After Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi failed to participate in the revolution together, they were both demoted. Liu Zongyuan was banished to Yongzhou, a very poor and barren place. After living there for a while, he was very depressed.
Just write a letter to Liu Yuxi and tell him that life is not comfortable now. Since then, Liu Yuxi often wrote letters to encourage Liu Zongyuan, which made him regain his confidence in life. Then Liu Yuxi was demoted to work in Bozhou, but Liu Zongyuan was transferred back to Liuzhou.
Liu Zongyuan knows that Bozhou is a very poor place. So he wrote to the emperor and said that he was willing to replace Liu Yuxi in Bozhou and let Liu Yuxi work in Liuzhou. Because rachel's family has an old mother who needs rachel's care.
Bozhou is too far away from Liuzhou, fearing that their mother and son will never see each other again as soon as they are separated. When his friend was in trouble, Liu Zongyuan risked being accused by the emperor and touched many ministers.
I wrote to help Liu Zongyuan. Although the emperor did not agree to Liu Zongyuan's request in the end, he still dealt with Liu Yuxi lightly and sent him to Zhengzhou.
2. Liu Yuxi's story-Liu Yuxi's inscription
Once Liu Yuxi visited the Peach Blossom Garden again, and found that some good-growing trees and some elegant stones he had seen were gone, so he raised his face and let the old man see the mountains.
Seeing that Liu Yuxi was angry, the old man quickly reported: "My Lord, you only know that this is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, but you don't know how many rich and powerful people nearby want to occupy it. How can my old man manage it? "
Hearing this, Liu Yuxi sighed and thought that although he didn't take everything away from here, he didn't do anything good for it. So he asked someone to bring a pen, dip it in ink, and pick a big stone leaning against the side of the mountain.
I wrote four characters "Taoyuan Jiazi", followed by my own name. He also asked masons to carve these words on stone tablets, carry them to the door of Peach Blossom Garden and erect them.
Then those rich and powerful people came. As soon as they got to the entrance, they looked up and saw the big stone tablet. Knowing that Liu Yuxi, an adult Sima, wanted to protect the Peach Blossom Garden, they had to say angrily, "Since Liu Sima has inscribed a monument, no one is allowed to take away a grass or a tree in the future!"
Liu Yuxi was a scholar in the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793). At the beginning, he was a clerk in Du You's shogunate and an envoy in Huainan, and was highly valued by Du You. Later, he entered the DPRK from Du You, supervising the empire. At the end of Zhenyuan, he made friends with Liu Zongyuan, Han Ye and formed a political group headed by Wang.
Later, he successively served as Sima Langzhou, Secretariat of Lianzhou, Secretariat of Kuizhou, Secretariat of Hezhou, Doctor of Host and Guest, Minister of Rites, and Secretariat of Suzhou. In Huichang, we will check the history of the Ministry of Justice. He died at the age of 70 and gave it to the Minister of Housing.
Liu Yuxi's poems and essays are all excellent, with a wide range of subjects. Known as "Liu Liu" with Liu Zongyuan, "Three Masters" with Wei and Bai Juyi, and "Bai Liu" with Bai Juyi, including the humble room, Zhi Zhu Ci, Yang Liuzhi Ci and Wuyi Lane.
Three philosophical works, The Theory of Heaven, discuss the materiality of heaven and analyze the origin of the theory of destiny, which is materialistic. There are works of Liu Mengde and Liu Binke.
Liu Yuxi's landscape poems changed the narrow-minded and desolate style of Dali and Zhenyuan poets, but often wrote a half-empty and half-solid open scene of beyond space's real distance.
Liu Yuxi and his poetic style are quite unique. He is resolute and heroic. During his years in exile, he felt heavy psychological depression and sang a lamentation for lonely ministers. But he never despaired. He has the soul of a fighter.
Besides poetry and prose, Liu Yuxi's creation of Ci and Fu is also an important part of the history of Ci and Fu in Tang Dynasty and even the whole history of Ci and Fu. His eleven poems are no less than the number of Ci and Fu in the Tang Dynasty.
Liu Yuxi's philosophical thought has a distinct materialistic tendency. His main works are three essays about heaven. In the view of the world, his materialist thought is more progressive than Liu Zongyuan's. Regarding the relationship between nature and human beings, Liu Yuxi put forward the viewpoint of "mutual win and mutual use" between man and nature, which has a positive enterprising spirit.
He believes that the reason why people produce idealism is closely related to social reality. When "Buddhism is great", if the society is "for the public and not for the public", people will not have the concept of fate. At the time of "great relaxation of the law", right and wrong in society are reversed, and man can conquer nature, so the theory of destiny is promoted in the world.
When the law is lax, the right and wrong in society are unclear, and people will be skeptical about their fate. Liu Yuxi's explanation of the origin of the theory of destiny with social practice is a great contribution to epistemology.
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