The Tang Dynasty was an era of great talent explosion, and many outstanding talents appeared, in addition to the most famous Li Bai and Du Fu, as well as the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, who were also remarkable, especially Wang Bo, who created the famous "Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng", and was a great legendary Junjie.
According to the Old Book of Tang, Wang Bo was six years old and was praised as a "child prodigy", read a large number of ancient books at a very young age, and at the age of 16, he passed the Yusu Keju Examination specially set up by Emperor Gaozong of Tang for poor children, and was awarded the position of Chaosanlang, becoming the youngest imperial court official. With "Ode to the Qianyuan Temple", it was praised by Emperor Gaozong of Tang as "Wizard, Wizard, I Da Tang Wizard!" And gradually became the head of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty.
Wang Bo was appointed by the imperial court because of his outstanding talent, but he did not think about it, and he also caused trouble because of his outstanding talent. After Wang Bo became a ChaosanLang, he was recommended to undertake the work of revision in the palace of Li Xian, the King of Pei, and since they were all young people at the time, Wang Bo wanted to get Li Xian's attention and get better development, so he quickly won Li Xian's favor. In order to continue to win Li Xian's heart, Wang Bo often showed his talents and learning in Li Xian's daily activities. Once, Li Xian and his younger brother Li Xian played a game of cockfighting, and in order to help Li Xian's momentum, Wang Bo wrote a "Chicken Text of the King of Tan Ying" with a stroke of his pen. The main content of this 500-word fu article is to use the tone of Li Xian, the king of Pei, to attack The King Li Xian, thinking that Li Xian's cockfighting will help him, and he quotes the scriptures to talk about the heroic fighting posture of the rooster, such as "Two males can't stand side by side, how dare one peck be arrogant?" Such sentences are written in a very imposing manner.
Just as Wang Bo was having fun with Li Xian, the King of Pei, and Li Xian, the King of England, this "Chicken Text of the King of Qiying" he wrote reached the eyes of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and Li Zhi was immediately furious after reading it, and reprimanded Wang Bo to the people around him: "Crooked talent, crooked talent!" The second king fought cocks, and Wang Bo, as a doctor, did not exhort, but instead wrote a text, and should be immediately expelled from the palace. It should be known that in ancient times, Wang Bo was a critical article specifically used to announce or denounce hostile forces, and it was obvious that Wang Bo's use of this to help King Wei Pei fight cocks with the King of Ying, and Li Zhi also believed that Wang Bo had the intention of alienating Li Xian and Li Xian's brothers, so he ordered Wang Bo to be expelled from the imperial court.
After Wang Bo was expelled from the imperial court, he went to the land of Bashu to visit the scenery of mountains and rivers, which lasted for about three years, during which time he wrote a large number of poems. In the second year of Xianheng (671), with the change of the situation in the imperial court, Wang Bo returned to Chang'an to participate in the scientific election, and with the help of friends, he obtained a position in the army of Yuzhou. After Wang Bo joined the army, he encountered an unexpected event, which completely reversed his fate and even led to his untimely death.
When Wang Bo joined the army as a prisoner in Yuzhou, he met an official slave named Cao Da, who was convicted at that time, and for some reason, Wang Bo hid Cao Da, but soon after, he was worried that the secret criminals would leak the news, in order to get rid of this matter, Wang Bo killed Cao Da, and was soon convicted of this matter and was convicted of a capital crime. Fortunately, without waiting for Wang Bo to kill his head, he caught up with the Tang Dynasty to implement a general amnesty for sinners in the world, and luckily recovered his life. The historical records of this incident are very brief, and the causes and consequences are very strange, but according to the analysis of the old and new "Book of Tang", Wang Bo's disaster this time should be caused by his arrogance and arrogance, and he was hated and framed by his colleagues. This incident ended Wang Bo's career, and although his life was temporarily saved, it laid the foundation for the accidental death that followed.
Because of the above incident, Wang Bo was not only convicted of his own crimes, but even his old father Wang Fuyu in the official field was also implicated, and he was demoted by the imperial court from Yongzhou Sigong to the distant southern wasteland to serve as a county commander. The imperial court's punishment of Wang Bo's father had an impact far more than that of Wang Bo himself. He was very guilty about what happened to his father, and this emotion was vividly expressed in his "Hundred Li Chang Yan Shu": "Such as Bo Shang He Yan Ya! The humiliation of relatives can be described as profound. It is advisable to be gray and pink, to thank father... Now the Lord of the Present Dynasty condemns the country and kills the border. Out of the three rivers and floating five lakes, cross the East Ou and cross the South China Sea. Woohoo! This sin also has no escape between heaven and earth. ”
After Wang Bo was released from prison, he stayed at home for more than a year, during which time the imperial court ordered him to be reinstated to his old post, but Wang Bo, who had been repeatedly attacked by the officialdom, had lost confidence in his career, so he did not accept the edict. In the autumn of the second year of the First Yuan Dynasty (675), in order to visit his old father who had been relegated to the southern wasteland, Wang Bo decided to set off from Luoyang and go south along the canal to Jiaotong to visit his father. In the following year, in the spring and summer, Wang Bo finally met his father, who was living in poverty. After staying for a while, Wang Bo embarked on the way home from the sea, never expected that this time he would no longer be able to set foot on the land of his hometown, because it was summer, the waves in the South China Sea were huge, Wang Bo unfortunately drowned, ending his short and good life.
