Due to the early rise of Tang poetry in the early Tang Dynasty, poetry was not so eye-catching, and Wang Bo not only wrote poetry well, but also the most important literary genre at that time. On the way to visit his father, Wang Bo passed through the Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, and at the invitation of the local Taishou, he wrote the famous "Tengwang Pavilion Fu" in the Tengwang Pavilion.
At that time, this literary genre belonged to Yangchun Baixue, not a person with two brushes, who did not dare to write in public. However, in the year of The Weak Crown, Wang Bo wrote a fu for tengwang pavilion without hesitation, which can be said to be full of yunxia paper and words, especially in which "sunset and lone birds fly together, and autumn water is long and colorful" is that people who come to Tengwang pavilion in the future millennium to watch the scenery only take pleasure in seeing a kind of scene.
Wang Bo is famous for his "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng", but his glory has also ended here. Later, when he reached his destination to cross the sea, he drowned in the water at the age of 26.
However, there have always been doubts about whether Wang Bo really drowned. How could Wang Bo fall into the water so easily and die?
Since he did not drown in the sea, he needed to find a reason for Wang Bo's death. Some people believe that Wang Bo did not fall into the water and die, but was pushed down and drowned by someone, and the murderer was the local host when he was invited to Nanchang, the local magistrate of Nanchang, a governor surnamed Yan. Because at the beginning, this governor invited guests to let people write a preface for the newly built Tengwang Pavilion, his purpose was to praise his son-in-law, but he did not expect that Wang Bo became the protagonist without hesitation, and also wrote the "Tengwang Pavilion Fu" that has been passed down through the ages. He set up the stage himself, but made Wang Bo famous in one fell swoop, and Yan Dudu naturally could not swallow this breath. Therefore, he sent someone to secretly follow Wang Bo, and when he crossed the sea by boat, he pushed him off the boat and drowned.
But there is no evidence for this statement, after all, Yan Dudu is an important task in grasping the local military and political power, to kill such a common person as Wang Bo, there is no need to adopt such a stupid method, and the people who are looking for him are also stupid, and they actually followed Wang Bo from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, thousands of miles to Hainan to find an opportunity. So, the story is too bizarre to be accepted.
There is also a saying that Wang Bo is also very famous. He said that after writing that article, he resigned from Yan Dudu and continued to hurry. At this time, this Yan Dudu became a good man again, and he felt that Wang Bo was a talent, so he quickly sent someone to send him a thousand and two grains of silver. After the person who sent the money caught up with Wang Bo, he gave him the kindness of Yan Dudu, Wang Bo did not want it, but the other party insisted on sending it, and the stalemate lasted for a long time, and it was really impossible to refuse, so he had to accept it.
However, this scene was seen by several Jiangyang thieves, so when they saw the wealth, they pretended to go south with Wang Bo, and when they crossed the sea on Hainan Island, they pushed Wang Bo off the ship and then took away his money. This kind of statement is also unreliable, the robber who wants to rob money will be attacked in the Jiangxi territory, will he have such good patience to follow Wang Bo so far? Moreover, the method of pushing people into the water is adopted, are the robbers afraid of bloodshed?
Doubts about why Wang Bo died at a young age have continued, and some people believe that Wang Bo committed suicide. Because his career was not smooth, but also angered the emperor, he left a bad impression on the emperor, and it was basically impossible to become an official. Such a talented man, without the qualifications to be an official, for the ancients, having knowledge and not being able to be an official, it would be worse than killing him.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Wang Bo had the idea of taking his own life. So, taking advantage of the crossing of the sea to visit his father, he jumped off the boat and committed suicide. However, when searching wang Bo's works, they are basically optimistic and uplifting, and it is not obvious that he has the idea of suicide.
So, why did Wang Bo die early? It seems that when no new information emerges, the exploration will continue.