Li Yu, the Lord of the Tang Dynasty
The sixth son of Emperor Yuanzong of Tang, Li Jing
Reading Li Yu's fax today is a lot of feelings, and after experiencing many setbacks in life, I have another understanding of Li Yu's experience and Li Yu's poetry.
Before, in film and television dramas, anecdotal rumors, and information was obtained on the Internet, and it felt that Li Yu, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, was a very accomplished and sentimental emperor, and he was also a bit colorful, playing with Empress Zhou all day long.
When I read Li Yu's biography today, my attitude changed greatly, Li Yu was not a weak emperor, he was at least a Shoucheng emperor.
In the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (961), Li Yu succeeded to the throne, honoring the Song as orthodox and paying tribute to ensure peace. In October of the fourth year of Kaibao (971), When Song Taizu destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty, Li Yu removed the Tang title and changed his name to "Lord of Jiangnan"; the following year, he devalued the ceremonial system and removed the Jinling (present-day Nanjing) Taidian Grebe kiss to show respect for the Song court.
In this simple text, we can fully see the background of Li Yu's ascension to the throne and his strategy after he ascended the throne.
Jianlong is the era name that the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin began to use, and it was also the first era name of the Song Dynasty.
In the second year of The Song Dynasty, Li Yu ascended the throne, and in order to preserve the state society, After Li Yu ascended the throne, he immediately paid tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty.
Kaibao four years, Kaibao is also Zhao Kuangyin's era name, starting in 968, Li Yu ascended the throne in 961, and 7 years later, Song Taizu destroyed the Southern Han. Li Yu was quite panicked about this, and immediately removed the Tang title and changed it to the lord of Jiangnan, and the following year derogated the ceremonial system and removed the Jinling (present-day Nanjing) Taidian Qiyi to show respect for the Song court. The military comparison between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Later Tang Dynasty was not a level, and Li Yu's tribute to the subject was the trend of the times.
In the eighth year of Kaibao (975), the Song army attacked Jinling, and Li Yu was forced to surrender to the Song, and was captured in Fenjing (present-day Kaifeng), where he was made the general of the Right Qianniu Wei and the Marquis of Disobedience.
From 961 to 975, from li yu's ascension to the throne to his capture, 15 years. Li Yuzhan served the Northern Song Dynasty for 15 years, and finally could not escape the fate of the country and the death of the family.
In the seventh year of Kaibao (974), Li Yu begged Li Congshan to return to China, but Song Taizu did not allow it. In the autumn, Song Taizu successively sent Liang Yi and Li Mu to the Southern Tang Dynasty, on the pretext of sacrificing heaven, to order Li Yu to enter the capital, but Li Yutuo fell ill and replied that "the subjects served the great dynasty, hoping to preserve the Temple, and they could not imagine that this would happen, and the matter would come to this point, only death."
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin summoned Li Yu to the capital to worship the heavens, and this meaning was quite obvious. Li Yu was also sad and indignant: "The subject served the Great Dynasty, hoping to preserve the Zongmiao Temple, but he did not expect that this would happen, and the matter would end here, only death."
Li Yu knew that he should come, and sooner or later he would come. In the end, Li Yu did not choose to surrender like Liu Chan. Instead, it is to make a final fight with the Northern Song Dynasty. This is also the dignity that a monarch should have.
The weak Southern Tang fought against the powerful Northern Song Dynasty for 1 year.
After the Song and Southern Tang wars, Li Yu immediately severed diplomatic relations with the Song, sent troops to fight, and personally toured the city, from the perspective of the course of the war, Li Yu's military strategy was appropriate, the Song army officially sent troops in October of the seventh year of Kaibao, and by December of the eighth year of Kaibao, it lasted more than a year, of which the Song army's army was under Jinling City for up to a year. Although the war situation was unfavorable to the Southern Tang, both sides also had successes and failures. It was the repeated battles in these places that pinned down the strength of the Song army, resulting in a long siege of Jinling and unable to go down, and even made Zhao Kuangyin waver and plan to withdraw his army and rest.
What posterity admires most is Li Yu's poetry.
Li Yu is versatile, good at painting, able to write poetry, and knows the rhythm of music, especially the achievement of words is the greatest. Li Yu's words, there are more than thirty surviving poems, in terms of content, can be divided into two periods before and after the fall of the country and the Song Dynasty: the early words mainly reflect the court life and the love between men and women, the style is beautiful and soft, although it does not take off the habits of the huajian school, but in the description of characters and scenes, it has a greater artistic summary power than the huajian lyricists, and in some words, it also reveals heavy sorrow (such as "Qing Ping Le Bei Lai Chun Ban"); the later words reflect the pain of the subjugation of the country, mourning and desolation, far-reaching artistic conception, and extremely artistic appeal.
Enjoy Li Yu's famous article.
"When is the Autumn Moon of Yu Meiren?
original:
When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past? Xiao Lou had another east wind last night, and the homeland could not look back at the moon!
The carved fence jade should still be there, but Zhu Yan changed. How much sorrow can you have? It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
。 On July 7, the third year of the Taiping Revival (978), Li Yu died in Beijing, and was known as the Southern Tang Dynasty Empress Dowager and Li Hou Lord. Li Yujing's calligraphy, painting, and phonological rhythms all have certain achievements, especially the highest achievements in words. Li Yu's words, inheriting the tradition of Wen Tingjun, Wei Zhuang and other Huajian poets since the late Tang Dynasty, and influenced by Li Jing, Feng Yanwei, etc., have bright language, vivid images, sincere feelings, and distinct styles, and their post-fall lyrics are even more broad in subject matter and deep in meaning, which are unique among the five pronouns of the late Tang Dynasty and have a far-reaching influence on the lexicon of later generations.