Wei Zhuang's childhood lived in Chang'an City, the poet Saint Du Fu said, "Hearing that Chang'an is like playing chess, and the world is full of sorrow in a hundred years", Chang'an City has witnessed the joys and sorrows of life and the ups and downs of countless people's fate. Wei Zhuang first studied in Chang'an City and later moved to Xia Yi, which is now Weinan City in Shaanxi Province. This is the hometown of "Poetry Demon" Bai Juyi. Perhaps under the influence of Bai Juyi's "Xinlefu" movement, whether it is the poems or words written by Wei Zhuang after he became an adult, they are popular and smooth, fresh and elegant, and they are deeply rooted in the essence of Bai Juyi's poetry. Later, the Wei Zhuang family moved to Fanchuan, which is also a magical place, which is Du Mu's hometown. In short, Wei Zhuang studied in this place full of poets, and if he did not succeed, it was a bad fate.
When he was a teenager, Wei Zhuang was diligent and studious, but he was also a lively and mischievous bear child. Later, Wei Zhuang recalled his childhood and wrote a poem "Tu Ci Feng Li Brothers Feel Old":
On the west side of the royal ditch, Zhu Men House, remember the good brother at that time.
Xiao Ping Liu Yin rode a bamboo horse, and The Night Kuma Lamp Shadow Lane Mr.
Patrol the streets to take advantage of the torn clothes of butterflies, and go up to the house to probe the hands and feet lightly.
Today, we have met the boss, worried about the family and the country.
Wei Zhuang said that in his childhood, he and his classmates played a game of riding bamboo horses in the shade of willows, and played shadow puppetry under the shadow of the lights. They grabbed butterflies to scratch their clothes, and the light as a swallow caught the birds in the upper room, and Wei Zhuang's childhood was very happy anyway. When it comes to shadow puppetry, we might as well expand our knowledge. Shadow puppetry, also known as paper shadow play, donkey shadow puppetry, lantern shadow play, etc., is an ancient comprehensive art that integrates performance, singing, painting, carving, music and other artistic means, and is known as the "living fossil" of Chinese folk art. The famous French film critic Georges Sadur called Chinese shadow puppetry "the pioneer of cinema" in the "General History of Cinema". It is said that Emperor Wudi of Han's concubine Lady Li fell ill and died, and Emperor Wudi of Han was in a trance all day because of his thoughts, which was about to become mentally ill. An alchemist said that he could make the deceased appear, and Emperor Wu of Han invited him into the palace to try. After asking mrs. Li about her appearance and clothing, fangshi asked for an empty room and promised to see mrs. Li in three days. Three days later, Emperor Wu of Han came, only to see that the doors and windows of the room were closed, with tulle hanging and candles burning behind the yarn. Fang Shi was behind the scenes, and after a while, a shadow that resembled Lady Li came. Emperor Wudi of Han was thinking of meeting him, but the shadow suddenly disappeared. This alchemist probably used shadow puppetry to comfort emperor Wudi of Han, who was deeply missed.
Wei Zhuang also skipped school, I don't believe you can see his "Feeling Old Under the Old":
In the past, as a child, he did not know his worries, and the bamboo horse rode around the county.
He once stole Guo out of the house to see flowers, and also temporarily went upstairs because of truancy.
It seems that Wei Zhuang is really naughty. Naughty and mischievous, Wei Zhuang has the genes of the Wei family, he has great ambitions, according to his own words, is "Kuang Yao Shun", that is, to assist a Ming Jun like Yao Shun and achieve a great cause. This ideal is the same as Li Bai's great ambition of "Talking about Shen Guan Yan, Seeking the Art of The Emperor, Striving for Wisdom, Willing to Assist, Making HuanQu Dading, And Haixian Jingyi", and Du Fu's dream of "To Jun Yao Shun, and then make the customs pure", which is also the highest ideal of ancient Chinese intellectuals. Du Fu and Wei Zhuang really had a fate, Du Fu's series of poems reflecting the "three officials" and "three distinctions" of the Anshi chaos were called masterpieces of realism, and thus praised as "poetic history" and "poetry saint", while Wei Zhuang's long realist poem "Qin Women's Yin", which reflected the suffering of the people during the Huangchao Uprising, can be said to be the "poetic history" of the war-torn life of the late Tang Dynasty, and also brought him the title of "Qin Women's Yin Xiucai". More importantly, when Wei Zhuang was the prime minister in Western Shu, he personally went to the old site of Du Fu's Caotang and renovated Du Fu's Caotang. It can be said that Wei Zhuang is Du Fu's next-generation confidant.
