Classic stories about Wang Bo (at least 4)

In the winter of the third year of Shangyuan (676), the well-known Preface to Wang Tengting was sung in Chang 'an City. One day, Tang Gaozong also read this preface. When he saw this sentence, "The sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is * * * the sky is the same color", he couldn't help but anger: "This is a swan song, a genius." Reading the clouds again, I saw a poem with four rhymes and eight sentences: "Gog Riverside Bamboo, Mingluan to dance." The painted building faces Nanpu Cloud, and the bead curtain rolls up the rain in the western hills at dusk. The shadow of the idle cloud pool is long, and things change for a few years. Where is the emperor in the cabinet today? The Yangtze river flows by itself Tang Gaozong swept away his prejudice and sighed again and again: "Good poem, good poem! I have written a long article and such a good poem. If it wasn't a spent force, I could still wear seven sticks! What a rare talent! Rare talent! It's my fault that I fired him for fighting cocks. So Emperor Gaozong asked, "Now, where is Wang Bo?" I want to call him into the court! "The eunuch replied hesitantly," Wang Bo has fallen into the water and died. " Tang Gaozong sighed and said to himself, "What a pity, what a pity, what a pity! "

2. The story about the debate about Wang Bo's life and death.

There are different opinions about the year of Wang Bo's birth and death. One view is based on Yang Jiong's Preface to Wang Bo. It is said that he died in Tang Gaozong in 676 at the age of 28. According to this inference, Wang Bo was born in the 23rd year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong (649). Another way of saying this is based on Wang Bo's "Ode to Spring Thoughts": "In the second year of Xianheng (67 years), there were two in Yu Chunqiu." Accordingly, he was born in the first year of Yonghui in Tang Gaozong (650). Most scholars believe that Wang Bo was born in the first year of Yonghui (650) and died in the third year of Shangyuan (676) at the age of 27.

3. The story of Wang Bo's death mystery.

There are different stories about Wang Bo's death. Some say that he died without seeing his father, some say that he died on his way home after visiting his father, some say that a fishing boat crashed into the sea and drowned, and some say that he committed suicide by jumping into the sea because he was anxious to see his father and could not resolve the extreme contradictions in his heart. There are two versions about Wang Bo's drowning. One is that the storm was so strong that his body was washed away by the waves in the blink of an eye and could not be salvaged at all. One said that he was picked up by the boatman because he didn't know how to choke on the water and fainted, and then he died of excessive shock. The story of Wang Bo's death is slightly different, but one thing is certain: he drowned in the Fangcheng waters of Beibu Gulf.

After Wang Bo arrived in Hepu County, he entered Fangcheng via Qinzhou, and then there were two routes to take. One is to get off the boat at Fangcheng River, and the other is to take a boat by land to Beilun Estuary, and get on the boat at Fangcheng, crossing his toes, which is the most convenient and safest main channel for him to cross the sea. In a.d. 42, Ma Yuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty marched south to cross the toe, and the main force once took this route, and most officials who crossed the toe in previous dynasties took this route. Because of the "three dangers" (strong wind, fast waves and many reefs) in the Fangcheng sea area north of Jiaozhi County, Wang Bo is likely to fall into the sea here. In Yichun Town, Lu Yi County, nghe an, northern Vietnam, Wang Bo's cemetery and temple were originally built. Tombs and temples were bombed by American planes in 972. Today, only the statue of Wang Bo exists.

4. The bizarre story of Wang Bo's death.

Legend has it that after Wang Bo's death, he still remembers his famous sentence in Preface to Wang Teng-ting, "The sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn waters are * * * and the sky is one color". Whenever people walk past his grave, they can hear his soul chanting repeatedly: "Sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters and sky are the same color". Once, a scholar passed by Wang Bo's grave and heard someone chanting in the grave. The scholar thought for a moment and said to the grave, "This sentence is good, but it is not concise enough. Wouldn't it be better to change to' Lonely Qi Fei under the setting sun and autumn waters'? " Since then, people have never heard Wang Bo's soul chanting this sentence in the grave. There is another saying that after Wang Bo's death, he haunts the surface of the Ganjiang River at night and reads these two poems aloud.

Once, a passenger ship passed by here, and it happened that the chanting was very loud. The tourists shouted: "This sentence is not well written, it is too wordy. If the' and' in the previous sentence and' * * *' in the next sentence are removed, it will be much simpler. " Since then, the ghost of Wang Bo has never appeared again. ("The sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is * * * the sky is the same color", which is based on "Lotus and Chicago cover Qi Fei, and the willow * * * spring flag is the same color" in Yu Xin's "Shooting Horse". If the function words "and" and "* *" are removed, it is indeed simpler than the original sentence without changing the content. However, after the words "harmony" and "and * * *" are removed, the rhythm of the sentence appears to be hasty, not as calm and generous as before, and it is out of place with the context, so these two poems cannot be simplified. )

Extended data:

Wang Bo (about 650-676), Zi 'an, Han nationality, was a writer in the Tang Dynasty. Longmen (now Hejin, Shanxi Province), a native of Gujiangzhou, was born in a Confucian family, and was called "Wang Luo" and "four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty" with Yang Jiong and Lu.

Wang Bo was smart and studious since he was a child. According to Old Tang Book, he was able to write articles at the age of six, and he was known as a "child prodigy". At the age of nine, I read Yan Shigu's Notes on Hanshu and wrote ten volumes of Finger Defects to correct my mistakes. At the age of sixteen, he was appointed Saburo at the request of Su You Branch. He was kicked out of Pei Wang Fu for "cockfighting". After that, Wang Bo spent three years traveling in Bashu mountains and rivers and wrote a lot of poems.