He is a famous Tang Dynasty "poet", he has been degraded in his life, although there are many unsatisfactory, he is smiling, open-minded and optimistic, his poems have their own unique heroism, he is Liu Yuxi, read Liu Yuxi, we can also laugh at the unsatisfactory life.
The young man has the ambition and soars
Liu Yuxi, the word Mengde, was born in 772, after claiming to be the king of Zhongshan Jing of the Han Dynasty, he was very smart since he was a child, and at the age of 9, he worshipped the famous poet monk Jiaoran and Lingche to learn poetry.
In 793, the 22-year-old Liu Yuxi was admitted to the Jinshi examination, which can be described as a young man's ambition, and Liu Zongyuan, who was one year younger than him, was admitted to the Jinshi in the same year, and the two became lifelong friends.
At the age of 23, he was awarded the prince's school book, and then he was prosperous all the way to the official fortune and achieved the position of supervising the imperial history.
At that time, the division of feudal towns and the dictatorship of eunuchs were the two major problems that plagued the Tang Dynasty, and the prince Li Yu had great ambitions and secretly looked for talents, and young talents like Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan were attracted by the prince early and accepted as henchmen.
In 805, Tang Dezong died, and the crown prince Li Yu ascended the throne, that is, Tang Shunzong, and the famous "Yongzhen Innovation" in history was about to kick off.
They needed a revolution to suppress the feudal towns and eunuchs, and Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan were the core planners of this revolution, which was also the most proud time of Liu Yuxi's life.
The reform failed and was demoted to Langzhou
In the face of the reformists, the eunuchs would certainly not sit idly by, they united with the envoys of the feudal towns to fight against the reform group, and the reformists had no military power in their hands, and were soon defeated, and Tang Shunzong, who had just ascended the throne, was forced to abdicate, and the "Yongzhen Reform" was declared a failure.
The members of the reformists were all persecuted, and Liu Yuxi was demoted to an official position, and he was demoted again and again, and his official position was also demoted again and again.
At first, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Yuanzhou Sima, and then to Lianzhou Assassin History, he had not yet gone to Lianzhou, and was demoted to Langzhou Sima, and Sima was an idle deputy.
In ancient times, it was tragic to be degraded, and it was degraded again and again, but Liu Yuxi has an accessible view of the changes in prosperity and decline, he can self-desolation, always maintain optimism, and turn the degraded life into a holiday.
The degraded places are often barbaric places, but these places are just beautiful mountains and rivers, pleasant scenery, and the official position is an idle position, Liu Yuxi started a life of traveling in the mountains and rivers.
He first came to Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring, wrote "One Hundred Rhymes of Traveling to Peach Spring", and then visited Dongting Lake many times, and wrote a lot of masterpieces, especially that one:
Wangdongting
The lake and autumn moon are harmonious, and the surface of the lake has no wind mirrors and is not polished.
Looking at the green mountains and rivers of Dongting from afar, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
In Langzhou, the development of civilization is still very backward, and there is still a life of slash-and-burn farming, and there are many customs of ethnic minorities, which have also been written into poems by Liu Yuxi, and he also wrote many poems on the basis of local folk songs, such as the famous "Bamboo Branch Words".
The willows are green and the river is level, and the Langjiang River is singing.
The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, and the road is sunny but sunny.
Although it was degraded, and Tang Xianzong also stipulated that even if there was an amnesty, Liu Yuxi and they could not be pardoned, but Liu Yuxi was not full of complaints in Langzhou, he wanted to die or live, but more of an indifferent and calm, and there was no sentimentality in his poems, and his famous "Autumn Words" was written during the demotion of Langzhou.
"Autumn Words"
Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I say that autumn is better than spring.
As soon as the cranes line the clouds in the clear sky, it will lead poetry to the blue sky.
People who are degraded are often in a bad mood, most afraid of autumn, in the face of the scene of falling leaves in autumn, the mood is even worse, and Liu Yuxi is obviously not affected, he said who said that autumn is not good, I think it is very good, autumn is high and refreshing, and my inspiration to write poems has risen.
Liu Yuxi stayed in Langzhou for nearly ten years, and finally when he was 44 years old, he received an edict from the imperial court to summon him back to Chang'an.
He was ordered to return to Chang'an and was demoted again
Liu Yuxi, his friend Liu Zongyuan and other officials who were demoted returned to Chang'an by edict, but what they did not expect was that they had just returned to Chang'an in February and were demoted again in March.
