When it comes to the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, many people know it, that is, Wang Yang Luluo's four people. As opposed to the Early Tang Dynasty Four Masters, there were also late Tang Four Masters, and there were not many people who knew about this. There are two versions of the Late Tang Dynasty Four Masters, one is: Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Liu Zongyuan, Han Yu; the other is: Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Wen Tingjun, and Duan Chengshi. Individuals tend to the latter. The reason is very simple, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan are people of the same era as Bai Juyi, if they want to count the late Tang, then Bai Juyi cannot be regarded as the Middle Tang. Han Liu and the others were decades ahead of the others, so they were more appropriate in their calculation of Tang.
The latter kind of people are relatively few, and perhaps the key is that the reputation of the people inside is much lower than that of Han Liu, especially Duan Chengshi, and even fewer people know. Therefore, Duan Chengshi is here to say sorry to the other three, and drag his feet. On poetry, it is true that Duan cannot be compared with you, but in terms of other literary forms, Duan Chengshi's self-confidence can still occupy a place in history. Today we will continue to talk about the poetry of the Tang Dynasty and the poet Duan Chengshi classmate.
Duan Chengshi's reputation was very large during his lifetime, and he was on a par with Li Shangyin and Wen Tingjun, known as Thirty-Six. Notice that this thirty-six is not a thirty-six of twelve times three, but sixteen of all three in the family. These three people are also good friends, often answering poetry or drinking in groups.
Duan Chengshi is still different from those two, Li Shangyin is good at writing poetry, Wen Tingjun is good at writing words, and Duan Chengshi' greatest achievement is neither poetry nor writing, but writing novels. "Quan Tang Poems" contains thirty poems of Duan Chengshi, and "Quan Tang Wen" contains eleven fu, which is quite a lot, but today when we read it, the level is just like that, and Wen and Li are really incomparable.
But if you mention the Zhiwei novel and the Book of Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", it is definitely the leader of the Zhiwei novel since the Tang Dynasty, that is, the peer Pu Songling has to worship the big guy when he sees Duan Chengshi. This book has always been quite highly evaluated, and compared with the later Zhiwei novels that are getting longer and longer, and some love and karma are placed in them at every turn, the short and concise and simple narrative of the unitary Yang miscellaneous tricks is even more valuable.
It is said that Duan Chengshi has a special hobby, every time he goes to an official, the first thing he does is not to pay attention to local scenic spots and historical monuments, but to first understand the customs and folklore and strange things, and some of the characteristics he also personally explores the end, examines the ins and outs, and then takes a small book to write it down. When he was a child, his family came to the foreign guests, and he also loved to pestering the other party to ask questions and ask, and he was interested in strange things. These also became the creative materials for the later "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks". This life is definitely good material for an investigative journalist in modern times.
So we can imagine such a scene: Wen and Li Duan three people traveling, on the way Li Shangyin pointed to a mountain next to it and said, Brothers, this west tip of the mountain is tall, the trees are verdant, why don't we climb high and overlook, put the wine in the wind? Wen Tingjun said good, good, Brother Duan, let's go together. Duan Chengshi said that the two of them and go, I will not go, I heard that there is a rich man nearby, the day before yesterday, when he took a nap, a huge hand was stretched out under the bed to tear him off the bed, so that he could be torn to pieces. The family later moved the bed and dug down, and actually dug out a skeleton missing an arm, such an interesting thing I had to investigate. So in the stunned eyes of Wen and Li, Duan Chengshi left upside down.
In the evening, at the Guest House in Lingshui Town, Wen Tingjun and Li Shangyin discussed with great interest the poems made in the mountain viewing today, and after a while Wen Tingjun said, Brothers, there is no program when it gets dark, let's go to the Qinglou to drink flower wine? Li Shangyin said that it was exactly what I wanted, go. At this time, I saw Duan Chengshi carrying a small maza, clipping a small book and looking down to prepare to go out. Li Shangyin stopped him and asked him, Brother Duan, why are you going? Duan Chengshi said, isn't it dark, under the big tree at the mouth of the Wangjia Village, the uncles and aunts should be cool and talking, I have to go quickly, there is no place late. Wen Tingjun looked at Li Shangyin with wide eyes and said that there was something wrong with his designation.
In that era, the literati naturally believed that writing poetry and composition was what the literati should do, writing novels, strange forces and chaos and the like, that is, it was not on the table, that is, the inferior literati were engaged in this, one was to get some subsistence money, and then it was to gain some reputation among the idle people at the bottom, in short, it was not worth it. So is Duan Chengshi a man who lacks money or a person who lacks fame? No, not only is it not, Duan Chengshi is still a serious rich N generation, so people write this, it is really not for money, it is purely a hobby, a hobby in the bones.
Duan Chengshi's ancestors were solemn and prominent, among the twenty-four heroes of Ling Yange, Duan Zhixuan, who ranked tenth, was the ancestor of his family, and more importantly, two hundred years had passed, many of the prominent families of that year had fallen, but the old Duan family was still strong, and Duan Chengshi's father had served as a festival envoy and prime minister. Duan Chengshi's own career was also much stronger than that of his good brothers Li Shangyin and Wen Tingjun, who successively served as the assassins of Luling, Chuzhou, and Jiangzhou, and returned to Beijing in his later years as Taichang Shaoqing, and his son was a musician at that time.
