In the fifth year (1012) of Emperor Zhenzong of Song's reign, His Majesty the Emperor, who was far away in Kaifeng, heard the name "Lin Kui" for the first time, and this famous man who was willing to keep the poor and did not want to go out successfully attracted the attention of the government and the public. Song Zhenzong, who was thirsty for talent, personally issued an edict to recruit Lin Kui to become an official, after all, letting such talents fall into the rivers and lakes was not in line with the tradition of the "Tianshui Dynasty" that always attached importance to the literati.
However, as in the previous times, Lin Kui, who had been beaten to death and refused to become an official, unceremoniously refuted Tianzi's face, and Song Zhenzong, who was helpless, had no choice but to give up, give grain and cloth and other daily necessities instead, and instructed nearby officials to give preferential treatment to this great sage.
When Emperor Zhenzong heard of his name, he gave him the title of Emperor Zhenzong and asked him about it when he was a long official. - "History of the Song Dynasty, Vol. 457"
Since then, the famous scholar Lin Kui, who has been praised by the royal family, finally got what he wanted to live on the shore of the West Lake, and in the era when the reader burned the anointing of the successor to seek fame, he took Mei as his wife and the crane as his son, and lived into the poetry and distant places of the readers of all dynasties.
During the two Song Dynasties, which enjoyed the 319th year of the National Zuo, there were two well-known poets from white clothes, one was Liu Yong, who "filled in the words according to the will", and the other was Lin Kui, the protagonist of today, "Plum Wife Crane". But unlike Liu Yong, who was not allowed to take the scientific examination because of his complaints, Lin Kui was not unable to take the exam, but he did not want to take the meritorious name.
Because of his lifelong failure, there are actually not many historical materials left by Lin Kui, but there is basically a common feature in the written records about him - the immortal qi fluttering.
From being young and poor but able to keep themselves, to the young people leisurely rafting in Jianghuai, to the middle-aged return to the hidden Lu Lonely Mountain, and finally planting plums and raising cranes, all their lives. When we unfold lin kui's life picture, looking around, it is full of his indifference and open-mindedness of "being in the rivers and lakes and far away from the rivers and lakes".
In the fifth year of The Song Dynasty (967), Lin Kui was born in an ordinary family with no name, and the word "little orphan" recorded in the annals of history also revealed his cool childhood for future generations. Without the shadow of the ancestors' meritorious deeds, nor the inheritance of the family inheritance, nor the care and companionship of his parents, the young Lin Kui was in such a difficult and difficult growing environment, turning the painful torture given to him by fate into a raging flame in his heart, warming his poor youth.
No matter what kind of era it is, reading is a shortcut for ordinary people to achieve a gorgeous counterattack, and Lin Kui is no exception. After a thousand years of leisurely years, we imagine such a picture:
In that broken house that barely resisted the severe cold and heat, the teenager Lin Kui, who was "underinhabited and uninhabited", immersed in the vast sea of books, was willing to be content with the poverty of material life, and showed maturity and indifference to the sound and color of dogs and horses outside the window.
Although we praise Lin Kui's spirit of not being succumbed to poverty and not being moved by fame and fortune, we are more moved by his understanding of having nothing to rely on and can only grit his teeth and go alone.
A few words in the history books are the lives of others. When Lin Kui survived from the bitter boyhood, this young talent who had read the classics did not embark on the same path of examination as most young people at that time, but lived in the history books in a different way.
The hardships of his youth did not make Lin Kui have a fanatical interest in the rich material life, on the contrary, when Lin Kui could face the storms of life alone, the young man who was full of poetry and books gave up the shortcut of using the imperial examination to change his fate, and instead threw his body and mind into the rivers and lakes away from the temple disputes.
The era of Lin Kui's birth has almost reached the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, although there are still separatist forces such as the Northern Han Dynasty, the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Wu Yue, but the strength of the Zhao and Song Empires has been transcendent, and unification is only a matter of time. In order to avoid the recurrence of the story of "yellow robes and bodies", Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, first used a "cup of wine to release the military power" to empty the power of those brothers who were born into death, and then deeply rooted the gene of "heavy literature and light martial arts" in the 319-year history of the two Song Dynasties.
Therefore, for a reader like Lin Kui, it is a blessing to be born in such an era. No matter how many people in later generations criticize the weakness and incompetence of the two Song Dynasties, we have to admit that this is an era that is very friendly to readers. After all, if the same thing happened in the Ming Dynasty, I think Lin Kui, who dared to reject the emperor, would have already landed on the ground.
