More than 1,300 years ago, a man walked slowly towards a building.
He knew it wasn't an ordinary building. This is the "Golden Platform" built by king Yan Zhao of the Warring States to recruit the world's sages, that is, "Youzhou Terrace" and "Jibei Tower". Here, Le Yi, who commanded the Five-Nation Alliance and more than seventy cities of the Qi State, was greeted, as well as Zou Yan, the founder of the Yin-Yang Family and the Five Elements Theory, and The Soldier Drama Xin, who was good at changing the law.
He knew all that.
He climbed up the steps step by step. He stood on the platform, looked around, looked down at the sky, recalled the prosperity of the place in the past, and remembered the years of wandering struggle, the sense of loneliness and desolation could not help but gush out, he sighed with indignation, and sang a poem in a tone of depression:
The ancients were not seen before, and the comers were not seen after that.
Thinking of heaven and earth, alone but weeping.
How many people have read this poem and know that in addition to the four masters of "Wang Yang Lu Luo" in the early Tang Dynasty, there was also a poet named Chen Ziang. How many people have been shocked by this poem, repeatedly chanting, stirring up the inner "loneliness" and stirring up the mood.
Only because he is Chen Ziang.
01, rich and rich, abandoning wu Congwen
Chen Ziang, also spelled Boyu, was born in a local tycoon family behind a famous family in Shehong County, Sichuan.
His father, Chen Yuanjing, was unusual, one of the famous men and one of the great hiddens in Shu, and his family was well-off. He was generous and righteous, and when he was young, he was a hero. In the year of famine, he took out grain and provided relief to his neighbors. This has a great impact on Chen Ziang.
When he was a teenager, Chen Ziang took his father as an example and wanted to fight the sword to go to the end of the world and be a chivalrous guest, so he packed his bags, picked up the sword, embarked on the road of the rivers and lakes, and opened the ranger mode.
As he wrote in his poem:
Learn less vertical and horizontal techniques, and travel to Chu Fu You Yan.
The perch is entrusted with the order, and the rich and noble are unknown.
—— Excerpt from "The Book of The Sacrifice of Cao Beg"
However, during a sword competition with others, the young and vigorous stabbed a swordsman who claimed to be a master within three moves. This caused great trouble to the family, and the family lost money and apologized. He himself regretted it.
However, this incident made him understand a truth, the jianghu is not a fight, killing and killing, fighting and killing can only be his own injury or others' injury. He suddenly remembered a sentence that his father had said to him, reading, self-cultivation, family unity, governing the country, and peaceful the world. He suddenly realized, from then on, he lost his sword, cut off contact with friends, and concentrated on reading.
It was this epiphany that ended his life of being a hero and a man, and began a life of struggle.
02, determined to be promising, drifting north
In Chen Ziang's eyes, Datang is in an era of great promise.
Just do it. In the first year of Emperor Gaozong's reign, in 679, Chen Ziang left his hometown alone for the capital Chang'an.
He chose the route out of the Three Gorges and went north to Chang'an. The road of Shudi is very difficult to walk, "The difficulty of shu road is difficult to go to the qingtian!" "It is not easy to go into the river, and it is also difficult to go out of the river, not to mention that going north to Chang'an needs to take a detour to Chudi first and then go north. The road is very difficult, the land has to go, the water road also has to go, every day at dawn to leave, dark to find a hotel to rest, and even sometimes the wind to eat and sleep.
On the way, he walked to Lexiang County, which is now Jingmen, Hubei Province, and he was homesick. Watching the sun set from the west little by little, he was alone and wandering outside, his homesickness became more and more intense, so he wrote a poem "Late Lexiang County" to express homesickness.
The hometown is endless, twilight and lonely.
Kawahara Lost Old Country, Road Entrance Castle.
Wild and barren smoke, deep mountains and ancient wood flat.
How to hate at this time, squeal night ape song.
A journey from the mountains, a journey from the water, all the way to the north, the servants of the wind and dust came to Chang'an and became a "north drifter". This was also the first time he came to the capital Chang'an City. In Chang'an, he first entered the Guozijian, the highest school in the Tang Dynasty, and studied for a year. After that, he took the imperial examination, but unfortunately, he did not pass the examination.
Helplessly, he ended his life in the north and returned to his hometown to prepare for another battle.
Back in Sichuan, Chen Ziang worked harder to study the book, "in a few years, through the history of hundreds of families, I did not read it." You shan belongs to the text, ya has a similarity, the wind bone of the ziyun", has made great progress.
He went out of Shu again and went north to Chang'an.
03, continue to drift north, wrestling the piano is famous
In the first year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang's reign, in 682, Chen Ziang, who had achieved success in his studies, came to Chang'an City again with confidence and fought again, but the result was unexpected, and he was not admitted.
The two times he fell in the first place, making him extremely depressed and lonely.
