In the 18th year of the Tang Dynasty, the prosperous Tang Dynasty weather that haunted the dreams of future generations spewed out on the vast territory of the empire, and every citizen of the Tang Dynasty wanted to add his own thick ink to the prosperity of the empire.
In March, when the fireworks of the grass and warblers flew, Li Bai rushed to the Yellow Crane Tower in the wind and dust, just to see the idol in his heart, Meng Haoran, who was already famous all over the world at that time.
The 18th year of kaiyuan is unfavorable for Li Bai and Meng Haoran.
The 30-year-old Li Bai is full of talent but has no way to serve the country, and can only spend time in an lu day; Meng Haoran needless to say, although he is already the poetry ally in the hearts of the people in the world, but he has long been 42 years old, he can not pass the meritorious name, in the blink of an eye, most of his life has passed, and Meng Haoran, who refuses to give up, finally decided to take the Guangling and seek another way to repay the country.
So in the Yellow Crane Tower in the 18th year of the new century, Li Bai and Meng Haoran inadvertently completed a great encounter worthy of the history of literature, and Li Bai, who was born proud of himself, completely became Meng Haoran's little fan from the moment he saw Meng Haoran, and this life has not changed.
If the Tang Dynasty poets also had a circle of friends, you would see a very interesting phenomenon.
Du Fu was a fan of Li Bai, and he wrote poems to Li Bai as soon as he had time. Thinking of Li Bai during the day, thinking of Li Bai at night, thinking of Li Bai in the spring, thinking of Li Bai in winter, dreaming of Li Bai thinking of Li Bai, sending friends also thought of Li Bai by the way... ("Spring Remembers Li Bai", "Winter Regrets Li Bai", "Day Ends Regret Li Bai", "Dream Li Bai Two Songs", "Send Kong Chao Father Xie Sick to Travel to Jiangdong and Present Li Bai"... ）
In the face of Du Fu's powerful attack of more than a dozen poems, Li Bai, who was "high cold", hardly responded. It is said that there is no high-cold person in the world, but it is not you who is warm to the other party. In front of Meng Haoran, Li Bai was like Du Fu, who was extremely enthusiastic about himself.
In the 27th year of the new century, Li Bai, who had become a superstar in the poetry world, passed through Xiangyang, heard that the idol Meng Haoran had returned to this place, and rushed to meet him. The two people, who had not seen each other for several years, said goodbye to the Yellow Crane Tower 9 years ago.
After drinking and eating, The drunken Li Bai indulged in drunken singing, and wrote a poem "Gift to Meng Haoran", and the opening sentence "I love Meng Fuzi, the world is full of smell" exposed his fan essence.
Li Bai, who had seen countless dignitaries and nobles and had always been unruly, why would he add up to Meng Haoran's blue eyes? And why did Meng Haoran, who had been obsessed with seeking fame for most of his life, become the wenzong leader of the pastoral school?
When we remove the fog of history, we will find that from insisting on seeking officials to returning to the countryside, Meng Haoran is the most beautiful mistake that Sheng Tang inadvertently made.
Tang Dynasty poets all had hidden skills that were unknown to everyone, such as the poet Buddha Wang Wei was a musical genius, and Li Bai was actually a chivalrous warrior who fought with a sword. Meng Haoran, who was later defined as the grand master of the Pastoral School, was actually a good sword master.
Because he was born in a family with surplus money in the Shuxiang Mendi, the childhood Meng Haoran double cultivation of literature and martial arts, sword training and reading occupied his childhood. The history books do not leave the heroic deeds of Meng Haoran fighting swords, but the sentence "Less good festivals, happy zhen people suffering" in the "New Book of Tang Dynasty Meng Haoran's biography" also seems to hint at Meng Haoran's heroic complex.
In the second year of the Tang Dynasty, Meng Haoran, who was only 20 years old, traveled to Lumen Mountain and wrote the poem "Titled Lumen Mountain", which was called by later generations to lay the foundation for Meng Haoran's poetic style.
Meng Haoran, who was in his early 20s, secretly expressed his longing for the idyllic life of the pastoral pastoral by admiring the deeds of the famous Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Pang Degong. In the years after that, Meng Haoran really lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain with his friends and lived a carefree and comfortable life.
Freedom and leisure is the background of Meng Haoran's life, and only in the mountains and rivers can Meng Haoran live into a true self. But unfortunately, many things cannot be understood without personal experience, and in order to understand this truth, Meng Haoran has spent most of his life on the road to seeking official positions.
In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, Meng Haoran sent his friend Zhang Zirong, who had returned to hermitage, to Beijing to take the exam. After the first time he felt the red enthusiasm of becoming an official and serving the country loyally, Meng Haoran's inner blood was also ignited. He gave up the idea of retreating, and instead bid farewell to his relatives and wandered between the rivers and lakes, just to find a Bole.
At that time, although the Tang Dynasty was a scholar, if there were big people to endorse it, the success rate would be much higher. Compared with the eunuchs who have no appearance, Meng Haoran, who is full of economy, has attracted much attention wherever he goes.
Five years after the beginning of the new century, Meng Haoran rushed to Dongting Lake, and said that a poem "Wangdongting Lake Gift to Zhang ChengXiang" surprised the audience, and one of the sentences, "Steaming clouds dream, waves shake Yueyang City" is completely idyllic tranquility, but full of heroic love of killing.
Zhang Said, who has a heart of love and talent, although he intends to promote it, a paper order from the imperial court sent him to Jingzhou, and the opportunity to make a career in front of him disappeared in the blink of an eye
。 Later, although Meng Haoran still traveled to many places and saw many big people, every time he received praise, his long-cherished wish to become an official was never realized.
