In the second year of Tang Tianbao (743), when the scribe Hao Jie in the four seas was struggling to squeeze into the imperial capital Chang'an, an old man who had been in Chang'an for more than 50 years was clamoring to leave and return to his hometown in Shanyin, Yuezhou.
After Receiving the resignation document from the old man, His Majesty the Emperor, who was in charge of the world, looked at the old man's stooped posture, full of silver hair, and a slightly haggard face at the beginning of his serious illness, and finally nodded his head and agreed to his resignation, and ordered the prince to be the head of the palace, and a banquet was set up by hundreds of officials to bid farewell to the 86-year-old man, He Zhizhang.
On that day in the Imperial City of Chang'an, the civil and military officials were staggered, and the alcoholic He Zhizhang toasted back and forth in the noisy crowd, and at the age of 86, he looked up, and the people at the banquet were already his juniors, and the era that belonged to He Zhizhang was only He Zhizhang.
This day is the most complete day of He Zhizhang's life, and this day is also the day when He Zhizhang chooses to say goodbye to fame and fortune outside the body.
After the noise, washed away the lead, he carried the drunkenness of the deep palace wine, and walked out of the crowded Chang'an... I think that the moment he walked out, he would definitely recall the day when Tang Wuhou proved the first year of the Holy Year (695), and the 36-year-old He Zhizhang Zhuangyuan and the first step into Chang'an.
Everything was like a big dream, the dream was extremely prosperous, and He Zhizhang seemed to be so confused and drunk for a lifetime, and then accidentally survived the entire Sheng Tang.
Siming has crazy guests, and the wind and flow are he Jizhen.
In the sixth year of Tang Tianbao, He Zhizhang had been in seclusion for two years, and when the poet Li Baixing, who had wandered the world all his life, arrived at huiji, he saw things and thought of people, remembered the old things between himself and this big brother, and for a moment had mixed feelings, and wrote the famous poem "Two Poems of He Jian on Wine".
For Li Bai, he has seen too many landscapes and characters in his life, but when he recalls his meeting with He Zhizhang, he is still in a trance like yesterday, and it is difficult to let go for a long time. He Zhizhang called Li Bai a mortal "immortal" in the heavens, and Li Bai also used his own tianzhong poetry to make the best footnote to He Zhizhang's life.
Li Bai said: Siming has crazy guests, and the wind and currents are he Jizhen. I think that when He Zhizhang hears this poem, he will laugh freely, and if there is wine next to him, he will inevitably get drunk with Li Bai.
The Old Book of Tang records that He Zhizhang became more arrogant and absurd in his later years, eclectic, and called himself a Siming fanatic, and often wandered the streets and alleys after drinking, so unhappy.
In his later years, Zhizhang was born in a long time, without re-inspection, calling himself a Four Ming Fanatic, also known as the "Secretary Outer Prison", and traveling in the alley. - Old Book of Tang
However, many people will find out after opening He Zhizhang's life resume that most of his life is not a crazy word at all, not only is he not crazy, but he is also a good old man who is low-key enough to laugh when he sees people. And when you have such an illusion, it means that you have not yet read He Zhizhang.
In the first year of Emperor Wu's reign (695), the 36-year-old He Zhizhang became the first person in Zhejiang history to be traced, and at that time, the Tang Dynasty was in the ascendant, and the empire was further strengthened by the efforts of the monarchs of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong, and then further strengthened in the hands of Wu Zetian, a strong woman.
Many people lamented that He Zhizhang was shunda, but in fact, until he was 63 years old, he was still just a zhengqipin petty official in charge of sacrifice. Compared with the first half of his life, he Zhizhang's career was really bumpy.
Such a life gap, but all poets who are a little "bloody" will write some poems to complain, and Meng Haoran, who was later known as the first person of the Tang Dynasty's pastoral poetry, also had the words of "not knowing the Lord and abandoning, many sick people are sparse". But He Zhizhang did not, not only was he not crazy, but he was "instigated" to death, and he preferred to spend time wandering and leisurely in the office of these seven petty officials.
If you go back to the twenty-seven years that He Zhizhang has been in trouble, you will find that he is actually using another attitude to express his "wild rebellion" and Qinggao.
From the beginning of Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne to the long time after Tang Xuanzong Li Longji succeeded to the throne, the political struggle within the Tang Empire was always fiercely colliding, and the courtiers who supported Wu Zetian and Wu's sons and nephews, as well as the loyal Li Tangjiangshan and Li Longji's courtiers, their political purges were taking place at any time, and many courtiers who only focused on the wealth in front of them and camped in the process of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix were all disgraced in the process of establishing the emperor.
He Zhizhang, on the other hand, is like a lonely tumbler, focusing only on his own business and never getting mixed up in a treacherous political struggle. It is precisely because of his "qing madness" that he did not collude with the world, so that he received the blue-eyed addition of Tang Xuanzong from the thirteenth year of the new century, and he was promoted all the way, and finally became the crown prince of the official Residence Sanpin, the gongbu waiter.
Tang Xuanzong understood He Zhizhang's madness, and behind the seeming indisputable nature of He Zhizhang was He Zhizhang's hard as iron, and He Zhizhang also understood Tang Xuanzong's joy and anger, so he carefully maintained his own scale throughout his life, and in the feudal society of accompanying the king like a companion tiger, he had never been reprimanded by the king from beginning to end.
This is very rare among all the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty.
The tall building He Jian used to climb, and the pen traces on the wall were dragons and tigers.
