From Bad Teenagers to a Generation of Literati —— Chen Ziang

Since ancient times, the rich second generation seems to be unpopular, and the Tang Dynasty is no exception. At that time, there was a rich boy in Sichuan who didn't love school since he was a child. He idles around all day and makes trouble. I'm also crazy about fencing, and I find someone to fight with every day. As a result, I accidentally hurt someone and was almost put in prison. I was so scared that I finally turned over a new leaf and studied hard behind closed doors. In a few years, I have achieved great success and become a well-known talent. In the Jianghu of the Tang Dynasty, there may be a poor swordsman missing, but there is a rare writer named Chen Ziang.

In other words, the early Tang poetry world was still immersed in the magnificent style of palace poetry since the Six Dynasties. This kind of poem is like an erotic novel on a rotten street. It likes singing to the wind, making love to the moon, moaning without illness, colorful on the surface, but empty in fact. At this time, Chen Ziang stood up and shouted: We should resist the three customs and purify the air in the literary world! He started his literary creation close to the people. For example, on his way to Beijing to catch the exam, he wrote a song "Late Lexiang County":

The poetic style is simple, and the wandering in the wilderness is only accompanied by apes. He wrote a deep homesickness with plain pen and ink, which really swept away the decadent style of writing at that time.

With lofty ideals, Chen Ziang came to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination and won the second place. He didn't lose heart, but fully tapped resources and completed a perfect counterattack.

At that time, a foreigner held an auction in Chang 'an, and the subject matter was a rare guqin, which cost millions. All the onlookers thought the foreigner was crazy. Who will buy such a high price? At the end of the auction, our Chen Dashuai appeared. He took out the heroic spirit of the rich second generation and bought this guqin at a large price, and announced on the spot that he would use it to hold a concert the next day. People in the Tang Dynasty liked gossip more than modern people. The news that a guy with brain problems will hold a party after he becomes Kai Zi spread immediately. The next day, a lot of local tyrants and celebrities came to watch the fun. Chen Ziang came out with a harp in his hand and shouted, "My name is Chen Ziang, a native of Shu. I have written hundreds of good articles, and no one knows how to appreciate them. This piano only plays decadent sounds. As a result, there are still so many people seeking after it. What is this thing for? " With that, he smashed the piano into pieces! Everyone present was dumbfounded at the thought of this. Brother Zi Ang took the initiative to advertise in the street and distributed his poems everywhere. One of the court officials named Wang Shi was shocked after reading it and sighed: "This man must be a literary master in the future!"

? He's really right!

? Although we spent a lot of money on advertising, it was undoubtedly a successful marketing hype. If Chen Ziang was born in modern times, the story of "Apollo destroying the piano" can be written as a classic MBA case. Of course, while the iron is hot, you need to be hard. If Zi 'ang children's shoes don't have real talent and learning, you can't get along just by rubbing hot spots to earn traffic. With this spectacular performance, Chen Ziang entered the court's field of vision, and later got the opportunity to conquer Qidan with Wu Yousi, the nephew of Wu Zetian.

Due to the incompetence of the commander-in-chief, the military action itself was not done well enough. Perhaps the only highlight is that Chen Ziang visited the local places of interest in his spare time in the army and wrote a brilliant poem "Youzhou Tower":

Youzhoutai, located in Daxing, Beijing, was once the old capital of Yan State. It is said that in order to attract talents from all over the world for their own use, Yan Zhaowang specially built Youzhou Taiwan, which is full of gold and gold, so it is also called "Huang Jintai". Li He once said in a poem: "I report to you that you are in Jintai, and I took Yulong to die for you." Full of the heroic spirit of a scholar who died for his bosom friend. However, this "Youzhou Tower" is not impassioned, and only four sentences describe the loneliness and sadness of the hero's useless land. Heaven and earth are long, so sad, unprecedented, and there is only one Chen Ziang? Unfortunate talents will inevitably make a poet lament. My brother's son is still wanting more, and he wrote a song "Yan Zhaowang":

? It is also the feeling after visiting Youzhou Taiwan. It is simple and straightforward and can be used as a comment on the last poem.

? Although he became a poet, Chen Ziang still retained his swordsman character with a clear distinction between good and evil, which also brought him constant bad luck. After being expelled from the DPRK many times, he chose to resign and retire at the age of 38, but the persecution of him by powerful people is not over yet. The local county magistrate is greedy for money and covets the wealth of the Chen family. He found an excuse to put Chen Ziang in prison and repeatedly tortured and extorted money. Although his family paid a lot of money, they still failed to save Chen Ziang's life. It is said that he divined himself with yarrow, but the content of divination is unknown. So he looked up at the sky and sighed, "God doesn't bless me either. It seems that I am going to die! " "It wasn't long before he died.

? There are so many words in his representative group poem March 8th Feelings, which seems to be a summary of his life:

"Preface to Mao Poetry" says: "If you aim high, words are poems." Chen Ziang not only took the chest as a poem, but also was unique, which created the style of writing in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When can a poet who has been thinking for thousands of years not come and I am alone in tears?