Original 2017-11-17 Xu Junmin 8 pm
Fang Hao, word Si Dao, civilized people. Zhengde three years into the soldier. In addition to Kunshan Zhi County, the head of the Relocation Department. Emperor Wuzong toured the south, knelt down for five days, and received the staff again. Li guan Huguang deputy envoy, recalled.
- "Ming Shi Liechuan 174 Wenyuan II"
I have always felt that Fang Hao is a literati in his bones.
I often think that Fang Hao is actually not suitable for being an official. A person who is good at being an official probably needs to learn a little bit of the ability to see the wind and make the rudder, and it is also very important to learn to protect himself at a critical time, and in these aspects, it is a pity that Fang Hao has become a negative teaching material.
Fang Hao, zi Si Dao, because he was born in a small village called Tangling (now part of Jinlu Village, Qinyang Office, Kaihua County), so he called himself Tangling Shanren, known as Fang Tangling.
In the spring of the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Emperor Mingwu Zhu Houzhao, who was a master of Jiatai, toured Liangqi and Shandong, and under the banner of praying for blessings from the gods, he did something wrong to the country and the wrong family. Emperor Wuzong was dumbfounded, the eunuchs used things, and the ministers in Beijing urged Emperor Wuzong to patrol the affairs. Emperor Wuzong was furious, and the officials of each ministry were sentenced to kneel outside the noon gate for five days, and five days later, Emperor Wuzong ordered the execution of these one hundred and seven officials. In the "Ming Shi Wuzong", it is recorded as follows: "It is the day, and the wind and haze are obscure. This was an atrocity that had never been committed in human history, and even Qin Shi Huang, who was "a book burner and pit Confucianism", had to sigh in front of Emperor Wuzong. Even historians who tried to make an objective and fair assessment of history used the sentimental term "wind and haze and obscurity" when describing this incident. In this incident, a total of eleven people were killed before and after.
That year, Fang Hao served as the chief of the Punishment Department. Before him, there were already many ministers of the bureaucracy and the ministry of ceremonies who had been imprisoned for the southern tour of Wu Zongnan, and he should have understood very well what the result of a small master was to go to the emperor at this time, and many people avoided it, but he still had to risk death to play the game, and according to reason, the result was a tragic cane.
In ancient China, there were many people who were not good at running the official field, but they always floated and floated in the official field, which is not an interesting phenomenon. Sometimes, I often think that it is precisely because there are these strong and stubborn people in the official arena, who regard the world as their own responsibility and pretend to be out of place, who are upright and clean, and who are bright and upright, that people can see the hope of history and make history have a little bright color.
Those who can take the world as their own responsibility and pretend that it is inappropriate to pretend to be anachronistic are usually literati and politicians who will not do this. Therefore, although Fang Hao has been in the official field in the middle of the Ming Dynasty for more than twenty years, he has always been a literati.
The famous prose of the Ming Dynasty is described by Youguang in his "Record of the Lying Stone Pavilion": "Yu Wen forty years ago, the great end (大末, that is, the tai mo county. Quzhou Qin shi belonged to the Taimu County) people came to Wu County, known as Mr. Fang Tangling. Tangling Hai Nei, You He and Li Zhuren, named after poetry. It is a county order, elegant and elegant, with favor and love for people, and still people think about it. In this article, Gui Youguang defines Fang Hao as a famous scholar in the world who is famous for his poetry, and points out that he had close contacts with He Jingming and Li Mengyang, the representative figures of the "first seven sons" in the literary world at that time, and was an important figure in the literary circle at that time. Guishi is a contemporary of Fang Hao later, and his evaluation of Fang Hao is more true and credible. Obviously, Guishi prefers to regard Fang Hao as a literati, and for his political achievements in Renzhi County, Kunshan, Guishi uses "elegant and elegant, with favor and love for others" to summarize, I always feel that it is not like the praise of the other party Hao for the government, but rather like writing the innocence of the literati for the government.
