"It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, and the east wind is powerless. Spring silkworm to the end of the dead silk, the wax torch into gray tears began to dry. ”
This poem full of philosophy of life is like a shocking lightning bolt, cutting through the silent sky, echoing in time and space, and going on for thousands of years.
Its author is None other than Li Shangyin, a genius poet whose fate is turbulent but suddenly open-minded.
In 755 AD, coinciding with the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was in danger and could collapse at any time.
In that late Tang Dynasty, when the wind and rain were turbulent and the imperial court was turbulent, everyone's fate was like a layer of clouds covering the moon, and there was no light in sight.
But Li Shangyin used the pen as a paddle to draw a magnificent wave of fate in the deepest part of the bitter sea.
He uses stunning rhetoric to outline the lonely journey, and he uses a vague and hazy context to depict human suffering.
In a decadent and chaotic world, confined to power and political disputes, after several tribulations, drifting to and fro, his life was desolate and sad.
Li Shangyin said in "Sending The Master", "The bitter sea is lost and has not been lost, and the East has passed through this dust." ”
In the vast world, people are like dust, born without knowing the way to come, and dying with no hope of returning. If life is really hard, what is salvation?
Slowly unfolding Li Shangyin's bumpy life picture, we can clearly see:
Even if the mission is difficult, it will not complain about vicissitudes, do not lose ambition, and do not lose courage, so that we can not waste this life and live up to the time.
Life is like a reverse journey, do not complain about vicissitudes
Lu Xun once said, "The situation of childhood is the future destiny." ”
Li Shangyin's ups and downs in life have been laid since childhood.
In the eighth year of Tang Yuanhe, Li Shangyin was born in Xingyang, Henan, and at the age of three he went with his father to Jiangnan to become an official.
However, "the family is difficult to turn" when he is young, and his father died soon after taking office.
Li Shangyin, who had just turned nine, crossed thousands of miles with his weak body to transport his father's coffin back to his hometown, and the hardships could not be ignored by outsiders.
Li Shangyin's family has been lonely for three generations, his grandfather and father have died early, and as the eldest son, he needs to take up the burden of the family at a young age.
In order to make a living, Li Shangyin was exhausted and running for his life. The servants scooped up the rice and did everything, but the poverty situation of the family was still not alleviated.
"People are poor and have nothing to smell." In that last days, the only way to rewrite the unfortunate fate was to read.
Li Shangyin was brilliant since childhood, "reciting scriptures at the age of five, and writing at the age of seven", and when he was young, he followed his uncle Li Weishi to study poetry.
From the beginning of his study, he planted in his chest a fire waiting to be ignited, a struggle against fate, a desire for ideals.
He did not feel sorry for his tragic encounters, but transformed suffering into inexhaustible strength.
For Li Shangyin, reading hard day after day and not releasing the scroll in his hand is the wind of momentum that will burn the flame in his chest.
After years of diligent study and hard work, Li Shangyin's achievements in ancient writing have become deeper and deeper.
So when his wings were gradually full, he began to "go out of the commons in ancient chinese."
However, in the past, the Tang Dynasty advocated the Piao wen, and the gongzhang and kumon were all preferably paired, and Li Shangyin's style was not the mainstream, so the ancient texts he delivered to the academic celebrities were once treated coldly.
Talented and ambitious people are the most susceptible to emotional influences in the face of setbacks.
Some people give up because they are not recognized, and some people can't afford to fail because they encounter failure. Those who become big things can often adjust their mentality in a timely manner.
Li Shangyin did not say a word of complaint, but silently put away his thoughts and sharp edges, showing the great wisdom of those who know the times. He is well aware of the instability of the government and the fact that his family is slightly cold, and only by following the trend can he emerge.
As a result, Li Shangyin conscientiously studied the writing of the Piao script, during which he wrote official documents for many government officials, and gradually won the appreciation of Ling Guchu, the emissary of the Tianping Army.
