Gao Qi plum blossom three: a bed of poetry around the plum blossom, dream soul in the night does not leave home
Gao Qi's "Nine Plum Blossom Songs" is considered to be the crown of plum blossoms written by the Ming and Qing dynasties, of which Gao Shi lay in the snowy mountains, and the beauty under the moon and the forest came, and it was even more written that the plum soul, for hundreds of years, it was stunning and amazing.
Today I do not interpret Gao Qi's "Nine Songs of Plum Blossoms", because it is written specifically for plum blossoms, and there may be a suspicion of arrogance, and I look at Gao Qi's other poems about plum blossoms to see his true attitude towards plum blossoms, because it is closer to him in life and natural state.
"When the lonely boat landscape is clear, I see tens of thousands of plum blossoms.
Dong Song inscription poem Xi Song drunk, waiting for idleness to forget the period of the deceased. "Late Yuan and Early Ming Dynasty · Gao Qi,"Wang Seven Tricks Drink Yu Tour Wisteria Dock Duty Snow Lost Period"
Gao Qi, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, was a famous writer and poet in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. His family was wealthy, but his parents died when he was young. It is also this state of life that can imagine how much his grandparents love him, which makes him love his relatives from a young age.
The relatively calm and favorable environment stimulated Gao Qi's talent for reading, reading into recitation, proficient in history, and fond of poetry. In Jiangsu at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the literary style was lush, although the imperial examination was not related to the students, but everyone made social friends, and Gao Qi was famous.
When Zhang Shicheng occupied Wudi, he used arms to protect the people here, loved by the local people, Suzhou rarely had the impact of chaotic military disasters, and after Zhang Shicheng became king, he also tried to build a rich and stable area and consolidate the political power, so he lied to corporals and attracted celebrities. Gao Qi did not take the initiative to surrender, but his juvenile reputation spread among the local upper echelons, and Rao Jieshou, the governor of Huainan Province, invited him several times, and Gao Qi, who was only sixteen years old, was extended to his staff as a juvenile talent.
So for the Zhang Shicheng shogunate, which many people are trying to enter, why is Gao Qi such an arrogant and slow attitude?
It's not that he's really proud. But his family is special, his parents died early, he needs to support his grandparents, and he knows the history and understands the uncertainty of Zhang Shicheng's regime, so he must have agreed with his family repeatedly before deciding to come out.
With his profound historical knowledge, outstanding fresh and handsome literary style, and the sharpness of the teenager himself, this teenager soon became famous in the Zhang Shicheng shogunate. As for what he has done, it is impossible to verify it now. A new regime can always allow young people to exert their talents. After seven years of work, Gao Qi, at the age of 23, resigned from his job in the shogunate, got married, and lived in seclusion with his wife in Qingqiu.
Or he saw the general shortcomings of Zhang Shicheng's regime, or he was not accustomed to Zhang Shicheng's reduction of the Yuan, or he was in an unstable regime. In short, at the age of 23, he started a family and left the official field.
But this experience also became an origin of his later tragedies.
After Zhu Yuanzhang fixed the throne, he did not blame the past, but instead recruited the famous scholar Da Ru to join the dynasty as an official. Gao Qi is famous on paper. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this Gao Qi, who was already famous, he found that he was only 32 years old, a young talent, taught the Hanlin Academy to edit, and used him as a teacher of several princes to teach learning.
Only two years later, when Gao Qi finished compiling and revising the Yuan History, and Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to reuse it, Gao Qi proposed to return to his hometown. This made Zhu Yuanzhang deeply puzzled and uneasy.
Gao Qi's return to his hometown has his own good reasons, he really wants to have a plain and leisurely life with his family, this young man from a rich squire landlord family, because of the early death of his parents, he is particularly attached to his relatives and human affection, and because of his birth, he is really uncomfortable with Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang's style of thunder and thunder in the new dynasty. Or maybe he didn't want to stay in the official arena for a long time and be killed.
This is Gao Qi's sensitivity and wisdom.
But it is also this kind of prime-age retreat that makes Zhu Yuanzhang suspicious. Such a high position and trust, you do not accept, is there anything better?
Thinking that Gao Qi was once an important backbone staff member of Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang had already buried his murderous heart.
Five years later, Zhu Yuanzhang borrowed his old waist to cut off Gao Qi, such a talented poet, fell.
I came to look for Gao Qi's poems, but also to see what kind of person he really was, why Zhu Yuanzhang did not tolerate it?
"When the lonely boat landscape is clear, I see tens of thousands of plum blossoms."
The poem is written about a friend Wang Qiqi who asked him to go to Wisteria Dock for a drink, but it happened to be snowing heavily that day, and the snow on the road was blocked, so he did not arrive in time.
Here you can see Gao Qi's freedom, he is taking a boat to the appointment, and it is after the snow, but he did not think that the snow had not yet melted, and the boat and him were stranded in the middle of the road. Since you can't arrive in time, then it is outside, just on the way is the season of Jiangnan plum blossoms in the snow, then stop and go, lost the appointment of the deceased friend, but is encountering the beauty of plum snow.
In the ancient plum blossom poems, Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty wrote the most atmospheric poem: "Who is under the plum in the snow, the plum snow is combined with ten thousand branches, if there is no boat in The stone city, Mo Shuo still has his own time of sorrow." “
Obviously, Gao Qi saw the ten thousand trees and plum snow in front of him, and his mood was happy, and he thought of Li Shangyin's poem, which was also quite appropriate.
Because he was also on the boat, he was going to a friend's party, but the snow was too heavy to meet the expectations.
He did not say that Xue Da could not arrive in time, but he said that this plum blossom of Mei Xue made him linger, and it was the beauty of Mei Xue that made him miss the trip.
