In Longli, talk to Wang Changling

I once wrote in a poem: "Reject my millennial dynasty." In Sheng Tang / If I want to catch up with you, it is difficult to go to the blue sky / Sleep in your words, but I can't find a place to wake up / After a thousand years, your words, your graves / Are they covered with green grass?" Perhaps, this is a lingering pity.

　　Whether in the "Collected Poems of Wang Changling" or in the poems of Wang Changling included in the "Quan Tang Poems", I am willing to regard him as a great border poet in history. Wang Changling was good at seven words and sentences, and was called the "Seven Sacred Hands" by later generations. For example, the poem "Out of the Plug": "Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shi Guan, the Long March people have not returned." But to make the Dragon City fly will be, not to teach Humadu Yin Mountain. "Sighing at the incompetence of the guards, the artistic conception is broad, the feelings are deep, and there is the courage to cross the ancient and modern times, which is indeed a treasure in ancient poetry, and is known as the seven absolute works of the Tang Dynasty." Another example is "Marching from the Army", "The desert wind and dust are dark, and the red flag is half rolled out of the gate." The former army fought in The north of the river at night, and has reported that it has captured Guhun. "Etc., are all famous works of the population. Wang Changling has also written many "Long Letter Autumn Words" and "Spring Grievances in the West Palace" that reflect the unfortunate encounters of palace women, etc., with a style of mourning and a superb artistic conception. He also wrote "Grievances" and "Lotus Picking Songs" and so on, which are delicate and vivid, fresh and beautiful. The farewell work "Furong Lou Sending Xin Gradually" is also a famous work through the ages. Shen Deqian's "Tang Poetry Don't Cut" said: "The dragon marks the absolute sentence, the deep affection and resentment, the intention is vague, the people are unpredictable for no reason, and the play is endless." ”

　　At that time, Wang Changling offended the totalitarian faction in the political arena because of a poem "Pear Blossom Fu", and was belittled, and Wang Changling, as a poet, was destined to have a bumpy road in his career. In the seventh year of Tianbao (748), he bid farewell to the Qinghai Plateau, where the growing hero and the growth were desolate, left the Yumen Pass where the spring breeze was not too strong, and was demoted to the rank of lieutenant of Longbiao County, known as Wang Longbiao. The Biography of Zhan Caizi says that he was "careless in his late journey, boiling with slander, and desolate in both directions." The Heyue Yingling Collection says that he "went through the wilderness again", and the old Book of Tang also said that he "did not protect the details, and was often denigrated". Wang Changling, who was demoted to Longli, could no longer write poems that shocked the gods and wept, and in addition to his official duties, he had fun with the villagers, put wine in the wind, forgot the confusion of his career, and the political hooks and minds were also superfluous. A poem "Dragon Standard Wild Feast" left a stunning mark in his life, making his poems appear unprecedented in tenderness and confusion.

　　Yuanxi summer evening foot cool breeze,

　　Spring wine carries bamboo bushes.

　　Mo Dao string song far away,

　　The bright moon in the green mountains has never been empty.

　　On an autumn-winded afternoon many years ago, the poet was intoxicated by the drum beats and the song of the dragon, standing on the Zhuangyuan Bridge, the moat of the ancient city wall reflected the poet's white whiskers, following the simple ancient songs like flowing water, we can't help but ask: Is it the MiaoShan Dongshui that has intoxicated the poet?

　　"Without poetry there is no home. Like me/In the process of finding the source, I am also lost in a foreign land. "Gu Yelang disappeared in the blink of an eye, and Lan Guo disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the ancient city of Longli stood in a strong posture at the foot of the southeast of Guizhou, is not the soul of a poet, in the history of tempering, it has also been the wind for hundreds of years, and the rain for hundreds of years."

