Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 336: Serve

"Brother You Shao!"

This sudden change surprised Xue Yuanchao, and he hurried forward to help him.

Shangguan Yi ignored the pain and picked up the book that contained "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night".

He had only seen half of it before, but even so, he could no longer stand.

With mental preparation, Shangguan Yi continued to look down, turning a deaf ear to Xue Yuanchao's concern.

Until the last paragraph: The slanting moon hides the sea fog, and the endless road to Jieshi and Xiaoxiang. I don’t know how many people are returning by the moon. The falling moon shakes the trees all over the river with love.

Shangguan Yi still didn't come to his senses. She just stared blankly at the poem in her hand, as if she had lost her soul, reading it over and over again.

He still turned a deaf ear to the calls of his friends around him.

Xue Yuanchao didn't want to peek at other people's letters, but he was really concerned about his friend's situation and couldn't help but get closer and look at the poem in Xue Yuanchao's hand.

Then he also followed in Shangguan Yi's footsteps and stared blankly at the "Moonlight Night on the Spring River".

Shocked, stunned, then ashamed and lost.

This is the power of "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night".

Palace style poetry originated from the Eastern Palace of Liang Jianwen Emperor Xiao Gang in the Southern Dynasty when he was the crown prince. It was centered on the courts of several generations including Emperor Liang Jianwen Emperor Xiao Gang, Empress Chen, Emperor Yang Emperor of Sui Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, and formed a poetic style.

The development of palace poetry took shape step by step according to the national conditions at that time...

After the fall of the two Jin Dynasties, Wang Xie and other noble families were destroyed. Most of the founding monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasties were generals who started their careers with military exploits, with low culture and vulgar tastes. However, with the loss of political power of the gentry literati, they were no longer able to be as dissolute as the famous scholars at the beginning of the dynasty, express their love for the mountains and rivers, and write poems and compositions with their true temperament. Political dissatisfaction and life becoming increasingly empty and poor led to an overemphasis on the pursuit of skills in literature, which led to an overemphasis on literature. Their interest lay in the appreciation of women's immovable temperament in a more open and open environment, starting from embroidery. He writes about bedding, from women to pedophiles.

Under such circumstances, palace style poetry becomes more and more crooked...

Until the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the unification of the country, the political situation was stable and the culture flourished.

Palace poetry also gradually changed. It no longer focused on beautiful women, but on things in the palace. However, it began to develop in another direction, pursuing excessive rhetoric and elegance.

What matters in poetry is not the content, but the use of words, one deviation after another.

Therefore, in this stage of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, there was a saying of poetry desert.

The evaluation of the imperial poetry of the Southern Dynasties in the past dynasties has been mostly derogatory but not praising, which has caused this poetry genre to be infamous.

Wei Zheng said that palace-style poetry was "the sound of a subjugated country", and Li Bai said that palace-style poetry was "beautiful but not precious".

But "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" is an alternative among palace-style poems. It has all the advantages of palace-style poetry, including gorgeous words, beautiful melody, chanting wind ballads, and lingering sorrow. However, it avoids all the advantages of palace-style poetry. The shortcoming is that the old Yuefu title still belongs to the category of erotic palace poetry, but this poem does not have degenerate elements. The whole poem is written closely with the background of spring, river, flowers, moon and night, breaking through the palace poetry of Liang and Chen. In a small world, the voice, emotion and literary sentiment are closely intertwined, and are harmonious and beautiful.

Therefore, no matter how much later generations may scorn palace-style poetry, they are full of praise for "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night".

Mr. Wen Yiduo called this poem the self-redemption of palace poetry, saying that the darkest sins left behind by the courts of the Liang, Chen, Sui and Tang dynasties in the past hundred years were precisely because of the creation of "Spring River". A palace-style poem like "Flower Moon Night" cleansed away the sins of palace-style poetry against Chinese culture, redeemed itself in the form of beauty, and pointed the way for Tang poetry. I praised this poem as "a poem within a poem, the peak upon the peak." There is even a single chapter covering the entire Tang Dynasty.

"Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night" in the palace style poem is to wash away the existence of lead and beauty, remove the dross and retain the essence. After "Moonlight Night on the Spring River", imperial poetry also withdrew from the stage of history, ushering in people such as Chen Ziang, Liu Xiyi, Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Gao Shi, Wang Changling, and Cen Shen, and the poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty truly reached its peak.

Therefore, the palace-style poem "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" is the pinnacle of the development of the entire palace-style poetry. For people like Shangguan Yi and Xue Yuanchao who have spent their entire lives studying and studying palace-style poetry, this poem undoubtedly has a profound impact on their souls. A fatal blow.

Palace-style poetry originated from the politically turbulent Southern Dynasties, which was petty and petty.

Now is the Tang Dynasty, and the trend of style is completely different from that of the Tang Dynasty.

Shangguanyi knew it, Xue Yuanchao knew it, and even Xu Jingzong knew it, but they didn't know how to change it or where to change it.

Shangguan Yi just tried it briefly, and today's Shangguan Ti was born.

Now Chen Qingsi directly put the ultimate form of palace poetry in front of them.

what is this?
This was someone they thought was an amateur in their area of ​​expertise, who pushed them to the ground and rubbed them repeatedly.

Finally, Shangguan Yi recovered from her loss and laughed at herself: "Who gave us the courage to think that we could defeat Mr. Chen with the palace poetry and prose that you and I are good at?"

At this moment, Xue Yuanchao's mind was full of spring, rivers, flowers, moon and night. When he heard this question, he replied: "It's you and me who are ignorant! I really thought that Mr. Chen was not good at palace physical education. Now I know that he is doing it for the overall situation and is not willing to Complain with us. If on that day, sir, as promised, you come here with this copy of "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night", in front of everyone, you and I will be infamy for thousands of years and become the laughing stock of the ages!"

Shangguan Yi is a proud person, and he never thinks that Chen Qingsi is above him. Even when faced with "Yellow Crane Tower", he just feels that Chen Qingsi has taken advantage of it by using a new poetic style that he is not good at.

Now faced with this song "Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night", Shangguan Yi was completely convinced.

"Mr. Chen's righteousness is even worse than that of treating me like a villain."

Shangguan Yi was ashamed. He was a humble gentleman, upright and upright. However, at this critical moment, he became greedy and wanted to compete with Chen Qingsi for the title of the Confucian leader. He knew that he would fall into other people's plans, but he couldn't help but be like a moth rushing to the fire, wanting to do it for him. Let’s fight hard in the future.

Chen Qingsi chose to give in at this critical moment. When he could win, he chose to give in.

Until now, I was invited by the King of Han Li Yuanjia, and I couldn't avoid it, but I still didn't want to make the matter public and let others laugh.

With this talent and magnanimity, Shangguan Yi was so ashamed that she wished she could crawl into the deep mountains and forests and never come out again.

The same was true for Xue Yuanchao, who wailed sadly: "I'm so embarrassed! How can I have the face to see others?"

Shangguan Yi looked at the folded book in his hand, struggled in his mind for a moment, and made up his mind: "We can't let the matter spread and cause a big mess. Let me put an end to this matter."

Xue Yuanchao took a breath and asked, "Brother You Shao?"

Shangguan Yi said: "I came here to plead guilty." His elegant face revealed a bit of resoluteness, and said: "Mr. Chen, for the sake of the court and for His Majesty, he was able to win. But for our own selfish interests, we almost ruined the national affairs. One step. I shouldn't have made the wrong move? How can I make the same mistake again and again?"

Xue Yuanchao looked at the determined Shangguan Yi, thinking about Li Yuanjia's invitation, thinking about the current situation caused by his own greed, and also thought about the unattainable quality of "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night". In the end, he would never be able to write something like this. The poem said: "Count one of them. You and I were deceived together, and we will bear the consequences together."

Shangguan Yi and Xue Yuanchao made a decision and suddenly felt a smooth feeling from top to bottom.

The parallel paths of their lives deserve to be called a gentleman. They were quite resentful of doing something against their will for their own benefit. At this moment, they made their choice, and the guilt in their hearts also dissipated. There was also an inexplicable feeling of disaster. The feeling of the rest of my life.

(End of this chapter)