Poet ghost Li He
He was born in the royal family, but his life career was bleak, his poems are unpredictable, strange and wonderful, a sentence "if the sky is loved, the sky is also old" amazed the world, his "rooster sings the world white, let the world create" magnificent, this person is the "poetic ghost" Li He.
Li He's poems are known for their "ghostly spirit", which are very beautiful and wonderful, and full of imagination. This kind of imagination is different from Li Bai, for example, the two of them wrote "Will Enter the Wine", Li Bai is "You don't see the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, rushing to the sea and not returning, you don't see the sad white hair of Gaotang Mingjing, and the morning is like green silk turning into snow at dusk." Li He wrote, "The glazed bell is thick in amber, and the small groove wine drops pearl red." Cooking dragon cannon phoenix jade fat weeping, Luo Ping embroidered curtain around the fragrant wind. Comparing the two poems, Li Bai's poetic style is fresh and elegant, and Li He's poetic style is unpredictable and shocking. Zheng Banqiao of the Qing Dynasty once did not let his descendants learn Xi Li He's poems, of course, mainly because he couldn't learn them.
Li He was born in Fuchang County, Henan Province in 790 AD, and he was a descendant of the orthodox royal family, and his ancestor Li Liang, King Zheng, was the uncle of Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty. After several generations, by Li He's generation, the family had declined, and even if Li He's father made a small county order at that time, it still couldn't change the situation of the Li family's poverty. And the ancient family was not a family of three or four people as we now say, but a group of wives and concubines, a large family of dozens of people. According to historical records, Li He has been skinny since he was a child, with long eyebrows and claws, which means that he is very thin, with two eyebrows connected together, and his body looks like a bamboo pole.
is such a thin Li He has a big dream in his heart, he has loved reading since he was a child, and he is so enthusiastic about reading that his mother is scared when he sees it. Mother said that you are reading a book, and you are just going to vomit out your heart. The idiom "disgusting" comes from Li He, and "bleeding blood" comes from Han Yu's "Returning to Pengcheng".
Next it's time for Han Yu to appear, 17-year-old Li He came to Chang'an with his proud work to visit Han Yu, a big man in the literary world at that time, when he arrived, Han Yu was just in time for Han Yu to take a nap, Han Yu was very impatient to take the poetry collection handed over by Li He, the first one was "Yanmen Tai Shou Xing", a topic that was written badly in the Southern Dynasty, nothing new. Then I casually looked at a line of "Black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it, and the armor light opens to the sun", which is a bit interesting, and the first voice is seizing. Then look down, "The sound of the horn is full of autumn colors, stuffed with rouge and night purple, half a roll of red flags is in the water, and the frost is heavy and the cold sound is silent." Report the king's ** intention on the stage, and carry the jade dragon to die for the king. Bursting, Han Yu suddenly became more energetic, and immediately pulled Li He to start the chat mode. In the Tang Dynasty at that time, it became a trend to be promoted and recognized by the bigwigs in the literary world, and Li He's future was bright, but Li He was unlucky.
On the eve of Li He's preparation for the scientific expedition, his father died suddenly. In ancient times, when his father died, he had to go back to mourn for three years, and Li He could only go back to his hometown to worry. As soon as the three-year mourning period expired, Han Yu wrote a letter asking him to hurry back to Beijing for the exam. The 20-year-old Li He lived up to expectations and passed all the way to the palace test. As a result, an accident came, on the eve of the palace exam, someone reported that Li He's father's name had the word "Jinsu" in it, which was the same as the "jin" of "jinshi", so he had to avoid his father and could not participate in the jinshi exam. This is really far-fetched, the Tang Dynasty played too much with the "homophonic stalk", and in the Tang Dynasty, you couldn't eat carp, just because the emperor's surname at that time was Li.
Han Yu was also quite angry when he saw that his disciple could not take the Jinshi exam because of this nitpicky trifle, and wrote a "Discernment" specifically for Li He. In the article, he scolded those villains with ill intentions and said that if there is "Jinsu" in the name of the father, the son cannot take the exam, so it is best that your father's name does not have the word benevolence, otherwise you will not be able to be a person.
Of course, Li He was speechless, it had been three years since his father died, so he couldn't let him change his name, and in the end he was disqualified from Jinshi and banned from the exam for life. During this period, Li He's wife also passed away, and in the face of the double blow of career and family, Li He was very depressed for a while, but fortunately, his mentor Han Yu has been by his side to encourage and comfort him, and finally made him ignite the fighting spirit of "I am now hanging my wings and attached to the Underworld, and he will not be ashamed to be a snake and a dragon in the future".
When he was 21 years old, under the mediation of Han Yu, Li He used his status as a royal clan to favor a Jiupin sesame official called "Fenglilang", that is, the role of standing next to the emperor and shouting one bow and two bows when the emperor was sacrificing. From a quasi-new science and technology practitioner to a master of ceremonies shouting slogans, the gap in Li He's heart can be imagined. Even if he was unwilling in his heart, Li He still worked diligently, even if he was soft-spoken, he still kept going to the book to acupuncture the current disadvantages and state the reform, but at that time, no one listened at all, and everyone looked down on him, and finally after three years of hard work in this position, Li He finally couldn't stand it anymore and resigned and returned to his hometown.
On the way back to his hometown, Li He was depressed and felt emotional, and wrote "Declining Lan sends guests to Xianyang Road, if the sky is loved, the sky is also old", which means that the decayed orchid grass will bid me farewell on the roadside leading to Xianyang, and even if God is affectionate, it will grow old with time. As soon as this poem came out, for a long time, the sentence "if the sky is loved, the sky is also old" became an upper couplet between literati and ink writers, and the entire Tang Dynasty did not have a lower couplet that could convince the public, until the Song Dynasty 200 years later, a literati named Shi Yannian, after drinking, blurted out "If the sky is loved, the sky is also old, and the moon is like a hateless moon and the moon is round", which became a recognized pair of the Song Dynasty. And now we recognize that the collocation is "if there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life", so it is the truth that there are talented people from generation to generation, and each has been leading for hundreds of years.
At the age of 27, Li He, who was frail and sickly and resentful, finished his depressed life, and finally died of illness in his hometown. In the early years, Li He went to Chang'an with the ambition of "why don't men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures", and then experienced the loss of his wife and father, and the middle of the road, and the career of the official. Fate is really not very kind to Li He, and the talent given to him by God has become a sad burden to him. This may also be what we call "article hate". Li He's life interprets what it means to be "if the sky is loved, the sky is also old", and these magnificent poems he left for our future generations just illustrate that the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life.