Xiao dezao

Xiao dezao

Xiao dezao, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. It's called Dongfu. It's called Qianyan old man. Minqing (now Fujian) people. The year of birth and death is unknown.

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Xiao dezao, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. It's called Dongfu. It's called Qianyan old man. Minqing (now Fujian) people. The year of birth and death is unknown. Shaoxing 21 years (1151) Jinshi. At the beginning, he served as the county magistrate of Youchuan county. Later, he served as the counsellor of Hubei Province, and then transferred Huzhou Wu Cheng Ling. Because of his love for the beauty of the local landscape, he moved to Wucheng and lived in Zhongping mountain in the county, where he was named "Qianyan old man", indicating that he was not an official. In 1161, he and Yang Wanli met at Lingling hostel in Hunan Province (according to Ye Weiqing's chronicle of Yang Chengzhai), and they agreed with each other, so they made friends. The next morning, de Zao set out to write a poem to say goodbye. Wan Li also wrote a poem with him. De Zao said to Wan Li, "our engagement is just like our engagement. We should each leave a poem as proof. From then on, they became poetry friends. However, de Zao has long been indifferent to fame, and has no intention of becoming an official. During the reign of emperor Guangzong, Yang Wanli once recommended him as a member of the prison in Guangxi. Prime Minister Wang Huai said, "I know Xiao Dongfu's character very well. I asked him to be the governor of Hangzhou. He said that he was ill, not to mention further Guangxi." But in 1191, he lost his wife and his son. Fang Hui of the Song Dynasty said in Ying Kui Lu Sui: "if Xiao didn't die early, Yang Wanli would still be under him." We can see his position in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Xiao De Zao studied poetry from Zeng Ji. Yang Wanli listed him as the 13th person in Chunxi Jianshi Lu, saying that "his literature is very ancient, his integrity is very high, his ambition is always ambitious, and his progress is not satisfactory. If you are old and don't meet them, you can be a scholar. Yang Wanli, together with you Mao, Fan Chengda and Lu You, called him "four poets" and "four generals of poetry" (volumes 41 and 39 of "advance and retreat to Zhang Gong's father Jiang yaozhang", "Xie Zhang Gong's father's collection of poems" and "Cheng Zhai ' (preface to the selected manuscripts of Yan). The style of poetry is hard and profound in ancient times. In the collection of Shu Xiao Qian Yan, Le Lei FA commented that the style of poetry is "ancient as Zhang Ya le in Dongting, strict as Jimo, and restrained the remnant soldiers" (Xueji Cong manuscript). For example, in Gu Mei Er Jue: "the Xiang imperial concubine stands on the back of a thin Jiao, and the sea and moon are cold with coral branches. The ugliness is amazing and charming, and only Xiaohan knows how to break one's soul. The sound of the flute on the precipice leads to the worry about the freezing of the sun.

Xiao De Zao wrote seven volumes of Qianyan selected manuscript, which was written and published by Yang Wan Li after his death. Unfortunately, in the Yuan Dynasty, the poetry version was destroyed in Yongzhou, and later generations could not see his poetry collection. From the records quoted in Quan min Shi Hua by Zheng Fangkun of Qing Dynasty, only nine poems and some sentences are found, such as Gu Mei (two poems), Cai Lian Qu (two poems), Fu Weixiao of CI Yun, Deng Yueyang Tower, Yu Meiren Cao, Zhan Gong temple, and Qiao Fu. Among them, "ancient plum" is the best one, which says: "the Xiang imperial concubine is in danger of standing on the back of the frozen mosquito, and the sea moon is cold with coral branches. The ugliness is amazing and charming. Only Xiaohan knows how to break his soul. " Chen Yan, a modern poet, commentate that "the work of plum blossom poetry can be seen at this point." Another piece of woodcutter is full of the real life of the working people. It says: "a load of dry firewood at the ancient ferry is a good way to travel. He came back to sharpen his sword and axe at the bottom of the stream, and made plans for the whole family. Xiao's poems were influenced by the Jiangxi school because they intended to be stiff and novel in their use of words and sentences.

Jiang Kui, a great poet, was born in Poyang, Jiangxi Province. It's Xiao's niece. Because Jiang Kui's father, Jiang og, was a scholar of the same family as de Zao. He once knew Heyang County and died in an official position. Therefore, Jiang Kui met Xiao as an old son of man. Xiao attached great importance to Jiang's literary talent. He once said, "learning poetry for decades is the only way to get a friend." She married him and introduced him to Yang Wanli. Yang read Jiang's poems and gave them to him. Among them were "you, Xiao, fan and Lu shiweng. Who will be the first one after that?" It's a good sentence. Therefore, Jiang has a confidant feeling towards Xiao De Zao. Several of Jiang's poems, such as "Yi calyx red" and "Xi Hong Yi", were written in memory of Xiao De Zao. His famous work "Yangzhou slow" was written for sentimental current events. Jiang noted at the end of the word: "Qianyan old man thought that he had the feeling of leaving. It shows the respect for Xiao.

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Xiao dezao is not only a poet, but also a humorous fable writer. He wrote a biography of Wu 500 (Volume 6 of bin tuilu by Zhao Yushi), which said: in the past, there was a crazy monk who was originally from huaiyou (today's western Anhui) and lived in Wujun (today's Suzhou City). He was drunk and beat people in the street every day. The county magistrate arrested him and sent a Wu Wu Wu Bai (another name for ancient servants) to escort him back to his hometown. Wu 500 beat and scolded him fiercely every day. Before the day was clear, he urged him to start from the hostel. One day, when they went to benniudai, they stayed in a hotel at night. The monk drunk 500 with wine, shaved 500 hair, and then put his punishment weapon on 500. They exchanged clothes and broke the wall. The next morning, five hundred people woke up and lost their crazy hatred. The wall was broken and they were shocked to realize that the monk had run away. Looking down at his clothes and instruments, he felt his bald head and exclaimed, "Gee! The monk is here, but where have I been? " After the biography, Xiao De Zao commented: "is Wu the only one who has lost me in the world?" His fable, which contains profound philosophy in satire, has opened up a new type in China's laughing forest, and later generations will turn to imitate it. For example, Geng Tiantai's Zazu · Zhelan Bian, Pu Songling's Liaozhaizhiyi · Chengxian, and the folk legend "Zhang guanlidai" all evolved from Wu 500zhuan.

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