Chapter 8: Remnant Chrysanthemum, Mistaken

The wind and rain hit the garden at dusk, and the remnants of chrysanthemums were full of gold. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is still a good branch, but the poor son cherishes the flowers.

Wang Anshi (December 18, 1021 - May 21, 1086), the name Jiefu, the name Banshan, Han nationality, a native of Linchuan (now Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi), was a famous thinker, politician, writer and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. [1]

In the second year of Qingli (1042), Wang Anshi Jinshi and the first. He has successively served as the judge of Yangzhou, the magistrate of Yinxian County, and the general judge of Shuzhou, and has made remarkable achievements. In the second year of Xining (1069), he served as the governor of the council, and the following year he visited the prime minister and presided over the law change. Due to the opposition of the old faction, Xining resigned in the seventh year (1074). A year later, Song Shenzong used it again, resigned and retired to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuanyou (1086), the conservatives gained power, the new laws were abolished, and he died of illness in Zhongshan (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), and was given the Taifu. In the first year of Shaosheng (1094), he was given the title of "Wen", so he was called Wang Wengong.

Wang Anshi devoted himself to the study of scriptures, wrote books and lectures, and was known as "Confucianism"[2], created "Jinggong New Learning", and promoted the formation of the Song Dynasty's doubtful scriptures and ancient learning style. Philosophically, the "Five Elements Theory" was used to expound the creation of the universe, which enriched and developed the ancient Chinese idea of naïve materialism, and its philosophical proposition of "dividing the old with the new" pushed the ancient Chinese dialectic to a new height.

At dusk, the wind and rain in the garden, the remnants of the chrysanthemums are blown all over the ground, like gold, pick up a good branch, but unfortunately the son is flowery.

I have read a lot of books about chrysanthemums, and I know that chrysanthemums are known as gentlemen, proud of frost and snow, not in line with customs, with Qu Yuan and Tao Yuanming as friends, so they are endowed with a dignified personality. Since then, the literati poems have been inscribed, and the painters have poured ink, all of which have to express the solitary height of the chrysanthemum. In the past dynasties, there are almost no literary masters who have not chanted chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums have commonalities, and people have personalities, so there is a chrysanthemum lawsuit, which is called "chrysanthemum mistake". In "Poetry of the Western Qing Dynasty", Wang Anshi wrote this poem "Residual Chrysanthemum": "The wind and rain hit the garden at dusk, and the residual chrysanthemum is full of gold. After Ouyang Xiu read it, he said with a smile: "Chrysanthemums don't fall." The play continued: "Autumn is not better than spring flowers, for the poet to watch carefully." So, he continued to write: "Autumn flowers are not like spring flowers falling, saying that the poet carefully chanted. "It's because of these two poems," Wang Anshi replied, "Haven't you heard of 'Chu Ci's 'Dining Autumn Chrysanthemum'?" Is Ouyang Xiu Wang Jing's guild arguing over this matter? But I think it's absolutely literati fabrication. This is not over, in the hands of Feng Menglong, Ouyang Xiu was replaced by Su Dongpo, the previous process is the same, and the back is Wang Anshi is very angry, so he demoted Su Dongpo to Huangzhou as the deputy envoy of the regiment, which coincided with the Double Ninth Festival, the chrysanthemums in Huangzhou bloomed, the wind passed all night, the chrysanthemums were all over the ground, Dongpo was stupid, it turned out that the demotion was so that he could take a look at the withered chrysanthemums. There are too many folk legends about Dongpo, and I don't care about one more. But Feng Menglong's realm is obviously incomparable to King Su, this is just a chrysanthemum mistake. Not to mention that when Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, Wang Anshi had already resigned and returned to the field, that is, the time coincided, how could the great statesman Wang Anshi care about a chrysanthemum poem? Wang reformed and shook many people with vested interests, and the legendary "wave is the skin of water" was obviously also fabricated by literati who were dissatisfied with Wang Anshi. As an aside, I also read Lin Yutang's "The Biography of Wang Anshi", in which Mr. Lin substituted the political ideology of the time and his own personal experience, and his comments on Wang Anshi were unfair. Although Wang Anshi and Su Shi have different political views, he is a open-minded person. After learning that Su Shi had been imprisoned for the "Wutai Poetry Case," Wang Anshi was so anxious that he hurriedly wrote to the emperor, saying that Su Shi was a talented person and a celebrity, and that there was no saint who killed a talented and famous man? This high hat was put on by the emperor, and Su Shi was saved, and only then did Su Shi send the story of Su Shi's assignment to Huangzhou. Chaoyun said that "Mr. is out of place", Wang Anshi is called "reluctant to be a prince", Dongpo is open-minded, Jing Gong is decisive, even if he enters the WTO on the surface, he is unhappy in his heart, and he looks at the world coldly, all of which are chrysanthemum characters. They are at odds with each other and know each other, how can they stage a chrysanthemum mistake. Therefore, I think that Feng Menglong's warning to the world is really inappropriate. Wild history is always confusing, and many literary reviews are similar to the romance of novels, which must not be believed or fully believed, and may only be understood by observing them from an objective perspective.