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In the Tang Dynasty, there were a pair of celebrity brothers, and the younger brother served as the prime minister twice, his poetry was fresh, the style was close to that of his elder brother, and the official position was higher than that of the elder brother, but his fame was far less than that of his elder brother. Let's take a look at his poem first:
The mountain moon is still dawning, and the forest wind is endlessly cool.
If you are attentive, you will be sorry for others.
Seeing this poem "Don't Be Chuan BeiYe", his identity also came out, he is the younger brother of wang Wei, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty who was revered by posterity as "Poetry Buddha", Wang Jin, and Wang Wei's "Remembering the Shandong Brothers on September 9" was written to this younger brother Wang Jin:
Alone in a foreign land for strangers, every festive season to think of relatives.
The Haruka brothers ascended to the heights, and there was one less person planted everywhere.
Wang Wei became famous at a young age, in fact, his younger brother was not weak, and after the imperial examination and the first, he was an official and also had literary talent, but his brother was too famous and too talented, a collection of poets, painters, musicians, and officials, and posterity almost never knew about his younger brother Wang Jin. Wang Wei had four brothers, Wang Wei wang Jin was the closest and had the best feelings, and the Old Book of Tang recorded that the last thing Wang Wei did when he died was "Ku Suo's pen as a farewell book", unfortunately, Wang Jin was still on his way back to Beijing.
The "Anshi Rebellion" was a watershed in the lives of these two brothers, Wang Jin was then the young yin of Taiyuan, and cooperated with the general Li Guangbi to guard Taiyuan, Wang Wei fled with Xuanzong, but accidentally scattered, captured by the rebels, originally wanted to pass the pass, did not want to be too famous, was recognized, escorted to Luoyang, forced to do his old post. After the rebellion was put down, Wang Jin had meritorious service in guarding Taiyuan and was promoted to the rank of squire of the Punishment Department, and Wang Wei, as a renegade official, could not escape the death penalty. Wang Jin, who had always admired and loved this brother to the fullest, immediately asked to see Emperor Suzong, hoping that the saint would understand that his brother was temporarily attached to the rebels with hidden feelings, and testified by a "Ningbi Poem" that Pei Di had brought back when he visited Wang Wei, and Wang Wei wrote:
Ten thousand households are sad and have wild smoke, when will the hundred officials rise to the sky again?
Autumn locust leaves in the deep palace, condensed bi pool head play orchestra.
After Suzong read the poem, he hesitated slightly, and Wang Jin immediately said: He was willing to resign from his official position in exchange for a way for his brother to live. Finally, Emperor Suzong of Tang spared Wang Wei of his capital offense, learned from him, and was only demoted to prince Zhongyun, and the two brothers were finally saved.
Many years later, when Wang Wei was promoted to shangshu right chancellor, his younger brother Wang Jin was alone outside the capital, and Wang Wei wrote a letter entitled "Table of Responsibility and Recommendation for Brothers", requesting to be removed from his official position in exchange for his younger brother returning to Beijing. The imperial court remembered his brotherly affection, and Wang Jin was indeed talented, and soon after he was allowed to recall Chang'an, Wang Wei returned to the countryside after giving thanks, and soon after, in the hope that his brother would return to Beijing and die.
The brotherhood of the two brothers is deep and touching.
02
This second pair of brothers belonged to the Song Dynasty.
There is a poem that is still sung to this day, and the preface reads: "Mid-Autumn Festival, drinking da Dan, drunk, doing this, and HuaiZiyu", leaving behind the ancient sentence of "I hope that people will be long, thousands of miles together", this is Su Dongpo and Su Ziyu, a pair of ancient brothers.
The old Su Su Xun of the "Three Sus" named the two brothers One Su Shi and one Su Ru, which has meaning, and there is a "look down at its ruts and look at them when you climb up and look at them." "Shi is a horizontal wood used as a handrail in front of the ancient carriage, and the rut is the rut, which is related to the car.
Su Xun once wrote an essay "The Second Son of The Name", explaining the names of the two brothers, to the effect that the wheels, spokes, carriages, etc. of a car are all functional parts of the car, except for the horizontal wood as a handrail, which seems to be useless, but if the horizontal wood is removed, the car looks incomplete. The name Shi is because I am worried that this baby's talent is too eye-catching to know how to avoid the front; there is no car in the world that does not go along the rut, but the wheel print never participates in the merits of the car, even if the car is destroyed and the horse is killed, the rut is still there, and it can be in the middle of the misfortune. I think this son can be relieved to be spared disasters.
