At the beginning of the tenth year (815) of Tang Xianzongyuan and the xiangshui river in Hengyang, a generation of poets Liu Yuxi and his close friend Liu Zongyuan said goodbye. In the past few years, these two people who are the same as Dengke, the same dynasty as officials, the same force of reform, and finally at the same time were degraded to the best friends, is about to become a broken intestine scattered in the end of the world.
After thousands of miles of traveling, Liu Yuxi, who was demoted to Lianzhou, finally had to be separated from Liu Zongyuan, who was demoted to Liuzhou. Liu Yuxi, who is already 44 years old, looks at Liu Zongyuan (43 years old), who also has slight frost on his sideburns, and there is nowhere to talk about it in his heart.
In September of the twenty-first year (805) of Emperor Shunzong of Tang's reign, the "Yongzhen Reform", which had been raging for more than one hundred and eighty days, failed, and the reformers, including "Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan", were all denounced.
After ten years of exile in The Desert Prefecture, the two were recalled to Beijing in December of the ninth year of Yuan He (814), but within four months, Liu Liu and liu were once again angry with Emperor Xianzong because of Liu Yuxi's poem "Yuan He Ten Years Summoned from Langzhou to Beijing opera to give flowers to the gentlemen", and were once again degraded.
It was another deposed life that could not be seen at a glance, Liu Zongyuan did not complain about being involved by his friends, and at the time of parting, he still earnestly instructed Liu Yuxi: Straight to the lazy solicitation, Hugh will occupy the name of the time. The implication is to warn my friends not to write poetry anymore.
Liu Yuxi, who was wounded by the gods, took care of this at this time, and he said with tears in his poem "Farewell to Lianzhou to Hengyang To Reward Liuliuzhou": Return to the eye and follow the goose to the end, and the sad intestines are encountering the broken ape. Gui Jiangdong crossed the mountain and looked at each other for a long time. The meaning of the poem is: From now on, you and I will only be connected by the waters of the Gui River, and it will be difficult to meet again after the end of the world.
In a word, it was indeed the last meeting between Liu Liu and Liu, and only 4 years later, Liu Zongyuan died of illness in Liuzhou. And Liu Yuxi continued to use his pride to fight against all the injustice and darkness in front of him. Knowing the world but not the world, being in the rivers and lakes and far away from the rivers and lakes, he has always been the hardest thorn in the Tang Poetry circle.
The Southern Song Dynasty poet Liu Kezhuang once commented on Liu Yuxi's people: the essence is old and inexhaustible, and he praised his poems: majestic and old, calm and happy. Wen is like a person, and Liu Yuxi, who has been a hero all his life, is like his poems, iron paintings and copper hooks, all of which exude the atmosphere of falling and expanding.
Unlike his close friend Liu Zongyuan, who was born in a small bureaucratic family, Liu Yuxi did not rush to Chang'an until a few years before the imperial examination. After the ninth day of November in the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion became an unavoidable fate for every Tang Dynasty person.
In order to avoid the fires of the fire brought about by the rebellion of anshi, his father moved to Suzhou with his young Liu Yuxi and his family, and the atmosphere of advocating Confucianism in the water towns of Jiangnan, coupled with the tradition of family learning that read and entered the world, Liu Yuxi, who had never seen the great world, even if he went to the imperial capital Chang'an, his literary talent was as eye-catching as the immortals who fell into the red dust.
In addition to its own strength, the Tang Dynasty also needed extensive "political resources." In other words, if before participating in the imperial examination, you were just an ordinary student who was not cared about, the probability of winning the examination was very small. Therefore, before participating in the imperial examination, the Readers of the Tang Dynasty would definitely come to Chang'an City in advance and use their own articles and talents to make friends with dignitaries and dignitaries in order to gain the favor of the other party.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was a very safe thing to have someone covering it. Li Shangyin, who had not won the imperial examination for half a lifetime, was ranked fifth in the ranks of the emperor because of the words of the prime minister Ling Huxuan; even Du Mu, who was not well-known, was also ranked fifth in the jinshi because of the recommendation of Dr. Cui Hao, a doctor of Taixue.
