History live broadcast: My audience is the ancestors

Chapter 132 Ouyang Xiu

Jiangnan has encountered mist and rain:? ? ? Why does it seem like Chen Shou's character is not that good?
My charming and short-lived ancestor: indeed! After all, according to these stories, Chen Shou doesn’t look like a good person!
I send my thoughts to the bright moon: who can tell clearly? After all, history is just a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone!
I can’t sleep at night (Guan): Indeed! Don’t you see, my brother Zheng has been hacked for thousands of years!

Don’t let the world grow old: That’s right, those who play politics have a dirty heart!

A piece of bamboo: You can't say that. What if Chen Shou is not a good person?

The pig came to the bowl quickly: "Yes, we are not Chen Shou, how can we know whether he is a good person?"
Wuduyu: Actually, we don’t need to care whether he is a good person or not! After all, "Three Kingdoms" only needs to be good-looking. What we need is a good historian, not a good person! As long as he is a qualified historian and does not harm others, isn't that enough?

My charming and short-lived ancestor: seconded! He has contributed to history, and that is enough!

Su Yue saw what they said and said, "Okay, okay, now let's take a look at Ouyang Xiu's personal information!"

Ouyang Xiu (August 1007, 8 - September 6, 1072), courtesy name Yongshu, nicknamed Zuiweng, late nicknamed Liuyi Jushi, was born in Yongfeng, Luling, Jizhou, Jiangnan West Road (now Yongfeng County, JA City, JX Province) .

Politician, writer and historian of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Ouyang Xiu lost his father when he was four years old. Although his family was poor, he was eager to learn.

In the eighth year of Tiansheng's reign (1030), Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty passed the Jinshi title.

In the first year of Jingyou (1034), he served as the collation of Guange. Two years later, he was demoted to Yiling because he defended the demoted Fan Zhongyan.

Later, he was reinstated in the imperial court and promoted to the positions of Zhijianyuan, Zhizhigao, etc., where he helped implement the Qingli New Deal.

After the failure of the New Deal, Shangshu opposed the removal of Fan Zhongyan and other matters, and was sent to the provincial capitals such as Chu, Yang, Ying and Yingtian.

A few years later, he was recalled to the court again and became a Hanlin bachelor.

In the fifth year of Jiayou's reign (1060), he was promoted to deputy privy envoy, and the following year he paid a visit to the magistrate for political affairs.

After Song Yingzong ascended the throne, he was involved in the Puyi dispute and was widely criticized. After Song Shenzong came to the throne, he tried to resign and went to Bo, Qing and Caizhou. He also opposed some measures of the Xining Reform.

In the fourth year of Xining (1071), he became an official as Prince Shaoshi and died the next year at the age of sixty-six. He was given the posthumous title "Wenzhong" by the Grand Master and Duke of Chu, and was known as "Ouyang Wenzhong" in the world.

Ouyang Xiu was the leader of the poetry and literary innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty. He took Han Yu as his sect in writing and vigorously opposed the vulgar prose of the time. He was famous for his writings and was ranked among the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties" and the "Four Great Masters of Eternal Writing".
Throughout his life, he liked to encourage young scholars. Zeng Gong, Wang Anshi, Su Xun and his son were all supported and cultivated by him, and they made great contributions to the development of literature in the Northern Song Dynasty.

His writing was gentle, clear and easy to read, good at expressing emotions, and fluent in reasoning, which influenced the writing style of the Song Dynasty.

The style of poetry is vigorous, clear and beautiful, and the style of words is graceful and consistent.

In addition, he has made outstanding achievements in Confucian classics, history, epigraphy, etc. Su Shi called him "a teacher with a career that lasted for three dynasties, and a teacher who wrote for a century."

He once majored in "New Tang Dynasty" and authored "New History of the Five Dynasties".

Today, there are poetry collections such as "Ouyang Wenzhong Gongji" and "Six Words" handed down to the world.

My charming and short-lived ancestor: that is to say, Ouyang Xiu is very qualified as HR! Most of the Eight Great Men of Tang and Song dynasties were helped by him!
I send my longing to the bright moon: What’s even more amazing is that he himself is one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties!

Jiangnan is already in mist: and Ouyang Xiu’s literary talent is indeed very impressive! After all, that episode of "The Drunken Old Man's Pavilion" is really awesome!
Yun Xi: Yes, that article produced so many famous sentences!
My charming and short-lived ancestor: the most painful thing is to recite the whole thing! I really can’t recite it!

I can’t sleep at night (Guan): Agreed! Recite the whole thing? Do you want Li Bai and Su Shi to recite their own poems? If they can memorize it, I think they are awesome!

