Author: Rethink
Someone said: "The flow of the Tang poets, half to the wine, half to the woman." Perhaps this is a bit absolute, but it is undeniable that in the poetry of The Tang poets, most of them are wine or women as the protagonists.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was a poet who gave all the wind and currents of his life to wine, and wine played a leading role in his poems, and he was wang ji, one of the "four masters of the early Tang Dynasty".
Ruan Yuanming and Tao Yuanming are the predecessors of Wang Ji, for drinking, they are both examples of Wang Ji, of course, Wang Ji is blue out of blue, better than blue, more addicted to wine than Ruan Yuanming and Tao Yuanming. Others entered the official field in order to get promoted and get rich, while Wang Jisan entered the official field and went to the fine wine, and when there was no fine wine, he abandoned the official and returned.
01
In 605 AD, the first year of the Sui Dynasty Emperor's great cause, Wang Ji was just 21 years old at this time, completed his studies, and was ready to become a soldier.
Because Wang Ji was intelligent and famous since childhood, he was known as the "Fairy Boy", and during his studies, he had both excellent academic conduct, so as soon as he graduated at the age of 21, Wang Ji was hired by the court at that time as the secretary of the provincial orthography, working for books sorting and writing articles.
In such a good starting platform, the work is easy and professional, ordinary people will do a good job, in order to be able to move faster.
Wang Ji was a freedom-loving lord and did not like to be bound, and although this nine-pin petty official was not tired, he was also in the official field, and there were also regulations in the official field, but Wang Ji could not stand it, and asked to go to the local government to become a local official, so he changed to the deputy county magistrate of any county.
Wang Ji as a deputy county magistrate, but not much management, only in charge of their own drinking, reading and other things, so that for a long time, colleagues can not see the eyes, often complain about him, occupy the position and do not work.
At this time, the turmoil that began in the Sui Dynasty, the flames were everywhere, work and life were uneasy and unsafe, which greatly affected the pleasure of drinking, so it was the best policy, and in one night, Wang Ji took advantage of the dark wind in the moon and ran back to his hometown by boat.
This was the first time that Wang Ji left the official field without greeting, returned to his hometown to find friends to play in the mountains and rivers, let go of himself, and wrote a poem to express his happy mood.
My family is on the side of the sea and white clouds, and will also be other karma on Lin Quan.
Don't make a name for yourself, just take the smoke and send it for a hundred years.
Peng Ze has only planted a field, and the infantry talks about money from the eunuch.
May the Dynasty grow drunk, and sleep in the urn at night.
My family lives on the shore of the sea and on the edge of the white clouds, and the mountains live opposite the spring, in such a beautiful environment, there is no need to draw camps for the name of merit, only Yanxia accompanies the hundred years to old age. Tao Yuanming served as Peng Zeling in order to use public land to grow wine, and Ruan Yuan served as an infantry lieutenant and did not ask for Feng Lu but only coveted cups. I hope to be able to get drunk in the morning, even if it is between the night and night long sleep urns!
From the poem, it can be seen that Wang Ji is a whole drunkard. But he can drink freely and indulgently, but he has capital, because he has a good family foundation, wine is more than Ruan Yuan, more land than Tao Yuanming, and servants.
Under such good conditions, there was no need to work, and it was comfortable to drink, but for Wang Ji, it was extremely happy.
This blissful day passed 20 years and ended with the vicissitudes of the dynasty.
02
In 625 AD, it was already the domain of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty, and the ruler at this time was Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu.
At this time, Li Yuan recruited some officials of the Sui Dynasty to work in the imperial court, and Wang Ji, because of his fame, was also "waiting to be commanded to go to the province".
During the period when Wang Ji was in Menxia Province, he was able to stay quietly, so that his brother was very curious and asked him: "What is good about being a waiter?" ”
Wang Ji said: "The salary is OK, it is a little uncomfortable, but there is a supply of three liters of fine wine every day, which makes me think that this position is still worth nostalgia, that is, there is too little wine, not enough for me to drink!" ”
Sure enough, to have such charm to let Wang Ji stay, only fine wine can keep people!
At this time, the leader of Menxia Province was very powerful, and after hearing the conversation between Wang Ji's brothers, he was afraid that he would not be able to retain people, and specially approved people to supply Wang Ji with a bucket of fine wine every day. With a liter of fine wine, Wang Ji naturally had more motivation to stay, and everyone gave him a name called "Mr. Doujiu".
In fact, Wang Ji's second entry into the army has been more than forty years old, although the wine left him in the capital, but he is very nostalgic for the affairs of his hometown, the previous happy and comfortable days. At this time, a Ichigo man came to visit, very happy, and wrote:
Traveled for many years, old and do not know how to return.
Suddenly, when he was a guest in front of the door, he sent his hometown to his hometown.
They shook hands and shook hands with broken noses.
After wandering outside for many years, I can't ask my hometown when I'm old. Suddenly, I met a guest outside and said that he was from his hometown. Frown and shake hands together, stop the tears and raise a glass of wine together.
As long as there is wine, the sadness will stop, and in the toast to carefully understand the grass and trees of the hometown, one person and one house, is it as old as before? Wine can satisfy the homesickness of hakka people.
Later, Wang Ji wandered outside, and the day of commemorating official wine was broken.
The ruler of the Tang Dynasty has been replaced by Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Because Wang Ji's brother had offended the magnates, thus involving Wang Ji, Wang Ji was deposed and returned to his hometown. At this time, the liter of fine wine that made Wang Ji nostalgic was also broken.
03
After Wang Ji returned to his hometown, his life was comfortable and leisurely, and the wine was also drunk. However, he is constantly inquiring where there is better wine.
In the middle of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan period, Wang Ji inquired that Shi Jiaoge, the capital of the Taile Bureau, was very good at brewing fine wine. In order to drink fine wine for free, Wang Ji thought of a way, that is, to be Jiao Ge's deputy.
After some persuasion by Wang Ji, Jiao Ge was impressed and agreed to let him do the Taile Bureau, which was the third time Wang Ji had stepped into the official field.
Wang Ji followed Jiao Ge's side, drank fine wine, and also learned a lot of winemaking, wine identification and other knowledge.
But the good times did not last long, Jiao Ge and his wife passed away one after another, no one made fine wine, naturally there was no wine to drink, and the position of the Taile Bureau was nothing worth lingering on, so he resigned and returned to his hometown.
After returning this time, Wang Ji sorted out the knowledge about wine learned from Jiao Ge and his wife and wrote a book called "Wine Classic", leaving a wealth of wine culture knowledge for posterity.
Wang Ji left the official field for the third time, and never stepped in again, and truly began a comfortable life of wanton indulgence in alcohol and affection for the landscape:
Floating life knows for a few days, and there is no form to empty name.
It is better to make more wine, and when it is poured into the bamboo forest.
Life is in the world, there are not many years, why should we painstakingly pursue fame and fortune? Wouldn't it be a very happy thing to brew more wine, drink freely, wander in the bamboo forest and mountains, and spend the rest of your life?
This poem became a portrayal of Wang Ji for the rest of his life, and from then on he was proud of nature, with wine as his companion, and he was a good traveler.
Wang Ji went in and out three times in his career, went for fine wine, returned without wine, and at the end of his life, he directly abandoned his career, did not care about officialdom and power, and truly returned to a plain life.
Although Wang Ji is obsessed with fine wine, his attitude toward official power makes the world worth learning: if you want to get real freedom, you must learn to let go, let go of the things that make you sick and sad, and then you will have a light gait and walk more briskly on the way forward.