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Du Zhenyan
01
In July of the second year of the Wu Zetian Holy Calendar (699), Sima Zhou of Ji'an was in charge of the mansion, full of high-ranking friends, and guests and hosts rejoiced.
Zhou Jizhong is the chief, or the son-in-law of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, the person is proud of the spring breeze, the weather is sunny, everyone pushes the cup to change the cup, talks and laughs, and it is the climax of the wine banquet.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a teenager rushed out, holding a dagger, and crashed straight into Zhou Jizhong's body, stabbing the short dagger into his chest.
In the midst of the crowd's exclamations, the guards reacted, and several of them stepped forward, slashed the teenager to the ground with three knives and two knives, and killed him on the spot.
Someone recognized the teenager: "It is Du He, the second son of Du Zhenyan." ”
Zhou Ji was seriously injured, gasped and fell back on the chair, sighing and saying, "I really didn't expect Du Zhenyan to have such a filial piety!" Gaurona hurt me! ”
I couldn't stand it, and I died not long after.
Du He was only thirteen years old, and this assassination was to avenge his father.
Du Zhenyan is a world-famous talent, his eyes are higher than the sky, and he always looks at people obliquely.
The year before, because of this bird temper, he was demoted from the capital Luoyang to Ji'an to join the army, about the deputy director of the Finance Bureau.
Coming from a small place in the capital, he couldn't look down on a few people, and he couldn't get along with his colleagues, and his boss, Hu Hu (Bureau Chief), Gao Ruoner, was obviously not in his eyes, and he was very angry.
Director Gao is not a humble gentleman, your surname Du is a person of the Jingzhao Du clan, the Gaomen clan is not wrong, but when we come to this place, the strong dragon does not dare to move the head snake, what kind of style do you pretend?
Find the chief officer Zhou Ji to re-talk about Du Zhenyan's bad words.
Chief Zhou was also not accustomed to Du Zhenyan's words and deeds, that commotion, the first in the world, should have been rectified a long time ago!
Together, the two men committed a crime, arrested Du Zhenyan, sentenced him to death, and wanted to kill his head.
At this time, it was the era when Wu Zetian used cool officials, unjust, false and wrong cases were flying all over the sky, killing the wrong person was not a thing at all, the only thing that was unexpected was that Du Zhenyan's second son Du He was so kind! At a young age, he dared to carry a knife into the house and kill the chief!
The entire imperial court was sensationalized, and Du Zhenyan was released, dismissed from office, and returned to Luoyang.
Wu Zetian
02
Two years later, Du Zhenyan returned to Luoyang and brought Du He's bones back to Luoyang to be buried in the tomb of Du Jiazu.
Chinese tradition is to talk about filial piety, the minister Su Hao wrote an epitaph for Du, praising Xiao Du: An Qin made a name for himself, and he did not care about his life! It is the great filial piety of our time, although it is still alive!
Even Empress Wu Zetian was alarmed, summoned Du Zhenyan, and chatted a few words, this old Du is still a highly talented man! Intending to activate him again, he asked, "Are you happy?" ”
Du Zhen had mixed feelings, his son died because of himself, but he was received by the emperor because of his son, and he was blessed with misfortune and became an official again!
Unable to speak, he had to dance and thank you. Empress Wu ordered him to write a "Poem of Joy", which was a horizontal and gave him a book, Saburō, the secretary of literature and history.
Du Zhenyan's literary talent, of course, is super first-class, when he was young, he won the Jinshi, and Li Zhao, Cui Rong, and Su Wei were known as the "Four Friends of the Article".
The achievements of these three people are extraordinary, Li Zhao served as prime minister three times, and Cui Rong was the teacher of Tang Zhongzong's crown prince, and served as a ceremonial attendant;
Su Weiwei has been the prime minister for more than ten years, and he is a high official with more than three pins of red and purple hair.
Only Du Zhenyan was the youngest, serving as a deputy county-level official for a long time, and the largest was promoted to Luoyang Cheng, one of the assistants of the mayor of Luoyang.
But the most temperamental, the most arrogant, the real article is their own best literati.
Arrogant and arrogant, there is no room for sight.
One year, he participated in the selection and judging of officials, very proud and confident. Presiding over this work was Su Wei, who was then serving as a servant of the bureaucracy (deputy director of the Ministry of Personnel).
Walking out of the door, he pointed his nostrils to the sky and said to his colleagues around him: "Su Wei is dead this time!" ”
Everyone was surprised, what happened? What happened to Lord Su?
Du Zhenyan said calmly and calmly: "When he saw my verdict, he must be ashamed of himself and die of shame!" ”
It is estimated that the eyes of the onlookers must have been ghosts during the day, seen bragging skins, and never seen such a conceited bragging skin.
Fortunately, the cultural people have a lot of strange tempers, and he bullies Su taste like this, but old Su does not take it seriously.
Because Su Wei is an old good man, never sleek. Publicly speak out: "Don't take things too seriously." Only ambiguity, vagueness on both sides. ”
At the time, people called him "Su Ambiguous".
The literati are casual, Cui Rong is dead, and Du Zhenyan, who is not a relative, wears "hemp" and serves him in mourning, although it is the lightest mourning dress.
