The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 103 Wujiang Sect and Linchuan Sect

After introducing Jiang Ricai, Xu Xinggong took Wang Wenlong to another white-haired old man and introduced: "This is Chen Di Chen Jili."

Wang Wenlong said in surprise: "It turns out to be Mr. Yizhai, I am Wang Wenlong of Jianyang. I have heard of Mr. Yizhai's name overseas when I was a child, and I only said that he was a civil and military hero of the Ming Dynasty!"

Chen Di laughed heartily: "It all happened when I was young. But reading Jianyang's article opened my eyes."

Chen Di is not simple either. He was born in Lianjiang, Fujian Province. He only has the reputation of being a scholar, but he is famous all over the world.

Chen Di has been heroic since he was a child. In the early years of Wanli, he gave Qi Jiguang advice on how to quell the Japanese pirates. He was recommended by Yu Dayou and went north to Jiliao to serve as Qi Jiguang's shogunate. He first taught the art of war in Qi Jiguang's army, and later became a scholar. Guerrilla general, leading troops to guard Gubeikou.

Chen Di served in the Jiliao army for more than ten years. He did not resign and return home until the 11th year of Wanli.

After Chen Di resigned from the military, he returned to his hometown of Lianjiang and built the library "Shishantang". On the one hand, he devoted himself to studying ancient music, and on the other hand, he collected a large number of books. Like Xu Xueju, he was also interested in collecting books.

Even though Chen Di was in the army when he was young, he is famous for his phonological attainments.

At the same time, Chen Di was also a great traveler. He traveled to famous mountains and rivers with his books and wrote a large number of travel notes. In history, he was the first scholar to go deep into Taiwan to inspect the customs and write down records.

You must know that when he went to Taiwan, even the Dutch had not yet arrived. The only permanent residents were natives and Japanese pirates who had established a base here. Chen Di himself went with Shen Yourong when he went to Taiwan to fight against Japanese pirates.

Xu Xueju then introduced Wang Wenlong to several nephews and nephews of the Lin family. Wang Wenlong met them one by one. Three generations of the Lin family and five ministers had legendary achievements of seven subjects and eight Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty. You must know that this is the second most difficult imperial examination. Sanwu and Fujian in Jiangxi are definitely heirs of poetry and calligraphy to achieve such results.

Now Lin He, the fourth generation leader of the Lin Pu Lin family, is serving as the Shaoqing of Taipu Temple in Nanjing. Those attending the banquet were all Lin He's nephews.

Although Shen Jing passed the Jinshi examination, he is now more famous as the leader of the music circle. Therefore, most of the people present today do not have any official status. Instead, they are mostly famous literati in Fuzhou.

The banquet was not too formal, and the banquet started as soon as the guests who sent the post arrived.

Shen Jing is currently in the limelight in the music world. The main reason is that Shen Jing's opera theory is competing with Tang Xianzu, creating a lot of buzz.

"The Peony Pavilion" written by Tang Xianzu is the best representative of literati drama. It is known as the "desk song". It is extremely beautiful, but many parts are not in tune. It can only be read and appreciated on the desk. In fact, it cannot be sung without modification.

Some literati highly praised Tang Xianzu's "Desktop Songs" represented by the "Linchuan School" and believed that this was an important step in bringing folk art into the palace of elegance. The more unsingable the music, the more it can escape from vulgar customs.

Just like literati paintings, it takes a long time to think about the dry mountains and dry water to understand the charm, but it can provide higher appreciation value. If the paintings made by painters are as colorful as the countryside and can be understood by ordinary people, then the style will be lost.

Shen Jing was extremely opposed to Tang Xianzu's school.

Shen Jing's "Wujiang School" advocates "music for the field" and feels that the value of opera will be greatly reduced if it cannot be sung on the stage.

"Why do operas have to pay attention to meter? Because when we write operas, the writers write the actors to sing them, but without the help of everyone in Kagura Studio to compose the music, how can we ensure that the actors can sing it?"

