What to do if you look very ugly in an era of looking at faces?
Fight for talent!
Now there is not a particularly popular saying "good-looking skin bags are the same, interesting souls are one of the best", let's change it slightly: good-looking skin bags are the same, talented souls are different"!
Today we introduce an "ugly man" who "counterattacked" by talent - Zuo Si, a literary scholar of the Western Jin Dynasty.
【Facial features】
Short, ugly, stuttering
【Sister: Zuo Di】
Zuo Si had an ordinary-looking but equally talented sister, Zuo Di (左棻), who was exchanged by Emperor Wu of Jin for a harem as a concubine. There were countless beauties in the harem of Emperor Wu of Jin, but every time an important court event was held, Zuo Di had to be invited out to compose poems, so he was very strong in the harem, which also benefited his family, and zuo Si's family was also able to take root in Luoyang.
I have to say that in that era of valuing appearance, Zuo Si and Zuo Di succeeded by relying on talent to "counterattack".
【Luoyang paper expensive】
Zuo Si, a literary scholar during the Taikang period of the Western Jin Dynasty, wrote a "Three Capitals Fu" describing the Wei capital, Shu capital, and Wu capital during the Three Kingdoms period, which was widely circulated in the capital Luoyang, and people competed to copy it, which suddenly made the paper several times more expensive, that is, the famous "Luoyang paper expensive".
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Why was Zuo Si's "Three Capitals" so famous at that time?
We all know that there were more beautiful men in the Wei and Jin dynasties, such as Pan Yue, such as Wei Jie. However, the talented Zuo Si was an "ugly man" who was "short in stature, ugly in appearance, and stuttering", until Zuo Si became an adult, and Zuo Si's father Zuo Yong also said to his friends: "Although Zuo Si is an adult, the knowledge and truth he has mastered is not as good as when I was a child." This stimulated Zuo Si's self-esteem, and he began to study hard, which made Zuo Si, who later looked ugly but talented.
Zuo Si discovered The Two Capital Fu of Ban Gu and Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which made ornate depictions of Luoyang in Tokyo and Chang'an in the western capital, but lacked facts and evidence. While admiring the talents of the two men, Zuo Si was determined to write a "Three Capitals Fu" based on facts and historical developments, and wrote the Wei capital Yecheng, the Shu capital Chengdu, and the Wu capital Nanjing into the Three Kingdoms period. "Three Capitals" took 10 years, Zuo Si specially visited experts, and then went to Shudu, Wudu, and Weidu to investigate the field, before writing out the paragraph where the Three Kingdoms were established.
"Maxima often exists but Bole does not often have", this sentence applies to both ancient and modern times.
After Zuo Si's "Three Capitals" was written, it did not immediately arouse people's affirmation. Zuo Si found the famous literary scholar Zhang Hua at that time, and Zhang Hua recommended it to the famous scholar Huang Fumi, who not only affirmed this work, but also wrote a preface to the article, and even invited the writer Lang Zhang Zai to make notes for Wei Dufu, and asked Zhu Zhongshulang Liu Kui to make annotations for Shu Dufu and Wu Dufu. Under the recommendation of celebrities, "Three Capitals" quickly swept Kyoto, so that there was a phenomenon of "Luoyang paper expensive".
Episode: Lu Ji just arrived in Luoyang, wanted to write the Three Capital Fu, heard that Zuo Si was also writing the Three Capital Fu, he clapped his hands and smiled, in the letter to his brother Lu Yun said: "There is a rude person here, want to write "Three Capital Fu", and when he is finished, I will use it to seal the wine urn. Waiting for Zuo Si's fu to write, Lu Ji sighed from the bottom of his heart, thinking that he could not surpass Zuo Si, so he put aside his pen and did not write.
【Representative Works】
Although the writing style and style of this fu are similar to those of Ban Gu's "Two Capitals Fu" and Zhang Heng's "Erjing Fu", its ideological theme is not the traditional "persuasion and irony". Therefore, the "Three Capitals" has an important position in the later great endowments.
The second song of the Eight Songs of The History of Wing Chun: "The pine at the bottom of the lush stream, away from the seedlings on the mountain." With the diameter of the stem, shade this hundred feet. "Expose the irrational phenomenon of "the world is high and handsome and sinks". The artistic image of "Jian Di Song" created by Zuo Si was also borrowed by Fan Yun of the Southern Dynasty and Wang Bo of the Early Tang Dynasty to express the bitterness that Huai Cai did not encounter. The 7th song of the Eight Songs of the History of Wing Chun reads: "He Shi has no wizards, and his legacy is in the grass." "There was a fierce attack on the dark reality that strangled talent.
Zhong Rong, a critic during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, said in his "Poetry" that Zuo Si was "a literary dictionary with grievances, quite precise, and ironical." Describing Tao Yuanming as having "Zuo Si Wind Power" also shows that the wind and bone of Zuo Si's poetry are strong and strong, and there is a Jian'an legacy.
"Zhao Yin" "non-bi silk and bamboo, the landscape has a clear sound", fluent writing.
The language of "Poetry of the Lady" is simple, the feelings are sincere, and the love for the little daughter jumps on the paper. Tao Yuanming's "Responsible Son", Du Fu's "Northern Expedition", Li Shangyin's "Proud Children's Poems", etc., were all influenced by it to a certain extent.