Shi Dakai can be said to be a legend in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! He was known as the most perfect man in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was not only a handsome man with a very sunny image (people at the time praised him as "the posture of the dragon and phoenix, the table of heaven and the sun"), but also a great revolutionary, politician, military and literary scholar at that time, and his short life (when he died at the age of 32) burst out many shining points, illuminating the short and tragic historical sky of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Many people write about Shi Dakai, and they all write him as a representative of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
Shi Dakai was nicknamed Shi Dangdang, and he was angry when he heard the name.
In March 1831 (February 11, Qing Daoguang), Shi Dakai was born in the Hakka family of Nabang Village (now Guigang) in Guixian County, Guangxi, and he was a famous military figure in modern China. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was initially named "Wing King of the Left Army", and the Tianjing Incident was once titled "Wing King of the Sacred Spirit Telegraph Army" and honored as "Righteous King".
Shi Dakai was one of the most legendary figures in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who came out of the mountains at the age of sixteen, commanded at the age of nineteen, became king at the age of twenty, and bravely became righteous at the age of thirty-two. A short life but magnificent!
He once defeated Zeng Guofan, who said, "The Zha Thief Canal is the most fierce, and its slander and incitement to the people, zhang loudly, is also the most powerful stone."
Zuo Zongtang said that he was "cunning and cunning, known as the heart of a group of thieves, and his talents are above all thieves, and judging by what he does, he is quite eager to win people's hearts and seek talents, and he does not attach himself to cult slang, and he is the suzerainty of thieves and I am afraid of it."
The words of the second of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty showed his heroic nature even more. Folklore about him is spread throughout most of china where he fought before his death, showing that he was deeply loved by people everywhere.
Shi Dakai was not only the first-class great military and statesman of the Taiping Dynasty, but also famous for his noh poetry for more than a hundred years. The famous general and the poet are combined, which is the only one among the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom figures. People often refer to generals who can write and fight as Confucian generals.
For example, Wusheng Guan Yunchang was a Confucian general, scraped bones to cure poison, and read soldiers' books at night, which was only described in Luo Guanzhong's masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and people had never seen Guan Yu's real work, let alone his words and poems.
Due to the defeat of the Taiping Army and the deliberate forgetting and omission of the Qing Dynasty, Shi Dakai has only three surviving poems, namely "The Impromptu Poem of the Garrison Dading and the Miao Compatriots Feast", "The Poetry of the White Dragon Cave" and the "Five Words Notice".
In present-day Bailong Cave, Yizhou, Guangxi, there are still stele of singing and poetry of Shi Dakai and more than a dozen generals under him, and the five-word grammar, in addition to the rhyming requirements, there are quite strict restrictions on the transformation of the ping and the servant in each sentence.
This poem is an improvised work with a stroke of the pen, which fully meets the requirements of the five-word grammar. The complete confrontation of the four leagues is a superior work, which is completely different from the poetry of the old cadres in the military now, so it shows that the poet has a profound foundation.
The original text of the poem of the White Dragon Cave:
Stand up to the mountains and look into the sky. Destroy the Buddha, worship the Emperor, immigrate retro style.
Linjun called the general Yong and played Dong Xian Shixiong. The sword qi rushed to the stars, and the wenguang shot the sun rainbow.
On May 11, the seventh year of Qing Xianfeng, Shi Dakai fled Tianjing and led his troops away from Beijing, and on the way, he publicly posted the "Five Words Notice".
For the sake of blood and sincerity, he told the soldiers and people: self-hatred has no wisdom, and the kingdom of heaven is ashamed of its grace.
Only Ya Is loyal to Zhenzhi, a piece of heart, the upper can be to the emperor, the lower can be the ancients.
Last year, when he was in turmoil, he rushed back to Beijing, claiming that he was foolish and loyal, and he was bound to be blessed with saints.
If this is not the case, the edict will be reduced in frequency, and there will be many doubts and taboos, and it will be difficult to make a statement.
It is to use self-encouragement, to show the truth again, to reward God for his virtue, and to repay the Lord's kindness.
Loyalty is like a golden stone, and it has been sincere for a long time. However, the demon was destroyed, and Yu Zhi returned to the forest.
To this end, he told the soldiers and the people everywhere: Still keep their duties and make meritorious contributions as usual.
Or with the lord general, also enough to mark the father, unify the Taiping Day, each invited heavenly grace.
It's also an excellent five-word poem.
In addition, among the five "Shi Dakai posthumous poems" included in Liang Qichao's "Collected Works of drinking ice rooms", there is still controversy, and the only one is related to the manuscript left by the Taiping Army found by the Dadu River, or it is circulated among the people, compared with different official versions, and it is believed to be genuine:
Yang Whip generously to zhongyuan, not for revenge and not for grace. I only feel that the heavens are worried, and I want to save yuanyuan with my bare hands.
Ten years of sad horses, thousands of ladder mountains like sick apes. I am still bitter, and there are cries everywhere in the southeast.
The spirit of the poem is highly consistent with Shi Dakai's personality and thoughts, so it is often quoted.
It is said that this is Shi Da kai's handwriting
"Garrison Dading and Miao Compatriots Gathering Impromptu Poem" Shi Dakai
A thousand pearls were harvested in an urn, and the king bowed his head here.
The five peaks surround Optimus Prime, sucking up the yellow river water and flowing backwards.
This poem is in 1862 AD, Shi Dakai led the army to the west, through the Guizhou Qianxi Dading area, by the local Miao people with the "most honorable guests" ceremony welcome, the Taiping Army officers, together with the Miao people, singing and dancing, the people took out the buried in the ground aged wine in the jar, the method of drinking wine with a straw inserted into the altar, without bowing their heads can not suck out the wine. During the banquet, Shi Dakai improvised a poem, that is, this "Garrison Dading and Miao Compatriots Gathering Impromptu Fu Poem".
A thousand pearls were harvested in an urn, and the king bowed his head here. Wine is brewed from grains such as sorghum, corn, soybeans, rice, and pocks. Seeing the liquid in the urn, I thought of those pearl-like particles turning into wine in the bottle. To drink wine, everyone is equal, and the king bows his head here. Here, the first thing that can be thought of is the brewing of grain, that is, the sweat of the working people, which is different from those literati who drink and chant poetry, with different feelings and different moods.
The five peaks surround Optimus Prime, sucking up the yellow river water and flowing backwards. Probably like today's young people, drink beer and "blow" it on the bottle! Grasp the wine bottle with your hand, five fingers like five peaks, the wine bottle is like "Optimus Prime", just like sucking the Yellow River into the mouth, this is the aura of the warrior, the aura of the hero, the magnificent mountains and rivers, the refreshing, cool enough, powerful enough, heroic enough!
Although Shi Dakai is brave and good at war, the Dadu River is his Waterloo. Shi Zai, Shi Dakai traveled from the north of Guizhou to Sichuan through Hubei, and wanted to cross the Yangtze River north, seize Chengdu, and establish a Sichuan base area. In April 1863, it broke through the Yangtze River defense line, and in May, it was blocked by the early rise of the Dadu River for a hundred years, and the grain and grass were exhausted, and it fell into a desperate situation.
Shi Dakai only had 6,000 soldiers left, and he sacrificed his life to negotiate with the Qing army with all three armies, and he dismissed 4,000 people on his own to escape, and the remaining 2,000 soldiers were all killed. Shi Dakai was captured and tried in Chengdu, where he made a generous statement, calmly and righteously, was tortured by Ling Chi, and was cut with more than a hundred knives.
More than seventy years later, the Red Army also encountered the dilemma of Shi Dakai, but under the heroism and tenacious will of the Red Army, it did not repeat the mistakes of the Wing King, escaped safely, and created a miracle in the history of marching!
In the darkness, perhaps it is also the arrangement of heaven! In an instant of success or failure, dadu river witnessed the tragic song of the Wing King, and even more witnessed the triumphant song of the Red Army.
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I am Ah Wei, with warm words, telling the guangxi humanities! Thanks for reading attention!