1045, Fenning, Jiangxi (now Xiushui). The Huang family welcomed a baby boy.
Although he is the second child in the family, his father Huang Shu is still very happy.
Huang Fenning is a Jinshi family. Huang Shu's father has 13 siblings, all of whom are famous for their learned articles. Among them, 10 was admitted to Jinshi, and the locals said it was "the first in ten dragons".
Three years ago, 1042, Huang Shukao was admitted as a scholar, which continued the glory of the family.
During the whole Song Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty 100 years, there were two periods in which cultural talents came forth in large numbers in Jiangxi.
Uncle Huang hopes that this newborn boy will win glory for his family and Jiangxi in the future. To what extent?
He named the boy "Tingjian" after one of the 16 sages in the ancient legend. This mentality of wanting their children to succeed is probably similar to that of the present father who named his children "Jiacheng" or "Hua Teng".
This little boy named Huang Tingjian is really no ordinary person.
On one occasion, his uncle, Li Chang, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, came to his house and saw a lot of books on the shelf, so he took out some books and asked.
Huang Tingjian answered questions like a stream, making everything impossible.
Chang Li was shocked on the spot and told everyone that the child "has made great achievements in a thousand miles a day."
As for what is "promising", my uncle didn't make it clear. Everyone's intuitive understanding is that officialdom is "promising".
However, when Huang Tingjian was 7 years old, he wrote a poem that surprised everyone.
This poem is called The Shepherd Boy;
Riding cattle and piccolo blowing through the village thousands of villages away. How many Chang 'an fame and fortune guests, organ failure is not as good as jun, and some people can't get rid of the word "fame and fortune" until they are 70 years old. The child saw through it at the age of seven.
Thought is horribly precocious.
19 years old, Huang tingjian entered the imperial examination in Beijing. Before he was released, his friends rumored that he had won the provincial yuan. So I gave a banquet to congratulate in advance.
Drinking and drinking, the news came that Sun Sheng and two other people were really admitted, but there was no Huang Tingjian.
Hearing this, everyone was extremely disappointed and dispersed in a hubbub. Before leaving, someone wiped a tear and said goodbye to Huang Tingjian: "Take care, brother, don't be too hard!"
Huang Tingjian still drank wine and hummed a ditty, which was completely ignored.
After drinking, he also went to see the list with Sun Sheng, which looked no different from usual.
Take the exam in three years. No one prepared a banquet for him this time, but he quietly passed the exam.
Later, a physiognomy gentleman with the same surname pulled Huang Tingjian to tell his fortune. Sigh while watching:
All right, all right. This is the life of Hanlin and Zhongshu! After reading it, Mr. physiognomy didn't ask Huang Tingjian for money, but asked him for a word and wanted to make an advertisement.
Huang Tingjian didn't refuse, thought for a moment, a stroke of a pen:
Huang Shengxiang gave it to him. Officially, it's two systems. He lived to be 80 years old, the so-called big gourd. Smile! Huang Sheng took the sign and was in high spirits. People asked him what "big gourd seed" was, and he looked puzzled. In order to show that he knows everything, he is also embarrassed to ask Huang Tingjian.
Huang Tingjian secretly told friends in the same trade:
I once saw a man selling gourd seeds in Suoguo Temple, carrying a gourd, which was very big. He took the seeds out of the gourd and sold them for hundreds of dollars each, which was expensive, but people still rushed to buy them. Unexpectedly, people who bought high-priced gourd seeds planted them and produced cheap gourds. It turns out that Huang Tingjian's signboard inscribed for Mr. physiognomy is insinuating that he is fooling people.
He doesn't believe that he is destined to be a high official. He is not interested at all.
Portrait of Huang Tingjian
2 1072, a great man-Su Shi came to Cheng Sunjue's family.
Sun Jue put the poem of his son-in-law Huang Tingjian in a conspicuous position in advance. As soon as Su Shi came, he saw it and arrested it. If he didn't read it, he wouldn't know it. After reading it, he was shocked:
After reading countless articles, people in today's world really can't write such transcendental words. Sun Jue seized the opportunity to sell his son-in-law and asked:
This man is not popular yet, and college students can make a name for him. Su Shi smiled and answered:
This person is like jade. If you don't approach others, others will take the initiative to approach him. In the future, fame is so great that you want to escape, but you can't get it. Why be famous? A few years later, Su Shi met Huang Tingjian's uncle Li Chang. Li Chang also strongly recommended his nephew's works to Su Shi.
Huang Tingjian 13 years old, his father Huang Shu died. Since then, it's all up to my uncle. My uncle is half a father.
Su Shi read Huang Tingjian's poem again and praised it again.
Chang Li took the opportunity to ask Su Shi for contact information, so that his nephew could make friends with this great writer.
Huang Tingjian trembled and sent poems to idols for advice. Su Shi often writes back and writes poems, not to mention.
Although they have never met, they have been friends for a long time.
In a blink of an eye, 1079, Su Shi was caught in Wutai poetry case. At the beginning of the crime, people who had poetry exchanges with Su Shi earlier joined the exposure team and opened the distance.
At that time, Huang Tingjian made an understatement, but he wanted to stand up for Su Shi and say something like "Su Shi is loyal to the monarch and patriotic".
In the end, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou and Huang Tingjian was punished.
