Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi were both famous writers in the Middle and Tang Dynasties, Liu Zongyuan was known for his literature, and Liu Yuxi was known for his poetry. The lives of two great talents living in the same period will certainly intersect, and the friendship between the two will continue to be touching for thousands of years. "One confidant in life is enough", if you get a confidant like Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan at the same time, it is really lucky or even bad!
What is the friendship between Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi? What kind of touching story is there between them?
In 793, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi jointly won the Jinshi, that year, Liu Zongyuan was 20 years old, Liu Yuxi was 21 years old, two spirited teenagers, in this year, they knew each other, and since then, their lives have always been entangled. The two worked together in Jingzhao Province, getting along day and night, and the friendship between them deepened step by step, and a few years later, the two people were brilliant and famous, and the world called the two "Liu Liu".
In 803, the two were summoned to the Imperial History Terrace at the same time, and in the face of the decline of national strength in the Middle and Tang Dynasties, the two made up their minds to eliminate the maladministration and restore the great style of the Tang Dynasty. After 805, they finally saw the dawn, Wang Shuwen, Wang Pi and others and Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi, and others had similar interests, carried out the "Yongzhen Innovation", hoping to sweep away the miasma of the government and the wilderness and restore the Tang Dynasty. However, one hundred and forty-six days later, the "Yongzhen Reform" declared bankruptcy, Wang Shuwen and Wang Pi were killed, and eight Simas, including Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi, were exiled.
Liu Yuxi was demoted to Langzhou, and Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou. In Yongzhou, Liu Zongyuan's elderly mother died, in Langzhou, Liu Yuxi's wife died, ten years, the two were in the same boat, encouraging each other, Liu Zongyuan wrote "Jiang Xue", Liu Yuxi wrote "Autumn Words", although the two experienced suffering, they still remain optimistic in their hearts, because they know that they are each other's best support.
Ten years later, Tang Xianzong thought of Liu Zongyuan in Yongzhou and Liu Yuxi in Langzhou, and ordered the two to return to Beijing immediately and reuse them. Liu Zongyuan was overjoyed after hearing the news, so he wrote "Miluo Meets the Wind" on the road, and Liu Yuxi also wrote "You Xuandu Guan Jie" when he arrived in the capital, but did the spring of Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi come?
No, they will suffer again when they return to Beijing. During the Middle And Tang Dynasties, the government and the wilderness were dark, Liu Yuxi's "You Xuandu Guan Zhi Sentence" was denigrated by villains, Liu Yuxi was once again degraded, liu Zongyuan, as Liu Yuxi's friend, was also implicated, this time, Liu Zongyuan's life was about to reach the end. Emperor Xianzong of Tang ordered that Liu Yuxi be demoted to Liu Prefecture and Liu Zongyuan demoted to Liu Prefecture. Hearing this news, Liu Zongyuan was heartbroken, he was not sad for himself, but for Liu Yuxi, the poor countryside of Bozhou, the living conditions were even more difficult, thinking of Liu Yuxi and his 80-year-old mother, Liu Zongyuan stepped forward and asked the emperor to change the place where the two were degraded. This matter soon spread in the imperial court, and many ministers, grateful for Liu Zongyuan's righteousness, asked Tang Xianzong to be lenient, and Tang Xianzong was also touched by Liu Zongyuan, changed the holy will, and changed Liu Yuxi's degraded land to Lianzhou with slightly better conditions. This time, no one expected that the two would meet again and be separated by yin and yang.
On the way to being degraded, the two always cared about each other, Liu Zongyuan wrote three poems for Liu Yuxi, and Liu Yuxi also gave Liu Zongyuan three poems back, including Liu Zongyuan's famous "Farewell Dream", and Liu Yuxi's "Re-grant Lianzhou to Hengyang to Reward Liu Liuzhou Farewell", the two still encouraged each other as they did ten years ago.
However, in 819, the hardships of Life in Liuzhou and the ups and downs of life continued to destroy Liu Zongyuan's body and mind, and finally, in this year, Liu Zongyuan completed the path of his life, a great talent who moved the world, failed to achieve the negative life, but was depressed, which was really regrettable. Before his death, Liu Zongyuan wrote a letter entrusting all his relatives to Liu Yuxi, along with all the poetry manuscripts of his life. This is a lot of trust in Liu Yuxi!
The news reached Lianzhou, Liu Yuxi, who was mourning for his mother, was in deep pain, liu Yuxi was in Hengyang at that time, and the last time the two were also in Hengyang, Liu Yuxi had mixed feelings, wrote "Heavy to Hengyang Hurt Liu Yicao", and later continued to write "Sacrifice Liu Yuan's Foreign Language", "Heavy Sacrifice liu member foreign language" and other mourning Liu Zongyuan, and Liu Yu Xi Xiushu asked Han Yu to personally write an epitaph for Liu Zongyuan, and he used the second half of his life savings and painstaking efforts to complete the "Liu Zongyuan Collection", if there is no Liu Yuxi, Today, it will be difficult for us to see Liu Zongyuan's poems that have been passed down through the ages. Liu Zongyuan's son also thrived under liu Yuxi's care, and Liu Yuxi passed on all the learning he had learned in his life to Liu Zongyuan's son.
The story of liu zongyuan and liu yuxi's friendship, through thousands of years, is still touching, they are tragic, depressed all their lives, they are lucky, they have found the most precious friendship with each other.