Chinese civilization has lasted for thousands of years, and there have been countless brilliant literary figures, who is the person at the top?
Some time ago, a well-known community in China, the "Tiger X Forum", launched a voting campaign of "the world's first literary song under the fan", and as a result, Li Bai defeated Su Dongpo with an absolute advantage and won the crown.
So who is it that can make Li Bai and other unborn poets admire him so much that he even writes 12 poems in succession to express his admiration?
This man was named Xie Shuo, and he lived in the Southern and Northern Dynasties 200 years before Li Bai.
The most talented first literary hero of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xie Shuo, was not one
Xie Shuo was born into a famous aristocrat, and the landscape poet Xie Lingyun was the same as the Chen County Xie clan, generations of Gaomen Jia clan, he wrote a good article from childhood, when the world was amazed by Xie Shuo's talent, he was highly respected, but in that feudal era of "learning to become a literary martial art, selling goods to the imperial family", Xie Shuo did not care about his talent in literature, but just wanted to use this as a stepping stone to embark on his career.
Xie Shuo was born at the age of twenty-seven, and because of his fame, he was appreciated everywhere at the beginning——
From 493 onwards, Xie Shuo successively served as the general of Zhonglang,the governor of the Dongge Court, the prince of the house,the prince of the house,the middle lang of the Shangshu Dian zhonglang, during which he fully displayed his literary talents, attracted the attention of the court, and finally entered the center of power, and was appointed by the emperor as a secretary, which is roughly equivalent to today's national librarian + chairman of the Writers Association.
However, this is far from satisfying Xie Shuo's appetite, in the eyes of a romantic poet like him who yearns for "Dapeng rises with the same wind in one day", the district secretary Cheng can neither go up to heaven to listen, nor can he tilt the power to one side, it is really a nest, but if he wants to cross the ranks, he has no half merit except for a belly of pen and ink, so Xie Shuo can only choose to wait silently, waiting for an opportunity that can make him step into the clouds.
The turning point of fate is said to come, and this turning point is related to Xie Shuo's old father-in-law Wang Jingze.
Wang Jingze was a great martial artist and a high-ranking and powerful person, who was then the Grand Sima of the Dynasty and the Governor of the Imperial Household, and usually boasted of his high merits, and did not pay attention to his colleagues, even if he was an emperor, he did not give face. The emperor was jealous of Wang Jing, a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and could only pretend to be polite on the surface, but behind his back, he was always wary of him--in any dynasty, a military general with high merit and flying spirits always reassured the emperor.
When the emperor was seriously ill and knew that he would soon die, he suddenly ordered another general of Pingdong to be set up around Wang Jingze's huiji, and transferred an army to deploy an encirclement. After Wang Jingze understood the situation, he couldn't help but be angry and afraid, and he said to the people around him: General Pingdong? Isn't it my Wang Jingze in the east now? The emperor wants to pacify me, how can I sit still?
Wang Jing decided to raise an army to rebel.
He sent emissaries to his son-in-law Xie Shuo to pull him along. The prophet unabashedly explained his intentions and told Xie Shuo: Your father-in-law has made up his mind, and if you have no other ideas, I will go back to my life.
In the heart of the messenger, the son-in-law and the father-in-law should have sought one and hated each other, who knew that Xie Shuo suddenly shouted after listening to it: Come on people, take down the anti-thief for me!
The messenger couldn't believe his ears, and after reacting, he yelled at Xie Shuo. Xie Shuo, on the other hand, completely ignored the insults of the emissaries, and quickly prepared a fast horse to tie the emissaries to the horses, and then hurried to the palace with a quick horse and whip to report to the emperor that his old man was about to rebel.
At this time, although the terminally ill emperor was weak and could not even lift his hands, when he heard such a major event, he still quickly deployed his army and surrounded and suppressed Wang Jingze, who had not yet become a climate, with a thunderous posture. After the success of the counter-rebellion, in order to commend Xie Shuo's "great righteousness and annihilation of relatives", the emperor promoted him to shangshu official Bulang in a special way - this is a real official position that can advise and transfer officials with five pins and below nationwide!
Statue of Xie Shuo
After so many years of hard work in the civilian post, just because he denounced his father-in-law once, he was on the rise, and although Xie Shuo had been mentally prepared, he was still greatly shocked. In addition to thousands of thanks, Xie Shuo even put on three tables to show humility, but where the emperor may be accurate.
In this way, the great talent Xie Shuo crossed the rank and promotion, but the old man was defeated because of his whistleblowing, and seven fathers and sons were killed.
Xie Shuo's wife hated Xie Shuo to the bone because of his hatred for killing his father and killing his brother, and once after drinking, his wife took advantage of his lack of preparation and carried a machete to kill him, but fortunately it was unsuccessful. Xie Shuo knew that he was wrong, and did not tell the government, only that his wife had a deep affection for her father and daughter, but since then, Xie Shuo never dared to see his wife again.
