After experiencing the great division of the Three Kingdoms of Wei Shu Wu Zhengxiong and the Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chinese history entered the era of sui and Tang unification, and today it is said that the late Tang poet Tortoise Meng, who also used the humble administrator's garden as the site of his former residence.
In fact, as we said before, the earliest historical records of the owner of this land, the Three Kingdoms Yulin Taishou Lujie, is the ancestor of tortoise Meng. Therefore, the Wuzhong Lu clan is a famous and prestigious family in this place.
The seventh ancestor of Tortoise Meng was Lu Yuanfang, a famous chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, who belonged to the same famous courtiers of the Wu Zetian era as Di Renjie. But don't think that he is the "Yuanfang, what do you think" in "Detective Di Renjie", ah, that is made up.
The sixth ancestor Lu Xiangxian was the chancellor of the Tang Xuanzong Kaiyuan period, and his father Lu Binyu also held the position of imperial history. Born into such a family, Tortoise Meng learned the Six Classics from an early age, and was especially proficient in the study of "Spring and Autumn".
Unfortunately, the tortoise was born in a chaotic world, the Tang Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, the peasant revolt, the princes were divided, the imperial court was in turmoil, and there were constant disputes.
In the ninth year of Xiantong (868), the tortoise Meng went to pay tribute, and it was just in time for Pang Xun to rebel, so he returned in vain.
"At this time, Huaihai Bo is half human blood... What is the shooting strategy, Chun Qing then talked about quitting. "The imperial court is rebellious, the war situation is in full swing, the waves of Huaihai, and half the blood of the people." At this time, talk about the use of those strategies, and forget about the spring exams.
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Seeing that the road to entering the imperial examination was not feasible, Tortoise Meng did not take the imperial examination again, but returned to his hometown of Suzhou and lived a reclusive life.
In fact, since the ancient literati lived in seclusion, there were probably two situations, one was because the official field was dark and not tolerated in the temple, and the other was that they could not succeed in seeking merit and fame, and chose to retire to the rivers and lakes.
Tortoise Meng belongs to the latter, but as a famous and prestigious family, after all, the family is rich. According to the New Book of Tang, the tortoise mengyou has hundreds of acres of land and thirty houses, and later purchased tea gardens under Guzhu Mountain in Huzhou to engage in tea research.
You see that his ancestors were officials for generations, and his father also worshiped the position of imperial history, how can Tortoise Meng also be considered a second-generation official?
But he did not live into a sour and rotten literati who was not diligent and did not distinguish between grains, nor did he become a clumsy boy with a reckless belly and a daily pleasure. His seclusion was truly on his own, not on his own.
When the farmer was busy, he often carried a small basket of iron shovels to work hard, and some people ridiculed him for being too tired, saying: "Yao Shun is black and thin because of hard work, and Yu's hands and siblings are grinding out calluses." They are all saints, I am just ordinary people, dare not be industrious? ”
You see today, many of our urban people yearn for a secluded life under the green waters and green mountains, but that either has to have the support of the family, or they must be prepared to do their own work and have enough food and clothing, otherwise they will have to flee back to the city in a few days.
Therefore, Lao Lu is called seclusion by strength. When he was idle, he would go boating in Taihu Lake, carrying books, tea stoves, wine urns, pens and inks, fishing tackles and other things on the boat, and he was at ease, coming and going with his nature.
If he did not go to the place he went, he left immediately. If there is a place you like very much, you will stay for three or five days, a pot of wine, a pot of tea, a simple book, a tail of fish, flowers full of Nagisa, wine full of Ou, and freedom in the waves.
Since then, he has called himself "a person in the rivers and lakes", also known as "Tian suizi", saying that he is Han Fu Weng, fisherman father, and Jiang Shangzhang.
But this is not nothing, the real bully is to do what to do, to study what to produce. Since Lao Lu transformed into a farmer, because he is close to nature and personally participates in agricultural affairs, he has first-hand practical experience.
He wrote a treatise on agricultural tools in the southern region of the late Tang Dynasty, which means plough. Bai Fulan, a British expert on the history of Chinese science and technology, praised: "The Book of Qi is a work that has become a 'milestone' in Chinese agricultural works, and there was no such work in Europe until six centuries after the book appeared." ”
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There is another anecdote that can reflect "not being afraid of the poor family of the peasants, afraid of the peasants having culture".
Legend has it that tortoise Meng had a duck fighting column by the Taihu Lake, and a eunuch traveled from Chang'an to Hangzhou on a business trip, passed through tortoise Meng's duck farm, pretended to be an official, behaved frivolously, and killed a green-headed duck with a slingshot.
