Gong Zizhen plum blossom poems four: away from the plum blossom, the plum branch did not bear to fold
In the nineteenth year of Daoguang, Gong Zizhen was 47 years old, two years before his sudden death.
As a rare Han official in the late Qing Dynasty who rose all the way from the Jinshi to enter the career path, he was quite bumpy and depressed in his career.
From the age of eighteen, he began to take the examination for science, to the age of 37, before he entered the army, thousands of troops and horses crossed the single wooden bridge, and finally he thought that he could have a step and realize the ambition of patriotic salvation of the country, and as a result, he went in to see that this was a rigid imperial court with a rigid mechanism, the superiors prostrated more, talked less, and the dignitaries and nobles enjoyed the glory and wealth brought by power, and the upper and lower levels were completely disconnected.
Gong Zizhen has rich social experience and insight into society, at this time surrounded by great powers, the wind and rain are shaking, Gong Zizhen has repeatedly written to ask for reform and maladministration, no one should respond, on the surface everyone is silent, the result is to exclude him behind his back, give him small shoes to wear. The dreary court seemed to be driving a large ship with no one at the helm, sailing into the depths of the glacier by inertia. He let out a loud roar of grief. "Kyushu is angry and thunderous, and Wan Maqi is sad. I advise Tiangong to shake things up and demote talents in an eclectic manner. ”
He was a talent, but he could not summon this pretending court.
After only a short ten years, and his most hopeless decade, he resigned and went home.
He grew up reading, personally witnessed how the Eight Strands of Literature eliminated buried talents, and he was an official for ten years, experiencing the servility of the stale system. But he knew more clearly that the great powers were all around China, and war was about to break out. This was the eve of the Opium War.
Gong Zizhen took his family from Beijing back to his hometown of Zhejiang, and on the way back and forth, it was the season when zhejiang plum blossoms opened. People here greet the New Year, have made and sold plum blossom bonsai, and the plum blossom bonsai here, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, is the plaything of aristocratic scribes, and it has produced a kind of artificial binding and bending of plum blossoms, in order to appreciate the so-called dark incense shadow effect in a pot, which can be sold at a high price.
At the time of Chengping, this was harmless flower and wood entertainment, but in Gong Zizhen's sober eyes, this kind of apocalyptic skill was becoming more and more intense, and there was a taste of the so-called business girl who did not know the hatred of the country.
Moreover, the plum blossom personality itself is straight and noble, and the way this method forms a frenzy of aesthetics and sales, which is itself a pathology, and he wrote the famous article "The Record of the Sick Plum Museum" sadly.
He said that some of the crackers deliberately believed, "Mei is beautiful with curves, straight is without posture; with qi as beauty, straight is without scenery; with sparseness as beauty, dense is stateless." And these literati asked the peasants to deliberately cut off the main branches of the good plum blossoms, cut off the healthy branches, and tie the plum blossoms with brown ropes to achieve the so-called sick aesthetics, and these literati took these things to coax the upper bureaucrats to achieve the purpose of entering the body.
He almost did not say that some servility was caused by these countrymen who had no wind and bones and ambition. If you are a slave from above, you have also enslaved art, lost the original wind and bone, up and down, tied to each other, where will the country have the future and vitality?
He himself bought three hundred pots of such plum blossoms, took them to his hometown Kunshan Yuxi mountain hall, named it the Sick Plum Hall, untied all the plum blossoms, let them grow freely, and hoped that after five years, this would be a truly natural plum blossom forest.
And he himself began to open a library to teach, hoping to use his own strength to cultivate unfettered but patriotic talents.
"Thousands of soldiers. Comfort me.
Pity me for not having a good plan in my life. The swordsman has been around for a thousand years.
Xixi west to Yanxia. There are plum blossoms in the small temple.
The embroidered Buddha fasted early, and the confessional swallows were homeless. Qing · Gong Zizhen Qingping Le two songs two
On the way back and forth between the north and the south, Gong Zizhen talked to his friends who cherished him in the capital and talked about his reasons and plans for leaving the capital.
Thank you all for being celebrities in Beijing, knowing that I was forced to leave here because of the slander of the message. I don't want to, but I'm a wayward hero in my life, this place, I really can't stay, stay, that is, let the sword be damaged so tragically.