Gu Cheng once wrote in the poem "A Generation", "The night gave me black eyes, but I used him to find the light." ”
Suffering is the background of life, so a person's mentality in the face of suffering determines the posture of life.
Some people see suffering as a stumbling block and complain about it; some people see suffering as a stepping stone to temper their minds.
Li Shangyin is the latter. He has been frustrated since birth, but he has cultivated a Daguan that fights with suffering.
In the face of suffering, it is better to complain about misfortune than to change the situation; it is better to complain about life than to work hard.
True wise men, even if they have endured the wind and frost, do not speak of vicissitudes. People who know how to adjust their mentality can truly control life.
The fate of the road is uncertain, and it does not reduce Ling Yunzhi
Zeng Guofan said, "When a scholar reads, the first thing he must do is to have ambition. If you have ambitions, you will not be willing to be vulgar. ”
As a reader, ambition is especially important. With ambition, we can continue to pursue upwards, cut through thorns and thorns all the way, and realize our ideals.
"Luck should be in the eight wildernesses of the house, and the boy is in love with the pond", Li Shangyin set his ambitions as early as in the "Title Han Ancestral Temple", and wanted to obtain a meritorious name and realize his political ambitions.
After becoming more and more familiar with the writing of Piao Wen, Li Shangyin began to march towards his career, and this road was quite tortuous.
Although he was brilliant and extraordinarily hardworking, he did not reach the first place in three years.
In the late Tang Dynasty, the political situation was very dark, the eunuchs monopolized power, and the partisan disputes were constant, and under the fair cloak of the imperial examination, there were hidden hidden criteria such as the concept of the door and the origin of the master and apprentice.
Yet real gold always shines. Li Shangyin has insisted on writing government documents for many years, and his talent has long been widely known.
After the powerful appreciators of the dynasty vigorously recommended gao kai to the chief examiner, Li Shangyin was finally promoted to the rank of jinshi.
Soon after, Wang Maoyuan, the envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu, issued an invitation to Li Shangyin.
From then on, Li Shangyin entered the shogunate of Wang Maoyuan, and later became his dragon-riding son-in-law by joining his female lover.
But Li Shangyin did not expect that this marriage of two lovers would lay the foundation for his future career.
Li Shangyin, who had lofty ambitions, took the official examination because he was not willing to live in his father-in-law's mansion, but this examination ended in failure under artificial manipulation.
During the political period of the dynasty, the two parties of Niu and Li were in contention, and Li Shangyin's first Bole Tianping Army Festival envoy Ling Huchu was the core of the Niu Party, while Li Shangyin's father-in-law Wang Maoyuan was a faction of the Li Party.
Ling Hu chu's son Ling Hu Qi resented Li Shangyin's marriage to the Wang family, and regarded him as a villain who "forgot his family and stole money".
Therefore, Ling Fox and the examiner secretly communicated with the song, so that Li Shang was hidden and fell to Sun Shan.
Since then, his father-in-law Wang Maoyuan has also died of illness. Li Shangyin failed the exam at that time and had nothing to rely on, and he was extremely frustrated.
But he has not stopped moving forward, and is still looking for opportunities to continue his career.
In order to prove himself, he has held various official positions. Whether it is the secretary of the provincial school or the secretary of the provincial orthography, even if the position is small, he is willing to try.
During his term of office, Li Shangyin also endured the exclusion and suppression of him by the Bull Party, and was depressed for a long time. After enduring the humiliation and burden of half a life, he finally found a position as a Taixue doctor of Zhengliupin.
Li Shangyin's determination to pursue ideals, as he said in his poem, "There is no period for the return of the king".
Even if you have a long career in your life, once you have embarked on the road ahead, you will not ask about the way back.
Wang Anshi Zengyun "The wonders of the world are magnificent, extraordinary, and often dangerous. The real beauty is often hidden in danger, and only those who are not afraid of hardships and do not lose their morale can reach it.
Because of this, the more difficult and dangerous it is, the more we must firmly take a step.
