In the literary circles of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is a group that attracts people's attention, they are the "Four Scholars of Sumen". This literary group composed of Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan, Chao Shuzhi and Zhang Qian was the best of Su Shi's many protégés, and because of the discovery and introduction of a generation of literary masters, it was clustered in Sumen and became a brilliant star in the literary circle of the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi Zengyun "Huang Tingjian Lu Zhi, Chao Zhi Zhi Wu Blame, Qin Guan Tai Xuan, Zhang Qi Wen Qian, all unknown to the world, and Shi Du Prophet", it is precisely because Su Shi mentioned their names and promoted them at the same time, the title of "Four Scholars of Su Men" did not go away, and the four of them soon became famous all over the world. However, in the search of these four people who were deeply influenced by Su Shi, we found that Qin Guan, who had a high literary attainment, although he left many poems, it was difficult to truly achieve Qingxiong and extravagant like Su Dongpo, and in terms of attitude towards life, it was even more difficult to achieve such a calm and elegant view as Su Dongpo, who "let a smoke and rain take his life".
Qin Guan and Su Shi met before participating in the imperial examination. Qin Guan was clever when he was young, read a lot of books, ambitious, once traveled in Huzhou, Hangzhou, Runzhou area, in the good spring light of the willow waves, Qin Guan, the mercurial Jiangnan talent, of course, to indulge their own talents, this famous "Xingxiangzi", from this period.
"The trees surround the village, and the water fills the pond. Leaning on the East Wind, Haoxing wandering", wandering in the bright spring colors, full of splendid Qin Guan enjoyed the boundless beauty, but also looked forward to the brilliant future, about ten years in Xi Ning (1078), when Su Shi moved from Mizhou to Xuzhou, Qin Guan, who had long admired this literary master, immediately went to pay respects, and before he was introduced, he specially wrote a poem to Su Shi, saying, "I do not want to be a marquis of ten thousand households, but I only wish to know Su Xuzhou", indicating his admiration for Su Shi. And Su Shi also liked this literary descendant, praising him as "Qu (yuan), Song (Yu) cai", during the time when they traveled together, Su Shi repeatedly persuaded Qin Guan to use it through the world and seek meritorious fame, so Qin Guan began to study hard and actively prepare to participate in scientific expeditions. However, the fate was not good, and the two confident Qin Guan returned home, and just when he was depressed, it was Su Shi who constantly cheered for him, writing poems and writing letters to give encouragement. Not only that, in the seventh year of Yuanfeng (1084), when Su Shi was passing through Jiangning, he also specially recommended Qin Guan's talent to Wang Anshi, and later wrote to him: "May the gong borrow less teeth and teeth, so that he can gain weight in the world." Wang Anshi read Qin Guan's poems and was greatly appreciated, saying that they were "fresh like Bao and Xie". It is precisely because of the endorsement platform of these two literary giants that Qin Guan regained his courage and went to Beijing for the third time in the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), and the result was in one fell swoop.
If It is said that Qin Guan's entry into his career is inseparable from Su Shi's enthusiastic encouragement, then when he and Huang Tingjian, Chao Zhizhi, and Zhang Qian gathered in Su's door, Qin Guan already got the surging heat of this cultural master. In the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1092), Su Shi was summoned from Yangzhou to enter the Duan Ming Temple, the Hanlin Attendant Bachelor, the Libu Shangshu, the QinGuan Qianguo History Institute, and the Huang Tingjian, Chao Shuzhi, and Zhang Qian, who served in the History Museum at the same time, known as the "Four Bachelors of Sumen". It was during this time that Su Shi and Qin Guan and the four of them began frequent literary exchanges, under the guidance of Su Shi, these four Sumen scholars paid great attention to the value of literature itself, such as fine gold and beautiful jade, they often edited poems with each other in the form of inscriptions, books, etc., and gradually formed a clear concept of the portal, forming a literati group with Su Shi as the leader. There is no doubt that this is a comfortable time, during this time, Qin Guan, like Huang Tingjian, Chao Zhizhi and Zhang Qian, absorbed Su Shi's rich cultural nutrition and let his poetry creation enter a new stage. Of course, while enjoying this happy time, their positions are also constantly rising, "in the grace of fish algae, in the clouds." When Qin Guan was promoted to the post of Yellow Gate School Surveyor, what filled the face of this Sumen scholar was the triumphant expression of the spring wind, and he believed that with the guidance of a teacher like Su Shi, his career would definitely rise to the top.
