Less for the stupid children, very much love prosperity, good house, good beauty, good child prostitution, good fresh clothes, good food, good horses, good lanterns, good fireworks, good pear orchards, good trumpets, good antiques, good flowers and birds, and tea and orange abuse, bookworm poetry, toiling for half a life, all become dreams.
——Zhang Dai,"Self-made Epitaph"
In the bustling, fresh clothes and angry horses, idle, love food, love fireworks, love to sing, play music, understand antiques, raise flowers and birds, drink tea and play chess, read books and write poems, this paragraph of text, directly put Zhang Dai on the throne of the noble princes of the Ming Dynasty high society, and he really can afford it.
Zhang Dai was born into the Zhong Ding family. Gaozu Zhang Tianfu was a deputy envoy of yunnan according to the chasi and the secretary of the Taibu Temple; his great-grandfather Zhang Yuanchen, Ming Longqing's five-year champion, and a scholar of the Hanlin Academy; his grandfather Zhang Rulin, who was born as a jinshi, was a good friend of many famous artists Chen Jiru, Tao Shuangling, Huang Ruheng, and others; his father Zhang Yaofang, the prince of Shandong Lu Changshi; and his maternal grandfather Tao Dashun, his second uncle Tao Chongdao, and so on, were all famous officials of the Ming Dynasty.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Dai was born with a golden spoon, and his clothes came to open his mouth, and his words and deeds attracted much attention, "Dozens of servants, attentive to my side, happy to each other, angry and long-term relatives."
He grew up in a thousand favors, and from an early age, he was intelligent and well-read, and he was called a child prodigy. His youthfulness was a matter of course. Moreover, each of his "play" will eventually become a kind of "mastery". This is the real high-class aristocrat Zhang Dai.
Zhang Dai's life is spread out, it is a true high-class aristocrat and behavior map.
For tea, what is the way to drink tea in a high class? ------------------------------------
What is the best water? The water defined by Zhang Dai is the best water. "Such as the autumn moon frost empty, the sky is white; also like the light Lan out of the xiu, the pine and the stone, faintly scattered", "take the water entrance, the first bridge tongue licks the palate, the cheek is empty", this is the superior water, because Zhang Dai, this water has caused a local sensation.
What kind of tea is the best tea? Zhang Dai's homemade tea is a superior tea, using Zhejiang Rizhuo, there is a "golden stone atmosphere", the production method is not simple, "the method of rolling, pinching, moving, scattering, fanning, frying, roasting, Tibetan".
The combination of the two was the most famous "Lan Xue Tea" at that time, "using an open porcelain ou to lightly put it away, waiting for it to be cold; pouring it with a swirling soup, the color is like a bamboo basket solution, and the green powder is initially uniform; and it is also like the first dawn of the mountain window, and the paper is light." Take the Qing concubine white, tend to plain porcelain, true as a hundred stems of vegetarian orchid with snow tao and diarrhea also."
As a late Ming aristocrat, he also had his own set of food.
Eat oranges, "green is not picked, acid is not picked, not red on the tree, not frost is not picked, not even sheared";
Eat broken pond shoots, "shaped like ivory, white as snow, tender as lotus, sweet as cane cream";
Eat crab, "from the fat wax duck, cow cheese." Drunk as amber, boiled cabbage in duck juice like jade plates. Fruit melon to thank oranges, wind chestnuts, wind ling. Drink with jade pot ice, vegetables with bing pit bamboo shoots, rice with xinyu hangbai, gargle with lan snow tea";
Eat cheese, "the milk flowers are clustered up and boiled with a copper bell, the sauce of the Uzlan snow, the milk jin and the juice of the four urns, the boiling of the hundred." Jade liquid bead glue, snow creamy, blowing air sheng lan, into the lungs."
Of course, high society must not only be able to play, but also play well.
