In the second year of Song Renzong Jiayou (1057 AD), Su Dongpo took the imperial examination and wrote a "full score essay" - "The Theory of Punishment and Loyalty", which has been popular for more than 900 years.
In fact, more than three hundred years before Su Dongpo, a poet named Qian Qi wrote a "trial poem" in the examination hall, and won the championship in one fell swoop with the last two sentences and ten words. Later, this poem became a model for poetry in the examination halls of successive dynasties, and became popular for more than 1,200 years.
The name of that poem is "Provincial Trial Xiangling Drums".
"Provincial Test Xiangling Drum ser" - Tang Qianqi Good drum cloud and Ser, often heard of the emperor's spirit. Feng Yikong danced by himself, and Chu Ke was unbearable. Bitter tune miserable golden stone, clear sound into the meditation. Cang Wu came to complain, and Bai Zhi moved Fangxin. The flowing water spread to Xiangpu, and the sad wind passed through the cave court. Qu finally disappeared, and the mountains and mountains were counted.
Poetry Paraphrase: Emperor Shun's wife was a deity in Xiangshui, and she was good at playing a kind of guser called "Yunhe". The river god Feng Yi did not understand the sadness in the sound of the song, and danced happily when he heard the music, but the souls like Qu Yuan and Jia Yi were sad.
The sound of song and mourning is deep, and even if you have the heart of the golden stone, you will feel sad. The high-pitched clear sound reached the cosmic firmament. The beautiful sound of the piano floated to the field of Cangwu, next to the tomb of Emperor Shun of the Nine Ridges Mountain.
Shun's soul heard the sound of his beloved wife's drums, and also rushed to the sky above Xiangshui to listen to them and relive their old feelings. The clear sound reached the Miluo River where Qu Yuan threw water, and Bai Zhi also revealed a fragrance on the bank of the river.
The sound of music reverberates with the flowing water on both sides of the Xiang River and over the vast water. It finally condensed into a sad wind, blowing through the eight hundred miles of cave court. After the end of the song, the Xiang Ling, who played the piano, disappeared. Only at the end of the river, a few blue peaks were revealed.
This poem is very good as a work improvised in a short period of time in the examination room. The first two sentences of it point out the theme of the whole text, and then write that the river god Feng Yi heard the sound of the piano and danced, but criticized the river god for listening to the sad music as a cheerful tune, not a confidant. After the real "Chu Ke" understands the music, he will be overwhelmed by it.
Xiang Ling was originally Shun's wife, and Shun was a moral model among the ancient emperors. After Shun's death, his two concubines, Emperor E and Empress Dowager, finally "died crying blood" and turned into the spirit of Xiangshui. Shun was buried in the wilderness of Cangwu and the mountain of the Nine Ridges, while Xiang Ling was eternally separated from her husband's mountain and sea.
How could the song she played with "Yun He" be cheerful? It was clearly a cry of blood! This kind of voice Feng Yi did not understand, but "Chu Ke" understood. "Chu Ke" refers to people like Qu Yuan and Jia Yi.
Emperor Shun's second concubine died in order to martyr his lover, Qu Yuan died for his political ideals, and Western Han Jiayi died for his confidant. If the three have similarities, it is said that "Chuke" people such as Qu Yuan and Jia Yi can understand xiangling's piano tone.
The sound of the clouds and the piano is a clear sound that resounds through the sky. It is high-pitched and clear, wearing golden cracks and stones, all the way to the deepest and farthest firmament in the universe. It symbolizes a noble soul that will be passed on to all generations.
This sound can evoke Shun's heroic spirit, reunite lovers on Top of Xiangshui, and let Bai Zhi in the place where Quzi Shenjiang is sinking blossom and spit out fragrance. The sound of Xiang Ling's piano makes those beautiful souls aroused and resurrected by the sound of the piano.
