In the 25th year of the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Empire, was ushering in a snow. It was cold and frosty, and although there were few people on the wide road, there were still people in the official liquor store on the side.
Green ant new wine, red clay small stove. Late to the day want snow, can you drink a cup of nothing? Bai Juyi has left a fresh little poem for such a good situation, and now that the snow has fallen, the wine has entered the throat, and the romance of the Tang Dynasty has been instantly stimulated.
Through the transparent curtain, the four Miao ling singer Ji Wanna took the stage, and a group of spectators and drinkers sat on the cold day and snow, tasting fine wine and delicacies, listening to these wonderful people gently open their lips and sing the poems of the Tang Dynasty literary heroes. What no one noticed was that in the inconspicuous corner of the official house, three men who had drunk slightly drunk were secretly competing.
"Since we are all poets, we might as well take a gamble to see who sings the most poems, so as to divide the differences?" The person who spoke was None other than Wang Changling, who was later known as the "Seven Sacred Hands", and the other two were also poets of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Shi and Wang Zhizhuo.
The wine goes to the thick, and the love comes out from the shallow. Gao Shi and Wang Zhizhuo's pride was instantly ignited, and they quickly nodded their heads in agreement, and then the three poets held their breath and quietly listened to the singers chanting.
"Cold rain and river night into Wu ... A piece of ice heart in a jade pot. The first singer Sang Ji sang Wang Changling's "Furong Lou Send Xin Gradually".
"Tears in the air... Empty and near. The second Ge Ji sang Gao Shi's "Crying Single Father Liang Jiu Shaofu".
"Broom Ping Ming Golden Temple opened... Bring the shadow of the sun to the sun. The third singer Sang ji sang Wang Changling's "Long Letter Autumn Words".
The three songs were exhausted, Gao Shi and Wang Changling looked at the embarrassed Wang Zhizhuo with a bad smile, and Wang Zhizhuo, who was also famous enough to let go, pointed to the last singer and said: "The first three are just rouge fans, and they will only sing some poems of the Lower Riba people, and my poems are only sung by this fourth wonderful person." ”
The wind and snow temporarily rested, and everyone in the warm official house held their breath and listened to the gentle and lingering song of the fourth geji: "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city of WanlingShan." Qiang Di why should he complain about Yang Liu, the spring wind does not pass the jade door. A song "Liangzhou Words" surprised the four seats, Wang Zhizhuo laughed at the case, and drank a cup of Chinese and American wine.
This is an ordinary winter day in the 25th year of the Tang Dynasty, but it has been remembered by history because of the "three of the four border poets". The "Flag Pavilion Painting Wall" was a literary salon of the Tang Dynasty Biansai poetry school, but Cen Shan, who was only 20 years old at the time, was not yet famous, so Wang Changling, Gao Shi and Wang Zhizhuo already represented the top flow of the Biansai poetry school.
A thousand years of time flow, a few degrees of things for the stars. Now when we mention Wang Changling again, we will praise him as "the Son of Heaven of poets, the Seven Sacred Hands"; when we mention Gao Shishi again, we will praise him as "the master of the poet, only suitable"; what about Wang Zhizhuo?
We only know his "Liangzhou Words", only his "Climbing the Stork And bird building", and then what? Only six poems survived by this great poet, and this great poet has not even left a single word in the historical records.
But if you think that Wang Zhizhuo is like this, then you are very wrong. This great poet who has been forgotten by the history of Zhengshi has always been the top traffic in the Sheng Tang Dynasty music scene, and each of his poems has been adapted into songs sung by his family, even if the time has been swept away for a thousand years, how about leaving only six poems?
Wang Zhizhuo tells us that only six poems in a lifetime are enough.
Born in the early Tang Dynasty and died in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which was cooked by fire, this was undoubtedly the happiest life for the people of the Tang Dynasty. Even if the Weather of the Tang Dynasty is separated by a thousand years, it can burst out from the words in the history books and make future generations moved.
Born in the fourth year of Wu Zetian's reign (688), Wang Zhizhuo was actually not from a low birth, and his family was the famous Taiyuan Wang clan of the Tang Dynasty, and although his ancestors did not worship the generals and marquises, they were also scholars who had been officials for generations.
However, Wang Zhizhuo, who had learned from a small family, did not have a smooth career path, and although he was confined to the last petty official all his life, he left a lot of amazing deeds during his tenure as an official, but compared with those poets who were written by historians, it was too cold.
Unlike most Tang Dynasty scholars, the knowledgeable Wang Zhizhuo did not take the path of examination, and his first job was at the age of 38 as the chief bookkeeper of Hengshui in Jizhou. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, when everyone was enthusiastic about building meritorious deeds, Wang Zhizhuo, who was poor and happy, led a meager salary to guard the purity of his heart.
No one knows why Wang Zhizhuo did not take the road of imperial examination, but judging from his personality of resigning from the government and returning to seclusion after less than a year as the master of Hengshui in Jizhou, Wang Zhizhuo must be a person who does not conform to the world. The short life of an official eunuch allowed Wang Zhizhuo to see the deceit of the officialdom, and after being framed and criticized, he immediately chose to retreat from the rapids and walked out of another life.
Don't be light on Wang Zhizhuo's talent because of his lack of merit, because at that time Wang Zhizhuo had already become the top lyricist in the Tang Dynasty song world because of his own poetry, but where there was music, there was Wang Zhizhuo's poetry, which was a treatment that idle poets could not enjoy.
