The Twenty-third of the New Series of Chinese Poets
"Junyi BaoZhao"
"The villain is dirty, and the peace is widespread."
"Surrender your body to the Lord, and die for the sake of the nation."
"Since ancient times, the sages have been poor and lowly, not to mention that my generation is lonely and straight."
It is hard to imagine that the above famous sentence came from the hand of a southern dynasty farmer.
He was Bao Zhao, from a low-level scholar family, from a poor family, and lived a hard life of "facing the loess with his back to the sky" in his early years. But the excellent tradition of "cultivating and reading heirlooms" has never been lost.
He lived in a time when it was difficult to emerge without relationships and backgrounds. Unlike Xie Lingyun, he was born with an aura. Bao Zhao is only on his own!
In 435 AD, Bao Zhao, full of dreams and passion, embarked on a journey to realize his dreams. This year, Liu Yiqing, the king of Linchuan, "gathered literary scholars, and the near and far will come." The first time he met the King of Linchuan, maybe he was nervous, maybe he was not bold enough, his steps were not big, he introduced himself, said for half a day, and was not reused.
The temper of the young man came in an instant, in the words of the Sichuan saying: Do you have a lot of sheep that cannot be invited to the mountain? Have a big smoke pot that can't be extinguished?
Bao Zhao directly went to the hard fire, said that he was not convinced, and wrote it for you to see. He prepared a poem to the King of Linchuan to express the meaning of "serving the people".
A well-meaning man came out to add to the blockage, saying that he was "still in a humble position, and should not despise the king." Bao Zhao was furious: "There are talents and strangers in the thousand years who have sunk and cannot be heard, how can you count them!" How could the eldest husband have wisdom so that Lan Ai could not distinguish between them, and spend all day with the birds and birds? ”
Sure enough, it worked! Liu Yiqing was still a good man, gave Bao Zhao twenty horses, and later promoted him to the position of Waiter of the Kingdom of Linchuan. Isn't the first job that hard either?!
After that, Bao Zhao served the King of Linchuan, the King of Hengyang, the King of Sixing, the King of Wuling, and the key King of Wuling also became the emperor, that is, Liu Jun, the Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Dynasty, which was really the effort of people and the help of heaven, so he was successfully promoted to Doctor of Taixue and a Zhongshu Sheren.
During this period, his works are deeply innovative, fresh and handsome, like a hungry eagle, strange and delicate.
His official fortunes came to an abrupt end after Emperor Xiaowu died. In 466 AD, the political struggle was non-stop, and his personal fate was like duckweed, and the civilian official Bao Zhao also joined the army, but unfortunately was killed in the rebellion at the age of fifty-one.
But Bao Zhao's works shine for thousands of years. He has masterpieces in the fields of traveling immortals, traveling mountains, farewells, yongshi, pseudo-ancient, counting poems, construction poems, anagrams, and joint sentences, "the style is beautiful, the artistic conception is deep, the clichés are exhausted, and the intriguing chewing is intriguing." ", sweeping away the weak winds of the Six Dynasties, sublimated the Jian'an wind bones. His poems directly influenced later famous poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi, Cen Shan, Han Yu, and Meng Jiao...
If Cao Zhi was the first person in the history of Chinese poetry to vigorously write five-character poems, then Bao Zhao was the first pioneer of China to vigorously create seven-character poetry. In the following millennium, eight-word poems, nine-word poems, eleven-word poems, and twelve-word poems appeared one after another. Until the present, the long river of history has finally flooded with the waves of Chinese thirteen-word poems...