It is precisely because of this that Su Xun let the Su Shi zi zi zhan of the cross wood in front of the car, hoping to look far ahead, see the road ahead and protect himself; let Su Zi zi zi be relatively safe by himself. When Lao Su wrote this essay, the two children were only in their teens, and it was as if they had written down the fate of their lives.
Su Shi and Su Rui are the same list of soldiers, the elder brother is talented, the temperament is exposed, and the younger brother is full of talent and low-key. The two grew up together and never separated, and after entering the official field together, they became officials in various places and began to separate constantly. Su Shi has many poems about brothers' parting feelings, and Su Rui has also written them, come to see this poem "Huai Shi Chi Sends Zi Zhan Brother":
Say goodbye to Zheng Yuanshang, and share a long distance of fear of slush.
Gui rode back to look for Liang Mo, and the pedestrians had already spent time in Gu Kunxi.
Did you know about the county officials? The walls of the old monk's house are co-titled.
Distant thoughts of traveling alone are less delicious, no square horses but hissing.
This is a poem that regrets to bid farewell to his brother and laments life, and it can be seen that Su Rui's temperament is relatively calm, and he seems to be older than his brother. It is also true that after entering the eunuch sea, Su Rui often advised his brother to be cautious in case of trouble, and the elder brother instead comforted his younger brother not to worry much, but in the end, Su Shi's naïve and spontaneous behavior triggered the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in history, and he was arrested and imprisoned, and his life was in danger.
After hearing the news, Su Rui was so anxious that he immediately wrote "Letter to The Brother's Imprisonment" and went to the imperial court, asking for the removal of the official position to atone for his brother's sins, to save his brother's life, and to run around to seek foreign assistance for his brother, while taking on the life of his brother's family. Wang Anshi, who has always had political discord, also wrote to say, "An has a prosperous world to kill talents? The empress dowager also came forward to intercede for Su Shi. Su Shi in prison did not know the situation outside, thought that the time of death was approaching, and wrote "The Second Song of the Prison Sender", which contains:
The Holy Lord is like the spring of heaven and all things, and the little minister is foolish and secretly dead.
Paying off debts before a hundred years, ten mouths without return is even more tiring.
It is a green mountain that can bury bones, and he Chinese New Year's Eve rain alone to hurt god.
Brothers with the king, but also the cause of the world.
The jailer took the poem to Su Rui, and after Su Ru read it, he couldn't help but cut his liver and intestines and cry uncontrollably, but he refused to accept it, he understood that if he didn't accept it, the jailer would have to hand it in according to the regulations, and the poem could be read to the top, and sure enough, after the Shenzong saw the poem, he was also moved, especially their "brotherhood with the junshi world", the brotherhood touched people's hearts, and so many people came forward to protect Su Shi, so they took advantage of the situation to spare him the death penalty, from light hair, to the deputy envoy of the Huangzhou regiment, Su Rui was also implicated, degraded to Jiangxi Gao'an, and could not be promoted within five years. After Su Rui dragged his daughter to Jiangxi to settle down, he then escorted his brother's family to Huangzhou, but he was like a reliable brother.
With the ups and downs of Su Shi's career, Su Rui also drifted with him, Su Shi was demoted all the way to Danzhou at the end of the world, Su Rui was also degraded to Leizhou, the two families went together, Su Shi wrote "Wu Who Hainan Zi was ordered by LeiZhou to go to Wu Naiwen", encouraging his brother "Don't suspect Qiong Lei across the sea of clouds, saint grace is still far away." The true meaning of learning the Tao in ordinary life will survive with poverty. "I thought that I was on the same island and came to Japan for a long time, but I didn't expect that this trip was the last time the brothers met, and they never saw each other again," The most regrettable thing about the evening scene, flying to the south of the sea. ”
After Emperor Huizong of Song ascended the throne, the imperial court granted amnesty to the world, Su Shide had returned to the north, unfortunately fell ill on the way, died of illness in Changzhou, and the biggest regret on his deathbed was that he missed the son of "I am my brother alone, if it is a virtuous friend", but I have not been able to see each other again. Su Rui was also saddened by the "death of not seeing", and wrote down the sacrifice text of Si Si Yu Zero: "The love of brothers and sisters, one person in peace." If you touch me, you will be a brother, and if you teach me, you will be a teacher. "Brotherhood is deep and lamentable.
