Those who do not sink into the unfortunate will eventually see the light of day.
"If you take the article as a scholar, the middle soldier should be no problem, why should he climb the dragon and attach the phoenix and blacken his reputation."
In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, the great statesman and reformer Zhang Juzheng heard that one of the candidates in the current class was a talented and talented, so he sent a letter to let him come to see him, in order to let him make a cover for his son's cheating.
Unexpectedly, this little show did not give any face and directly opened the bar. He firmly believed that he could do well in the examination by relying on his own ability, resolutely did not go, and also silenced the messenger.
The results were released on the list, and he was indeed not on the list with the highest demand for winning the championship.
He is a famous dramatist in China's Ming Dynasty, and Tang Xianzu, who is known as the "Shakespeare of the East".
In his youthful years, when he should have been energetic and promising, Tang Xianzu fell by the waycause he offended Zhang Juzheng, the famous first assistant of the dynasty.
Fortunately, Tang Xianzu was not only talented but also high against the business, he did not sink into misfortune, nor did he ever give up his principles.
When he was an official, he tried his best to be a good official, and after being degraded, he did his best to shine in remote areas, and later because he saw through the official resignation and retreat, he could also shine in the dramatic world he personally created.
Zhang Juzheng on the bar, the big talent fell off the list for the fourth time
In August of the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing (1550), a crisp and loud baby cry broke the tranquility of the Linchuan Tang family. The boy's arrival filled the family with laughter.
Because he was the eldest grandson and was born in the Shili family, this child had high hopes from his incarnation, so he was named Tang Xianzu.
"This child has a text in his hand, and he is a wenqu star!" Everyone believed that this child of the Tang family was destined to be extraordinary.
Tang Xianzu, who was born with talent, was indeed brilliant, able to compose poetry at the age of 12 and xiucai at the age of 14.
In this year of Zhongxiucai, he met an important person in his life by chance, that is, his first wife, Wu Yuying, who was still a 10-year-old girl with stars in her eyes that year.
The two fell in love at first sight, their feelings were concentrated and pure and smooth, and the growth of age and the passage of time never wavered in this love. In 1569, Tang Xianzu and Wu Yuying were blessed by their families to tie the knot.
The newlyweds are happy, along with this good momentum, Tang Xianzu, who is in a good mood, achieved a good result of the eighth place in the township examination in the second year of marriage, and won the examination.
But good luck came to an abrupt halt as he continued to pass the entrance examination.
The first two times I participated in the exam, I may not write the right essay and was eliminated. Unwilling to give up, he repeatedly lost battles.
The third time, because of the front with Zhang Juzheng, the name fell to Sun Shan.
In the eighth year of the Wanli Calendar (1580), Tang Xianzu came again.
As soon as he entered Beijing, Zhang Juzheng sent his close confidant Wang Zhen and his third son Mao Xiu to visit Tang Xianzu at the inn where Tang Xianzu was staying.
Smart people will understand the truth that "good men don't eat the losses in front of them", and fools fall in the same pit. Zhang Ju thought exactly like this. But he misread Tang Xianzu.
The Tang family is a talented son, quite a proud bone of The Eastern Jin Dynasty Tao Yuanming not bending his waist for five buckets of rice.
Wang Zhen and Mao Xiu saw that Tang Xianzu only wanted to repeat the old words, and talked about this subject to try the dingjia conditions. But Tang Xianzu unceremoniously and categorically opened the bar again: "I don't dare to lose my body from the woman here." ”
This is not all, after the bar directly and resolutely abandoned the exam.
Four times into Beijing, four times to fall in the first place. Both he and his wife at home were devastated.
The roof leaked in the overnight rain, and his cherished wife's health became worse and worse, and she fell into tuberculosis.
"I don't regret my choice, but I feel deeply guilty about you." Tang Xianzu caressed his wife's increasingly haggard face, and his heart ached at the thought of their former happiness.
"You are right, a true gentleman will not forget his heart because of his own interests of people who abandon principles! I have been fascinated by you since I was a child, and naturally I have liked your difference. "The wife is comforting him, but also comforting herself.
Life is like a drama, but the direction of the script is full of variables, and those warriors who can stick to their own hearts will often survive a day of their own, but how long this darkness will last, no one can know.
