What's the point of drawing a horse by fortune telling?

Original Wang _ Translation and Appreciation

Wang (1849— 1904) was an official and poet in the late Qing Dynasty. The word "Fuyuan" means "Little Xia". In middle age, he was called "old man with half soup", also known as "wooden Weng". In his later years, he was called "Half Soup Monk Mu". Guangxi Lingui (now Guilin) was born in Yin Shan, Zhejiang. In the nine years of Tongzhi, during Guangxu's reign, officials went to the Ministry of Rites, and after ten years of remonstrance and dismissal, dozens of people were all related to politicians. He left Beijing in 28 years, entered the main school in Yangzhou, and died in Suzhou. Gongzi, Kuang Zhouyi, Zhu Xiaozang and Zheng are also called "the four great masters of the late Qing Dynasty", ranking first. He wrote Li Wei's Ci and Xiang Weng's Ci, which were later deleted as the final edition of Bantang. Wang Zeng inscribed Hua Jian Ji and Song Yuan Ci for Si Yin Zhai. Wang Chu-xi liked epigraphy, and began to specialize in Ci poetry after the age of 20, with outstanding achievements and high reputation in the field of Ci poetry. He, Zheng, Zhu Xiaozang and Kuang Zhouyi are also called "the four great poets in the late Qing Dynasty". Wen, Zhu Xiaocang, Kuang Zhouyi and other famous poets have been taught by him because they strongly advocate the study of Ci and can reward the younger generation. He respected the style of Ci, the physique, and advocated "heavy, clumsy and big" and "natural pursuit", which carried forward the theory of Changzhou Ci School and directly influenced contemporary Ci circles. Many important viewpoints in Kuang Zhouyi's Meeting Wind are related to Wang. Wang played an important role in the prosperity of Ci studies in the late Qing Dynasty.

In his early years, he was close to Wang, and wrote more about his life experiences, such as Hundred Words Order and Self-titled Portrait. From Xin Chou Jian (1898 ~ 190 1), as an admonition officer, he sang with Wen and others, and he was quite touched when he was injured, and his ci style was close to Xin Qiji. Such as [near Zhu Yingtai], Er Yun Lu Chun Qing, Golden Gate, Frost Letter Sudden, Man Jiang Hong, Farewell to An Xiaofeng's Imperial Garrison, etc. , are sad and tragic, are strong husbands. The Autumn Poems of Gengzi, which he collaborated with Zhu Xiaozang and Liu Bochong, is also full of deep grief and indignation over the decline of the country. However, his works still reflect the helpless lament over the decline trend of the Qing court. Some words use too many allusions, and it is inevitable that they are obscure.

Wang spent 30 years collating Flowers and Ci Poems in Song and Yuan Dynasties, such as Ci Poems Carved by Si Yin Zhai and Thirty-one Ci Poems Carved by Si Yin Zhai in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and also collating Ci Poems by Wu Meng Chuang. He used sinologists to study classics and history to study characters, collate and carefully textual research, which was praised by scholars.

Wang's life: his ancestral home (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), his great-grandfather moved to Lingui, Guangxi, and his father Wang Bida took the exam in Lingui County and has always been a Lingui native. Wang Bida has served as a magistrate, magistrate and provincial judge in Jiangxi and Gansu provinces.

He calls himself a half-soup old man, half-soup monk and ostrich. Youth is not old. Why do you want to take the number of the old man? He said: "In the ancient poetry, parents are there, and the constant words are not old. I'm unlucky. It's sad to lose my mother in childhood and my father in middle age. People are not old and their hearts are not broken. Claiming to be an old man is to remember my misfortune! " "I am my parents' body. I have half father and half mother, so my name is Ban Tang. " Cao Shi, Wang's beloved wife, died before him. Although he had no children or daughters, he never married a concubine before his wife died, and he didn't have a second wife after her death. It is said that once a fortune teller was found to calculate his horoscope. The fortune teller made a calculation and sighed, "A high heart and a high life are half a monk's life." When the king heard this, he took this half monk as his own number. An old man divined for him and said, "Carve a mandarin duck", which means that he originally wanted to carve a swan, but he carved a duck. Wang said sadly, "I'm ashamed that I can't fly high in the blue sky like a swan. I just hide in the grass like a duck, so I don't make any trouble." Therefore, he took the ostrich as one of his nicknames.

In the eighth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1858), Wang 10 went to Jiangxi with his father. After nine years of Tongzhi (1870), he returned to Lingui, his hometown, and took part in the Guangxi Provincial Examination held in Gong Yuan, Guilin, and won the 28th place. The next year, he went to Beijing to take the exam, but he stayed in Sun Shan, and then he stayed in Beijing. In thirteen years (1874), he was recommended as an official book by his friends, and all six scientific examinations ended in failure. After the last Jinshi failed the list, he was already in his thirties.

Both Wang's poems and his poems are useless, but it is still difficult to survive. In spring, I am speechless and heartbroken. Can you come when spring is gone? Can you come when people are gone? At dusk in the pavilion, there are countless mountains. Only cuckoo sounds bitter. -Qing Wang's "Dianjiang Lip Hunchun" Dianjiang Lip Hunchun

Qing dynasty: Wang

Graceful and sad, alfalfa withered in the forest, and the west wind stayed alone. Where is gold in Taiwan Province? There is no ambition of a thousand miles in the open space, and the heart of a hundred years is gone. The Sunset Mountain Shadows from Xiao Sen —— Qing Wang's "Huanxisha Titles Painting Horses in the North" Huanxisha Titles Painting Horses in the North

Qing dynasty: Wang

Graceful and restrained, chanting things, writing about horses, expressing feelings, not meeting the hazy moonlight, picking up rain and cleaning up tears. Tired of leaning on incense, eager to listen, parrots make people talk a lot. I hate this kind of life. Red beans can't be planted without roots. How many times do you go to Pingshan? It is green, and a cigarette is a journey. -Qing Wang's "Nanxiangzi oblique moon and half twilight" Nanxiangzi oblique moon and half twilight.

The king of Qing dynasty

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