The Purple House followed the deep wish of the knot, and returned to the line of color. The autumn wind leaves blow flying, and the night moon crosses the river to illuminate the drum and piano. Shen Ning had intentions, and Gu Yun had no intention of living there. Zhenyuan Pilgrims who treat each other, Taoguan to try again. The author of this poem is Naran Zhide of the Kangxi Dynasty. In the autumn of the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), the famous Daoist Shi Daoyuan left the capital to return to the south, and Naran Zhide went to send him off, because of this work.
(Qing) Yu Zhiding painted the axis of "Nalan Rongruo Statue"
The last two sentences of the "Zhenyuan Dynasty Scholar" refer to Liu Yuxi and others during the Zhenyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, who after being degraded, after more than twenty years, returned to the imperial court as a guest of the crown prince. Shi Daoyuan is famous all over the world, there are many believers, and his departure from Beijing is certainly not demeaned. Naranjande's use of this allusion is actually based on the self-comparison of "Zhenyuan Dynasty Soldiers", facing failure and refusing to abandon illusions, hoping that he will be relied upon by the imperial court in the future.
Because in March of that year, he ranked second in the temple examination and was given the birth of a soldier. According to normal development, he should have passed the re-examination of the Hanlin Academy, became a Hanlin bachelor, and then served as an official and engaged in politics, just as the Confucians advocated "reaching the world and helping the world". Who knew the results of the re-examination, and he was actually deposed by the Kangxi Emperor. Coincidentally, The Kangxi Emperor's hand-picked new branch leader, Peng Dingqiu, had participated in the Fuqi two years ago, and its host was rumored to be Shi Daoyuan. The result of Peng Ding's request for help indicates that he will enter the high school in the year of Bingchen, and the fifteenth year of Kangxi is the year of Chengchen.
At that time, Naran Zhide had not yet extinguished his idea of fame, and although he was deposed, he still hoped that he would be able to enter politics as a Hanlin official in the future. It wasn't until the turn of the year, when he was awarded the position of third-class bodyguard by the Kangxi Emperor, that he suddenly realized that the career he was looking forward to was actually just a tool used by the Kangxi Emperor to balance his father Nalan Mingzhu.
This incident hit him hard, and the tragedy of his life began even more.
Dorgon did him a favor
Naran Zhide, born in the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654), was originally named Naran Chengde. Because the crown prince Yin Rong, who was created in the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1675), had the name Baocheng, he changed his name to Sex Virtue in order to avoid the suspicion of the crown prince.
Naranjande's great-grandfather Jintaiji, the leader of the Yehe tribe of the Jurchen clan, originally had a brother-in-law with Nurhaci, and Jintaiji's sister was the birth mother of Emperor Taiji, but the two sides competed for land, and Jintaiji was attacked and killed by Nurhaci's army, and his son Niyaha led the crowd to surrender and was incorporated into the Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners. Later, the Qing Dynasty was established, and the regent Dolgun took power and married the daughter of the British prince Azig to Naran Mingzhu, the son of Nyaha.
Prince Azig of England, the twelfth son of Nurhaci, and the thirteenth son of Dorgon were born to a mother, so the relationship between the two was particularly good. Azig was able to fight in battle, had great military merit, and was Dorgon's right and left arm. After the death of Emperor Taiji, he had urged Dolgun to seize power and claim the title of emperor, but among the Eight Banners, Dorgon only completely controlled the Zhengbai Banner and the White Banner, and lacked the support of the other six banners, so he had to decide to be succeeded by Fu Lin, who was the later Shunzhi Emperor. Therefore, Dorgon's marriage of Azig's daughter to Naran Mingzhu actually has the meaning of enveloping the yellow flag officials.
However, this layer of clan relationship, instead of helping Nalan Mingzhu, became a big burden. In December of the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), Dorgon died, Azig plotted to seize power, and was defeated and captured; in the past few years, the Shunzhi Emperor has liquidated Dorgon on a large scale, and at the end of the year, Azig was killed. At that time, Naran Mingzhu was sixteen years old and had just begun his career, but with the relationship between Dorgon and Azig, it was not difficult to speculate that his career was doomed to be unsuccessful. He thus walked on thin ice until the Kangxi Dynasty, and in the third year of Kangxi (1664), he was appointed as the governor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the appreciation of the auxiliary minister, Shu Bilong. This is the official rank of Masazo pin and is in charge of the daily meals, clothing, engineering, guards and other large and small affairs in the palace. Later, he attached himself to Aobai and continued to be promoted, and chose the opportunity to show loyalty to the Kangxi Emperor.
