The old poet wrote a posthumous poem for himself, and forced his friends to write a tie-up, and lived for another 6 years in fright

Most friends know yuan ming, a poet, from the middle school Chinese textbook "Huang Sheng borrowed books to say". In fact, Yuan Ming was very famous in the Qing Dynasty, although his career was not smooth, and he only served as a county order in several places throughout his life, but his writing was on a par with that of the university scholar Ji Xiaolan, and was called "Southern Yuan Northern Ji". Like Ji Xiaolan, Yuan Ming was also a mercurial person, with many wives and concubines, and even widely accepted female disciples after his retreat, which was criticized by the world for a while.

However, Yuan Ming has no shortage of red and pink confidants in his life, but he has a heart knot, that is, he has no sons. Although Yuan Ming was dismissive of feudal etiquette and went his own way, there was still a hurdle on this issue. At the age of forty, Yuan Ming really couldn't help but find the famous Xiangshi Hu Wenbing divination at that time.

Hu Wenbing told Yuan That you will have a son when you are sixty-three. Then he said casually, you will die at the age of seventy-six.

For this prophecy, Yuan Ming probably didn't quite believe it. When you are young and strong, you can't open branches and leaves, is it time to meet the spring when the dead wood is dead? Therefore, at the age of sixty, Yuan Ming, who had no hope of having a son, adopted his cousin Yuan Shu's son Yuan shu as a son and carefully cultivated him.

Unexpectedly, at the age of sixty-three, Yuan Ming's concubine Zhong Shi really gave birth to a son. Yuan Ming, who was overjoyed, named the child Yuan Chi, and the name was not difficult to understand, asking why the child was late, making him wait for so many years.

The child is there, this is Yuan Ming's happy event, but Yuan Ming has sorrow, after all, Xiang Shi said so accurately, then his aftermath will not be wrong. The limit of life and death is only thirteen years later, and it is fast and fast. Fortunately, in the era of "people to seventy years old", this age is also considered to be high life.

When Yuan Mei was seventy-six years old, he began to prepare for his own aftermath. Especially in the winter of the seventy-five-year-old, he suffered from a abdominal disease, which could not be cured for a long time, and first made an elegy, the name of which made people laugh - "Abdominal disease for a long time without getting worse, composing a song to invite those who are good to me is not informal and does not limit the rhyme". Subsequently, he sent hero posts to friends in the literary world and invited others to write him a letter.

Chinese has always been very taboo about life and death, and Yuan Ming's own understanding does not mean that others can think it through. At first, almost all of my friends pretended to be deaf and dumb and did not respond. Yuan Ming was indignant, held up his crutches and wrote down four seven poems, and sent someone to the door with poems to urge. This is the famous "The Four Songs of the Gong Bao Zhi Zhi", of which this one is the most famous:

It is too late to live in the world for a long time, and the travel period is close to knowing it.

The old man refused to return empty-handedly, knocking on the door everywhere to ask for elegy.

In this poem, Yuan Ming expresses the open-minded spirit of seeing through life. He had lived in the human world for a long time, and he thought that it was very late to leave at the age of seventy-six, because he had prophecy and his health was not good, so he thought that he knew that the limit was coming. However, he did not want to leave in such an empty space, knocking on the door everywhere to ask for a friend's elegy.

In this life, Yuan Ming could not put down poetry, so he hoped to see other people's works before he died. Earlier, he said, "Don't re-enter reincarnation, still be a poet." The other of these four poems is his conceit and self-satisfaction as a poet:

No wonder the poet is full of thoughts, and I ask the princes when I say a word.

Han Su Li Du counted from the beginning, who was seventy in the world.

In this poem, Yuan Ming explains the reason why he was still making a big fuss about his funeral when he was alive, he hoped that his friends would not complain that his thoughts were all gray, in fact, his heart was not depressed, you know, Han Yu, Su Shi, Li Bai, Du Fu, which of these great poets lived to the age of seventy. So, he thought he was lucky enough!

Xiao Jue roughly calculated that of the above four people, Han Yu lived 57 years old, Su Shi lived 65 years old, Li Bai lived 62 years old, and Du Fu lived 59 years old. Of course, this is far from the age of seventy, and even farther away from Yuan Ming, who is already seventy-six years old. Probably for this reason, friends finally put their minds at ease and composed poems and harmony. More than 30 people, including Zhao Yi, Yao Nai, Sun Shiyi, Qian Weiqiao, French Shishan, Hong Liangji, and Qian Daxin, sent elegy poems.

Since Yuan Ming was self-deprecating, these poets were also naughty. The poems they sent, almost none of them were righteous, and they were all happy with Yuan Ming. Some people say that Yuan Ming is reviewing other people's new works, the so-called "Mr. Hundred Plans to Earn People's Poems"; some people say that Mr. Don't Go, Your Successor has not yet been found, the so-called "For Others Have Not Been Publicly Required to Live"; some people say that Elder Yuan thinks you can still live, my poetry rights are a birthday gift, the so-called "elegy teaching when the shou poems are presented". There are even people who say that if they can be as famous as Yuan Ming, they will die when they die.

After receiving the "blessings" of these friends, Yuan Mei finally settled a heart matter and waited for death for the whole year. As a result, one wait does not come, and then waits and does not come. Even after the Chinese New Year's Eve of this year, he found that he was still alive, and he was ecstatic and asked his family: "Am I changing my name to Liu Gengsheng, or is it Li Yanshou?" ”

The most interesting thing is that he also wrote seven songs of "Chinese New Year's Eve ConfessionAls". One of the sentences made people laugh incessantly: "Duke Mo believes Yuan Sida, I am still worried before the chicken crows!" "Here, as Yuan Ming said for the rest of his life, don't believe how open-minded and cheerful I Am Yuan, that is just for you to see, in fact, when this day has not yet reached the sound of chickens, my heart is full of sorrow and worry!

Yuan Ming himself sighed: Xiangshu is not spirited after the spirit, and the news in this is not clear. The prophecies of many years ago were only half fulfilled, but the good thing is that the spiritual experience is a happy thing. Perhaps it is this poetic nature that allows him to live to the age of 82, which can be described as an advanced age.