In the "World Speaking New Language And Rongzhi", there is such a passage: "The famous Western Jin Dynasty scholar Pan Yuemiao has a posture and a good look. When he was young, he popped out of Luoyang Dao, and when the woman met, he could not help but join hands and haunt him. Zuo Taichong was absolutely ugly, and he also followed Yue You's example, so the group of concubines spit together and returned.
Zuo Si's appearance was ugly, and the history books said that he was "sleeping and talking". This was in the Wei and Jin dynasties, which paid special attention to men's appearance, and the pressure on him was conceivable.
Contrary to Pan Yue's sexual encounter of "throwing fruit full of cars", Zuo Si's costumed outing this time was surrounded by a group of old ladies, "Qi Gong spit chaotically", making him embarrassed. It's a nightmare! It had a great impact on the direction of his later life. It is said that he is introverted, does not like to interact with people, and "lives idly", which is probably related to this.
The inferiority caused by ugly appearance is lingering in the depths of people's psychology. Even if he was as strong as Cao Cao, when the Xiongnu envoys came to visit him, he also thought that he was too short and "not enough to be majestic and far away", so he called a beautiful man Cui Yan to pretend to be himself. This shows how much a person's appearance affects the formation of psychological orientation.
Although Zuo Si looks ugly and is not good at words, the article is beautifully written. His creative attitude is extremely rigorous, and it took a year to write "Qi Dufu". Then he began to plan and write the "Three Capitals", the so-called Three Capitals, that is, the Wei Capital, Wu Capital and Shu Capital of the Three Kingdoms Era.
Zuo Si created with a very serious attitude, and in the long years of writing "Three Capitals", what was visible in his home was paper and pen, bedside, dining table and even toilet, that is, he used all his time and energy to write, even sleeping, eating, and defecating.
He took the initiative to ask the imperial court to be a writer so that he could have access to the royal books; he also paid a special visit to Zhang Zai, another literary scholar who had been to Sichuan, to learn the details of the Shu capital. It took a whole decade! What really is ten years of grinding a sword. His spirit of integrating creation into life is truly admirable.
After the "Three Capitals Endowment" was unscripted, it attracted great attention from the academic circles, and a group of university scholars made notes on the preface to the work and gave a warm evaluation, believing that this endowment has surpassed the level of similar works of Ban Gu and Zhang Heng. As a result, the readers of Luoyang rushed to buy paper to copy this gift. This makes the paper price in Luoyang soar, which is the origin of the idiom "Luoyang paper is expensive".
Another great writer, Lu Ji, originally looked down on Zuo Si, and when he heard that he was going to write "Three Capitals", he couldn't help but sneer at his brother Lu Yun: There is a vulgar guy here who actually wants to write "Three Capitals". We waited patiently, and when he was done, we would use the torn paper to make the lid. It's a harsh statement. However, when Lu Ji saw the article, he was "greatly impressed" and no longer dared to despise Zuo Si.
Zuo Si, hurt my brother!!!