The Liu family is a famous family in Hedong, so it is called "Liuhedong".
And Liu Zongyuan is not only from a good family, but also talented.
When Liu Zongyuan was 13 years old, the imperial court quelled Li Huaiguang's rebellion. Cui Zhongcheng wanted to congratulate the imperial court and asked him to ghostwrite.
Subsequently, Liu Zongyuan won the emperor's praise for this "Li Huaiguang Table for Cui Zhong". For a time, Liu Zongyuan became famous and became a well-known prodigy. The so-called "fame and fortune", but so be it.
Liu Zongyuan
At the age of twenty-one, Liu Zongyuan passed the jinshi examination.
What does it mean to be a twenty-one-year-old soldier?
There is a saying called "Thirty Old Ming Classics, Fifty Young Scholars", 30 years old to be admitted to the Ming Classics, it is already too late; 50 years old to pass the entrance examination, it is not too late.
And Liu Zongyuan was not proud of this.
Gain without glory, lose without worry, become famous, and make up for the great!
If you pass the exam, you don't feel how glorious it is; if you don't pass the exam, you won't be sad. Because of the merit of the examination, what is the benefit to a person like me who has a big heart?
At the age of twenty-six, Liu Zongyuan took up his first official position, Jixiandian Academy Orthographer (Royal Librarian).
At this time, Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu and Liu Yuxi saw each other as they were, and the three of them often drank wine and sang harmony, not drunk and did not stop, commonly known as the "Iron Triangle of the Middle and Tang Dynasties".
In 805, Li Xuan ascended the throne for Emperor Shunzong of Tang. As soon as Emperor Shunzong of Tang succeeded to the throne, he began to eliminate maladministration. Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi, and Wei Zhiyi became the main force of the reformers.
Why reform?
"The big ones are more than ten states, and the small ones are still three or four."
"The Son of Heaven looks at it and doesn't know what to do."
The situation of the feudal towns was serious, and the emissaries of Jiedu each occupied several states, and in the face of this situation, the emperor was powerless.
Diansang sells land to collect official rent, what will happen next year?
Peel me off and snatch the millet from my mouth.
The predatory and harmful thing is the jackal, why hook and claw saw the tooth and eat human flesh!
- Bai Juyi, "Du Lingsuo"
There are also countless harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that exploit the people.
In this situation, the reformers appeared.
Some of the reform measures promulgated by Liu Zongyuan and other reformists have received good responses, "people are very happy" and "the people gather together and cheer and rejoice." The common people were happy, but the conservatives were very unhappy. Because the innovative measures have offended the interests of the conservatives.
At first, the reform went relatively smoothly, after all, the reform faction had such a hard backstage as Tang Shunzong, and the conservative faction did not dare to do anything. Until later, Tang Shunzong suffered a stroke and fell ill. The eunuchs took the opportunity to force Emperor Shunzong of Tang to give the throne to the crown prince Li Chun. Li Chun ascended the throne for Tang Xianzong. Because the eunuchs had the merit of supporting the eunuchs, Tang Xianzong was naturally close to the eunuchs.
At this time, the reformists were suppressed.
First Wang Shuwen and Wang Ling were demoted, and then Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi and eight others were also demoted to Sima of Yuanzhou, known in history as the "Erwang Eight Sima Incident".
Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou as a Sima Commandery (司馬員) and placed as a member of the Same Dynasty. Sima yongzhou was an official with no real power. Without real power, the imperial court did not even arrange staff dormitories.
In the cold winter of heavy snowfall, Liu Zongyuan took his 67-year-old mother all the way to Yongzhou, but found that there was no place to live, so he had to live in Longxing Temple at night.
The drama is in the atrium, and the crab is born in the church feast.
——Liu Zongyuan, "The Tale of Little Stone Pond"
Longxing Temple is a ruined temple, and when it was first moved in, the atrium was overgrown with weeds and was a playground for wild birds.
There are viper wasps in wading in the wilderness... Near the water, they are afraid of sand lice.
