Author: Our special guest author Zhu Tangyu
After Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, not only Liu Bei, but also Liu Yuxi. What the? Haven't heard of it, this dude is not familiar? That reminder reminds you: is the Buried Chamber Ming "The mountain is not in the high and the immortal is named" familiar? But anyone with a kindergarten diploma should be able to memorize it! "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people", "The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, the road is clear but sunny", "Mo Dao Sang Yu evening, for Xia shang full of heaven", "Heaven and earth heroic, thousand autumns are still awe-inspiring" Is it familiar? Yes, it's all written by this dude! How can this dude's poem be written so well? That's a long story.
Although Liu Yuxi studied poetry and songs assiduously since he was a child, his ambition was really not to be a poet, and like all young people with lofty ideals at that time, Liu Yuxi's ambition was to open the way to Kuang Qijun and rule the country and the world. His early luck was still very good, in his early twenties, he and Liu Zongyuan were on the same list as Jinshi, and within ten years, he entered the central supervision department, became the inspector of imperial history, and got the weight of Wang Shuwen, becoming a core member of the "Yongzhen Innovation".
After the Anshi Rebellion, the eunuch dictatorship and the division of the town became the two major tumors in the politics of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shu was also very concerned about the government since he was made crown prince at the age of nineteen, he saw some shortcomings in the government of the dynasty, he wanted to advise his father Emperor Dezong, his eastern palace official Wang Shuwen stopped him, Wang Shuwen said to him: "The duty of the prince, it is enough to serve and ask Ann, if you judge other things, the emperor suspects that he is buying people's hearts, how do you defend yourself?" Li Recited it, frightened out of a cold sweat, and from then on he had extra trust in Wang Shuwen. Around Li Xuan, a small group of Eastern Palaces was slowly formed, headed by Wang Shuwen and Wang Ling, and Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan were among them.
The crown prince of the Tang Dynasty was a high-risk profession, the previous few princes Li Jiancheng, Li Chengqian, Li Ying, etc. ended up very miserable, Li Shu under long-term mental pressure, after twenty-five years of being the prince, finally could not stand up, stroke, can not speak, at this time the old emperor was also seriously ill, soon died, Li Shu in the first month of 805, in the first month of 805, in the middle of the illness, for Tang Shunzong. After Li Xuan ascended the throne, the second king Liu Liu immediately carried out the "Yongzhen Reform", the reform touched the interests of eunuchs and feudal towns, and was frantically counterattacked, in July, the eunuch Ju Wenzhen and others held Shunzong hostage, in the name of Shunzong, issued an edict, his son Li Chun presided over military and political affairs, in August, he supported Li Chun to ascend the throne, changing Shunzong to emperor Taishang, and then Ju Wenzhen and others deposed the reformist officials and sent them all to remote places, known in history as the "Two Kings and Eight Sima Incident", Wang Shuwen was killed. The reform lasted only 186 days.
Liu Yuxi paid a terrible price for these 186 days. Liu Yuxi was demoted to Sima of Langzhou, and since then, Liu Yuxi has embarked on a publicly-funded tourism journey, either in the place of depreciation or on the road of depreciation.
Liu Yuxi was in Langzhou, and it was inevitable that he would reflect on the "Yongzhen Innovation", and he always believed that the cause he devoted himself to was correct and beneficial to the country and the people. Langzhou is today's Changde, Hunan, remote and unusual, not even chatting people, Sima is an idle post, and there is no justice to do, this is the darkest and most frustrated period of his life, but also the period of his deepest thinking and firmest faith. In the ten years of Langzhou, Liu Yuxi only cultivated his temperament with articles and chants.
The situation of the degraded officials is sinister, and they dare not express themselves directly, and the thoughts in their hearts can only be expressed in a tortuous way. Liu Yuxi expanded the expression method of Yongwu allegorical poetry, and in Langzhou, he wrote a large number of Yongwu allegorical poems, using mosquitoes, doves, otters and other satirical eunuchs and courtiers, and using bamboo, herons, mirrors, etc. to pin his ideal personality and noble discipline on his admiration. "Ting Zhu" "Dew polyester lead powder knot, wind shakes green jade branches." Like a gentleman, there is no place for it", using bamboo as a metaphor, metaphorically saying that in any situation, you can maintain your true colors.