As long as you are happy, you can do whatever you want.
03
Du Zhenyan's biggest project of cowhide blowing was that he invented an idiom: Qu Song Ya Guan.
He let out a message: If I write articles, Qu Yuan and Song Yu can only be my little assistants and grind ink; if I engage in calligraphy, Wang Xizhi will retire to the second line!
How good does this article have to be to dare to despise Qu Yuan's classmates so much!
It frightened many people and offended many people.
Therefore, the career is bumpy, only to fall out of the head, let others step on it.
When Ji An returned, Empress Wu gave him an official, and finally had a foothold.
Wu Zetian became emperor and raised many small white faces as faces, the most famous being Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers, one called "Wulang" and the other "Liulang".
The empress's male favorite, the power of the world, high-ranking officials and ministers are rushing to make friends with the Zhang family brothers.
The cultural people patted their asses, and some people said: "Liu Lang is as beautiful as a lotus." The literati Prime Minister Yang Zaisi said, "No, it is the lotus flower that is as beautiful as Liu Lang!" ”
The chancellor poets Song Zhiqing and Shen Qiqi all competed to tie up the Zhang brothers, and Du Zhenyan and Song Zhiqing and others were good friends, and they were also the horse ass spirits of the Zhang family.
Song Zhiqing, in order to climb to a high position, wished to be able to go to Wu Zetian's dragon bed, but unfortunately bad breath, Wu Zetian did not like, is a hateful thing of old Song.
After the fall of Wu Zetian, Emperor Zhongzong Li Xian changed "Zhou" back to "Tang" and called the Shenlong Revolution, and the head of the Zhang brothers fell to the ground.
A large number of literati who befriended the Zhang brothers were all exiled to remote places. Du Zhenyan degraded FengZhou (northern Vietnam), when the miasma mountains were all over the south, and the Central Plains people were afraid.
I am afraid that this will not be repeated.
Every time he degraded to a distant place, Song Zhiqing had a poem to bid farewell, the most famous one, called "Farewell du zhenyan":
Lying on the sick is desperate, and the king is all the way.
The river bridge does not send each other, and the river tree is far away.
Don't chase sun Chu, only the boat mourns Qu Ping.
Unfortunately, the Longquan Sword was lost in Fengcheng.
You are sent to the far side, I am sick and can't send each other, take care of you all the way, friend, this sword, had to be shelved!
04
Du Zhenyan had a lot of ability, making him arrogant without acknowledging it, and it was really not blown, there were a few brushes.
His poems, deep and simple, not without illness and groaning, were the founders of the Tang Dynasty's Gelug poetry.
The representative work "And Jinling Lu Cheng Early Spring Travels", known as the first of the five laws of the early Tang Dynasty:
Unique eunuch tourists, partial shock Hou Xin.
Yunxia out of the sea dawn, Mei Liu crossed the river in spring.
Shuqi urges yellow birds, and the clear light turns green.
Overhearing the ancient tune of the song, I want to dip the towel.
With a few strokes, he said that the river was picturesque, and said that he, a northerner, had worked for more than ten years and was still a small civil servant in the southern city of Jinling!
The homesickness of being alone on the Yangtze River, if there is no sorrow, the sour words in the stomach are all in the unspoken.
So he was particularly arrogant, very arrogant.
Of course, he also has a more boastful achievement, he has a grandson, named Du Fu, the character is beautiful.
It is "Li Du's article is in, brilliant and long" that Tang Dynasty poem Saint Du Fu.
Du Xian, the eldest son of Du Zhenyan, gave birth to this viable grandson for him, and with Du Fu's hegemonic position in The Poetry of the Tang Dynasty, everyone was even more impressed by Du Zhenyan.
Du Fu always wasted no time in standing for his grandfather: "Wuzu Shiguangu", this big hat was worn, and people stood up; also known as "poetry is my family affair", the old Du family came to this world to write poetry!
Swallow mountains and rivers.
They should also blow, holding diamonds, and picking up porcelain work.
05
Exiled to the south for a few years, the reputation of talent is still very loud in Luoyang, when the time comes and goes, friends have returned to the capital, and Du Zhenyan should also be recalled.
In the second year of Emperor Jinglong of Tang Dynasty (708), Du Zhenyan felt that his health was not good, and expected that time would not be much, so he talked about the aftermath with his friend Song Zhiwen and others who came to visit, and said with a dejected head: "Create and make people, and have suffered enough in this life!" What else can be said? ”
The conversation turned sharply: "But it's okay!" I have been living to suppress you, so that you have no days to come out. It's just that the position of literary leader, the successor has not yet been found! ”
Half of the people were in the coffin, still so arrogant and arrogant! Song Zhi asked the gang, crying and laughing, I guess it was the mood of beating people!
This winter, Du Zhenyan died.
His sacrifice text was written by Song Zhiqing: Huai Jun's good hatred has accumulated, and Nian Jun's near-hui is doubly affectionate!
The feelings are quite good.
Song Zhiqing's poems are also first-class, and their character is too poor, which is highly criticized by posterity. However, the friendship with Du Zhenyan was revealed.
It seems that the hateful must also have something to be pitiful about.