In singing and acting, Zhang Dai is also a director, screenwriter and actor, and also opens a class to teach, "In the future, the play in the song will take Yu as the mentor." Get excited and lead the crowd to an art performance anytime, anywhere. "Yu Hu Xiao Dai carried the drama equipment, and sang the dramas of the King of Han And the Great War of the Yangtze River in the hall of lights. The gongs and drums are noisy, and everyone in the temple looks up. Moreover, once the drama he wrote and created was staged, it was empty of people and was widely acclaimed.
Playing cockfighting, he founded the Cockfighting Club, which is the treasure of the town community in the society, and the chickens of friends can't fight him. "On the first birthday of Uncle Qin, Zhong's uncle Qin brought antiques, calligraphy and paintings, literary brocade, Sichuan fans and other things with Yu Bo, and Yu Ji repeatedly won. Uncle Zhong is angry, jin qi distance, jie qi yu, and those who are enough to help his arm and chest, there is no exhaustive strategy. And not win. ”
Play music, learn from the famous master Wang Lu goose, and is the best of the disciples' middle school. "Yu got the method, practiced it and survived, and pulled it out with astringency, so it was called cooperation." Among the classmates, "there is more than enough solidity, but there is no one who is scattered, and there is no one who is above me." Later, he also held his own music salon, "Yu Jie Silk Society, the Moon Will Be Three Meetings".
The Ming Dynasty's upper-class celebrities also had their own set of aesthetic rules, "People have no defects, can not make friends, with their innocence also; people have no habits, can not make friends, with their lack of affection also." People with fetishes and shortcomings are real and vivid, and friends worth making.
Therefore, his connections are extremely extensive, including high-ranking officials and nobles, literati and scholars, as well as unknown craftsmen, craftsmen, geisha, storytellers, monks and so on. Just imagine, Zhang Dai, who has a good family, good talent, can eat and play and is informal, and has a cheerful temperament, who will not like it? Therefore, the various societies he founded, his friends were also quite enthusiastic, shouting, "each friend carried bucket wine, five guithers, ten vegetables and fruits, a red bed, sitting on the ground, more than seventy beds on the mountain", the grand situation was unprecedented.
If he could just play, Zhang Dai might not be loved by so many people. Zhang Dai's difficulty and "preciousness" is not only in the material.
Later, we all know that the Qing army entered the customs and the Ming Dynasty died. His aristocratic life ended here, and his toil for half a lifetime became a dream. In the fiftieth year, the country was destroyed and the family died.
In the past, he was dashing and superior, he was an aristocrat, criticizing Zhu Lixue and official corruption in the process, and he was also a scribe, who had compassion for the low-level people and the thin horses of Yangzhou. And now, in the midst of a war and chaos, he watched the martyrdom of loyal martyrs, including his friend Qi Biaojia, who left a letter of desperation and died in the sinking lake; Wang Siren, a "confidant of landscapes and waters", died of martyrdom; and he also saw many people accepting the qing court's solicitation.
What about him? In fact, being surrendered to the Qing court could save his rich life, he did not; he tried to restore his sight, but the general situation was gone and there was no hope; he also thought about martyrdom, but he found that he had more important things to do.
Zhang Dai was sober, "I know that in the second hundred and eighty-two years of jin ou there is no deficiency in the world, in peace, it is really buried in the hands of the gentlemen of the friends", he is a "soldier" in his bones, he can't bear that his Daming does not even have a national history. Because of the dispute between friends and parties, "in the Ming Dynasty, the history of the country is false, the history of the family is discredited, and the history of the wild is lost." Therefore, he had already begun to prepare to write history books before, and after the death of the Ming Dynasty, he collected books into the mountains and devoted himself to writing, leaving us with literary wealth such as the Ming History "Book of Stone Kui", the Ming Dynasty Life Encyclopedia "Tao An Dream Memories", and "Night Sailing Ship".
In his pen, Daming is still there. "Huxin Pavilion Watching Snow" is the text of Zhang Dai that we are most familiar with, he looks at the snow, but also his past, his home country.