Preface
Since ancient times, love seems to be an eternal topic, with poignant love stories and vigorous and moving chapters, no matter which one it is, it makes the world yearn for it.
For love, people have their own perceptions and experiences, and in the world of all kinds of styles, it is not only the world that runs for love, but also animals.
They may not be the most beautiful, but they are moving enough, and the wild goose is one of them, and it was a 16-year-old boy who saw it with his own eyes.
He saw a pair of geese die in martyrdom, and this scene had a great impact on the young man's heart, so he wrote this scene into a poem, which has been passed down to this day.
So why did this pair of geese die in love, and who is this 16-year-old boy who witnessed it with his own eyes? What kind of psalms did he write?
1. Juvenile - "Prodigy"
This 16-year-old boy is Yuan Haowen, and he may not be familiar with his name, but the poems he wrote have been recited by the world for thousands of years.
Yuan Haowen was a famous lyricist in the Jin and Yuan dynasties, and one of the most famous lyricists after the Song Dynasty, and his attainments in poetry were comparable to those of Nalan Xingde in the Qing Dynasty.
Just like the poem that Nalan Xingde said that expresses emotion, "If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan", in the tone of a woman, she wrote the grievances of being abandoned by her husband.
This is Nalan Xingde's poem about emotion, so how did Yuan Haowen write it? Or what kind of environment did Yuan Haowen write poems about emotions?
The name Yuan Haowen sounds very unusual, and his life is also different, Yuan Haowen was born in a scholarly family in rural Xinzhou.
He had two uncles who had no sons, and Yuan Haowen was the third in line, so seven months after Yuan Haowen was born, he was passed on to his uncle Yuan Ge.
So Yuan Ge also became Yuan Haowen's adoptive father, but his feelings for Yuan Haowen were regarded as his own, and he taught him carefully, especially in his studies.
Yuan Haowen was born smart, at the age of seven he could write lyrics and poems, and was praised as a "prodigy" by the neighbors around him, his adoptive father Yuan Ge served in Jizhou, and Yuan Haowen because of his own talent, he was favored by the Hanlin Bachelor and Zhidengwen Drum Academy.
Lu Ze just took a fancy to Yuan Haowen's heartiness and intelligence, so he was willing to teach him to learn knowledge. When Yuan Haowen was fourteen years old, he apprenticed to Hao Jinqing in Lingchuan, studied scriptures and history, and was familiar with hundreds of schools.
Until Yuan Haowen was seventeen years old, his adoptive father Yuan Ge was dismissed from the Lingchuan order, but for the sake of Yuan Haowen's study, he still chose to stay in Lingchuan and let Yuan Haowen complete his studies until Yuan Haowen was nineteen years old, and after completing his studies, he moved his family out of Lingchuan.
Yuan Haowen during the study period, has also been taking the examination for fame, he has been participating in the imperial examination since he was sixteen years old, because Jin Zhangzong Mingchang in the first year of the "recognition of the exemption of the township examination", he can only go to the state to participate in the examination.
One of his poems that has been passed down through the ages was also written on his way to Bingzhou, and the place was named after him, so what happened in between?
2. Ask what is the situation in the world
The poem written by Yuan Haowen is "Touching the Fish, Yanqiu Ci", which is lyrical by borrowing things, and the first sentence of the opening chapter explains the main idea, and it has also become a sentence that has been passed down through the ages.
The phrase is, "What is the situation in the world?" Straight Christians promise life and death. This means, "What are the feelings of the world?" It can make people pay for it. ”
It can be seen that the two people are loyal to their feelings, and this perception is what Yuan Haowen learned from the wild goose, when he was passing through the wild goose hill, there was a hunter who hunted wild geese.
The hunter caught a wild goose with a net, but died soon after because he was unable to break free, and he was accompanied by a wild goose, although it was not caught in the net, but it was always with the wild goose.
Until the wild goose that was caught in the net died, it let out a burst of mournful screams, and lingered around the dead wild goose for a long time, as if it had finally made up its mind.