Degraded to the south of Lingnan, the opening of the academy to enlighten the people's wisdom
Faced with the predicament, Tang Xianzu chose to continue to fight, and in 1582, Tang Xianzu prepared to set off again to participate in the spring examination of the following year.
Before leaving, he looked at his wife's strong spirit and still busy figure for himself and his two sons, and suddenly he was stunned.
Looking back on these years, my wife has given birth to two sons and two daughters for herself, and the two daughters unfortunately died prematurely. But the wife still supported her weak body and wounded heart to take care of her two sons with painstaking efforts, and did her best to support him.
Tang Xianzu couldn't help but feel sour in his heart.
He was determined to turn this sentiment into motivation and work harder to take the exam.
Fortunately, in this year, Zhang Juzheng died and withdrew from the political stage. In the spring test, Tang Xianzu finally got the middle soldier. A year later, he became a doctor in Nanjing Taichang.
But wanwan did not expect that only two or three months after arriving in Nanjing, Wu Yuying's illness worsened and she passed away.
This pain was deeply engraved in Tang Xianzu's heart, and perhaps he had also fantasized that his wife could die and rise again. But all he could do was to write this sentiment into later dramas.
His grief didn't stop there. In the eighteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, that is, beginning in 1590 AD, the Myōjin Sect began to "neglect the dynasty and dare to collect wealth". At that time, the politics of the Ming Dynasty was already like a ship full of holes, full of decaying wood.
In the nineteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1591), Tang Xianzu witnessed the bureaucratic corruption at that time and angrily went to the "On the Auxiliary Minister Kechen Shu", and this advice was like a "bomb" that alarmed the government and the opposition.
Emperor Shenzong was furious, and with the combined efforts of a group of traitors, Tang Xianzu had to leave Nanjing and was relegated to Xuwen (徐文, in modern Xuwen County, Guangdong Province), across the sea from Hainan Island.
The road ahead was unpredictable, Tang Xianzu was wandering under the cold moon, lonely and sad! So he wrote about this scene in poetry:
Maple leaves are dipped in autumn shadows, and cool cicadas are hidden in the sunset.
The clouds are misty at the beginning, and the dew is faint.
The mountains are accompanied by the mountains, and the river is full of guest clothes.
Wandering tonight in the moon, the lone magpie is flying south.
True warriors dare to face the bleakness of life.
Xuwen is located at the southernmost tip of the Leizhou Peninsula, the natural conditions and social environment are very harsh, and the folk customs are quite fierce. His official position was still only a canonical history, in charge of the arrest of prisoners, and his official position was not in the rank of rank, under the county clerk and the main book. But he didn't care about that.
After examining the people's feelings, he felt that "being light and aggressive, not knowing etiquette and righteousness" was an important reason for Xu Wen's social order and corruption. He was well aware that the fundamental measure to reverse this bad custom was to strengthen indoctrination and improve people's ideological and cultural qualities.
Therefore, he also took out su Dongpo's spirit of not fearing hardships to seek the people's welfare in Danzhou, Hainan, and was determined to be a cultural pioneer - starting from education.
With his rank, he was not eligible to live in the county court. The county magistrate placed him in a small house outside the ya. Tang Xianzu used this apartment as both a residence and a church, and personally carried out lectures and discourses.
Later, he named this temporary lecture hall "Guisheng Academy".
Since then, Xu Wen's learning style has gradually become stronger, the atmosphere of learning has risen, and the number of Dengke and the first person has also increased suddenly. The people's customs have also been greatly changed. In the 50 years since the establishment of the "Guisheng Academy" to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, 13 people have been produced. Only 14 have been produced in the last 230 years.
In 1962, when Comrade Tian Han, an outstanding contemporary dramatist, went to Hainan Island, he interviewed Guisheng Academy, read the remains of the academy, composed a poem, and spoke highly of Tang Xianzu's historical merits in lecturing and advocating Guisheng during Xu Wen's period:
Ten thousand miles into the wilderness, which body is resistant to miasma cloud steaming?
In times of worry, there are also Jiangnan dreams, and lectures are like passing on the lights on the sea.
