If we want to know a person, it is necessary to understand the nickname of this person. Because the nickname concisely reflects the character code and life trajectory of people. For example, the Northern Song Dynasty poet He Zhu had a nickname called "He Ghost Head", which means that He Zhu looked as ugly as a ghost; Li Qingzhao, a big lyricist of the Gentle Sect, was nicknamed "Li Sanshuang", because Li Qingzhao's words contained "Do you know?" Do you know? It should be green fat red skinny", "new skinny, not dry sick wine, not sad autumn", "Mo Dao does not consume the soul, the curtain rolls the west wind, people are thinner than yellow flowers" famous sentences. It can be seen from this that Li Qingzhao is a sentimental and somewhat thin female lyricist. And Wen Tingjun also has three nicknames. One is called "Wen Zhongkui", the other is called "Wen Eight Forks", and the third is called "Wen Eight Yin".
So, the question is, what characteristics of Wen Tingjun can be reflected in these three nicknames? First of all, let's look at the nickname "Wen Zhongkui", which obviously means that Wen Tingjun looks ugly like an evil ghost, and it makes people frightened to look at it. And if you read Wen Tingjun's lingering words and don't know his appearance, you will definitely conjure up the image of a beautiful white-clad scribe in your mind. But I'm sorry, Wen Tingjun is really ugly. But the heavens are so strange, Wen Tingjun is talented and talented under the ugly appearance, and the speed of lyrics is extremely fast, it is simply a matter of relying on Marco. This also shows that Heaven will not treat anyone badly, and anyone can find their own value. You are ugly, but you may be very talented; you are very beautiful, but you may be empty in the abdomen, so Su Dongpo said it well, "there are poems and books in the belly", whether you are ugly or beautiful, reading more books can pinch the temperament to death.
Wen Tingjun's second nickname is "Wen Eight Forks", is this nickname to say that Wen Tingjun looks like a night fork? Non also. This is to say that Wen Tingjun is a top scholar and god. He wrote the exam paper very quickly, and composing a poem was almost fast, so Wen Tingjun was the male classmate who handed in the papers in advance and was full of ambition. We know that the most difficult examination for the Tang Dynasty was the Jinshi Section, and the whole country raised thousands of troops and horses to squeeze the single wooden bridge, and the admission quota was very small, and only a few dozen people were admitted every year. In the Tang Dynasty, jinshike had to take the poetry test, and the candidates had to take eight rhymes according to the rhymes from the test questions, which was very difficult.
Tang Dynasty exams also do not have any electronic timing, when the exam, the exam room staff will send three large candles to the candidates, the three candles will be burned to hand in the papers, which has caused a huge psychological shadow for many candidates, I suspect that many people have anxiety disorders during the exam. At that time, someone made a couplet and said, "Three candles are exhausted, the heart of the remnants of the soldier is burned, and the eight rhymes are endowed, which breaks the guts of the examiner." It can be seen that most of the candidates are scared and unable to complete the examination papers within the specified time. But Wen Tingjun is just a god-like riding dust, he does not draft, but leisurely puts his hand in his sleeve and casually recites eight rhymes. So he also has a nickname called "Wen Ba Yin". Wen Tingjun's talent was even more powerful than Wang Bo of the early Tang Dynasty and Li He of the Late Tang Dynasty, and it is said that Wang Bo and Li He relied on Marco to write poems, but in fact, the two young geniuses liked to wear a quilt to write a manuscript.
Wen Tingjun himself is not idle after the exam, he may have the wind of Meng taste in his bones, like to help the poor and the poor, perhaps to show his unique talent, when the average person takes the exam, they are hidden, try to block the exam paper, to prevent classmates from peeking, and Wen Tingjun is doing his best to help others do the exam paper, the result is that Wen Tingjun has become a cheating master, has become the examiner's eyes in the examination room evil, but also become the examination room in the eyes of the examinee "living Lei Feng".
One year of examination, in order to prevent Wen Tingjun from cheating, the examiner specially got him a single room and took the exam under the curtain, but even if he was so strictly guarded, he also secretly helped eight people through oral answers. Wen Tingjun has been taking the exam like this, and the examiners are very angry every time, and as a result, Wen Tingjun is a famous sun mountain every time, and the students who have bad grades to play with him have already been in the army for many years.
It is reasonable to say that Wen Tingjun, a person with great talent and quick thinking, should have entered high school a long time ago, but why did he return home in every exam? One aspect is that Wen Tingjun always helps people cheat and violate the discipline of the examination; in fact, more importantly, it is caused by the social atmosphere at that time. We know that the Han intellectuals of the Tang Dynasty wanted to embark on the career path and be admitted to the jinshi, but after the Middle Tang Dynasty, even the road of the kaojinshi was controlled by the nobles, and no one in the DPRK pointed out and no one recommended it, even if you were only eight buckets high, you could not avoid the fate of falling behind.
Wen Tingjun was one of the several talents of the late Tang Dynasty, and was on a par with the famous poet Li Shangyin, known as "Wen Li". Together with Li Shangyin and Duan Chengshi, these three people are all ranked sixteen, so the poems written by the three of them are also called "thirty-six bodies". Wen Tingyun's poetry, in the late Tang Dynasty, was the peak of existence, although later critics believe that there is still a gap between Wen Tingjun and Li Shangyin's poetry, but the Old Book of Tang even believes in the "Biography of Li Shangyin" that "Wen Si Qingli, Tingyun is too good", even surpassing Li Shangyin.
Wen Tingjun is particularly good at pairs, of course, this is also an essential skill for writing poetry. It is said that Tang Xuanzong also likes pairs, he once wrote poetry, the previous sentence has the word "Golden Step Shake", has not been able to find the words that can perfectly fight the lower link, found a lot of jinshi to pair, the jinshi people can't match the big eyes and small eyes, and Wen Tingjun is right about "jade stripe", Tang Xuanzong appreciates this pair. Why? "Jinbu Shake" and "Jade Stripe", not only are each word relative, they are also ornaments of ancient women, belonging to the same kind of relative. It can be seen that Wen Tingjun's quickness and talent are amazing.
Wen Tingjun is also a well-known musician, proficient in various instruments. He is the best at drumming the piano and playing the flute, known as "playing with silk, blowing with holes", which means that as long as there are strings, he can play music; as long as there are holes, he can blow out music, which shows that Wen Tingjun is still a musical wizard.
Wen Tingjun's talent was not only praised by the world, but even praised by the emperor, even when Wen Tingjun made a mistake and the imperial court ordered him to belittle him, Pei Tan, a zhongshu she, in the official document written by the emperor to degrade Wen Tingjun to SuiXian County, actually had the saying that "he is a talented person who is in vain and rarely used in a timely manner", which means that although Wen Tingjun is talented, he is not suitable for being an official. In the punishment documents, wen Tingjun's demeaning was even described as "letting the rioters go to Xiangpu and moving Jia Yi to Changsha", and comparing Wen Tingjun to Qu Yuan and Jia Yi, who were exiled.