Is the suspense of Chen Ziang's death in Long Baolao because of excessive sadness or being hurt by others?

In the early Tang Dynasty, he followed the four great masters and opposed the rule of Ukiyo-e painting with a firmer attitude. Chen Ziang, a poet, showed a distinct spirit of innovation in theory and creative practice. At the same time, in his political discourse, we can see his vision for national security and concern for people's sufferings. His life has experienced many twists and turns, and the cause of death is still inconclusive.

Chen Ziang was born in Shehong County, Zizhou City, Sichuan Province. He came from a rich family, seldom learned the way of vertical and horizontal, and especially liked to cultivate immortals and visit Taoism. According to the records of his good friend Lu Zanrong, Chen Ziang thought he was the home of the rich when he was young, but he didn't know books when he was seventeen or eighteen. However, since joining the rural school with the blogger, he has been determined to study, reject the public, devote himself to studying classics, and extensively dabble in hundreds of classics and history books. After that, he was admitted to Jinshi and ranked first. He went to Lintai to do orthography and collect, put forward many suggestions and opinions, and put forward his own views on actual political, economic and border defense issues. Because her political career was when Wu Zetian was emperor, many people laughed at his disloyalty, which was obviously the orthodox view of feudal society. In fact, he is honest, politically ambitious and passionate about people's sufferings. Many of his political articles show his political views and concern for people's sufferings. Finally, due to political failure, Chen Ziang resigned and retired.

Chen Ziang lived a short life, only 42 years old, and he died. Scholars and historians are very concerned about the cause of his death, but each has its own reasons, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

In other words, his death was caused by his grieving fathers Wen and Chen. In the sixth year of Dali, Zhao Nai, the secretariat of Zizhou, wrote on the tablet of Jiande: "Join the army and treat your father." Lin Wen died a few months ago. When a person is filial, take the tomb as the edge and paste it. The destruction of wood made everyone sigh. At the age of forty, he was buried in Shehong, sitting alone in the mountains. "There is no mention of the possibility of being killed by others in the inscription, but this is pure filial piety, a mourning for his father and a sad death.

However, since the Tang Dynasty, many people think that he was killed. Du Fu went to his former residence, and later said in a letter to Commissioner Li, the secretariat of Zizhou: "Chen Gongjiao was killed, and Shu Dao was pitiful. Jun went to Shehong County and gave me a look. " From this, Du Fu was convinced that Chen Ziang was killed. So, why did Chen Ziang die?

Lu Zanrong is a good friend of Chen Ziang. In the Biography of Chen Ziang, he recorded that in the first year of Wu Zetian, he went to Chen Ziang, where he was appointed as a collection officer, became an elder, and asked for dismissal. Wu Zetian's imperial edict allowed him to take officials home, but he still got his due salary. This autumn, he returned to his hometown to film Hong. In July of the following year, Chen Ziang's father died, and in June of 10, he was buried in Zhonggang in the Shi Fo valley south of Wudang Mountain, and a monument was erected for him. During the mourning period, "my son was very filial, crying that the wood was destroyed and he couldn't breathe." . Duan Jian, a subordinate of the county magistrate, is greedy and cruel. As soon as he heard that his family had money, he became fascinated with grammar and wanted to destroy it. The child's fear reduced the family's money by 0.2 million/200 thousand, but Jane disappeared, dragging down the bill collector. Zi Ang is ill, but he is also sad and ruined, so he can't lift his staff. I'm afraid I can't finish myself because of external tyranny. Because my life was blessed by witchcraft and my divination was successful, I shouted, "If my fate is not good, I will die!" " "So the tunnel was cut off. 42 years. From this passage, we can see that Chen Ziang's excessive grief was one of the reasons for his death, and more importantly, he was persecuted by Duan Jian, the county magistrate. Officials dragged him away by car. He lost his life, was extremely anxious and angry, and died in prison.

Basically inherited this statement. The difference is that the Biography of Chen Ziang in the old Tang Dynasty was changed to "Jane was imprisoned for something and died in a rage". Duan Jian committed a crime and imprisoned Chen Ziang, causing Chen Ziang to die of grief and depression. On this basis, Old Tang Book further affirmed "If you die in prison". Conclusion Chen Ziang was really injured by Duan Jian and died in prison.