Soon after, the emperor died of illness, and the crown prince DongXiaohou took the throne. From the name, you can see how unreliable this new emperor is. When he was young in the Eastern Palace of the Crown Prince, he did not like to study, and he was willful and playful, and after becoming an emperor, he was even more difficult to move- spoiling eunuchs, alienating the courtiers, indulging in the harem, and not asking about political affairs.
The sluggishness of the Marquis of Dongxia soon attracted the displeasure of his courtiers, and several of the assistant ministers left by the previous emperors privately discussed and decided to depose him and establish King Shi'an as emperor.
On this day, the auxiliary ministers and the king of Shi'an personally came to Xie Shuo's mansion and said to Xie Shuo: Now that the Marquis of Dongxia is immoral and incompetent, and cannot govern the country well, for the sake of jiangshan and social welfare, the sages should be allowed to live in it.
The Emperor of Southern Qi, who was equally famous as the Marquis of Haixia, Xiao Baojuan
And King Shi'an also promised that if he became emperor, he would definitely introduce Xie Shuo as his confidant in the future. However, the matter was so big that Xie Shuo could not deal with it for a while, and could only remain silent.
For some time after that, the King of Shi'an continued to send people to lure Ande Xie Shuo with the high-ranking official Houlu, which made the chickens and dogs in the Xie Mansion uneasy, and there was a tense atmosphere of mountain rain coming and the wind filling the building--Xie Shuo did not dare to take the risk, after all, Yue Zhang's signature for the death of yue Zhang's reactionary death was in front of him, but on the other hand, he did not want to offend the King of Shi'an, who had many minions.
Thinking left and right, Xie Shuo never had a good strategy, and under tremendous mental pressure, he fell ill. In the hospital bed, Xie Shuo often hallucinated, and sometimes the tragic situation of Yue Zhang's death appeared in his mind, and sometimes flashed the fierce appearance of his wife slashing at him.
But Xie Shuo was the one who had seized the wind of fate once, and he kept recalling the scenery scene when he ascended to the heavens step by step because of the denunciation of Yue Zhang, and now, he seemed to be standing at the crossroads of fate again - as long as he whistleblowed again and exposed the crime of The King of Shi'an's intention to rebel, would he fly yellow for the second time?
Thinking of this, Xie Shuo decided to enter the palace to see the Marquis of Dongxiao today, but the Marquis of Dongxiao indulged in the feasting of women all day long, and did not receive hundreds of officials at all, Xie Shuo was anxious and angry, and for a while he did not know how to be good.
In order to send the information to the emperor in time, Xie Shuo found many close ministers who were favored by the emperor, but everyone thought that this was a royal infighting and did not want to get involved, so they said that they could not help.
Worried, Xie Shuo panicked and did not choose a path, and actually broke into the Jian'an Palace. He said to King Jian'an's men: Although the Marquis of Dong'an is not ruling the country well, when he reigned, your eldest king Jian'an had a peaceful son. Now that King Shi'an intends to rebel, I know that your master and he have always been at odds in private, and once he ascends to the throne, he is bound to take revenge on you.
When King Jian'an's men heard about this, they showed a very surprised look: Is there such a thing? That can't be delayed, I must report it quickly!
Hearing that the other party gave an answer, Xie Shuo's heart fell to the ground and he returned home satisfied.
What Xie Shuo did not expect was that this Jian'an King's subordinate was actually one of the members who conspired against King Shi'an to ascend to the throne, and as soon as Xie Shuo left on the front foot, he immediately told king Shi'an about this matter on the back foot. King Shi'an and a group of auxiliary ministers were furious after hearing this, and decided to take the lead, they lured Xie Shuo into the palace under the guise of the emperor, Xie Shuo thought that the emperor had learned the information he provided from the king of Jian'an, there was no doubt that he had been summoned, and mei zizi accepted the summons, thinking in his heart, after the fact, he could be promoted to the third level, who knew that what greeted him was a cold shackle.
Xie Yuan, who was full of economy, couldn't imagine that he had actually looked away
King Shi'an instructed many ministers to write a joint letter accusing Xie Shuo of being a sinister and cunning person, and since he denounced Yue Zhangwang Jingze for gaining a meritorious name, he became more and more eager to fill the world's disrespect, openly provoking relations between the masses and subjects inside and outside the court, spreading gossip, and vainly trying to belittle the emperor, and shocking the dynasty with malicious intentions.
The Marquis of Dongxia didn't care about the infighting among the courtiers, and after getting the song, he asked impatiently, "How do you say that Shuodang should deal with this person?"
The group of ministers said in unison: "Damn!
As a result, Xie Shuo, a generation of literary heroes, who was known as "no such poem in two hundred years", was hastily put to death in prison at the age of 36. Before leaving, he was full of regrets, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky and sigh: In this life, the most sorry person is my father-in-law, Jing Zegong!
References: The Third Edition of the History of China Wild, edited by Wen Lin, China Overseas Chinese Publishing House; History of Chinese Literature, edited by You Guoen, Beijing People's Literature Publishing House