In the middle of the fourth year of Tang Dezong Zhenyuan's reign, chang'an City after entering the ambush, the heat was unbearable.
In the small hotel in Lifang, a young man who studied hard behind closed doors was so hot that he couldn't sit still.
He pushed open the window, and the heat wave was accompanied by the sound of ice cubes being sold.
He wiped his sweat, paced to the ice cellar, looked at the price of the "equivalent gold wall", sighed, and turned to leave.
Suddenly, the boss stopped him and handed him a basket of ice cubes, and he didn't receive anything.
But there was only one request, and that was to ask the boy to give him a poem.
In Chang'an City, where it is difficult to walk without money, why should the young man take a poem that can be worth ten thousand gold?
Because he is a new star in the literary world that everyone respects - Bai Juyi.
Bai Juyi, the character Lotte, was originally a disciple of Henan Xinzheng Yihan.
At the age of 16, he roamed Kyoto and was pushed to the forefront by a group of literary heroes because he wrote several good poems.
However, his life did not rise with the wind, but experienced ups and downs in the ups and downs, reading all kinds of changes.
Bai Juyi wrote the truth of the world with a compassionate heart, and after penetrating the sorrow and joy, he lived into a warm but not dazzling light.
There is a saying: Lost in the east, harvested in mulberry elm.
On the road of life, Providence is unpredictable and unpredictable.
However, once you let go of self-grasping, you will find that everything is the best arrangement.
In difficult situations, headwinds grow more powerfully
When Bai Juyi was born, although nine years had passed since the Anshi Rebellion, the tang dynasty had already disappeared, leaving a fragment of a clan town.
His family was lackluster, his grandfather was the Qipin County Commandery, and his father was only a bapin petty official who traveled to his hometown.
However, the Bai mansion courtyard in Guo, the east of the city, gave Bai Juyi the most beautiful years at the beginning of his life.
The garden is planted with orchid laurel bamboo, the fragrance of the four seasons, and the scenery is not different;
The windows in the house are bright and clean, and the shelves of borrowed books are full, leisurely.
The mother who accompanies her day and night is gentle as jade and kind to others.
In academics, we should show our righteousness and encourage our learning.
In the time of Shunsu, Bai Juyi was three years old and literate, five years old was poetry, nine years old was familiar with rhymes, gentle and well-behaved, and did not understand the world.
Unfortunately, the fierce wind and rain still blew open the door of the Bai Family Courtyard.
In the fourth year of Tang Dezong's construction, his father Bai Jili rushed home in a panic, and his face was full of sorrow to break the quiet life.
In recent years, various warlords have supported their own troops and carried out continuous fighting.
Not long ago, the smoke of war filled the air, and Bai Jili had to temporarily leave his post and return to his hometown with his family to avoid chaos.
So hastily, Bai Juyi said goodbye to a comfortable life, this year he was ten years old.
After a brief reunion, his father ordered Bai Juyi to take refuge in Jiangnan, and he flew into the distance like an isolated goose.
Old Languages:
Heaven will send down a great task, so that man will first suffer his heart, strain his bones, starve his body, empty his body, and mess up his deeds.
Difficulties and setbacks often make people miserable, but they are the good intentions of God to bless us to grow.
The Guanhe River is thousands of miles away, and the wind and snow are all in line. After leaving his parents, Bai Juyi seemed to grow up overnight.
He walked all the way, all the way, saw all the countryside and the fall, saw all the separation of flesh and bones, saw all the hardships and famines, and saw all the tragic winds and murderous spirits.
Homesickness, the ambition to save the country, and the enthusiasm of the youth all surged into the heart and condensed into a fighting force.
After arriving in Jiangnan, Bai Juyi, who lived in his uncle's house, stayed away from the glitz and immersed himself in hard study.
He wrote during the day and read the Bible all night, often reading about sores in his mouth and tongue, about the cocoons on his palms, and the tiredness of growing white hair.
With ideals in mind and the courage to break into the strange human world, Bai Juyi, who carries the weight forward, has not failed himself.