You don't have to worry about me, my hometown Yanxia plum blossom plum, my hut has a lot of small plum blossoms, also a small plum blossom. I lived there freely, no longer like the bitterness of the mess here, I just did my best to give Swallow a stable home.
Gong Zizhen never wrote plum blossoms dark incense floating and oblique shadows, of course, he liked Lin Kui's sentence to write plums. But why didn't he use it? Because it is used indiscriminately, the plum blossom bonsai is also deliberately made according to such beauty.
To really like a person, to really like plum blossoms, is to raise with the heart, is to sincerely appreciate in the natural environment, not for fashion and fashion. Gong Zizhen did not write dark incense and shadows, because he did not intend to promote the sick plum blossom aesthetic among the literati.
But he essentially emulated Lin Kui.
Cardamom Fang Wen Qi Xi, sad before the words repeated.
Peony is absolutely beautiful and warm in spring, is it a plum blossom virgin wife? "Qing · Gong Zizhen's Miscellaneous Poems
This is when he traveled to Kunshan and met a woman who might want to follow him for the rest of his life. In the social life of the Qing Dynasty, there were also some special aesthetics, such as some people to help, and there were also many women who climbed to high officials to get rid of this seemingly beautiful and despicable professional life.
Gong Zizhen met such a woman, she probably did not know that Gong Zizhen had no intention of returning to become an official, but still warmed her pulse and wanted to get Gong Zizhen's marriage.
If Gong Zizhen didn't have a heart, it would be false, but he was a very realistic and responsible person.
You say you say this, it is not easy, what woman can open such a mouth?
But you are a peony, you want to raise in the greenhouse, how can you be the wife of a humble soldier like me who is poor and only accompanied by plum blossoms?
Therefore, Gong Zizhen does not love plum blossoms and does not like Lin Kui, but in reality, he practices such a plum life. As for the socializing at the banquet, the girl, the girl like a peony, please find another high branch.
"Haixi Villa I am resting on the soil, Yuling Triple Pick Up On the Steps."
Looking down at a thousand trees and plums next year, the fluttering is also a skyline thought. "Qing · Gong Zizhen's Miscellaneous Poems
In fact, Gong Zizhen spent only two plum blossom winters in his hometown kunshan yuxishan pavilion, and these hundreds of plum blossoms that had just been unbound were planted near the farmhouse, low, although there were also thousands of flowers, which were not spectacular enough. In addition, he added some natural varieties.
But Gong Zizhen was already very heartbroken.
The home here is where I retire to the soil, where I slowly step up the three steps and see plum blossoms everywhere.
Next year, the plum blossom trees here will grow up, and I will soar here like a crane.
"Away from the plum blossoms, the kyauk-kyauk crane combs the hair."
The crane nature was suddenly tamed, and the plum branch did not bear to fold. Qing · Gong Zizhen's "Ji You"
The plum blossom began to beat bright buds, and plum blossoms bloomed, and the crane in the garden leisurely combed its feathers.
The crane was suddenly very gentle in such a beautiful place, and when I saw the plum blossoms, I couldn't bear to fold them.
There may not be a white crane here, but it is a self-comparison of the poet.
It is the love of these plum blossoms that have unshackled them, and they have not yet become huge and luxuriant trees, so he just likes plum blossoms to fold branches, and he can't bear to fold them.
He hoped that they would really grow up in the natural bad environment, with dark incense floating, shadows slanting, and green branches upwards.
Twenty years after Daoguang, the Opium War broke out, and Gong Zizhen, who still had the ambition to serve the country, did not enjoy the beauty of the countryside at ease, on the one hand, he continued to teach, and on the other hand, he wrote to Liang Zhangju, the inspector of Jiangsu, asking to enter the curtain and participate in the patriotic war against the invaders.
In the twenty-first year of Daoguang, just as he was preparing to get up and go to Jiangsu, he suddenly died violently, only forty-nine years old.
And his "Records of the Sick Plum Pavilion" has been passed down to this day, praising the spirit of plum blossoms, asking for unbundling, restoring the driving force of plum blossom life, and becoming a famous patriotic and enlightening chapter.
He himself is also a devastated sick plum, but the upward and patriotic beauty of the plum blossom runs through life.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.