　　The ancient city of Longli was originally an ancient castle founded by Zhu Zhen, the sixth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. In 1385, after Zhu Zhending Wu Mian of Guzhou, he saw that Longli was flat and abundant, so he sent people to live in tunju, drove away the local "natives", set up a "Longli Thousand Households", left 3,000 soldiers to garrison, and built an ancient castle again during the Yongle year. In 1685, the Qing Dynasty took the "meaning of Longsheng" and changed "Longli" to "Longli". It is said that the ancient city of Longli at that time was "3700 in the city, 7300 outside the city, 72 surnames, 72 wells", the scale of the large, the prosperity of the people, which can be seen from this. The ancient city of Longli, which has gone through vicissitudes, as a military garrison unit, although it has long lost its former majesty, and the status of the political, economic, and cultural center of the frontier has also undergone fundamental changes, the ancient streets and alleys and ancient bridges and monuments in the city are telling the world about its glorious history in the past.

　　Push open the heavy gate of history and walk on the crisscrossing road of the ancient city of Longli, this inconspicuous laneway was once a ecstasy array used for war. Touching the low city wall, the history is too heavy, and you can faintly feel the billowing dust of history, the war more than 600 years ago, as clear as yesterday. Just imagine, the poet Wang Changling walked in the alley of the ancient city, looking back at history, that sentence "Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shi Guan, The Long March has not been returned." "How sonorous and powerful is the heroism?

　　At the moment when the war horse hissed, Wang Changling walked on the strings of the poem, it turned out! Without poetry, there is no homeland, and a nation without poetry is undoubtedly a sad nation.

　　The smell of rice outside the city, spreading through the fields; Weeping willows on the banks of the river, singing and dancing softly. It is the newly brewed rice wine that drunk the poet. Standing at the mouth of history rolling away, the poet came and went, leaving a line of clear tears, leaving the ancient city people who were attached to the poet, like the summer cicadas singing for a long time.

　　The Miao Dong people accommodated the ancient city with a broad mind like a mountain, but they could not keep the poet's footsteps of drifting away, leaving only the wet verses like grass, which were sung for a thousand years in the Miao Mountains and Dong Shui.

　　A glass of rice wine, a hymn, a place of rice, a humble and simple villager, who drunk whom on the pages of history?

　　Unbeknownst to everyone, it is sad and lamentable that Wang Changling was not even able to keep such a small post as a lieutenant of Longbiao County, and after the Anshi Rebellion, he left his post and was able to return to Chang'an, detouring to Bozhou, where he was killed by Qiu Xiao, the assassin of Shi Lu. The Biography of Tang Caizi says that Wang Changling "returned to his hometown at the time of the sword and fire, and killed him for the sake of assassinating Shi Lu Qiuxiao." Later Zhang Hao pressed the army in Henan, Xiao Yan period, the general killed, resigned to the elderly, begged for forgiveness, and said: 'Who does Wang Changling's relatives want to raise with?' Xiao Da gradually became depressed.". Henan Jiedu, who had always sympathized with the poet, made Zhang Hao finally avenge Wang Changling.

　　Outside the ancient city of Longli there is also a "Zhuangyuan Bridge" made of large bluestone, this bridge was built in the twenty-second year of the Ming Wanli Calendar (1594 AD), when Wang Changling was demoted to Guizhou Qiandongnan, came to Longli, the ancestors of the village heard about it, and they were solemnly greeted on this bridge, Wang Changling then taught in Longli, changed the folk customs, and left virtue, this bridge is therefore called "Zhuangyuan Bridge", and in order to commemorate him, he also built the Zhuangyuan Pavilion and the Zhuangyuan Ancestral Hall by the Zhuangyuan Bridge to show the heart of the sage and respect for talents.

　　How long Wang Changling lived in Longli is not known, history does not record too much, learned that Wang Changling was killed after leaving Longli, the people of Longli missed him very much, and during the Wanli years, a squire built a crown tomb for him, called the Tomb of Zhuangyuan.

　　Lonely Boat Micro Moon to Maple Forest,

　　Divide the kite and the guest heart.

　　Mountains and mountains of heavy rain,

　　Broken strings are closed with deep tear marks.

　　The fate of the poet, just like the sadness and helplessness overflowing in the poem, a poetry star of the Tang Dynasty has fallen. In the poetry interpreted on the Guizhou Plateau, the ancient city of Longli is like a symbol of life, the last stop of the poet's life, the poet has gone, far away, and these are the eternal pain of the people of the ancient city of Longli.

Editor: Qiandongnan