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Bai Juyi was hiding something
After Emperor Gaozong, Wu Zetian came to the throne, and she changed the name of the country to Great Zhou, claiming to be a descendant of King Ping of Zhou.
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The king of Zhouping is called Ji Yiusu, although in the surname, and Wu Zetian eight rods can not fight, but this problem is not difficult for Wu Zetian, she arranged a young son for the king of Zhouping, this son is born different, palm prints naturally form a "Wu" character, his name is called Ji Wu.
Ji Wu's descendants changed their surname to "Wu". Therefore, some scholars have examined that the Wu clan evolved from the Ji surname.
Another important reason why Wu Zetian discussed the affairs of king Zhou Ping was that king Zhou Ping moved the capital to Luoyang, and Wu Zetian also set up the capital there.
There is a way to go up and down, and since the royal family is already like this, the wind of attachment to the people's homes is also forgivable.
Bai Juyi was his grandfather and wrote the "Letter of the Emperor of the Former Gong County". In the article, Bai Juyi wrote conclusively: "Bai clan surname, Chu Gong clan also." ”
Bai Juyi (772–846)
Bai Juyi has his own flower magic pen, and he further verified that the ancestor of the Bai clan was named Bai Gongsheng, and the famous general Bai Qi was a descendant of Bai Gongsheng.
Bai Qi died of injustice, the Qin people took pity on him, and the first emperor Ying zheng also remembered his merits and divided his heirs to Taiyuan. This is the origin of the Taiyuan Bai clan.
In Bai Juyi's pen, his family can be described as a valve reading family.
Bai Juyi's attitude in writing inscriptions seems to be more rigorous than Sima Qian's writing of history books. In the "Records of History", Sima Qian uses six characters to describe the life of innocence: "Those who rise up in white, and those who are also white." Yu County, which is today's Mei County, Shaanxi.
Regarding the end of Bai Qi, Sima Qian described it as follows: "Death is not his sin, the Qin people pity it, and the townspeople are all sacrificed." Sima Qian did not mention the fate of his descendants.
Bai Juyi adds salt and vinegar to describe it, and the composition of the interpretation is not small.
Moreover, Bai Juyi probably forgot that he had also written an essay called "The Record of the Zen Temple of Mount Wozhou".
Speaking of the history of Mount Wozhou, Bai Lotte wrote: "Since the Jin and Song Dynasties, due to the opening of the cave, there were Luohan monks in the west Of the Heavenly Zhu people bai daojuju yan in the beginning, and then there were high monks Zhu Faqian and branch road Lin Juyan. ”
Bai Daoyou (白道猷), also known as Tan You (昙猷), was a high-ranking monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The book saint Wang Xizhi admired his talent and learning, specially went to worship, walked to the bottom of the mountain, and finally because the mountain was dangerous and could not be done, Wang Xizhi prayed in front of the rock, looked at the sky, prayed, turned around and left.
For the high-ranking monks, Bai Juyi also yearned for it. At the end of the article, he wrote indignantly: "In the past, The Dao Yao Zhaokaizi Mountain, after the Silent Si Xingzi Mountain, today Lotte and the TriWenzi Mountain, different from the Zhaowozhou Mountain, and the Bai clan is related to its lineage? ”
When he saw the ancient sages, he always wanted to make friends. At this moment, Bai Juyi wanted to talk to Bai Dao about relatives again.
Bai Daoyou's deeds are found in the Biography of a High Monk, in which a place named "Guizi Kingdom" is repeatedly mentioned.
This country also appears in the Book of Jin. During the Western Jin Dynasty, in today's Xinjiang, there was a small country called Yanqi, whose king was named Long An, and long An said to his son on his deathbed: "I was once insulted by the Bai clan of The King of Guizi, and if you can avenge me, you can be considered my son." ”
There was a white mountain in the territory of the Guizi Kingdom, and the Han Dynasty gave its king the surname of Bai, and their first generation of kings, called Bai Ba, was a xiyu people's clan.