After the Kangxi Emperor came to power, he needed to employ people everywhere. Naran Mingzhu was well-done and all agreeable, so he was promoted to a knight all the way. His most glorious period began with kangxi being awarded the title of Wuyingdian University Scholar in the sixteenth year of Kangxi (1677), and then accumulating the crown prince Taishi, and the power of the government and the opposition, until the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi (1688) was impeached and overthrown. Naran died young and died three years before his father's downfall. So Naran's life, as far as life is concerned, is very good.
Three factors made him miserable all his life
But the good is the good, and his life is actually not happy. This unhappiness is mainly composed of three factors.
The first factor is that the father and son have different temperaments, and the son does not recognize the father, but is subject to feudal ethics and cannot openly resist. Nalan Mingzhu went through hardships to win the smooth sailing of his career, and if he wanted to be evergreen, he naturally had to cultivate his henchmen, and it was impossible to be upright. However, Naran was influenced by Confucianism, on the one hand, he resented his father's corruption, and on the other hand, he wanted to talk about the "father and son of the king and the subject", and secretly felt bitter. Accumulated in the heart, there is no way to vent, and it turns into a voice of sorrow in the words.
The second factor is the early death of his beloved wife. Naran's temperament is extremely affectionate, it is difficult to meet a confidant, overjoyed, the couple is very loving, who knows that after a few years of marriage, the wife has difficulty giving birth to death. Because of this, he was even more miserable, and wrote several eulogies, and the sincerity of his emotions allowed him to be sung for eternity.
The third factor, the ideal of his life, could not be fulfilled, and he became a victim of the Kangxi Emperor's balance on his father Nalan Mingzhu.
The Naran clan is a famous Manchu family, but the Nalan Pearl took the initiative to Sinicize and recruited famous literati scholars to teach their children, which is a rare move of Manchu Sinicization in the early Qing Dynasty. Guided by Confucianism, Naran Zhide formed an idealized life goal and studied hard, not to aspire to fame and fortune, but to strive for fame and fortune, to shock the literary world like his Han teachers, and to integrate into the cultural circle of the Han people. Therefore, after zhongju and zhongdi, kangxi in the twelfth year (1673) could not participate in the temple examination due to illness, and regretted it for a long time.
He studied behind closed doors for three full years. In March of the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), he went to the temple again to take the examination and ranked second. If all is well, he will then pass the selection of the Hanlin Academy and become a Hanlin Bachelor. The so-called Hanlin means the forest of Wenhan, just like the Wenyuan. The Hanlin Bachelor was the highest social status that the literati could attain at that time, and they were the elite of the elite. From the imperial examination to Hanlin, and then from Hanlin to politics, it was the right path for readers in ancient times.
The selection of the Hanlin Academy, referred to as the selection of the museum, has a fixed system. According to the results of the temple examination, the first three people, called the champion, the list eye, and the tanhua in turn, are automatically admitted to the Hanlin Courtyard, and there is no need to select the museum. The second and third class people must be selected again and selected on the basis of merit. In the temple examination that Naran Took part in, there were fifty people in the second rank, one hundred and fifty-six people in the third place, a total of more than two hundred people, and finally a total of thirty-two people passed the selection. But among these people, there was no Narand.
Judging from the list kept by the Qing Palace, this batch of Hanlin did not have future outstanding figures. Why can they pass the selection, but Naranjande can't? According to historical data: "My Holy Ancestor Emperor, every day and day, came to the court to listen to the government, introduced various officials, especially in the selection of relatives and details of the museum. "The Hanlin Courtyard is the reserve of the imperial court's courtiers, and the selection of the museum is like the last filter. The Kangxi Emperor attached great importance to the selection of the pavilion and personally filtered it, regardless of the talent of Naran's character, regardless of his origin, he was the son of the Naran Pearl that the Kangxi Emperor relied on, and he did not look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face, so why did the Kangxi Emperor actually filter him out?
This brings us to the question of the relationship between the Kangxi Emperor and the Pearl of Nalan.
Kangxi regarded him as a "tool man"
In the fifteenth year of kangxi, the year that Naran Zhide went to the temple examination, the official position of Naran Mingzhu was the official Shangshu of the official. The bureaucracy is the head of the six ministries, responsible for the appointment and dismissal of officials and personnel. Although there was still a layer of cabinet between him and the emperor, he was a close confidant of the emperor and was in charge of the bureaucracy, and the courtiers were naturally flocking to him. At that time, during the expansion of san Francisco's military power, the southwest was lost and the northwest rebelled. When the world was shaking, the imperial court urgently needed to employ people. Although Nalan Mingzhu had gained power and formed a party, there was no lack of minor evils, but he was clear in his major affairs and resolutely supported the withdrawal of the imperial court, so although the Kangxi Emperor had received reports and secretions against Nalan Mingzhu, he chose to put it on hold.
