Riding the wind of rebirth

Yue Ke's postscript is a paragraph of text and a poem.

"Yu Guisi was in Jingkou, and because the lanterns were lit on the evening of the Yuan Dynasty in the county, I occasionally read the history of the country.

On the 23th day of the first month of Jingkang Bingwu, Xinsi visited the south of Youling and stayed in the county.On February [-]rd, when it was over, it was returned to the capital, and there were thirty-eight of those who lived in the county.

Hearing the flute and drum, I feel the old days and sigh, and I am so overwhelmed that I can remember the outline because of the pen.

And those monks who are against hope, they carry it to show the righteousness, and they say that they are satirizing themselves, so they set up a big complaint and go to a false prison.

Knowing that he was wronged, Shengming returned to his point of view.

Because of mourning the death of Zhenglun, Min Qi made a plan to show his original intention, and attached the poems he wrote in the past:

Driving and I have been whirling for a long time, always listening to Shengge and embracing Qiluo.

Ten li Xiliang recalls Ruyi, and the century-old southern country is better than Liushuo.

There is hatred and sorrow for the swallowing sound, and there is no one to abolish Liao'e in the festival.

Lonely and loyal, Geng Meiyue, light up the lamp and ask how the night is going?"

Here is a case recorded.

On the Lantern Festival on the [-]th day of the first lunar month in the sixth year of Shaoding, Han Zhenglun, a protégé of Yue Ke's protégé, Zhenjiang County Magistrate, lit up lanterns in Jingkou and invited Yue Ke to watch the lanterns.

Yue Ke wrote a poem in response to the occasion, and Han Zhenglun was shocked when he saw it. He "resented a great grievance and ended up in a false prison."

In the winter of the sixth year of Shaoding, Yue Ke was dismissed from office and returned to Mount Lu, during which time he wrote [-] volumes of "Jin Tuo Continued Edition".

It wasn't until the second year of Jiaxi that Yue Ke was reappointed as Minister of the Household Department.

At this time, Han Zhenglun was already dead, and Yue Ke wrote the whole story in the postscript, and finally said that I mourned his early death, pitied him for wasting his mind, and forgave his meaningless initial intentions, and recorded the poem in this.

But what is particularly interesting is, did Han Zhenglun really make a mistake?Not at all.

There are too many allusions used in this poem, most people can't understand it, so we need to analyze it.

The "driver" in the first sentence is the special car sent by the king to greet the recruited talents, but later uses Lao Tzu as a metaphor for this talented person, which is to insinuate that this talented person "governed by doing nothing" after he became an official. .

In fact, it is doing nothing.

It's fine to do nothing, but in the end it's even more "listening to the Shengge, embracing Qiluo", which clearly shows that they are in the same boat.

It was Han Zhenglun.

Necklian is questioning its disciples-is it time for the country to be at ease?Obviously not.

"Xiliang Ruyi" is an allusion, which comes from "Ji Yi Ji". The story tells that Tang Xuanzong watched the lantern one day and thought it was very beautiful, so he invited a Taoist priest to watch it together.

The Taoist looked at it and said it looked good, similar to the lamps in Xiliang today.

Xuanzong said, can you take me to see it?The Taoist said yes, so he closed his eyes and led him over.

After a while, the Taoist asked him to open his eyes, and Xuanzong "seeing the shadow lamp stretches for dozens of miles, the horses and chariots are in parallel, and the scholars and women are in conflict."

The Taoist also took him to a restaurant to drink, but Xuanzong didn't bring any money, so he took Tie Ruyi there.

Afterwards, the Taoist priest flew him back again.

Xuanzong later sent envoys to Xiliang, and they really found the iron ruyi.

Yue Ke's words were ironic to the core, meaning that you invite me to watch the lantern now. I admit that the lantern is indeed beautiful, but what about our emperor?Have you been taken to Xiliang to watch the lanterns?
We have been the "Southern Country" for nearly a hundred years. Shouldn't such a shame be vigilant and rise up? Can we do something serious?