Life is long, you just keep your ambition and faith, you will always walk out of a path to success.
The world is hot and cold, and it does not lose the courage of the world
In his short life of forty-seven years, Li Shangyin has been beaten by cold wind and waves, but the bravery in the depths of his soul has always been firm.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the power of the feudal town became increasingly rampant, and the imperial court, in order to stabilize the political situation, gave great favors to the generals who guarded the border pass in the town.
However, these clans, far from being sympathetic to this, were more ambitious. The crisis of the country is like an arrow on the string, and war may break out at any time.
In such a situation, Li Shangyin saw it in his eyes and hurt in his heart. Therefore, he wrote a poem called "A Hundred Rhymes in the Western Suburbs of Xingci" to express his deep hatred for the forces of the clan town.
Li Shangyin used this poem to boldly accuse these thugs who were trying to split the motherland, for their own selfish desires, abandoning the righteousness of the world and the safety of the people, believing that their sinister intentions would inevitably lead to the fate of destruction.
At the same time, he also bluntly expressed his patriotic feelings for safeguarding the reunification of the motherland and resolutely opposing rebellion.
The chaotic government of the late Tang Dynasty was far more than that, and there were eunuchs who stirred up trouble from the middle of the tang, which made the turmoil worse.
At that time, eunuchs were in power, the atmosphere inside and outside the imperial court was terrible, and political corruption reached its peak.
Finally, the tension between the emperor and the eunuch intensified, triggering a horrific change in manna.
"The ghost basket is divided into the imperial department, and the military beacon is illuminated." Hundreds of officials of the imperial court died countless times, and the raging flames of war burned to the capital.
Li Shangyin, with great sadness and indignation, described the tragic situation of this coup d'état in "Two Songs of Feeling", in which eunuchs held the emperor hostage and harmed the courtiers, making the capital Chang'an a purgatory full of blood.
In this tense and oppressive situation, the courtiers were intimidated by the eunuchs' obscenity, and few people came out to criticize the situation.
However, Li Shangyin once again showed the courage to awaken the world beyond a hundred officials under the crisis, and his integrity and integrity can be seen.
Since becoming an official, Li Shangyin has written several poems to expose the ugly faces and inhumane atrocities of eunuchs, and the words are full of deep concerns about the fate of the country.
As the saying goes, in times of crisis, you can see through people's hearts.
When the country is strong, everyone climbs the dragon and phoenix, and strives for the wind; when the country is in danger, everyone knows how to protect themselves and retreats.
However, Li Shangyin dared to confront the powerful in the midst of the world's dim weather, and his boldness turned the words into soldiers and reached the deepest part of the night.
Although Li Shangyin had a rough life, he did not rush to make a quick profit for the sake of livelihood, nor did he fall into the quagmire for desire.
With this rare bravery in the last days, he finally achieved great success.
Time passes, the years are like shuttles, in any era, those who bravely break through the darkness will eventually achieve their wishes with the blessing of mindfulness.
Li Shangyin was born in a chaotic life at the end of the Tang Dynasty, lost his childhood, and when he became an adult, he had many careers, and he was always depressed on the road of pursuing ideals, and these unbearable encounters laid a strong tragic color for his life.
However, even so, Li Shangyin never complained, always maintained his ambition, and bravely adhered to the belief of serving the country and the people until he slowly closed his eyes.
The great shore of life, the magnificence of death, looking back on the dust, Li Shangyin used his ups and downs to interpret the noble essence of life.
The world knows that Li Shangyin's poems are obscure and difficult to understand, and those verses are pearls in the sea, and only after experiencing vicissitudes will they find the beautiful light in them.
Life is also like the sea, ups and downs, fickle. Only when the heart is as calm as a lake and the courage of the thunder can we set sail.
The rest of our lives are long, may we all be on the boat of life, cultivate a sudden and open mindset, adhere to the heroic ambition, maintain the courage to move forward, and strive to survive the wind and rain, and sail to the light and hope.
Author | Tao Hua died
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