——Liu Zongyuan, "Jianshu with Li Hanlin"
The environment in Yongzhou is harsh, with pit vipers and wasps roaming the wild, and poisonous insects roaming in the water.
However, the ancient literati seemed to have a kind of ability, obviously relegated to poor mountains and bad waters, but it was as if they were swimming in Suzhou and Hangzhou. In Liu Zongyuan's Yongzhou, there are small stone pools where "the water is particularly clear", the West Mountain that is "haunting green and white", and the cobalt pond where "there are tree rings and springs hanging"... The literati friends who caused Liu Zongyuan to read his landscape travelogues all wanted to come to Yongzhou to play.
But Liu Zongyuan was still betrayed by a poem that he had disguised his heart.
Jiang Xue
Thousands of mountain birds flew away, and thousands of people disappeared.
Lonely boat, fishing alone in the snow of the Cold River.
The people and birds on the river are all silent, the sky and clouds and mountains and water, up and down white. In the silver-clad world, there is only a little bit of black. It was a fisherman fishing alone on the river, wearing a hat. The fisherman was banned by heavy snow and could not find a companion, while Liu Zongyuan was banned by the imperial court and could not find a first-line turnaround.
In 814, in the tenth year of Liu Zongyuan's reign, he was recalled to the dynasty.
Throw yourself into the wilderness, and the new edict will lay down the thorns.
Doubts are better than Zhuang Zhou meng, and the feelings are like Su Wugui.
——Liu Zongyuan, "Langzhou Dou Chang sent Liu Twenty-Eight Poems, see Promoting the Ride Away of the Pen Reward Gift"
After receiving the edict from the imperial court, Liu Zongyuan was very happy, and on the way back to Chang'an, he rode on a horse, and his mood was comparable to that of Su Wu's return to Han, always suspecting that this was just a dream.
Miluo meets the wind
Nan lai did not do Chu Chen's sorrow and re-entered the period of cultivation.
In order to repay the spring wind Miluo Dao, Mo will be the wave of the time.
When he was demoted to Yongzhou, Liu Zongyuan was not as desperate as Qu Yuan, and he firmly believed that sooner or later he would be used by the imperial court again. "I hope that the spring breeze of the Miluo River will help me ride the wind and waves, return to Chang'an as soon as possible, and serve the imperial court."
The good times did not last long, and Liu Yuxi was reported by a villain for a poem "Yuan He Ten Years from Langzhou to Beijing Opera to See the Flowers and Gentlemen". It was obvious that it was a literal prison, but Tang Xianzong believed it, so Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan, and so on were degraded again. Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi went to the degraded land together and said goodbye when they arrived in Hengyang, Hunan.
This was the last time Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi met.
"Hengyang and dream score road farewell"
Ten years of haggard to Qinjing, who expected to turn into a ridge layman.
Fu Bo's old road wind and smoke are there, and Weng Zhong's ruins are flat with grass trees.
Straight to the lazy beckoning, Hugh will occupy the name of the time.
There is no need to say goodbye to the river in this day, and the tears will be sprinkled with a thousand lines.
Yongzhou has been arduous for ten years, and has entered Beijing with a haggard and withered tree; Chang'an has not been exhausted for thirty years, and he is ordered to guard the border court.
Embark on the Han Dynasty Road, remember General Ma Yuan; where are the stone people in the past, and empty wild grass paths. You and I have no intention of clinging to it, and we slander our loyal subjects; the poems cause misfortune and persuade the king to seal his pen in anonymity. Today's life and death are silent, and there is silence for weeping; why should we go to the river to get water, and the tears can be sprinkled.
In 819 (Yuan and 14), Emperor Xianzong of Tang granted a general amnesty, and under the persuasion of Pei Du, Emperor Xianzong of Tang summoned Liu Zongyuan back to Beijing. On the eighth day of November, Liu Zongyuan died of illness in Liuzhou. He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 4
Source: WeChat public account "Catch a poet" (original title: Liu Zongyuan's ups and downs, downs, downs, downs
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