Author: Chen Erhu
(Tang Xuanzong)
(1) Fame and profits on the river
From ancient times to the present, there have been endless layers of copying and copying, and those real villains who pretend to be gentlemen under the guise of "culture" from time to time show a little so-called learning, but the essence is to use the knowledge of others to inflate their own value, and when the ugly deeds of plagiarists are exposed, it is really Sven sweeping the ground, tracing back to its roots, or the curse of this fame and fortune.
It is said that when the Qianlong Emperor took his trusted ministers down to Jiangnan, he stayed in Zhenjiang one day and climbed Jiaoshan Mountain, which stood in the Middle of the Yangtze River, with great interest.
Qianlong looked up, and the ships coming from the south to the north were dotted with stars and shuttles, and they were embellished with the vast and vast river surface.
Qianlong pointed and asked a simple but unusual question to the entourage: "Can any of you say how many boats are coming and going on the big river?" ”
For a moment, the ministers looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.
Only the college student Ji Yun silently returned: "Two! ”
Qianlong glanced at this wise man, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Because Ji Yun had already figured out the intention of the Qianlong Emperor's question, this astute answer was rich in Zen sharpness. These two so-called "boats" are actually just an abstract concept, one is just a name, one is profit; or one is just coming, one is going.
Thinking about the world, from ancient times to the present, people on the river, haunting the storms, literati students who are not studying to catch up with the examination and gain meritorious fame are merchants who sell goods and smuggle goods and take rich profits, bustling, non-fame is profit, if you have a way to seek it, you will be a winner in life, make meritorious achievements, and honor your ancestors. However, how many so-called gentlemen, for the sake of fame and fortune, secretly abandon right and wrong, lose their personality, dirty tricks, and despicable deeds, under the appearance of elegance, do disgraceful deeds.
(Emperor Zhongzong of Tang)
(2) Song Zhiqing, who has unlimited scenery
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there was a famous poet Song Zhiqing, who was talented and talented, and was even more famous for the female talent Shangguan Wan'er's "commenting on poetry".
There is a story here, it is said that Tang Zhongzong held a "poetry conference" on a whim, ordered hundreds of officials to give poetry to participate, and on the day of the award, a special color building was built, and the judge was Shangguan Wan'er.
However, seeing her beautiful style, holding all the poems of the "competition" in her hand, the Heavenly Daughter scattered flowers and threw away the unsuccessful poems, and finally there were only two people left in her hand: Song Zhiqing and Shen Qiqi (at that time, these two were great poets on a par with each other), so the hundred officials knew that these two were two choices.
After another moment, another person floated downstairs, and everyone picked it up to see that it was Shen Qi's period, and the result was that Song Zhiqing's poem was crowned with laurels.
Shen Qiqi also waited for the result below, a little dissatisfied with the failure of his poem, and then questioned: "Why did my poem fail?" ”
Shangguan Wan'er smiled like a flower, and Zhu Li gently opened her lips and said the reason: "Shen Qi and Song Zhi asked the two poets of the time, it is difficult to distinguish between Bo Zhong, I carefully pondered, and found that the closing sentence of the Shen Qi period', 'Wei Chen carved decay, shame to see Yu Zhangcai', the breath will be exhausted, and the decaying wood is difficult to carve; and the concluding sentence of Song ZhiQing's question' 'Do not worry about the end of the bright moon, there are night pearls coming', this atmosphere is grand and the realm is long. ”
Shen Qiqi listened and was very convinced; At this moment, Song Zhiqing, who was also waiting below, was beautiful in his heart.
(Shangguan Wan'er)
(3) Killing relatives and snatching poems
Song Zhiqing was a famous poet of the early Tang Dynasty, and also a literati with a filthy behavior in history, with a low character that made posterity spurn. He was famous in the literary world for his young poem "Crossing the Han River", and after his people embarked on the career path, they not only showed that they were politically inflammatory, flattered and unscrupulous, and with wisdom and poetic talent, they wandered on the blade of power, but also because of a poem, they killed their nephew Liu Xiyi and were nailed to the pillar of shame of the years.
According to records such as the "Tang Dynasty New Language" and the "Biography of Tang Caizi", the famous Song Zhiqing also had a nephew named Liu Xiyi who was good at writing poetry, who was a middle-aged jinshi, because of his respect for the elders, and the age of Song Zhiqing, whenever he wrote a poem, he would always ask Song Zhiqing for advice.
One day, Liu Xiyi wrote a poem from Gulefu, "Generation of Sorrowful White Heads":
Luoyang City East Peach Plum Blossom, flying around and landing whose house.
Luoyang's daughter cherished the color, and sighed long when the flowers fell.
This year's flowers fall color change, next year's flowers bloom again who is in?
……
Two of the most famous sentences are "the flowers are similar from year to year, but the years are different from year to year", which is very classic.
When Song Zhiqing finished reading this poem and was deeply attracted by these two poems, he asked his nephew whether he had shown this poem to others.
(The flowers are similar from year to year, but different from year to year)
Liu Xiyi said no, just finished writing, please ask your uncle for your guidance.
Song Zhi asked liu Xiyi to hear about the secret joy, so he said to Liu Xiyi: Give me this poem well, it is my work, at that time Liu Xiyi did not think too much, felt that his uncle, a famous great poet, opened his mouth, embarrassed to refuse, and agreed.
Song Zhi asked and took the poem away. After Liu Xiyi sent away Song Zhiqing, he turned over and thought about it, he had worked hard to create, so that he let his uncle take possession of it in vain, he regretted it very much, did not want to endure the pain of cutting love, and then looked for Song Zhiqing to return to this poem.
Song Zhiqing couldn't help but be ashamed and angry, and he wanted to make this nephew who didn't know the height of the sky shut up forever and completely take this poem for himself.
