and even quoting metaphors, "praising the ancients and seeing his own temperament" (Shen Deqian's "The Source of Ancient Poetry"). Zuo Si had a strong heart for the world in his early years, and he considered himself to be Gao Zhixiong. "Zuo Yi became a great man in Hunan, and he decided to be a great man in Hunan" (No.1), hoping to make a difference. However, under the suppression of the gate valve system, he was always incompetent. In the second poem of "Ode to History", he profoundly exposed the unreasonable phenomenon of "the world is in a high position, handsome and sinking into the current" with the artistic image of "the bottom of the valley is loose, leaving the seedlings on the mountain, and the stem is inch by inch, shading this hundred feet"; In the seventh song, he recited the rough experience of ancient sages and pointed out with deep sorrow: "There is no wonder in the world, but it is left in the grass." He made a fierce attack on the dark reality of strangling talents, and his sharp writing style was rare in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The poem "Ode to History" also expounds one's attitude and ambition towards life by praising the ancients, claiming: "Although the noble is expensive, it is regarded as dust. Although the humble person is self-deprecating, it is as heavy as a thousand miles. " Therefore, Zhong Rong, a critic in the Liang Dynasty, said that Zuo Si's "literary canon is based on resentment, which is quite precise and allegorical" (Poetry).
it is the basic feature of the poem "ode to history" to express the profound realistic content in ingenious artistic forms. Zhong Rong said that Zuo Si was "wild in the land machine", which was a prejudice confined to Qi Liang's fashion, and later critics disagreed. In fact, Zuo Si is not "literary". He often uses antithetical sentences, but there is no harm in being dull; He pays attention to practicing words and sentences without losing nature; His ancestors narrated the Han and Wei Dynasties instead of being rigid and archaized, and he wrote it in an elegant way, such as "A thousand clothes and a thousand feet, a foot full of Wan Li flow" and "A long whistle stirs the breeze, and there is no Soochow", all of which are very vivid poems. The poem "Ode to History" is simple in language, full of emotion and vigorous in momentum. Although it expresses the inner depression and distress, it does not reveal the emotional appeal of depression and decadence. The poem in full swing echoes the sadness of endless ambition, which is close to the generosity of Jian 'an literature. Therefore, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wang Fuzhi once said: "The Three Kingdoms were reduced to the Western Jin Dynasty, with a bad style and an ancient heart. Those who came to our country were not too eager to return." (Selected Comments on Ancient Poems) This style of Zuo Si's Poems on History is called "Zuo Si Feng Zhi" by Zhong Rong. "Zuo Si Feng Li" once had an influence on Tao Yuanming. The artistic image of "pine at the bottom of a ravine" created by Zuo Si was also borrowed by Fan Yun in the Southern Dynasty and Wang Bo in the early Tang Dynasty to express the anguish of his talent.
Zuo Si also wrote two poems, Zhao Yin, which are beautifully written. Among them, "There is no need for silk and bamboo, and the mountains and rivers have a clear sound", which is very appreciated by later generations. A poem "Poem of a charming girl" is simple in language and sincere in feelings, and the love for my little daughter is vividly on the paper. Tao Yuanming's "Responsibility", Du Fu's "Northern Expedition" and Li Shangyin's "Poems of Pride" are all influenced by it. In addition, he also has a poem "Miscellaneous Poems" and two poems "Mourning for My Sister". The former is similar in style to Ode to History, while the latter is a four-character poem, elegant and dignified.
Zuo Si's works are included in All Ancient Three Generations, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties Written by Yan Kejun and Poems of Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties compiled by Kai Qinli.
Zuo Si was born in poverty and was ugly, but he regarded honor and disgrace as floating clouds and fame and fortune as dirt. He devoted all his energy to his study and literary creation and wrote many famous poems that have been handed down to this day. In Jizhong, after the publication of Sandu Fu, it was warmly praised by all walks of life in the ruling and opposition circles, and it was popular in Luoyang for a while, and the expensive houses rushed to copy it, so the paper price in Luoyang market became expensive. Since then, "Luoyang paper is expensive" has become a famous allusion, which is often used to praise some of them for spreading quickly and widely.
Luoyang City in Zuo Si's Sandu Fu has long been turned into ruins by the ruthless historical wind and rain, and today's Luoyang City is incomparable at any time in history. I believe that if Zuo Si, a thousand years ago, were born again and saw Luoyang today, he would surely have a more exquisite and colorful Sandu Fu popular on the streets of Luoyang, and there would also be a new story about "Luoyang paper is expensive"!