The poets of the Sheng Tang Dynasty were deeply influenced by the spirit of the times. At that time, the vitality of the early Tang Dynasty went to the sun and the sky of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The expansion of the territory and the frequent wars in the frontier, the prosperity and stability of society, the integration and development of various cultures, the gradual optimization of the examination system, and the appearance of everything are high-spirited. Cracks gradually appeared in the power channels that were originally controlled by the Gaomen clan, and the Hanmen disciples passed the imperial examination or made meritorious achievements on the frontier, and the passage into the power system gradually widened. Han Men Shizi no longer relies on the relationship of a good father, and can realize the counterattack road of life of "Asagiri Tianshelang and Twilight Heavenly Son".
Therefore, most of the disciples of the Sheng Tang Dynasty were heroic and fierce, and their hearts were full of wind and clouds. They are confident that "they will be at the top of the mountain, overlooking the mountains and small mountains", and they believe that once the storm meets, it is the day when "hanging on the clouds and sails to the sea". They even look down on the Confucian way of settling down and establishing one's life and those Confucian students who have white first chapters and sentences, like Li Bai, who can use the "shortcut to the end of the south" to go straight to heaven; they can even embrace the concept of "merit and fame should only be taken immediately, really a hero and a husband" like Cen Shan, and realize the ideal of life in Biansai.
But how easy is it for poets to pursue their careers? For most people, the road of shitu is a road of no return, filled with cold loneliness and even despair of failure, the road of shitu is still a bloody road, even if you step on the court, you don't know when your head will fall to the ground.
Some people are a cloth cloth all their lives, such as Meng Haoran;
Some people have ideals and radiant reality, but they inhabit and live in the wilderness, such as Du Fu;
Some people bear the great talent of Qingyun, but they did not expect to die at the hands of corrupt officials and brutal warlords, such as Chen Ziang and Wang Changling.
It can be seen that literati are engaged in politics, with few comedies and many tragedies, and there are fewer successful people and more failures.
But there is also an exception, he began to ask for food in his youth, and waited until he was fifty years old to finally become a marquis, becoming the highest official poet of the Tang Dynasty, and he was the famous poet Gao Shi of the Sheng Tang Biansai poetry school.
Gao Shi's life tells us that although there are countless hardships in life, as long as the ambition is still there, it is not too late to work hard at any time, so don't believe that anyone reaches middle age and everything is rested, and people can be knighted when they reach fifty!
Gao Shi had a strong desire to make meritorious achievements that was common among the poets of the Sheng Tang Dynasty. But the first fifty years of Gao's life were basically spent in disappointment and even despair.
The Old Book of Tang says of Gao Shi: "The highly fittest, the Bohai people also." Shao Hao, who does not have a livelihood, has a poor family, and is a guest of Liang Song in order to ask for a beggar to give. "He is probably the poorest of the poets. However, when Gao Shi was a teenager, he was mixed in the rivers and lakes, dealing with those rogue gamblers, and his life grew wildly like a wild grass, which also cast his open-minded, strong and bold character of not accepting defeat.
Gao Shi's failure in life began at the age of twenty.
Gao Shi, who was a teenager, went to the capital to seek a career, but after a few years of panic and confusion, Rao was an open-minded personality, and his heart was full of depression and unevenness. He wrote:
Liang Yuan daylight twilight, Liangshan autumn grass time. The king is invisible, and the cultivation of bamboo is sad.
The extravagant Sheng Tang poet Gao Shi was vividly made by life into the desperate and sad appearance of the late Tang Dynasty.
Gao Shi would not sit and wait for the opportunity, he would change his posture and do it again. The scientific expedition is not satisfactory, it is better to go to the soldiers. He traveled north to the land of Yan Zhao and joined the army in Yan land. The generous lamentations of the land of Yan Zhao and the majestic desolation of the border pass desert once again ignited Gao Shi's enthusiasm for serving the country from the army, and his poems also changed from sadness to desolation and loftiness. "Plugged Down Song":
Ten thousand drums thunder and thunder, a thousand flags and winds. The sun wheel stands frost, and the moon is hanging with a bow.
The clouds in Qinghai were cloudy, and the Montenegrin soldiers were angry. The battle is too white and high, and the war strikes the head empty.
Wanli did not hesitate to die, and succeeded in one day. Draw the Qilin Pavilion and enter the Mingguang Palace.
Laugh to the scribe, once he is poor. The ancients were ignorant of this way, and often became old men.
