The "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty" refers to the four outstanding literary figures of the early Tang Dynasty, namely Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin and Luo Binwang. The Tang Dynasty poet Song Zhiwen put forward "Wang, Yang, Lu, and Luo" in this preface in the "Commentary on the Sacrifice of Du Scholars" written by Jing Long in the second year (708). Among the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, the oldest was Lu Zhaolin.
Lu Zhaolin was born in Fanyang, Youzhou (present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei), about 630 years ago. The Lu Zhaolin family belongs to the Fanyang Lu clan, which was a famous and prestigious clan during the Sui and Tang dynasties. In Lu Zhaolin's branch, although the family business is still relatively prosperous, but there has been no famous official or scholar for a long time, Lu Zhaolin's father placed great hopes on him, hoping that this child will be able to illuminate the four neighbors in the future, gave him the name "Zhaolin", and used "Shengzhi" as the word for Lu Zhaolin. From Lu Zhaolin's name and characters, it can be clearly felt that his father is full of expectations for him to be able to illuminate the lintel and promote him to the rank of lord in the future.
Lu Zhaolin began to study poetry books when he was a child, and at the age of ten, he went south to Jiangnan to continue to study the history of scriptures with literary confucians and jingshi experts. The young Lu Zhaolin had already shown a good literary talent, he was erudite and good at writing, so he, like many literati at that time, went to Chang'an to seek help.
After Lu Zhaolin arrived in Chang'an, he was very fortunate to know Laiji, a heavy minister at that time, and Laiji appreciated Lu Zhaolin very much, and with the help and recommendation of Laiji, as well as his own outstanding talent, Lu Zhaolin, who had just entered Chang'an, became famous.
Later, after Emperor Gaozong's uncle Li Yuanyu of Deng heard about Lu Zhaolin's affairs, he asked Lu Zhaolin to go to the Palace of Deng to make a canon, which was equivalent to the official in charge of the documents among the crown princes. In Lu Zhaolin's bumpy life, this period of time in the Deng King's Mansion was very smooth. King Deng loved Lu Zhaolin very much, and once said to everyone at the banquet: "Lu Zhaolin is my Sima Xiangru." "The Deng Wangfu has a rich collection of books, Lu Zhaolin is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and during his work in the Deng Wangfu, he often looked through the collection, and he could say 80% or 90% of the contents of the book just by reading it once, which made Deng Wang very surprised.
When Lu Zhaolin worked in the Palace of The Tang Dynasty, he often saw frequent exchanges between the famous nobles of Chang'an, the frequent occurrence of BMW incense cars, and the ambiguous atmosphere of drunken gold fans between the light and shadow, but carefully identified, in this atmosphere that makes people feel like feathers in the air, there is also a crisis of mutual dumping. Yi Jie Shusheng coldly observed everything around him, remembering the history of changing generations, what could it mean to see the prosperity in front of him? A seven-word ancient poem was constantly brewing in Lu Zhaolin's heart. This is the most famous song and long poem in the early Tang Dynasty, "Chang'an Guyi".
Chang'an Ancient Meaning
Don Lu Zhaolin
Chang'an Avenue is even narrow and oblique, and the green cow and white horse seven-spice car.
The jade dragon crossed the main hall, and the golden whip rushed towards the Hou family.
The dragon treasure covers the morning sun, and the phoenix spits tassels with sunset.
A hundred feet of gossamer scrambled around the tree, and a flock of petite birds chirped together.
Bee play butterfly thousand door side, bi tree silver table ten thousand colors.
The double road crosses the window for a joint, and the double que lian yong hangs the phoenix wings.
The Liang family painting cabinet rises from the sky, and the golden stem of the Han Emperor is straight out of the clouds.
Don't know each other in front of the building, and don't know each other?
Borrowing the pipe to the purple smoke, once learned to dance for a long time.
He who has to die is willing to be a Mandarin duck and not envy the immortal.
The flounder duck is really enviable, and the double goes to the double to see?
Raw hate tent forehead embroidered lonely bird, so as to take the curtain paste double swallow.
Double swallows fly around the painting beams, and Luo Weicui is covered with tulips.
The pieces are clouded with cicada sideburns, and the fibrous first moon is yellow.
Out of the white car with yellow powder, it contains a delicate attitude.
The demon boy BMW iron even money, prostitute pan dragon gold bent knees.
The imperial family palace was crying at night, and the birds in front of the court were eager to perch.
Hidden ZhuCheng Linyu Road, far away from the green and green without the golden causeway.
Flying Eagle Duling North, Tan maru borrows guests from Weiqiao West.
Invite the chivalrous furong sword, and stay with the prostitute family peach Li Qi.