But as if he saw through the red dust at the moment of birth, did not experience the ups and downs of family hatred and hatred for the country, nor did he feel the bitter frustration of repeated trials and tribulations, the young Lin Kui did not seek success after learning, but drove a flat boat to and from Jianghuai, wandering freely between clear water and blue sky.
"I'm not interested in money." There is no need to doubt that this sentence came out of Lin Kui's mouth, after all, when everyone was full of desire for glory and wealth, Lin Kui was floating above Jianghuai like a plague god, ensuring his self-purity by constantly emptying and staying away from the world.
Sex is idyllic and ancient, and it is easy to be prosperous. The family is poor and has insufficient food and clothing, and Yan Ruye. - "History of the Song Dynasty, Vol. 457"
Facts have proved that when the inner world is full to the extreme, the material poverty cannot shake it in the slightest. Lin Kui was like the last shred of clarity in the hearts of countless people at that time, everyone envied his living state, but he had to continue to exhaust his life because of various constraints and restrictions.
Such envy and desire also made Lin Kui's fame become bigger and bigger, and gradually, the nobody's small house began to "talk and laugh with Hongru, and there was no white ding"...
No one knows what happened during the years when young Lin Kui was boating in Jianghuai, and the history books only have a sentence of "The first time you let go of the river and Huaijian, you will return to Hangzhou for a long time, and the lonely mountain of the West Lake will not reach the city for twenty years." "Brush it off.
After waiting for the year of confusion, Lin Kui, who was more than forty years old, finally had a hut in the isolated mountain of Hangzhou. Lin Kui had no money, but the scribes who came to him built a house at their own expense, and even Zhao Heng, the True Emperor of heaven, also personally provided a daily use.
I think the Song Dynasty must have had trolls, and Lin Kui must have been sprayed with slanderous words such as "pseudo-Taoism" and "false canon". But Lin Kui, who was indisputable, used his life to give each troll a crisp slap.
In the face of the sincere invitation of the royal family, Lin Kui refused as always; in the face of the glory of the Son of Heaven's personal will, Lin Kui was never proud and continued his life like an ascetic.
The only change should be that Lin Kui's circle of friends has become lively. From the prime minister of the dynasty and the sheriff of Hangzhou, down to the famous monks and scribes of the world, many of whom are also familiar with the names of us, such as: Fan Zhongyan, Mei Yaochen, Wang Sui and so on. In addition to the daily singing and harmony, Lin Kui's life is to plant plum blossoms, raise cranes and swim in the West Lake. The "frigid" Lin Kui never married, he took Mei as his wife, took the crane as his son, and created a large number of works.
In the literati class at that time, Lin Kui was recognized as the "poetry and painting" of the three masterpieces, although he failed to leave paintings, but Lin Kui's calligraphy was able to leave one or two after thousands of years, and through the long years of history, we finally had the privilege of seeing Lin Kui's calligraphy that was praised by Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Lu You and others.
Lin Kui has lin kui's proud bones, this extraordinary great poet even writes poems are "written and lost", if it is not someone deliberately recorded Lin Kui's poems, I am afraid that after a thousand years, we will not know where to find Lin Kui's poems.
Nowadays, when many people mention the poetry of the Song Dynasty, their first reaction is that Su Shi, Lu You, Xin Qiyi and others are very unfamiliar with the name "Lin Kui". But if you mention the sentence "The shadow is shallow and shallow, and the dark incense floats in the moon and dusk", almost no one has not heard it, just a few fourteen words, but it has achieved the title of the first part of "Wing Mei".
But just like Lin Kui insisted on all his life, what did he get from the floating name? The hermit who refused to step into the official field all his life enjoyed every day, that is, to ride on the West Lake, enjoying the warmth and comfort of slowly aging between the shadows of the sparkling mountains.
And whenever a guest comes, the boy in the family will release a crane, accompanied by the sound of cranes, Lin Kui from the depths of the mountains and rivers to drive a boat, next to him is his treated like a son of the crane, returning to his wife's Merlin.
In the sixth year of Emperor Renzong of Song (1028), the 61-year-old Lin Kui died in the grass, a clean wind and proud bones, not to be confused by fame and fortune, and to complete the poetry and distant places in the hearts of all readers.