Chen Ziang, a very important poet of the Tang Dynasty, in the literary history of the Tang Dynasty, he was a big figure who rose to a poetic style of the times, and the "Dengyouzhou Tai Song" he made, at the time of today, is still one of the masterpieces of Tang poetry that many of us are familiar with.
In terms of personality and life experience, Chen Ziang was also one of the most personality and legendary poets of the Tang Dynasty, and his life well explained the meaning of the phrase "my world is my master".
Chen Ziang is a Sichuan Shehong people, and Li Bai is half a fellow countryman, in Chinese history, Sichuan is a fertile land that has nurtured countless literary geniuses, Li Bai, Su Shi, Chen Ziang, supported a large piece of the Tang and Song poetry of a large sky.
Chen Ziang's early life experience is also very similar to Li Bai, Chen Ziang's father Chen Yuanjing, is a famous local rich man in Shehong, therefore, Chen Ziang's family is very rich, but Chen Ziang's birth did not bring much happiness to Chen Yuanjing.
The reasons are as follows: First, Chen Ziang is not very good-looking. "Short in stature and ugly in appearance."
Second, Chen Ziang has been sick and troubled since he was a child, and like Lin Daiyu, he may have taken more medicine than he ate.
Third, Chen Ziang does not like to study.
Therefore, Chen Yuanjing planned to let his son learn martial arts first and do a good job in his body, and Chen Ziang, like Li Bai, also learned swordplay. Chen Ziang began to learn swords from a very young age, learned for more than ten years, and when he was seventeen years old, Chen Ziang became a well-known local swordsman, once dueling with someone and injuring people.
After his body became stronger, Chen Ziang didn't know which day, so he suddenly opened up and felt that I should still abandon Wu Congwen and study well. This year, Chen Ziang was seventeen years old.
Seventeen years old in ancient China, is a very big age, Bai Juyi was sixteen years old with a song "away from the original grass, one year old and one glory." In Chang'an, the poetry circle became popular, and the seventeen-year-old Chen Ziang had just begun to read. Although he started late, but Chen Ziang is a genius, he only began to study at the age of seventeen, when he was twenty-one years old, he was already famous in his hometown Shehong, this year, Chen Ziang bid farewell to his parents, came to the capital Chang'an, studied in guozijian, and then began his own tragic scientific expedition road.
In the Tang Dynasty, many poets were tossed by the scientific expedition, Chen Ziang is one of them, according to the historical records, Comrade Chen Ziang took three scientific expeditions, the first two were successfully listed.
Also failing the scientific expedition, Li Shangyin would look at the rain and write down, "At first, with the forest mist moving, a little bit of cool night." The windows are cold, and the courtyard is near the smell of water. Such a verse, Luo Yin will admit his fate, a person to go to the fireworks Willow Lane to release the skeleton, but Chen Ziang will not, this person has the wisdom of the Sichuan people, he thinks of the way is to hype himself.
How to hype yourself? "Biao's life does not need to be explained", Chen Ziang first went to the street and spent a thousand taels to buy a very ordinary guqin, which caused a lot of movement. What is the concept of a thousand taels of money? In the Tang Dynasty, one tael of money was one or two pieces of silver, one or two pieces of silver in the Tang Dynasty were about four hundred yuan today, and one thousand taels of money was one thousand two pieces of silver, equivalent to the current four hundred thousand yuan. Spending four hundred thousand yuan to buy a piano, Chen Ziang is really rich, but also really has ulterior motives.
Buying a piano became famous, Chen Ziang said to the onlookers who were watching the liveliness: "Tomorrow I will play for you, please appreciate your faces." "The next day, the three-way and nine-stream figures from Chang'an who came to the scene came to the scene, Chen Ziang did not play the piano at all, but smashed the piano, while smashing, while distributing the poems he wrote to the crowd of onlookers, and then delivered a passionate speech, to the effect that I Chen Ziang's poetry was written so well, should not be so obscure, I smashed this piano worth four hundred thousand today, let the princes know my name.
From the perspective of modern people, it is equivalent to saying that Chen Ziang spent 400,000 yuan to hype himself, and later things proved that these 400,000 were not in vain, and soon after, Chen Ziang's third scientific expedition, his name has been spread throughout most of Chang'an at this time, even the imperial court has heard about this Sichuanese, and as a result, he has been raised. First he became the Lintai orthographer, and later because of his outspokenness, he was promoted to the right pick.
Right Shiyi was a counselor, that is, to give advice to the imperial court, this official was not very big, but it was very much in line with Chen Ziang's appetite. Chen Ziang's ideal is to be a politician, but he has tasted the sweetness from the previous hype, and when the two are added together, Chen Ziang in the official arena has become a person who has the pursuit and arrogance of a politician, but also likes to play the politician's heart, and the final result is that he is not capable of being a politician, and he is too young to be a politician.
Ten years later, Chen Ziang official became smaller and smaller, more and more people offended, middle-aged staggered, at the age of thirty-six, Chen Ziang followed the Tang Dynasty's army against the Khitan army, passing through Youzhou, when the Youzhou Terrace built by King Yan Zhao in the Warring States period did this tour, Chen Ziang sighed that he became famous at the age of twenty-four, and now he has not mixed up for twelve years, he feels that he is a talented person, he has not met any bright lord, he wrote down the famous "before I did not see the ancients, and I did not see the comers later." "DengyouZhou Tai Song".
The grumbling was over, but Chen Ziang's bad luck was far from over, and his mouth finally made him offend a figure he absolutely could not afford to offend and should not provoke, Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi.
Chen Ziang belongs to the kind of people who are jealous and hateful, and there is nothing to say, and Wu Sansi this person basically does not do anything other than doing bad things and disgusting things, so he was not less intimidated by Chen Ziang, in 701 AD, Chen Ziang's father died, and he returned to his hometown in Sichuan to mourn, so he gave Wu Sansi a chance to clean up Chen Ziang.
Shehong County Ling Duan Jian was instructed by Wu Sansi, first asked Chen Ziang for a huge amount of family property, and then fabricated a large number of crimes, severely punished Chen Ziang and then put him in prison, it is said that Chen Ziang calculated his own life in prison, the result was greatly unlucky, Chen Ziang felt that he might not be able to get out alive, extremely depressed, coupled with the bad prison environment, within a few days, died in prison, only 42 years old.
A generation of poets has come to a bleak end.