1086, the first year of Yuan You. Great changes have taken place in the imperial political situation, and the "new party" has lost power. Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and others who were listed as "old parties" returned to Beijing to be officials.
Huang Tingjian used an inkstone as a gift to visit Su Shi as a disciple and officially became a student of Su Shi.
This year, Huang Tingjian was 4 1 year old and Su Shi was 49 years old.
Su Shi was delighted that the old student was officially admitted to the "Four Bachelor of Su Men" and wrote a poem saying:
Today, a person is very lucky and tired of playing word games. Use it when you get the talents in the world, and worry about it. With such a disciple, my illness has healed and my troubles have been solved. It tastes delicious.
In the next three years, Huang Tingjian got along with Su Shi and other disciples, discussing poetry and appreciating calligraphy and painting. This is the happiest time of his life.
Once, we were together. Huang Tingjian took out the cursive script he wrote last night and asked Su Shi to comment.
After reading it, Su Shi nodded and expressed satisfaction: "Your handwriting is best described by a phenomenon."
Huang tingjian is looking forward to it: the teacher said quickly, what phenomenon?
Su Shi spat out five words: a dead tree hangs a dead snake.
Huang Tingjian instantly turned into a black line, without such humor. In order not to be surpassed, he speaks better than the teacher's calligraphy.
Su Shi: You said, I can stand it.
Huang Tingjian: Stones smash toads.
Everyone here laughs so hard that their stomachs hurt. These two calligraphy masters are "disgusting" to each other, but others dare not take it seriously. This is obviously the same as the current rich people often say that they have nothing, and an ordinary family is the same, okay?
Huang Tingjian's cursive script Zhushangtie (partial) is a treasure of the Palace Museum.
During this period, Huang Tingjian's poems became better and better, and the world began to refer to him and Su Shi as "Su Huang". Calligraphy is also listed as "Song Sijia" with Su Shi.
Many years later, Huang Tingjian, who was in exile, heard the news of Su Shi's death and burst into tears.
He hung Su Shi's portrait in the house, dressed neatly every day, and respectfully burned incense to pay tribute to the portrait.
Some people say that he and Su Shi are called "Su Huang" and have a close relationship. He immediately got up and left, and hurriedly avoided saying:
I am a disciple of Mr Dongpo, how dare I be so modest? Portrait of Su Shi
Su Shi deserves to be the person who knows Huang Tingjian best. At the beginning, after reading his poem, no one saw it, so I concluded that this person:
Those who despise foreign things and respect themselves cannot be used by today's gentlemen. Facts have proved that Huang Tingjian is a man who despises fame and fortune and only values his inner world.
This led to a very bleak career in his life.
He has never been a bigger official in his life, and he basically walks around at the county and town level.
It is not that he is incompetent, but that the quality of his officials is too good. When the court carries out political reform, once it finds that some new policies waste people's money, it resolutely resists and does not implement them.
When Jiangxi Taihe was the magistrate, the court promulgated a new policy of collecting salt tax, and the tax collected by local officials was directly linked to their political achievements. Other counties are desperately collecting taxes, but he wants to say that "poor villages have rice and no salt" and refuses to implement the New Deal.
The result was demoted to Deping Town, Dezhou, Shandong Province.
At that time, Zhao Mingcheng's father, Tingzhi Zhao, was a judge in Texas. Tingzhi Zhao followed the instructions of his superiors and vigorously promoted the "Easy City Law", but Huang Tingjian repeatedly raised objections on the grounds that his town of Deping was "poor".
When Tingzhi Zhao was promoted step by step, he still held a grudge against Huang Tingjian, which made him suffer enough.
In a word, Huang Tingjian's career is bumpy, mainly because he insists on putting people first. He once carved the word 16 in front of the government, telling himself to be an official and keep his ass straight:
It is easy for the people to abuse, but it is difficult for God to bully them. When others become officials, they are all shouting for the country and the people. How can they climb up or how can they climb up? You Huang Tingjian really sit on the people's side. How can a leader like it?
Other officials are getting bigger and bigger, and Huang Tingjian's official is getting smaller and smaller.
But he doesn't care.
During Yuan You's time, the "old party" came to power. Huang Tingjian managed to get through a little and was awarded the post of proofreader of Zongshen Zuolang Lu, responsible for compiling history. He asked for his resignation many times, but he couldn't quit and went to his post.
The Record of Gods was revised, but before he was promoted, his mother died of illness.
Huang Tingjian hurried back to his hometown to observe filial piety. His sadness turned into a disease, and he almost died. He was a famous dutiful son, and later became a "twenty-four filial piety".
Huang Tingjian, twenty-four filial piety, drowning washer.
When Guan Mu died in the imperial court, the political style changed again.
The "new party" came back to power and began to liquidate the "old party". Although Huang Tingjian has never been open-minded, after the failure of Wang Anshi's political reform, he also publicly said that Wang was "a great man in my life". However, political struggle is always so cruel that people in officialdom are often involuntarily involved in the waves.
The "New Party" consulted the contents of a Record of Gods, and picked out more than 1000 records that they thought were problematic, claiming that Huang Tingjian had slandered Song Shenzong more than 1000 times.
No matter how they coerced and lured, Huang Tingjian never admitted that he had slandered the late emperor.
His awesome justice shames all his people.