Later, Duan Chengshi wrote a book based on his own decades of experience and news as material, "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks". It is also thanks to this book, otherwise with his poetry level, it is likely that he will be lost among the many poets of the Tang Dynasty. Although there are still many people who do not know his name, I can guarantee that most people have heard the stories he wrote.
For example, the story of adultery, such as the story of Han Xiangzi in the Eight Immortals, and then the story of the laurel tree on the moon, and there is a story of a young man named Wu Gang who cuts the laurel tree every day. There are also stories like Cinderella, stories of painting skins, etc., in addition to this book, we also know that the original sale of black people, the Tang Dynasty.
In short, this book can be said to be all-encompassing, as far as North Africa Somalia, Japan, North Korea, close to the author's doorstep; up to Wu Zetian LiZhi, down to the people of the city, animals, plants, minerals, celestial phenomena, anecdotes, religion, etc., is simply a small encyclopedia of Tang Dynasty society. If Duan Chengshi lived today after a thousand years, updating these contents on the network every day, there is a high probability that he will make a lot of money.
The most prominent achievement of "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" is the Zhiwei novel, and here I share two good stories, one of which is very similar to the future people crossing to the Tang Dynasty.
1. The country of long beards
It is said that there was a person who took the sea route to North Korea, but encountered wind and waves, and was blown to a strange place, fortunately, everyone here spoke the language of the Tang Dynasty, and there was no problem in communication. The people here are also very kind, that is, it is a little strange that men, women and children have long beards.
Later, the king knew him and sent someone to take him into the palace, and the brothers talked to the king very well, and the king was happy and gave him his girlfriend, so he became a donkey. On the night of the cave flower candle, he lifted his head and found that the princess was also virtuous, with a big beard on her face, maybe she closed her eyes and did not delay her work, and the two had a good relationship.
Then one day the whole kingdom was in chaos, as if it was about to be a big disaster, so he hurried into the palace to ask the old man if he could do anything. As soon as the king saw him, he was not worried, and said happily that only you could solve this matter, as long as you talk to the Dragon King, custody can save the kingdom. For the first time, this brother knew that he still had such great ability, and he would do whatever the old man said. When the king came, he told him to remember that their long beard country was in the third and seventh kingdoms. After he finished, he didn't know what spell to use, so he really sent him to the Dragon King.
The Dragon King was surprised to see this brother and asked him how he had come here, and he quickly told the Dragon King that he had come to save the old man and their Long BeardEd Kingdom. The Dragon King was very generous, saying that if he could be saved, of course he would, and where was he? So he reported the address of the third and seventh pillars. The Dragon King ordered his men to find this place, and then waited for news while chatting with the brothers. After a while, the hand came down to report that there was no third and seventh place.
This buddy insisted that it was this place, and the Dragon King was a little embarrassed, reprimanding his subordinates, finishing things, this place could not be found, continue to find it for me.
After a while, the men came up and whispered to the Dragon King, and the Dragon King looked at the brother with strange eyes. The Dragon King said, "Come with me, and let's go to the third and seventh." Then he took him to the kitchen, the third steaming drawer, and then pointed to the seventh floor of the steaming drawer and said, "The country of long beards is here, little brother, you have won the illusion of shrimp." Saying that he opened the steaming drawer, the shrimp inside had already been lying dead, and when he saw this brother, he immediately jumped around and was called a happy one. The Dragon King said, look at your face, I will not eat this drawer of shrimp, but brother you, or hurry back to Datang, every day to sleep with a prawn, can you stand it?
February work
Tang Wenzong middle-aged, Henan Zheng Renben has a cousin, do not remember the name, one day with a surname Wang Xiucai climbed the Song Mountain together, these two goods specially picked no one's path to walk, walking successfully lost the road, seeing that the sky is going to be dark, they were anxious, at this time they suddenly heard someone snoring in the grass like thunder, approached to pull open the grass to see, there is a person sleeping, a white dress (spacesuit?). ), a large wrap on the pillow, sleeping on the incense.
The two were also not very polite, so they woke up the man and then nagged. The man told them that he had come from the moon, and that the moon looked very small, but it was actually very big, and that the whole moon was made up of shippo. Like him, there are more than 80,000 people working on the moon, and they chisel it every day (mining?). ）。 The moon itself does not emit light, in fact, it is the reflection of the sun's light, the place where the moon shines is the raised terrain, and the dark place is the sunken shadow (which is not very consistent with the modern interpretation). Saying that, he also took out some food for the brothers, saying that this is called jade crumb rice (compressed biscuits).
The two of them nagged, ate and ate, and now they were most concerned about how to go down the mountain, and the man led them to a fork in the road, pointed to one of the roads, and said, follow this to go down the mountain, go! As soon as I turned around, I was gone. Is this a crossover novel written by the Tang Dynasty?
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