However, the above statement seems to be problematic. On reflection, you will find that this conclusion is untenable. Although Chen Ziang was imprisoned by anti-party elements because of the staff screen, he was later demoted to sergeant. However, on May 14th, the first year of the Holy Calendar, when he wrote the Three Strategies of Sichuan, he regained his identity of "collecting emperors' relics through classics". Only a few months later, he was released and returned to his servant. This shows that he got the permission of Wu Zetian. How dare a small county magistrate like Duan Jian hurt court officials at will? Ye Shi, a philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty, raised a bold question. He said, "Who is Jane? Two hundred thousand Ming was killed, although Liang Ji's evil is not enough. I am worried that these two inclusions are not true. "

In fact, people in the Tang Dynasty were skeptical about this, which was discussed by Shen Yazhi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, in the preface to Xue Nianpu. He pointed out: "Joe died of greed and Chen died of waste. Wu Sansi was jealous and committed to killing people. One brought his prostitute concubine to add regret; If you suspect that you are tired, you will kill it, insult it and die. " Shen Shi thinks that Wu Sansi instigated Duan Jian to hurt Chen Ziang. Therefore, people began to pay attention to the death of Chen Ziang related to Wu Sansi. Hu Zhenheng, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, agreed. He said that he always suspected that Chen Ziang was murdered, but after reading Shen Yazhi's article, he realized that many people agreed with him. Because of the murder, Chen Ziang finally had to shout to the sky in prison: "Fate doesn't bless me, I'm dead!"

Wang Yunxi, a contemporary scholar, agrees with this view. He speculated: "A person like Zi 'an who is upright and resolutely opposed to fornication may be a thorn in Wu Sansi's side, but only in this way will he be hurt by Duan Jian." (See Selected Works of Chen Ziang and Shen Xiaxian.). Therefore, only Wu Sansi was the mastermind of Duan Jian's direct injury and naturally "died in prison". In recent years, many textbooks on the history of China literature have followed this statement.

In fact, Chen Ziang's death has never been explained. At most, Wu Sansi is the behind-the-scenes manipulator, and Duan Jian is the person who directly provokes trouble. The recorded Duan Jian is an "inanimate person", so why do they do this? Expert Cen once questioned in the article Ang and His Works: "I am not afraid of Wuhou, Zhou, and Lai Ruoao. Why are you afraid of the county magistrate Duan Jian? " It can be inferred that if you don't intend to resist Wu, you will inevitably be proud of him when discussing Wu's literary works. The "additional grammar" in is actually very reasonable. A small county magistrate in a place, what is Chen Ziang afraid of? In fact, Chen Ziang died because he couldn't stand Duan Jian's persecution.

However, this view has been questioned by some scholars. In the Book of the New Tang Dynasty published in recent years, the annotator Peng Qingsheng wrote a chronicle attached to the book, which denied Cen's hypothesis. He said that Cen Can suspected that "he just thought that there were plans or remarks against Wu Shi, which was actually cheating. According to the situation at that time, if Zi Ang had such a plan or words, Duan Jian would certainly be defeated. He has no right to deal with it without authorization, and The Selected Works of Deeds will not say "grammatical". Cen said that he had an article that used his imagination to oppose Wu Zetian. From a practical point of view, Chen Ziang's activities are not mentioned in the history books.

Ge's article published in the second issue of Biography (1983) continues to fully demonstrate Cen's conjecture, and thinks that Biography of Poetry may be the direct cause of his accident. In the inscription, the words "Qinglong returns to the tail, Tang Wei returns to the tail" and "Universiade is a masterpiece, Xi 'an is an elephant" clearly imply that Wuhou should not be a destiny or a saint. As a result, he listed Wuhou as a taboo, and Duan Jian seized this handle and attached the law to the inscription. Among the "six disrespects" among the "ten evils" in The Analects of Confucius, "false accusation" and "being ignorant of an official" are both capital crimes that cannot be escaped. Don't say that Chen Ziang is a small relic, even the Prime Minister was born to die.

Even according to this article, there are still questions about Chen Ziang's death, such as: What is the relationship between Chen Ziang's troubles and Wu Sansi? Did Wu Sansi kill Chen Ziang under the command of Wu Zetian? If you die in prison or as a servant? Was it "killed by the county magistrate" or "forced to die"? These problems seem to have not been solved by experts and scholars.