The reason is that Liu Yuxi wrote a poem, "In the tenth year of Yuanhe, I was summoned to Beijing from Langzhou, and the play was given to the gentlemen who watched the flowers"
Zimo red dust is blowing on his face, and no one is looking at the flowers.
The peach trees in the Xuandu view are all carried by Liu Lang.
Liu Yuxi They were all powerful figures back then, they returned to Beijing, and some people in the court were very nervous, this poem made them grasp the handle, saying that the peach tree means the current upstart of the court, "all Liu Lang went to the back", it was to mock them, and now you are coming up, and you are on the throne, because I am gone.
In March, Liu Yuxi was demoted to Banzhou Assassin History, which is today's Zunyi, Guizhou, because the then Prime Minister Pei Du interceded, and was changed to Lianzhou, in today's Qingyuan, Guangdong.
After being demoted for ten years, I just returned to Beijing, I saw hope, and then I was demoted again, and after suffering such a blow, ordinary people will definitely collapse and doubt their lives.
Maybe Liu Yuxi also complained on the way to Lianzhou, but he still faced it positively, but this time he also affected his friend Liu Zongyuan, and both of them were relegated to the south, and they walked all the way to Hengyang before they separated.
At the time of separation, Liu Zongyuan agreed with him that when they retired in the future, they would find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, build a thatched house, and be neighbors, Liu Zongyuan wrote
"Farewell Dream"
In the past 20 years, everything has been the same, and now the road is divergent.
If the emperor is allowed to return to the field, he will be a neighbor in his old age.
Liu Yuxi was full of emotion and made "Re-answer to Liuliuzhou" as a response
The weak crown is worried about the elderly, and the disagreement is long.
If the coupling cultivator is old, the yellow hair looks at everything.
What Liu Yuxi didn't expect was that this separation turned out to be the farewell of the two, and only four years later, Liu Zongyuan died of illness in Liuzhou.
At the beginning of this year, Liu Yuxi's ninety-year-old mother died of illness, and on the way back to his hometown for the funeral, he received Liu Zongyuan's suicide note.
End the debasement and return to Luoyang
After three years of worry, Liu Yuxi re-reported on his work and went to Kuizhou to take up his post, and then was demoted to Hezhou, Anhui.
Then Liu Yuxi received an edict from the imperial court to summon him back to Luoyang, a full 23 years of degrading career, the former youth is no more, he was in high spirits when he set off, and his temples were gray when he returned.
On the way back to Luoyang, passing through Yangzhou, he got together with his friend Bai Juyi, and Bai Juyi felt unfair and sympathized with Liu Yuxi's derogatory career.
Bring me a cup of wine and drink, and sing with you.
The poem calls the national hand a vain, and he is helpless to overwhelm people's heads.
The scenery is long and lonely, and the official position of the Manchu Dynasty is lonely.
I also know that he is only famous, and twenty-three years is too much.
In the face of the concern of his friends, Liu Yuxi is very open-minded, writing poems in return, although exiled for 23 years, although my years are no longer, but just like a sunken ship, a sick tree, there are still many talents around me, today I heard this song you made for me, with this glass of wine, let me regain my spirit, this is the "poet" heroism.
"Reward for Joy in Yangzhou at the First Meeting"
Bashan Chushui was desolate, and he was abandoned for twenty-three years.
The nostalgic empty chant hears the flute, and the countryside turns over like a rotten Ke person.
Thousands of sails passed by the side of the sinking boat, and ten thousand trees were spring in front of the sick tree.
Listen to the song of Jun today, and temporarily rely on the spirit of a glass of wine.
Liu Yuxi returned to the center of power, fourteen years ago, because of a poem was degraded again, this time, Liu Yuxi revisited the Xuandu Temple, and wrote a peach blossom poem, which is somewhat provocative.
Half of the hundred-acre courtyard is moss, and the peach blossoms are clean and cauliflower blooming.
Where is the peach Taoist priest going, the former Liu Lang is here again.
Fifty-six-year-old Liu Yuxi ended his degraded career and was named the master and guest, and he was a bachelor of the Xiandian, which was an idle position, and then he became an idle position as a guest of the prince.
In 842, at the age of 71 and entering the final stage of his life, he wrote his autobiography, and in the autumn of that year, Liu Yuxi died.
The reason why Liu Yuxi is called "poet hero" is because he has the pride that others can hardly have, no matter what kind of blow he suffered, where he was, he never gave up decadently, he was very open-minded, and he never gave up in this life, this is Liu Yuxi's attitude towards life.