People like poetry. There is a man named Ge Qing in Jingzhou who is a big fan of the great poet Bai Juyi. According to Duan Youyang's Miscellaneous Notes, this Ge Qing stabbed more than 30 poems of Bai Juyi in order to show his admiration for him. More creatively, after a while, he tattooed more than 30 pictures on his body. For example, these pictures are all adapted from Bai Juyi's poetry and drama. Bai Juyi used to be the official of the Chinese Book Sheren, known as Bai Sheren. Therefore, people call this painting on Ge Qing a poem painting by Bai Sheren.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar named Chen who loved to write poems. In a few years, he wrote many poems. Although he is not as famous as Du Li, he is famous in the local poetry circle. Some of his poems have become popular works that local people are scrambling to tell. Chen Shusheng was later admitted to Jinshi and was assigned to a county in his hometown as a county magistrate. In the early winter of one year, as soon as the county magistrate Chen got up, someone came to report that a thief had been caught. County magistrate Chen immediately stood in court and ordered people to bring the thief up. After the trial, the thief's name was Li Sheng. He is lazy and idle on weekdays, so he does something small. This time, he was caught stealing. According to the law at that time, after the thief was caught, he had to hit a hundred boards first and then be imprisoned for half a year. After Chen Shenming, the magistrate, ordered people to beat the board first and then bet.
These people dragged Li Sheng to the ground and took off his clothes three times, five times and twice. When he was ready to fight, he found that Li Sheng's body was covered with many words. When he looked carefully, it turned out to be a poem. The county magistrate likes poetry. After hearing about it, he rushed over excitedly at once. If he saw Li Sheng covered with poems, he would ask Li Sheng: Why are you covered with poems? Li Sheng replied: I like poetry since I was a child, so I tattooed my favorite poem on my body. Hearing this, the county magistrate Chen was touched. I didn't expect the thief to be so obsessed with poetry. He is an elegant thief! Next, what moved Chen Xianling even more happened: Chen Xianling read Li Sheng's poems first, then Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, but after reading them, he found that one of them was written before he became a scholar! County magistrate Chen quickly asked, Do you know who wrote this poem? Li Sheng replied: The author can't remember clearly.
Chen county magistrate asked again: Then how did you get this poem? Li Sheng thought for a moment and replied, I saw it on a wall many years ago and liked it very much, so I copied it down and later stabbed it. After hearing this, county magistrate Chen was very proud. It turns out that this thief turned out to be his own super fan! Can a person who worships himself so much make him suffer? Therefore, Chen county magistrate ordered Dr. Li's 100 boards to be removed and only temporarily put in prison.
It seems that it is not the practice of modern people to express their love for idols by stabbing their favorite poems on their skin. This fanaticism at least shows that people's love for poetry and literature and art at that time was very enthusiastic. Although that era has long been a masterpiece, it is worth remembering as long as it once existed.