A lot of Tang poems, very young, we start to recite, and even read a few times will be memorized. The first Tang poem that I would have memorized most when I was a child was "Wing Goose". At least I am.
Wing goose
Goose, goose, goose, song to the sky.
White hair floats green water, red palms pluck clear waves.
This is a poem by Luo Binwang, one of the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty".
It is said that King Luo Bin was seven years old and was known as a "child prodigy". Since he is a child prodigy, there must always be a process of discovery.
Who discovered The Wisdom of King LuoBin?
It was a guest.
One day, a guest came to Luo Binwang's house. The guest saw the lovely Luo Bin Wang, asked him a few questions, did not expect the seven-year-old Luo Bin Wang to answer like a stream, the guest was surprised. At that time, Luo Binwang's family lived in a small village north of the county seat of Yiwu County, Zhejiang Province. There is a pond outside the village called Luo Jia Tang. It was spring that day, Luo Binwang and his family accompanied the guests to walk near the Luojiatang, just happened to see a group of white geese floating in the pond, the guest suddenly wanted to test Luo Binwang again, so he pointed to the goose and let him write a poem. Little Luo Bin Wang thought for a while and then chanted "Wing Goose".
It was the poem "Wing Goose" that completely shocked the guests, and from then on, Luo Binwang was blessed with the title of "prodigy".
But whether there is a "prodigy" or not, Luo Binwang does not care, he cares about the geese in the pond, the "heavenly song" sung by the geese, the "white hair" of the geese, and the "Qingbo" of the pond. Perhaps from this moment on, the little Luo Bin Wang began to care about cleanliness, cleanliness, and even abstract purity and purity in his eyes.
There is also a poem that shows that Luo Binwang cared about Gao Jie at a very young age.
When Luo Binwang was nine years old, he watched the crescent moon in the night sky, chatted with the moon, and wrote a poem "Playing with the First Moon".
Avoid the lack of light first, and take advantage of the shadow to temporarily flow.
It can be like a mirror, and what is used is like a hook.
The meaning of this poem is:
O Moon, I am afraid that you will not be able to bear the consummation and be deficient, and you will only be able to stay in the air for a short time after dusk and then fall.
If you can be as bright as a mirror, why are you bent like a hook today?
Luo Bin Wang asked the moon, in fact, he was saying his own subtext, the moon can be bright and bright and noble, why should it become bleak, bent and humble? I, King Luo Bin, will not be like this, and I will never be inclined to inflame the situation, and I will meet it with every will.
This is another example of Luo Binwang's clean eyes seeing the world when he was a child.
He cares about purity and pursues purity.
Luo Binwang, who pursued purity, slowly grew up. In the autumn of the twenty-second year, Luo Binwang, like many aspiring young people, entered Beijing to take the exam.
In the Tang Dynasty scientific examination, in order to seek the first place, the candidates would dedicate their proud poems to the famous officials and nobles to seek their appreciation, and some would also send the poems they wrote to the main examination officials, hoping to leave a deep impression on the main examiner.
At that time, the competition outside the imperial examination was fierce and important, and the great poet Wang Wei was a typical example.
However, Luo Binwang is self-confident and knowledgeable, pursues high cleanliness, and is unwilling to meet the trend, plus he is a rural boy who is not born well, and there are no conditions for him to participate in off-field walking. In his autobiographical long poem "The Past Chapters of the Past", he talked about the love affair of this examination in Beijing:
The young man is a hero, and the weak age is a lowly man.
Not only is it rewarded, and Fang Cheng's knees are happy.
Travel to Baling Song, wind and moon at the end of Los Angeles.
And know that there is no jade food, who is willing to chase the golden pill!
At that time, Luo Binwang still cared about Gao Jie as much as he did when he was a child.
He despised the powerful and did not want to pay homage to them. Others are racking their brains to carry out extracurricular activities in the courtyard, and he is good, leisurely and self-absorbed to enjoy the famous attractions of Beijing and Luo.
By the time King Luo Bin became an official and was promoted to the post of Imperial Attendant, King Luo Bin attached more importance to Gao Jie, absolutely could not tolerate the problems he saw, never colluded with the filth, picked up a pen, opened his mouth, wrote articles to discuss and criticize the government, and was soon framed and imprisoned for corruption.
In prison, he wrote one of the strongest cicada poems in history, "In Prison Cicada", one of the "Three Absolute Cicadas":
The cicadas of the West Land sing, and the South Crown guests think deeply.
Unable to bear the shadow of Xuan Sideburns, come and groan to the white head.
It is difficult to fly heavily, and the wind is loud and easy to sink.
No one believes in purity, who gives to the heart.
He sang the high purity of the cicada, compared with the cicada, used the cicada to entertain himself, allegorized to the object, pinned on the far and deep, the cicada people are integrated, and insisted on the high purity of the original intention.
Even after opposing Wu Zetian, joining Xu Jingye in the army and fighting, and writing the ancient and modern "Seeking Wu Zhi for Xu Jingye", it was also a great insult to Wu Zetian's chaotic private life, saying that she exterminated human nature, did not feel ashamed, usurped power and seized the throne, and so on, in fact, Luo Binwang was still looking at the world with his own noble eyes, and he still cared about Gao Jie.
There are many theories about the outcome of King Luobin's failed rebellion. The Zizhi Tongjian and the Old Book of Tang say that he and Xu Jingye were killed at the same time; the Chaoye Youzai says that he died by throwing himself into the river; and the New Book of Tang says that he was "out of control of his life." The "Benshi Poem" says that he escaped and became a monk.
I believe these several theories, except that death is flight, because each of them is in line with King Luobin's pursuit of purity, and does not go along with the filth he opposes.
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