One day, in order to relieve his worries, he went up to Chang'an Avenue to hang out, and as he walked, he saw a group of people surrounding a stall, as if they were looking at something. He squeezed in hard to see that it was a Hu person selling Hu Qin. The price tag is still quite high, asking for millions, and not counter-offered. For a while, only people watched, and no one dared to buy it. However, he bought it.
At the same time, he also let out the wind, tomorrow he will be in Chang'an Xuanyang banquet luxury, I Chen Ziang for everyone to play the piano, please be sure to appreciate the light.
The next day came quickly, and just as people were waiting for the piano to sound, he grabbed the huqin and smashed it in half.
Everyone looked stupid, but at this time he said slowly: "Chen Ziang, a Shu man, has a hundred axes of literature, and is not known to everyone, so it is better to pay attention to the joy of this pleasure of lowly work." ”
After saying that, he sent his poems to everyone, and everyone was amazed by his talent after reading it. At that time, after King Jingzhao Sigong read it, he exclaimed in amazement: "This person will be Emperor Wenzong of Hainei!" ”
Chen Ziang, a lonely northern drifter, suddenly became famous in Chang'an City.
04, outspoken and bold, ridicule and demeaning
Taking advantage of his fame, he decided to take the test again.
In the first year of Wu Zetianguang's residence, in 684, Chen Ziang took the imperial examination for the third time, and this time he passed the jinshi examination.
However, he has a straightforward personality, is outspoken and outspoken, cares about the people's livelihood, and has repeatedly written to "go to the masses", offending many people in the official arena and has not been reused. Lonely, he once wrote several sets of poems of "Feelings" to lament the sorrow of his own talent.
Lan Ruosheng spring and summer, Qian Wei He Qingqing.
The lonely sky is forest-colored, and the vermilion is full of purple stems.
Late day and night, the autumn wind is born.
The years are shaking down, and the meaning is not so great!
- "Feelings" (Part 2)
Until the unfortunate death of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, who had been ill for many years, Wu Zetian prepared to return him to Chang'an and bury Him in Qianling. Chen Ziang wrote the book "The Book of The Spirit Driving into Beijing", wu Zetian read it, lamented his talent, and began to reuse him, giving him the Lintai orthography, and rising to the right pick.
Later, he and Qiao Zhizhi were dissatisfied with the arbitrariness of Wu Sansi, Wu Chengsi and other foreign relatives, and offended the foreign relatives of the Wu clan and were ostracized.
In the second year of Wu Zetian's reign, in 686, Chen Ziang arrived in the northwest along the JuyanHai and Zhangye Rivers with the army of Qiao Zhizhi in the northwest to investigate defense and resist the Turks, and had certain military combat experience.
In 696, li duzhong and Sun Wanrong, the governor of Songmo who guarded the northeast of the town, rebelled. The Khitans in the northeast took advantage of the border rebellion and captured Jizhou, Youzhou, and Yingzhou.
Therefore, Wu Zetian sent his nephew Wu Youyi to lead the army north to fight, but Wu Youyi was a brother in law, and he did not understand how to lead troops to fight, and he was defeated as soon as he fought with the Khitans.
Chen Ziang, who was a staff officer at that time, was very anxious, and he directly asked Wu Youyi for instructions, simply let me take ten thousand elite soldiers to do it, and I would definitely kill them without leaving a piece of armor. Gongzi Brother Wu Youyi didn't even look up at him, only one sentence, you a scholar who writes poetry knows anything, less talk to me about soldiers on paper, and what soldiers to fight what battles. He was ridiculed.
Later, the outspoken Chen Ziang once again expressed his opinion of fighting against the enemy, and Wu Youyi was directly angry, reducing him to a cobia, and at the same time, completely offending the foreign relatives of the Wu clique.
05, a cry, with injustice and death
It was at this moment that Chen Ziang felt endless loneliness, just like the scene at the beginning of the text, he climbed the Youzhou Platform, looked at the vast heavens and the earth, was ambitious, and could not help but burst into tears, singing the "Dengyouzhou Platform Song".
This sense of loneliness and desolation that penetrated time and space completely made him let go of everything.
In the first year of the Wu Zetian Holy Calendar, in 698, the lonely Chen Ziang simply resigned and returned to his hometown in Sichuan to serve his elderly father. In his hometown, he suffered misfortune. At that time, Duan Jian of Shehong County, at the behest of Wu's foreign relatives, and the county order coveted Chen Ziang's family property and wanted to take it for himself, so he fabricated charges and arrested Chen Ziang and put him in prison, causing Chen Ziang to die of grievance and anger.
Chen Ziang's life is a life of straightforwardness, a life of struggle, a life of loneliness, he used poetry to throw his noble loneliness and the power of struggle into the long river of history, even if it has been passed down for thousands of years, we can still feel his frank shouting and touching the shock of the heart.
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Zhang Jiannan, like Tang poetry and Song poetry, welcome to leave a message to communicate.