When it comes to the history of history, I believe most people know that of the 24 histories, the first four histories are the most classic.
"History", "Book of Han", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Book of the Later Han" can be called the classics of the classics, of which the authors of the first three parts are familiar to us, after all, the fame is too big, and fan Ye, the author of the "Book of later Han", we still know very little about it.
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Fan Ye was a historian of the Southern Dynasty and song dynasty, born into a famous family, with outstanding learning, especially his achievements in historiography were dazzling!
It is such a person, what do you think his life label is? Gentleman? Integrity? Humble gentleman? Or is it etiquette and filial piety?
Maybe none of the above is true, but his label is actually a rich man who is not tolerated by our conventional moral bottom line, unfaithful and filial piety, greedy and afraid of death, and arrogant and small! So why is this the result? A person who has achieved great success in the cultural world has disgraced the morality of the essence of Chinese culture?
In that era of strict etiquette and morality, how did he practice such a skill? His grandfather Fan Ning was a scholar of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he had the "Spring and Autumn Liang Biography Collection" his uncle Fan Hongzhi guan zhi Taixue Doctor, and his father Fan Tai became a Zhongshu waiter in the Jin Dynasty, and it is reasonable to say that such an official eunuch family, the tutoring etiquette should be very strict! Could it be that there was a problem with the once indispensable Shunyang Fan family education?
It is said that Fan Ye's mother was Fan Tai's concubine, because of his humble origin, he could not be valued by old Fan Ye, and no one cared about fan Ye when he was born, so Fan Ye was born in the toilet, which shows that Fan Ye was not born with a golden key, but it is still a little bit of ancestral light, and he will not starve to death and will not live on the street!
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It is said that fate will not give up anyone who suffers, although Fan Ye was born in the toilet, but he has a very high IQ, and at a very young age he had a hobby, that is, reading! As a family at that time, the Fan family naturally did not have less books, Fan Ye read his own collection of books when he was a teenager, and this knowledge reserve laid the foundation for him to write the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" later!
He can not only write a good article but also a good hand, but also a good hand, and what is even more surprising is that he also has a very good study of musical rhythms, and Emperor Wen of Song of the Liu Song Dynasty liked to listen to him play the pipa very much! It can be said that Fan Ye has some status in front of the emperor, at least a small and famous entertainment knowledge anchor.
In ancient times, many talented people could not be reused by the authorities, and this can be seen very clearly from the various encounters of our big men in the poetry world, many times because of their own personality decisions, Fan Ye is also one of them!
One of the most nonsensical things Fan Ye did was sing at the funeral of Princess Wang, the mother of Liu Yikang, the king of Pengcheng!
Liu Yikang is Fan Ye's boss, and it is reasonable to say that it is impossible for an individual to provoke his boss, that is the person who decides his year-end award! But this Fan Ye does not believe in evil, he wants to get Liu Yikang, it is estimated that usually small shoes wear too much, lame!
Liu Yikang's old wife is dead, you as a subordinate should go to mourn a pat on the back or something, this Fan Ye not only did not go, but also with Liu Yikang's neighbor, his own brother Fan Guangyuan at home to drink, you drink wine to drink the bar, they drink high, start singing, but also sing that kind of very hi melody, all say you sing it! Fan Ye wanted to die, to open the big window facing Liu Yikang's house and sing loudly to the courtyard of the people!
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When Liu Yikang heard that this guy was so ignorant of lifting, he angrily demoted Fan Ye to Xuancheng Taishou!
In fact, this is not to blame Liu Yikang, the good villain is a king, your boss, you can't be too faceless!
After Fan Ye was degraded, he began to be depressed and unhappy! It was precisely because of this blow that he began to write the Book of the Later Han Dynasty to achieve the peak of his life!
(Unfinished, how Fan Ye sank on the mahjong table below)