He roamed Chang'an at the age of 16, and because of a song "Wildfires burn endlessly, the spring breeze blows and grows again", he won the favor of the great poet Gu Quan, and was famous in Kyoto for a while;
At the age of 27, he knocked on the door of the Imperial Examination, and every examination must pass, "The inscription under the Ci'en Pagoda, the youngest of the seventeen." ”
At the age of 29, he ranked among the best in the "outstanding" examination of the official department and directly started his career as a Beijing official.
So-called:
"Hardships and hardships, Yuru Yucheng."
In difficult situations, headwinds grow more powerfully.
The ideal of persevering in setbacks is more firm, and the mentality tempered by difficulties is more tenacious.
In the end, we find that it is precisely for the people who are sad for us, who have hindered us, and have shaped a better version of ourselves.
Between gain and loss, regret is another kind of fulfillment
In the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan, Bai Juyi was appointed secretary of the provincial school and settled in Chang'an.
Soon, he met Yuan Shu, Liu Zongyuan, and Liu Yuxi, who had similar experiences and similar interests, which was exactly:
"The name of the body is the same as the day, and the heart is known."
However, it didn't take long for them to share the flowers and moons, and they parted ways.
Three years later, Emperor Shunzong of Tang ascended the throne and launched a vigorous "Yongzhen Reform" in order to cut the domain.
Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan are highly valued as rookies in the political arena.
In contrast, Bai Juyi was slightly embarrassed. His official position was humble, he hovered on the edge of the officialdom, and could only send affection to the landscape to dispel loneliness.
On this day, he and his friend Wang Zhifu traveled to the mountains to visit the Xianyou Temple, and heard that fifty years ago, when Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei fled, they also passed through this place.
Bai Juyi had the feeling to write "Long Hate Song", saying that he had exhausted the "parting pain" and "can't ask for it" of the idiot man and the woman.
"In heaven wish to be compared to a winged bird, in the earth wish to be a branch." The days go on and on, and this hatred lasts forever. ”
Endless regrets, not only in "Long Hate Song", are also filled in Bai Juyi's life.
Once loved ones, separated by their mothers; once friends, now beyond reach; once ideals, there is nowhere to realize...
And it is these regrets that make Bai Ju Yi Wen si gushing, pushing him to another height in life.
As soon as "Long Hate Song" came out, it quickly became popular, and Bai Juyi became famous again.
Saying goes:
"Gold has no foot color, and white jade has slight flaws."
There is no perfect life, and there is no life that everything goes as expected.
Regret, perhaps, is another door that God has opened for us.
Don't mind, accept it calmly, and eventually there will be another village.
The political arena is surging with winds and clouds, and Bai Juyi is like a flat boat, sinking and floating in the eunuch sea.
He was sometimes sent as an official, and sometimes transferred back to Beijing, but he was never able to show his fists in the official arena.
Since this is the case, Bai Juyi went to the people and spoke out for the people.
He saw that in the palace market, the eunuch wantonly bullied the charcoal seller lao, and wrote a poem "Charcoal Seller", which aroused the people's indignation;
He heard about the tragic situation of the imperial court Zhengfu and made public the story of the broken arm of Xinfeng County;
He mourned for the harem women, and said how much Gong'e's voice was said in a sentence of "Only looking at the bright moon in the deep palace, four or five hundred rounds of the east and west".
Life, in the cycle of joy and sorrow, deduces everything.
Perhaps, for Bai Juyi, the mediocre political performance is a pity.
But the realist poems, which deduce his vientiane with all sentient beings, are of a higher meaning.
"Cai Gen Tan" has a saying:
Eliminate the miserliness in your heart, and there is a moon and a wind in front of you.
Life is not satisfactory nine times out of ten, relax your horizons, look at regrets from another perspective, and life is natural and boundless.
Obey the fate, everything is the best arrangement
After walking through the plight of the teenager and accepting the regrets of floating life, Bai Juyi still has to face an uncertain fate.