Prostitutes twilight violet skirt, a song of a mouthful of atmosphere.
The north hall is like a moon at night, and the south is like a cloud.
NanmoBeitang is connected to the north, and the five dramas and three articles control three cities.
Weak willow green locust hanging on the ground, good red dust dark sky.
Han Dynasty JinWu Qian rode in, emerald Tu Su parrot cup.
Luo Baobao belt is Jun xie, and Yan Ge Zhao dance is Jun Kai.
Don't have a luxurious name to be a general, and the day will not be reciprocated.
The origin of the will is to drain the bushman, and the monopoly judgment does not tolerate Xiao Xiang.
The authoritarian spirit is arrogant, and the green and purple swallows sit in the spring wind.
He said that he had been singing and dancing for thousands of years, and he claimed to be arrogant and extravagant.
The scenery of the festival does not treat each other, and the kuwata bihai must be changed.
In the past, the Golden Steps White Jade Hall, that is, now only qingsong is there.
Lonely and few Yangzi residences, years and years and a bed of books.
Unique Nanshan osmanthus hair, flying around to attack people.
In the bustling and busy Chang'an City, in the midst of the surging sea of people, Lu Zhaolin is just a small floating dust, and when he completes "Chang'an Ancient Meaning", people seem to see this star that has begun to shine dazzlingly. Lu Zhaolin has always regarded himself very highly and does not want to be greeted. This long poem full of satire on the magnates also aroused the disgust of the magnates, and it was not long before Lu Zhaolin was framed and imprisoned. Lu Zhaolin did not expect that a poem would make him suffer this misfortune, and he suffered a lot in prison, but it was only when his friends ran for him that he could see the light of day again.
In the Deng Wangfu for nearly ten years, Lu Zhaolin did not get any opportunity for promotion, still a sesame petty official, Lu Zhaolin has been determined to serve the country since he was a child, but the difference between the feats between the small official and the country is too far away. Even more unfortunately, the death of King Deng caused Lu Zhaolin to lose this small pawn position.
The imperial court sent him to Yizhou Xindu (present-day Chengdu, Sichuan) as a county lieutenant, equivalent to the county's public security bureau chief, compared to the previous canon, not rising but falling. Lu Zhaolin did not have the slightest expectation for this dispatch, and arrived at the new post in a trance for nearly ten years.
Lu Zhaolin, who had reached middle age, found that his body was being eroded by wind and disease, and he hurriedly left the new capital to luoyang to seek medical treatment and medicine in order to restore his health. Since Lu Zhaolin's illness, his life has taken a sharp turn, so that he has been suppressed by the disease.
Lu Zhaolin scattered his family wealth to cure the disease, and his life fell into an unprecedented predicament. Hearing that the medicine king Sun Simiao lived near Luoyang, he went to visit the medicine king, hoping that the medicine king would use exquisite medical skills to keep him away from the pain. However, after Sun Simiao saw Lu Zhaolin, he asked a little question and did not say much. In fact, the medicine king was very clear that Lu Zhaolin's wind disease was no longer curable. Lu Zhaolin did not give up on himself, and he opened up more than a dozen acres of fields in the mountains as a place for his own recuperation.
In order to cure the wind disease, Lu Zhaolin has spent a lot of money, and there is no stable source of income, he has no choice but to beg for money from the dignitaries and nobles, sometimes only for two thousand dollars, but also to make a humble appearance, the poet in the illness has long been unable to take care of these, early recovery is what he is most looking forward to. The wind disease became more and more serious, and his body began to curl up, his limbs deformed, his eyebrows fell out, his teeth fell out, and he became more and more out of shape.
When Lu Zhaolin got along with Sun Simiao, he was influenced by Taoism. The Confucianism that had been rooted in his heart since childhood gradually became shallow, and Lu Zhaolin wanted to alleviate his own pain by believing in the Taoist method of health. As the illness never improved, the influence of Taoism slowly waned in his heart, and he turned to Buddhism, often praying for blessings.
Unfortunately, no matter what, Lu Zhaolin's wind disease was getting worse and worse, and the poet who was shaped like a withered mallet wrote many articles about what he was thinking and thinking in his illness. The poet was deeply tormented by illness at this time, and when he wrote, he no longer wanted to be restricted by the rules in the article, and he rarely wrote poetry again, but wrote many articles, straight to the chest, no longer bound.
The departure of his relatives, the hardships of life, the torment of illness, Lu Zhaolin felt deeply tired, he has slowly lost the belief in life, and his final struggle with the painful wind disease is to take the initiative to end his life. He forcibly endured the great grief in his heart and said goodbye to his relatives, threw himself into the water and died, and finally stopped being destroyed by illness and life, and gained liberation.