Which dynasty is Jiang Lang talking about?
Jiang Lang: The guide flooded the river.
Jiang Yan was a poet in the Southern Dynasties. He was born in poverty, lost his father since childhood, lived with his mother, and lived a hard life, chopping wood for a living. He is busy chopping wood every day and has no time to study. Later, at the age of 13, he found a mink hat worn by senior officials on the way up the mountain to cut firewood. Mink skin is precious and can be sold for a lot of money. You can buy more rice, noodles, oil, salt and so on. Jiang Yan happily took the hat home, and his mother was happy to see it. She said, "Son, it's a good thing that we found this hat. This is a good sign. You will be a big official in the future. " Take good care of it and wear it when you become a big official in the future. "After listening to his mother, Jiang Lang gave up his original idea and put away his hat.
From then on, he began to study hard and was bent on becoming a big official in the future. He mused while chopping wood. Many things happen, and he makes rapid progress. In a few years, I wrote an article in one go. Such as "Bie Fu" and "Hate Fu" are well received.
At that time, there was a man named Tan Chao who liked studying very much. He read Jiang Yan's poems and was full of praise. He also specially visited Jiang Yan and invited him to visit his home. Jiang Yan saw Tan Chao's hospitality, straightforward temperament and informality, and admired him from the bottom of his heart. As a result, the two became close friends. Tan Chao appreciated Jiang Yan's talent and told everyone. His words are inevitably exaggerated, similar to praising him. In this way, Jiang Yan became famous and became a famous poet.
Soon, he was appreciated and promoted by Jianping Wang Liu and became an official in Nanyanzhou. But unexpectedly, not long after, he was falsely accused by a county magistrate who committed a crime and was arrested and imprisoned. This is a blessing in disguise. Fortunately, Liu later cleared up his grievances. After he was released from prison, he was promoted to be an official and went to keep Jingkou with Liu.
Later replaced by Qi, Jiang Yanhe became a historian and was responsible for compiling history. Soon, a Xiangyang man unearthed an ancient tomb with a jade mirror and some bamboo tubes inside. No one knows the ancient characters on the bamboo tube. Someone suggested that Jiang Yan have a look. After the court sent someone to show Jiang Yan the bamboo tube. Jiang Yan saw at a glance that this was Zhong Dingwen of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In those days, in order to be a high official, he studied this kind of writing hard. Jiang Yan looked at it for a while and understood the contents. He wrote Zhou Xuanwang. After reading it, he told the visitors that everyone around him was surprised. It spread all at once, and Jiang Yan knew the writing of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Since then, he has become more famous. As a result, the court paid more attention to him, and his official became bigger and bigger. Finally, he became the official doctor of the Liang Dynasty. Dr. Guanglu was an adviser to the emperor, and later he was named the Hou of Liling. With thousands of acres of fertile land, he became a wealthy aristocratic family and lived a pampered life.
He no longer reads, writes, writes poems and articles, and sometimes writes a poem, which is not as good as before, and his talent is gone. At that time, many people felt sorry for him, saying that "Jiang Lang was at the end of his rope".
Historical textual research
Some people have long doubted the truth of "Jiang Lang's brain drain". Gu Zhi's Poems quoted Zhang Hui as saying, "Jiang was attacked and his life was in danger. He didn't dare to learn from Wen Ling, but he was sneered at. There is no one in the world, and Shen Xiuwen snickers at future generations. " Jiang Yan was afraid of Liang Wudi's jealousy, and deliberately said that he was at the end of his rope. This kind of situation is not understood by future generations, and Shen Yue will become a joke if he knows it, because Shen Yue had such an experience. According to "Biography of Liang Shu and Shen Yue", "The banquet arrived in Yuzhou about one and a half inches of chestnut path. The emperor was surprised and asked, "How much are the chestnuts?" My memory of Shu Ge. Three things about the young emperor. When I came out, I said,' I will die of shame if I don't let you before you protect me! "Shen Yue is a generation of well-read, but in front of the literati emperor only avoid three points, so as not to cause disaster. We say that he knows the times or flatters, but it is an indisputable fact that the literati emperor strangles the literati. What's more, Jiang Yan, who is good at poetry and songs, "suffers from longing for the old age, dare not take Wen Ling as a teacher, and have the same meaning as Ming Yuan, but he is despised and the world is not obvious." The descendants of Shen Xiuwen (Shen Yue word Xiuwen) snickered. " Jiang Yan didn't dare to betray himself in front of Liang Wudi for fear of being jealous, so he said he was "exhausted". After his death, he only ended up with the theory of "writing less, thinking only at night, and being exhausted in the world" (Biography of Liang Shu Jiangyan). Since then, the phrase "Jiang Lang's talent is exhausted" has become a mantra to ridicule the exhaustion of literati's talents, and Jiang Yan has also been ridiculed by scholars in previous dynasties. Only Shen Yue, who has a similar experience, knows that Jiang Yan is not "exhausted" but "deadly".