It should be seen in the first long day of Burmese, once climbed the highest level of the Tang Pagoda.
The monument of Guisheng Academy is there, and the hundred generations of Xu Wen are still righteous.
In that strange world, setbacks and difficulties are inevitable. What is valuable is that Tang Xianzu did not sink in the predicament, but made great achievements.
He proved to us with his actions and achievements that everyone has a time to face the fragile darkness, and only those who dare to face the night can achieve the nirvana of life and peek into the sky.
Shakespeare of the East came out of nowhere, and a play "Peony Pavilion" shone for hundreds of years
Within a few years, Tang Xianzu was reappointed to Suichangzhi County, Zhejiang. Dou Da's Suichang was rejuvenated under Tang Xianzu's short 5-year rule, and the people's reputation was full of praise, but there were always eunuchs who jumped out and trampled on everything he had paid for this small city.
He was nearly half a hundred years old and he wanted to understand one thing: this imperial court was not saved!
In the end, he decided to completely resign and return to Linchuan, and wholeheartedly do what he liked - writing dramas.
In Linchuan, Tang Xianzu named his residence Yumingtang. Since then, he has not asked about the world, and has devoted himself to the creation of drama.
The sound of rain outside the window was pouring, although it had passed three times, the candles in the window were still bright, and Tang Xianzu rubbed his sour eyes and continued to swing like a pen.
Sometimes I write that I am sleepy and fall asleep; sometimes inspiration comes and I write until dawn.
Autumn to spring, pen and pen work. "In front of the Jade Tea Hall, there is a revival of twilight, and the Peony Pavilion is on the Sansheng Road."
In the hearts of his family, he had already reached the realm of a little demonic.
One day, his wife Fu Shi went to the study to deliver food, knocked on the door several times and still did not move. I can't help but be a little worried. Push the door in a hurry. I saw that the manuscript paper in the room was piled up on the desk, but there was no one there.
Fu Shi hurried out to look for him again, and there was no one everywhere. A man who cleans the courtyard meets a man in a corner of the garden who hides his face and weeps. When I looked closer, it was actually my own adult, and I was scared enough.
Fu Shi heard this and rushed over.
"When I write about 'enjoying the spring fragrance or the old Luo skirt', I feel that I am the spring fragrance, but Du Liniang, who treats the spring fragrance like a sister, is destined to return to Huangquan, and I can't help but feel sad when I think of it."
"You, is this to learn from Li He to vomit out his heart!?" Madame was heartbroken, but there was nothing she could do about him.
Emotions do not know what to do, and go deeper, the living can die, and the dead can live. Those who are born and cannot be with death, and those who die and cannot be resurrected, are not the most emotional. Why should the feelings in dreams not be true, and how can there be few people in dreams in the world?
After the advent of "Peony Pavilion", "family recitation, several times the price of "West Chamber" was reduced."
Du Liniang's tragic fate resonated strongly among the women of the boudoir. There are even women who are depressed because of this drama and feel deep pity for the same disease.
In the same era, Shakespeare in the West was also shining. As a tragedy, "Peony Pavilion" is similar to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the ending has a bright tail, and Du Liniang and Juliet are brave and strong rebels of feudal etiquette.
Both heroines die for the liberation of their personalities and the freedom of marriage. However, Du Liniang not only died for love, but also came back to life for love death. His feelings are aesthetic, and the male and female protagonists are also quite charismatic.
This complete feeling is actually the instill of Tang Xianzu's own feelings and ideals.
He also wrote "The Book of Purple Chao", "The Record of Handan", and "The Record of Nanke", either heavier than love, or heavier than his career, not so much as a drama written, but rather to build a dream in his heart through the play.
Although he himself could not live the ideal life, his ideals shone brightly for hundreds of years because of the plays he wrote.
In Tang Xianzu's life, from the official field to the theater, the battlefield has changed a lot, and the only thing that has not changed is his firm heart. He can always bravely shake the sleeve of fate and shake out a pool of starlight.
Life is not easy, may you and I, in the face of temptation and confusion, can have extraordinary perseverance to stick to their hearts; in the face of misfortune or the abyss, can have the courage to cross.
Bibliography: The Biography of Tang Xianzu
"Forever Tang Xianzu"