Friends in Beijing or friends who have taken the subway in Beijing must know that there are two subway stations in Beijing, one station is called "Jintai Road" and the other is called "Jintai Xizhao". So what does this "Golden Platform" refer to? Careful friends should have seen such a mural in the "Jintai Road" subway station, which depicts a historical allusion called "Jintai Zhaoxian".
Jintai Road subway station "Jintai Zhaoxian" mural
During the Warring States period, the State of Yan had always been a relatively weak country, and there had been some civil unrest in the State of Yan, and the State of Qi took the opportunity to send troops to occupy the entire territory of the State of Yan. After King Yan Zhao ascended the throne, he exerted great efforts to govern and build a golden platform to recruit talents from all over the world. Le Yi, Ju Xin, Zou Yan and other talents have turned to. This is the site of the "Jintai Zhaoxian" in Beijing (the site is still controversial, this article shall prevail).
During the Warring States period, Beijing was known as "Ji" and was also the capital of the Yan Kingdom. However, during the Tang Dynasty, Beijing, northern Hebei, southern Liaoning, and northwestern Korea were called Youzhou. "Golden Terrace" is also known as "Youzhou Terrace".
In the first year of Wu Zetian's long life (696 AD), khitan Li Duzhong and Sun Wanrong attacked Yingzhou. Wu Zetian appointed Wu Youyi, the king of Jian'an, to lead an army to conquest, and Chen Ziang served as a staff officer in the Wuyouyi shogunate and accompanied the army. In Chen Ziang's view, this is a good opportunity to make a contribution.
Chen Ziang
However, the commander-in-chief is very brave, rash, has no strategy, is partial and self-conscious, and cannot listen to the advice of others. Under his command, the army suffered a crushing defeat. In an emergency, Chen Ziang expressed his willingness to personally lead 10,000 soldiers as the vanguard, but Wu Youyi was not allowed. Chen Ziang wrote to him again, and the narrow-minded Wu Youyi demoted him to a military cobia.
Chen Ziang suffered setbacks one after another, his ambitions were difficult to reward, and his ambition to serve the country was also in vain. Chen Ziang ascended the Youzhou Platform, looked into the distance, and felt more and more small and lonely. I think of Corporal Li Xian, King Yan Zhao, who knows people well, and remembers historical figures such as Le Yi, who is grateful for the grace of knowing and making meritorious contributions in time. The long-term bitter sorrow and the pain of disillusionment of political ideals surged into his heart, and he wrote this famous "Dengyouzhou Tai Song":
The ancients were not seen before, and the comers were not seen after that. Thinking of heaven and earth, alone but weeping.
Climb the Youzhou Platform
In ancient times, the sages of corporals have all passed away. For a long time to come, I am afraid that I will not be able to see the Master who appreciates talents. Sorrow came from it, and tears flowed. The heavens and the earth are long, lonely and inexplicable, who can read their own voices? Bit by bit, lonely to the bone.
In 700, the chancellor Wu Sansi instructed Duan Jian of Shehong County to persecute Chen Ziang during the funeral of his father and unjustly died in prison at the age of forty-one.
Chen Ziang is "lonely", and his kind of loneliness and loneliness that has encountered hardship has nowhere to tell. Chen Ziang is also "not lonely", and his loneliness is also shared by countless people in feudal society who are suffering from that irrational situation, which has resonated with countless readers for thousands of years.
May there be no such "loneliness" in the world!