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Gan Luo (year of birth and death unknown), a native of Cai (now Yingshang, Anhui) in the Chu State during the Warring States Period, was a famous young politician who was smart since he was a child. Gan Luo was selected as the youngest politician in Chinese history by the China World Records Association. His grandfather, Gan Mao, was a well-known figure in the Qin State and served as the left prime minister of the Qin State. Under the teaching of his grandfather, Ganluo was smart and witty since he was a child, and he was deeply loved by his family. Later, Gan Mao was ostracized by others and forced to flee the Qin state, where he died soon after. When Gan Luo was twelve years old, he defected to the disciple of Lü Buwei, the prime minister of Qin, and became his talent.

At that time, the Qin state-owned enterprises planned to join forces with Yan to attack Zhao, and planned to send the minister Zhang Tang to envoy Yan, but Zhang Tang excused himself. Lü Buwei had nothing to do, and Ganluo, who was only twelve years old at the time, knew everything about state affairs, and Ganluo volunteered to persuade Zhang Tang to take office. Lü Buwei didn't believe him at first, and Gan Luo said confidently: "In the past, Xiang Lu became Confucius's teacher at the age of 7, and I am now 12 years old, can't you let me give it a try?" Lü Buwei had no choice but to agree to his request.

Gan Luo drove to see Zhang Tang and said: "Back then, Wu Anjun Bai Qi went to attack Zhao because he disobeyed Ying Hou Fan Ju's order, and was kicked out of Xianyang by Ying Hou and died in Duyou. Now that the Marquis of Wen Xin has much more power than the Marquis of Ying, and if you disobey his orders, it seems that your death is not far off! His words frightened Zhang Tang obediently and agreed to envoy Yan Guo.

Gan Luo also obtained Lü Buwei's consent to go to Zhao State to lobby according to Qin's intention to expand Hejian County, and he was very offensive to King Zhao's psychological state worried that the Qin-Yan Alliance would be unfavorable to Zhao, saying: "The Qin-Yan Alliance is nothing more than wanting to occupy Zhao's Hejian land, if you cede the five cities of Hejian to Qin, I can go back and persuade King Qin to cancel Zhang Tang's mission and sever the alliance with Yan."

At that time, if you attack the Yan State, the Qin State will never interfere, and the Zhao State will gain more than 5 cities! King Zhao was overjoyed, and hurriedly handed over the map and household registration of the five cities in Hejian to Ganluo. Ganluo returned with a full load, and the Qin State obtained the land between the rivers without a single soldier, and the king of Qin named the 12-year-old Ganluo as Shangqing, and rewarded him with the land that was given to Gan Mao that year. Because the official rank of the prime minister and Shangqing at that time was about the same, the folk deduced the saying that Gan Luo was the prime minister at the age of 12.

It can be seen that Ganluo's intelligence is not only incomparable with his peers, but even ordinary adults are inferior, and prodigies are too! Cai Wenji, the name Yan, the original word Zhaoji, the Jin Dynasty avoided Sima Zhao, changed the word Wenji, Chen Liuyu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty great writer Cai Yong, is a famous talented woman and writer in Chinese history. Cai Wenji has been able to write poetry since she was a child, especially the sound of the piano.

When she was six years old, Wen Ji pestered her father to teach her to play the piano, so Cai Yong played a song first. However, due to the excessive force when playing, I accidentally broke the first string, and I didn't notice it, so I played it correctly.

Wen Ji immediately heard it: "Father, you broke the first string!" Cai Yong was taken aback, his daughter had never learned to play the piano, or even touched the piano, how could she hear that he had broken the first string? Cai Yong continued to play, deliberately breaking the fourth string. Wen Ji immediately recognized: "Father, you broke the fourth string again!" Cai Yong believed that his daughter was indeed self-taught and had mastered the rhythm of music.

Later, under the guidance of her father, Cai Wenji's piano skills reached the point of perfection. Whether it is "aiming at the mountains" or "aiming at flowing water", whenever Boya expresses a certain theme or image in the song, Zhong Ziqi will be able to understand its meaning. One day, Boya and Zhong Ziqi traveled together in the shade of Mount Tai, and when it rained, the two stopped at the bottom of the rock. Boya was depressed, so he played the piano for a while. The music begins with rain falling into a mountain stream, and then simulates the sound of a mountain stream swelling and a rock collapse. After each piece of music is played, Zhong Ziqi is "exhausted and interesting", and the imagery in the song is extremely transparent. Boya then left the piano and sighed: "Good, good, Your Excellency can hear the interest in the song, what you think is what I think, where can I hide my voice?" So the two became confidants in life. However, there is no content in "Liezi" that Boya stopped playing the piano due to the death of Zhongzi.

