Although Jia Dao, a bitter bard, was born in the Tang Dynasty, he was never as idle as the talents of all sizes in the Tang Dynasty, neither enjoying the wind and snow, nor chasing willows and flowers in the midst of teasing, nor was he more ruthless when he was happy and dashing... Throughout his life, Jia Dao only got the names of "Shi Nu" and "Poetry Prisoner", and racked his brains all his life to write poetry.
Jia Dao, who is not close to the ordinary, has never married in his life, and when he dies, he is still alone and alone, which is simply a poetic wonder in a foreign land.
What is even less known is that Jia Dao was once a monk, who was once appreciated by the literary patriarch Han Yu because of his full talent, and at the instigation of Han Yu, Jia Dao returned to the world in pursuit of "poetry and far away".
Jia Dao, who had no honor in his life, repeatedly failed in scientific expeditions, and he fell in love with poetry for the rest of his life, leaving many poetry masterpieces with elegant and deep Zen meaning for future generations.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > Jia Island's helpless temple career</h1>
People who are familiar with the Tang Dynasty poet Jia Dao must know that Jia Dao entered the monastery as a monk in the early years because of his family's poverty, and later returned to the world because he met his confidant Han Yu.
Throughout his life, Jia Dao has always been ideologically between monks and laymen, he is greedy for the quiet and quiet leisure life in the temple, but also unable to completely abandon the fame and fortune in the world, so Jia Dao's life can be said to be indissoluble with the temple.
In 779 AD, Jia Dao was born in a bitter cold family in Fanyang County, Youzhou, Hebei Province, Tang Dynasty, although Jia Dao was born poor, but he was good at learning to read, at the age of 18, Jia Dao, who wanted MingZhi, left his hometown and began a wandering sojourn life.
Jia Dao traveled to the mountains and rivers of his homeland and became acquainted with some literati such as Zhuge Jue, Li Yi, and Wei Zhi, who called each other close friends and wrote a number of poems to make peace.
In the process of writing poetry, Jia Dao found that he had a special love for poetry creation, and he could even write poetry for several days behind closed doors and without thinking about eating.
Whenever Jia Dao reached a moment of embarrassment without entanglement, he would forget the bitterness and depression of the lack of material life by writing poetry, and he would dispel the hunger and cold around him through bitter poetry, and over time, the bitter chant became his spiritual pillar and became the plump anointing sorghum in his brain.
Winter to spring, fighting stars, traveling outside for several years on Jia Island still did not find the holy place of Mecca in the spiritual world, discouraged, he left home in Yungai Temple in Hebei Province, and since then he has lived under the Buddhist Gate, three meals a day only thin porridge coarse tea.
However, for Jia Dao at that time, simple three meals and one night did not need to spend their own money to get at their fingertips, and what was not enough.
Yungai Temple is far from the city, is a quiet and quiet paradise, the young Jia Island lives there, mainly trapped by the environment, coupled with Jia Island's nature is reluctant to interact with outsiders, so Jia Island has a large period of time to read and groan.
It is said that it was during that period of time as a monk that Jia Dao wrote the "Hidden Seekers Do Not Meet" that have been passed down through the ages, and the "Sunset of the Wooden Rock Temple" that reflects the purity of meditation.
People in the world call Jia Dao and Mengjiao "island chaff" and "suburban cold", think of it, when he was young, Jia Dao must have been a thin literati look, his "thin", one is because of poor diet, perennial lack of nutrition; second, because of mental difficulties, a literati can not find a way out of life, a spiritual way out, natural depression, thinking is full of depression and bitterness.
Since ancient times, the sons of Hanmen have a little ambition, and they have taken reading as their only hope and way out, and Jia Dao should be no exception. A small talented person is bound to be a little arrogant, and Jia Dao, who is in his early 20s, is so young, how can he be willing to guard the ancient Buddha green lantern all his life and completely abandon the prosperity and bustle in the world?!
It can be seen that Jia Dao chose to escape into the Buddha's Gate when he was young, which was completely his helpless move.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > and Han Yu became close friends, and listened to Han Yu's advice</h1>
Once, Jia Dao rode a donkey to visit his friend Li Ning, who lived on the outskirts of the city. When I arrived at the door of Li Ning's house, I found that the master was not at home, so Jia Dao inscribed a poem "Title Li Ning's Seclusion" on the wall of Li Ning's house.
On the way back, Jia Dao, who was obsessed with chanting, began to refine again, and his second sentence of the poem was "Birds stay in the trees by the pond, and monks knock on the door under the moon." I am hesitant about whether to use the word "knock" or the word "push".