Therefore, from the sixth year of Tang Dezong Zhenyuan, following such official unspoken rules, the nineteen-year-old Liu Yuxi officially bid farewell to his parents and rushed to the prosperous imperial capital, and traveled back and forth between Luoyang and Chang'an, visiting celebrities and befriending Haojie.
Dapeng rose with the same wind one day and soared up to ninety thousand miles. Although there is no background of the Tuas clan, how can someone like Liu Yuxi be blinded by the pearl? From the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), Liu Yuxi, who was like a divine help, successively became a jinshi, a scholar of erudition, and a scholar of the bureaucracy, and the Sanyuan Lianzhong made him even more famous for a while. Between the two capitals, many high-ranking dignitaries will honor him as a guest of honor.
In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan (800), Du You, who was then the envoy of Huainan Jiedushi, recruited Liu Yuxi, who was well known as a sage, into the staff as the head of the book order, and during his two years in office, Liu Yuxi was Du You's literary bladder, and most of the documents were written by him.
In the Old Book of Tang, The Biography of Liu Yuxi says: Yu Xi is proficient in ancient Chinese, good at five words and poetry, and has many talents in the modern style. Engaged in huainan festivals to make Du Youmu, the canonical record room, Yu Jia LiYi.
Du You was the grandfather of the great poet Du Mu, and even more famous sages of the Tang Dynasty, with the protection of such official elders, Liu Yuxi was one step closer to the center of power. Two years later, with Du You's transfer to Chang'an, Liu Yuxi also entered the temple at the same time and was promoted to inspector of imperial history. Interesting souls will eventually meet, where he meets his confidant and friend in this life, Liu Zongyuan.
The officialdom is proud, the confidant is on the side, the same dynasty is the official, and the wind is playing with the moon. It is said that blessings and misfortunes depend on the fact that a heavenly wealth is coming, and behind the heavenly wealth is the doom that implicates Liu Yuxi's life.
During the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, the Tang Dynasty had reached the point of becoming weaker and thinner, with the power and eunuchs in the inner power to control the imperial government, and the outside had the feudal towns to divide the side, and with the death of Emperor Dezong of the twenty-first month of the Zhenyuan Dynasty, the frail Tang Shunzong Li Shu succeeded to the throne, and this stormy Tang Seemed to be even more at the end of the road.
Ruling the world is the dream goal of every reader, and with the full support of Tang Shunzong, Wang Shuwen of the Hanlin Academy, together with Wang Ling, Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and other reformers, launched a vigorous "Yongzhen Reform".
Centralized power, suppression of power and eunuchs, restriction of feudal towns, open source and throttling, abolition of harsh government, this series of operations have been launched in more than 180 days, behind the seemingly perfect policy, but with the literati's naïve and naïve politics, how can an emperor who is weak and sickly and has no real power shake the interest groups that have formed an ironclad group?
The next development was very fast, in March of the 21st year of Zhenyuan, The eunuch Ju Wenzhen united with his henchmen and forced Tang Shunzong to establish Li Chun, the prince of Guangling County, as crown prince, and in August of the same year, Li Chun ascended the throne as emperor, known as Tang Xianzong, and in September, all the core figures of the reform faction involved in the "Yongzhen Reform" died or were degraded, and this self-help reform attempt was snuffed out in the bud.
As the soul of the reformers, Wang Shuwen was brutally killed, and although Liu Yuxi, who was "called a prime minister" by Wang Shuwen, was spared the death penalty, his political life came to an abrupt end and he was exiled to Langzhou and accompanied by barbarians and beasts.
The customs and customs of the Central Plains are completely different, the folk songs and folk customs like the prayers of the witches, and the high-ranking officials who have lived in the imperial capital Chang'an for a long time can be overwhelmed by such a poor mountain and water land in the blink of an eye, how can the gap in his heart be endured? The most rare thing is never that those who are in heaven have a bright heart, but that they fall from heaven into purgatory, and after returning from purgatory, their hearts are still like a child.
