In the 2011 list of Tang poems published by zhonghua bookstore, the first place was not the works of Li Bai and Du Fu, but Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower". For this point, many people do not seem to be surprised, after all, this is a song that has made Li Bai also put aside his pen.
"The people of the past have taken the Yellow Crane to go, and there is an empty Yellow Crane Tower here", Cui Hao came with his hands, sprinkled with foreign flowers, and held a Yellow Crane Tower red. Although the editor is not talented, he has not yet figured out where it is better than Du Fu's "Ascending", but it is indeed a wonderful poem. And later generations always like to see the lively, so Li Bai later wrote "Dengjin Ling Phoenix Platform", which was also said by many people to imitate this work, and Shi Xian was to compete with Cui Hao.
These are not listed for the time being, and what Shi Xian really thinks, I will no longer guess. But what did Cui Hao, who wrote such a famous article, do later? Why is it obscure again, it starts with his personality.
Cui Hao's poetry at that time was very famous, that is, he was talented as a teenager, but his reputation was very smelly, and at that time, the Tang people criticized him for being "talented and virtuous", and the biggest embodiment of his lack of virtue was lust. Only 42 poems in Cui Haoping's life were included in the Quan Tang Poems, which is inconsistent with the names of his poems. Cui Hao's early poems were mostly written about the pleasure of girlfriends, and the use of words was also flashy, and there were no few records in the history of his affair. In the "Ciyuan", it is said that he married his wife "only the one who chooses the beautiful, and the Russian abandons it, and every four or five wives", which means that the wife is only beautiful, and when he is tired, he abandons it and remarries, which is certainly a proper scumbag in modern times, but in that era it may not be a big deal.
His notoriety may have begun when he offended a high official named Li Yong. Speaking of this person, we have to mention Li Bai's Tang poem "Shang Li Yong", in which Shi Xian seems to be indignant, writing: "Dapeng rises with the same wind one day, and rises to ninety thousand miles", then is this Li Yong really a narrow-minded person who loves to bully the cloth literati? Non also!
Li Yong (李邕), courtesy name Taihe, was a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, as well as a calligrapher and writer. Four years after Tang Tianbao, the two geniuses of the poetry world, Du Fu and Li Bai, traveled to Jinan together, and Li Yong, who was 68 years old at the time, had long been famous all over the world, but Du Fu was only a 33-year-old undesirable descendant, and when he heard that Du Fu had come, Li Yong came to greet him overnight, in order to meet this new talent in the poetry world. At that time, Li Yong obviously appreciated Du Fu's poetry more, just as the so-called green vegetables and turnips were good, and since then Li Yong and Du Fu have become close friends. By the time of Li Yong's death, Du Fu was devastated and wrote down the painful words of "Potuo Qingzhou Blood, Qiang Wu Wen Yang Fistula".
In addition to Du Fu, Li Yong made good friends with literati throughout his life. But on the matter of Cui Hao, he still couldn't help but get angry. At that time, Cui Hao was young and hoped to be introduced by Li Yong, so Li Yong asked him to prepare a book of poems with his own famous pieces. Cui Hao was young and crazy, and actually chose a poem called "The Young Woman of the Wang Family" to put on the front page of the poetry collection. The full poem is as follows:
Fifteen married Wang Chang, Yingying into the painting hall.
Since the least years of self-esteem, the re-reliance on the son-in-law as a lang.
Dance love before the creek green, song pity the night long.
Idle to fight hundreds of grass, live a day without makeup.
How well this poem is written, everyone should have a number in mind after reading it. The poem is written about the image of a woman surnamed Wang, who married at the age of 15, danced and sang on weekdays, and then played the game of fighting hundreds of grasses when she had time, and spent all day enjoying herself and making up too lazy to paint. In fact, this is a boudoir poem, using such a poem to present the MINISTER of the DPRK, not to mention that there is no style, and the writing is not very good, so why the intention is also confusing.
After Li Yong finished reading it, he was so angry that he said: "The child is rude and will not take it away." Cui Hao had to go away in ashes. And because of this incident, Cui Hao's reputation for arrogance and talent and immorality was even greater, and later although he was a jinshi, no official was willing to recommend him as an official in Chang'an, so he could only stay away from Chang'an and served as some sesame petty officials and spent his life. This may also explain why only more than 40 poems survived in his lifetime.
Then again, whether Cui Hao is really as recorded in the history books, his "Yellow Crane Tower" is indeed a rare masterpiece. Do you think this poem is the first of the seven laws? Discussions I and II are welcome.