In order to choose a more appropriate word, Jia Dao repeatedly chanted on the back of the donkey, and stretched out his hands to do the different postures of "pushing" and "knocking" back and forth, as if he was enchanted.
Jia Dao was immersed in the atmosphere of "bitter groaning", not knowing that the official waiter and Jing Zhao Yin Han Yu was passing through here with his own carriage and horse honor guard, and Jia Dao, who was sitting on the back of a donkey, unconsciously "broke into" the third section of Han Yu's honor guard.
Seeing such a strange person appear in front of them, Han Yu's attendants immediately became alert, and they pulled Jia Dao off the donkey's back and pushed him and brought it to Han Yu.
Han Yue saw the innocent appearance of this young man, so he asked Jia Dao the reason for mistakenly entering the honor guard, and when Han Yue learned that Jia Dao was so embarrassed because he was thinking too intently, he couldn't help but feel good about this sincere young man.
After that, Han Yu thought about it a little, and then told Jia Dao that it was better to take the word "knock", Jia Dao was deeply impressed, and since then, Han Yu and Jia Dao have formed a friendship for many years. Han Yu, who was then a poet of literature, also wrote a poem "Gift to Jia Island" to praise the spirit of Jia Island's painstaking refinement of verses.
As the two became more and more closely related, Jia Dao revealed his situation and situation, Han Yu was a person who cherished talents and loved talents, he could not bear to see Jia Dao, a young talent buried in the Buddha's gate all his life, he tried his best to persuade him to be vulgar and actively participate in the imperial examination.
Under han Yu's persuasion, Jia Dao's "ordinary heart" beat again: if his talent can easily attract fame and fortune, then why not give it a try?!
Soon, Jia Dao grew his hair and actively prepared to take the imperial examination with the financial support of Han Yu. In previous years, Jia Dao has also taken the imperial examination several times, but none of them have been successful.
This time, Jia Dao, full of confidence and hope, once again stepped into the examination room to prepare for the merit of talent, hoping to usher in the highlight moment of life in one fell swoop.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > the scientific expedition failed but still "luckily" squeezed into the career, but the final result was a foreign country</h1>
Jia Dao was undoubtedly a more talented literati, but it seemed that his talent was not tense enough, far less than talented, so although he listened to Han Yu's words and took the imperial examination again, the result was still sun mountain.
After falling off the list, Jia Dao was extremely disappointed in the scientific examination, and he was both sad and resentful that he did not meet huaicai, and after a loud cry, he decided not to enter the examination room for half a step in this life, which shows that Jia Dao was fiercely hurt by the examination of the imperial examination.
At that time, Jia Dao originally wanted to go to Han Yu to seek some relief when he was frustrated, but he did not expect that Han Yu was demoted to Chaozhou by Emperor Xianzong for bluntly saying "advising The Buddha". Later, when Han Yu was reinstated and returned to Chang'an, Jia Dao found a small official position in the capital.
Unfortunately, jia dao, who had a straight temperament, did not understand the principle of Taoguang cultivating obscurity and not letting go of his sharp edge, and soon angered the senior members of the DPRK for writing a poem ridiculing the imperial examination system.
Subsequently, Jia Dao was expelled from Beijing, but fortunately, when he was degraded, he still left Beijing to take up the official position of "Chief Book of Changjiang County" due to the imperial court's "responsibility" system, but the place where he was about to go to office was remote and remote, which was equivalent to letting Jia Dao never have a head on the road of eunuchs in this life.
Jia Dao, who was already in his fifties, had just served as the chief bookkeeper of Changjiang County for 3 years, and then he was dispatched by a paper dispatch to Puzhou to join the army as a sicang and be in charge of local financial and taxation duties.
Three years later, Jia Dao, who had completed his term of office, was promoted to the post of Puzhou Sihu to join the army, but unfortunately, Jia Dao died of illness in Puzhou, Sichuan Province, at the age of 64.
After Jia Dao's death, he was buried by his friends in the foothills of Nan'anquan Mountain in Anyue County, Sichuan, and he finally completed his lonely life in a foreign country after the bleak evening scenery, which made people feel desolate and sad.
Looking back at Jia Dao's life, he treated every poem with a sincere heart, and refined the words with repeated deliberations, and this unchangeable persistence of the true self not only allowed him to make a group of fellow poets, but also won Jia Dao an immortal reputation in the poetry world and literary circles.
Whether it is a "poetry slave" or a "poetry prisoner", in short, the great poet Jia Dao of the Tang Dynasty did his best to forge the pain of a lifetime into a line of shining verses, so that future generations can read a trace of elegant afterglow in the floating situation.