Since leaving his homeland in the first year of his life, Meng Haoran has been wandering between rivers and lakes for several years, and although he has won the praise of the world, he has not been able to enter the official field in the end. Finally unable to bear it, Meng Haoran chose another way to realize his ambitions, so in the 15th year of the new century, Meng Haoran traveled thousands of miles to the imperial capital Chang'an to participate in the first imperial examination in his life.
With Meng Haoran's literary style, Zhongju should have been a low-hanging fruit, but fate once again cruelly rejected Meng Haoran and began a years-long trickery.
The world says that Chang'an is good. In Chang'an, the imperial capital where talents gather, Meng Haoran, who was cold and hot-blooded, wrote "Chang'an Pingchun", a poem that reversed Meng Haoran's idyllic poetic style, and the words revealed the ambition to make meritorious achievements and seek meritorious fame.
At that time, Meng Haoran was 39 years old, and he had high hopes for this examination. But sadly, he failed.
Meng Haoran, who was already famous, actually failed to pass the examination, and how many dignitaries and dignitaries fell into doubt, and during the frustrated Meng Haoran's stay in Chang'an, he and the poet Wang Wei were married to each other, which was more like a showmanship in front of the Taixue Hundred Officials.
What a brilliant pen to write such a wonderful poem. The 40-year-old Meng Haoran stood proudly among the guests, his eyes swept through these jinshi who had once worshiped officials, and none of the secretaries of state dared to compete with him.
Wen Cai was recognized by everyone at that time, but Meng Haoran never got an access permit from the Tang Officialdom. Why is that? Not only does Meng Haoran not understand it, but we can't understand it thousands of years later.
In order to rationalize this gap, the New Book of Tang and the Biography of Meng Haoran added an untestable story.
Meng Haoran, who had already become a guest of honor for the secretary of state, once met Tang Xuanzong's holy car in the mansion of the famous Minister Zhang Shuo, and although the panicked Meng Haoran hid under the bed, Zhang Hao, who did not dare to hide it, told Tang Xuanzong truthfully.
Tang Xuanzong, who had heard of Meng Haoran's name, summoned him to write poems in public, and Meng Haoran, who was in great confusion, angered Xuanzong because of a sentence that "no one knows the Lord abandons, and many people are sick and neglectful". When Emperor Xuanzong heard this, he sneered, "Qing qing does not seek Shi, and Qing has not tried to abandon Qing, so why blame me?" ”
Just this one sentence is enough.
In the seventeenth year of the new century, the 41-year-old Meng Haoran was angry with Shengyan and was released to the old land of Xiangfan, frustrated, he lingered between Xiangyang, Luoyang, and even Wuyue, but there was no place in the world where the mountains and rivers were splendid, but no place could solve the boredom in the heart.
But Meng Haoran, who probably inadvertently planted willows and tried to send love to the landscape, became more and more pure in poetry. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty atmosphere where poets were born, Meng Haoran was already a literary hero respected by everyone, and although he was not in the temple, he had countless fans in the temple.
In the following years, Meng Haoran's fame grew, and more and more nobles were willing to help, but he was discouraged and eventually missed the opportunity to enter the career. From the 22nd year of the new century, Meng Haoran's scope of activities was limited to the land of Jingxiang.
Look at the clouds at dusk, enjoy the flowers in spring and enjoy the snow in winter. Meng Haoran, who has been clothed all his life, has become the poetry and distant place that everyone really longs for in their hearts in the grand Tang Dynasty, where everyone is competing for achievements.
Confucius Ziyun: Thirty and standing, forty without confusion, fifty and knowing the Mandate of Heaven. I think the older I get to know the Destiny, the more Meng Haoran understands what he really wants. Compared with the deceitful and intricate temples, the pastoral pastoral and the rivers and lakes that send love to the landscape are more suitable for themselves.
From the moment he wanted to understand, Meng Haoran finally reconciled with yi nanping in the past few decades, and even more reconciled with sheng tang who was unwilling to give himself a chance.
History made a mistake by rejecting Meng Haoran's entry into the dynasty as an official; but this was the most beautiful mistake because it made a wenzong leader of the idyllic school who stood in the jianghu. The poetic Meng Haoran can only belong to the jianghu, which is the choice of Sheng Tang.
Before his death, Master Hongyi said: Huazhi is full of spring, and the moon of Tianxin is full. When the heart is completed, the former bitterness and frustration will be relieved, and I think that from the moment I choose to retreat, Meng Haoran has reached the realm of "Huazhi spring is full, and the moon is full in Tianxin".
The poet has the poet's way of dying, and Meng Haoran, who has been small and fresh all his life, also used his own way to say goodbye to Sheng Tang. In the 28th year of the new century, Meng Haoran, who was about to recover from a serious illness, hosted a banquet in the South Garden for his little fan brother Wang Changling, who had come from afar. The two drank heavily, and Meng Haoran, whose index finger was moving, ignored the doctor's advice and ate Jiang Xian with Wang Changling, and then his condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and he died suddenly.
There are few records of Meng Haoran in the main history, and his image is more in the mouth of other famous people of the same era. In fact, it does not matter whether there is a story about Meng Haoran left in the history books, what is important is that his departure moved countless literati at that time.
Don't have to be sad, don't have to love stacks. Because of this incident, Meng Haoran took advantage of the vast smoke waves of Dongting Lake to transform into a white deer in the mountains and disappear into the grassy rivers and lakes.
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