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In 812, Han Yu once again served as a doctor of Guozi in Chang'an, teaching and teaching. At this time, he was forty-five years old.
Han Yu lost his father at the age of three and was raised by his elder brother, but his brother died when he was twelve, and he lived a difficult life with his widow. At the age of eighteen or nineteen, he went to Chang'an to find a way out, claiming that "the family is poor enough to live on its own, and it should be raised to find an official." Although he entered the priesthood at the age of twenty-five, he failed several examinations for the selection of officials in the following times, and the so-called "servant was in the capital for eight or nine years, with no funds, and he sought from others every day to survive the months." Simply put, it is begging for food from people, for example, Ma Fu, the king of Peiping, once "asked and took pity, quenched his cold hunger, and gave him food and clothing."
After that, he worked for many years, worked as some petty officials, and the eunuch sea was floating and sinking, but at the age of forty-five, he was still only a doctor of guozi. Therefore, the indignant Han Yu wrote a "Jinxue Solution" the following year, and there should still be a middle school Chinese textbook in the present, and the famous saying that "karma is good at diligence and absurdity, and success is destroyed in thinking and destroying with it" comes from this article.
In the text, it laughs at itself: "Winter is warm and children are cold, and the wife is hungry when the year is rich", and the food and clothing of the wife and children are all problems, and the mixture is really too bad.
Fortunately, this article was seen by the prime minister at the time, and he was promoted to an official, and Feng Lu was also improved. Later, Han Yu stopped crying in the poems, and he finally could afford to buy a house in Chang'an.
After buying a house, Han Yu was very excited and wrote a poem "Shi'er", the first four sentences are:
I came to Kyoshi and took a bunch of books with me.
Thirty years of hard work to have this house.
Han Yu, the head of the Eight Greats of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was a top scholar, and he actually had to struggle for thirty years to buy a house in Chang'an. Will this make the young people in Xi'an now mentally balanced?
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In 816, Bai Juyi, who was four years younger than Han Yu, was also forty-five years old, and he was being demoted to serving as sima of Jiangzhou in Jiujiang. In the autumn of that year, he sent a guest at the head of the Xunyang River and wrote the famous "Pipa Line", "The same is the fallen man of the end of the world, why should they have known each other when they met", "Who wept the most in the seat, Sima Qing's shirt in Jiangzhou was wet".
In the same year, Bai Juyi also wrote a poem called "Forty-Five":
Forty-five years old, two sideburns and half a day.
Thin poetry is addictive, and coarse wine is crazy.
The old man is especially entrusted, and the place of security is the township.
Or to go down the mountain, to chunjie caotang.
A posture that I have accepted my fate and am at ease with the situation.
Bai Juyi also has misfortunes. His parents were 41 years old and 15 years old when they married, and the two are said to be uncles and nieces, and they are extremely unequal in age and age. Perhaps, Bai Juyi's mother later became mentally ill.
In 810 AD, Bai Juyi also complained to the emperor: "The subject's mother is sick, the subject's family is poor, willing or lost, and there is no way to support." The cost of raising Que Ganxin, the resources of the lack of medicine stones for illness. "I said that my family was poor, my mother was sick, and my life was very difficult.
And Bai Juyi, a twenty-seven-year-old middle-aged soldier, when he was traveling with the talents of the same high school, he also proudly wrote "The inscription under the Ci'en Pagoda, the youngest of the seventeen people" when he visited the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
But reality also educated him fiercely, and Bai Juyi had the first four sentences of a poem:
In the twentieth spring of Kyoto, there is no place to be poor in poverty.
The long envy snail still has a house, it is better to unwind the giant mouse.
A few years ago, there was a TV series "Snail House" that was very popular, and perhaps the author had also read Bai Juyi's poem.
It was not until the age of fifty that Bai Juyi bought a house in Chang'an. It is still a small apartment with a bad location, and it is laughed at by others.
Can his daughter-in-law tolerate it? When they got married, Mrs. Bai proposed to buy a house, and Lao Bai wrote poems:
I am also a virgin, and I am married to Junxin.
Protect the poor and the plain, and rejoice with the old.
I hope that the two of them can be happy in their poor days.
After having a daughter, the wife proposed to buy a house, and Lao Bai wrote poems again:
Only clothing and food, this matter is roughly concerned.
In addition to hunger and cold, the rest of the things are floating in the clouds.
As long as you are full and wear warm, everything else is floating clouds.
This, too much, ah, put aside now who can bear it?!
Listening at the same time is bright, biased belief is dark