Remembering the Shandong brothers on September 9
Tang, Wang Wei
Alone in a foreign land for strangers, every festive season to think of relatives.
The Haruka brothers ascended to the heights, and there was one less person planted everywhere.
Cocoon
Mount Hua
Meow, the poet Wang Wei, the name Wei, the word Maha, and the word "Vimala" means "pure name" and "no dirt" in Sanskrit. It is not difficult to see from this that Wang Wei is a firm believer in Buddhism, and even his name must be taken from Buddhist words. Because of his poetry's fame, he was also known as the "Poetry Buddha" in later generations.
In the title, September 9 is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, because nine is the largest number in the decimal system, which the ancients used to indicate the yang, and the I Ching has clouds, "The first nine, the hidden dragon should not be used." Among them, the first nine refers to the first qiangua composed of six yang. The first nine days of September account for two nine characters, that is, two yang numbers, so the name Chongyang Festival.
Wang Chongyang, who once suppressed the other four masters in the Huashan Discourse Sword and won the Taoist Supreme Martial Arts Treasure Book "Nine Yin True Scriptures", known as "the first in the world of martial arts", may also have been born on this day, in fact, it is Wang Chongjiu, of course, it is still called Chongyang domineering.
Shandong here does not refer to Shandong Province east of the Taihang Mountains, nor to the Warring States Liuxiong east of the Kunshan Mountains, but to the east of the Xiyue HuaShan in Weinan, Shaanxi, which is the direction of Puzhou, east of Wang Wei's hometown. The Shandong brothers refer to wang Wei's brothers in his hometown of Puzhou, east of Mount Hua.
Probably on the Chongyang Festival in 717 AD, the seventeen-year-old Wang Wei, a descendant of the Hedong Wang clan in Yongji, Shanxi, was wandering alone in the capital Chang'an to seek fame and fame, becoming an ordinary "Beijing Drift" among the descendants of many famous and prestigious families.
Alone in a foreign land for strangers, every festive season to think of relatives. The meaning of this poem is that the poet is alone as a foreigner in a foreign land, and every time he encounters a beautiful festival, he misses his relatives. Of course, this Chongyang Festival is no exception. There is a way that "it is easy to get away from sorrow in a foreign land", and the meaning of this poem of Maha Quisa is similar, but it is more simple and clear, directly striking people's hearts, and has become a famous verse of "high citation" in later generations.
At that time, the beautiful young Wang Wei, who was good at writing poetry, painting and painting, and music, was the darling of the princes and nobles of the capital, and was widely traveled. With his own talents and the introduction of the honorary reputation of the dignitaries and nobles, 4 years later, Wang Wei also won the jinshi as he wished.
The Haruka brothers ascended to the heights, and there was one less person planted everywhere. Remote knowledge means knowing from a distance. Similarly, "Remote knowledge is not snow, for there is a dark fragrance to come", "A bottle of wine on the lake of Remote Knowledge, can remember the people of the end of the world", and other famous poems. This is to say that the poet is far away, far away, and knows from afar that in the place where his brother ascends to the heights, there are tourists everywhere with the stubble, and of course his brothers are among them. They looked left and right, and found that they were the only ones who were missing. The poet thought to himself, there must be a younger brother, who took an extra branch of a coconut flower and inserted it on his head for himself, thinking about himself.
In ancient times, the Chongyang Festival had the custom of ascending to the heights, and when ascending to the heights, it was also necessary to pick the zhuyi flowers and wear them on the head, or wear the zhuyi sac to drive away evil spirits and cure diseases. Perhaps Wang Wei was also accompanying an unknown prince and nobleman to participate in the "Huashan Chongyang Festival Ascension Competition" on this day, is the prize this time the "Nine Yin True Scripture Prequel"?
As a stranger from a foreign land, Wang Wei thought to himself, the bustle is theirs, and his mind may have already flown to the Wulao Mountain in his hometown of Puzhou, east of Mount Hua, imagining that he and his brothers would ascend and play like before.
More than thirty years later, Wang Wei was captured by An Lushan during the An Shi Rebellion, and was forced to become a puppet official and beheaded according to the law. Thanks to his younger brother Wang Jin, who had made meritorious efforts in suppressing the rebellion, he requested to atone for his own duties and escaped the disaster. The depth of the feelings between the Wang Wei brothers can be seen from this.