Wang Bo was born in the first year (650) of Emperor Gaozong of Tang's reign. The year before, Emperor Taizong of Tang died, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang took the throne, and only after the new year did he officially change his name to Yuan Yonghui. Wang Bo is in the third line of the family, with two eldest brothers on the top and three younger brothers on the bottom. The six brothers are all known for their literary talents.
01
The birth of a gifted child
Wang Bo early-hui, when other children are playing with peeing and mud, he can already write poems with no lag in conception and heroic words. Wang Fuqi had a close friend named Du Yijian (du Fu's grandfather Du Zhenyan's cousin, who was also a child prodigy when he was a child), and became Wang Bo's first fan, praising him and his two brothers Wang Xun and Wang Xun as "the three trees of the Wang clan". When he was nine years old, Wang Bo read the Book of Han intensively, and also picked out a bunch of errors in Yan Shigu's annotations to the Book of Han and compiled them into ten volumes of Finger Flaws. How powerful is that? My doctoral dissertation is written in the Han Dynasty, and the Book of Han is only read through. Read the examination word by word, just like the chicken in "Journey to the West" pecked at the rice mountain, the dog licked the noodle mountain, and the lamp roasted the brass lock!
The reading progress of the young Wang Bo is like opening a hanging, which is simply a critical blow to contemporary scholars: at the age of ten, after reading the "Six Classics", he taught himself the rhyme. At the age of twelve, he studied medicine in Cao Yuan, and spent three years. Pick one at random, it is an ordinary person who has to spend his life to learn a rough and clear course. Later, Yang Jiong, another prodigy with Wang Bo's name, lamented that Wang Bo's learning was probably brought by nature. There is an old Chinese saying that "books are too late to read in this life", which is probably the self-consolation of mere mortals such as Wang Bo after seeing a genius child like Wang Bo.
At the age of fifteen, Wang Bo was successful in his studies and eager to try to enter the political arena. In this year, When Prime Minister Liu Xiangdao visited the grass-roots level, Wang Bo wrote him a letter, which is the famous "Book of The Right Phase of ShangLiu." This letter was written in the piao script that Wang Bo was best at, with pearls in characters, a dictionary of sentences and sentences, and a magnificent momentum. Just by looking at Wen Cai, Liu Xiangdao's jaw dropped. The prime minister silently checked the dictionary for two days before he could understand it, and could not help but shout: "This is really a prodigy!" With the light of the prime minister, Wang Bo successfully obtained a meritorious name and has since stepped onto the political stage. Emperor Gaozong read Wang Bo's article, was amazed, and repeatedly lamented that this boy's article was really well written, if only his own son could be so talented. Just arrange for Wang Bo to accompany King Pei to study.
02
Anger against the heavens
One day, Li Xian, the King of Pei, and his younger brother Li Xian, the King of Ying, fought cocks, probably because the battle situation was too wonderful, and Wang Bo couldn't help but write an article to help entertain him, called "The King Chicken of Ying Ying". This year, Wang Bo was twenty years old. Perhaps without a real temple experience, he was clearly not sensitive enough to politics. In any case, Wang Bo could not imagine that the jokes between the teenagers had actually violated the taboo of the Heavenly Family.
"The King Chicken" is an essay. What is a text? We have probably all heard that when Wu Zetian was emperor, Xu Jingye, an old minister of Li Tang, rebelled, and Luo Binwang wrote a "Tribute to Wu Shuo for Xu Jingye" for him, counting Wu Zetian's accumulated crimes and calling on the heavens to come down and fight her. It is a genre dedicated to conscription, denunciation, and denunciation of crimes. Using this style to write about brother cockfighting, the joke is indeed a bit too much. What's more, it is written that "two males cannot stand side by side, and how dare they dare to be arrogant when they peck at each other", "Those who are cursed in the morning and ask for the family are no longer the same as the beasts; those who are females and scum will be killed, and they must be cut with a cattle knife", which makes people read it in their hearts. Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi was also in his heart, his father Taizong Li Shimin killed his brother in the Xuanwumen Rebellion and seized the throne, and his brother Li Chengqian and Li Tai were deposed after fighting each other, and the throne fell to him. The brothers killed each other, touching the most sensitive nerves of the Li Tang royal family. Emperor Gaozong was furious and reprimanded Wang Bo for discording the brotherhood between King Pei and King Ying, and expelled him from the palace of King Pei.
