Luo Yin was the first name among the poets of the late Tang Dynasty, "Bar Jing". Because he was good at writing satirical poems and had a solid foundation in historiography, he was once on a par with Wen Tingjun and Li Shangyin at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and was called "Three Talents".
King Qian Ofe of Wuyue commented on him: The Yellow River still has a clarification day, and it should be difficult for future generations to succeed in this talent. Lu Xun praised his articles as profound and combative. According to legend, Luo Yin was already famous in the world in his youth, and he was favored by the three prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty.
However, because Luo Yin likes to "shake the sky against the air", he is "not the first in ten". However, he still can't change the problem of "bar essence", no matter what subject matter he writes, he must also "leverage". For example, he wrote a song called "Snow" five masterpieces, you think he wants to write scenes, but in fact he is cursing.
First, the original text of "Snow" appreciation
"Snow" – Don Rohan
As far as the good years are, the good years are like nothing.
There are poor people in Chang'an, and there should not be more for Rui.
Poetry Paraphrasing:
It is said that the snow is a mega year, and the snow must indicate a good year? There are so many poor people in Chang'an City, let's make less auspicious rui.
"Ruixue Mega Year" is a very widely spread folk agricultural proverb, which means that if there is heavy snow in winter, in the following year, the crops will be harvested.
Luo Yin questions this statement in the first and second sentences of the poem. Because not every heavy snowfall is "snow", it does not necessarily bring about a good harvest in the next year.
The rich families and nobles in Chang'an City did not cultivate their own fields, and with only a proverb, they began to laugh and celebrate when they saw the snow. Luo Yin was not accustomed to this. The snow is not big or small, just enough to kill the poisonous insects in the field, making the hard soil in the north soft and conducive to farming.
But what good year is it that snow falls one day, or if heavy snow falls in the southern fields that don't need snow? The year of disaster is not even close!
However, for this question, Luo Yin did not bother to explain. Anyway, these rich families and nobles did not cultivate the land, and he could not understand it. Moreover, what he was trying to say was not a question of the accuracy of the proverb, but a question of empathy between one group of people and another.
Therefore, in the third and fourth sentences of the poem, he pointed the contradiction directly to the people in Chang'an City and said: When you are happy to see snow, have you ever considered the poor people in the city?
There are so many poor people in Chang'an City, and it is cold in winter, and they are about to freeze to death if they can't eat enough or wear warm clothes. But you are there screaming Xiangrui vigorously, do you think it is appropriate! This is why the full man does not know that the hungry man is hungry.
More seriously, Chang'an, as the capital of the Tang Dynasty at that time, was still the majority of these poor people. In such a situation, how can you still be happy?
Because of the limitation of space, the sentence was not long for reasoning, but longer than lyricism. However, Luo Yin had to use absolute sentences to explain reasoning, and he was not in his best use of the 28-word seven absolutes, only using the 20-word five absolutes, he made the reason clear and clear.
Luo Yin prefers to create poetry on the theme of snow, and once created seven absolute and seven laws for snow, and there is also a "Post-Snow Endowment", which depicts the scenery, objects, people and movements of drifting snow in the snow, which is very expressive.
But he is best known for his poignant satire and vulgar language like this "Snow". In just twenty words, it hit the "seven inches" of the Nobles and Rich Households in Chang'an. The first two sentences ridicule them for not understanding farming, and the last two sentences accuse them of not understanding sympathy.
Du Fu once had a poetry cloud: Zhumen wine smelled of flesh, and the road had frozen bones. Rich people naturally sell charcoal to make a fire and bake a hand stove in winter. After drinking and eating, enjoy the snow scenery, have a snowball fight is so comfortable, who cares whether the poor people outside the door will freeze to death.
The most infuriating thing is that they get cheap and sell well, and they stand and talk without waist pain. He is still saying to the poor: Wow, the snow is good, won't you have a good harvest next year?
Who told you that if it snows this year, you will have a great harvest next year? Besides, there are so many poor people now, but I am afraid that before next year, the poor people in the city will freeze to death!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, the "bar spirit" who loves to write satirical poetry</h1>
Luo Yin was originally named Luo Heng and was from Zhejiang. Because his poetry was severely degraded in the Song Dynasty, there is no biography of him in the New Book of Tang and other canonical histories. The Biography of Tang Caizi says that his works are witty, humorous, satirical, and relatively vulgar.
Before Luo Yin was twenty-six years old, he was already famous for his poetry. Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Ling Huxian admired Luo Yin very much, and he once said to his son: I don't want you to pass the entrance examination, I just hope that you can learn a little bit of Luo Yin's skin.
The two chancellors, Zheng Bi and Li Wei, who were later chancellors, also admired his literary talents. However, since the age of twenty-six, Luo Yin has not been able to pass the first place in scientific expeditions for many consecutive years, and history is called "the tenth is not the first".
Why is this happening? It was because he "couldn't control his mouth." According to the Chronicle of Tang Poetry, Tang Zhaozong heard of Luo Yin's name and wanted to summon him to become an official in the dynasty, but the ministers wrote letters opposing it.
Tang Zhaozong asked the chancellor why he objected. The minister said: Although this man is very talented, he is very casual. A monarch as good as Tang Xuanzong was also ridiculed by him. If he were to become an official, he would only be afraid that the Manchu Dynasty would have no place to hide, and letting him become an official would not be conducive to the unity within the imperial court.
Tang Zhaozong asked again: What did he do, and you want to say this? The minister said: You don't know wow, he wrote a poem "Huaqing Palace" to ridicule Tang Xuanzong: "I also know that Desheng Yaoshun, Consort Yang Xie Laugh He." ”
This means: You Tang Ming Emperor also understands moral articles, and you also know Yao Shun Yu Tang? As a result, Yang Yuhuan smiled at you, Oh! You've read all those books in vain! When Tang Zhaozong heard these words, he was speechless.
It is said that Luo Yin's real name is Luo Heng, which is really a person like his name, a bit "horizontal". Knowing that others did not like him to write satirical poems, he insisted on writing them. It was normal for him to go to the examination for the examination of "ten grades", and no chief examiner dared to let him pass the examination.
Otherwise, you let him enter the army and the first one in the first month, and if it is found out that he has written "anti-poetry" in the second month, he can make your head fall to the ground! Thinking about this, Luo Yin officially renamed himself "Cain" and ran to Chizhou to live in seclusion.
However, after living in seclusion, his fame was still very large, and Huang Chao and Qian Wei successively invited him to come out as officials. In the end, he worked under Qian Wei for twenty-two years, and in the official zhishi, he was known as Luo Zhishi.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Luo Yin was very famous in the late Tang Dynasty, and it is introduced in the "Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties" that "luo yin is known to everyone in the world", but after five generations, especially in the Song Dynasty, it was seriously degraded.
Because of his poetic style, it did not meet the requirements of the Confucian "Wen Dun Ren Hou". Therefore, it was buried for more than a thousand years, and it was not excavated by Mr. Lu Xun until modern times.
Luo Yin cared about current affairs, loved the people, and spared no effort to write many satirical poems. Because the language was too spicy, the late Tang Dynasty state refused to let him become a high official, but still gave him full freedom of speech. Therefore, the people of the government and the opposition all admired him.
On the other hand, the Song Dynasty, which was famous for attaching importance to the literati, Confucianism was in charge, and there was no room for such an "outlier" as Luo Yin. Not only did Xiu Shi not give him a biography, nor did he include his works in poetry, so he was silent for more than a thousand years.