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Cynical and daring to expose the emperor's "scars": Wu Jun, a famous literary scholar of the Southern Dynasty Liang

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"The twilight wind blows, and the leaves fall on the branches." Dan's heart is insignificant, and the sad king is unknown. "This is the work of Wu Jun, a famous writer from southern Liang. These short sixteen words depict the sorrow and wandering of the little girl who has just opened her heart.

Cynical and daring to expose the emperor's "scars": Wu Jun, a famous literary scholar of the Southern Dynasty Liang

Wu Jun's poems are fresh and unconventional, mostly reflecting reality. His poems are self-contained, clean and have the charm of Han Dynasty poetry, and were sometimes called "Wu Junti".

Wu Jun's articles are good at writing scenes, of which "The Book of And Zhu Yuansi" is his representative landscape sketch.

Cynical and daring to expose the emperor's "scars": Wu Jun, a famous literary scholar of the Southern Dynasty Liang

"The wind and smoke are pure, and the mountains are the same color." Floating from the stream, anything. From Fuyang to Tonglu for a hundred miles, strange mountains and rivers, the world is unique.

The water is all blue, and the bottom is clear. Swim in the fine stones, look directly without hindrance. The turbulence is fierce, and the waves are rushing.

Sandwich high mountains, all grow cold trees, negative momentum, mutual Xuanmiao, competition for height, thousands of peaks. Spring water stirs stones, and the sound of water is ringing; Good birds sing to each other, hissing into rhymes. The cicadas are endless, and the apes are endless. The Iris flying in the sky, looking at the peak and resting the heart; The economics of the world, peeping into the valley and forgetting the reaction. Horizontally covered, in the day and night; Loose articles are intertwined, sometimes seeing the sun".

This is a fragment of a letter written by Wu Jun to his friend. In the text, Wu Jun depicts natural landscapes such as lakes and mountains and pleasant scenery through simple words and sentences, showing the author's interest in life and dissatisfaction with social reality, while expressing Wu Jun's contempt for fame and fortune and his boredom with officialdom.

This article is also one of the famous works of Piao script during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Piao script is also known as "骈俪文" or "骈偶文", so named because its words and phrases are dual. Articles often use four-word and six-word sentences, so they are also called "four or six texts". Originated in the late Han Dynasty, it was formed and flourished in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In terms of vocal rhyme, it pays attention to the use of flat and harmonious rhymes; rhetorically pays attention to algae decoration and usage. After the Song Dynasty, under the leadership of Ouyang Xiu, the climax of the ancient literature movement was set off, and a large number of essayists appeared, and the body text gradually declined since then.

Cynical and daring to expose the emperor's "scars": Wu Jun, a famous literary scholar of the Southern Dynasty Liang

Although Wu Jun's "Book of Harmony with Zhu Yuansi" belongs to the Piao style script, it is different from the general Piao style text, and it is a breakthrough and reform of the Piao style text. It not only retains the advantages of paying attention to rhetoric and prosody in the piao script, but does not affect the transmission of the content of the article.

Because of Wu Jun's talent, he was deeply appreciated by Xiao Yan, the Emperor of Liangwu. In the early years of Emperor Wu of Liang's reign, he served as the head of the county; he was later appointed as a civilian official of the Feng Dynasty (a kind of idle civilian official). At this time, Wu Jun wanted to write the former dynasty history "Book of Qi", and asked for the Qi Qiju Notes and the Deeds of the Qunchen, but Emperor Wu of Liang did not allow it.

But Wu Jun also has the purity and persistence of a literati. He secretly sought out information and wrote thirty volumes of Qi Chunqiu. Because it is the history of the previous dynasty, the information is relatively complete, and it is easy to find by using its own influence.

Wu Jun strictly followed the historical records and "wrote a straight book", in which he called Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu "a minister of the Qi Ming Emperor's orders". This made Emperor Wu of Liang very unhappy, saying that "Wu Jun was uneven". Because Emperor Wu of Liang always wanted to erase the history of "Qi He Emperor forced to zen throne" to himself. Wu Jun is now writing "Qi Chunqiu", not only writing history, but also digging up his own old bottom and exposing his "scars". As a result, "Qi Chunqiu" was burned and Wu Jun was dismissed.

Cynical and daring to expose the emperor's "scars": Wu Jun, a famous literary scholar of the Southern Dynasty Liang

This incident caused a sensation in the government and the public, because the attitude of the historians towards "the king must write" was quite serious. In order to appease the people's anger, Emperor Wu of Liang also ordered Wu Jun to write a General History. Unfortunately, the book was not yet finished, and Wu Jun died in the first year of Emperor Wu of Liang's reign (520), at the age of fifty-two.

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