Bai Juyi was an outstanding poet of the Middle Tang Dynasty, but his life path was very bumpy. During the Yuan and Tang dynasties, the 46-year-old Bai Juyi was demoted to Zhongzhou, Sichuan as an assassin. Chungju is an ancient city with a long history, which is rich in people and products, and is a livable town. Soon after he took office, he wanted to understand the local customs and customs in detail, so he went out on his own and strolled around The East Street.
Due to the continuous disasters in Chungju in recent years, the people were poor and the situation was very depressed. While bai thorn shi was carefully observing and considering the countermeasures for governance, there was a sudden noise. The poet squeezed into the crowd and saw a middle-aged fat man dressed in silk, stepping on an old man with a loud scolding in his mouth.
When the poet inquired, he learned that the old man was a farmer who picked herbs, and he carried a large basket of hook vines, and rubbed shoulders with the middle-aged man, and the hook thorns on the hook vine scraped the other party's silk clothes. The fat man punched and kicked, did not spare, and insisted that the old man pay a new silk coat.
Bai Juyi hated others the most in his life, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but be indignant. He was about to get angry, and suddenly remembered that there were melon-eating masses all around him, and he came out without an errand boy. So he said patiently: "The road is uneven and others shovel, even if you scratch your clothes, people even cry for forgiveness, you will be counted, why bother?" ”
But the fat man did not agree to it, and he had to ask the old man to compensate. Bai Juyi did not want the old man to suffer, so he suppressed his anger and took out two or two pieces of silver from his arms and threw them to the ground. The fat man picked up the silver and immediately slipped into the tavern with a smile on his face. The poet lifted the old man up, and the old man took his hand, very grateful in his heart, but could not say a word.
The next day White Thorn went to court and ordered the servant to catch the fat man, determined to rectify the villain. Who knew that the wind had leaked in the gate, and the other party had already fled. He shook his head angrily, and that night he had a sullen illness.
At this time, the old man who collected medicine came to ask for a meeting, he saw the adult, hurriedly knelt down to give thanks, and told the poet that his son happened to be on an errand in the yamen, and also said that the master was a gambler of the fat man, so he missed the wind, at this time Bai Juyi finally figured out the reason.
The old man heard that the adult was sick and bedridden, so he specially sent medicine. He also untied a gourd from behind his waist, which contained the ancestral secret recipe hook vine wine. Bai Juyi loved to drink alcohol all his life and had seen many famous wines, but after he arrived in Chungju, he had not yet tasted a good wine that could satisfy himself.
The old man began to introduce in detail: hook vine wine can clear the heat and nourish the yin, calm the nerves and relieve pain. Any insomnia and headache, suffocating fire attacking the heart disease, as long as you drink this hook vine wine, the package tube disease is removed.
Bai Juyi opened the lid of the gourd, and suddenly a clear fragrance appeared, he tasted it, and felt that the taste was sweet and refreshing, much better than all the famous wines he had drunk before. He took a few sips in a row, and immediately felt refreshed and radiant, and the pain was immediately eliminated. Later, he sent an errand boy to inspect the traces of the evil man, and finally caught him in a teahouse, and the people all clapped their hands and applauded!
This year, Chungju was smooth and rainy, the government was smooth, and it also ushered in a bumper harvest year, and the fathers and fellow villagers were all happy. After the opening of spring, Bai Juyi invited the old man who collected medicine to sit next to him, and they tasted the hook vine wine, and the poet also chanted a poem with interest:
"Spring Solstice"
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
If the spring of the southern country returns, the struggle to the east building is long.
White flakes fall plum floating streams, yellow shoots new willows out of the city wall.
Idle banana leaf inscription poetry, suffocate the vine branch to lead the wine to taste.
Happy things are gradually getting older, and from now on they are going to be negative.
The poet rejoiced in the arrival of spring, the days grew longer, the weather warmed up, and everyone rushed to the East Building to bathe in a warm sun. The petals of the white plums float on the clear water, and the willow trees along the city wall have just sprouted new yellow shoots.
The poet is busy sneaking around, improvising poems on banana leaves; when bored, he tastes hook vine wine alone. Happy things are gradually decreasing, the body will also age day by day, and it is estimated that in the future, it will be worthy of this prosperous scene.
Bai Juyi drank wine bitterly, recited a seven-law poem, the scene blended, and also circulated a good story in the poetry world. The author depicts the great scene of winter to spring, and also laments the dilemma of youth and unfinished work. Fortunately, with wine and poetry as a companion, you can get drunk and forget all your worries.
Although the poet loves nature and is willing to do his own meager efforts for the local people, after all, he is in a foreign land and cannot see the future clearly, so even if the poet is less than fifty years old, he calls himself "getting old", and intends to live in the mountains and forests, showing the loneliness and sorrow that is difficult to hide in his heart, but his experience has always made people talk about it!