In 433, Xie Lingyun, the originator of Chinese landscape poetry, was executed for "conspiracy to rebel", and since then, the Wei and Jin dynasties have completely disappeared.
Xie Lingyun has talent, which is recognized by everyone, and he once said a sentence that everyone in the world knows: "Once the world is in common, Cao Zijian has eight buckets alone, I have to fight, and the people of the world share a fight." ”
This is a bit conceited, but it is also true, his grandfather, Xie Xuan, the executive commander of the "Battle of Shuishui", said: "I am born, and I have the luck of life!" ”
After xie Lingyun was born, he was fostered in the Taoist temple, and only returned to his home in Jiankang at the age of fifteen, so his nickname was "Ke'er", which was also known as Xie Ke. Xie Ke's big name is righteousness, and spiritual luck is his word.
When Xie Xuan saw the clever and beautiful grandson, who was already quite knowledgeable, he not only issued such a surprised exclamation as above: "My son Xie Zhen has mediocre qualifications, it is really not like the Xie family's 'Zhilan Yushu', but he did not expect that he would give birth to a son like Lingyun!" ”
Xie Lingyun wrote a good article, no one in Jiangnan can stand out, his cousin Xie Chao likes him very much, and Xie Lingyun also worships Xie Chao as his idol. Unlike the famous people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who are good at talking and love to write Xuanyan poems, Xie Chao prefers to use the famous mountains and beautiful waters as the material for entering the poems, and is the initiator of "landscape poetry", Xie Lingyun can become the originator of landscape poetry, and his cousin Xie Chao is indispensable.
Xie Lingyun was born in the Xie family of the "Wang Xie Family", with its own highlights, and it is completely inherited the flamboyant style of Wei Jin, as well as the extravagant atmosphere since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the praise of his grandfather, and the favor of his cousin, all of which make Xie Lingyun feel that he is undoubtedly the "material of natural choice", his personality is wild, and his life is luxurious. The clothes worn and the things used were changed to novel patterns and forms, creating many new models, attracting the world to follow suit, as if they had become the fashion creators, leaders and spokesmen of the time.
Because of the early death of his father Xie Zhen, the eighteen-year-old Xie Lingyun attacked his grandfather's lord Kang Le Gong, and people called him "Xie Kang Le".
Xie Lingyun, like every prince of the Wei and Jin clans, lived a life of doing as he pleased, dashing and extravagant, poetry, wine, and landscapes, but unfortunately, when his fame gradually became apparent, and he was preparing to become a famous scholar like his great-uncle Xie An and grandfather Xie Xuan, who was elegant and elegant, and who was in power, the eastern Jin Dynasty's clan door valve politics had come to an end, and when a person from the Hanmen Shu clan named Liu Yu replaced Sima Dewen, the Jin Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties ended, and the most chaotic period in history began.
Xie Lingyun felt that his ideal was about to be shattered.
At the beginning of Liu Yu's army, there was one person in the army who was comparable in ability, and this person was Liu Yi. Unlike Liu Yuyijie Wufu, Liu Yi was quite good at poetry, which won the favor of the famous people of the clan, xie Lingyun's cousin Xie Chao gave up Liu Yu and became Liu Yi's aide, and Xie Lingyun naturally followed Xie Chao's side.
Later, Liu Yi rebelled against Liu Yu and failed, Liu Yu had a heart of "cherishing talent", and did not embarrass Xie Lingyun, but instead let him become his own lieutenant to join the army, and he has been serving as an official in Liu Yu's army ever since. In the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (419), Liu Yu established the power of Song at Pengcheng, and Xie Lingyun had been promoted to the position of Xiangguo.
Xie Lingyun's officials were getting bigger and bigger, but he was not happy, he came from a famous family, and he looked down on a warrior like Liu Yu from the bone, but now he had to serve as an official under people like them, obey their orders, and he even felt humiliated.
Xie Lingyun still maintains the demeanor of his famous family and the bohemian character of celebrities, but the times have changed, the wildness of Wei and Jin is gone, and as a descendant of the Xie family, he is no longer the darling of the times.
In 420, Liu Yu officially declared himself empress, Xie Lingyun's wildness made him intolerable, just at this time someone impeached him, Liu Yu angrily demoted his title to Kang Lehou, and demoted him from the capital, let him go to Yongjia to be a taishou.
People like Xie Lingyun, who come from a large family, do not lack fame and fortune, do not lack power, and become officials only to realize their political ambitions, not a means of making a living. Since it was not reused by the imperial court, this little Yongjia Taishou did not do it or not, and doing it well and doing badly was not within xie Lingyun's consideration.
