Author: Our special guest author tease uncle
First ask everyone a boring question: "Does anyone know Liu Zongyuan?" ”
Just kidding, as one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Liu Zongyuan must know ah, otherwise the language test will not be given! If you really haven't heard of Liu Zongyuan, you should read this article better.
Why? Because the protagonist of this article claims that he is a descendant of Liu Zongyuan!
Some people have said that he is a double material madman in the official field and the literary world, and some people call him a strange person who is "sexually fierce", and he is the first ancient puzzle boy of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Who is he?
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More than ten years before the opening of the Great Song Dynasty, The Ancient Puzzle Boy Liu Kai came to the human world and prepared to make a big fuss, but left.
According to legend, Liu Kaizu was once a tycoon, and in his father's generation, he could only be regarded as middle class. His father, Liu Chengqian, held the highest official position as inspector of imperial history, and was not a large official, but had certain real powers.
As a descendant of the Liu family, Liu Kai often posted the celebrity giants of the Liu family during the Tang Dynasty to show off.
Liu Kainian did not forget to put gold on his face, he claimed to be a descendant of Liu Zongyuan, and also named himself "Shoulder Healing", which means inheriting the careers of Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan. In fact, the family tree of the Liu family has been "embered" since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no way to verify it.
Reading this, do you think that in addition to being a little vain, this great Song Gu Puzzle Boy is also quite self-motivated.
Next, Uncle Tease will take you for a walk to see the strange things about Gu Qiuzai.
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Liu Kaida was influenced by the local strong folk customs when he was young, liked to wield bows and swords, prepared for a big fight in the future, and always wanted to make some big moves.
Once, the opportunity came. A robber took advantage of the night to break into his house, and everyone present was frightened into silent mode. Seeing the thirteen-year-old young Man Liu Kai, he drew his sword and rushed up.
The robber looked, ah, how in this room there is an ancient boy who is not afraid of death, and he has to climb over the wall to escape. As a result, Liu Kai still let him leave a little souvenir - two toes.
The two toes of this robber were not left in vain, and the great thief with broken toe was thus "famous in history", which was recorded in the "History of Song", and Liu Kai naturally became "the first ancient puzzle boy of the Northern Song Dynasty".
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The young Liu Kai lived in the early Song Dynasty, and after the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, in order to consolidate the political power, he adopted the policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts, so that everyone had time to read more and gather less to make trouble.
Liu Kai Shangwu, but he did not waste his studies. He knew deeply that with a meritorious name, it would be more convenient to make a big fuss. Of course, on the way to Beijing to catch the exam, he will not miss any opportunity to be an ancient puzzle boy.
Song Ren's notes once recorded a horrific thing about Liu Kai, which was roughly a drop of sauce paper——
One night, Liu Kai heard the woman who lived next door to the inn crying, and he went over the next morning to inquire about the situation.
It turned out that the woman's father was a county magistrate, and because the handle of her corruption fell into the hands of the male servant, she was forced to marry her daughter to the male servant. The woman was heartbroken to hear about this last night.
Wow, there is such an act of bullying a weak woman under the heavens? Filled with righteous indignation, Liu Kai killed the evil servant that night, cooked a pot of meat, and enjoyed it with the father and daughter.
The authenticity of the story is now impossible to verify, but Liu Kai is so tough in the eyes of the Song people! Lu saw a roar, jealous as a vendetta, quite a bit of heroic style.
Liu Kai's reputation for brashing has a long history, and he once asked his uncle for money in order to help Zhao Changyan (later a suffragan, equivalent to a deputy prime minister) who was still a cloth-clad man at the time.
My uncle disagreed, so he set a fire in the house. For such an ancient boy, the uncle could only come up with money to calm things down.
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Although Liu Kai was contaminated with some of the fierce vices of the Five Dynasties period, he said that Gu Qiaozai really had a set of reading and learning.
