A few years ago, I went to Fenghua Xuedou Mountain in Zhejiang Province. Xuedou Mountain is beautiful, but there are few people. I quickly lost my way in the mountains, and between the turns, I suddenly saw a stone statue of Wang Anshi in an inconspicuous place on the side of the road, which was quite lonely in the shade of green trees.
At that time, I immediately thought of the statue of Su Dongpo standing tall on the edge of the bustling West Lake, and how the difference in status was, and an indescribable taste came to my mind.
A few days ago, the poet Reg accurately said my experience: "Bachelors are in the wind for hundreds of generations, and they are lonely for a thousand years." ”
For thousands of years, Su Dongpo Su Xueshi has done his best, Hangzhou Huizhou Danzhou, there are his stories circulating everywhere, mentioning the optimism and open-mindedness of Su Dongpo; but Wang Anshi, before and after his death, has been controversial, almost scolded for a thousand years, circulated a lonely.
This year is the 1,000th anniversary of Wang Anshi's birth, our short life can just meet the millennium birthday of several people, the nameless people have long been annihilated by the dust of history, and there are very few people who can still be famous for a thousand years; there are still a few people who can catch up with the millennium birthday of a big man, Liang Rengong, who wrote "The Biography of Wang Anshi", failed to catch up, fortunately we caught up.
Therefore, on the day of Wang Anshi's birthday on December 18, there is an academic seminar to commemorate Wang Anshi, and the folk have their own folk way of commemoration - that is, students have prayed to Jeff (Jiefu) to bless the success of the fourth and sixth level examinations held on the day, which is really a new landscape in the new era.
I have always preferred Wang Anshi more than Su Dongpo, probably because of preconceived notions.
When I was a child, I read a villain book called "Three Difficulties Su Dongpo", the story is that Su Dongpo is proud of his talents, randomly revised the poems of his teacher Wang Anshi, and made his own clever poem in the teacher's poem "The west wind passed through the garden last night, blowing off yellow flowers full of gold." Add two sentences to the end: "Autumn flowers are no better than spring flowers, said with the poet carefully chanting." "As a result, I was punched in the face by reality, full of yellow flowers and haggard, and chrysanthemums were about to fall."
I think the teacher must be better than the student!
But why did I still prefer Wang Anshi more in the future?
Obviously, It is better for Su Dongpo to write poetry, "if you want to make the West Lake better than the West, light makeup is always appropriate", how wonderful and how natural. And Wang Anshi's "Spring Breeze and the South Bank of the Green River", a "green" word is regarded as a model for refining words, but I feel that this green word really suppresses other words, which seems a bit deliberate and unnatural.
Instead, I prefer another of his little poems, "There are several plums in the corner of the wall, and Ling Han drives alone." Haruka is not snow, for there is dark incense to come. This is probably also a portrayal of Wang Anshi himself, he is a white plum that fights against the cold winter.
Obviously, Su Dongpo is more mercurial, and I prefer Wang Anshi, not because he is talented, or because of his stubborn personality?
Wang Anshi is diligent and erudite, indifferent to fame and fortune, but he is competitive and competitive, stubborn in character, and is known as "awkward and fair", is this not a typical "true temperament"? Historically, Du Fu was such a man of impatience, and because of his outspokenness, he was almost killed by yan Wu, the benefactor who rescued him.
On the one hand, it can make people focus on a certain aspect and produce great achievements, and the level of Du Fu's poetry writing is at its peak; on the other hand, this personality is actually easy to get along with, because he is moody and angry, and will not hide it. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", Lin Daiyu would throw away the flowers in front of her face and say, "I just know that if it is not picked by others, it will not be given to me." "Xue Baochao will never be like this, Baochao is always at peace, but you don't want to get her sincerity."
It's so funny, is it because I prefer Wang Anshi because he is a second son? Absolutely not, Wang Anshi's greatest charm comes from his politician physique.
Wang Anshi is one of the few figures in history who can be called a "politician", as the saying goes, "Xie Anshi, Wang Anshi, Governing the Country and the State two Anshi". Wang Anshi also had a very high self-esteem, comparing himself to Mencius. His teacher Ouyang Xiu praised him for writing good articles, "Three thousand Hanlin Fengyue, two hundred years of official articles", you are Li Bai's reincarnation, contemporary Han Yu! I have to say that Ouyang Xiu exaggerated not on the point, Wang Anshi naturally did not agree, he said, "If he can spy on Mencius in the future, how dare he hope for Han Gong in his life", I am not interested in literature, my goal is Mencius!
In fact, with our crude insight, the person Wang Anshi should target is Guan Zhongguanzi. The latter was the promoter of "Keynesianism" in ancient China, and it was in the Spring and Autumn Period that the State of Qi initiated reforms by Guan Zhong and exercised macro-control of the economy from the three aspects of finance, taxation and prices, and achieved the rise of hegemony. Wang Anshi's implementation of the change of law is also intended to increase taxes, regulate the rich and the poor through tax reform, and use credit borrowing to stimulate the economy, thus changing the situation of poverty and weakness in the Northern Song Dynasty.
As we all know, Wang Anshi's change of law failed, for various reasons, such as touching the interests of large landlords, the implementation of policies was out of shape, his own personality was extremely irritable and extremely intolerant, and he was used by villains who did not know people. Wait a minute.
So for thousands of years he became a sinner of history. Why is that? Obviously, he has already successfully tested locally in Yinzhou, an advanced and developed region! It is not that his method is not good, but that all the supporting conditions are turning their backs on him, the times cannot keep up with his approach, and Wang Anshi is closer to us in modern times, but it is incompatible with his simultaneous characters.
The ancients praised the meritorious speech of Lide, "There is merit in Taishang, followed by meritorious service, followed by meritorious speech." But sometimes, I think it may be that intellectuals occupy the right to speak, which makes "Lide" in the first place.
The saints do not die, and the great thieves do not stop. Is it harder to be a saint on top, or is it harder to bend down and do things?
Anyway, I think it's quite difficult to do things. If you want others to praise you easily, just say and don't do it; but it is easier said than done, as long as you start to act, it will certainly touch the interests of some people, and there will be no doubt. The fate of the reformers contained countless possibilities of tragedy from the outset.
After all, times have changed. Sometimes I think of our Premier Zhu, who stepped forward in times of economic difficulties and also endured tremendous pressure, but the premier was not afraid to carry out financial reform and economic reform with thunderous means. Momentary skepticism cannot change the trend of the rise of great powers, and history has finally proved that this reformer and walker is more difficult and greater than the saints.
"Fly to the Chihiro Pagoda on the mountain, smell the chickens chirping and see the sun rising." Do not fear the floating clouds to cover your eyes, and you are at the highest level. "Not afraid of floating clouds but heavy clouds, Wang Anshi can not break through the fog of the times after all, he can not overcome the ultimate cause, leaving behind the misfortune of the Northern Song Dynasty and the loneliness of a thousand years."