He quietly left Liu Xiyi a piece of drinking, and after getting drunk, he made the household slaves use dirt bags to crush his nephew to death, and poor Liu Xiyi, because of a poem, was secretly calculated by his uncle, who was not yet thirty years old.
In the "New Language of the Tang Dynasty", Liu Xiyi wrote the poem "The flowers are similar every year, and the years are different", not long after, "Killed by adultery." Or Yun Song's question. "This" or "cloud" clearly pointed directly at Song Zhiqing and killed Liu Xiyi.
Because of the great name of this Song Zhiqing, the private result of the nephew Liu Xiyi did not attract attention. But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and there is still more or less information.
In the Biography of Tang Caizi, it is said that Song Zhi asked, "Knowing that it has not been passed on to others, I pleaded with it, but I did not agree with it." He was angry with him, and the slave was crushed to death with an earthen sac."
As a result, the poem was included in the Quan Tang Poems under the names of Song Zhiqing and Liu Xiyi, and Song Zhiqing only handled individual sentences.
(Wu Zetian)
(4) Song Zhiqing is a master of plagiarism?
Song Zhiqing has many poems handed down from generation to generation, and has also left many classic famous sentences, I really doubt these poems, the exact origin of these famous sentences, how many plagiarisms exist?
According to some people's research, there are many doubts in Song Zhiqing's works, and there are more than ten suspects of plagiarizing Shen Qi's period.
Pay attention to the historical records of song zhiqing, a villain with bad character and corrupt reasoning, who has been repeatedly involved in the political whirlpool and wants to climb the high branches. His weak crown has a talented name, his five-word poems are described as "incompetent out of his right", at the age of twenty he was admitted to the jinshi, became a literary attendant, such as moral talent and cultivation, will certainly be Qing Shi Liufang, but he thinks that his talent is very comparable, and he has a handsome appearance, took the initiative to introduce himself to Wu Zetian, wanted to become the empress's male favorite, to stain the empress's rain dew, Wu Zetian did not like him, saying that he had a mouth disease, in fact, he was sick in the bone marrow, full of bad water.
Wu Zetian did not accept him, which made him ashamed and unwilling, and turned to Wu Zetian's male favorite Zhang Yizhi's brother, in order to get attention, he did not hesitate to give Zhang Yizhi a urinal pot three or four times, Sven swept the floor, disgusting to the extreme, shameful.
(Princess Taiping)
When the chancellor Zhang Kamzhi and the crown prince Tongjiao forced Wu Zetian to abdicate, the Zhang brothers were killed, and because of his proximity to Erzhang, he was demoted to Taki Prefecture (泷州, in modern Luoding County, Guangdong) to join the army.
As the big tree fell, the glory and wealth of Song Zhiqing also fell in the blink of an eye, a tree fell, there will be a big tree, there is no lack of big trees in the world, there is no lack of magnates, he sneaked back to the capital, hiding in the home of his good friend Wang Tongjiao, who is this Wang Tongjiao? It was the one who moved down Wu Zetian with the prime minister Zhang Kamzhi, who was the husband of Princess Anding of Jinzhi Yuye, and he was very unaccustomed to Wu Sansi's power, so he privately contacted wu sansi to get rid of wu sansi.
When Song Zhiqing got this news, weighed the pros and cons, and felt that the opportunity had come, he asked his nephew to inform the powerful Wu Sansi, and the result was that Wang Tongjiao and others were killed, and Song Zhiqing was promoted to the title of Master of the Hongxu Book, and was completely a despicable person who "sold his friends and sought glory." For a time, everyone knew the truth, "the world is ugly in its deeds", and "deeply ridiculed by the righteous".
However, the good times did not last long, and Wu Sansi's big tree also fell, and wu Sansi was killed by the crown prince Li Chongjun and the general Li Duozuo.
Song Zhiqing instantly fell under the skirt of Princess Taiping, extremely flattering, the environment at that time, a bit yin sheng yang decline, Tang Zhongzong's precious daughter Princess Anle was even more late, the power was hot, Song Zhiqing thought about it, thinking that Princess Anle this tree is bigger, and then turned to Princess Anle's side, which made Princess Taiping very resentful of Song Zhiqing,This capricious little person.
(Princess Anle)
Song Zhi asked to borrow Princess Anle's high branch, Tang Zhongzong wanted to promote him to Zhongshu Sheren, Princess Taiping took the opportunity to join him, betrayed him to his friends, and took bribes and shook him out, Tang Zhongzong heard about it, and demoted him to the long history of Yue Prefecture (present-day Shaoxing), making him lose his soul.
Subsequently, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji took the throne, deeply resented the ugly deeds of Song Zhiqing, and put this shameless poet to death, ending his 56-year-old dirty life.
Thinking about the trajectory of Song Zhiqing's life, bending over the magnates, betraying friends, pulling women's nepotism again and again, getting involved in court power struggles, selling souls, the most shameless thing is to introduce himself as the male favorite of Empress Wu Zetian, kill people for a poem, infamous, even if he has poetic talent, he does not know how to be a person, loses his personality, and will eventually be despised and ridiculed.
For thousands of years, there have been many dirty literati, pretending to be a standing archway, Xu Niang's half-face and half-face snorting, just in response to the literati's inaction, the next three indiscriminate means, let the truth like die in the hands of lies, how many unjust pure by the east and west to hide the truth, dirty tricks for bo a momentary reputation, encounter the magnate "obsessed with flattery", even more disgusting than Song Zhiqing's "drowning device".
This is a person, personality is more important than talent.
【About the author】Chen Erhu, pen name Hongye, is a Khitan of the Mongolian ethnic group. Deputy Secretary-General of the Weng Niu Te Banner Writers Association.
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