Can calligraphy be written well to save oneself or to justify one's name? It is really okay, Mi Fu and Song Huizong robbed the Yantai nothing, Zhao Mengfu and Wang Duo are all old people of the former dynasty, all of whom have been justified by later generations because of their calligraphy, and even the castrated party Zhang Ruitu is also sought after today.
However, there are exceptions, such as this calligraphy master, who in his later years was exiled by the deposed officials, he carried a large amount of gold and silver jewelry with him, but because he could not buy any food on the road, he was starved to death on the street. He is the head of the six "traitors" of the Northern Song Dynasty- Cai Jing.
Cai Jing's knowledge is at least a high-level intellectual today, and today's doctors, masters, and professors are not necessarily as high as Cai Jing's knowledge. If you look at the art of calligraphy, Cai Jing is even more: "The well platform draws water - there is no need to pick."
Cai Jing's Song Huizong's "Great View Monument" stele
Cai Jing's calligraphy is unique, and even the arrogant Mi Fu at that time once said that his calligraphy was inferior to Cai Jing's. It is said that once Cai Jing asked Mi Fu: Who is the best calligrapher today? Mi Fu replied: Since Tang Liu's public power, you and your brother Cai Bian have to be counted.
According to historical records, one summer, the weather was extremely hot, and two small officials under Cai Jing stood by his side in order to please Cai Jing and kept fanning him. As soon as Cai Jing was happy, he asked for the fan and inscribed two sentences of Du Fu's poem on it. Unexpectedly, within a few days, this fan was bought by an expert for twenty thousand yuan. It can be seen how well-known Cai Jing was in the calligraphy circle at that time.
Cai Jing Xiaokai
Cai Jing's twenty-three years of government were the darkest period of the Northern Song Dynasty. He did all the bad things, set up the Bureau of Ying and the Bureau of Fabrication, and the Battle of Daxing Huashigang; Building Yanfu Palace and Gongyue, costing tens of thousands; Set up a "Xicheng Kuotian Office" and wantonly search for mintian; In order to make up for the financial deficit, the salt law and the tea law were changed as much as possible, and the ten major coins were minted, resulting in chaos in the currency system. He also sold officials and knights in the DPRK, bribed public officials, and promoted them on a hanging scale, known as "three thousand suo, straight secretarial cabinet; five hundred consecutive, promotion and judgment", so that customs were decadent, stolen officials were all over the world, and the people did not have a good life.
Cai Jing celebrates his birthday and lets the state capital of the world donate money and goods. Because of its large number, it must be organized into a program for every ten ships, called the "Birth Anniversary". In the novel "Water Margin", Chao Gai and other heroes outwit the birth anniversary program based on this fact. Usually, Cai Jing likes to eat quail soup, and every time he eats it, he has to kill hundreds of quails. There is also a food he loves to eat, "Yellow Sparrow Crisp", which is specially vacated in his home for the special storage of these foods, even if he lives for ten thousand years, he can't eat these things.
Cai Jing calligraphy
In 1125, the Jin army invaded the south on a large scale, and the soldiers approached the city of Kaifeng, and the Song Huizong was located in Song Qinzong. At this time, the national impeachment of Cai Jing's sonata, like snowflakes, flew in. Chen Dong, a student of tai, wrote to Song Qinzong a multi-signed note: "The reason why Jin Bing is now able to break through the bamboo and approach Kaifeng is entirely because Cai Jing and his ilk have brought calamity to the country and the people, and cai Jing and his colleagues should be severely punished immediately!" Emperor Qinzong of Song then deposed Cai Jing and exiled him to Shaoguan, Lingnan, where he would never listen.
According to the Song Dynasty Wang Mingqing's "After the Dust", Cai Jing was still very public at the beginning of his exile, and he filled a large ship with the money he had looted in his daily life, believing that as long as he had money, he could do anything. However, he thought wrongly, for him, a huge and corrupt adulterer, on the way from Kaifeng to Changsha, people did not sell him "food and drink", and insulted him everywhere. When I arrived in Changsha, I had nowhere to rest, so I had to live in a ruined temple in the south of the city.
Sickness and hardship, hunger and cold, at this point, he really introspected himself: "Beijing has lost the hearts of the people, why is this?" He also wrote: "Eighty-one years of past, three thousand miles away without a home, alone in the ends of the world, looking at Shenzhou in tears." The Fifth Golden Hall once worshiped the face, and the Jade Hall was ten degrees of Xuanma, reminiscing about the prosperity of the past, and this time it became a dream. ”
Cai Jing, a great traitor who had read the books of the sages and was brilliant in writing, after doing all the bad things in the world, he was starved to death with the gold and silver treasures he had looted.
Part of Cai Jingxing's book "Map Scroll of the Return of the Snow River to zhao zhao"
The old saying goes: "Since ancient times, there have been deep disasters and deep disasters, and Hugh is greedy, rich and noble, and has a bad conscience." There is nothing wrong with the dripping water in front of the eaves, and the retribution is from ancient to modern times. ”
After Cai Jing's death, there was no coffin, the body was wrapped in cloth, and he was buried in a desolate stone gang. However, I don't know how many Cai Jing-like figures have continued to follow the "road" that Cai Jing once walked.
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