I send my longing to the bright moon: it is just that! You may not even be able to memorize their poems! Why do we have to carry it!

Fuling (Guan): Because we don’t have their talent! Even Li Bai still has to learn! It’s not just us who are learning!

Wudu refuses: Agree! Whether it's Li Bai or Su Shi, they all have to learn! Even Confucius had many teachers!
My charming and short-lived ancestor: yes, the sage impermanence teacher, but they would have been saints had they not been born!

Don't let the world grow old: live and learn, this sentence is not just a saying. This requires us to fight for life! I can’t sleep at night: I agree! This is very correct!
Su Yue saw what they said and said, "Oke! Ouyang Xiu is very good, right? In fact, his anecdotes and allusions are also very good!"

Young and frivolous
When Ouyang Xiu was appointed as a left-behind official in Luoyang, he became close friends with Mei Yaochen and Yin Zhu and exchanged poems with each other.

At that time, his boss was Qian Weiyan, the son of Qian Chu, King Zhongyi of Wu Yue, who was left behind in Xijing.

Qian Weiyan treated Ouyang Xiu and other young talents favorably.

These young talents like to party and party without restraint, but they can also recite poems and compose poems while eating, drinking and having fun.

At that time, gorgeous and neat parallel prose was popular in the literary world. Ouyang Xiu and others were dissatisfied with the humble and formal style of parallel prose. Instead, they relied on their rich knowledge and imitated the ancients of the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties to try to break the outdated writing style of the time and promote "ancient prose".

With the support of Qian Weiyan, Ouyang Xiu and others had sufficient time to ponder the creation of ancient prose.

Later, Qian Weiyan left Luoyang and was succeeded by the famous minister Wang Shu.

Wang Shu was strict in controlling his subordinates and was dissatisfied with their lack of laxity.

One day, Wang Shu said sternly to Ouyang Xiu and others: "Do you know the reason why Kou Laigong (Kou Zhun, Wang Shu's father-in-law) met with disaster in his later years? It was because of excessive drinking."

Everyone agreed, but only Ouyang Xiu stood up and replied: "As far as I know, the reason why Kou Gong suffered is because he is old and doesn't know how to stop!"

After Wang Shu heard this, he just responded silently and never got angry.

After he became the privy envoy, he first recommended Ouyang Xiu and others to serve in the palace.

New and old sons-in-law
Mrs. Xu, whom Ouyang Xiuzhong married when he was a Jinshi, died shortly after their wedding.

Later, Ouyang Xiu married the fourth daughter of the famous official Xue Kui. It is worth mentioning that Xue Kui's third son-in-law was Wang Gongchen, who participated in the palace examination together with Ouyang Xiu and won the first prize.

Later, Wang Gongchen's wife passed away, and Wang Gongchen married Xue Kui's fifth daughter and continued to be the son-in-law of the Xue family and Ouyang Xiu's brother-in-law.

Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem to ridicule him: "The old son-in-law becomes the new son-in-law, and the elder uncle becomes the younger uncle."

One theory is that Ouyang Xiu married the youngest daughter of the Xue family, and was jokingly called "the old son-in-law becomes the new son-in-law, and the eldest uncle becomes the younger uncle."

Mikami composition
Ouyang Xiu once said to Xie Jiang: "Most of the articles I have written in my life are on the 'three places', that is, on the horse, on the pillow, and on the toilet.

Because only in this way can we have a good idea. "

Jiayou Sizhen
During the Jiayou period (1056-1063), Fu Bi was the prime minister, Ouyang Xiu was appointed Hanlin bachelor, Bao Zheng was appointed Yushi Zhongcheng, and Hu Yuan was appointed minister in Taixue, which attracted the attention of the world.

At that time, the scholar-bureaucrats said: "Fu Gongzhen is prime minister, Ouyang Yongshu is Zhen Hanlin bachelor, Bao Laozhen is Zhongcheng, and Hu Gongzhen is Mr." hence the name of the Four Realms.

The meaning of June 1st
When Ouyang Xiu was banished to Chuzhou, he called himself a drunkard.

When he got old and "will retire on Yingshui River", he was also called Liuyi layman.

A guest asked him: "What does June 1st mean?" Ouyang Xiu replied: "My family has a collection of ten thousand volumes of books, a collection of one thousand volumes of inscriptions and inscriptions from three generations. There is a piano, a chess game, and there is always wine. A pot.”

The guest was puzzled: "It's May Day, how can you say it's June Day?"

Ouyang Xiu: "As an old man, I will spend my whole life among these five things. Isn't this Liuyi?"

(End of this chapter)