The ancients celebrated their birthdays, and often held banquets, "gathering relatives and gatherings, because of banquets",
In the Tang and Song dynasties, from the Heavenly Son to the people, "all worship this day, open a feast to summon guests, and give poems to call life",
Although the intention is more important, almost no one who wishes the host a happy birthday comes to the banquet empty-handed.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, when there were many literati, there were two common birthday gifts:
One is the life star chart; the other is poetry.
Such a birthday ceremony has a good meaning and is very elegant, and at first the "birthday stars" are also smiling,
But, over time, the problem comes - too many people send birthday charts.
And the content of the paintings is also the same,
So some people publicly stated: only the poems are accepted, and the paintings are returned unchanged.
On the birthday of the elder official in recent times, Liao Zuo painted the birthday star as a sacrifice, for example, only received the text, but his painting returned.
However, there are also people who are biased, and this person is no one else, it is Wang Anli.
Speaking of the three sons of Wang Yi, a small county official in the Northern Song Dynasty- Wang Anshi, Wang Anguo, and Wang Anli,
It really has its own poetry, each has its own characteristics.
Even though Wang Anli was not as well-known as his brother Wang Anshi, he never lived under the light of Wang Anshi.
He dared to speak out in righteousness, did not fear power, and was a good clean official in the Northern Song Dynasty who enforced the law impartially.
Even Song Shenzong couldn't help but praise him, "An Li can be a diligent official, shock his neighbors, and be ashamed of himself!"
Wang Anli also because of his vigorous style, the official position has soared all the way,
During the Yuan Feng period, he had already worshipped Shangshu Right Cheng and later moved to Left Cheng (vice chancellor),
In order to reuse Wang Anli, Song Shenzong also pretended to be "amnesiac" - "on the silence for a long time" (Song Shenzong is so cute)
He withstood obstacles from Prime Minister Wang Jue.
Yuanfengjian Wang Qigong was the prime minister, and Wang and his father An Li Yin Jing were very dependent and would be of great use.
Qi Gongcheng interlude said: "The Kyoshi practitioners all say that Wang Anli will take power next February." ”
The Divine Sect was furious: "Ruling by worship is not by the words of the magician." He made up for it every day, especially late. Ming Chun An Li Guo worshiped the right man, Gui Yue: "Your Majesty is against the preface, why not?" ”
After a long time of silence, he said, "Even if you forget, you will believe that the fruit is destiny." ”
——Takasai Manga
However, the good times did not last long,
Three years later, Wang Anli finally fell out with Emperor Shenzong of Song because of his repeated obstructions of the attack on Western Xia, and was relegated to the local area.
He successively served as Yangzhou, Qingzhou, Caizhou, Shuzhou and other Zhizhou, Yongxing Zhijun.
Today we are going to talk about Wang Anli when he was in Shuzhou, at his birthday banquet,
There was a "rollover" incident of old fritters in the official field.
This day was the birthday of Wang Anli, who was then the governor of Shuzhou.
According to the old practice, local officials of all sizes took birthday gifts to Wang Anli's home to wish for a happy birthday.
The birthday gifts brought by everyone are not creative, they are all "birthday star charts" and "poetry" are the same,
It is precisely because of this that the birthday ceremony has gone wrong.
What's going on?
It turned out that the officials all took a "birthday star map" in their hands and went out, and almost no one opened the scroll to see it.
These "stocks" are also mostly "birthday gifts" sent by others on their birthdays.
Because there are so many, no one has ever opened them to see them.
Who thought that this Wang Zhizhou did not play cards according to reason,
At the banquet site, a sudden whim occurred, and the people were ordered to unseal the calligraphy and painting and hang them in the hall to display,
And ordered the name of the devotee to mark the name of the painting under the scroll.
And then....... Greeting everyone to watch together.......
However, why did the atmosphere suddenly become very "weird"?
The officials' faces were all written with the word "embarrassment" in capital letters, and they were eager to find a crack in the ground to drill into.
What's going on?
Look at the "life star charts" hanging in the hall:
Some are Buddha statues, some are gods and ghosts,
Sweeping all over the venue, there was not a single picture of the birthday star...
Only two cats painted by Cui Bai are still a decent "birthday gift".
....... In this way, a group of official old fritters invariably collectively "overturned".
When Wang Anli saw such a situation, he was stunned.......
But what broke him was still to come,
The little official still held an embroidery bag in his hand, and did not dare to hang it out,
Wang Anli's face twitched, and he asked the little official why he didn't open it, and he also had a bad premonition in his heart.
The little official said hesitantly, "Back to the lord, the embroidery bag contains an epitaph..."
Wang Anli: Uh.........
For a long time, there was no word.
On the birthday of the elder official in recent times, Liao Zuo painted the birthday star as a sacrifice, for example, only received the text, but his painting returned. Wang Anli, who came out of Shu Prefecture since he came to power, was a birthday official, or a person who did not have a birthday star, but he painted a red embroidered sac on the axis, saying that he would return. Wang Ku ordered the seal to be opened, hung in the hall, marked the name of the person, and attracted the guests to look at it, and there was no birthday star, or Buddha statue, or god and ghost. The only soldier was Cui Bai painting two cats. Or clouds, sometimes there are sacs of epitaphs, officials do not dare to show. ——Pingzhou can be discussed
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