The poetry culture of the mainland can be described as a long history, how many talents in ancient and modern China and abroad have emitted their own unique brilliance in this field of literature, and the poem we want to say today is from the hand of a ghost talent, "If the sky has love, the sky is old", this poem has not been picked up for hundreds of years, and finally it was paired by an alcoholic in the Song Dynasty.
This ghost is Li He, who is known as the poetry ghost. Although Li He was very successful in poetry, like most poets, Li He's life was depressed.
Li He has a thin body since childhood, with long eyebrows and claws, and his appearance is very distinctive. He is intelligent, can write poetry at the age of seven, and is good at "disease books". It is such a talented man, but his family is not very good. His distant ancestor was Li Liang, the uncle of Li Yuan, the ancestor of Tang Gaozu, but in Li He's generation, the family fell in the middle of the road, and there was no prosperous scene at that time.
In addition, Li He himself was not in good health and was jealous of talents, so he died very early, only 27 years old, which can be said to have not lived a good life in his life.
This sentence is from Li He's poem "Golden Bronze Immortals Ci Han Song", which means that if the heavens also have feelings, they will also grow old with the passage of time, expressing a strong sadness, because the writing is too good, so since ancient times many poets will use it to express their thoughts and feelings, and this sentence is also quoted in the "Seven Laws of the People's Liberation Army Occupying Nanjing" of the great man of modern times.
Also because this sentence is too difficult for people to surpass, so many people only dare to quote this sentence, but no one dares to take the next sentence of this sentence, and in the Song Dynasty, there is an alcoholic who has the next sentence. Although this drunkard had a full belly of talent, he did not go well on the road to the imperial examination and was not accepted by the imperial court.
Not only that, because this drunkard repeatedly failed in his early years, Song Zhenzong chose three unsuccessful jinshi to be given the third class of duty, and he was also ashamed not to take office. In the face of such a life, this drunkard did not go on like this, but treated his life with a frank attitude, and really did it in his limited life, and he did it himself, which can be said to be how dashing it is.
Since he could not succeed in becoming an official, this drunkard simply immersed himself in drinking poetry, and was also called "wine monster" by everyone, he was Shi Yannian. Although his fame is not as great as Li He's, Shi Yannian has a bold personality, reads roughly, does not specialize in chapters and sentences, and especially admires the great deeds and extraordinary feats of the ancients, is addicted to alcohol, and likes to drink heavily. Legend has it that Song Renzong loved his talents and advised him to quit drinking, but later he became ill with alcoholism, which shows how much he loves to drink.
One day he also drank too much, so the poetry rose up, remembering Li He's writing that the heavens are love and the sky is old, thinking for a moment, he said the next sentence he created: "If the moon is not hateful, the moon is always round." ”
This moment shocked the friends around him, and Shi Yannian's poem was also remembered by posterity, and he often took it out to praise and comment.
Art comes from life, and the various emotions in life are sometimes the best nourishment of art, although Li He and Shi Yannian's lives are not smooth, but their poems are a precious wealth of traditional Chinese culture. It is worth learning from our descendants.
Reference: Old Book of Tang