The tortoise wanted to stop his might, so he pretended to be surprised and shouted, "Oops! This duck can speak human language, and the Suzhou government is preparing to offer it to the emperor, but now you have killed it, how is this good? ”
The official was so shocked that he was sweating, and he quickly took out the gold to compensate, and quickly wanted to touch the oil on the soles of his feet, and before leaving, he was a little curious, so he asked: "What can this duck say?" Lao Lu said, "It can call its own name, Duck Duck Duck." ”
The eunuch cried and laughed. Lao Lu returned the gold to him and said with a bad smile, "I'm joking with you." When Su Dongpo of the Northern Song Dynasty heard about this, he also wrote a poem on purpose: "A thousand articles are two acres of land, and there is not a single money in the bag to read." However, because he was able to raise ducks, he was shocked by Wang Sun's golden projectile. ”
Is it good for you to read more? Even the scaremongers are so handsome. If you change this to an ordinary old farmer, you will either swallow your anger or clash with this official, and you will not have good fruit to eat. Lao Lu's trick fox fake tiger wei is used clean and beautiful, and it has always lost its integrity, is it worth learning in terms of dealing with people in the world?
Speaking of the ducks raised by the old land, there was no feed at that time, eating rice and snails, meat and vegetarian combinations, coupled with often participating in duck fighting, individuals were strong, not wood or fat. Lao Lu not only eats a lot of duck, but is also very good at making duck dishes, Mrs. Jiang's personality is cheerful, and the duck meat soup is particularly good.
Once Lao Lu took the duck as a guest, the duck meat was eaten, the banquet had not yet dispersed, there was no other dish, Jiang Shi had a clever move, the duck offal that was thrown aside was cleaned out, diced and boiled soup with white fruit, fragrant and delicious, diners praised.
Since then, the duck and duck soup produced by the old Lu family have been famous, because the place where he lives in seclusion is in Songjiang Fuli, which is now Suzhou Luzhi Town, and he also calls himself "Mr. Fuli", and the world calls it "Fuli Duck" and "Fuli Duck Soup".
Since then, the duck soup has become more and more delicious under the perfection of successive generations of chefs. It is made of fresh and fragrant duck meat, accompanied by ham, hoof tendons, dried scallops, kaiyang, dried bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, fish balls and other high-grade accessories.
This soup is thick, crisp and fresh, rich in nutrition, has the effect of appetizing and increasing food, old and weak women and children, all are suitable, is a major food in Suzhou. If you're a veteran foodie, you have to try duck soup, or you won't be able to say it.
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Before returning to his hometown to live in seclusion, tortoises briefly served as an aide under Zhang Bo of Huzhou, and then followed Zhang Bo to Suzhou to serve, during which he became acquainted with Pi Rixiu, who went to Suzhou as a Suzhou thorn Shi Cui Pu, and opened a good story in the poetry world.
If you want to say that the good friend who ranks first in the tang poems is definitely the tortoise Meng and Pi Rixiu, and called "Pi Lu".
We know that between Shi Xian Li Bai and Shi Sheng Du Fu, there is a pity for each other, right? Du Fu wrote 12 poems related to Li Bai, and Li Bai also had 3 poems related to Du Fu.
What about between "Pilu"? The two brothers mention each other more than a hundred times in their poems! They especially like to sing and, you write a song to send me, I will return a song to give you, just like the interaction between The big V on Weibo now.
For example, once two people went to a banquet and drank, they were overwhelmed by alcohol and fell drunk one after another. By the time I woke up, it was already night, and the two of them had passed the wine, and the poem had come up.
Pi Rixiu first composed "Spring Sunset Wine Awakening", and the tortoise was answered with "Waking Up with The Beautiful Spring Sunset Wine". Attacking beauty is the word of Pi Rixiu, and this poem is ethereal and leisurely, especially the last two sentences, which are worth reading.
For several years, there was nothing to do, and he was drunk on Huang Gong's old wine.
After waking up, I didn't know that on the bright moon, I was full of flowers and shadows.
All these years, he had done nothing, drifting on this river and lake; this time he was drunk and fell into the Huanggong Liquor Pass (originally referring to the place where the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest drank). When I woke up, a bright moon was already hanging in the sky, and the moonlight shone through the flowers, reflecting the beautiful people who came to help me.
Finally, let's talk about another poem by Tortoise Meng: "The Secret Color Transgression".
Friends who have been to the Humble Administrator's Garden next door to Subo know that there are three treasures of the town hall, one of which is a five-generation secret color porcelain lotus bowl, which is as smooth as jade, like a quiet lake, clear turquoise, plump and gorgeous.
This secret color porcelain is not only a priceless first-class national treasure, but also once considered to be a mysterious object that only exists in the classics, until a number of cultural relics excavated from the Tang Dynasty Underground Palace of Famen Temple in Xi'an in 1987 were revealed.
Before that, people could only get a glimpse of the unique style of secret color porcelain from Tortoise Meng's "Secret Color Transgression".
The nine autumn winds dew more and more kilns opened, and won the green color of the thousand peaks.
Good to the mid-night feast, the common ji in the scattered bucket cup.
It's autumn time again, and it's the time when the kilns are open. As soon as this kiln was opened, the porcelain fired inside was as blue as a daisy, and the green color of the surrounding mountains was as if it had been taken away.
Put this porcelain outside, and in the middle of the night, you will accumulate dew, and with this vessel containing golden wind and jade dew, you can almost accompany Ji Kang (one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest) to drink out his remaining cup of turbid wine.