To say that the poets of the Tang Dynasty, who had the most stubborn temper, the most upright, the most prickly? That must be Liu Yuxi in the Middle Tang Dynasty! Liu Yuxi is a poet with a high rate of appearance, and his famous works such as "Wuyi Lane", "Buried Room Ming", and "Autumn Words" are all necessary "repertoire" for our nine-year compulsory education, and no one can escape Liu Yuxi's "torture" in our youth.
Liu Yuxi, as a literati, writes poetry, how stubborn and hardcore, is there such a stubborn singing in the lyrics of Mayday? You'll know later. Liu Yuxi was born in a bureaucratic family in Jiangnan, he liked to read since he was a child, he was diligent and talented, and he worshiped famous monks and monks, his achievements were quite outstanding, and he was a local prodigy in his teens, and his sense of superiority has always been with him. Later, he came to Chang'an at the age of nineteen, and at the age of 21, he and Liu Zongyuan passed the entrance examination for the jinshi, and in the same year, they passed the "Erudite Hongzi Branch" and began to enter the official field.
It is reasonable to say that Liu Yuxi was influenced by poetry books since he was a child, and he should have a very gentle temper, but after he became an official, he was just straight, as long as he thought it was right, no one was afraid, even if it would affect his own hat. At that time, during the Middle and Tang Dynasties, there was political chaos and many parties, and he, who only recognized that he did not take sides, was doomed to bad official luck. No, he and his good classmate Liu Zongyuan saw the shortcomings of the Tang Dynasty, and together they launched the famous political event "Yongzhen Reform" in history, but this change did not take long for the emperor to change people, and the reform movement was stillborn. Reform will inevitably offend the interests of many people, so after the new emperor came to power, those who engaged in innovation together were unlucky and were expelled from Chang'an, known in history as the "Eight Sima Incident". In this incident, Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan were relegated to Yuanzhou (later stayed in Langzhou for ten years, and Langzhou is now Changde, Hunan), and the other was demoted to Yongzhou, both remote places, very desolate. In the wild land, far away from Chang'an for ten years, it has long been forgotten, which means that the career path is basically over for these two young people.
However, no one can control the fate, just ten years later, someone in Chang'an City finally remembered one thing, where did Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan, the two young descendants who once had unlimited scenery, go? A check, it turned out that he was still in the far south! Just when the time came to employ people, call the two unlucky eggs back, so that the two people happily returned to Chang'an, waiting for the imperial court to rearrange their work.
Originally about to see hope, but one day Liu Yuxi could not stay idle, ran to a Taoist temple in the south of Chang'an City to see the peach blossoms, along the way is really lively, Chang'an still has to be Chang'an, more prosperous than Langzhou, to the Taoist Temple, he saw how here are so many more peach trees than before, it is indeed good-looking, but these peach trees are not those conservatives who oppose his Yongzhen innovation, these people are opportunistic in politics for their own small interests, betraying their teammates at any time, not after driving themselves out of power, Can they be so glorious?
Thinking of this Liu Yuxi's anger is getting more and more unsmooth, no, I want to write a poem to satirize this group of unprincipled, only profit-seeking authorities! So with a big stroke of the pen, he wrote this poem:
Liu Yuxi (Tang Dynasty)
Purple and red dust came to the face, and no one looked at the flowers back.
The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple were all planted after Liu Lang went there.
The last two sentences of this poem are very popular, the first two sentences of "Purple mo red dust blowing on the face, no one can not look at the flowers back" is to write his own on the way to Xuanduguan to see the prosperity: Chang'an City cars and horses flow endlessly, the lively atmosphere is overwhelming, along the way, people everywhere are saying that they just came back from Watching peach blossoms in Xuandu, and they all say that the peach blossoms of Xuanduguan are beautiful. Liu Yuxi heard passers-by say this, more happy, hurry to Xuandu to see what is going on...,
"The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple, all of which are planted after Liu Lang went" To the Xuandu Temple, take a look, wow, how come there are so many peach trees, there was none before, the changes in ten years are really big, but think about it, isn't this the group of political enemies who have relegated themselves to the outside and soared to the outside? It's not about dipping your own light.
In fact, the deep meaning of this poem lies in this: in order to revitalize the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan spent a lot of effort to carry out reforms, but the results they had so hard to achieve were all destroyed by those conservatives at once. They run to the power gate for the sake of wealth and wealth, just like in the purple and red dust, rushing to see the peach blossoms...
After writing this poem, the stone blocked by Liu Yuxi in his heart fell to the ground, and he was really relieved by reading it repeatedly! But soon this poem reached the ears of political enemies, such an undisguised satirical poem, so that political enemies were red-faced, of course, this poem also became a good opportunity for political enemies to continue to attack Liu Yuxi. So Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan did not sit on the hot ass in the capital, and a single order brought them back to their original form, Liu Yuxi was relegated to a more distant Guangdong Lianzhou, and Liu Zongyuan was also sent to the more remote Liuzhou. And this time, Liu Zongyuan never came back, fell ill and died in Liuzhou. Liu Yuxi was once again exiled by the imperial court for 11 years!