Bai Juyi killed the famous geisha Guan? Let's see how "story" evolved into "history"
Bai Juyi was a great realistic poet in Tang Dynasty, and he enjoyed a high position in the poetry circle. His ups and downs in life and his reputation behind him are closely related to his poems. He was born in an official family, but shortly after his birth, his hometown Xinzheng, Henan Province was plunged into war. At that time, Li, who led our time in Pinglu Ziqing, was in contact with Tian, Xue Song, Li and Liang Chongyi. While Li Lingyao rebelled in Bianzhou, he sent his troops to occupy five states, including Cao Puxu Yanyun, and governed fifteen states, and the people were miserable. Bai Juyi's father, Bai, was first awarded the county magistrate of Pengcheng County in Xuzhou by Songzhou Division. Soon, he and Li Yan, the secretariat of Xuzhou, adhered to Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to Xuzhou. In order to escape the war in Xuzhou, the Bai family was sent to Suzhou to live a peaceful life. Therefore, Bai Juyi spent his childhood in Suzhou R&F. Bai Juyi was brilliant from an early age and studied hard. Hair turns white at a young age. Bai Juyi's poems are very famous and he has been promoted quickly in his official career. During Zuo's tenure, he wrote frequently and wrote many poems reflecting social reality, hoping to make up for the current politics. Tang Xianzong was very angry. He once complained to someone: "Bai Juyi became famous because of me, but I was rude to him many times. I really can't stand it. " In the tenth year of Yuanhe (AD 8 15), Bai Juyi's mother died after seeing flowers fall into the well. Bai Juyi wrote many poems, such as Appreciating Flowers and New Wells, which were considered "outrageous" and demoted to Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) Sima. From then on, Bai Juyi indulged in prostitutes, music, poetry and wine, kept a low profile and lived alone. However, there have been many anecdotes. For example, Bai Juyi keeps a large number of domestic prostitutes, and more than a dozen of them have their names in his poems. Among them, Xiao Man and Su Fan are the most famous. Bai Juyi once wrote a poem saying: "Cherry Su Fan mouth, willow small waist." The ending is a romantic affair, and a lot of it is endless. However, Bai Juyi got wind disease in his later years, and he was hemiplegic. He could not bear to delay the rest of many prostitutes and paid a lot of severance pay to let them go their separate ways. After Su Fan and Xiaoman left, Bai Juyi wrote a poem to commemorate: of the two small willow buildings, Yan Na kept company with drunkards for many years. Should there be a spring breeze in the world after it is released tomorrow? Five years in March, today is the end, the guests are all gone, and there is no one. Illness lived with Lotte and came back with Su Fan in spring. Generally speaking, Bai Juyi had a good life, especially in his later years. But he was widely criticized because he was too happy in his later years. Among them, the most criticized case is that he "killed" the famous geisha Guan. Guan's surname is neither Guan nor Guan, and his personal situation can only be found in the preface of the fifteenth volume of Bai Changqing Collection and Three Poems of Yanzilou. The preface says that the late Zhang Shangshu's family had a geisha named Lang Lang in Xuzhou, who was good at singing and dancing, elegant and generous. When I was a junior, I made friends in Xuzhou and Sizhou, and I was lucky enough to have been to Zhang Shangshu's house. During the dinner, Zhang Shangshu let the guests dance and enjoy themselves. At that time, I also made a poem for the other party, two of which were "Drunkenness can't win, and the wind blows peony flowers." "Don't go away, don't smell each other, it's been twelve years now. Yesterday, Zhang, the foreign minister of Ren Sixun in Suzhou, visited and claimed that there were three new poems, The Swallow House, with beautiful words. I explore the profound meaning of this poem. It turns out that this poem was written for success. I have followed Wu Ningjun for many years, and I know the whole story quite well. He said: Zhang Shangshu was buried in Dongluo, where Zhang lived in Pengcheng, where there was a small building called Yanzilou. I miss the favor of my old master and refuse to get married. I have lived alone in a small building for nearly ten years, and I am lonely and cold, which is still the case today. I not only love my new poems, but also remember the time when I made friends in Pengcheng. I wrote three quatrains because of the same topic. In addition, Zhang's three poems are as follows: First, the residual light upstairs is accompanied by dawn cream, and people who sleep alone get lovesick beds. There are many lovesickness, but the ends of the earth are not long. Second, the pine and cypress in the north are locked in the smoke, and the swallow house is quiet. Take care, swords and songs disappear, and tea disappears for ten years. Third, it's perfect to watch Hongyan return to Yueyang and see the mysterious birds force the club to come. Yu Di, a lyre, had no worries, and resigned himself to cobwebs and ashes. From Guan's perspective, it is not difficult to see that this poem was written in Guan's style. Bai Juyi's three poems are as follows: First, the moon is full of window frost, and cold light leaves her in bed. Qiu Lai is only one person long in the swallow house where the moon is frosty. First, dizziness, shirt like smoke, a few times I feel like it. I have been piled up in an empty box for eleven years since I stopped dancing the dress song. First, a guest returned to Luoyang this spring and went to the tomb of Shangshu. Seeing poplars like pillars, arguing that red powder is not gray. ? To be honest, when we look at Bai Juyi's three poems, we simply don't see any elements that urge or induce Pan Pan to die. They are written purely to feel