Fortunately, Liu Yuxi is such a naked son. He put away the arrogance of his son of heaven and his subjects, integrated into the lives of the local people, re-composed and composed lyrics for the obscure folk songs in the local area, and not only educated the people on one side, but also built a school and revitalized the materialization of the party.
In the matter of lu loyalty to the king, Liu Yuxi was reluctant to let go of his pride wherever he went.
Obviously, the official field was frustrated, and some people's heads were on the ground, but Liu Yuxi said: Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I have said that autumn is better than spring dynasty. A crane in the clear sky lined up on the clouds, and it led the poetry to the blue sky. What a crazy Liu Yuxi! Good temperament of Liu Mengde! Predecessors often used autumn to express the sense of depression, and only a character like Liu Yuxi could write a bold statement that "I say that autumn is better than spring dynasty".
Such a figure would never succumb to political struggles, but such a figure would never be able to hang out in the official arena of the Middle and Tang Dynasties. Liu Yuxi's ending was written down as early as the moment he stepped into the official arena - the consequences of not fearing power and being unruly, either death or depreciation.
In December of the ninth year of Yuan He (814), under the mediation of the chancellor Pei Du, Liu Yuxi Liu Zongyuan returned to Beijing smoothly, ending a ten-year career as a eunuch. Ten years of time is old, and Chang'an City has long been a thing or a person.
The adulterers who once stirred up trouble have long since become ancient; the old people who once forged ahead have long been cold-hearted. Those people at that time, or people went cold, or went with the flow, all of them were changed by time, only Liu Yuxi did not change. He was still the young Liu Yuxi who had just entered the army in the ninth year of Zhenyuan, or the Liu Mengde who dared to laugh and scold and had no scruples.
So the song "Yuan He Ten Years From Langzhou to Beijing Opera to See the Flowers and Gentlemen": The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple were planted after Liu Lang went.
Didn't this upstart of the Manchu Dynasty come to power after I was demoted by Liu Yuxi? If I Liu Yuxi were here, how could such a young man occupy the temple? Using poetry as a sword and a pen as a sword, Liu Yuxi poked hard at the backbone of his political enemies!
Good you Liu Yuxi, ten years of barren state has not let you learn to bow your head, I want to see how many more decades you can stumble?
So in less than four months of returning to the capital, Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan were once again demoted out of the capital, Liu Yuxi went to Lianzhou, Liu Zongyuan went to Liuzhou, the same bitterness to eat again, I see you are not convinced?
defy! Liu Yuxi held his head high in Lianzhou with his own poetry and political achievements, hitting the face of political enemies over and over again. During these years of exile, Liu Yuxi, in addition to working with Liu Zongyuan and poetry, also concentrated on studying herbs, and even sent them to his close friend Liu Zongyuan to taste thousands of miles away, but the only remaining happiness ended in the fourteenth year of Yuan He (819).
In the fourteenth year of Yuan He, Liu Yuxi left Lianzhou due to the death of his mother, and soon he heard the news that Liu Zongyuan died of illness in Liuzhou. More than a decade of depreciation did not move him a bit, but the departure of his best friend made him cry. Liu Yuxi said: Qianli Jiang Xi Chun, the old man is not seen today. Fame and fortune are all flashy, and only the departure of Liu Zongyuan makes it difficult for him to let go for a long time.
Degraded again and again, half a life drifting, relatives and friends leaving, alone. Liu Yuxi, this time you should always concede defeat, right?
No! I Liu Yuxi will never concede defeat. Even if you are lonely and brave, you must be independent and never change.
In the winter of the first year (821) of Emperor Muzong of Tang's reign, Tang Xianzong, who had harmed him twice, had died, and Tang Xianzong, who had indulged in worship of Buddhism in his later years, had once again killed the successful Tang Dynasty, and the power of the clan town had once again risen in various places, and the government and the opposition had also fallen into a dead cycle of "cattle and lee party strife".
In this year, the 50-year-old Liu Yuxi was transferred to the history of Kuizhou, and he continued to do what he did in Langzhou ten years ago - composing folk songs for the local people, so there was "the sunrise in the east and the rain in the west, and the road is clear but sunny."
