If you have always considered yourself maverick or informal, you may drink with people you don't like, you may drink with a tramp or a beggar, you may even drink with a monkey, but a group of pigs hum over and drink directly in your wine basin, do you have to scream and throw your wine glass to escape?
If so, you are left with the admiration of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest".
It is not shocking enough to call it the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", this "Sage" is actually an honor given by posterity, and they must have been a group of monsters in the eyes of ordinary officials at that time. One of them is strange to the extreme, this person is so good at music, so that future generations want to name an instrument after him, of course, this is only his brilliant achievement, not strange, to say that the blame is his way of dealing with the world.
His name is Nguyen Ham, the nephew of another great sage Nguyen in the bamboo forest, but he is not a bald man who follows the moon and dips his uncle's light, his own weight is enough, when people call it Big Nguyen, and some people even think that Little Nguyen is better than Big Nguyen, it is Kuang Shi Juncai.
Speaking of Nguyễn, everyone knows that it refers to the classical instrument with a round head, long neck, four strings and twelve columns.
It is said that he immersed himself in the transformation of the pipa imported from Guixuan, and later generations called the upgraded product Ruan Xian, referred to as Ruan Xian for short. Regarding the suspension of the musical instrument, mainly talk about how strange Nguyen Ham is.
Ruan Xian Grotesque two stars: from the Han Dynasty handed down a custom, every year on the seventh day of July, the evening to celebrate the Tanabata Festival, there are also programs during the day, each family will take out the most gorgeous and valuable clothes out to dry, put it now can be called "Drying Festival". This sun is really under the sun, and now people on the Internet all kinds of "sunning" has the same magic. At that time, the relatives and neighbors around Nguyen Ham all showed off the sarong brocade and were very happy. But Ruan Xian was poor and big, and there was nothing to dry, but he was still not afraid of shabbiness, and Shi Shiran used a large cotton pants to pick up and dry in the middle of the yard with a bamboo pole.
Someone asked what do these mean? He smiled and replied, "I can't avoid the vulgarity, talk about Fuer'er." "-Haha! I can't be exempt from being free, but I just copy what others do.
This passage comes from "The World Speaks a New Language", he is just making a strange thing, but he left us with an idiom: "I can't avoid the vulgarity".
Nguyen Ham Grotesque Three Stars: The previous one Nguyen Ham said that he could not be exempt from vulgarity, in fact, he was satirizing everyone. Although he had no money, he was very willful, and his nephews Ruan Xiu and Wang Cheng and others were only his horse.. They all believe that people's nature should be liberated, and if they love to drink, they can drink enough, even if they drink too much and go crazy, or even come and go in red stripes, they don't feel that there is anything abnormal.
At that time, Ruan Xian was an idle official of the scattered horse waiter in the dynasty, and there was a Zhongshu supervisor named Xun Xun, who claimed to be a musical authority, and he adjusted the music rhythm at each court meeting, feeling that the five tones were harmonious and harmonious. But Ruan Xian is the real master of music, he listened to it, he knew that Xun Xun's play was not in line with the norms of Gagaku, the tone was raised, I am afraid that it could not reflect the harmony of Shengde, right? Xun Xun was jealous of Ruan Xianyu, so he added a small word to the emperor, and finally drove Ruan Xian out of the imperial court and sent him far away to Shiping County to serve as Taishou (槐里县, in present-day Xingping City, Shaanxi).
Some people say that this Zhongshu Supervisor is a ghost? So much power? scold! This was the governor of Zhongshu Province, and the power of Shangshutai was equal to that of Zhongshu Ling, but the seat rank was still in front of him, and he was generally a heavy subject trusted by the monarch. From this point of view, Ruan Xian and Xun Xun are not a simple business discussion, but he loudly provokes a hot courtier, not to mention that Xun Xun is still a person of bad character, which shows Ruan Xian's arrogance. What about the boss? You can't drink alcohol, and you can't play music too!
Soon after, a Zhou Dynasty jade ruler was unearthed, which was a standard instrument. Xun Xun tried to use it to correct the bells and drums, gold stones, and silk bamboo he had made, and found that they were all short, so he had to admire Ruan Xian's superb knowledge, but he did not have the mind to change when he knew what was wrong, so Ruan Xian had to die in office.