However, the politically naïve literati soon entered the winter of his life. In the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1094), with the death of empress dowager Gao Shi, Emperor Zhezong's pro-government, and the return of the "new party" people to the dynasty, the fate of the "old party" people being degraded and deposed was inevitable, just as Su Shi was degraded all the way south, Qin Guan and other Sumen scholars also could not escape the doom of being expelled from the Beijing Division. Qin Guan was first impeached by the inspector Yushi Liu Zheng, removed from his official post as a national history editor, and was sentenced to Hangzhou, and on the way, he was accused of "shadowing Su Shi and increasing or damaging the actual record", degrading the liquor tax of the state, Shao Sheng for three years, Qin Guan was demoted to Chenzhou because "the emissary played his indictment to write the Buddhist book", Shao Sheng was also ordered to compile and manage Hengzhou, and soon he was ordered to be removed, never accepted, and sent to Leizhou to be in charge. Qin Guan, as a Sumen scholar, could not have imagined that the "merging" of himself and Su Shi, a mentor, would be far more than "co-ascending", and the beautiful days of poetry and harmony in the past would become memories in the wind so quickly.
However, this Sumen bachelor learned Dongpo's practice of writing, but did not learn Dongpo's practice of life. In Huangzhou, Huizhou and even the most remote Danzhou, Su Shi has always faced the wind sword and frost sword with the pride of life, and many of his popular poems were also created in those obscure and desolate years, when "chaotic stones pierced through the air, the waves crashed on the shore, and a thousand piles of snow rolled up" swept away Su Shi's heart, and when "don't listen to the sound of leaves beating through the forest, why not groan and Xu Xing" became Su Shi's walking posture on the road of depreciation, and we must pay deep respect to this generation of masters who walked alone. In fact, Qin Guan, who was degraded with his teacher, was also deeply infected by "Dongpo in Huang's very good self-reliance, not to move who mind", and tried to learn to be calm and calm, when degrading the state liquor tax, he often went to Fahai Temple to read the manager's confession, copied Buddhist books, and in his later poems, he explicitly denied Confucianism and longed for Taoism, and even during his idle residence, he also studied in Dumen, wandered in a flat boat, and "adapted to what he encountered". However, after all, Qin Guan's situation is not as good as Su Shi's, his mind is still narrow-minded, and in the face of his complicated life encounters, it is still difficult to solve himself, and he cannot truly achieve super-dust and relief. This literati who left nearly fifty spring words in his life, when he was young and prosperous, we saw a sunny state of mind, and when he walked into the trough of life, and then wrote spring words, he was no longer full of vitality, he structured the gray and dark images of falling flowers, twilight clouds, jackdaws, and residual rain together, forming another kind of spring in his eyes when he was rubbing his career.
All scenery is love language, as a Sumen scholar, Qin Guan, in the end, did not inherit Su Dongpo's Qingxiong's flamboyant literary style, but with the unique elegance and poignancy of his own poetry, he was revered as a generation of words of the Gentle Sect, which may be due to his personality. Qin Guan finally died in the middle of the pardon of the northern return, and it is said that he was so thirsty that he waited for someone to deliver water to him, and he had already died. At that time, Su Shi "heard the bad news of the little travel, and could not eat for two days", this literary master who gave his sister Xu to Qin Guan in the wild history anecdotes, once had a brief encounter with his proud protégé when he was pardoned to return to Leizhou, who knew that in the blink of an eye, it was two heavens and two people!
"Less travel is enough, although ten thousand people can redeem it!" Less than a year after Su Shi uttered this long sigh, he also passed away. And we believe that Qin Guan, who reunited with his mentor under the Nine Springs, will definitely ask the Dongpo residents who are more miserable than themselves: Tongda, how should we do it? How to get the essence?
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