The children:
Yu just said that "Yong Huai Eighty-Two Songs , One of them" is easy to understand. Dad has said many times: reading poetry is not like reading a paper, how clear the righteousness is secondary, and whether poetry can be felt is important. Dad translated his brother's "easy to understand" without permission: it was he who felt the poetry of this "Yong Huai"...
Folly: "Yes! That's it! ”
Lu: "I understand..."
But in fact: The group of poems "Yong Huai" is famously "difficult to understand" in the history of literature, and many scholars believe that Ruan Ju has hidden extremely deep opinions in it: about life, on the politics of the time, on the philosophy of Lao Zhuang... In Southern Liang Liu Xun's "Wenxin Carved Dragon", it is said: "Ruan Zhi is far deep" - Ruan Yuan's idea has gone deep. Zhong Rong, who was the same period as Liu Xun, also said in the "Poetry": "Que Zhi is profound, and it is difficult to find fun" - I also can't understand what Ruan Ju thinks.
There are these two big men who taste poetry and discuss poetry, and scholars in the same period and later generations have said that "we do not understand the Ruan book" (Liu Song Yanyanzhi, Qing Dynasty Fang Dongshu, Zhu Jiazheng, etc., too much), "Yong Huai" Spring and Autumn Brushwork" (Qing Dynasty Wang Shouchang)... Many of them "use historical evidence to write poems": word by word, Ruan's "Yong Huai" satirizes whom and what things it alludes to (Liu Lu in the Yuan Dynasty, He Zhuo in the Qing Dynasty, Chen Yuan, Huang Jie in modern times, etc., too many)... Why do these scholars stubbornly think that Nguyen is secretly pointing?
You can talk about "Ruan Ju rampant"...
Foolishness: "Ruan Is rampant, and he is crying in vain!" ”
Lu: "I will too!" I will too! ”
Let's see how Ruan Ji is crazy, and then taste it together: why should he be rampant, not rampant... Forget it, you two will first compete in the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion"...
"Sister, go get your brother!"
(20 minutes later)
"Review the Eighty-Two Songs of Wing Huai and read them with me."
I can't sleep at night, sit up and play the piano. Thin drapery looks at the bright moon, and the breeze blows my placket. Lonely Hong's outfield, birds singing in the northern forest. Where will wandering see? Sad and sad.
"Go on with Nguyen."
Dad felt that in his life, not only was he not rampant, but he was bitter and instigated. Nguyễn was born in the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), and when he was three years old, his father Nguyễn Nguyễn, a famous scholar among the "Seven Sons of Jian'an", died. His mother brought him up with hard work. This is not the most tragic, the most tragic is that Nguyen lived to be 54 years old (at that time it was OK), but this half-century life was completely included in one of the most chaotic and dead periods in Chinese history — yes, the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Cao Wei era — every second. Students, do you understand a little bit where the sadness in Ruan's "Yong Huai" comes from? I'm afraid to die! Who's going to die at any time? ...... Oh, and there really is: Ruan's buddy Ji Kang is... It was Dad who broke it. Later, we will also talk about Ji Kang.
How is Nguyen a method of fear of death? First of all, most people are vying to become officials, he can hide as long as he can, and if he can't hide, he will resign immediately in a few days. The Book of Jin records that when Ruan Was in his early 30s and at the height of the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiang Ji, who was then a lieutenant, heard of his talent, and was confirmed by his subordinate Wang Mo to send him an unconditional offer: Not to pull him as an official. Ruan Zhihuan wrote a "Sonata" to scold himself, saying that he was seven incompetent and eight unworthy... "Don't say that you are old Jiang to do things, and walk your dog for you will have to slip the dog to death"... Of course, Lord Jiang thought that "talented, modest and modest", who knew to send someone to pick up... What about Nguyen? ...... I really have to hand over the "Sonata" and it will be upside down! Lord Jiang was angry, and with wang mo's persuasion and the advice of Ruan's family, he could not hide--Ruan had to report to Jiang Ji. But after only a few days as an official, he began to soak up the sick number... He soon resigned successfully (Lectionary XIX).
After a few more years, Ruan Became Shang Shulang of the Cao Wei court. This official was not a "dog-headed military division" under Jiang Ji, but the secretary of the emperor who was disguised. But Ruan Ji was afraid of death, and the lieutenant did not dare to serve, let alone the emperor? "Sick" again... However, within a few days, he was mentioned by Cao Shuang (the other being Sima Yi), one of the most powerful ministers in the dynasty, and returned to join the army. The Book of Jin records that "because of illness, screen in the field" - yes, Ruan Zhi was "sick" again! ("Chronicles 19") However, this success avoided him: "Ma Ya, I am afraid of walking the dog for the officials, join the army? Are you kidding! "Say a few more words: In the Book of Jin, it is said that Ruan Ju pushed away this army, but the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" quoted "Wei Shi Chunqiu" believes that he still joined the army as Cao Shuang. Dad was more supportive of the "Book of Jin": Ruan Zhi would be "sick" and would write - he would definitely be able to add all the terminal illnesses known to mankind at that time to the sick leave. Based on the previous experience of "getting sick", it is estimated that Nguyen Ju emphasized infectious diseases.
Fool: "Haha! Nguyen is truly good. ”
Is there a time when you can't push it off? Later officials, Ruan Zhi could not be pushed away. Because Sima Yi, Sima Shi, and Sima Zhao, who were much more powerful than emperors of the Cao family and cao surnames, "invited" Ruan to be officials. Only a year after Cao Shuang's entry into the army, the Gaopingling Rebellion broke out (249), Sima Yi killed Cao Shuang's three tribes, and the Sima family controlled the Cao Wei court... Sima Yi still felt that something was missing...
Sima Yi: "That's right! That Nguyen! Xiao Ruan, come here and give our family a middle lang. ”
Nguyen: "Here it comes!" Ruan Mou bowed to the holy pilgrimage, the dragon is fierce, let you wait for a long time! ”
——The history books do not write such a detail, it is the father's speculation: as soon as the Sima family summoned, Ruan Yuan's "full of terminal illness" was immediately all good. He knew very well that what was more terrible than death was to die immediately, and what was even more terrible than to die immediately was the Sima family that destroyed the three tribes of Cao Shuang and completely emptied the imperial power.
After that, Ruan Zhi obediently served as a lieutenant of Sima Yi and his son Sima Shi for three years, and was also given the title of Marquis of Guannei, and then became a close courtier of the imperial front, which can be said to be getting closer and closer to the center of power... It can be imagined: at that time, Nguyen was bitter and afraid. The little consolation left was to hang out with six friends and drink a lot of wine in the bamboo forest. Among these friends is Ji Kang, who is not afraid of death just mentioned. After the deaths of Sima Yi and Sima Shi, Sima Shi's younger brother Sima Zhao continued to control the Cao Wei court: Ruan Zhi returned to Zhonglang, and a year later offered to be an infantry lieutenant who was slightly on the margins of the center of power—he was later known as the "Ruan Infantry", and so he came. Calling him "Ruan Infantryman", this is also the official he has been the longest--until the fourth year of Jing Yuan (263), before his death (Jin Shu Liechuan XIX)...
Lu: "Ruan Is so pathetic!" ”
Yu: "It's the Sima family that's terrible!" ”
"Who says it's not. Take a break. ”
(Nguyen Ju Rampant (part 2) ends, the next article is (part 3))
Written at home in Beijing
Sunday, November 28, 2021