Liu Yuxi's "Buried Room Inscription" is a short inscription of less than 100 words, with a strong style, and the sentences are mostly in the form of comparisons and even sentences, which rhyme to the end and are rich in the beauty of poetry.
The reason why this short inscription can be passed down through the ages and has a good reputation is mainly because of the Confucian ideas embodied in the text.
To borrow Liu Yuxi's words: Si is a burrow, but Wu Dexin. The author took the opportunity to write an inscription to compare himself to Confucius, blowing his own character "from the beginning to the end", but no one ever questioned him.
Only because of this article, not only is the creative technique excellent, but also the Confucian idea of "peace and poverty" has been emphasized. It can encourage people in adversity to stick to their own integrity. It is the wisdom and philosophy of life that belongs to the Chinese.
Appreciation of the Buried Chamber
"Buried Room Ming" - Tang Liu Yuxi
The mountain is not high, and the immortal is named. The water is not deep, there are dragons and spirits. Si is the Burrow, but Wu Dexin. The moss marks are green on the upper level, and the grass color is green. There is a great deal of laughter and laughter, and there is no white ding. You can tune the piano and read the Golden Scripture. There is no silk bamboo messy ear, no case of labor shape. Nanyang Zhuge Lu, Western Shu Zi Yunting. Confucius Ziyun: What is ugly?
The success of this inscription lies in its beautiful rhythm and style. Rhetorical combination of positive and negative, virtual reality is written. But fundamentally, its greatest success is, in fact, the Confucian ideology of peace and happiness.
The first two sentences of the inscription are from the "World Speaks New Language, Pai Tune", the original sentence is "if the mountain is not high, it is not spiritual, and if the abyss is not deep, it is not clear", Liu Yuxi turned it out of the new meaning.
In order to prove that his "burrow is not ugly", Liu Yuxi first wrote from a distance, talking about the reason why the famous mountain Osawa has aura, the key lies in the people who live in that place. So he said, "Although the house is broken, my own virtue is beautiful." ”
The two sentences "The moss marks are green on the upper steps, and the grass is green in the curtain" are written in real scenes. The steps in front of the door were covered with moss, and the weeds on the ground spread to the inside of the curtain.
It seems that this "burrow" has been abandoned for a long time. This is deliberately emphasizing the "ugliness" of the burrow, in order to contrast with the two sentences that follow, "There is a great deal of humor in talking and laughing, and there is no white ding in exchanges".
The two sentences of "can tune the suqin" and the two sentences of "the chaotic ears of the silkless bamboo" are also written in this way of echoing each other. Liu Yuxi's writing here is very distinctive. Because these sentences appear to be contradictory on the surface.
As already said in the front of the inscription, it is a staircase covered with moss, and the weeds have grown to the deserted house inside the curtain. This shows that no one usually goes to the author's burrow.
However, Liu Yuxi then said: "There is a great deal of humor in talking and laughing, and there is no white Ding in exchanges." So, where did those "Hongru" come from? I'm afraid it's not the hell!
Later, it is written that "you can adjust the suqin and read the Golden Scripture", which we all know is writing the tuning of the suqin and reading the scriptures. However, it is a little strange to say in the later main text that "there is no silk bamboo chaotic ear", because the ancient qin is also a plucked instrument such as "silk bamboo".
In fact, Liu Yuxi deliberately played a trick here, and he used the writing method of virtual reality here. The moss marks on the upper steps and the grass color into the curtain are real, but "Hongru" is out of Liu Yuxi's imagination.
According to the introduction of the following article, Liu Yuxi usually reads the classics in the Burrow, just like talking and laughing with those learned "Hongru". The scriptures were all written by Hongru, and naturally none of them were "White Ding".
It was mentioned in the "Book of Song and Tao Qian biography" that Tao Yuanming did not understand the rhythm, but he had a suqin at home. This piano has no strings, and when a guest comes, he takes it out and pretends to play it to express his feelings.