From the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, the Guizi people continued to pour into the Central Plains, and they changed their surnames to "帛" or "Bai", and gradually integrated into the big family of the Tang Dynasty.
This is the origin of the Bai Juyi family.
Li Tang was an inclusive dynasty. The doorway and identity, it seems, there is no need to hide. However, why is Bai Juyi secretive about his family lineage?
He was originally a brother-in-law
Bai Juyi was born in an ordinary eunuch family, his grandfather and father, both from the Ming Dynasty, and his family is also called Shi Dun Confucian Ye, a family of poetry and books.
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Bai Juyi received formal education from birth. After becoming famous, Bai Juyi befriended Yuan Shu, who once wrote a famous essay called "The Book of The Nine Books with Yuan".
According to Bai Juyi's text, he was able to turn the pages and read at six or seven months, and the nanny pointed to the words "zhi" and "none" and asked him, and there was no mistake in experimenting a hundred times; Bai Juyi learned to compose poetry at the age of five or six, and at the age of nine he could understand the rhyme.
Bai Juyi's words are not false. The well-known phrase "away from the grass" was written at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Poetry is too famous, and posterity often over-interprets it.
The title of the poem is "Farewell to the Ancient Grass". The word "endowed" explains everything, and according to the regulations of the Tang Dynasty Science Field Examination, the word must be added to the question of all specified poems.
In other words, this poem is considered to be a practice work for the imperial examination. Passed down through the ages because of a test-taking essay, the poetic talent of the young Bai Juyi is completely outstanding.
Bai Juyi is the leader among the hard-working people. In the tenth year of Zhenyuan, Bai Juyi's father died in Xiangzhou, and his mother's control over him became more and more strict. "I personally hold the book of poetry, teach day and night, follow the good temptations, and do not try to add it with a stick."
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"Bai Xiangshan Poetry Collection" written by Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi was very diligent, reading until his mouth and tongue were sore, and writing to the elbows and long cocoons. In his later years, Bai Juyi was deeply tormented by eye diseases, and he often pondered the causes of his illness, and in "Dark Eyes", the poet wrote: "In the early years, he read books and was bitter, and in his later years, he was sad and shed many tears." ”
Bai Juyi's father was named Bai Jigeng, and he only married one wife in his life, and that woman was Bai Juyi's mother, Bai Chen. At the time of marriage, Bai Jigeng was forty-one years old, while Bai Chen was only fifteen years old, and the age difference between the two was twenty-six years old.
And that's not all. Bai Jigeng and Bai Chen have another layer of relationship. Bai Chen is the daughter of his sister's family, and the two are related to their uncle and niece.
In a word, Bai Juyi's mother is also her cousin. According to this branch of seniority, Bai Juyi can also call his father his brother-in-law. Even in the Tang Dynasty, intermarriage between close relatives was also not allowed by Han etiquette.
Before the Middle Tang Dynasty, the Li Tang royal family also did not care much about these, according to scholars, Li Yuan had the blood of the Xianbei clan. From a historical perspective, there is no right or wrong in this matter, and there is no need for people today to stand on the moral high ground and make comments. But Bai Juyi was educated by Confucianism since childhood, and he was ashamed to talk about it, but he couldn't change anything.
There was no way but to tell a beautiful lie and find for himself an ancestor who was prominent.
White but not shallow
Bai Juyi later wrote a poem: "Brothers are the only two, far from eternal sorrow." "In fact, he had four brothers. The eldest brother, Bai Youwen, the second Bai Juyi, and the white xingjian again, and the youngest brother, who has a lovely name, is called King Kongo.
It is a pity that the eldest brother and the younger brother are not prominent in the history books. Only Bai Juyi and Bai Xingjian have poetry passed down and are remembered by future generations.
Bai Xingjian (白行簡), whose name "Xingjian" comes from the Analects of the Analects ,"Ju Respectful and Xingjian", which means that a gentleman does things and grasps the general situation and avoids cumbersomeness.