I saw plum blossoms on the mountain to the east, so I wrote poems, I saw plum blossoms on the hillside in the west, drunk with plums, sorry sorry, during this stay, I forgot that my friends were still waiting for me.
The poem is brightly and playfully written. But it was also his sincerity. With plums in his heart, he will see plum blossoms lingering, if it is just heavy snow blocking the boat, he can go back home. And he is biased, in the plum blossom snow, stepping all over the slopes of things, a person who is tireless to play and buy drunk.
He really likes plum blossoms.
"Strange head a tree with wind and sand, scattered cold incense day to tilt."
The carriages and horses have been watching, and only the mountain family was planted in that year. "Late Yuan and Early Ming Dynasty · Gao Qi,"Stranger on the Plum"
On the side of the road, Gao Qi saw a large plum blossom in full bloom.
It stands in the wind and sand, the petals are floating, and it is the twilight sunset, the tree flower is lonely and poignant, stretching out to the branches of the blue sky, there are scattered flowers, if you do not look down, you think it is in which garden. Because the plum canopy comes with its own exuberance.
The line of sight is downward, but it is originally a traffic artery, and the traffic below is busy.
This situation is also common in contemporary cities, people are busy under the flowers and trees, have their own lives, flowers, only a glance to know that it is on the line, but no one deliberately stops the car and horse, that also affects the traffic.
But Gao Qi had a unique feeling. He said that such a beautiful and beautiful flower, who really went to see it, if they knew that there were many people in this city, and it was not about it, it was better to plant it in the mountains and forests, the sky was windy, there was no pollution, accompanied by mountains and rivers, and it was not lonely.
This poem was probably composed by Gao Qi during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, when he was a Hanlin and Crown Prince.
The prosperity and wealth of the capital are not suitable for plum blossoms, nor are they suitable for him.
What he felt here was endless stress and loneliness.
Gao Qi's confidence does not come from his talent, but from the fact that he has a garden and a home in Suzhou. He doesn't have to be like many young people who are desperately trying to squeeze into the road for survival and future. While other people are still working hard in the urban drill camp for the future of life, Gao Qi thinks of going home.
It's just that he is so mature and early-wise, not only can Zhu Yuanzhang not understand, in fact, many people who are leaders and bosses can't understand the young subordinates of alternative ideas, you are so young, you want to lie flat?
But Gao Qi was really not adapted to such a bureaucratic life. This was decided by his birth, in the fiery new dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang thought he was suspicious, it was really normal, he was not Gao Qi, he was the king of military conquest, Gao Qi's loneliness and retreat, naturally made him dissatisfied.
"A bed of poetry around the plum blossoms, the moon falling west window to rise up crows."
But in the past few years, there is no far-reaching ambition, and the soul of the dream does not leave home at night. "Late Yuan and Early Ming Dynasty · Gao Qi, "The Night of December 17th"
At the end of another year, Gao Qi was in the capital, or more precisely, his residence was not far from the imperial palace prince. He was one of the few people in the court who could access the palace, but he was not happy.
In his 30s, he has land and land in his hometown, wives and children, and plum blossoms.
Here, even if there are plum blossoms, there are not many, not to mention the cautious entry and exit, and the palace is strict. Hilarity is also the hilarity of others. About the new dynasty, about the royal family, not about him.
In the lonely and dull night, he thought about the plum blossoms in his hometown and his relatives in his hometown, and the reason why he did not sleep was that he was burdened with the responsibility of educating the prince. As a teacher in the palace, you can't always be late.
But the situation here made him miss his children, his home, and the hometown plum blossoms that he could see everywhere.
Although the imperial capital is good, it is like a homeland.
If Gao Qi is middle-aged, this is easy to understand. It's just that he is only in his 30s at this time, and such a deep homesickness comes from the fact that he grew up with the death of his parents, and he has more attachment to feelings and relatives than ordinary people.
Therefore, when he proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang to return to his hometown, from Gao Qi's point of view, he was already like an arrow, but from Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, Gao Qi was so untrustworthy. Did he have other plans?
Because Gao Qi was the crown prince's teacher, Zhu Yuanzhang gave a large bounty.
With the heavy gold given by Zhu Yuanzhang, Gao Qi had a sense of relief and spent five years of leisure in his hometown.
He loved plum blossoms, loved the countryside, and was sincerely reluctant to be an official. Of course, he did not intend to cause trouble for Zhu Yuanzhang, and he had nothing to talk about poetry with a few friends and enjoy peace. His poetic style is handsome and fresh, which is very much in line with the temperament of the renewal of Vientiane in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.
But this young man, who was not understood by Zhu Yuanzhang, became a thorn in Zhu Yuanzhang's spine.
Gao Qi's refusal to become an official does not mean that he will never be willing. Because he is really talented, why is he so restrained? Is it nostalgia for the old master or another ambition?
Five years later, Gao Qinan, but the magistrate was gracious, and wrote a "Shangliang Wen" that was needed for the reconstruction of the official office, and this magistrate was Zhang Shicheng's old department.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he ordered Gao Qi to beheaded and personally supervised the beheading.
Is Gao Qi unjust? It is certainly unjust, and it is a major loss in the history of Chinese literature, and the British years are so tragic, how many American texts are scattered with the soul, and nothing continues.
But from Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, it is to kill chickens and monkeys, you can do whatever you want, where there are so many reasons. Imperial power became a sharp blade on the head of the Ming Dynasty readers, and the shackles in their hearts were no longer able to write Gao Qi's free plum blossom poems full of personal spirituality.
Hatsuyoshi Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. Image from the web.