In the past few years, he has pointed his finger at the powerful and powerful in the current dynasty, making countless enemies for himself.
Political opponents only need one chance to remove his "eye nail" from him.
This opportunity finally arrived in the Yuan and Decade.
At that time, the political arena was chaotic, falling on each other, and assassinations continued.
In this year, Huaixi Jiedu caused Wu Yuanji to rebel, and he and Ziqing Jiedu made Li Shidaoli cooperate with each other and assassinated Wu Yuanheng, the chancellor who advocated the use of troops.
While the court was silent, Bai Juyi crossed the level and severely punished the murderer.
As a result, it is conceivable that he became the target of everyone and was demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou.
Ancient language: A gentleman obeys the mandate of heaven.
Compared with the occasional dilemma and some regrets, the ups and downs of fate can determine the direction of life.
After being degraded, Although Bai Juyi was depressed, he went with the flow of heaven, did not love the past, and lived more spontaneously.
Jiangzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River has beautiful scenery and characters.
And Lushan Mountain, where "Qixiu Jia Tianxia" is full of ancient temples.
Bai Juyi wandered around, reading, drinking tea, and writing poetry.
He often stayed at Donglin Temple, talked zen with the old monk during the day, and was idle on the water, clean and dust-free;
Late at night, I admired the flowers alone in the white lotus pond, with three hundred stems of white hibiscus and three hundred stems.
His heart is clearer, and he treats the heavens and the earth with more affection.
A few years later, Baiju Yixunyang sent a guest, heard a faint sound of pipa on the water, and invited the woman who played the pipa to see it when he was moved.
After talking with all their hearts, I felt her miserable life and thought about my own situation, and I couldn't help but sigh:
"The same is the end of the world, why should we know each other?"
With this empathy, he wrote the famous "Pipa Line" for thousands of years, and once again reached the top of the poetry world.
In the Mandate of Heaven, every turn in life is cause and effect;
Every encounter has its own frontier.
Being relegated from Beijing is really a low tide in fate, but it ends the fight of trapped beasts, cultivates a bodhichitta heart, and lives out the sincere state of life.
In the fifteenth year of Yuan He, Tang Xianzong was killed by eunuchs, and Muzong Li Heng succeeded to the throne.
After several large-scale political purges, Bai Juyi was promoted to the post of Assassin of Chungju, then transferred to Suzhou and Hangzhou, and then climbed all the way up to shangshu of the Punishment Department.
Fate changes between ups and downs, and what remains unchanged is Bai Juyi's state of mind of "obeying the destiny of heaven".
During his tenure in Suzhou and Hangzhou, he perked up his spirits, advised peasants to teach sang, built water conservancy, worked diligently and loved the people, and made a great political reputation.
The "White Causeway" in Hangzhou and the "White Causeway" in Suzhou are undoubtedly the monuments of Bai Juyi's career.
Fei Xiaotong once said:
Reverence for the Mandate of Heaven makes us peaceful, makes us aware of man's limits, and focuses on what man can reach.
Obey the destiny and do your best, and you will find that everything is the best arrangement.
In the second year of Huichang, the seventy-year-old Bai Ju Yi zhishi returned to his hometown.
In the last four years of his life, he did not love fame, had nothing outside his heart, and kept the years.
On his deathbed, he wrote:
Although my body is long, I secretly show mercy and compassion to future generations.
It is true that his life, flying with the wind of fate, lived brightly and with great affection;
His poems carry the prosperity and vicissitudes of the millennium and write the deepest concern for the human world.
He was known as the "poetry demon" by later generations, and in the unpredictable world, the da is both good for the world, and the poor are alone.
Bai Juyi's life is like this sentence:
Whoever you meet, he's the right person, and no matter what happens, that's the right thing.
Life is like a tree, a branch and a leaf, and everything encountered has meaning.
May we stand in a higher dimension and look at all encounters in the baptism of the years.
Author | Jin Shanyue should have nothing to dwell in, but to be born with his heart.
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