Under the influence of the chinese Confucian literary and gentle and generous aesthetics, most of the traditional Chinese intellectuals have been cautious and cautious all their lives, carefully living on the track prescribed by Confucianism, and dare not cross the thunder pond for half a step.
But there are always exceptions. In the turbulent times, there were also some debauched and freedom-loving literati who raised the banner of freedom in life; they had unparalleled self-esteem and self-confidence in their hearts, and the pursuit of freedom; they did not take the usual path; they were not intimidated by power; they were not confused by goods; they were not bound by the world. Their lives, together with their poetry, became a wonderful bright spot in gentle And Thick Confucianism.
This bright color, the most wonderful chapter, reverberates in the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was an era of wild and magnificent.
The poets of the Tang Dynasty were really crazy.
In fact, the celebrities of the Wei and Jin dynasties also went crazy out of the sky. But the wild birth of the Wei and Jin dynasties is completely different from the wildness of the Tang Dynasty.
The Wei and Jin dynasties were a tragic era of intellectuals, and in the context of the precariousness of life, the wild birthdays of wei and Jin celebrities were saddened by the uncertainty of life. They are trapped beasts with nowhere to escape, dancing madly on the shackles of life. In the helpless fate, the Wei and Jin celebrities saw the strange road of life, saw the cage, and saw the confusion of the future and the confusion of not knowing the direction. Therefore, the madness of the Wei and Jin dynasties is the lament of the last days that they sang with their lives.
The Tang Dynasty, which came with the wild spirit of the northern nomads, was completely different. The literati of that era, the background of their times was the grandeur and heroism of the Great Tang Dynasty, and their cultural background was the majesty of the north and the elegance of the south.
Compared with the self-isolation and self-hatred of the literati of the Wei and Jin dynasties and the Six Dynasties, the world of activity of the literati of the Tang Dynasty was opened up as never before. They walked out of the loft of the Literati of the Six Dynasties, out of the Red Chamber full of ambiguity, and towards the borderlands of the deep and distant border pass desert. They "searched for immortals in the Five Mountains and did not quit far away", went to the mountains and rivers, and with the support of the belief of "reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles", the literati of the Tang Dynasty stepped out of the profound and majestic atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty.
The madness of the Tang people is a passion from youth, and it is the self-esteem, self-confidence, and even arrogance of the main consciousness of life. Therefore, we can say that the madness of the Wei and Jin dynasties was forced out; the madness of the Tang Dynasty was lived out. The madness of the Wei and Jin dynasties is the lament of the end times, while the madness of the Tang Dynasty era is the rhapsody of youth.
Accompanied by the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, a poet full of self-esteem and self-confidence. The fun Sinology will give you an inventory of the top ten most arrogant poets of the Tang Dynasty.
The first madman in the early Tang Dynasty was the famous poet Du Zhenyan, who was known as the "Four Friends of the Article" by Li Zhao, Cui Rong, and Su Wei. If Du Zhenyan knew that his grandson Du Fu had become a poet saint in the future, he would probably have been even more crazy. In fact, Du Fu was also very crazy, he once boasted that his grandfather Du Zhenyan said, "Wuzu Shiguangu", that is to say, Qu Yuan, Cao Cao, Big and Small Xie, Tao Yuanming, in front of his grandfather Du Zhenyan, are all small fish and shrimp. And Du Fu's madness must come from Du Zhenyan's powerful DNA. Du Zhenyan was also full of confidence in his own level.
The history books say: "Su Wei was a heavenly official waiter, and the trial and judgment were made, and the people said: 'Taste will die.'" The man asked in amazement, "He who sees my judgment, be ashamed of my ears!" ’”
The famous poet Su Weiwei was the chief examiner of an exam, while Du Zhenyan was a candidate. After the exam, Du Xianyan told others when he left the exam room that the chief examiner, Su Wei, was dead. Someone asked him why. Du Zhenyan said: "My article is so well written, Su Wei must have been ashamed to death after reading it."
The literati under the shrouded atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, their understanding of themselves, like the rising national strength, has an almost arrogant self-confidence, which is the confidence and madness characteristic of the literati in the early Tang Dynasty. At this point, Du Zhenyan was not fighting alone. The early Tang Dynasty poet Wang Ji and his nephew Wang Bo, the four genius teenagers of the Early Tang Dynasty, the Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty, also ascended to the literary scene of the Early Tang Dynasty with the confidence of youthful fans.
Du Zhenyan's madness really responded to a sentence - crazy to death. When Du Zhenyan died of illness, the famous literati and the poet Song Zhiwen, who was also Favored by Wu Zetian, and others went to visit him, and Du Zhenyan said, I have suffered a lot of the creation of a child, and there is nothing to say when I die. But I am not blind to death, I am alive, always suppress you can not come out, dead and no one to follow, uncomfortable!
Crazy enough? It's crazy to death.
The second madman is the famous man Xiao Yingshi. All talented people always have some arrogance. The great celebrity Xiao Yingshi definitely meets this characteristic. Xiao Yingshi was able to write good articles when he was four years old, and he passed the first entrance examination in adulthood. Although his official position is not high, people are arrogant, and they often travel the world with a pot of wine. His students are famous all over the world, known as "Xiao Fuzi". It is said that the Silla Kingdom at that time sent an envoy to Datang to invite him to become a national teacher, but because some people objected, they failed to make the trip.
Xiao Yingshi's madness is reflected in contempt for the powerful. At that time, Li Linfu, the prime minister who was hot in the sky with one hand, wanted to see him, and Xiao Yingshi was serving the funeral for his mother, so he went to see Li Linfu in filial piety. Li Linfu was furious and transferred him to serve in the military of Guangling. Xiao Yingshi was very angry, so he wrote a piece of "Cutting Cherry Trees" to satirize Li Linfu, the minister of power: "Promoting the triviality of no mediocrity, Meng Benzhi is sheltered by a hundred." Although sleeping first or recommending, not the right taste of the soup", which means, "choose useless twigs, under the shade of the branches, although they are not known and recommended, but in the end they are not the authentic flavoring." ”
This is the untamed in the face of power, which is also the tradition of Chinese intellectuals "talking about adults and defying them" starting from Mencius, which seems to be untamed, but in fact is a full stretch of the intellectuals' main spiritual and individual freedom.