When Wei Zhuang became an adult, he regarded taking the imperial examination as a top priority, and he had to make a name for himself. From his youth, Wei Zhuang persevered to the age of forty-five, and every time he went away full of hope and despair. Wei Zhuang did not believe in this evil, who said that "people are free from everything in middle age", and people who are highly suitable for people will still be crowned marquises in their twilight years. He still had to take the exam, but sorry, the imperial examination was canceled. Because Huang Chao, a xiucai who always failed in the imperial examinations, became angry, he launched a peasant uprising, captured Chang'an, and even the emperor fled. Wei Zhuang's mood was desperate, and he wrote a poem "In the Guanhe River":
The sound of locust cicadas is the wind of willow city, and the post tower leans high on the sunset east.
Thousands of miles of travel have been going on, and people who have gathered and dispersed for ten years are different.
But when you see that time is like an arrow, do you know that the heavenly path is like a bow?
Kuang Yao Shun, who is dedicated to his life, also intends to learn to fish in the waves.
Wei Zhuang looked back on the road of scientific expeditions in the past ten years, some people entered the high school, and some people fell behind the Sun Mountain, but time flew by like an arrow, and the Heavenly Dao was curved like a bow, and the road of life was so bumpy that it seemed that even the Heavenly Dao could not be completed. My life's ambition is to assist Yao Shun, but I am tired and just want to learn to ride a flat boat across the rivers and lakes. It seems that Wei Zhuang is a bit unable to hold on, he wants to give up the temple ideal and be a reclusive fisherman to catch a rod of wind and moon. This is the case with Chinese literati, who will live in seclusion when they are not satisfied. Just as Mencius said, "Reaching is both good and helping the world, and the poor are alone", when they are proud, they worry about the country and the people, and when they are frustrated, they return to the rivers and lakes, which is the way for Chinese literati to advance and retreat.
The Middle Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao was also a figure of the examination bully level, saying that he was a test bully, not that he won the test, but that he always fell off the list and took the test several times. He didn't succeed in being admitted to the jinshi until he was forty-six years old, and on that day, Meng Jiao felt that the whole of Chang'an was his. He wrote a poem that made countless fallen disciples want to shoot him to death with a brick, "After Denko":
The filth of the past is not enough to boast, and the debauchery of the present is endless.
The spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and the Chang'an flowers are seen in one day.
In a word, brother ashore, you continue to test. We know that tragedy has something more touching than comedy, so it is better to appreciate the first poem of the spring breeze than to read the poets' falling poems, which is a sad song of fate. The late Tang Dynasty poet Luo Yin lost all his thoughts after the failure of the scientific expedition, and gave birth to a sense of disillusionment in life and the joy of time. Luo Yin's poem "Self-Dispatch" writes:
Gain is to sing and lose, sentimentality and hatred are also leisurely.
There is wine in this day and drunk in this day, and tomorrow is sad and tomorrow is sad.
Since the old exam can not be passed, "there is wine in this day and drunk in this day, and tomorrow there is more sorrow in sorrow", simply have fun in time. In another poem, he also lamented, "When the heavens and the earth are all working together, the heroes are not free", in short, lamenting the injustice of fate. And gao shi, the prodigal son who was born in the grass and wandered in the rivers and lakes, after failing the exam, turned out to be a look of indifference, he said, "Husbands do not do children, Linqi tears stain the scarf", don't cry like a girl, the so-called hero is to fail again and again. Therefore, in the chaos of Anshi, Gao Shi repeatedly built up qigong in the wind and clouds, and finally he was crowned a marquis in his later years, which can also be regarded as an example of the late arrival of the literati. This story also tells us that it is not too late to work hard, the key is that you have to keep working hard.