Further down, it is said that some people are lamenting and sympathizing with the Puliu that is difficult to go through autumn and winter, and they have hatred, but they dare not cry out; while some people have forgotten to do their best, and even the song "Liao E" is not allowed to be sung. .

This is another allusion, "Xiaoya Liao'e" is one of the "Book of Songs".Starting with "Polygonum Zhee", the singer hates himself as inferior to Baonianghao, but the scattered weeds. From this, he associates with the hard work of his parents, and presents the grief of a filial son who cannot be "filial" to the fullest;

This is to say that the shame of Jingkang took the two emperors captive to the north, and the new emperor here doesn't care at all.

Not only did they not care, they even abolished the poem "Liao E" in which the filial son grieves and cannot support his parents, and no one is allowed to sing it.

The last sentence is easy to understand. It means that when I think of these things, I am so worried that I can’t sleep over and over again. However, compared with other people’s Yinggeyanwu, it seems extremely "lonely".

This is clearly a pricking heart, so it is not wronged at all to suffer persecution.

Moreover, Yue Ke didn't seem to know how to repent at all, and secretly recorded this matter here, where there were postscripts by Zhao Ji and Cai Jing.

Didn't you let me write?I am writing here now, I am asking your dad.

Old Zhao, is your son unfilial?Are these courtiers of your descendants the same as your Taishi Cai? !

Calligraphy is of course good calligraphy, and Yue Ke is also a great calligrapher, which can be seen from his evaluation of Zhiyong and Mi Fu's calligraphy and his creation of the idiom "lifelike".

But the content made Zhou Zhi shake his head.This matter is to relieve the anger, but it is because no one has revealed it at the time, or else I am afraid that no one will be able to save him.

After that, there will be Ouyang Xuan's postscript.

Ouyang Xuan is a descendant of Ouyang Xiu, and he is as familiar with history as Ouyang Xiu.

Throughout his life, he "served as Chengjun three times, served two as sacrificial wine, entered the Hanlin six times, and paid homage to the imperial edict three times", and was often responsible for drafting various imperial edicts.

Most of the court's high-level texts were written by him.His articles and calligraphy are very famous.Together with Wu Cheng, Yu Ji, and Jie Xisi, they are called "Four Yuan Scholars".

At that time, the famous mountains and rivers in the country, the palace of Shilao, and the monuments of the king's tomb and tunnel were all proud of their handwriting.

From the third year of Zhizheng, Ouyang Xuan began to serve as the president of "Song History", "Liao History" and "Jin History".The signatories of the revision of the Three Histories were first Prime Minister You Tutuo, the president of the capital, and then Arla Alutu.

But in fact, the two are just names, and the actual editing work is done by Ouyang Xuan, Zhang Qiyan, Jie Xisi and others, of which Ouyang Xuan played the most important role.

Even the dedication form after the final completion was written by Ouyang Xuan on his behalf.Later generations commented: "The three histories of the Song, Liao, and Jin Dynasties are all detached from the Yuan Dynasty, and they are actually written by Ouyang Xuan."

Calligraphy came to Ouyang Xuan's place, and it can be regarded as the continuation and development of the Song Dynasty's flamboyant calligraphy style to the extreme. Afterwards, it should be that the Ming masters changed their minds and returned to the orthodox law again, and the mainstream became restrained and reserved again.

The Palace Museum has Ouyang Xuan's calligraphy "Chunhui Tangji" collected by Qianlong in Sanxitang. After comparing the colored albums with the four cousins, the uncle believes that Ouyang Xuan's calligraphy on the scroll is authentic.

The written records of ancestors and descendants appear in the same calligraphy scroll, and both are also masters of history, literature, and calligraphy in their respective eras. It is rare to see each other, and they complement each other.

The content of Ouyang Xuan's postscript is more like a historical commentary, with a discussion on the theme of friendship.

The friendship between my ancestors Ouyang Xiu and Shi Yannian was considered profound, as was the relationship between Song Huizong and Cai Jing.

But the difference is that one is a "virtuous friend" and the other is a "faint friend".