In 978, Li Yu died.
This "born at the wrong time" word emperor, with the family hatred of "people growing up to hate water and long east", was ordered to go to Huangquan.
Six years later, Liu Yi's third son was born and named Liu Yong. It was this Liu Yong who took over the banner of Li Yu and created his own immortal legend.
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Liu Yong, formerly known as Liu Sanchang, ranked seventh in the family, the jianghu people called "Liu Seven", Liu Seven is a genius, an unborn genius, ten years old can write, thirteen years old can poetry, seventeen years old can words, easily throw dozens of streets of children of the same age.
His name, "Three Changes", is the standard of gentleman's behavior in the Analects: he looks solemn and fearful from afar, is gentle and amiable when approaching, and is harsh when speaking.
According to this standard, Liu Qiqi is a model of a humble gentleman, he is handsome, elegant, and polite in speech and manners.
At this time, Liu Qi's lack of knowledge was that all the gifts of fate had already been secretly marked with a price tag.
In 1002 AD, the fifth year of Song Xianping, Chong'an, Fujian.
At the age of 18, Liu Qiqi packed his bags and set off from his hometown to Beijing Shibei (汴梁; present-day Kaifeng, Henan). He believed that there, he could realize his ideal of life of ruling the country and the world.
Liu Qiqi out of Qiantang, through Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, enjoy the beauty of mountains and rivers. In Hangzhou, the picturesque scenery deeply touched the young Liu Qi:
Southeast shape sheng, three Wu metropolis, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times. Smoke willow painting bridge, wind curtain green curtain, jagged 100,000 homes. Clouds and trees around the sand, angry waves roll frost and snow, the sky is endless. City column Pearl, Huying Luoqi, competitive luxury. Heavy lakes stacked on top of Qingjia, there are three autumn guizi, ten lotus flowers. Qiangguan makes it clear, Lingge pans the night, and plays fishing for Lotus Baba. A thousand riders with high teeth. Take a drunken listen to the drums and enjoy the smoke. The other-day map will be a good scene, return to Fengchiqua.
A word of "Looking at the Sea Tide" quickly made the young Liu Seven fill the world.
Legend has it that more than a hundred years later, the gold lord Yan Liang read "Three Autumn Guizi, Ten Lotus Flowers", and suddenly dropped his jaw. He did not believe that there could be such a beautiful place in the world, and even if there was, it should be exclusive to him. So Yan Liang led an army of 600,000 men, brazenly threw himself across the river and marched south.
Because the war caused by one word is not only unprecedented, but also untouched.
Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yang are rich and rich, merchants and merchants are gathered, and the Qinglou liquor store is lined up, which is a world-famous gold cave.
Because the words are filled in well, the dancing teenager Liu Qiqi becomes the object of the qufang Qinglou singers and prostitutes to make friends. And his lyrics, because of the beauty of the people to sing, red throughout the streets.
In this way, Liu Qiqi nestled red and leaned on the green, drunk in the gentle township of the south of the yanyu Jiangnan, drunk for six years.
Six years was the happiest time of his life.
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In 1008, the 24-year-old Liu Qi, who ended his wanderings, arrived at the imperial capital of Bieliang. After entering the imperial capital, he found that his lyrics had been widely sung in the capital.
Because of his fame and careful preparation, Liu Qiqi believed that he would be able to "ascend to the top of the quill", however, in the 1009 golden list, Liu Qiqi did not find his name.
Indignant, he wrote "Crane Soaring heaven":
On the gold list, I even lost the dragon's hope. Ming Dynasty temporary widows, how to. If the attempt is unsuccessful, and the struggle is not arbitrary, why should it be said to be lost? Talented lyricist, self-dressed Qing xiang. Fireworks alley strange, according to the Jordan green barrier. Fortunately, I have a crush on my heart and can be searched for. And snuggled red and leaning on the green, the wind affair, the peace of mind. Youth are all a flash, endure the floating name, change the shallow low singing!
Although he was full of complaints and anger, Liu Qiqi did not give up, and he firmly believed that he would have the day when the Toad Palace would fold the gui.
In 1024 AD, the second year of Tiansheng, the fourth time to participate in the scientific expedition, Liu Qiqi finally won the list, and the list was quickly presented to the biggest boss, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.
Emperor Renzong, along with Emperor Taizong of Tang and the Kangxi Emperor, was hailed by posterity as the three best emperors of China.
When Emperor Renzong saw Liu Qi's name, he couldn't help but be greatly annoyed when he thought that the harem was secretly humming the obscene song of this product.
He repeatedly crossed the "Willow Three Changes" from the list, and then struggled to approve ten big words: and go shallow and low singing, why float your name!
At this point, Liu Qi's career path was indirectly sentenced to life, helpless, 40-year-old he had to desperately modify the personality signature: fengzhi fill in the word Liu Sanchang.
Then, he laughed miserably and turned and walked into the fireworks alley.
He didn't know that the moment he turned around, he had opened a legendary era of his own.
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The official field exiled Liu Qi, and Liu Qi's also exiled the official field. He was completely disheartened and put himself in the green house of the green house.
In the Great Song Dynasty, the prostitute yeyou was an extremely popular fashion in the whole society. At that time, the geisha industry was extremely developed, and the singers and prostitutes in Qufang Qinglou could sing and dance, and were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. From the princes and ministers to the fallen literati, all of them lingered in the flowers and enjoyed it.
