Song Dynasty: Wang Anshi
Both Yi and Lu failed. They both experienced poverty. One is a fisherman and the other is a farmer. If you hadn't met at that time, you would be a hero.
Tang Wu meets, and the wind is like a tiger and a dragon. Wang Xing is just talking and laughing. Until now, thousands of years later, who will compete with you!
Translation:
Yi Yin and Lv Shang both experienced this embarrassing and smooth situation. One of them is a fisherman and the other is a slave. If these two heroes don't meet a wise monarch, they will eventually die of old age in Shan Ye.
They met Cheng Tang and Zhou Wuwang by chance, and the wise monarch got a good minister, just like gathering clouds to make dragons, the wind moved with the tiger, and Wang Ye was built in laughter. It's been thousands of years now. Who can compete with their great achievements?
This poem eulogizes the story of Yi Yin and Lu Shang's "into the badlands" and their brilliant achievements over thousands of years, in order to express the heroic feelings of the author who learned from Song Shenzong, made great achievements in politics and was proud of the spring breeze. It is different from the vague historical works of ancient poets, but the expression of a politician's true thoughts and feelings. The whole poem narrates and discusses history, but it is actually presented by relying on history, which contains the author's praise for the wise king, which is the ingenuity of this paper.
Starting from the sentence "Yi and Lu failed and experienced poverty and communication", I wrote the changes before and after Yi Yin and Lu Shang. Yi Yin, formerly known as Zhi; Yin was his later official post. Legend has it that he was abandoned by Yishui. He took "Yi as his surname and once worked as a farmer in Xin" ("Mencius Zhang Wan"): "Yi Yin worked as a field in Xin." Shen, an ancient country name, was born near Kaifeng, Henan), Shang Tang married the daughter of Shen family as a dowry, became a businessman, and was later reused. Lu Shang, Jiang surname, Lu Shi; The real name is Shang, the word Ziya, and the number is "Tai Gong Wang". Legend has it that he would fish on the banks of the Weihe River until his later years. Once, it happened that Zhou Wenwang went hunting, and the monarch got along well with his subjects. He assisted King Wen first, then followed, and finally achieved the great cause of destroying the Shang Dynasty and prospering the Zhou Dynasty. Yi Helu's experience was not smooth sailing. They are all poor before they are ripe, and only after embarrassment do they meet the opportunity to display their ambitions. Therefore, they call themselves "poor and refined"; Lu Shang was old when he made his fortune, so he was called "the old man". In the feudal era, there were always some accidental factors and lucky elements, that is to say, after all, only a few scholars were able to move from poverty to prosperity. This also means that "Louis lost two Weng", and Yi Yin lost when he was old, and the book was silent. This is the same. The question worth thinking about is: "If you hadn't met me at that time". The author is quite self-committed. "If" means if. When Yi and Lu were ploughing and fishing, if they didn't meet Shang Tang and Lu, the hero would eventually die of old age. Yi Helu is lucky, but the fate of more literati is regrettable, because those people have not been discovered, appreciated and appointed. They are "old" heroes, that is, buried heroes.
In the following film, the "encounter" in "Encounter in Tang Wu" has pointed out the contingency of "encounter between monarch and minister". But once you can meet it, there will be a situation of "wind, tiger and dragon". "Dry a Classical Chinese": "The cloud follows the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, and everything sees people." It means cloud and dragon, wind and tiger. If there is a wise monarch in the world, then the great cause of rejuvenating Wang Liguo can be easily accomplished by talking and laughing. Yi Helu has real skills and can really make a career. Only in this way can we truly be called talents. Because this is the essence of the problem, the sentence "Wang Xing" carries a lot of weight in the whole word. The ending is also an extension of this sentence, saying that Iraq and Lu not only made great contributions to the world, but also surpassed thousands of years, and no one can match them. Behind praising Yi and Lu's immortal achievements, Yi and Lu's enlightenment and the establishment of their achievements are undoubtedly a great spiritual force for Wang Anshi, inspiring and strengthening his determination and courage to carry out political reform.