If I could choose which dynasty to be a literati in China, I would choose the Song Dynasty. Fortunately, even ya, because everyone who likes the word is in that dynasty. Chao, one of the four sumen scholars, is also there. At that time, the style of writing was fresh, elegant, bold, and simple, and every text was the best in the history of calligraphy. I've been yearning for a long time.
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On September 25, 1110, the fourth year of emperor Huizong of Song 's reign ( 1110 ) , Chao Died at the age of 58. On that day, it rained very bitterly. Zhang Qian, who was also the "Four Scholars of Sumen", wrote an epitaph for him, and Huang Tingjian inscribed an epitaph for him: Good brother, one lifetime; in the next life, be a brother again.
Two years ago, Chao Zhizhi was tired of the disturbances of the court, and the resignation official built a return garden at home, hoping to be the second Tao Yuanming. He liked willow trees, so he planted willows next to the banyan trees by the pond; he liked plum blossoms the most, so there were a few white plums in the courtyard; he liked "Homecoming Words", so he called himself a returner. The people in the imperial court are also very contradictory, both like his talent, but also want to waste his talent, toss the last four years of Chao's life, one moment let him go to Xijing, one moment let him go to Nanjing, one moment let him go to Dazhou, one will let him go to Sizhou, so four years is the southeast, southwest, and northwest let you run all over, like a bird that can't land, don't let you settle down for a moment.
When he left the garden, he wrote a poem for his pond and willow trees, "Touching the Fish": buy a pond, spin planted willows, and faintly Huai'an Jiangpu. Donggao Jia rain new marks rise, sand herons come to the gulls to gather. The best place to love is that the moonlight of the river is flowing at night. No one dances solo. Ren Cui's Zhang Tian, Rou Yin's land, the wine failed to go...
Many people say that his words have the boldness of his master Dongpo, and I think his style of writing also contains Ouyang Xiu's deep throat. You see the spring breeze caressing the willows, the sand gulls soaring, the moonlight is gentle, and the rain marks are still there. Clinging to the old garden, but the ambition is not rewarded. Come, after drinking this cup of wine, we "will be like a ban chao, a marquis, and a fear of twilight." "This is really the best era, the literati have been able to go to the official arena and the battlefield, the poetry is well written, the calligraphy and painting are fresh and wonderful, the art of war is also well memorized, and they are ready to go to the front line to curse and cut people."
However, there are only four years left in life.
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In the fifth year of Emperor Renzong of Song (1053), Chao Washuzhi was born in Juye, Shandong. At that time, even the wind was sweet. The memory of Supplement was extraordinary since childhood, and it was studious and self-motivated, and soon reached the ears of a poet named Wang Anguo in the Great Song Dynasty. This Wang Anguo has an older brother named Wang Anshi. These two people are very curious and feel that the afterlife is terrible. Later, I learned that this Chao clan was really a noble family at that time, with solid family property and talents, as long as it was born, it was equivalent to containing a golden spoon. In the Song Dynasty alone, the Chao clan, there were more than thirty people in the Middle Jinshi.
In the rainy season when I was seventeen, even the rain was sweet. His father went to Hangzhou to become an official and took Chao to make up for it. On the way to Enjoy the beautiful beauty of Suzhou and Hangzhou, the colorful Jiangnan, chao supplemented one of the roads, and wrote a history book that exhausts the scenery of Hangzhou's mountains and rivers: "Seven Narratives". His father took Chao Toshi to meet Su Shi, who happened to be in Hangzhou. After reading it, Su Shi shouted: I originally wanted to write a history of Hangzhou's landscape, and with your book, I can put aside my pen. Therefore, Chao Supplement was accepted as an apprentice, and taught from time to time, and soon, Chao Supplement's fame spread among the literati and inkers.
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With the influence of the family and the guidance of famous teachers, there is no doubt that the talented and brilliant Chao Supplement zhi was admitted in the second year of Song Shenzong Yuanfeng (1079). Then the carp jumped the dragon gate, and he then took the examination in Kaifeng Province, the first place; and took the examination arranged by the Ministry of Etiquette, and then took the first place. When Song Shenzong saw his article during the temple examination, he couldn't help but clap his head: In today's impetuous society, it is difficult to see such a talent immersed in the classic art. With a big stroke of a pen, I went to Chenlan Prefecture to become a sihu to join the army and a professor of The Guozijian in Beijing.
The 26-year-old dancing teenager Chao made up for it, so he took up his post and began his career as a master of the people. Like the predecessors of the Chao family, most of them were honest and honest family styles, and each of them was heavy on literature and light on martial arts. Liang Shanbo's good Han Chao Gai was considered to be his descendant, if there really was someone. I remember that when he was a child, his father forced him to study the scriptures in the academy, learn poetry, work calligraphy and painting, and then at the age of twelve, he began to travel through the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, from Shaoxing to Hangzhou, from Hangzhou to Suzhou, from Suzhou to Beijing, and from Beijing to Luoyang. I still remember the white plum night incense I asked when I was a child, and Wrote a unique song, the first word of Yongmei: when it is open, it is like snow. Thanks when it's like snow. The flowers are amazing. Incense is not in the bud, incense is not in the calyx, and the bone is fragrant. Occupy the creek wind, stay the creek moon. Shameful, peach like blood. Straight, loose and light, and finally have a general affection.