After arriving in Yongjia, he was attracted by the strange mountains and rivers of the local area, deposed by him as a trip, and his days in office became a sightseeing holiday.
Just for the sake of the official, to benefit one party, just like Lai Shangrong, the grandson of Grandma Lai in "Dream of the Red Chamber", who taught her to be a county order, said: "Although the county officials are small, things are big." For which state's official, which party's parents, you are restless and keep to yourself, loyal to the country... I'm afraid the sky won't allow you! ”
A slave old lady understands the truth, but Xie Lingyun does not understand it. He never handled government affairs in Yongjia, "folk listen to loose, no longer care", all day tour, he climbed the mountain to climb the experience, and actually played the wisdom of changing clothes in the early years, invented a kind of hiking shoes.
This kind of shoe has wooden teeth that can be moved before and after, when going up the mountain, the front teeth are removed, and the back teeth are removed when going down the mountain, Li Bai called this kind of shoes "Xie Gong Gong", written into the famous poem "Sleepwalking Heavenly Grandmother Yin Farewell": "Feet on Xie Gong, climbing the Qingyun Ladder." ”
And he himself was inspired by the natural and beautiful landscape scenery, and wrote the original masterpiece of landscape poetry, "Climbing the Pool upstairs".
Only know that tourism is fun, regardless of the suffering of the people, maybe this is not Xie Lingyun's intention, he may just be a celebrity for too long, he does not know how to be a local "parent official", once again impeached, he had to "blame" resignation, back to his hometown will be reclusive.
In Huiji, he interacted with the hermit Kong Chunzhi and others, and traveled with him to the famous mountains and rivers of Huiji, talking about Buddhism and Zen.
When Liu Yi failed to commit suicide in the battle with Liu Yu, as Liu Yi's staff, Xie Lingyun was very difficult not to die, and when he returned to Jiankang from Jiangling, he passed through Lushan and met the famous monk Master Huiyuan, who had just experienced the shadow of the sword and light, and Xie Lingyun, who had just experienced the shadow of the sword and light, wanted to convert to Buddhism and join Master Huiyuan's White Lotus Society. The master said that he "has dark hair, a handsome beard, but his face reveals a perverse and abnormal temperament, not an image that can have a happy ending", and urged him to restrain his flashy personality, cultivate more yin morality, and stay away from worldly disputes.
But the pretentious Xie Lingyun thought that cultivating Buddhism needed mental nature, and what did it have to do with the face? Besides, Xie Lingyun, who was bent on shining the Lintel of the Xie family again, could he let go of the worldly world if he wanted to?
Every time he climbed the mountain and swam in the water, Xie Lingyun was wearing Xie Gong's shoes on his feet and wearing a crank bucket on his head, and Kong Chunzhi laughed at him: "Qing wants to have a lofty heart, why can't he leave the appearance of the curved cover?" ”
The bucket is the symbol of the hermit, and the crank bucket is like the crank umbrella cover used by high-ranking officials, kong Chunzhi ridiculed Xie Lingyun for not only praising himself as a qinggao, but also not abandoning the official position.
Xie Ling replied using the words in Zhuangzi: "Those who will not be afraid of the shadow, have not forgotten?" "I'm afraid that people who are afraid of shadows can't forget the shadows, right?" The implication is, "I'm afraid that You are the one who cannot forget the rich and the noble." ”
Although Xie Lingyun asked the Hermit Kong, was his heart really so calm? Kong Chunzhi did not serve for the rest of his life, and soon Xie Lingyun returned to Jiankang again under the "three requests" of the newly enthroned Song Emperor Liu Yilong.
However, Emperor Wen of Song summoned Xie Lingyun not to help him govern the country, but because of his outstanding literary talent. During the period of seclusion, every time Xie Lingyun wrote a poem, it would be transmitted to the capital as quickly as possible, from high-ranking officials and nobles to celebrities.
Such a talent, as an emperor, if he is not included in the book, can only mean that he is a emperor. Emperor Wen of Song did not want to be a emperor, but "the spirit was empty", and he really could not do the material of Zaizhi, so Emperor Wendi of Song gave him a job that was suitable for both sides - to write the Book of Jin, and to accompany him to chat about literature.
But Xie Lingyun's ambition was to "rule the world", not to chat with the emperor, and he felt that the emperor did not understand him too much, too much to use. Therefore, he returned to his old ways, he did not go to the court every day, the emperor could not see him for several days and dozens of days, he did not even take a vacation, and often came to a trip where he said that he would go, and the Book of Jin was left there, without moving a word.
No matter how elegant and loving Emperor Wen of Song was, he could not stand such a casual minister and wanted to dismiss him, but he still took into account Xie Lingyun's face and hinted at his resignation.