Pan Pan's experience, and they are full of pity and sadness for Pan Pan's nostalgia for the past. Interestingly, people in the Tang and Five Dynasties got one of Zhang's three poems "The Swallow House" from nowhere and included it in his "Only Mobilization", but called the author of this poem "Pan Pan". In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Junfang read Pan Pan's masterpiece and praised it greatly. Zhang's "The Swallow House" has been accepted by him, and he is open-minded. His last name was added to the list, calling it Guan. Then, in her own Love Poems, Guan was described as a talented woman and wrote "nearly 300 poems". He also lied with his eyes open, saying that he had closed a book of poetry called The Yanzilou Collection. But for the poems in this collection of poems, he only listed three works, namely Zhang's three Swallow Houses. Boy, Zhang's three "The Swallow House" are all works by Guan. Then put Bai Juyi's three poems on the original work, together with an earlier poem "Feeling Zhang Fu Shooting Prostitutes" written by Bai Juyi, which is said to be a poem written by Bai Juyi to Pan Pan. The content of this song "Feeling for an Old Servant Shooting a Prostitute" is: "Gold does not hesitate to buy moths, but flowers are as beautiful. Singing and dancing are exhausting. Once you leave, you will not follow. It means: Zhang Fushe spent so much gold and silver to buy Ge Jijiao 'e, but one day she died and couldn't take any away. What a pity! However, the love anthology did not mention the final outcome of Guan. And the article made a mistake at the beginning-""Zhang Jianfeng's servant shot Wu Ning, maiko looked forward to it, and the Yanfu. Obviously, Zhang Junfang described Zhang Shangshu as a famous minister and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. In the fourth year of Zhenyuan (788), Zhang Jian appointed Xu Si as our envoy and accumulated the right servant's shot of the proofreader, that is, Zhang Jian was called "Zhang Shangshu". But Bai Juyi said that he had been to Zhang Shangshu's house when he was at school. According to historical records, Bai Juyi was a captain from the 19th year of Zhenyuan to the 1st year of Yuanhe (803-806), and Zhang Jianfeng died in the 16th year of Zhenyuan (800). Therefore, Bai Juyi's "Zhang Shangshu" should not be Zhang Jianfeng, but Zhang Wei, the son of Zhang Jianfeng. In his early years, Rizo made up the army for Zhou Guo, and later he was named the right general Xiao Wei and the secretariat of Syria. Soon after, he worshipped Wu Ningjun's times and the history of the Ministry of Industry. It can also be seen from here that Zhang Zhongsu mentioned by Bai Juyi has been following the Wuning Army of our time for many years, that is, Rizo. Rizo ruled Xuzhou for seven years and made great achievements. Later, he was recruited as the minister of war. He died before he arrived, and he got the minister's right servant. Bai Juyi's "Feeling Zhang Servant Shooting a Prostitute" is included in the poem "Thirteen Laws" in Volume II of Bai Changqing Collection, which is neither addressed to Guan nor to Zhang Cheng-the "Zhang Servant Shooting" here refers to Zhang Jianfeng. In the story told, Guan saw Bai Juyi's "Three Poems of the Swallow House" through Su, and then wrote a poem, which said: Keep an empty house and gather eyebrows like peony branches after spring. Mr. Scheeren won't be meaningful, just saying that he won't go with Chuntai. You can see at a glance that this poem was written by Zhang Junbao himself. The words "Mr. Scheeren won't have a profound meaning, just saying that he won't go with Chuntai" are vernacular and have no poetry at all. Moreover, although Bai Juyi was called "Bai Sheren" by later generations, Bai Juyi served as "Bai Sheren" after the first year of Changqing (82 1), and it was impossible for Guan to call Bai Juyi this way in the tenth year of Yuanhe (8 15). In addition, "Sheren" was often used to address the children of dignitaries in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but it was not popular in the Tang Dynasty. Obviously, Zhang Junbao didn't know the time background and made up the story. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people tried their best to ignore their own mistakes. In their own work "300 Tang Poems", they continued to write a love collection of Guan, writing that "it is not meaningful to give up someone, but he will not go with Chuntai". After an agreement with Bai Juyi, he died without eating for ten days. When he died, he left a poem: children don't understand the sky and defile the snow with mud. This half sentence is even more ridiculous-"children don't know the sky", which means that Bai Juyi is called "children", which makes people feel incredible. But in any case, this story co-edited by Zhang Junbao and Ji Youhong soon spread among the people. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the zaju "Guan Yan Zi Lou" and the novel "Qian Sheren's Poem Yan Zi Lou" appeared, that is, Bai Juyi died by poetry, which is almost conclusive. Among the Tang Poems of the Qing Dynasty, there are two pieces of Zhang's Three Poems of the Swallow House, which belong to Zhang Heguan respectively: outside the 367 volumes, they are marked as Three Poems of the Swallow House and One Poem of Guan; In article 822 of Guan, the signature is: "Guan, Xuzhou prostitute, Zhang Jianfeng accepts it." Zhang Wei, who lived alone in the old swallow house in Pengcheng, lived for more than ten years, and Bai Juyi gave poems to satirize his death. Looking at the poem, I cried: I must not die, lest I be a concubine who follows death, take a clear stand and be in harmony with the poem, and die without eating for ten days. The statement of "Three Poems of the Yanzilou" was later followed by the statement of "Ding Yu's all Tang poems", and the statement that "Bai Juyi died after being forced to pass through poetry" became a historical fact.