In fact, in Fang Hao's official eunuch career, the most official was a criminal officer, but as a criminal officer, he could be called more elegant. In the Ming Dynasty He Liangjun's "Treatise on the Painting of the Four Friends", a very interesting incident is recorded, saying that there is a Buddha statue on the stone of Feilaifeng in the West Lake, which was carved by Yang Lian monk during the Yuan Dynasty; there is a portrait on the back wall of the Xiatianzhu Temple, which was painted by Wang Shuming, and in the place where the portrait peeled off, a man named Sun Zaizi made up the painting at that time. Fang Hao happened to be sent to Jiangnan to review the case, and after passing through this place, he wrote a sentence with a pen, saying that Feilaifeng was a natural spectacle, and since the Buddha statue was carved by Yang's family, the natural spectacle had been destroyed; Wang Shuming's painting was a man-made spectacle, and since it was painted by Sun Zaizi, the man-made spectacle had been destroyed. These two are doubtful cases that have been uneven in the mountains for a thousand years, I am a judge, I do not overturn the case for them, how can I convince people?
Yang Lian monk and Sun Zaizi were taken as defendants, and for Fei Laifeng and Wang Shuming were upset, they sentenced a "suspicious case that has been uneven in the mountains for a thousand years." Such a true disposition is probably only done by literati. A criminal officer, who deals with major murder cases all day long, does not feel the gloom and impermanence of life, and can still have such a literary pride, which is really precious. The Fei Lai Feng case can be called the world's first strange case, and Fang Hao's judgment can also be called the world's first judgment, no wonder this story is recorded in the notes of many literati in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
To say that Fang Hao is a literati lies not only in the true nature of his being an official, but also in the fact that he applies this true nature to the creation of poetry. The famous Ming Dynasty novelist Feng Menglong recorded a conversation between Fang Hao and his friend Zhang Kunlun in his notebook novel "Ancient and Modern Tan Outline", and Fang Hao criticized his friend: "Although Junshi is good, it is not true, such as no mountain is called a mountain, no water is endowed with water, it is not happy and smooth, and it is not relative and mournful." Although the poem is inferior, the sentiment is real. Zhang Kunlun retorted, "The poet politely resigns, if King Wen thinks of his concubine, will he come to the river to see Sui Jiuye?" That is, if you are walking, why carry a hundred jugs of sake, and yun 'a hundred jugs of sake, but bamboo shoots and pu'? If it is true, then 'a bottle of old wine, tofu noodles' ear. ”
Although, in this debate about whether poetry should be based on "facts", Fang Hao did not convince Zhang Kunlun, he pointed out that the form of composing poems "no mountains call mountains, no water endows water, non-joy and smoothness, no affection and mourning" is not advisable, although it is accused by old friends of being pedantic, it is not unreasonable.
Regarding Fang Hao's poetic achievements, Jiang Yikui's notebook "Yaoshan Tang Waiji" in the Ming Dynasty contains a poem given to Fang Hao by the young master Xia Yan, two of which evaluate Fang Hao in this way: "The wind flow does not reduce Li Taibai, and the qi shore is really the same as Du Zimei." Comparing Fang Hao to contemporary Li Bai and Du Fu, although it is inevitable that there is excessive praise, it can be seen that he has an important position in the poetry world at that time. The famous theologian Mr. Wang Yangming also has the sentence "Every time there is a spring stone, a Tangling poem will be engraved" in the poem "Passing the Changshan Beifang Tangling", and for his proud disciple, Mr. Yang Ming is also quite respected.
More than five hundred years ago, Fang Hao walked out of a small village called Tangling ten kilometers east of Kaihua County, and perhaps he never thought that when he crossed the stone arch bridge in front of the village, he would enter history. For more than five hundred years, although the Si people have long gone, the world is still telling his story, one is the official truth, the poetry is true, the person is true, the truth is almost pedantic, the roundabout is almost cute literati Fang Hao, and the other is inexhaustible Fang Hao.
The author is a teacher at Chinatown Middle School in Quzhou City
"Eight o'clock in the evening" contributing writer