Falling sharply from a high altitude, hitting a stone, and dying of martyrdom, Yuan Haowen knew the tragic death of the wild goose and understood the steadfastness of feelings.
He was also moved by the feelings between the geese, so he wrote this poem, bought the two dead geese from Orion, and buried their bodies on the bank of the Fen River, buried them, and built graves.
Because the tomb resembled a small mound, it was named Yanqiu, and at this time it was later named. Also widely circulated is the song "Yanqiu" by Yuan Haowen.
The first two sentences have also become classic sentences, passed down through the ages, the full text is as follows, the age of sixteen is the age of the beginning of love, so when he saw a wild goose dying for another wild goose, all he could think of was martyrdom for love.
The upper rhyme of this poem is to borrow things to express their emotions, take the geese as an example, how many places they have flown in pairs, and how many years they have experienced, and the joy and pain will be as infatuated as the children of the world.
The martyred wild goose should also think: "I have seen thousands of miles of stratus clouds and thousands of miles of snow-capped mountains, and now I am the only one left, who else will accompany me, and who will I go for?" ”
Xia Yan mentioned an allusion, thinking that he was vaguely crossing the Fen River, but now he can no longer hear the lively flute and drum sound, and there is a lie shrouded in Pinglin.
Reciting "Chu Ci" can not recall the soul of the deceased, can only be like a wild ghost wandering in the mountains crying in the wind and rain, this pair of loyal feelings among the wild geese, God may also be jealous.
Even the author himself does not believe that this pair of geese and warblers and swallows will only turn into a handful of loess, which can only be passed on for thousands of generations.
3. A reclusive life in his later years
This poem is the inner emotion expressed by Yuan Haowen after knowing the feelings of the wild goose, but for young people, their hearts are often filled with more sorrow.
The burial of Shuangyan did not relieve him of the sorrow in his heart, and then Yuan Hao asked to continue the scientific examination, unfortunately, in this scientific examination, he was not on the list, which filled his heart with more sorrow.
After all, for a young man, such a blow is undoubtedly very big, the prodigy who has been praised since he was a child, and worships under the famous teacher, but in the end he did not get famous, the blow is inevitably too big.
But this did not let Yuan Haowen give up, he later took the exam many times, and finally at the age of 32, he was admitted to the Erudite Macro Vocabulary Department at the age of 35, and only officially entered the official career.
However, it is not all smooth sailing to go to the officialdom, there is deceit, there is intrigue, even if Yuan Haowen has no intention of fighting, it will inevitably fall into the whirlpool of turbulent waves.
Therefore, when he was 36 years old, he returned to Dengcun, during which he also wrote a very important work - "Du Poetics", which mainly wrote about Du Fu's biography, chronology, and remarks on the evaluation of Du Fu's poems during the Tang Dynasty.
Later, the country was in danger, the Mongol army surrounded Kaifeng, Yuan Haowen was in the siege, Jin Aizong escaped from the capital, and the Jin army fled to Defu in the defeat of Weizhou.
There was no one in charge in the court, Cui Li stood up and led his troops to surrender to Mongolia, after Cui Li surrendered, he coerced the courtiers to erect a monument for him, and Yuan Haowen and others were forced to write an inscription.
Because of his great fame, Yuan Haowen was accepted by Yelu Chucai, the important minister of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, but at this time, Yuan Haowen had no intention of officialdom, but returned to his hometown and lived a reclusive life, traveling while making friends, or concentrating on compiling works.
epilogue
Yuan Haowen's life was full of twists and turns, but his attainments in poetry made him leave a strong mark in history, and he was the most accomplished writer and historian in the late Jin and early Yuan dynasties, and he was also a representative of northern literature during the Song-Jin confrontation.
In particular, his poetry can be said to be the top lyricist of the Jin Dynasty, comparable to the famous writers of the Song and Song dynasties, and has had a profound impact on later generations.