Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao was a Wenqing (literary and artistic youth) Wenqing was not his illness, it was his life. His contemporaries in the literary circles, in the face of such a high-ranking Wenqing, had no choice but to think so.
Zhu Houzhao married a native of Nanjing, Xia Shi, as empress. He came to Nanjing to visit his family, which was justified, but this was obviously not the focus of his southern journey. He also visited several famous courtiers of the old family, and also specially crossed the river from Nanjing to Dantu to visit Yang Qing, the prime minister who had retired at home, "drinking and feasting for three days, and giving poetry and rewards." This Yang Yiqing is not an idle character, I think that at that time, it was he who cleverly planned to help Zhu Houzhao get rid of Liu Jin. Junchen talked about wine, which was not the focus of Zhu Houzhao's southern tour.
His point is that "Wenqing Disease" is committed. This disease, every time in the late spring and March, when the Grass of Jiangnan grows, there is a total outbreak, and with the pollen of that season flying everywhere, it shows super contagiousness.
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Gangnam not only has warblers and grasses, there are miscellaneous peanut trees, and there are all kinds of charming sounds. For example, opera, trick music, such as gardens, such as calligraphy and painting, everything can be extremely audiovisual entertainment. Wen Qing arrived here, and there was no reason not to linger. Gu Qiyuan, a native of Nanjing who lived in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote a notebook "Guest Words". In the book, he quoted an elder as saying: "Before Zheng and Jia, Nandu was the most mellow. The gentleman is often the author of articles and political affairs and the practice of friendship and integrity, and there are few things to ask for and give up, while those who make profits and livestock are not seen in one hundred or two. Listen to the other way around. He is saying that after Zhengde and Jiajing, the world will be very different, and more and more people will "make profits and enjoy animal tricks" and pursue the enjoyment of sound and color, in short, "corruption" has become. The "Biography of Ming Shi Gu Xuan" says, "The southern capital is from Hong, Yongchu, the style is not smooth", "Zhengde is slightly revived", and several representative figures are named, the first is Xu Lin. The so-called "elegance" of the "History of Ming" actually includes the "sound and profit trick music" of the "Guest Speech".
In a word, Nanjing in the era of Emperor Wuzong of Ming was very literary and artistic, quite "petty bourgeois". As soon as Zhu Houzhao arrived in Nanjing, Xu Lin entered his field of vision, and it was no accident that the letter was not accidental.
Xu Lin (1462-1538), ZiRen, Number Nine Peaks. He was originally from Suzhou, and later moved to Jinling and became a native of Nanjing. At that time, Wenqing in Nanjing City all regarded him as an idol.
Xu Lin has a bold personality and is still an old handsome man. When Zhu Houzhao saw him, he was more than half a hundred years old, but he was still a gentleman and had a fluttering beard, so he had the reputation of "hair immortal" in the jianghu. Putting on others, that beautiful beard may just be a prop for pretending to be a literary fan and a cool uncle, and putting Xu Lin on her body is 100% natural cool. He has many talents, and any association under the Literary Association, he is eligible to become a top member, and there is no need to pretend.
He was a calligrapher and painter. He is good at painting works, seal books to ascend to the gods, calligraphy, calligraphy, and writing are all exquisite, and the inscriptions of the calligraphers Fa Yan and Liu, and the inscription list of the great scribe Fa Zhan Mengju, are all famous at home and abroad. His daimyo, even the Japanese envoys who came from afar knew, tried to get his ink treasure by all means, brought it back to China to show it first, and then treasured it.
Poetry alone in the rain, Xu Lin's book, and the seal of "Kuaiyuan Shuo" on the top.
He was a dramatist. Filling in the lyrics and composing music is a piece of cake in his hand. The songs he filled in were both talented and rigorous, and they were appreciated by both elegant and customary. At that time, people revered him as the "altar of music" in Nanjing, that is, the chief opera composer. According to Zhou Hui, another local scholar in Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, when Xu Lin was young, he often went in and out of the narrow and evil places of the Confucius Temple, and as soon as his songs came out, the warblers and swallows competed to sing, and for a while they were popular all over the city, and their fame became even greater. Wen Zhengming, a Wu Chinese scholar and calligrapher who was far away in Suzhou, once wrote a poem to Xu Lin, praising him for "the new peach leaf crossing of the Lefu, and the color of Writing Xue Tao's notes over and over again." Taoyedu refers to the area of the north of the Confucius Temple, and Xue Tao refers to those warblers, swallows, Pan Pan, and first-class figures of the teacher.
Xu Lin's opera works are quite numerous, and Zhou Hui saw seven kinds of them: "Embroidery", "Sanyuan", "Plum Blossom", "Leaving Shoes", "Pillow", "Planting Melons", and "Two Reunions", which were all popular at that time.