Xie Lingyun once again returned to huihui's hometown to live in seclusion.
Once again because of the play lost his job, this time back to Huiji, Xie Lingyun not only did not reflect on himself, but intensified, the tour to the extreme.
It turned out that he was all traveling alone, at most calling a few like-minded friends, this time was different, Xie Lingyun made a big splash every trip, leading hundreds of people, mighty, while playing, while encountering mountains to open the road, every water to build a bridge.
Once, Xie Lingyun wanted to travel to a deep mountain in Linhai, and led people to cut down bamboo trees to open the way, so that the local taishou thought that there were thieves, and they rushed to take officers and soldiers to arrest them.
This is not too much, what is even more excessive is that Xie Lingyun, in order to expand his ancestral property, wanted to fill in the two lakes outside huiji city to plant rice, and even he personally wrote to Emperor Wen of Song to request approval, and Emperor Wen of Song actually agreed.
He felt that these two lakes were not far from Huiji City, not only were they water sources for irrigating farmland, but the aquatic products produced in the lake could also increase the income of the people, and he resolutely disagreed with Xie Lingyun's filling of the lake.
Xie Lingyun said that Meng Yan did not let the lake be filled, not for the sake of the people, but because he believed in Buddhism and did not want to harm the aquatic life in the lake. It is also said that Meng Yan will inevitably die in front of himself, but he will become a Buddha behind himself. Meng Yan's seven tricks of anger were smokey, but he did not have a seizure, and he quietly wrote to Emperor Wen of Song to tell Xie Lingyun of plotting against him and wanting to rebel. Frightened, Xie Lingyun hurriedly wrote to Emperor Wen of Song, saying that he was a literati, and he only knew how to write poetry and play in the mountains, where would he rebel?
Emperor Wen of Song also knew that there must be a reason for this, and did not really want to kill him, so he let him go to Linchuan to do the internal history. When he arrived in Linchuan, he was still wandering day by day, and the people were constantly disturbed, and finally there was a conflict with people, and the matter was a bit big, and the ruling officials in Linchuan wanted to arrest him.
Maybe Xie Lingyun felt that the last time he was falsely accused of rebellion, he was not addicted, and he really wanted to rebel. He gathered some people and horses, and raised the banner of "resistance" to confront the government, but as he himself said, he was a literati, which is the material for rebellion?
He was eventually arrested and beheaded for "conspiracy to commit treason."
In 433 A.D., before his execution, Xie Lingyun cut off the beautiful hair under his chin and donated it to a Buddhist monastery, but at that time he remembered what Master Huiyuan had said to him: "Your hair is dark and dense, your beard is beautiful, but your face reveals a perverse temperament, not an image that can have a happy ending." ”
He would certainly not forget, because two years ago on the way to Linchuan, he had gone up to Lushan Again, but at that time, Master Huiyuan had long since passed away, and no one had given him any guidance.
Originally, he had the opportunity to throw the crank bucket on his head and wander in the breeze and moon of the famous mountains and rivers, he was born in a famous family, grew up in the arms of famous people, he was originally a famous man who bore the wind and the moon, was proud and unruly, fell and frank, and sang and screamed, not a politician, nor was he the "material for ruling the world" that he thought he was.
Standing at the bow of the river boat heading to Linchuan, looking at the spectacular wonders of the river, the complexity of the waterways, just like the complexity of the way of life, Xie Lingyun's heart fluctuated, and he wrote an excellent poem "Into the Mouth of Pengli Lake":
Guests are tired of water, and the tide is difficult to discuss.
The island suddenly turned, and the shore collapsed repeatedly.
Take the moon to listen to the mourning, and the dew is full of fangs.
Spring Festival Gala Green Field Show, Rock High White Cloud Tun.
A thousand memorial gatherings, the morning of the sense of all.
Climb the cliff to look at the stone mirror, and lead the leaves into the pine door.
The Three Rivers have many things to do, and the Nine Sects are empty.
The spirit creature is rare and strange, and the strange secret soul is the soul.
The golden ointment extinguishes the light, and the water is blue and warm.
In vain, a thousand miles of music, the strings are desperate for Nathan.
"String desperate Nathan", yes, the wind flowed, the string song was gone, Xie Lingyun died, and the sky of history was different. Since then, the demeanor of Wei and Jin has completely disappeared, and the Wei and Jin era has completely ended.
Four hundred years later, one of his admirers traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, fighting wine and poetry, and spitting out a new era! That person's name was Li Bai, and that era was called "Sheng Tang"! The strange thing is that Li Bai's life can almost be regarded as a copy of Xie Lingyun's life, and perhaps the paradox of history is here.
Author: Our special guest author Shui Yun Chu Jing