The poet to be introduced in this article, during the Ming Dynasty, was recognized as the first talent. In one of the poems he made at that time, only the first two sentences shocked the literati and inkers around the world, and his poems were also known as the ancient songs. So who is this person? What kind of poetry can shock people so much? Below, follow the small editor to take you to find out.
According to historical records, the Ming Dynasty had three great talents, namely Xie Jin, Yang Shen and Xu Wei. Among them, Yang Shen is the first of the three talents and the protagonist of this article.
Speaking of Yang Shen, he had to introduce his family first, saying that his family was a scholarly family, and it was not an exaggeration to say that after the official eunuch. His grandfather was the then Huguang Tsuyoshi Scholar, and his father was Rebbe Shoshu and a university scholar. Therefore, Yang Shen had very good educational resources when he was young, plus Yang Shen himself was also talented and learned things very quickly, so he showed a good literary quality in his youth.
Yang Shen was able to write poetry at the age of 11, and at the age of 12, he planned to write "Ancient Battlefield Text", which shocked the world. When he grew up, Yang Shen decided to go to Beijing to catch the exam, and on the way to catch the exam, he wrote a poem "Yellow Leaves", followed by the first place in the temple examination, and entered the Hanlin Academy to do a revision position. It is reasonable to say that with Yang Shen's talent and family lineage, not to mention the official field, but to say that he has been at ease in the official field all his life, there should be no problem, but the reality is just the opposite.
Yang Shen's temperament was very straight, and he was often outspoken, which made him seem incompatible with other people in the official arena at that time. And Yang Shen himself was not willing to join those people. Coinciding with the reign of Emperor Mingwuzong, Emperor Mingwuzong was not interested in governing the country, singing songs night and night, being absurd, and conniving at eunuchs to interfere in politics. This made Yang Shen very disappointed, he originally wanted to serve the motherland, so he repeatedly entered the advice, but he was not accepted.
The so-called blind and unburdened, extremely disappointed Yang Shen resigned and went home in anger. Later, Emperor Mingwu died, and because Emperor Mingwu had no children, there was no candidate for emperor, so under the leadership of Yang Yanhe, Zhu Houxi, the closest to Emperor Mingwu, was put on the throne by everyone. Yang Shen saw this and also left home to resume his post, he still wants to contribute to the country.
However, the good times did not last long, and it was not long before Zhu Houxi had a conflict with Yang Yanhe, and in the case of his birth mother Li Xuan's attendant Gong Huo, Zhu Houxi did not care about Yang Yanhe's promotion at all, and finally a great ceremonial incident broke out, and Yang Yanhe, who could not bear it, then returned to his hometown and did not ask about the world. Yang Shen, who was a straight son, was also punished by the emperor for writing a joint letter, and was sent to the frontier and came to western Yunnan, which is now Yunnan.
Not only that, Yang Shen's father was also framed, bad news poured in, and Yang Shen's life fell from the temple to the bottom. At this time, Yang Shen's heart was in extreme pain. Helplessness, frustration, disappointment, regret, all kinds of emotions came together, which made Yang Shen have the idea of taking his own life, but what happened afterwards untied Yang Shen's heart knot and saved the rest of his life.
On the way to western Yunnan, you have to pass through a river with a ferry in the channel. At this time, Yang Shen saw a small boat on the edge of the ferry, and a fisherman and a chai fu on the boat were drinking wine. This scene made Yang Shen's heart tremble, he originally thought that the second half of his life would be extremely miserable, but today, he saw the happiness of the people at the bottom, and the sorrow in his heart suddenly dissipated for the most part. In this scene, Yang Shenshixing made a big fuss, and then composed a poem "Linjiang Immortals Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water", which was praised by posterity and became an immortal classic.
The first two sentences at the beginning are more condensed of Yang Shen's life: "Rolling water in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes." The water in the Yangtze River continues to flow eastward, never stopping, how many heroes, with the waves disappearing in the river. The hero refers to the same as yang shen's aspiring children, Yang Shen sighed, how many aspiring children are like the waves in the Yangtze River, appearing, and disappearing again.
This poem later became the theme song of the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, accompanying generations of people. The poem seems to describe the scenery in the Yangtze River, but in fact, it expresses Yang Shen's depression and also expresses Yang Shen's thinking about life. Yes, isn't he just like Jiang Shui, just a young man with no name, in history, how many aspiring young people like waves have no way to serve the country, why should they be so sad? With this poem, Yang Shen also successfully comforted himself.
After composing this poem, Yang Shen's heart was relieved, and he no longer felt sad, because he understood that this was his own destiny. So he regained the courage to live, even in such a remote area as western Yunnan, he did not feel bored at all.
Here, the local officials are willing to make friends with such a figure as Yang Shen, on the one hand, yang Shen's family has a deep heritage, plus he has been a palace official, has a lot of political experience, it is worth learning from local officials, on the other hand, Yang Shen himself is indeed very talented.
Therefore, the officials were very polite to Yang Shen, which made Yang Shen hardly need to do anything on weekdays, very idle, and had a lot of time to spend to visit the beautiful scenery of western Yunnan, so in this way, Yang Shen's inspiration came out endlessly and created a lot of literary works.
In the more than thirty years of Western Yunnan, Yang Shen created about 2,300 poems, with extremely extensive content. In these works, the largest proportion is still the expression of homesickness for the hometown of the poem, he misses the hometown, more miss the wife at home, when Yang Shen was degraded, his wife Huang E sent goodbye to the riverside, Yang Shen also created a song "Jiangling Bei Nei", telling his thoughts.
Yang Shen, who was a rare man, felt that his life was imminent, so he planned to return home by means of the law of returning to his hometown due to illness, but he was chased back by the officers and soldiers and did not allow himself to return to his hometown. Before his death, Yang Shen wrote all the bitterness in his heart in the poem "Feeling Nostalgia for illness on June 14th", and then, a generation of talents quietly left.
Yang Shen's life is legendary, although in the official field, Yang Shen is not reused, but in literature, he has a very high attainment, leaving the world with many literary treasures. As said in "Linjiang Immortals Rolling Water in the East of the Yangtze River", time is like the rolling water of the Yangtze River. However, under the wash of time, Yang Shen's poems have still been handed down, which shows that the first of the three talents of the Ming Dynasty is not a false name.
Just as the so-called reading of history makes people Mingzhi, have you ever read the ancient poem "Linjiang Xian, Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water"?