"Suqin" originally referred to a piano that had not been decorated, but the "Suqin" mentioned in the Tang Dynasty's poems sometimes referred to as "stringless qin". For example, Li Bai's "Drama gift to Zheng Liyang" said: "The suqin has no strings, and the wine is wet with a kudzu towel." ”
But Liu Yuxi's "Suqin" written here is neither to show that his qin is not decorated, nor to show that his qin is "stringless". He did not play the piano at all, but in his imagination, he played the piano against the air to cultivate his own sentiments.
Because I live in the "Burrow", the piano does not exist, and naturally there will be no silk and bamboo chaos. Moreover, what he read was his favorite Buddhist scriptures, not annoying official documents, so there was no "case of labor".
What this paragraph in the middle wants to express seems to be the Confucian "idealistic thought." Of course, the main reason why it is popular is that it reflects the Confucian idea of "peace and poverty and happiness".
Finally, Liu Yuxi did not forget to compare his broken house with the old house in Nanyang when Zhuge Liang was not out of the mountains, and the old house in Chengdu when Yang Xiong was practicing the Taixuan Jing.
The Analects say that Confucius wanted to move to the place where Jiuyi lived. Someone told him that it was very closed and backward. Confucius said: If a gentleman like me goes, he will not be closed and backward.
Therefore, in the last sentence of the "Buried Room Ming", Liu Yuxi used Confucius's words "He Ugly", and bragged himself again, praising himself as a "gentleman". It means that if you live in this burrow, then this burrow is not ugly.
Liu Yuxi's life experience is very bumpy, but his personality is very arrogant. In his early years, he failed to participate in the "Yongzhen Innovation" and was exiled for more than twenty years.
Once, the emperor had already summoned Liu Yuxi back to the capital, but when he went to the "Xuandu Temple" to see the peach blossoms, he couldn't help but write a poem to ridicule the magnates. As a result, because of his "mouth arrears", he was released to become an official.
A few years later, Liu Yuxi returned to the capital, but this guy did not learn the lesson of the last time and went to Xuandu to watch the peach blossoms.
When Liu Yuxi found that the guys who opposed him in those years had all made birds and beasts scattered, he couldn't help but write a song "Revisiting XuanduGuan" triumphantly, saying that "Liu Lang has come again before." The personality of its "mouth strong king" can be seen.
In Liu Yuxi's more than twenty years of degrading career, the place where he stayed the longest was Langzhou. Langzhou is in present-day Changde, Hunan, where Liu Yuxi served as a "Sima " for ten years, and the Buried Chamber Ming was probably created here.
epilogue
Some people on the Internet say that there are still three unsolved "mysteries" in this article: first, whether its author is Liu Yuxi or not; second, what does the "Golden Classic" in the inscription refer to; third, how to explain the contradiction between "the chaotic ears of the silkless bamboo" and "the piano can be tuned".
The New Book of Tang and the Biography of Cui Chu (崔沔傳) once recorded: "Cui Chu wrote the Buried Chamber Ming. At the same time, this inscription was never included in Liu Yuxi's own collection. However, after the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" signed this article as Liu Yuxi, everyone no longer argued.
The interpretation of the "Golden Sutra" is said in many books to refer to the "Buddhist scriptures", but it is more appropriate to interpret it as "the two sutras of the Buddhist Tao". As for the contradiction between "tuning the suqin" and "silkless bamboo", it has now been answered.
It turned out that it was not the author who wrote it wrong, but that "Suqin" had allusions, and the "Suqin" in the allusion referred to the "stringless qin" played by Tao Yuanming. "Suqin" and the "Hongru" at the front of the article are based on the author's own imagination.
The reason why the Buried Chamber Inscription has been able to circulate for thousands of years is that in addition to the ideas mentioned above, it is also because Liu Yuxi has successfully applied the technique of poetry to the creation of inscriptions.
Sentences such as "Wei Wu Dexin", "No White Ding" and "Confucius Ziyun: He Ugly", etc., write the true disposition of the author's proud shore. Let the inscription appear vivid and lively while being short and alert, and quite poetic.
Therefore, the article "Buried Room Ming", whether from the narrative point of view or from the ideological point of view, is a rare masterpiece of eternity, worthy of the praise of all generations!