Learn from Guan Gong, practice great fortune, worship Guan Gong, and form a good relationship
Tang Libu Shangshu Yu Shinan praises Guan Yu's three-word poem:
"Profit does not move, color is not happy, mighty is unyielding, harm is not broken, loyal, righteous and fierce, great husband, true haojie, gang standing, ancient and modern."
【Yu Shi Nanqiren】
Yu Shinan (558-638), also known as Boshi, was a native of Yuyao, Yuezhou (present-day Minghechang, Guanhaiwei Town, Cixi, Zhejiang). A famous calligrapher, writer, poet, and politician of the Sui and Tang dynasties, he was one of the twenty-four heroes of Ling Yange. Good at calligraphy, together with Ouyang Qing, Chu Suiliang, and Xue Ji, he was known as the "Four Great Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty", and together with Fang Xuanling and others, he was one of the "Eighteen Scholars". Although his appearance was cowardly and weak, he had a strong temperament and was outspoken and daring, and he was deeply respected by Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Emperor Taizong of Tang called him virtuous, loyal, erudite, literate, and scholarly.
【Speak up and speak out】
Yu Shinan is not only proficient in calligraphy, but also upright and outspoken. He repeatedly admonished Tang Taizong to be diligent in political affairs, and used the ancient emperor as a political gain or loss to argue the pros and cons. In the eighth year of Zhenguan (634 AD), longyou landslide, Tang Taizong asked "heaven change". Yu Shinan cited the successive landslides since the Jin Dynasty as an example, saying: "When the subject smells the sky, it is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people." If virtue and righteousness are not repaired, although the harvest of Lin Feng will not be remedied in the end, but there is no gap in political affairs, although there is a disaster star and how to damage the time. I hope that Longxia will not be self-effacing with merit and superiority, and will not be proud of itself with the gradual passage of peace, and be cautious in the end. Tang Taizong listened and reflected.
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He was acquainted with Emperor Taizong of Tang
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Tang Taizong once composed a palace poem, asking Yu Shinan to sing peace, and Yu Shinan said: "Although the sacred work is neat, the content is not elegant and correct. What His Majesty likes, the courtiers and people below will inevitably flock to it and even be too late, and the subject is afraid that once this poem is circulated, the people of the world will follow and imitate it. Therefore, I dare not follow your orders. Emperor Taizong said, "Shuo is just testing you." "And he gave him fifty pieces of cloth." After Yu Shinan's death, Emperor Taizong wrote a poem for him, recounting the way of rising and falling in ancient times, and then sighed: "When Zhong Zi died, Bo Ya no longer drummed the piano." To whom will this poem be shown? He ordered Chu Suiliang to take the poem to Yu Shinan's spiritual tent and burn it after reading it, hoping that his gods could perceive it.
When Yu Shinan died, Tang Taizong was very sad and said: "Yu Shinan is loyal to me, picks up the leftovers, and forgets them for a while. I have made a small mistake and will be punished by Yan Zhizhi, and now that I am dead, I will continue to go up and down, and there will be no restoration!"
【The relationship with Guan Gong's wind and rain bamboo】
During the Tang Dynasty, the secretary Yu Shinan and his party traveled east to Mount Taishan, passing through Yangye Village in Feicheng, Shandong, and saw a funny wind and rain bamboo painting carved on the stone slab of Ziyun Bridge, which consisted of four poems: "Don't thank DongJunyi, Danqing has an independent name." Don't feel lonely and faint, and never wither for a long time."
Yu Shinan was excited, so he gladly ordered his pen and wrote down a three-character poem that read, "Profit does not move, color is not pleased, mighty is unyielding, harm is not broken, loyal and geng, righteous and fierce, great husband, true Haojie, Gang Changbei, ancient and modern" three-character poems. The poem is sonorous, powerful, concise and bright, and vividly expresses Guan Yu's personality style of "rich and noble cannot be obscene, poor and lowly cannot be moved, and mighty cannot be bent".
Yu Shinan generously funded the purchase of 100 acres of land for the natives to cultivate, and the rent was used for the sacrifice of Guan Gong. It also funded the construction of a stone monument building on the east side of the north and south avenues outside the temple for tourists to sit elegantly. Soon, the abbot of the Guandi Temple invited skilled craftsmen to engrave the characters written by Yu Shinan on a large stone ding, which was also placed under the stone stele pavilion for people to admire.
During the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, Wang Weijing of Zhixian County, Feiyi County, Shandong Province, wrote down the four lines of "Extraordinary" with a cooking broom after drinking, which was vigorous and powerful, quaint and flexible. Wang Weijing was still not exhausted, and he also wrote in cursive on the stele Yu Shinan's praise for Guan Yu, that is, the thirty-character "Wu Ci Ding Praise", and the latter paragraph was "Tang Hongwenguan Scholar Yu Shinan Written". On both sides, it is written "Wind and Rain Bamboo, True Handwriting" in six large characters, which means that the wind and rain bamboo carved by Guan Yu is genuine, not a fake. This monument has been nearly 400 years old and has become a precious historical relic of Feicheng.
【Poem: Cicada】
Drink the dew and flow out of the tree.
To be loud and far away is not to take advantage of the autumn wind.
This poem expresses the poet Yu Shinan's attitude towards life and the principles of dealing with the world. Using cicadas to promise oneself and using objects as metaphors for people shows that a person's fame and fame and great achievements are due to their own high moral character, cleanliness, and great personality, rather than relying on the strength, power or status of others.