Song Zhiqing, the representative of the Tang Dynasty court poets, the rhythm is neat, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the synthesis of "Shen Song" in the Shen Period laid the foundation for the prosperity of Tang poetry, leaving behind classic poems such as "Crossing the Han River", but his character is very unbearable, completely incompatible with his status as a poet. Song Zhiwen was born in a low-level official family in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, his father was named Song Lingwen, and during the time of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he was a scholar of Dongtai Detailed Zheng who had studied old books, and although the official was not high, he was very famous, because his calligraphy and words were very good, and he was very strong and powerful, known as the "Three Absolutes". Under the influence of his father, Song Zhiwen was diligent and studious, worked in literature, grew tall and burly, a table of talents, and entered high school at a very young age, stepped into his career, and served with Yang Jiong in the Zhinei Literature Museum.
However, Song Zhiqing was born in a slight cold, in addition to his own talent, in the era of paying attention to his origin at that time, there was really no advantage to speak of. Therefore, Song Zhiqing attaches great importance to the words and tries everything to improve the quality of his works. It just so happens that his nephew Liu Xiyi is also a very talented poet, who made a poem of "Generation of Sorrowful White Heads", which has a sentence "The flowers are similar from year to year, and the years are different from year to year", Song Zhiqing heard about it, he liked this poem very much, knowing that Liu Xiyi's poem had not yet been circulated in the world, he asked Liu Xiyi to give him this sentence, but Liu Xiyi refused on the spot. After being refused, Song Zhiqing became angry and embarrassed, and after finding Liu Xiyi, he let his men crush Liu Xiyi to death with pockets containing soil, and he was not yet thirty years old!
Under the continuous efforts of Song Zhiwen, his talent was discovered by Wu Zetian, who was proclaimed emperor, and his official position also jumped from Jiupin to Wupin Bachelor, serving around Wu Zetian with poetry. It is said that once Wu Zetian visited the Dragon Gate and ordered the officials present to give poems, Zuo Shi Dongfang's poems were first formed, and Wu Zetian gave him a brocade robe. After song zhiqing's poem "Dragon Gate Should Be Made" was written and presented, Wu Zetian felt that it was both literary and rational, and the officials present also praised it, so Wu Zetian gave the brocade robe given to Dongfang Qiu to Song Zhiqing on the spot. Song Zhiqing was very clear about Wu Zetian's poetry and was promoted to a higher rank and made a fortune, and he was also very grateful to Wu Zetian, who said in "The Farewell order of the Prince of Anping from the Princess of Taiping to Jiulongtan to Find a Feast for the King of Anping": "The lower officials are young and have a little nostalgia, the spirit hill of the early days, the Taoyuan of the past, and cannot go; the laurel tree of the climbing king, what can be done." "Typically expresses this mentality of his.
Later, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong became the male favorites of Wu Zetian, and promised each other, and soon the two brothers were named the Duke of Hengguo and the Duke of Yiguo respectively, and their power fell to the opposition, becoming the object of everyone's desire to settle down. After seeing this path, Song Zhiqing was also moved, because he himself was also tall and mighty, a table of talents, so he wrote a love poem to Wu Zetian, "Ming River Chapter", presented to Wu Zetian, the poem ended in the cloud: "Mandarin duck on the plane sparse firefly, a goose flying by the Wuque Bridge... The Ming River is unsurpassable, and I wish to take advantage of the hammer. More will weaver girl branch stone, but also visit Chengdu to sell people. As a result, Wu Zetian simply ignored it, and later said to people: "It's not that Song Zhi's question is not good, but his bad breath makes people can't stand it." After Song Zhiqing knew, he insisted on brushing his teeth every day, but Wu Zetian did not look at him in the end. Climbing Wu Zetian was fruitless, but turned to the two brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, and wrote poems for them as gunmen, and even when they urinated, they personally held a urinal pot for them, and threw away the bones of the literati.
After Zhang Khmer launched the Shenlong coup, the Zhang brothers fell, and Song Zhiqing was also beaten into the same party and demoted to Taki prefecture to join the army, but soon Song Zhiqing fled back to Luoyang and hid in the home of his friend Zhang Zhongzhi, it can be said that Zhang Zhongzhi took a great risk to take him in, and Song Zhiqing was not only ungrateful, but also revenge. It turned out that after the change of the Divine Dragon, Tang Zhongzong reused Wu Sansi and came to power again, Zhang Zhongzhi and Wang Tongjiao discussed to kill Wu Sansi, this matter Song Zhiqing knew, quickly let his nephew Song Tan inform, asking for merit to atone for his sins. In this way, Song Zhiwen was promoted to the position of Hongxu Master Book. During the Jinglong period, she flattered Princess Taiping and was promoted to the position of examiner wailang, responsible for the assessment of officials, and had great power. Later, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang's daughter Princess Anle was favored and her power fell to the opposition, so Song Zhiqing went to marry Princess Anle again, which caused the dissatisfaction of Princess Taiping, so Princess Taiping exposed his ugly behavior of taking bribes when presiding over tribute, and was demoted to the history of the governor of Bian Prefecture, and before he went, he changed the history of the governor of Yue Prefecture. Fortunately, during his tenure, he was able to do his best. After Tang Ruizong succeeded to the throne, Song Zhiwen was exiled to Qinzhou for treachery and sinister crimes, and was later given death, ending a hateful life.