Author:Jiang Zi
The egret is the most common spiritual creature in the southern landscape garden. It is romantic, lyrical, the whole body is like snow, the posture is slender, the flying posture is like the flipping of a book, and it is often used as a symbol of the traditional literati who are strong and outstanding.
The small island in the heart of the Ganjiang River in Ji'an is named after the egret. In the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1241), Zhu Xi's re-disciple, Jiang Wanli of Jizhou Zhizhou, founded the Bailuzhou Academy on the continent according to the program of his alma mater, Bailudong Academy.
When it comes to Bailuzhou Academy, people always think of Wen Tianxiang, who studied here. On talent, on merit, on thesis, Wen Tianxiang is the best spokesperson of Bailuzhou Academy, and also a beautiful and sad egret in the sky of Chinese history.
There is also an egret in bailuzhou academy, which is Liu Chenweng, a famous lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was four years older than Wen Tianxiang, and at the same time he was trained at Bailuzhou Academy, and he was also a disciple of Jiang Wanli, facing exactly the same situation. His life is also beautiful and tragic.
Liu Chenweng was born in 1232 in Guanxi, Luling (present-day Xiaoguan Village, Meitang Township, Ji'an County, Ji'an City), and was admitted to the hospital in the first year of Chunyou (1241) and became a disciple of Jiang Wanli, and his studies became more and more refined. Liu Chenweng's real association with Jiang Wanli was 19 years later in the first year of Jingding (1260). Liu Chenweng went to Lin'an, and his article was appreciated by Jiang Wanli, who was then the supervisor of the State Son, and was supplemented as a tai student. And because they are teachers and students of Bailuzhou Academy, their feelings have been increasing day by day ever since.
In the spring of the fifth year of Jingding (1264), Jiang Wanli knew jianning province and fujian transport envoy, and Liu Chenweng was invited to join his staff. In May, Jiang Wanli moved to Zhifuzhou and Fujian to pacify him, and Liu Chenweng followed him to Fuzhou.
In the summer of the first year of XianChun (1265), Jiang Wanli entered the imperial government, and Liu Chenweng entered Beijing as a professor in Lin'an Province. In the spring of the second year of XianChun (1266), Jiang Wanli resigned, and Liu Chenweng was impeached together.
In the autumn of the fourth year of Xianchun (1268), Jiang Wanli was appointed as the envoy of Jiangdong in Taiping Prefecture, and Liu Chenweng re-entered as a staff member.
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Liu Chenweng entrusted his life's future, ambitions and destiny to Jiang Wanli. For him, Jiang Wanli is the pillar of the country that the Southern Song Dynasty struggled with in danger, and it is also a spiritual idol with personality appeal. He was willing to follow him for the rest of his life, to live and die with him.
However, the situation was critical, and the elderly Jiang Wanli was unable to return to heaven. In the spring of 1275, the city of Poyang was destroyed, and Jiang Wanli, who was 77 years old at the time and returned to Poyang, led a family of 17 to commit suicide by throwing water and martyrdom.
Hearing the news that the teacher's family had thrown water, Liu Chenweng, who had taken refuge in Jishui Tiger Creek in Jizhou, was devastated. After that, he persistently traveled between Jizhou and Raozhou, risking the danger to find the whereabouts of Jiang Wanli's body. Six years later, Liu Chenweng finally went to great lengths to relocate Jiang Wanli's bones back to his hometown of Duchang.
After burying the teacher, Liu Chenweng stayed in his hometown of Luling. Luling, the place where he and his disciple Wen Tianxiang grew up, was also the place where his teacher Jiang Wanli served as Zhizhou and founded the Bailuzhou Academy, and was also the soul homeland of Ouyang Xiu, Hu Quan, Yang Bangqi, Zhou Bida, Yang Wanli and others. He guarded this place, that is, guarded the cultural roots of the Great Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was extinguished, but the culture of the Song Dynasty was still there, and he stayed in his hometown, and the cultural flame of the Song Dynasty was not extinguished.
In the face of many conscriptions from the Yuan Dynasty, he insisted on resigning. He raised flowers and vegetables in his hometown, and at the same time recruited disciples to teach what he had learned throughout his life. He took the canons of Bailuzhou Academy as his canon, in order to continue the context of Bailuzhou Academy, and also the spiritual pulse of his mentor Jiang Wanli.
He also spent a great deal of time writing poems and writings. "The country is unfortunate and the poet is lucky", the pain of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, which made his poem name. His poems and words are far-reaching, generous and deep, desolate and painful, and the scale is thousands of miles, and he is considered to be the first person to exuberant words after "Su Xin".
His favorite thing to write about is spring. Spring, which has a special meaning for him, is the season that makes him painful, implying the time scale of the fate of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is also the death date of his teacher Jiang Wanli. Jiang Wanli died in February of the first year of Deyou (1275). Liu Chenweng's "Sending Spring to the King of Lanling and Sending Spring" written in the late spring of the following year is not only a deep condolence for the fall of Lin'an in February of that year, but also a tribute to the martyrdom of Jiang Wanli the year before the water:
Send spring to go, spring to the world without a way. Outside the swing, the grass is in the sky, who sends the wind and sand to the dark South Pu. ...... Spring goes. Is it still here? Zheng Jiang Ling hated farewell, yu believed in sorrow. Su Causeway is full of wind and rain. Sigh the gods travel to the homeland, and the flowers remember the previous degree. Life is wandering, Gu Zizi, talking together at night.
Other Wing Chun works also have the tragic desolation that the river Han cannot send far away, and the sound is a bloody cry that the teacher cannot see the country and cannot return:
The grass is like a cloud, flying red like rain, and the sound of selling flowers has passed. Looking back, washing horses and deserts, more cold food, palace people obliquely closed, smoke and rain copper camels. ("The Great Sacred Music, Grass Like Clouds")
The warbler language is still there, but the spring is gone, and there is no covenant in the world. Whoever reads me, groans and is haggard, drunk and depressed. ("Manjiang Hong Yingyu Still")
No intestines can be heard to rain flowers. Shen Shen was already three more Xu. So red that can be lived. Spring mood. Half-life bondage. ...... Better to go home. Better to go home. People on Gangnam Road. ("Qingyu Case: Twilight Spring Travel")
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Emperor Yuanchengzong's reign (1297), this tragic poet who cried with blood, a famous remnant of the Southern Song Dynasty, died at his home at the age of 66. He died in the early spring, is this a coincidence, or is it a divine arrangement?
A troubled egret, an egret hidden between the green mountains and green waters of Luling in the chaotic world, finally broke free of the shackles of the flesh and flew towards the eternal spring built on his paper. There, he will eventually meet with his teacher Jiang Wanli and his disciple Wen Tianxiang. There, he looked up to the sky, pointed his fingers to the heavens, and performed the poet's chant and the heron bird took off, just like his statue in the Bailuzhou Academy today. There, the sky will be filled with the elegant and auspicious sound of the egret vibrating its feathers.
Guangming Daily (2021-09-10, 15th edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily