The Sheng Tang Dynasty produced countless talented poets. Among them, the poet Li Bai can be said to be the representative of the "madness" in the poet, "ten steps to kill one person, a thousand miles do not stay; when things go away, hide deeply with their names", "laugh at the sky and go out, my generation is a basil person" and other arrogant famous sentences, all come from Li Bai's pen. But after reading Wu Zetian's "First Wild Poem of the Tang Dynasty", I am afraid that Li Bai will not be able to reach it.
Li Bai's madness is the madness of celebrities; but Wu Zetian's madness is the domineering of the empress. Wu Zetian's original name has yet to be verified, but she actually created a "曌" character to name herself after claiming the emperor, "曌", which means that the sun and the moon are empty, so it seems that who can be more crazy than her? People in the world say that being too clever and clever is afraid of not living long, and this law does not seem to be true here in Wu Zetian.
Because Wu Zetian declared himself emperor in 690 AD, established Wu Zhou, replaced the Tang Dynasty, and ruled the world for 15 years, completely breaking the inertia of "women are weak" in the feudal era. Of course, this is related to The ability of Wu Zetian himself, according to historical records, Wu Zetian is "quite involved in literary history", familiar with allusions, and can be regarded as half a talented woman, so Wu Zetian not only loves talent, but also plays his own talent.
The first time she wrote a poem, she asked Li Zhi to take her back to the palace at all costs, the name of that poem was "Ruyi Niang", which was a love poem with affection; and Wu Zetian wrote a poem for the second time, he actually frightened those courtiers who opposed her, the name of this poem was "La Ri Xuan Zhao Xing Shang Yuan", it was a five-word sentence, there was nothing strange and difficult to understand, and the meaning was clear at a glance:
The Ming Dynasty traveled to the Garden, and the spring was known quickly. The flowers are hairy overnight, and they don't wait for the wind to blow.
Translate: "Tomorrow I will go to shangyuan for a tour, and Huo Is anxious to report this news to the spring god." All the flowers in the upper garden must bloom overnight, and if you wait until the spring breeze blows, don't blame you! "Note that the title of this poem is clearly written, Wu Zetian is under the la moon to ask for a hundred flowers to bloom, the waxing moon is cold and frozen, is this not a joke?
However, Wu Zetian wrote this poem not to show the empress's domineering spirit, but to subdue the ministers who were not convinced of her. This poem is included in the "Quan Tang Poems", as well as the preface to the poem, and the "Chronicle of Tang Poems" explains the causes and consequences of Wu Zetian's writing of this poem clearly: "Heaven has given the second year of La, Qing Xiang wants to cheat flowers, please be fortunate to go to the garden, there is a plot." ”
That is to say, Wu Zetian had just been proclaimed emperor for 1 year, and there were restless ministers under his hands who wanted to drive her down, so everyone set up a scam, they knew that Wu Zetian liked auspicious signs, so they lied to her that the flowers in the Shangyuan garden were blooming in the middle of winter, and asked her to go to the Shangyuan to watch the scenery. However, these people overlooked an important point: Wu Zetian himself was a master of faking Xiangrui.
In order to claim the success of the emperor, Wu Zetian created a large number of fake Xiangrui to fool the people of the world, such as "There is a phoenix to yi", how could she not see through the true purpose of the enthusiastic courtiers? So Wu Zetian made a plan, "Xu Zhi, looking for a different plan, is to send an envoy to declare yunyun." So in the early morning, the famous flower cloth garden, the group of courtiers salty obedience. She wrote this poem and told people to go to the garden to read it to the dead branches, and when they finished reading it, they burned the poem.
In this way, it is even a matter of telling the spring oracle. The next day, Wu Zetian led the group of courtiers to see the flowers, only to see the cold wind in the Upper Garden, but those flowers bloomed wildly and gorgeously, completely ignoring the weather! The group of ministers were stunned, believing that Wu Zetian really had a destiny, they hung their heads and cancelled the prior layout, and Wu Zetian received a wave of people's hearts. As for how those flowers bloom in winter? It is left for future generations to think about.