Shen Kuo wrote in "Mengxi Pen Talk" that this unhappy Liu Kai, before the exam, loaded his thousand-axis works on a wheelbarrow and pushed them to the examiner to hold a "reading style".
Is Gu Qiuzi crazy? Could it be that Liu Kai wanted to tell the examiner that he would like to recycle old books and find him?
The chief examiner probably wanted to drop like this, so he ranked Liu Kai's rank below Zhang Jing, who only contributed one article. Shiren sighed: "Liu Kai a thousand axes, not as good as Zhang Jingyi's book." ”
The authenticity of this matter can only be asked by Teacher Shen Kuo, but at least it shows that in the minds of the ancients, Liu Kai is an ancient puzzle boy who dares to think and dare to do it!
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In the sixth year of Song Kaibao (973), the arrogant Liu Gongzi tried to win a move, and from then on he played the role of an official madman.
As a great talent, Liu Kai's position in the history of Chinese literature is unquestionable.
He is like a man, and from time to time he will reveal a stubborn and heroic feeling in his articles, and under his quick temper and fierce style of behavior, there is clearly hidden full of enthusiasm and the true disposition of good and evil.
He did not like the bells and whistles of beautiful texts, and he thought that the rhetoric was not as gorgeous as the reasoning was clear, thus ushering in a new era of literature.
As a generation of literary masters who have inherited from the top to the bottom, Liu Kai's ideas of "taking the scriptures as texts" and "taking the Tao as the text" were not recognized by too many people at that time, but he silently endured the snubs of the world, adhered to his own ideals, and guarded the spiritual home of the scholars in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
Under the influence of Liu's thought, the Tang-type culture that used to be the victory of love rhyme gradually transformed into a Song-type culture with rationality as the king.
Liu Kai paid the most attention to the honor and integrity of the scholars, and he often put the name festival of the generals and the ancient mu dao in the first place when writing his epitaphs. Beginning with him, the morality of the scholar gradually attracted the attention of the public, and later celebrities such as Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan, Zhou Dunyi, and Su Shi were all deeply influenced by his thoughts.
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Liu Kai's Confucian chivalrous style reminded Uncle Com of a person, who was the Great Scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Renjie.
They seem to have the same blood flowing in their hearts, they are the same people of the Great Song Dynasty, and both of them are great literary heroes, and at the time of national crisis, they did not hesitate to choose to abandon Wen Congrong.
Liu Kai and Xin Zhiyi are also very similar in personality, heroic, stubborn, enthusiastic, upright, dare to think and dare to speak, dare to be bold, and are unwilling to cater to others, so in the official arena, neither of them can eat.
They are equally ruthless to their enemies, the former is said to eat the liver of criminals, the latter kills people like mowing grass; as a result, two people who do not want to explain, who have been defamed by dissidents, are now in awe of you and me.
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Liu Kai's book "The Collection of Mr. Hedong" has been handed down, but what is more meaningful than his work is the chivalrous spirit of the literati in him. This spiritual land tour has not been lost, Wen Tianxiang has not been lost, and future generations will never lose it.
The song "My Motherland" sings: "When a friend comes, there is good wine, and if the jackal comes, he will be greeted with a shotgun... ＂
Chinese have always been kind and clear, to friends, good wine and good food, and to the enemy, we do not seek war or fear war.
What is this spirit? This is the chivalrous spirit of the Chinese nation.
The great hero is for the country and the people. I think it is precisely because of the existence of chivalrous spirit that the great powers of the East will have the confidence they have now, standing proudly in the forest of the world!
References: "History of the Song Dynasty", "Fact Garden", "Tan Writing", "Mengxi Pen Talk", Wang Xiang's "On Liu Kai's Ancient Wen Ancient Road and song dynasty style", Li Qiang's "Liu Kai and the early Northern Song Dynasty's scholarly style", Chen Feng's "Wild Shouting and Drunkenness and Ancient —— — Liu Kai's People and Anecdotes"
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