Why is "Twenty-Four Friends" as famous as "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest"?

The most famous literary groups of the ancients are the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" and the "Seven Sons of Jian'an". During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was also a literary group called "Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu", but it was rarely mentioned by posterity.

As the name suggests, the Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu have twenty-four members, or "Twenty-Four Friends" for short, and they often meet and move in the Jingu Garden in Luoyang.

The initiator of the society is Jia Mi, and the famous Jia Nanfeng is his aunt. Jia Mi's father was named Han Shou, and he was also a handsome man. The "Biography of Jia Chong of the Book of Jin" records that there were Gong Qixiang in the Western Regions, and a person who did not stop for a month, the emperor was very expensive, but he gave Chong and the Great Sima Chen Qian. His female secret thief took shou as a widow, and chong was subordinate to Shou Yan, smelling his fenfu and calling it Yu Chong.

Jia Mi did not take his father's surname, because his uncle died early and did not have a queen, Jia Mi passed on to the Jia family. Jia Mi likes to dance and ink, some people flatter his articles are gorgeous, can be compared with the Han Dynasty great talent Jia Yi, Jia Mi listened, and thought: Do not establish a literary group, when the president of the association is really sorry for his full talent, so twenty-four friends were born, with Jia Mi's family background, of course, the people who came to the scene were the elite figures at that time: "Kai Guan Yanbin, Hai Nei Spoke Together, Guiyou Haoqi and Floating Competitors, all the etiquette." ”

Where the party needs the support of activity funds, this non-rich Shi Chong. When Shi Chong was serving as the Assassin of Jingzhou, he made his fortune by robbing passers-by of the wealth of passing merchants. After he returned to Luoyang, he built a luxurious villa, Jingu Garden, and spent all day drinking wine and drunken gold fans. Uncle Wang Kai was envious of Shi Chong, and also engaged in a struggle for wealth with Shi Chong, and Wang Kai ended in failure. After the fall of the Jia clique, Shi Chong,000 had a conflict with Sun Xiu because of a favorite, Ji Luzhu, and the whole family was killed and his wealth was scattered.

The most famous of the members of the Twenty-Four Friends should be the beautiful man Pan An, who is talented, and lu ji and called "Pan Lu", when he goes out, it will cause thousands of empty alleys, traffic jams, and harvest a cart full of fruits and flowers to come back. Although sought after by thousands of people, Pan An was very loyal to the marriage and remained single since the death of his wife. Pan An's temperament is frivolous and profit-seeking, he is too attached to the Jia clan, bows down in front of the magnates, and eventually gets involved in political struggles, and does not end well.

The story of "smelling the chicken dancing" is well known to everyone, one of the male protagonists, Liu Kun, is also a member of the "Twenty-Four Friends of jingu", Liu Kun's first half of his life is a talent who sings poetry in the Jingu Garden, and the second half of his life is a general loyal to the Jin room. Li Qingzhao once wrote a poem that "the southern crossing is dressed in a young king's guide, and the news from the north owes Liu Kun." ”

There are still several famous figures in the Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu, including the calligrapher Lu Yun and Brother Lu Ji, Ouyang Jian, who advocates "doing his best", and Zuo Si, the protagonist of Luoyang Paper Gui.

Twenty-four friends are based on the shade of Jia's tree to establish, not pure literary community, its establishment at the beginning is closely related to politics of the organization, coupled with the Jia Nanfeng as the representative of the Jia group is notorious, the initiator Jia Mi is also difficult to say, most of the members of the twenty-four friends have the suspicion of clinging to Jia's family, the quality is even more uneven, the establishment of this society, there is no ideological concept and spiritual pursuit, so, the twenty-four friends of the Golden Valley in the history of literature is bleak, which is why the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" is well-known, "Twenty-four Friends of the Golden Valley" But little is known.