Shen Jing talked about his "Wujiang School" writing ideas at the scene:

"The writer composes lyrics according to the rules of Qupai, and the actors sing according to the rules of Qupai. Only in this way can the artist sing smoothly on stage, and the play is complete. Therefore, the meter must not be messed up." "The use of lyrics is customary. It doesn’t matter at all, the key is conformity. Even if your words are magnificent and elegant, but you can’t sing, the rhyme and rhyme are wrong, and the artist will slap his mouth when he opens his mouth, no matter how well written this kind of thing is, what kind of drama is it?”

If we don't say that Shen Jing is the leader of the music circle, holding a glass of wine and talking eloquently, with a hint of drunkenness in his words, laughing and cursing with grace, he instantly impressed all the Fujian literati present.

After scolding Tang Xianzu, Shen Jing began to talk about the Southern Opera of the Song and Yuan Dynasties that she highly admired. She believed that the Southern Opera of the Song and Yuan Dynasties had not been officially compiled, and there were a lot of common curses in the lyrics. She often greeted people in the street, but it was this kind of language that It is a language that truly meets the aesthetics of the people.

He later scolded "The Story of the Red Lotus" which he wrote in his early years, and became the target of his criticism. He believed that his early scripts were too beautiful and would be difficult for the audience to understand.

Wang Wenlong smiled and said nothing. The important reason why Shen Jing was far less famous than Tang Xianzu in later generations was actually that he was too vulgar. In order to increase the drama, he added a lot of vulgar routines in his works, and his language was too vulgar. The taste of the works was very low, and what he valued After the opera tunes have changed with the times, the rhythm has only a textual significance, and it can be judged together with Tang Xianzu's works.

However, Shen Jing was still valuable at this time. The Wanli Dynasty was an era of artistic renaissance. The revival of novel creation that was interrupted in the early Ming Dynasty during the Wanli Period was driven by works such as "Jin Ping Mei", and the Ming Dynasty legends inherited from Yuan opera were written by Shen Jing. Jing rediscovered it, and his work allowed everyone to learn to appreciate Zaju operas again, summarized the music and rhythm, and guided the creative ideas of those who came after.

Without Shen Jing, many opera troupes in the late Ming Dynasty would not know how to act. At this time, his works were known as "operatic guides".

Wang Wenlong listened for a while, then quietly withdrew from the crowd, declined several invitations to drink from the literati, and walked out of the side door.

"Brother Pingbao, come here."

Wang Pingbao was eating and drinking at the servant's table, grabbing a pig's trotter and chewing it until his mouth was full of oil. When he saw Wang Wenlong calling him, he put down the pig's trotter and ran over quickly.

"what's up?"

Wang Wenlong took him to a secluded place and whispered: "I was targeted by Wei Tianjue, and he wanted to kill me."

"What?" Wang Pingbao was also there on the day he rescued Li Guoxian, and he instantly became serious after hearing this.

Wang Wenlong told what happened in the morning, and Wang Pingbao couldn't help but frown: "This is really difficult to handle."

If Wang Wenlong wants to run away, he can definitely follow him, but the mimeograph workshop in Fuzhou will definitely be implicated, so not too many people can leave, otherwise they will have more excuses to say that Wang Wenlong and his workers absconded in fear of crime.

Even if the mimeograph shop is closed, Wang Jingui and other stewards will definitely be arrested and interrogated. With Wang Wenlong gone, no one will speak for them. If Wei Tianjue keeps trying, their situation will only become more dangerous.

Wang Wenlong whispered: "I have a method now that will probably work, but it just needs your help."

"What's the solution?" Wang Pingbao and Wang Wenlong were on the same boat. If the mimeograph workshop got into trouble, neither his family would be able to escape.

"They have limited the content of their counter-letter to advocating Zhao Yiping's rebellion. They must be confident that they can control the whole matter. There is no way to fight them directly. We can only push this matter to the point where they can't control it."

Wang Wenlong had been thinking about this idea since the morning. He was afraid of telling people about it on the road or at home. Now at Xu Xueju's banquet, Wei Tianjue probably didn't have the ability to arrange people here, so he dared to say it.

(End of this chapter)