Despite this, the status of the qinglou women is very humble and low. They are like wildflowers blooming on the side of the road, silently bearing the unforgiving trampling of the world.
Only Liu Qiqi, who did it differently, broke the sky.
He poured out his heart and became the intimate confidant of those Qinglou women, he was willing to pick up a pen and write praise for them, he loved with his heart, loved equally, and wrote words that hit the deepest part of their hearts.
These beautiful and affectionate words, sung by them, were scattered in every corner of the Great Song.
Liu Qi, who did not meet Huai Cai, was reborn in the Qinglou Liquor Store, and he created a miracle that had never been seen before and never came after.
In the Great Song Dynasty, he became the most popular ace filler emperor master.
Wherever there is well water, you can sing willow words.
However, although he wrote about fireworks and loneliness, he was not writing about his struggling self.
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As the road to his career drifted away, Liu Qiqi decided to leave the sad city of Fenjing.
On the occasion of parting, the Qinglou Confidant Worm Lady came to send each other, and the two of them clinged to each other, tears spilled in the long pavilion, and in the autumn wind, Liu Qiqi wrote down with tears in his eyes:
The chill is miserable, the long pavilion is late, and the rain is at the beginning of the break. Dumen tent drinking nowhere, nostalgic, Lan Zhou urged. Holding hands and looking at each other with tears in their eyes, they were speechless and choked. Thoughts go, thousands of miles of smoke, twilight and mist. Amorous parting since ancient wounds, more that kan, snubbed the Autumn Festival! Where is the wine awake tonight? Willow shore, dawn wind and moon. This past year should be a good day and a good scene. Even if there are a thousand styles, who to say?
Autumn winds, autumn rains, sorrow for the departed. This is a parting, the mountains are high and the water is long, when will you still see each other with Qing?
A lingering "Raining Bells" broke through the long sky and sang for thousands of years, enduring.
After leaving Beijing, Liu Qiqi went south along the waterway and made a living by filling in words, and his footprints spread throughout the north and south of the great river.
Drifting for too long, two sideburns slightly frosted, physically and mentally exhausted, he began to reminisce "but returned to Yaojing, re-bought a thousand gold smile."
The years are faltering, life is old, he lamented that "Fang is old and mature, away from more joy and less".
On Xiao Xiao twilight rain sprinkled on the river sky, a wash of autumn. The frost and wind are tight, the Guanhe river is cold, and the building is left behind. It is a place where the red decays and the green is reduced, and the radial things are rested. Only the water of the Yangtze River flows in the east without words.
I can't bear to climb high and go far, look at my hometown, and it is difficult to return to my hometown. Sighing over the years, what is the bitter drowning. Want to look at the beauty of the makeup building, mistakenly a few times, the skyline knows the boat. Knowing me, leaning on the trunk, I am grieve.
Hometown is a distant place that can never be reached again; the past can only be cherished in the deepest part of the heart.
One recites the "Eight Voices of Ganzhou" for thousands of years, and the infinite sorrow of the heavens and the descendants of the heavens travel to the end of the world.
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Fate often inadvertently makes some jokes, and in 1034 AD, the 50-year-old Liu Qi, finally exchanged for the "floating name" he wanted.
However, the young man who used to be angry and angry in fresh clothes is now an old man with two white sideburns. But in his bones, he is still the dreamer who has not changed his original intention.
Although he held an official position the size of a sesame seed, he was honest and honest, scrupulously fulfilled his duties, and wholeheartedly did things for the people. In each position, he made good achievements, so he has always been called a "famous eunuch".
However, no matter how hard he tried, he only achieved the little Tun Tian Ren Wai Lang in the end.
In 1053, Liu Qiqi died quietly and quietly, and the legend ended.
After Liu Qi's death, Xie Yuying, a woman in the Qinglou Building, took the form of his wife as the main mourner, and the former confidant of the red face was mainly Master Chen, who raised money and held a solemn funeral for him. On the day of Liu Qi's funeral, there were many singers and prostitutes all over the city, and the mourning was everywhere.
The bureaucrats who participated in the funeral were ashamed and returned with their faces covered.
Liu Yong's cemetery is located in Leyouyuan, and the tombstone is inscribed with clouds: the tomb of Liu Sanchang, filled in by the holy will.
Since then, every time they come to the Qingming Dynasty, all the singers and prostitutes have come to the willow tomb to hang themselves, so they have formed a conventional habit, called "hanging willow society".
It lasted until after Emperor Gaozong of Song crossed the south, and the "Hanging Willow Meeting" was declared over. For this scene that has not been encountered for thousands of years, posterity has a poetry cloud:
Leyouyuan is like a prostitute in the clouds, and the seven graves of the willow are on the wind.
Ridiculously, the gentlemen are not as pitiful as the red dresses.
How should people spend this life? Of course, it is to spend your life in the way you like.
Throughout Liu Yong's life:
He was brilliant, but he suffered all kinds of injustices;
He is a wandering skeleton, but always kind and sincere;
He is deviant and intolerable to mainstream society;
He is the white-robed Qingqing, the uncrowned king in the hearts of the people...
He has come quietly, fought vigorously, and in that world of thin emotion, he has lived out his purest self.
Author's Introduction: Qingfeng Mingyue, ID: Big Dream Honghuang (xingyuege666), a native of Henan, Yijie Buyi, was born on the beautiful Huai River. He is a contracted author of poetry world and tianya literature, believing in all the beauty of the world.