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In this way, the wind and fire, trance, reached the period of Song Zhezong's pro-government. The emperor said, come, come to the imperial court as a secretary of the provincial orthography, and after a while, move the school to Shulang. It has only been five years since the heat was exerted, it was not easy to live in Beijing, the cost of living was too high, and I wanted chai rice oil and salt, and I had to buy rice paper, buy brushes, buy scripture books, my wife and children had to take care of them, and I had to pay rent, and I had to stop writing for many days without inspiration for poetry and songs. Therefore, I asked the imperial court to say that I should go to the places below where the cost of living is relatively low. The emperor thought, well, this can also save costs, a big stroke, notified him to Yangzhou to do the general judgment. It just so happened that Master Su Shi was doing Zhizhou in Yangzhou, so the next morning, he quickly stepped up his horse and flew to a free place.
Fireworks in Yangzhou in March, meng Haoran went to Yangzhou when there was Li Bai to send, Chao supplemented when he went even better, there was already Su Dongpo personally picked up. In the dream water town of Yangzhou, Su Shi and Chao Shuzhi were diligent and earnest for the people, and by the way, they also traveled to the mountains and rivers, singing and singing to each other. Unfortunately, the time together is very short, but two years of time in Yangzhou left a lot of poetry, bringing good political achievements in the local area. Therefore, poets, once they are in the imperial court, write all about policies, and once they go to the rivers and lakes, they write poems. Song Zhezong one day began to think of Chao Shuzhi and pulled him to the imperial court to work as a writer, specifically writing the records of his father Shenzong. Honest people write honestly, writing what his father should and should not write, unexpectedly, Song Zhezong suddenly began to use the reform of the new party, and Chao Shouzhi, who had not yet sat on the hot ass on the cold bench, was relegated to his hometown of Jeju as Zhizhou.
Although Chao's face was not happy, he was really happy to die in his heart. It just so happened that Chao Shuzhi didn't want to stay in this difficult place in the capital, so the next morning, he quickly stepped up his horse and flew to the free place. At that time, there were many good men and robbers in Shandong, their IQ was worrying, they did not like to rob at night, and they liked to act during the day. Once, a group of good men who did not know whether Liangshan Po could not mix up were burning and looting in the streets and alleys, and the face of Chao Supplement did not change color, secretly set out their names, remembered their whereabouts, and then set up a banquet for the guests to drink, and informed the officials in charge of catching the thieves of the government to do so, so dry, the wine was not finished, and before twice, these Jiangyang thieves were arrested. Since then, Jeju has become a state capital where there is no way to leave a trail, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, clapping their hands and applauding. It is said that this means of handling the case is really good, and this unfazed heart and wisdom are indeed half of his master Su Shi.
However, the New Party began to turn over the old case, and the New Party played to the Emperor and said that the records of the Divine Sect written by you and Huang Tingjian before had many untruths, don't you have the audacity to deceive the emperor? Go, give me to Nanjing to make a general judgment, Chao Supplement said, the subject leads the will, so, the next morning, quickly horse and whip, flying to the free place; the car has not yet arrived in Nanjing, the imperial court said, wait, your father-in-law's brother is an official over there, in order to avoid suspicion, you still go to Anhui Bozhou to do the general judgment, Chao Supplement said, the subject leads the will, so, the next morning, quickly increase the whip, fly to the free place; less than two years, the imperial court said, so, you go to Lishui, Zhejiang Province, to be a salt wine tax, Chao Supplement said, the subject leads the will, so, The next morning, he hurriedly stepped up his horse and flew to the free place. Unexpectedly, the car had not yet arrived in Lishui, and my mother had died, so after returning to my hometown of Dingyou in Shandong province for three years, I was demoted to Shangrao, Jiangxi, farther away, as a salt liquor tax. Chao Said, the subject took the command, so the next morning, he quickly stepped up his horse and flew to the free place.
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It was hard to survive the death of four emperors, song Huizong took office, the empress dowager listened to the government, and the imperial court announced that he should hurry up and come to Beijing, to be your good writer Salang. Chao Shuzhi said that the subjects took the command, so the next morning, they quickly increased their whips and flew to the unfree places; the official of Chao Shuzhi was the largest of the Rebbe Langzhong, and also served as the editor and record review officer of the History Museum. However, the days of unfreedom were always short-lived, and the imperial court said, "Go down and go to Yongji, Shanxi, to do Zhizhou, and Chao Zhizhi said that the subjects would lead the way, so the next morning, they quickly increased their whips and flew to the free place." In a few months, he helped the local people build bridges, and the people thanked him for his great virtues and painted his portraits for worship. The imperial court said that I had degraded you, and that you had lived so well that you continued to be degraded, from Yongji to Huzhou, Zhejiang, from Huzhou to Mizhou, Shandong, and from Mizhou to Guozhou, Sichuan.
Unfortunately, there are only four years left in life.
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Perhaps, these four years are the happiest four years of Chao's supplement. Because, summing up his life, a total of more than 160 words have been handed down, 70 volumes of "Chicken Rib Collection", including 23 volumes of poetry and 47 volumes of miscellaneous prose. When he closed his eyes, he muttered to himself: The name of the world, the taste of old age, the time of spring return. Drinking bitterly in front of the bottle, singing like the old, the emotional difficulty is still there...
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Brother Tong, my biggest dream in this life is to travel to the Song Dynasty and, together with your master, experience the five dynasties of Renzong, Yingzong, Shenzong, Zhezong, and Huizong in your lifetime.
(About the author: Shangguan Chaoxi, began writing at the age of 12, founder of the book club, writing monetization practitioner. Lifelong practitioners who read 100+ books a year and write 300,000+ words welcome to pay attention to and forward. ）