In the fourth year of Emperor Jingzong of Tang's reign (824), Liu Yuxi was again transferred to Hezhou Toshi, and at the behest of his political enemies, Liu Yuxi moved again and again. From the south of the city on the river, to the north of the city near the river, in the process of moving to a city hut that can only accommodate one bed. Liu Yuxi also wrote from "facing the white sails of the great river and arguing with Zhou Si", to "weeping willows and qingjiang river waterside, people in the heart of Liyang in Beijing", and finally wrote the "Buried Room Ming" that middle school students must memorize.
"Si is the Burrow, but Wu Dexin." The moss marks are green on the upper level, and the grass color is green. "You want to torture me, let me serve, nothing else, the down-and-out Liu Yuxi has a body of iron bones and is fearless."
Time will take everything away, and those former political enemies will die in the long-term confrontation with Liu Yuxi, while Liu Yuxi, whose strength seems to be inexhaustible, is still energetically engaged in cultural and educational undertakings in the place where he is in office.
After finally 23 years of separation, the 55-year-old Liu Yuxi was ordered to return to Beijing in the second year of the Bao calendar (826), and now there are not many deceased people in the temple, those young people have passed away, and even the emperor has changed several rounds, but Liu Yuxi is still Liu Yuxi. Liu Yuxi, the treacherous minister of the flowing water, and liu Yuxi, who beat the iron, even though the world was in turmoil, the hot blood that had been flowing in his chest for 23 years had never been cold for more than half a minute.
In the first year of Emperor Wenzong of Tang (827), Liu Yuxi revisited the Xuandu Temple, where there are still peach trees in the Xuandu Temple, and only the cauliflower flowers are in full bloom. After a few moments of deep groaning, after 12 years of time, Liu Yuxi wrote the ending for the poem "Yuan he was demoted to Lianzhou" that harmed him and was degraded to Lianzhou, "Yuan he was summoned from Langzhou to Beijing Opera to see the gentlemen of flowers"—"Revisiting Xuandu Guan": Half of the hundred acres of court are moss, and the peach blossoms are pure and the cauliflower blossoms. Where the Tao Daoist returned, Liu Lang came again.
Personnel affairs have long withered, but Liu Yuxi is really like a warrior with "old and inexhaustible energy", holding his lonely head, holding up his rickety back, stepping on his lonely back, step by step in his own way, lighting up his own faint lights in the increasingly dark official field.
Does Liu Yuxi really not understand? He does not understand the deceit of these officialdoms, and does not understand the same flow of defilement to protect himself? In fact, he knew everything, but he had to pretend not to understand. Knowing the world and not being sophisticated, being in the rivers and lakes and far away from the rivers and lakes.
Such a thorn could not stay in the capital, and in the following ten years, the elderly Liu Yuxi successively served in Suzhou, Ruzhou, and Tongzhou, and did his best to burn his old and decaying body and become the star of the end of the Tang Dynasty.
In the first year of Emperor Wuzong of Tang (841), Liu Yuxi, who was already seventy years old, returned to Luoyang, and in the last years of his life, he and Bai Juyi lived next to each other, the two drank and wrote poems, intertwined with each other every day, and spent the last period of comfortable time with the xianda.
Under the clouds of the two eight sheng songs, among the snowflakes of the three thousand worlds. Liu Yuxi at the last moment of his life must have been quiet, and after a lifetime of life and half a lifetime, it was already a blessing to have a good ending in that turbulent and dark era.
Someone asked, when his flesh is old, can he still be as proud as he was then? Such an answer was already answered by Liu Yuxi as early as the second year of the Tang Jingzong Bao calendar (826).
The answer is that in the song "Reward Lotte Yangzhou First Meeting at the Table", Bai Juyi lamented that Liu Yuxi was half demeaning.
Liu Yuxi introduced a cup of Chinese and American wine, and replied with a smile: Thousands of sails on the side of the Sinking Boat have passed, and wanmu chun in front of the sick tree. Listen to a song today, and temporarily rely on the spirit of a cup of wine.
But with good wine in the throat and confidants in the company, those torments are like knives cutting the east wind, what is the matter for me?
True.