The "Spring and Autumn Period of the Lü Family", which was written about the third century B.C., also made a similar record in the "Benwei Chapter": "Boya drum and qin, Zhongzi period listened to it, square drum qin and ambition in Mount Tai, Zhongzi period said: 'Good as drum and qin!'" Towering as Mount Tai'. Less and sometimes aiming for water. Zhong Ziqi said: 'Good drums and pianos, like flowing water'. Zhong Zi died, Boya broke the piano and broke the strings, and he never regained the drumming of the piano for life, thinking that the world was inadequate to return to the drumming and piano. The account of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" is roughly the same as that of "Liezi", but the ending is explained: after the death of Zhongzi, Boya "never returned to the drum and piano for life".

Although "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" is not a history of faith, it is preceded by the "Liezi", and its content is not unfounded. As a result, Boya stopped playing the piano and was said to have been passed down as a good story. Boya should have been very well-known at that time, and Xun Guo also mentioned him in the "Persuasion of Learning" chapter: "The former was a drummer, and the sinking fish listened; Boya drums and harps, and six horses on their backs. Although the words are almost exaggerated, there is no doubt about the high skill of the great musician Boya.

After "Liezi" and "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", many ancient books such as "Han Poetry Biography", "Huainanzi" and "Shuoyuan" of the Western Han Dynasty, "Customs and Customs", "Qin Cao" and "Yuefu Problem Solving" of the Eastern Han Dynasty were cited. In these works, the description of Boya is richer in content. For example, Cai Yong's "Qin Exercises" in the Eastern Han Dynasty also records the anecdote of Boya learning the "empathy" method of the guqin from the musician Cheng Lian. The first part of the opening volume of Feng Menglong's "Warning Words" in the Ming Dynasty is "Yu Boya Wrestling the Piano Xie Zhiyin". In this novel, Boya became the music official Yu Boya, but Zhong Ziqi became the woodcutter of Hanyang, and a short allusion of 100 words in ancient times completely became a novel with all kinds of characters, places, and plots.

The reason why "Mountains and Flowing Water" and the eternal story of the Boya Zhongzi period have been widely circulated for more than 2,000 years is because it contains a profound Chinese cultural heritage. The ancient Chinese cultural spirit of "the unity of heaven and man" and "forgetting things and self" is fully reflected in this good story. Zhu Quancheng's "Magical Secret Score" in the Ming Dynasty made a fine interpretation of this: "The two songs of "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" are only one song. The original ambition is to care about the mountains, and the meaning of the benevolent people is happy with the mountains. Hou Zhi cares about flowing water, and the meaning of the wise man is happy with water. "The benevolent man enjoys the mountain, the wise man enjoys the water, "Alpine Flowing Water" contains the vastness of heaven and earth, the spiritual charm of mountains and rivers, and it can be described as the highest level of Chinese ancient music theme performance. However, after the opening of the world, mankind has gone through hundreds of thousands of years without writing. By the time of the Yellow Emperor, there was a capable man Cangjie in the court. He was determined to get rid of the suffering of no Chinese characters in the world, resigned and went out, visited Kyushu, returned to his hometown Yangwu Village, and lived alone in the ditch with no one to make characters. It took three years to create a bucket of rapeseed. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was greatly moved and decided to reward Cangjie heavily.

That night, Cangjie was sleeping sweetly, and suddenly heard someone call him: "Cangjie, come and receive the award." Cangjie opened his eyes in a daze, but saw that the room was full of bright light. He didn't know why, so he hurriedly sat up and looked around. It didn't matter, but he saw a golden man standing on the ground. He muttered in his heart: What is this, where did this golden man come from? Could it be a dream? Just thinking about it, the rooster in the east and west houses whined, and after a while, the golden man was still standing firmly on the ground. He remembered the shouts he heard in his dream, and understood that this golden man was a prize given to him by the heavenly gods. Another thought, I only did what I should have done, and I didn't deserve such a reward. So, he bowed to the sky three times, which was regarded as a thank you to the gods. The next day, he called the young men of the whole village and sent the Jin people to the Yellow Emperor's Palace. The Yellow Emperor asked about the origin of the Jin people, and he only said that he picked it up by chance, and said that it was a thing in the world. It should be shared by the people of the world, and I picked it up by chance, and I didn't dare to occupy it for private ownership, so I came to offer it. The Yellow Emperor knew that his personality was noble, and accepted it with a smile. However, after four or five days, just as the Yellow Emperor and his ministers were watching the golden man, a ray of light suddenly flew and the golden man was gone. The Yellow Emperor felt very uncomfortable, but he couldn't figure out where the Jin people were, so he sent someone to report to Cangjie.