As soon as Emperor Mingwuzong arrived in Jiangnan, Zang Xian, a man of the ming, recommended Xu Lin to Emperor Wuzong, saying that this person's new song was the same for a while. The implication is that if you don't know him or listen to his songs, you are embarrassed to say that you have been to Nanjing! Emperor Wuzong summoned Xu Lin and ordered him to fill out a new song. The Northern Song Dynasty poet Liu Yong called himself "Fengzhi Filling Words Liu Sanchang", and Xu Lin can also claim to "Fill in the Wills of Xu Jiufeng", the same as Fengzhi, and his rank is obviously much higher than That of Liu Yong.
Xu Lin was instructed to fill in the songs, and every song was greatly liked by Emperor Wuzong. Emperor Wuzong had twice been fortunate to visit Xu Lin's home, the famous Kuaiyuan in history. Fast Garden is located in the south of the old city of Nanjing, east of Wuding Gate and west of Hoop Barrel Lane. When Emperor Mingwuzong first drove the Happy Garden, he did not give advance notice. It just so happened that a monk from the Songjiang South Zen Temple came to visit, and Xu Lin asked him to live in the Fast Garden. Unfortunately, the monks had malaria and could not afford to fall ill. On the first night, the sick monk suddenly said to Xu Lin, "The Holy Driver is coming to the Fast Garden soon, so quickly move my bed to a secluded place to take shelter." The sick monk repeatedly stressed that he was by no means a whisper in the midst of illness, but that he had this premonition in his meditation. Xu Lin, according to the monk's words, moved his bed to the ancestral hall. Sure enough, as soon as dawn came, the eunuchs gathered around Zhu Houzhao. Looking at this, zhu Houzhao and Xu Lin have an extraordinary relationship.
The "fast" of the fast garden means happy. There is no shortage of fun-seeking projects in the Fast Garden, and there is no talk of opera here, only fishing. Zhou Hui wrote in "Jinling Trivia" that Ming Wuzong went fishing in the fish pond in the Fast Garden. Every time a goldfish was caught, the eunuchs rushed to buy it at a high price, the monarch laughed and played very happily, and Wuzong accidentally fell into the fish pond, his clothes were all soaked, and he was still happy to climb up. In the Fast Garden, there were originally many scenic spots, including the Evening Jing Pavilion, the Zhenyi Terrace, and the Lizao Hall, full of inscriptions of the world's famous sages, and since then, there have been two more famous places, "Chenxing Hall" and "Bath Dragon Pond", and their value has soared, which is not what it used to be. This is indeed a rare adventure in ancient and modern times, and even Zhou Hui, who recounts this matter, can't help but dance with his eyebrows and sigh.
Unfortunately, the fast garden has become more and more decadent, and it is difficult to see the old traces. Three hundred years later, in the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing (1819), the Hangzhou poet Chen Wenshu composed more than 300 poems in Jinling for his official duties, inscribing famous places of the past, and slightly annotating and examining them, arranged according to the chronology. Because Jinling was called Moling in ancient times, it was named "Moling Collection". The fishing place of Ming Wuzong also aroused the sigh of the poet Huaigu. Before the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Huang Also went to look for old traces.
Seeing Xu Lin's beautiful beard, Zhu Houzhao simply cut it off and made it into a whisk, waving it at the time, often in control. In order to let Xu Lin accompany him day and night, Emperor Wuzong even summoned Xu Lin to stay in the middle of the forbidden city. According to the "Jinling Trivia", Xu Lin "summoned the right person with cloth clothes, responded to the system of day and night, and established a hundred rhymes, although elegant and customary, and many words, around the emperor, calmly consulted, and traveled from day to night, which can be described as an adventure of the world."
Although Xu Lin is funny and self-righteous, he also knows that Mingzhe is protecting himself. Emperor Wuzong repeatedly tried to grant him official positions, but he refused to resign.
Emperor Wuzong summoned Xu Lin several times at the palace in Nanjing. This is not the Ming Forbidden City we imagine. In 1421, Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing and toured the south of Emperor Wuzong for almost a hundred years. The Ming Palace still maintains its former scale, and although it is turbulent, its height is still unmatched by residential buildings. However, Emperor Wuzong toured the south and did not stay in the Ming Palace. That's because the civil and military officials were afraid that once he moved in, he would fall in love with it and never want to return to the north again. They arranged for Zhu Houzhao to live in the eunuch Wang Qiang's house, and they did not know what reasons were made up at that time, so they persuaded the Wenqing Emperor, who was making his own claims and saying no.
"The Ancient Country of Mountain Siege" by Cheng Zhangcan
Nanjing University Publishing Company
Proofread by Xu Heng
Source: Purple Cow News