When it comes to Chaozhou, you can't help but mention the Lijiang River in Chaozhou. Today, the Lijiang River was renamed Hanjiang because of a person, and this person is Han Yu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Han Yu, whose real name is Tuizhi, whose real name is Changli, is from Heyang, Henan Province (now Mengxian County, Henan Province). He is one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, and is famous all over the world for his magnificent and meaningful poems. Han Yu is a master of orthodox Confucianism. He opposed metaphysics in the heyday of Buddhism and Taoism by Confucius and Mencius. In the 14th year of Tang Xianzong's reign (August19), when he was the censor, he wrote a letter to prevent Tang Xianzong from mobilizing people to welcome a Buddha bone, so he was exiled to Chaozhou near the Guangdong Sea.
On the way to exile, when the horse crossed the Qinling Mountains, Han Yu left a well-known seven-character poem "Move left to Languan to show his grandnephew's love". The poem says:
A letter in the sky, eight thousand in Chaoyang Road at night. If you want to eliminate disasters for saints, you are willing to decline and cherish the old. Where is the home of Yunheng Qinling? The heavy snow hindered the horse's progress. Knowing that you came all the way, you should have done it on purpose so that I could collect the bones by the river.
This poem is addressed to my nephew who came to see me off. Between the lines, in addition to the sadness in his bones, it also indicates that his old bones will be buried in the Lijiang River in Chaozhou. The poem shows that the author is innocent and demoted, and the hero is frustrated, but he is still upright.
Throughout the ancient literati, there were many people who were relegated, and most of the literati who expressed their feelings left the history of relegation and exile directly because of their frustrated official career. Take the Tang Dynasty as an example. There are Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Luo, Liu Changqing, Liu Zongyuan, Song, Zhang Jiuling, Wang Changling, Liu Yuxi, Yuan Zhen among the literati ... But the difference is that their trajectories at the bottom of their lives are quite different-it can be said that almost no one can match Han Yu's life journey. These literati, once the big black hat becomes the little black hat, often appear disheartened and write some poems of compassion and self-pity in licking the wound; On the other hand, Han Yu is different. Although he was demoted, he also wrote a self-pity poem "Good My Bone River". But in Chaozhou, he put his own pain aside and put the warmth and coldness of the people in the supreme position.