Reading "The Biography of Chen Ziang", I realized that behind the well-known "Song of Dengyouzhou", Chen Ziang in life has experienced so many ups and downs.
Although hundreds of years have passed, we can still feel the difficulties of their lives through words.
It is also because of Chen Ziang that he has a different understanding of the life of the ancients.
In the past, I always felt that the lives of ancient literati and writers were probably like their poems and songs, wanton, free, impassioned, and full of poetry
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
Behind the interesting stories of literati is the rise and fall of Chinese history, and it is also a true portrayal of the life of the ancients.
Take "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" as an example, I always thought it was a testimony of the love between Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, but after reading "The Amazing Guest in the World", I realized that everything was just Sima Xiangru's "design".
Children must first learn to write their own names when they go to school, and some names have too many strokes, and most children will complain that their parents give them bad names.
In the Han Dynasty, there were people who also had trouble with names.
His trouble was not that he couldn't finish writing with too many strokes, but that his father named him "Dog", and he didn't know whether it was out of modesty, or deliberately gave him a cheap name, hoping that he would be safe, in short, his father did name him "Sima Dog".
Because of this name, it is estimated that he was ridiculed by his classmates in the school.
Later, he quit and decided to change his name. Because of the worship of Lin Xiangru, he changed his name to Sima Xiangru.
Sima Xiangru's story also starts here.
thought that "Sima Dog" was outrageous enough, but I never expected that the famous Sima Xiangru would even buy an official.
It turned out that Sima Xiangru had been learning poetry and fencing since he was a child, but unfortunately even though he was both civil and military, he had not been able to get an official position for many years.
In the end, Sima Xiangru gritted his teeth ruthlessly, and used his family's money to buy himself an official, and the name of the official position was "Wuqi Changshou".
It sounds very majestic, but in fact, he is standing guard for the emperor, and the emperor is a cheerleader when he hunts, and his literary and martial arts are useless.
This kind of work is obviously not a long-term solution, so Sima Xiangru resigned not long after doing it.
After resigning, he took refuge in King Liang and was appreciated, but unfortunately King Liang died not long after, and Sima Xiangru lost his job again.
The road to job hunting was not smooth, and Sima Xiangru had to go back to his hometown in Sichuan.
After returning to Sichuan, thinking that he was not too young, and he didn't make a name for himself outside, Sima Xiangru began to think about getting married.
There is a local rich family surnamed Zhuo, and the Zhuo family has a daughter named Zhuo Wenjun, she has been familiar with poetry and books since she was a child, likes **, taste and vision are first-class, ordinary people can't get into her eyes.
Zhuo Wenjun was widowed at home at a young age, and if he could marry her, he would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.
Sima Xiangru also wanted to marry Zhuo Wenjun, a "white rich beauty", but his fame and financial resources were not very good at that time, and it was really unlikely that he would marry Zhuo Wenjun.
But Sima Xiangru is also a marketing genius, he insisted on coming to the door through the county order to come to the door many times to ask for a failed play, successfully created his own personality, and finally succeeded in becoming a guest at the Zhuo family banquet.
At the banquet, he seemed to reluctantly play a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" for everyone, but in fact, this was all for Zhuo Wenjun.
Zhuo Wenjun, who was secretly observing behind the screen, was indeed attracted by his music and left a good impression.
But this was not enough, Sima Xiangru also spent money to buy the maid beside Zhuo Wenjun to further express his love.
Under Sima Xiangru's full of routines, Zhuo Wenjun thought that he had found his true love, and even chose to elope with Sima Xiangru for love.
When I arrived at Sima's house, I found that his family was unexpectedly poor, even to the point of being unable to eat.
The desperate two later opened a wine shop near Zhuo's house, Zhuo Wenjun became a drunken woman, and Sima Xiangru became a runner.
I don't know if I was afraid of losing face, or if I felt sorry for my daughter, anyway, the Zhuo family finally compromised and gave Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun a sum of money, and they also lived a rich life.
Zhuo Wenjun Sima is similar
In many of today's stories, Chen Ziang is a marketing genius, and so is Sima Xiangru, and such a coincidence inevitably makes us doubt the authenticity of the story.
Regarding the love story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, if you think about it carefully, you will find that it is actually full of loopholes, but the truth of the story has long been impossible to verify, and it is no longer important.
Through the story, we can see how difficult life was for the people of the Han Dynasty.
It is not easy for a Sima Xiangru who can afford to read, let alone ordinary people who farm for a living.