Bai Juyi's name is from the Book of Rites. There is a saying in the book: "A gentleman is easy to live with his life, and a villain is lucky to take risks." "It means that the gentleman lives in peace and waits for the destiny of heaven, and the villain takes the risk to get something that is not divided."
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The son's name contains the parents' most ardent expectations. Poetry and articles are also the medium of a person's dialogue with the world.
Judging from the poems of the two brothers, Bai Xingjian failed to live up to his parents' expectations, and Bai Juyi implemented the ideas of his parents.
Bai Xingjian is a beautiful writer and author of the legendary novel "The Biography of Li Wa". Another of his articles that shook the ancient and modern worlds is called "Great Happiness Fu", which is a rare work in ancient and modern articles that describes the love of men and women.
Later generations of Hu Shi once said: "This kind of thing is unobstructed, but it is not interesting enough." I have seen a painting: a bed, hanging down a hibiscus tent, a pair of men's shoes on the ground, a pair of red embroidered shoes, a cat crouching in front of the bed looking up at the hook, still a little subtle. "As sily said.
Bai Xingjian is written too thoroughly, seeking cumbersome things rather than seeking generality, which is also contrary to his name "Xingjian".
Bai Juyi's poetry is obviously more advanced, he never denied that he was an old driver, but he was as elegant as possible.
Bai Juyi's famous "Long Hate Song", which has a poem:
Spring cold bath Huaqing pool, hot spring water slippery wash gelatin.
The waiter lifted up the delicate and weak, and it was the time of the new cheng enze.
The clouds and sideburns are golden steps, and the hibiscus tent is warm for the spring supper.
The spring supper rises for a short day, and the king does not go to the throne from now on.
In a few words, the affairs between the palace and the palace are written in a hidden way.
Although "Long Hate Song" is written about Emperor Tang Ming, it is sung among brothels. According to later records, Bai Juyi's poem was finally sold to The Hook Column for a price of five hundred gold.
The prostitutes in Chang'an also boasted because they could sing "Long Hate Song", and their value soared.
Bai Juyi's literary proposition is that "articles are written for the times, and songs and poems are written for the sake of things." He believes that articles should reflect reality, and poetry should reflect society and human feelings.
In order to achieve a goal, his writing should be clear and simple, and take the popular route.
Bai Juyi composed more than 3,000 poems in his lifetime, and was the poet with the most surviving poems in the Tang Dynasty. His poems are widely recited by all classes.
The Tang Dynasty scholar Duan Chengshi created a collection of notebook novels, "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks". The book records a little fan of Bai Juyi, Ge Qing, a Jingzhou native.
Ge Qing's body, from the neck down, was pierced with poetic intent derived from Bai Juyi's poetry. Bai Juyi was called "Bai Sheren", and Ge Qing was also named "Bai SheRen Xingshitu", and he also gladly accepted this title.
Bai Juyi's popularity can be seen from this.
Bai Ju is easy to compose poetry, the meaning of the words is simple, I wish even the old woman could read it, but poetry often has a deep connotation.
He wrote a poem called "Flowers Not Flowers":
Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog.
Midnight comes, and dawn goes.
How long has it been like a spring dream?
Go to the clouds and find nowhere.
This poem is extremely beautifully written, and posterity often associates it, this poem expresses the poet's feelings about life as a dream bubble.
In fact, Bai Juyi has such a high level. This poem is about the recruitment of prostitutes, using the metaphor of "flowers not flowers" that they are uncertain, and the night comes at midnight and the dawn goes, as if they had a spring dream.
Throughout the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was a poet comparable to Li Bai and Du Fu. Li Bai lived too immortally, Du Fu lived too hard, the former is an unattainable person, and the latter is a person that you and I do not want to be. Bai Juyi was fine, although he was plagued by illness in his later years, he lived very quickly. After all, it's good to be a happy old man.
bibliography:
Sima Qian's Records of History;
Bai Juyi's "Nine Books of The Yuan Dynasty" and other essays;
Duan Chengshi "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks";
Shi Jingcun, "Bai Juyi: Eleven Poems of Leisure"
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Source: Kikusai
Author: Old talk
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