The sound of Xiang Ling's piano enveloped both sides of and above the Xiang River, turning into a powerful wave of grief and attacking the Eight Hundred Mile Dongting Lake. How nice would it be if this sound could revive all the heroic spirits in the river? Only the song finally dispersed, and all the gods and heroic souls disappeared without a trace.
The last sentence is written with a long afterglow, and the song is scattered at the end, and there is nothing left. You can only see the river above, leaving a faint few points of Qingfeng. The gods are gone, and a trace of regret arises in people's hearts. But above the Qingfeng at the end of the river, will there be something else?
Qian Qi was a ten-year jinshi of Tianbao, and later became an official to "Kao Gong Lang". He is good at writing five-word poems, elegant and beautiful language, and is best at writing scenes. With Lu Lun, who wrote that "the black geese in the moon fly high and escape at night alone", he is the same as the "Ten Talents of the Great Calendar" of the Tang Dynasty.
Qian Qi's luck was not very good, he lived in a peaceful and prosperous world as a teenager, but unfortunately, after he became famous, he soon encountered the Anshi Rebellion. After becoming famous for writing poetry, he became a minor official named School Scribe.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, he was sent to Lantian County as a county lieutenant. It is the one responsible for the administration of law and order. As a result, he soon caught up with the Anshi Rebellion, and he was unable to be promoted. When the county lieutenant was eight years old, his hair was gray.
In the last years of Tianbao, Wang Wei traveled to the area around Yuanchuan, and Qian Qi ran with Wang Wei, and later wrote poetry under the influence of Wang Wei. The more you write, the more "idle". No matter how much the world was turned upside down outside, he only buried his head in writing the scenery, never mentioning what actually happened, as if the war had never happened.
After the end of the war, he greeted the officials everywhere, courted the magnates, wrote a lot of bad poems to please others, and became a priest and a foreign groom. Finally, the official was "Kao Gong Lang Zhong", a low-ranking official in the bureaucracy, who was specifically responsible for examining the merits of officials after their death, drawing up the standards for their titles and pensions, and so on.
Many of the poets of the Tang Dynasty were high-ranking scholars, and the famous "King of Poetry" Bai Juyi was said to be a "King of Examination". Although Bai Juyi was born in a family of eunuchs, his father was small and incorruptible, so poor that he could not even afford to buy a coffin when he died. Coupled with his mother's mental problems, Bai Juyi actually had a very hard time when he was a child, so he studied very hard.
Bai Juyi entered the army and after the first, he only had one candidate, and he had to wait for three years to see if he could become an official. But he couldn't wait three years because he didn't have the money. So, he ran to take an exam called "Outstanding Book Judgment" and sought to get ahead.
In order to take this exam, he specially summarized his experience and made a notebook called "Hundred Judgments", which later became the reference material for the examination recognized by the imperial court. Later, he took the "subject-making examination" and published another book, which also became a "reference material".
The great poet Wen Tingjun is a "god of examination", he often goes in and out of the examination room to be a "gunner" for others, and he has a nickname called "Wen Eight Forks". It means that he is quick-witted. Every time he took the exam, others were still thinking about how to write poetry, and he stroked his hand eight times in his sleeve, and a poem had been written. What is more funny is that he often goes to be someone else's "gunner", but when it is his turn to take the exam, he has always been famous.
Lu You: The article is natural, and the clever hand occasionally obtains it. Whether to write an article or not, for different people, there are different answers. Some talented people can write a steady stream of good works through the training of the day after tomorrow, while others, even if trained, can only wait for inspiration to come before they can write divine works.
In the text, this poem "Provincial Test Xiangling Drum ser" is a divine stroke of Inspiration from Qian Qi in the examination room, and later he also created some idealistic poems, but soon began to learn Wang Wei, good at writing landscapes, and did not talk about reality at all.
Although Qian Qi occasionally has such a good sentence as "twenty-five strings play the night moon, and the resentment is not victorious but flies", it is a pity that the original feeling can no longer be found.