Liu Yuxi broadened the realm of derogatory literature, from Qu Zi to Jia Yi, to the homeland of the country, worried and fearful, full of depression, feeling extreme and sad has always been the main tone of derogatory literature, and Liu Zongyuan," whose situation is the same, is also the loneliness and coldness of "lonely boats, fishing alone in the snow of the cold river". Liu Yuxi's "Autumn Words" "Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I say that autumn is better than spring dynasty." A crane in the clear sky is lined with clouds, and it leads poetry to the blue sky", the weather is open and the spirit is high. Shihao's name is not blown out.
One-fifth of Liu Yuxi's surviving works were written in Langzhou, from Which he went rich and profound, successfully achieving a breakthrough in life. He refined himself into steel and forged himself into an undead little strong.
At the beginning of 815, after many efforts, Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and six other simas who were still alive finally returned to Chang'an after a long absence. Spring wind blows, Chang'an peach blossoms bloom, a friend invited Liu Yuxi to Xuanduguan to admire the peach blossoms, Chang'an peach blossoms are really beautiful, Chang'an's popularity is really strong, Liu Yuxi wrote a poem with his hand: "Purple and red dust blowing on the face, no one can not look at the flowers back." The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple were planted after Liu Lang went" ("Yuan He Ten Years From Langzhou to Beijing Opera to Give Flowers to the Gentlemen"). As the saying goes, "there is no cold disease in the heart, not afraid to eat watermelon", but emperor Xianzong at that time was a person with a cold disease in his heart, Xianzong was supported by eunuchs to the throne, the abdication and death of his father Shunzong has always been considered suspicious, he is also the main concoction of the "Two Kings and Eight Simas" incident, so Xianzong thinks that this poem is satirical of him, angry, he packed and distributed the six Simas who had just been recalled, how far they rolled, how much they did not want to see them! It had only been two months since they had been recalled to the capital!
Liu Yuxi was sent to Bozhou, which is today's Zunyi, which was a very remote place at that time, where wild beasts were infested and inaccessible. The implicated Liu Zongyuan did not mourn for himself, but made a report, willing to use his degraded Liuzhou to exchange with Liu Yuxi, he knew that Liu Yuxi was an only son, with an old mother in her eighties, and the conditions in Liuzhou were relatively better. Liu Yuxi's friend Yushi Zhongzhong Pei Du also interceded for him, and Xianzong changed his face and reprimanded Pei Du, saying: A son does not know how to do things cautiously, let his parents worry less, this kind of person has to be punished more severely, how dare you speak for him? However, in the end, Emperor Xianzong eventually sent Liu Yuxi to Lianzhou (present-day Guangdong) as an assassin.
Thirteen years later, Liu Yuxi traveled to Xuanduguan again, and when writing the sequel to the peach blossom poem, he wrote a preface and an explanation of the previous poem, saying: In that year, before I was degraded to Langzhou, there were indeed no peach blossoms in the Xuandu Temple, and after returning to the capital from Langzhou, everyone told me that the Daoist planted a lot of peach blossoms, as beautiful as Hongxia, and I wrote the previous poem to record the events at that time. Whether he is sarcastic or not is a matter of opinion.
This time out of Beijing, fortunately, there is a real job, and the history of thorns is roughly equivalent to today's mayor. During the Tang Dynasty, the whole territory of Lingnan was an underdeveloped area, Liu Yuxi stayed in Lianzhou for four or five years, he did not complain about the world, but in-depth research, for the local development, his greatest contribution to Lianzhou is to establish education, enlightenment of people's wisdom, he carefully cultivated the first jinshi for Lianzhou, and then Lianzhou talents came out. He developed agricultural production in Lianzhou and cared about the production and life of the Yao compatriots, he fell deeply in love with this place, and when he bid farewell to a friend who returned to his hometown, he instructed his friend to say: "If you ask about Lianzhou, only the painting of a thousand mountains is not as good", and if the relatives and friends in my hometown (Liu Yuxi lived in Huzhou when he was a child) asked about my situation in Lianzhou, he told them that the mountains here are more beautiful than paintings.