He Zhizhang is good wine, and He Zhizhang without wine is not enough to be called crazy. And once there is wine, He Zhizhang is like a hero with a name sword, living into the eyes of everyone as a "Four Ming Fanatic".
Chang'an City during the Kaiyuan period was always overcrowded, and aspirants in the world were eager to gain a place for themselves in this prosperous imperial capital, so from the moment they stepped into Chang'an City, they were all careful to restrain their sharp edges, accustomed to being lost in the sea of people, waiting for opportunities.
However, there are always people in Chang'an City who are out of place, and those who have just arrived in Chang'an are often surprised by what they see in front of them, and the people of Chang'an, who have long been commonplace, will patiently explain: "This is our HeJian." ”
In the crowd, the drunken He Zhizhang staggered through the sea of people and wrote wild books in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, but wherever there was an inscription and poetry, he would sprinkle big books and special books.
The poets of the Tang Dynasty liked to form groups, such as "Li Du", "Yuan Bai", etc., and He Zhizhang was also a member of many groups, such as "Wuzhong Four Scholars" and "Ten Friends of Xianzong", but I think his favorite should still be "Drinking eight immortals".
For He Zhizhang, wine is a famous sword in the hands of a hero, a light veil on the face of a beautiful person, and a secret brewed out of his poetry, but whenever there is wine, He Jian is no longer the He Jian who has a kind eyebrow and a good purpose, but the Four Ming Madman He Zhizhang who uses the pen as a sword and hides thousands of soldiers in his chest.
In the first year of Tang Tianbao, He Zhizhang and Li Baiping met and fell in love at first sight. The two exchanged poems, and when they were drunk, He Zhizhang took the golden turtle tied around his waist and threw it to the restaurant: "This is for you, take the wine!" ”
Du Fu, who had regarded He Zhizhang as an idol all his life, also wrote in his poems that he was drunk and drunk, and still asleep in the well. Du Fu said: Zhizhang rode like a boat, and his eyes fell into the well and slept under the water. Good a Chang'an first dashing guest! Good a Four Ming Madman He Zhizhang!
Nearly a hundred years after He Zhizhang's departure, the great poet Liu Yuxi stumbled upon the inscription wall he left behind on the wall of a temple in Luoyang. At that time, things were already human, but the poems written by He Jian on the occasion of the wine were still alive and flowing. The literary style revealed between the lines made Liu Yuxi have a lot of fascination with this long-dead old ancestor, and thus wrote the famous "Luozhong Temple North Building See He Jian Cursive Inscription Poem".
The tall building He Jian used to climb, and the pen traces on the wall were dragons and tigers. The old man is gone, but the wind is still there.
Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring wind does not change the old time wave.
Now when we mention He Zhizhang again, the vast majority of people know only about him, "I don't know who cut the fine leaves, the spring breeze in February is like scissors", "The little boy leaves home and returns to the old man, and the rural voice has not changed the sideburns".
In fact, He Zhizhang has been handed down to this day, and there are only about 20 poems that are still known, and according to his poetry every time he drinks wine, and his life at the age of 86, He Zhizhang must have written a lot of poems.
But for him, wine is the main business, and writing poetry is only a temporary itch, just like writing for an official, no matter what he has experienced, the rich and the poor are all over the clouds, and after it has passed, there is no need to fall in love. Therefore, it is our regret not to be able to read more poems of He Zhizhang, but it is not the regret of He Zhizhang, who has tasted fine wine and met Zhiyin, and has been satisfied.
After three years of Tang Tianbao, He Zhizhang, who was already weak, finally returned to his hometown, and after more than fifty years of separation, everything was no longer human, the familiar deceased people had left, and the scenery of his hometown was the same as when he left.
In the more than fifty years of his travel to Chang'an, He Zhizhang experienced the title and the first, experienced the usurpation of power by Emperor Wu, experienced the TangLong coup, and then experienced the congenital coup, and finally bid farewell to the temple on the eve of the end of the Kaiyuan dynasty, returned to his hometown, returned to the beginning of his life, and was also the end of his life.
"The little boy left home and returned to the old man, and the township tone did not change the sideburns." When I read this poem when I was young, I only knew that the poet was lost after returning from a long absence; but now when we read this poem again, in addition to lamenting the powerlessness of time, we also have He Zhizhang floating and sinking all his life, and finally penetrating life and returning to the ancient well of simplicity.
He Zhizhang said: Only the mirror lake in front of the door, the spring wind does not change the old time wave. Only He Zhizhang's purity and loneliness, in the materialistic Kaiyuan prosperous world, have never been corrupted from beginning to end.
Tang Tianbao three years, not long after returning to his hometown He Zhizhang passed away, from the early Tang Dynasty's vigorous efforts to rule, to the Prosperous Tang Dynasty, He Zhizhang used his life to witness the rise and prosperity of the Tang Empire; and by the time He Zhizhang died, the prosperity of seemingly blossoming flowers and fiery cooking oil was already in danger, and the collapse of land annexation and the government military system allowed local forces to grow rapidly to the point where they could threaten the central government, and then the Anshi Rebellion, which brought the glory of the Tang Empire to an abrupt end, broke out.
But all this He Zhizhang did not see, he bathed in the glory of the empire, lived through the entire Tang Dynasty, and then quietly passed away.
Only the sheng Tang weather is worthy of such a he zhizhang.
When He Zhizhang left, the end of the Kaiyuan prosperous world slowly began to take shape.