But he said that Cangjie was sleeping soundly, and in his dream he heard someone shouting: "Cangjie, you don't want the golden man that the Jade Emperor gave you a prize, what do you want?" Cangjie said in his dream: "I want a bumper harvest of grains, so that everyone in the world can have food." The man said, "Okay, I'll report to the Jade Emperor and ask him to take back the golden man and send you some grain." Hearing this, Cangjie woke up, looked out the window, saw the sky full of stars, knew that he was dreaming, so he didn't think much about it, and fell asleep again.

The next day, the weather was clear and cloudless. Cangjie was about to go out, but saw grains falling down in the sky. The grain fell denser than raindrops, and it fell for half an hour, and the ground was more than a foot thick before it stopped. Cangjie was both strange and happy, and hurriedly ran out of the door, only to see that the grain was spread all over the village, covering the mountains and rivers. The villagers were also very surprised, and everyone asked for millet from their families.

At this time, Cangjie suddenly remembered the scene in the dream, and knew that it was the Jade Emperor's reward for him, so he hurriedly reported it to the Yellow Emperor. He walked halfway, met the people sent by the Yellow Emperor, explained the situation to each other, and went to see the Yellow Emperor again. The Yellow Emperor listened to Cangjie's report, and also deeply felt that Cangjie's merits should be vigorously commended. Therefore, he took the day of the rain as a festival, called the Guyu Festival, and ordered the people of the world to sing and dance on this day every year to thank the heavens. Since then, the Guyu Festival has continued. The people of Baishui regard this day as a festival to worship Cangjie.

Alack! Since the death of my sister, my mother has no one to rejoice!

I have six brothers, two female brothers, and the elder sister. Successively like (1), or not compatible to cause erection, my mother often does not hesitate. The sister returned, and the right words were straight, and the explanation was reconciled. Salty Ti bowed his head and accepted it, and there was resistance, and my mother was very happy. At the beginning, the first servant of the royal prince and my mother stayed in the Beijing Mansion, I and the third brother followed, the uncle will be the sister-in-law, the only sister will stay at home, and the fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother, and younger sister will follow on the shoulder. He cooks and cooks, and he is responsible for internal affairs, and he does everything. Both belong to the Zhang family, and the uncle is sick for more than a year, and the sister is eating and drinking, and the medicine is treated with the brother-in-law, which is appropriate and festive. The uncle is sick, and the sister sits in the soup, serving the warmth to serve the uncle, and the son is snorting all day long, not caring about it.

My brother is a eunuch, his home is empty, and he runs to take out loans. My sister's uncle is a virtuous sister, and he looks down on my brother, so he doesn't wait to ask for it, and gives him money. My brother's wedding needs are mostly Zhang's help. Arresting the uncle's family analysis, the brother-in-law is filial piety, and he is willing to serve his mother, and his mother also said: 'I am careful about the middle man and the woman, and I will be able to serve me.' When Yue rebelled and was wanton, his brother-in-law started with a strange army, and served the royal prince and Yuan Zhongchou to govern the thieves in the north and south of Huai, and he was not at home. Later, from Zeng Wenzheng to Yu Zhang, and don't meet with me Wu Zhong, my sister cut the door, in the leaning side disturbance, Feng Jungu, teach the sons, so that the school is not wasted, and the family does not fall. Wu Huiping, welcome my mother, sister waiting. The step-room did not know how to live with my aunt, and I was quite worried about my mother's wishes, and my sister guided her left and right, and the aunt was especially happy.

The death of my sister is also the pain of my crying. The younger sister is calm and single-minded, and Ju Heng is silent and unsmiling. I say that my sister is quiet and has the style of her husband. Who will, at the age of forty, he died. Woohoo, hurt! My sister died on February 6. The husband's name is Shaotang, the word is also tang, Kaiwu Ping Wu, and the governor is awarded the capital.