03
Returning to the world, misfortune descends from heaven
At this time, Wang Bocai truly realized for the first time the frustration and impermanence of life. He couldn't help but sigh: "Heaven and earth are not kind, and creation is powerless." Bidding farewell to the capital, Wang Bo traveled to Shudi for two years, and everywhere he went, he would write poetry. But he always felt lonely and thought about it. He wrote in "In the Mountains" that "the Yangtze River has been stagnant, and the thoughts of thousands of miles will return", in the "Farewell to the Night moon in Jiangting", he wrote that "On the night of the autumn moon in Jinting, who sees the weeping and the group", and in the "Second Song of Linjiang", he wrote that "the water flows in the east, flying north to the dust." Gui Xiao will be a tired tourist"; "Go to the Road of Farewell, return to the Hidden HanZhou." Under the leaves of Jianggao wood, you should think of the autumn of the old city." He felt like an isolated goose, tired of wandering alone, and finally decided to return to Chang'an.
After returning to Chang'an, Wang Bo once again took the official examination of the Tang Dynasty. Coincidentally, Wang Yanglu Luo all four people participated in this selection, but none of them were admitted, and only Wang Bo later made up a Yuzhou judicial army. What's going on? At that time, the civil servants who presided over the civil service examination were Li Jingxuan and Pei Xingjian, the servants of the bureaucracy. Li Jingxuan felt that sijie was very good and greatly appreciated it. But Pei Xingjian has always had some disagreements with Li Jingxuan. Li Jingxuan praised the person, Pei Xingjian was a little disgusted at first. Li Jingxuan ran to Pei Xingjian and said, "Old Pei, if you look at these four people, the article is so good that the future is definitely immeasurable!" Pei Xingjian brushed his beard and said, "I don't think so." These four people have talent, but the future is not easy to say. I think Yang Jiong is still a little calmer, and Bao Qiqi can still be a commander. The other three, the personality is too arrogant, arrogant, impetuous and shallow, can you end well or two, where is the material that can become an official? ”
Pei Xingjian's evaluation spread out, and Wang Bo listened to it in his ears and was anxious in his heart. He quickly wrote an article called "Pei Shilang Qi of the Upper Officials' Department", hoping that Pei Xingjian would have a deeper understanding of himself. Perhaps because of this article, Wang Bo finally got an official to do it. He did not stay in the central government, but went to Yuzhou and joined the army of Yuzhou, probably an official of seven or eight pins. Why go to Yuzhou? Because Yuzhou is rich in herbs. Wang Bo studied medicine as a teenager, and his career path did not go well, so he wanted to be a slash youth and ponder medical skills by the way. However, Wang Bo's calamity did not stop there.
In the second year that Wang Bo joined the army in Yuzhou, a very strange thing happened. An official slave named Cao Da committed a crime, and Wang Bo harbored him. Later, not knowing what happened, Xu was afraid that the matter would leak out, and killed him again. Murder is a capital offense. Fortunately, thanks to the amnesty of the Yuanyuan, he saved his life. Why is this a mystery? First, the beginning and end are very inexplicable, both hiding and killing, which is very unspeakable. Second, when the history books record this incident, it is exactly written in the front: "Bo Gong is proud of things, and is jealous of his colleagues." "One has to wonder whether Wang Bo was framed by man.
04
Genius is like a shooting star
Wang Bo squatted in prison for more than half a year, catching up with the amnesty, and was released from prison, but from then on he had no connection with his career, and his father Wang Fuqi was demoted to Jiaotong as a county order. Where are the toes? According to today's territory, Jiaotong has left China and is in Vietnam. It is far more degraded than Su Shi, who has been repeatedly degraded, and it is really a pit daddy. After Wang Bo was released from prison, he presented his father with a book he had written, called "Hundred Li Chang Yan", and attached a letter called "Hundred Li Chang Yan Shu". Shuri wrote that he was extremely humiliated by his father. The reason why I endure humiliation and live is because "it is better to die vainly than to establish a festival, and it is better to die than to become famous... This bo is nostalgic for the past and not to blame, but refers to the future and galloping, cutting all hatred into the career, and entering the flat earth." Wang Bo also advised his father to "bend to the end of The Tai" and "be poor and prosperous", although the toes are far away, but there will always be a day to come back.
We have no way of knowing whether Wang Bo was really optimistic when he wrote these words, hoping that one day he would be able to fight a beautiful turnaround battle, or just to reassure his father, hoping that he would not be crushed by this sudden disaster?
However, Wang Bo did not wait for the day when he would make a comeback. He wrote the world-famous "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" in Nanchang, and he continued to go south with his father to renjiao. In August of the following year, Wang Bo returned alone, crossed the sea and drowned, dying in shock, at the age of twenty-seven.
Wang Bo's life seems to have been accelerated. One year can read the books of ordinary people for ten years, and twenty years can complete the road of ordinary people's lives. Throughout the ages, such young people are not in the minority, Jia Yi, Huo Fuyi, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and Xiao Tong, the Prince of Zhaoming, all cross the sky like shooting stars, brilliant and short.