Since ancient times, talent has been a good story with a beautiful person. As early as the 10th year of the new century, Wang Zhizhuo, who had not yet made a meritorious name, was favored by Hengshui County Because of his literary talent. What kind of charm should be able to make Hengshui County Ling ignore Wang Zhizhuo's marriage and marry the little girl to him.
Wang Zhizhuo, who harvested love, was influenced by Lang's concubine intentions, but it gave birth to his inner dry cloud arrogance. Wang Zhizhuo, who did not want to go along with the turbidity of the officialdom, resigned his official post and went into hiding in the 12th year of the new century, and his wife Li Shi was also willing to be poor, and accompanied him to survive day by day in the life of material scarcity.
Xu is inseparable from his wife, or because he is a natural optimist, from the 15th year of Kaiyuan to the 29th year of Kaiyuan, Wang Zhizhuo traveled in all directions and sang the wind and the moon. He may not have been far away, but his free soul must have flown to the border of the empire, carefully looked at the grass and trees of the border plug, and then wrote a poem of popularity like a brilliant flower.
Some time ago, the popular TV series "Qing Yu Nian" mentioned du Fu's "Ascending Heights" as the first of the seven laws of ancient and modern times, but in fact, Wang Zhizhuo's "Liangzhou Words" also enjoyed the reputation of "the work of the Seven Absolute Scrolls of the Tang Dynasty".
"The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city of Wanlingshan. Qiang Di why should he complain about Yang Liu, the spring wind does not pass the jade door. Later commentators praised "Liangzhou Ci" as a masterpiece of Sheng Tang Biansai poetry, although the Tao exhausted the hardships and bitterness of Biansai's life, but it was mournful and not hurtful, showing the Wencheng Wude that Sheng Tang only had.
In that sheng Tang Dynasty, "Liangzhou Words" was a poem sung by the whole people, and Wang Zhizhuo's name was also remembered by everyone because of "Liangzhou Words".
If "Liangzhou Words" has made Wang Zhizhuo famous in the history of Qingshi, "Climbing the Stork and Bird Building" is wang Zhizhuo's achievement of the famous Stork Tower for eternity.
In the fourth year of Wu Zetian's Chang'an, Wang Zhizhuo came to the Stork Tower of the Pillow River and ascended to the pole, only to see the sunset gradually sink into the distant mountains, and the river churned and swept away. The open-mindedness of the indignant was spit by Wang Zhizhuan, and this song, which was only two crosses, but had been sung for thousands of years, was born.
"The day is at the end of the mountain, and the Yellow River flows into the sea. Want to go to the next level. "Ancient literati rioters also like to punch in the internet red, the more famous places, the more literary bigwigs gathered, and can suppress the whole field with their works, so that the rest of the poetry of the same genre is inferior, which is the best evidence of strength."
Just like the Tengwang Pavilion has Wang Bo's "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", the Yueyang Pavilion has Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Lou", and the Stork Pavilion also has Wang Zhizhuo's "Climbing the Stork Andck Tower". And from "Liangzhou Words" to "Climbing the Stork and Bird Tower", one is "Sheng Tang Seven Absolute Scroll Works", the other is "Sheng Tang Five Absolute Best", Wang Zhizhuo These three words have been destined to shine for eternity.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Wang Zhizhuo, who has been stumbling all his life, has lived a life that belongs only to himself and is not entangled in fame and fortune.
For more than ten years of idleness at home, we all know how many popular poems Wang Zhizhuo wrote, and how many magnificent landscapes of mountains and rivers he passed. The only thing that can be determined is that Wang Zhizhuo has found inner peace in his poor life.
His reputation was so great that people sang his poems wherever he went; but he was so small that not a single word of his words was recorded in the history. However, all this has nothing to do with Wang Zhizhuo, from the moment he resigned and returned, Wang Zhizhuo was a Wang Zhizhuo who only belonged to his beloved wife Li Shi, and a Wang Zhizhuo who only belonged to Wang Zhizhuo.
The humble did not dare to forget the worries of the country. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, the 55-year-old Wang Zhizhuo served as a lieutenant of Wen'an County, and during his tenure, he was honest and diligent, relieved the people's worries, and had a clear political administration under his jurisdiction, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, which was a good story at that time.
The desert is lonely and the Yellow River is full of yen. I think that a figure like Wang Zhizhuo, who has hills and valleys in his heart, serving the government for the officials is not their pursuit, and the battlefield of the hundred battles of jinge iron horses is the place they really yearn for. However, the world is not satisfactory, and Wang Zhizhuo, who has written all the way to the side, has never really experienced the military career of bloody fighting.
"Liangzhou Words" is a song left by Wang Zhizhuo to Sheng Tang, and Wang Zhizhuo is also a shocking flood left by history to Sheng Tang. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhizhuo died in office, and since then he has been hidden in the dust of history, and no one has mentioned this minor official again.
Someone asked, "Then how do we summarize Wang Zhizhuo?" ”
That sentence was actually written as early as the first year of Wang Zhizhuo's death, but it was not until 1930, a thousand years later, that the tomb robbers unintentionally stole it. That is a sentence on Wang Zhizhuo's epitaph: filial piety is heard at home, righteousness is heard of friends, generosity has a general plan, and a gentleman has different talents.
The rest don't need to be asked, because the answers to Wang Zhizhuo's life are in the Liangzhou Words.