The talent and affection of this pair of brothers has been passed down through the ages.
03
In the history of modern literature, there is also a pair of brothers who have to be mentioned, that is, Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren, but the end is that the brothers finally turned against each other, which is regrettable. Why the two brothers, who were originally intimate, suddenly turned against each other, the origin of the matter, and the opinions of the public are different, and everyone knows this public case, and will not be elaborated on here. Lu Xun only decided to move out of Beiping Badaowan, although the residence was a property purchased by his brother Lu Xun mainly for his family.
Lu Xun did not publish any text in public to defend himself during his lifetime, and the records we see in the "Diary of Lu Xun" published behind him are: August 2, 1923: "Moved from Badaowan to Brick Tower Hutong No. 61"; June 11, 1924: "In the afternoon, I went to the Badaowan house to get books and utensils, and compared to entering the West Wing, Qi Meng and his wife prominently cursed and beat ,...... In the end, the book and the instrument came out. "Qi Meng, is another name for Zhou Zuoren.
After Lu Xun moved to Brick Tower Hutong, somehow his Badaowan home was stolen once, and some of the artifacts and ancient bricks in his collection were stolen, so he went home on June 11, 1924 to retrieve the rest of the cultural relics, as stated in the diary above, and was beaten and expelled. Lu Xun sorted out these collections, and in September of the same year, he compiled and completed the "Qiantang Special Essays and Miscellaneous Collections", which is the alias of Lu Xun's early years, which is a collection of ancient brick extensions he collected, which contains more than 100 ancient brick extensions from the Six Dynasties of Han and Wei, Sui and Tang, and Lu Xun wrote the inscription with Xiao Kai's own handwriting.
After the completion of this book, it was not printed until his death, and it was not until 1960, more than thirty years later, that the original manuscript was officially printed, and the last sentence of the inscription can be seen: The twenty-third day of the eighth month of The First Son, the handwriting of the Feast of Ao. In 1924, Jia Zi was the pen name used only by Lu Xun in this book, and Xu Guangping mentioned in "The Commemoration of Comfort": "Sir said: 'The feast word comes from home (head of the department) from the day from the woman; Ao comes out, from the fang (Yuanwen Jiezi); I was expelled by the Japanese woman in the family. The Japanese woman in the family should refer to Zhou Zuoren's Japanese wife, Hatae Nobuko. I think there is an unspeakable resentment in my heart.
When Lu Xun was dying, the six last words left to his family and descendants were very humane and worth remembering in future generations, only this sentence "I will not forgive anyone", containing personal feelings, really made those who loved him feel sad and admired.
In his later years, Zhou Zuoren had a passage in the "Memoirs of Zhitang": "'Wounded Death' is not an ordinary love novel, but a mourning for the severance of brotherly affection under the pretext of the death of men and women... I also deplore this severance, but what can be done, man always has only the power of man. "Wounded Death" was published in 1925 after the brother's discord, and in the same year, Lu Xun also wrote a novel "Brother", and Zhou Jianren believed that the text revealed such a layer of meaning as the eldest brother: although the contact was severed, if the second brother was in emergency, the brother would still come to the rescue as before.
The Zhou family actually has three brothers, the world does not know much about the third brother Zhou Jianren, when the two brothers are studying abroad, the third brother stays in his hometown to serve his mother, loves to read, and is self-taught. The three brothers once lived together in Badaowan, and Zhou Jianren's first wife was Yu Taifangzi, the younger sister of Yu Tai Nobuko. Zhou Jianren has been studying biology for many years and engaged in translation work, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was one of the initiators of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the leader of the Association for the Promotion of Democracy for a long time, and died in 1984 at the age of 96.
Once happy and harmonious, and finally parted ways, a brotherly love and chaos, leaving the world with a sigh.
-Author-
A lake, a simple woman who loves poetry.