After that, Liu Yuxi was transferred to the history of the thorns of Kuizhou (Chongqing Fengjie) and the history of the thorns of Hezhou (Anhui and County), etc. On the way to his post, he passed through Xisai Mountain, which was the ancient battlefield of that year, Liu Yuxi could not help but touch the scenery, so he looked at the foreground and expressed his feelings in his chest, and issued the feeling of "several times in the world, the mountain is still cold" ("Xisai Mountain Huaigu").
When he arrived in Hezhou, according to the regulations, officials of his level could enjoy the treatment of living in three large tile houses in the Yamen, but the official in charge of reception knew that he was degraded, so he made it difficult for him everywhere and arranged for him to live by the river south of the city, and Liu Yuxi did not bother with him. Within a few days, this official found an excuse to let Liu Yuxi move north of the city, and the room was shrunk into a room and a half, Liu Yuxi was a person who had seen the big world, and he didn't bother to talk to this kind of villain, and he hadn't said anything. This dog official was even more energetic, and let Liu Yuxi move, this time it was a small and broken bucket room, which could only accommodate a bed, a table and a chair. Tossing people to move home three times in half a year, the villain makes it bad, like a toad that jumps on the surface of the foot, does not bite the diaphragm. So Liu Yuxi angrily raised his pen, and the famous "Buried Room Ming" came out of nowhere, "Si is a Burrow, but Wu Dexin", even if it is a Burrow, it will be fragrant because of my character! Just so arrogant.
Although Liu Yuxi's career was bumpy, because his poetry was too dazzling, there were still many people who admired him and were willing to make friends with him. Bai Juyi and his gods have been friends for many years, they admire each other, they left their posts separately, on the way back to Luoyang, they finally had the opportunity to meet in Yangzhou, Bai Juyi could not help but cry out for him: "... The poem calls the hands of the state in vain, and the fate of the people is helpless... I also know that the name of the combination is folded, and twenty-three years are folded too much. Liu Yuxi was very touched and expressed his heart to Bai Juyi: "A thousand sails on the side of the sinking boat, and a thousand wood springs in front of the sick tree" ("Yangzhou First Meeting on the Table"), what a positive and optimistic attitude towards life!
Liu Yuxi walked all the way, wrote all the way, the poem involves the Yellow River, Luoshui, Beishui, Stone City, Wuyi Lane, Dongting Lake and many other places, today, many have become local attractions, advertising slogans, such public tourism, "a visit here", is it possible to have?
In 827, Pei Du paid homage to xiang and recalled his old friend Liu Yuxi to Chang'an, by which time Liu Yuxi was already more than half a hundred years old. He was so excited that he almost shouted: Liu Xiaoqiang, who can't die, no, Liu Laoqiang is back! Liu Yuxi remembered the peach blossoms of Xuandu Temple, "Half of the hundred acres of garden are moss, and the peach blossoms are pure and cauliflower." Where the Taoist monks of the peach are, the former Liu Lang is here again" ("Revisiting the Xuandu Temple"), not only are the peach blossoms gone, the Taoists are gone, the Manchu officials have also changed several stubbles, the emperor has also survived several deaths, Xianzong is dead, Muzong and Jingzong are also dead, and the current emperor is already Emperor Wenzong.
Liu Yuxi seems to have deciphered the code of success: live well, survive the opponent, and you will win!
Why do you have so many hardships and ups and downs in your life? "Providence must be a good poem on earth"!
Bibliography: "New Book of Tang", "Old Book of Tang", "Autobiography of Zi Liuzi", "Selected Poems of Liu Yuxi"