Only fading
There are many versions to explain why "Jiang Lang" has run out of talents. The most popular version is: One day, Jiang Yan took a nap in the pavilion in the garden, and dreamt vaguely that a man named Guo Pu said to him, "I have left a pen with you for a long time. Should I return it to me? " Jiang Yan touched her arm and found a pen. He took it out and saw that it was a multicolored pen. So he returned the multicolored pen to Guo Pu. Who knows, when I wake up, this great genius who wrote a lot of vigorous poems has no idea at all and can't write colorful articles anymore. This is the story of Jiang Langmeng's reply, which is incredible anyway.
There is also a rumor: once Jiang Yan took a boat and stopped at the bank of Zen Ling Temple for a nap. He dreamed that a man who claimed to be Zhang Jingyang asked him for a piece of satin, so he took some satin out of his arms and returned it to him. Therefore, his articles are no longer wonderful in the future.
Jiang Lang wisdom
The derogatory idiom "Jiang Lang is exhausted" has accompanied Jiang Yan 1500 years. He was diligent and studious since he was a child, and he was able to write poems at the age of six. At the age of eighteen, he had memorized the Five Classics, and his works "Hate Fu" and "Bie Fu" were even more brilliant, and he was praised as a must-have throughout the ages. Unfortunately, Jiang Yan, a middle-aged man, suddenly stopped writing and fell into the reputation of "Jiang Lang dried up". Perhaps people don't know, the clever Jiang Yan just used the trick of "Jiang Lang is exhausted" to fool future generations.
According to Liang Shu, in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 466), Jiang Yan, who was only 20 years old, became Wang Liu's staff and worked as a clerk with him in Yizhou because of his superior intelligence. Later, he was arrested and imprisoned for being implicated by Guangling Ling Guo. In prison, Jiang Lang wrote his lament with an excellent pen. I don't know whether Wang Jianping loves talents or Jiang Lang's article is touching. In a word, Liu released him immediately after reading the article. Soon, Jiang Yan was a scholar in the state examination, and soon he was appreciated by his boss because of the article "Strategy" and was promoted to Zuo Changshi of Baling State. Since then, Jiang Yan's official career has flourished, and he lived in the Song, Qi and Liang Southern Dynasties until he was blocked. It can be seen from the development of Jiang Yan that his wonderful articles have helped him.
Scholars in China are famous for their talents since ancient times, but it is because of "Jiang Lang's lack of talents" that Jiang Yan can be immortal. But from Jiang Lang's experience, we can see that he is not really exhausted, but on the contrary. Jiang Yan, who lost his father since childhood and was born in a poor family, once adopted a paid foster mother, and knows the taste of poverty and meanness best. After he became an imperial envoy, he summed up the past experience and lessons, tried to avoid the trouble of letting Guo write and draw in Guangling, and made a trick of returning the pen in his dream, so that he would never write again. Even if you can't write it yourself, you just need to write a gorgeous chapter on occasions, such as "The Emperor Clouds from Yao Ji". In order to please the king, he can live in troubled times. He turned all his amazing literary talents into the wisdom of surviving in troubled times, although this is the wisdom of being a slave. Writing this reminds me of Mr. Guo Moruo, who was once called a literary master.
If Jiang Yan's "Hate Fu" and "Biefu" are masterpieces of the ages, then his dream of returning the pen is a whimsical idea. He knows the king's expert thinking well, and would rather be laughed at by later generations as "Jiang Lang is at his wit's end" than burned by his own writing. He once said to his disciples, "When you are happy, you must be rich. My fame is immediate, and I want to go back to Cao Laier. " (Liang Shu), this may be the real reason for his dream. In fact, when did Jiang Lang run out of talents? Jiang Yan is still smart after writing!
In the first year of fainting in Qidong, Cui rebelled out of self-esteem. The rebels besieged the capital, and the gentry and bureaucrats joined the rebels one after another. Only Jiang Yan refused to get sick. After Cui failed, everyone admired Jiang Yan's wisdom. Later, when Xiao Yan led troops to revolt, the gentry learned from the past, and everyone was at ease, while Jiang Yan took off his original official uniform and went to Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan won and proclaimed himself emperor for Liang Gaozu Wu. Jiang Lang was re-used by Liang Wudi, and the official was Zuo Cheng, and the senior official was generous and powerful. It was in this quiet movement that Jiang Lang showed extraordinary political wisdom and intelligence, which obviously did not mean that "Jiang Lang's talents have been exhausted". Interestingly, up to now, no one thinks that "Jiang Lang Exhausted" is a misunderstanding of history.
From ancient times to the present, China literati generally have three mentalities about social problems: first, they don't write because they have no intention to do it; The second is to deliberately write without writing thoroughly; The third is to know that it is inconvenient not to write. There is no doubt that Jiang Yan also experienced these three kinds of mentality and artistic conception, and finally stopped writing for the comfort of life. However, in any case, the personality under this mentality is distorted. But this is not Jiang Yan's shame, and the autocratic system doomed the literati's own tragedy. Of course, in this kind of tragedy, there are often comedies. Therefore, today, some people always like to pull out some ancient people to make fun of them. Just like the idiom "Jiang Lang is at his wit's end", it seems that all future generations are making fun of Jiang Lang. Little did they know that Jiang Lang was making fun of those who had made fun of him for over 500 years.