As the Kangxi Emperor said afterwards: "I don't know what I am doing, but when I am using troops, I show tolerance every time." In fact, he had long been aware of the trend of the friends in the imperial court, but he was strategizing, first of all, to stabilize the interior, and he must not lose too much, so he had to use other things to knock the Naran Pearl and receive some warning effect.
Naran is the son of Naran Mingzhu, his father is deeply favored, his son is both excellent in character and learning, and anyone feels that the selection of the museum is nothing more than a formality. However, the Kangxi Emperor insisted on pouring a basin of cold water on the father and son. What's more, after the defeat of the Naran Sex Deguan Election, the Kangxi Emperor could not afford to give him any position under the pretext of using soldiers in the imperial court, and Naran Sex De was rubbing his fists and wanted to fight like other Manchu warriors, but the Kangxi Emperor still turned a blind eye, until a year later, when San Francisco showed a defeat, he let him enter the palace as a third-class bodyguard.
Naran Sex Dekong has a heart of blood and ideals, born in a world of shocks, but he has not made any achievements, he cannot go through both the way of culture and martial arts, and he does not meet huaicai, which is no wonder that he is depressed and abnormal, and even has the indignant words of "heaven is difficult to ask". During this year, Nalan Mingzhu was even more fearful, until the Kangxi Emperor was extra gracious and granted a position to his son, and then he let go of a boulder in his heart. The Kangxi Emperor declared his imperial power in a posture of "grace and reward", and used Nalan's career to remind Nalan Mingzhu that everything he had was just an appendage of imperial power, and the power given to him by the emperor could be taken back at any time, which could be said to be a very clever way to control.
He was hit three times in a year
After the fifteenth year of kangxi's failure in the museum election, Naran Zhide still held unrealistic illusions, and although he occasionally had the words of birth and world-weariness, his attitude towards life had not yet undergone a fundamental change. It wasn't until the turn of the year that he truly experienced the bitterness and despair of life.
In May of the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1677), his beloved wife died, leaving him alone in the human world. It was the first blow he had suffered. The pain of losing a wife haunts my heart. Just two months later, just as he was immersed in pain, another blow came.
In July of that year, Naran Mingzhu was promoted to a scholar of Wuyingdian University and became an assistant minister of the cabinet, which could determine the direction of some of the dynastic government. Inside Naran Province, it is natural to have a large row of feasts. In the midst of the festivities, the shadow of Naranjande is particularly lonely. He hated his father's way of dealing with the world, but had to face the reality that the Kangxi Emperor reused his father. This directly hit his self-esteem as an intellectual.
This was followed by the third blow of the fall of that year. He was awarded the title of third-class bodyguard by the Kangxi Emperor. The Kangxi Emperor's move may have also meant to write a blank cheque to Nalan Mingzhu. In that year, Gaiyin Nalan Mingzhu was transferred from a third-class bodyguard to langzhong of the ministry of internal affairs, and then promoted to the chief of the ministry of internal affairs, and became a leader and transferred to the center of the imperial court. The Kangxi Emperor granted the same position to Naran, possibly to appease Naran Mingzhu, suggesting that his son would follow a similar trajectory as he did.
However, this arrangement completely shattered Naran's dream of Hanlin. Because everyone knows that Naranjande's position as a bodyguard was not earned by his own ability. Moreover, the Eight Banners had the privilege of entering the palace as a bodyguard, and the Kangxi Emperor left him idle for a year, and the result was that he was assigned a job based on his Manchu blood, which is tantamount to saying that if he was not the son of a powerful courtier, if he was not a Manchurian nobleman, he would have no value at all.
All of Naranjand's previous efforts were to get rid of his inherent Manchu cultural circle. But all the efforts have been made so far. The Kangxi Emperor pulled him back to the path of the Manchu disciples. From then on, he never had the opportunity to realize his Hanlin dream.
In just one year, Naranjand was hit hard one after another. The pain he receives is emotional, cultural, and idealistic. The pain cascades on top of each other, eventually inspiring a good word for mourning. Behind the talent of the talented Naran words is really the great misfortune of the lyricist.
Original title: Why does Naran Zhide compare himself to "Zhenyuan Dynasty Soldier"?
Text/Canal Sincerity
Source/Beijing Evening News
Editor/He Mengyu