Preface
Since ancient times, emperors who have made achievements have been somewhat conceited, and in order to show their pride in their achievements, these emperors often record them through literature, so that it is more convenient to appreciate them repeatedly or accept the flattery of their courtiers.
For example, in the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bang wrote "Song of the Great Wind" to express his pride and ambition, "The wind rises and the clouds fly" expresses Liu Bang's grief and indignation vividly, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin's "The wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board knows the sincere minister" is a vivid expression of his praise for the courtiers.
As we all know, the peak period of ancient literature in the mainland must be the Song Dynasty, as the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin naturally sang two lines of poetry when the interest came.
And Zhao Kuangyin has a residual poem, he did not connect the second half of the poem back then, until 400 years later, another emperor saw this residual poem and completed it with the same generosity.
1. The knight goes out of the mountain
As we all know, the subjects of the Song Dynasty preferred to use "official" to the title of the emperor rather than "emperor" or "majesty", one of the reasons is that the Zhao and Song royal families were actually not properly seated, and Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was able to sit on the throne not because he knocked down the world, but became the Taizu Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty through usurpation.
Because of the improper position, Zhao Kuangyin always had a little uneasy conscience in his heart, and he was afraid that the hundred officials would not conform to his rule in the future because of this reason, so he called himself an "official family", which meant to tell people that Zhao Song was not usurping power, but managing the world on his behalf.
Zhao Kuangyin's family is not a lonely commoner, since the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of the Zhao family have begun to be officials in the imperial court, and the official positions of several generations of ancestors are not low, so in the chaotic political situation at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Zhao family was able to preserve itself by virtue of the previously accumulated contacts and its own very rich family education.
Because the ancestors were officials from generation to generation, the family history of the Zhao family is quite rich, when Zhao Kuangyin was young, the elders of the family began to teach Zhao Kuangyin poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and music, and committed to cultivating the eldest son and grandson into an elegant scribe.
On the one hand, Zhao Kuangyin abides by the teachings of his elders, but on the other hand, what he prefers is not literature, but martial arts.
When he was a child, Zhao Kuangyin had already learned martial arts, whether it was riding and archery, dancing knives and guns, and even took his partners to pretend to lead soldiers to fight, and he was addicted to being a general.
When he got older, Zhao Kuangyin's personality became stronger, completely deviating from the expectations of his elders, from a personable literati to a chivalrous warrior who drew a sword to help him when he saw injustice, and his reputation for righteousness and heroism gradually became far-reaching, and he met more righteous knights.
At that time, the world was very chaotic, and various forces were in turmoil, so Zhao Kuangyin decided to end his road as a ranger, and went south to start a career seriously, and finally, he got a job in the Later Zhou regime, and was reused by Chai Rong of Later Zhou Shizong, and gradually became Chai Rong's cronies.
However, within a few years, Chai Rong died of a serious illness, and before his death, Chai Rong appointed his seven-year-old son as his successor, and asked Zhao Kuangyin to assist his son as a good emperor and protect the Later Zhou regime.
But he didn't know that because Zhao Kuangyin's merits were high enough to cover the young master, the people below gradually began to have the heart to abolish the young master and support Zhao Kuangyin.
2. Xinglai poetry
With the ever-changing political situation, the next week is about to usher in great changes, because Zhao Kuangyin is righteous, and the cronies who are good friends with him are all sincere and obedient to Zhao Kuangyin's life.
Taking advantage of the dark and windy night one night, while Zhao Kuangyin was drunk, his cronies rebelled with Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Kuangyin, and directly approved a yellow robe to Zhao Kuangyin, and asked him to ascend the throne and claim the emperor.
As for whether this yellow-robed body was the spontaneous behavior of Zhao Kuangyin's cronies or was carried out at the behest of Zhao Kuangyin, the only thing we know is that after the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty and the gradual stabilization of the political situation, in order to prevent the phenomenon of separating the clan towns in the late Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin immediately weakened the power of the military generals by "releasing military power with a glass of wine", and brought the Song Dynasty into an era of heavy literature and light military force in the Chinese era.
In order to implement the emphasis on literature over military force, Zhao Kuangyin, as the emperor, even moved out of the literary skills that he had not used for many years, and held several poetry meetings and other activities to encourage and encourage literati to show their talents on the political stage.
As the emperor, Zhao Kuangyin led by example and enjoyed with the people, singing poems and harmonizing with the courtiers, while carrying forward the style of writing in this way, while observing talents and promoting them in the process of singing and harmonizing with the courtiers.
It is said that on this day, Zhao Kuangyin's concubine gave birth to a prince for Zhao Kuangyin in the middle of the night, Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed, and summoned hundreds of officials to a banquet the next night to celebrate the birth of the prince.
The moon was exceptionally bright and round that night, Zhao Kuangyin was already slightly drunk after drinking a few cups, and looked up at the moon in a trance, his heart was open and agitated, so the ink in his stomach was surging and the poetry was flourishing, and he raised his glass to the moon and said: "I have not left the sea floor and thousands of mountains and ink, and I have only arrived in Zhongtian Wanguoming!"
These two poems are very chivalrous and heroic of the official family, so the ministers praised Zhao Kuangyin again and again after listening to the majestic momentum of these two poems, and Zhao Kuangyin was also praised flutteringly, and couldn't help laughing.
But the ministers waited for a long time and didn't wait for the second half of the poem, so they asked, "Official, what is the second half of the poem?"
However, I saw that Zhao Kuangyin had fallen asleep drunk, this poem could only be stopped, and the next day Zhao Kuangyin woke up and felt that this poem was very good, but there was no atmosphere of last night, and he didn't know how to take it, give it to the hundred officials, and the hundred officials did not dare to take the poems of the official family casually, and in the end, only this half of the poem was handed down to future generations.
III. Cheerfulness
400 years later, when the time came to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang started from a humble beggar to join the rebel army, overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and finally ascended to the throne, becoming the most "grassroots" emperor in Chinese history.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born poor and has never read since he was a child, so the cultural level can be imagined.
However, what few people know is that Zhu Yuanzhang's lack of skills in writing poetry is all feelings, and he can't write any gorgeous rhetoric for him, but his life experience is too rich, and sometimes he inadvertently writes majestic poems.
For example, the last two sentences of this "hand-me-down classic" are "Three calls to call out the Fusang Day, sweep away the remnants of the stars and the dawn moon", combined with his life experience from a beggar's uprising to an emperor, the generosity of this poem is extremely heroic.
After ascending the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhao Kuangyin's remnant poem by chance, and he couldn't help but sigh that Song Taizu and his mind were so similar, the same openness, the same ambition, and the same chivalrous spirit, so he was suddenly aroused by poetry, and took the pen to pick up the second half of the sentence:
"Hold on to this ambition and become an eternal ambition, and win the peace in a hundred battles!"
The artistic conception of the first two sentences and the last two sentences is natural, the same ambition is full of ambition, the same breath swallows mountains and rivers, 400 years later, a poem connects the souls of the two founding ancestors together, forming the majestic momentum of this poem, which is still intimidating the world with their generous minds.
epilogue
But there is no first martial arts and no second, Zhu Yuanzhang's treatment of poetry does not mean that the correct answer should be like this, if it were you, how would you complete the second half of this poem?