Chapter 48 The Poets of the Great Tang Dynasty(2/2)
He could write poetry at the age of 9, and went to Chang'an City for the exam at the age of 15.
On the Double Ninth Festival when he was 17 years old, he wrote a poem about homesickness.
I am alone in a foreign land and miss my family more during the holidays.
I knew from afar that my brothers climbed the heights and there was one less person who had planted dogwood everywhere.
What he wanted to say was that he was so lonely in Chang'an City and wanted to go home...
But, homesickness is homesickness.
Life has to continue to live.
Wang Wei was very popular among the nobles of the royal palace in Chang'an City, and soon became an upper class.
Later, he passed the Jinshi at the age of 21.
Maybe Wang Wei himself felt that when his official career was about to take off, his subordinates made a mistake, and he himself was demoted.
So he later resigned from his post, sometimes living in seclusion and sometimes wandering around.
In the land of Wu and Yue, he met his old friend Li Guinian.
It is common to find it in the house of King Qi, and it has been heard several times before Cui Jiutang.
It is the beautiful scenery in Jiangnan, and I meet you again in the season of falling flowers.
Later he returned to the court and became an official, and soon his wife passed away.
Good friends Zhang Jiuling and Meng Haoran also passed away one after another.
His whole body became more Buddhist.
One year, he was arranged to go to the frontier to visit the army.
On the way, he wrote "Entering to the End of the Frontier".
The lonely smoke in the desert is straight, and the sun sets in the long river is round.
Famous quotes throughout the ages were born.
After returning from the border, Wang Wei basically lived a life of paid seclusion.
He didn't care about many things in the officialdom.
Although people are in the officialdom, they have begun to live in seclusion in their hearts.
At this time, he wrote:
Sitting alone in the secluded bamboo grove, playing the piano and whistling again.
The people in the deep forest don’t know that the bright moon comes to shine.
From then on, Wang Wei's poems were already full of Zen.
Occasionally, he would travel with some literati and scholars.
The morning rain in Weicheng is light dust, and the green willows in the guest house are fresh.
I advise you to follow up with a glass of wine and go west to Yangguan without any friends.
Then, the Anshi Rebellion broke out.
After escaping for a disaster, he completely lived in seclusion.
Walk to the end of the water and sit and watch the clouds rise.
He died at the age of 61.
"Wang Wei is versatile and can do everything in writing poetry and painting! He is the third person after Li Du!"
"There are poems in the paintings, and the paintings in the poems! This is the master!"
"He is very good at using color and light and shadow, and pays great attention to the combination of virtuality and reality, cold and warmth, and movement and stillness."
"People are idle and osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty. The moon rises and the mountain birds are shocked, and the time is singing in the spring stream! Wang Wei's poems are so comfortable to read!"
"What is the difference between Wang Wei and Meng Haoran?"
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After the Anshi Rebellion, during the mid- and late Tang Dynasty.
The emperor, powerful ministers, vassal states, eunuchs, and all forces competed, entangled, couldn't be cut, and it was still messy.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court could not suppress it itself and could only rely on the local area itself.
But after the rebellion was pacified, the emperor discovered that a rebel fell and millions of separatist forces stood up.
This is the characteristic of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty: separatist vassal states.
External instability.
There is no harmony within.
Many ministers also fought against the emperor.
So the emperor had many military and national affairs, so he began to discuss with the eunuchs.
Gradually, the power of these eunuchs became increasingly greater, and in the later stages, they even reached the point where they could depose and establish emperors.
Faced with the separatist vassal states and the autocracy of eunuchs, the court officials naturally couldn't stand it.
So everyone came out to fight.
Not only did they fight with eunuchs, but also between court officials.
This is party struggle.
There were many major events in the meantime.
For example, Yongzhen’s reform, representative figures, Wang Shuwen, Wang Yi, Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan, etc.
For example, Wu Yuanheng was assassinated, and the prime minister was killed on the road!
For example, the Niu Li party struggle that has been fighting for decades.
This long battle has involved many people.
The fates of Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin were all changed by the influence of party struggles.
Next, poets from the middle and late Tang dynasties appeared.
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Yuan Zhen’s ancestors were all officials.
But because his father died early, he was very poor when he was a child.
When he was fifteen years old, he passed the imperial examination and passed the Mingjing.
Then he started from the grassroots level.
Here, he met his first love, which he later wrote as Cui Yingying, the heroine of "The West Chamber".
Later, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi took the examination of the Ministry of Personnel together. The two of them had a close relationship and like-minded relationship, and became their best friends in their lives.
After Yuan Zhen lost his father in his early years, lost his mother in his youth, and lost his wife in his middle age, he had only one daughter left with Wei Cong's five children.
His life was very miserable.
However, his official career will not be singular.
Being demeaned again and again.
In the end, he died at the age of 53 and took office in Wuchang.
Yuan Zhen is the best at writing poems of eulogy.
Once upon a time, the sea was invincible, but Wushan was not cloudy.
I will look back on the flowers and see half of my life, half of my life, half of my life.
"How did he write affectionate eulogies while often having sex with Bai Juyi..."
"Yuan Zhen, disgusting!"
"Yuan Zhen is a scumbag, and Zhang Sheng in the West Chamber is himself!"
One night many years after Yuan Zhen passed away, Bai Juyi was fascinated and he remembered him again.
He wrote:
You buried the mud and bones in the spring, and I sent my head full of snow on earth.
It can be seen that the love between the two people is deep.
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Countless Tang poems and countless romantic poems.
The Tang Dynasty written by Qi Yuan is so beautiful and so good.
These poets and these poems, as they are passed down by everyone, gradually sprout deep roots and grow freely in this other world.
Chapter completed!