Wang Bo wrote many excellent poems in his lifetime, such as "Sending Du Shaofu to Ren Shuzhou" and "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", which are all famous pieces throughout the ages. It is said that Wang Bo wrote the Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion in the autumn of the year before his death, on the way to Jiaotong to visit his father, while passing through Nanchang. At that time, the governor Yan Boyu rebuilt the Tengwang Pavilion, and yu Chongyang Festival feasted on the Tengwang Pavilion, and when he heard that the famous Wang Bo had come to see him, Yan Boyu immediately invited him to the banquet. At the banquet, Yan Boyu asked everyone to improvise a book to write a preface for Teng Wangge, and in order to show the talent of his son-in-law Meng Xueshi, he was also arranged to write a preface in advance, which was displayed as an improvisational work at the banquet, and other people's works were used as a foil to highlight his talent and learning. Wang Bo, who was young and talented, knew all this, so he took the pen and paper, thought about it a little, and then wrote down this well-known "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" for thousands of years. Although Wang Bo's move undermined the arrangement of the governor, his high talent made the governor of Yan have to be impressed.
After the text of the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", Wang Bo added another poem: "The shadow of the idle cloud pond is leisurely, and the things change stars to move several degrees in autumn." Where is the Emperor of the Cabinet? The Yangtze River outside the sills □ artesian flow. He deliberately hollowed out a word in the last sentence, and after handing over the poem to Yan Boyu, he resigned and went on the road. After Yan Dudu and the crowd carefully read the poem, in addition to admiration, they found that the next word in the verse was empty, and everyone speculated that this word might be "water" or "alone" at the same time, but Yan Dudu was not satisfied, thinking about it, everyone felt that it was better to send someone to catch up with Wang Bo and ask what word was empty. After the people who could be sent to chase after him found Wang Bo, his entourage said: "My son has a word, a word is worth a thousand gold, and he looks forward to Lord Yan Haihan." When Yan Dudu learned that he was a little angry at first, but he especially wanted to get Wang Bo's answer, he sent someone to catch up with Wang Bo with a thousand taels of silver, and Wang Bo said: "Empty, empty." Where is the Emperor of the Cabinet? The Yangtze River flows empty of its own streams outside the sills. This is the story of Wang Bo' words and gold. Later, Emperor Gaozong of Tang saw Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" and praised it as "a song that has been sung for thousands of years, and it is also a true genius." Looking at it again, he sighed: "Good poetry, good poetry!" And regretting that he had rebuked Wang Bo for fighting cocks, and wanted to summon Wang Bo to the dynasty again, the people around him replied: "Wang Bo has fallen into the water and died." Tang Gaozong continued to say to himself, "Pity, pity, pity!" ”
It may be that Wang Bo's death is indeed too bad, or it may be that his "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion" is too wonderful. Legend has it that after Wang Bo's death, when someone walked through his tomb, he often heard Wang Bo chanting "The sunset and the lone bird fly together, and the autumn water is long and colorful". One Xiucai encountered this situation and said to Wang Bo's tomb: "This sentence is good, but it is not concise enough, it is better to change it to 'Falling Xia Lonely Bird Flying Together, Autumn Water Is Long And The Sky Is Colorful'?" Since then, no one has ever heard a verse chanted in Wang Bo's tomb. There is also a legend that after Wang Bo's death, the ghost often wandered in the Ganjiang River, and when he met people, he often recited those two poems, and after hearing it, he shouted at the river: "This sentence is not well written, it is too wordy, if you remove the 'and' of the previous sentence and the 'gong' of the next sentence, it will be much more concise." After that, Wang Bo's chanting could no longer be heard on the Ganjiang River.
As one of the most outstanding poets of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo was erudite and talented since childhood, and belonged to the level of genius, and even Chairman Mao praised Wang Bo for his "high talent and erudition." It's just a pity that Wang Bo died in his twenties, otherwise, he would have been able to create more strange and wonderful passages that have been passed down through the ages. However, the reason for Wang Bo's early death was related to Tang Gaozong's small temperament and Wang Boshi's improper talent, second, it was related to his youthful debauchery and careless behavior, and third, it was related to his arrogance and arrogance, and he was hated by his colleagues. If Wang Bo did not do cockfighting and successfully became an official in the Pei King's Mansion, he would not have encountered a series of changes in the future, and there might not have been a matter of going to the water and dying in the water, of course, this may not have made the Qiwen "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion"!