Wang Bo of the Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty was a genius and a child prodigy.
You know what? He has a powerful family behind him.
In 650, Wang Bo was born in Longmen, Shanxi Province, to a prominent family.
In the Wang Bo family, cattle people are like clouds:
Starting from his grandfather, wang tong was a cultural celebrity in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, a well-known educator, a thinker, a "fifteen-year teacher", and a protégé all over the world; the "Three Character Classic" even listed Wang Tong's works as one of the five must-read sub-books, along with Xunzi and Zhuangzi.
Wang Bo's grandfather's younger brother Wang Ji is an "prodigy fairy" who moved the capital at the age of eleven, the founder of the five-word poem, who knows nothing from each other, and the long song Huai Cewei, which is now recited by junior high school students, is written by him.
Wang Bo's grandfather's brother Wang Du was the author of the Ancient Mirror Record, pioneering the legend of the Tang Dynasty;
Wang Bo's father, Wang Fuzhi, was well-read of poetry and books, erudite and talented, and "the six arts are perfect for becoming able, and a hundred actions are virtuous."
Wang Bo's older brother Wang Xun (jù) is also a talented teenager, and he passed the jinshi examination at the age of 20! How difficult was it to enter the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty? The whole country only admits about 30 people every year! This means that if you are not a provincial leader, there is almost no drama. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, at the age of 50, jinshi was a very proud thing.
Wang Bo's elders and brothers are already very good, right?
But our Wang Bo gengniu has completely exerted the family's prodigy gene to the extreme:
He began writing articles at the age of six, "no lag in conception, heroic words";
When he was nine years old, he read the Book of Han, an ancient commentary by the Sui and Tang Dynasty super great Confucian Yanshi, and actually picked out a basket of errors and wrote a 10-volume long article called "The Book of Han Finger Flaws".
It's like a nine-year-old child today who reads "Three Hundred Poems of Tang" and then writes a book that is thicker than "Three Hundred Poems of Tang" and points out the errors in the annotations of the poems in the book.
In this way, nine-year-old Wang Bo has begun to shine dazzlingly in the literary jianghu of the Tang Dynasty.
The next is the endless cattle, at the age of 13, he began to submit resumes to official politicians everywhere to find jobs.
At the age of 14, he directly went to the book to be the prime minister of the dynasty, directly expressed his political views, and when the needle was wrong, the prime minister read it, shouted the prodigy, and immediately wrote a letter of recommendation to the imperial court.
At the age of 15, he presented the "Ode to the Qianyuan Temple", and at the age of 16, he had become the youngest official in the imperial court... At present, most of the 16-year-old children are still in their first year of high school, but Wang Bo has become a state civil servant.
Teenagers have stood at a height that most people can't reach in their lifetime, and you say that he is not a cow!
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