Nguyen Ham Grotesque Four Stars: Nguyen Ham's birthday, he also did a business that stunned the decent gentlemen at that time. According to the "World Speaking New Language • Ren Birthday", his aunt's family had a Xianbei tribe's Yahuan who looked beautiful like a flower, and Ruan Xian had always been very interested in her. He is the son of a large family, a cousin of talent, of course, Yahuan is also willing, those two people have "sent affection and stopped the courtesy" is not easy to say. Later, Ruan Xian's mother unfortunately died, and during the mourning period, the aunt wanted to go back after finishing her work, and at first said that she would leave the ring behind, but when she left, she quietly took her away. At that time, Nguyen Ham was meeting guests, and after hearing about it, he immediately borrowed the guest's donkey and chased it wildly.
Not long after, in the eyes of the guests, Ruan Xian and Ya Huan, who were wearing ma and wearing filial piety, rode back with the donkey. Ruan Xian also said triumphantly: "The race must not be lost." How could the heirs let her run? He not only fornicated with the maids of the elders, but also engaged in trouble during the funeral, and indeed regarded the etiquette as air, and for a while it was full of storms in the city.
Ruan Xian "acted recklessly" but dared to be bold, I did it, how? His uncle Nguyen Nguyen gave him a big praise: "Is the etiquette designed for my generation"? Later, this Yahuan really gave birth to Ruan Xian's very prominent son, Ruan Fu, the Marquis of Nan'an County, and the official Tonbu Shangshu. Of course, his indulgence and cool drinking are in line with his father, and he did the fun of "exchanging gold sables for wine".
Nguyen Ham Grotesque Five Stars: Nguyen Ham "Although he does not deal with people in the world, he only knows the string song and feasts". This means that he basically has no time to pay attention to others except for a few relatives and friends around him, and when they have time, they get together to sing and play the piano, eat meat and drink wine.
On this day, he and a group of clansmen drank again, drank for a while and felt that using a wine glass was not enough fun, simply took a large basin to pour wine, everyone sat around the big basin, with a large scoop to drink is not more enjoyable? The crowd roared. So I officially drank it, and soon drank it.
When everyone was drunk with cloud mountain fog, a group of pigs came to join in the fun, directly extended their long mouths into the big basin, and drank loudly! Others do not know what performance, anyway Ruan Xian does not think, "salt directly to it, then drink together", he did nothing, leaned next to the pig, continued to drink a big scoop, talk and laugh!
This is the realm of the true drunkard, "The heavens and the earth are born with me, and all things are one with me." "Heaven and earth have created all things, and there is no distinction between noble and lowly, so why not drink with pigs?" A person can be uninhibited to this extent, in addition to admiration and admiration, it is impossible to learn if he wants to learn.
The eldest brother of the Seven Sages, Shantao, is respectable and spares no effort to promote the younger brothers. When he was in charge of personnel work, he once solemnly recommended Ruan Xian to Sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and his evaluation of him was quite high: "Zhen Su is widowed, deeply aware of turbidity, and all things cannot be moved." If you are in the office of an official, it will be wonderful. "I hope that the emperor will order him to serve in the bureaucracy, and he will do something." However, Emperor Pingsu of Jinwu heard others say that Ruan Xian's Hun duan was too much, and his impression had been greatly reduced, thinking that he was "good wine and vain" and overwhelmed, and Shantao could only sigh secretly.
Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. Personally, I think that leaving the king's side and escaping from the nest of right and wrong is actually a good thing for Ruan Xian, a person who despises famous religions and ignores etiquette, and the lessons of the past are not far away, didn't Ji Kang die under the sword of the Sima family? Didn't Ruan Ji do something against the heart of the Sima family and die of depression? Even if this were not the case, those well-known and upright defenders could not tolerate him, and although the results were difficult to predict, they were more fierce and less auspicious.
The Book of Jin records that Nguyen Ham's ending was "to end with a life", that is, to live peacefully to the end of his life.
He finally "trusted the body to be with the mountains" and merged with the Sun Moon River. But the Ruan he left behind for thousands of years still emits a clear and high-pitched music sound, piercing through clouds and cracking stones, reverberating between heaven and earth for a long time.
Ruan Xian of the Brick Chamber Tomb Of the Six Dynasties of Nanjing, "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest and the Rong Qi Period"
References: "Book of Jin", "Spring and Autumn of the Wei Dynasty", "The New Language of the World", "Art and Literature Cluster", "History of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Two Jin Dynasties"