bookcurios Chapter 263
Chapter 263
The weather is nice today, with bright sunshine, blue sky and white clouds, and a gentle breeze.
Qi Cheng wanted to ask Zhou Lu to go out and play, but he didn't expect that he took the tourists to the sea to fish. Qi Cheng felt a little lonely going out to play alone.
I'd better play with my phone at home.
Qi Cheng opened the shooting game that he hadn't played for a long time and played several rounds in it, although he lost in the end.
The emperors outside the tent were not very interested in the game. Some of them summoned ministers to discuss important matters, while others went to the harem to continue taking a nap with their concubines.
Only a few young princes were staring at the sky, wishing they could take the host's place and do something.
After a few rounds, Qi Cheng felt it was boring and opened Dongyin to continue watching short videos.
[Hello everyone! Today we're going to talk about anecdotes about Tang and Song Dynasty literati. Why do I want to talk about this today? Because Shandong Province recently held an event to select a woman who resembled Li Qingzhao.]
However, many netizens disagreed, saying it wasn't Li Qingzhao, but Sun Erniang.
For every thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets. Everyone has their own image of Hamlet. Perhaps many people think of this greatest woman of all time as more like Lin Daiyu.
【Actually, she really isn’t.】
Cai Wenji: The most talented woman of all time?
Xie Daoyuan: The most talented woman of all time?
Yu Xuanji: The most talented woman of all time?
Song Dynasty
Li Qingzhao also felt that the person they chose was actually a bit similar, but she still felt a little embarrassed that the organizing committee said she was the most talented woman of all time.
Don’t brag about yourself so much. If you really like it, just choose a few more poems and include them in the textbook.
Lin Daiyu herself didn’t know who she was. If she was a delicate woman, then she was not like that.
Let's continue by discussing Li Qingzhao's connections. She was a disciple of Su Shi. Her father was Li Gefei, one of the Four Great Scholars of Su Shi's school. She also had some connections with Qin Hui, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.
【It is said that he is her cousin-in-law.】
Only someone with this kind of family background could be interested in studying bronze and stone. If it were an ordinary family, a single antique would probably bankrupt them.
After all, Tianmu had just finished talking about Qin Hui, who was truly infamous for eternity. Li Qingzhao didn't want to have anything to do with him, so she directly stated that she was not familiar with this cousin-in-law.
Not familiar at all.
The two people we are going to talk about next are Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan. They were friends for many years and both were famous poets in the Tang Dynasty.
[They were all members of the Yongzhen Party who advocated for reform back then. However, the reforms affected the interests of some nobles, so unsurprisingly, the reforms failed.]
[Then the two were banished far to the south.]
[And he was exiled for many years, wandering around the south.]
Later, after Liu Zongyuan resigned as the governor of Liuzhou, he returned to Chang'an and heard that Liu Yuxi was being transferred to Bozhou. This place was very remote, and if Liu Yuxi went there, mother and son might never see each other again.
Liu Zongyuan's guess was actually correct. Bozhou was still the territory of the chieftains, not to mention during the Tang Dynasty. Even during the Ming Dynasty, it was still the territory of the chieftains.
[And it brought a lot of trouble to the Ming Dynasty. ]
Liu Zongyuan wrote to the court, hoping to be sent to Bozhou himself and to transfer Liu Yuxi to a place closer to home.
Later, other ministers also submitted memorials, and Liu Yuxi was demoted to Lianzhou.
Tang Dynasty
Li Shimin squinted his eyes and looked at the introduction on the sky curtain, calculating in his mind how many years had passed. It seemed that when the Tang Dynasty was in decline, there were also ministers who wanted to reform.
However, the ending is the same as the Qingli New Deal of the Song Dynasty mentioned by Tianmu, both ended in failure.
"These two are loyal ministers. I hope the next Tang Dynasty emperor will make use of them. If the interests of the nobles are affected, what will happen? If the Tang Dynasty is gone..."
"Those nobles might actually be nobles."
Li Shimin looked at the ministers in the court. Most of them were indeed from aristocratic families. It would be difficult for the court to regain some of its interests.
Disciples from poor families are not good enough, because a poor family is still a family.
It’s time to promote some children of common people.
Ming Dynasty
Zhu Di was shocked. Wasn't it about Tang and Song poets? How did it involve the Ming Dynasty? As far as he knew, Bozhou was far away from the heartland of the Ming Dynasty. How could it possibly bring trouble to the Ming Dynasty?
"Father, this isn't hard to understand. There must be a rebellion in Bozhou." Zhu Gaochi thought for a moment. "That should be the Yang family of Bozhou. Why not send the second and third sons over to quell it..."
"Father, we should let Big Brother go. Big Brother should..."
"Shut up, all of you." Zhu Di paced back and forth in the palace, thinking, "Right now, the Yang family of Bozhou is not a threat at all. It will be later."
"What on earth happened back then? Even a small piece of toast has become a big trouble."
The Yang family in Bozhou felt like the sky was falling. Given Emperor Zhu Di's temper, he had probably already started arranging manpower. They definitely couldn't defeat the enemy, so they could only submit a letter of apology.
Li He was known as the Ghost Poet. His poems were bizarre and strange. Everyone should know that he was disqualified from taking the imperial examination because of his father's name.
His father's name was Li Jinsu. Perhaps during the Tang Dynasty, the pronunciations of "Jinsu" and "Jinshi" were similar, completely different from our current pronunciations, much like how we don't understand why "Lizhi" didn't have to change its name.
[But you may not know who disqualified Li He. He was also a Tang Dynasty poet, Yuan Zhen, who wrote "Once you have seen the sea, you will never find other waters more beautiful."]
Even Han Yu wrote an essay to refute this, but Yuan Zhen still did not change his attitude and refused to allow Li He to take the imperial examination.
Tang Dynasty
Li Jinsu was not an unknown person either. Seeing his son's ending, he said that he would change his name first and then go to find trouble with Yuan Zhen.
What did you say? The Yuan family is very powerful.
The Li family doesn't live off the land.
Many literary scholars are also very interested in the pronunciation. They originally thought that the host was speaking a dialect, but now it seems that is not the case.
Rather, the pronunciation changed in later generations.
……
After reading this, Qi Cheng felt that we should talk about Li Bai. This great poet has too many little fans, especially his top brother on the list. In order to get Li Bai to write a poem, he gave him countless gifts.
Just when Qi Cheng wanted to find another video to watch, he received a call from Zhou Lu, asking him to send him some fish that he had just caught.
Absolutely fresh.
"These small fish aren't worth much. You can fry them and save them for later." Zhou Lu pointed to the box on the ground. "You have another day off today, right? Let's go out and play."
"Didn't you go out to sea in the early morning? Why don't you go home and get some sleep?"
"Not sleepy at all."