Gao Shi reflected on and made fun of his past as a Confucian, "laughing at the scribes, once he was poor", confident that he would soon be able to "draw the Qilin Pavilion and enter the Mingguang Palace". However, the ideal is full, the reality is very bone, Gao Shi's military career has not realized the ideal of "drawing the Qilin Pavilion", nor has it the glory of "entering the MingGuang Palace of the DPRK", and the military career of several years, in addition to getting older, Gao Shi has nothing.
Gao Shi still decided to go back to the exam. Twenty-three years after the beginning of the new century, Gao Shi fell on the list. With no face and no entanglement, Gao Shi can only hide in a small hotel and spend the Chinese New Year's Eve night of the reunion of thousands of families alone. Years later, Gao Shi will definitely recall that unforgettable Chinese New Year's Eve night. "Except for the Night":
The hotel is cold and sleepless, and the guest's heart turns miserable.
Hometown tonight thinking of thousands of miles, frost sideburns Ming Dynasty another year.
There is no way to seek a career, frustration in the military, failure in scientific expeditions, and difficulty in returning home, what makes people more sad when they reach middle age?
But Gao Shi's sadness is not despair.
Read more when you are frustrated, and make more friends when you are sleepy. Continue to precipitate yourself, read and make friends, and finally let Gao Shi usher in the happiest time in his life.
Shi Xian Li Bai had just taken off his boots and noble concubines to hold the high-light moment, and brought the unemployment security fund given to him by Tang Xuanzong to the land of Liang and Song;
When Du Fu was a hairy boy with a light horse, he also came with the desire to "be the top of the ling" and the ideal of "to Jun Yao Shunshang";
The three of them spent a happy time there, watching the flowers of Luoyang and enjoying the Liang Garden Moon, they took the stage to give poetry and hunting, and they were drunk and drunk and the three of them slept together, and their mood was extremely relaxed. The encounter of the three great poets of the Sheng Tang poetry made the sky of the Sheng Tang poetry steam.
After years of waiting, Gao Shi's life began to take a turn.
Suiyang Thorn Shi Zhang Jiugao recommended Gao Shi to be a lieutenant of Fengqiu County, equivalent to the director of public security in a county-level city. Although Gao Shi went, the gap between this and his ideal of "drawing the Qilin Pavilion" was too big, so Gao Shi was very unhappy. It didn't take long to simply resign and not to do it, and it was difficult to enter the system, but Gao Shi still bravely jumped out. Gao Shi said in his famous poem "Fengqiu Zuo" that there are two reasons for him to resign and not to do it:
The first is to "greet the chief with a broken heart", he will not sneak around and pat his horse and worship like Pan Yue;
The second is that "flogging Li Shu is sad", he can't poison the people.
Since I am myself" I am a fisherman and a yo-yo all my life." In the wild song of the grass, I would rather be an official under the wind and dust", simply "turn to The Tao and sneak back".
But Gao Shi is definitely not Tao Yuanming, even though he is almost fifty years old, even if nothing has become a joke in the eyes of others, he is still waiting, waiting for his own moment of gathering. Fifty-year-old Gao Shi is still waiting, in the second half of life, in the year of knowing the destiny, how do we look at fate, a strong view that life is to jump up, with a higher posture, to touch the high line of their own destiny, so as to cross the bottom line of fate. There is a saying that it is better to be poor than to ask for food, and it is always necessary to turn over when it is not true.
The opportunity finally came.
Gao Shi joined the shogunate of the imperial court's powerful faction, Ge Shuhan, served as the secretary, and was deeply trusted by Ge Shuhan, and at the recommendation of Ge Shuhan, he served as a zuo shiyi who was half a rank higher than Du Fu, and the same official position as Wang Wei. The outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion became a turning point in Gao Shi's life.
How to deal with the Anshi Chaos, a major social change, reflects people's sensitivity and ability to deal with complex affairs. In this great turmoil, Li Bai misjudged the situation, joined the rebels, and was eventually defeated and captured; Wang Wei did not run away in Chang'an and was captured alive by the rebels and finally became an official of the rebels; Du Fu was like a headless fly in the turmoil, and Gao Shi fled to Sichuan with Tang Xuanzong, relying on his own talent, as an envoy to Huainan Jiedushi, quelling the rebellion of Li Bai's master Yong Wang, and capturing Li Bai alive. Is it time for fate to be so distinctly divided in the face of the times? Is it lucky?
Although Gao Shi was not satisfied with his later years, he was eventually given the title of Marquis of Bohai County. From a mixture of sloppy cloth clothes to a marquis, Gao Applied fifty years of loneliness and fifty years of failure and persistence, completed the most gorgeous counterattack of his life.
People to middle age everything off?
No, Gao Shi said, the year of destiny can be crowned!