A Sea of Stones Picking up Shells —— From Fan Zhongyan's father and son to Cao Yin's grandparents and grandchildren

From "Wutai Poetry Case" to "Che Gaiting Poetry Case" and then to "Tongwenguan Prison Case", the political struggle and cronyism in the Northern Song Dynasty intensified. Wu Chuhou didn't hesitate to frame Cai Que in order to "fail to express his meaning", in order to avenge the "20-year feud" and try to remove the "thorn in the side" and "thorn in the flesh". Wu Chuhou's son couldn't stand it anymore and criticized his father for "this inhuman behavior." Later, Wu Chuhou "had gangrene in his brain and died of chewing his tongue." Fan Zhongyan's son, Fan Chunren, stood up and said, "What you did today should be French in the future, and it is almost impossible to start." Really live up to my father's intention of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later"!

Empress Dowager Gao ordered: "Cai really can't drive in Yingzhou, but should be placed in NSW!" Xinzhou is the land of Lingnan, and almost all the people who relegated it have left and never come back. The courtiers implored, and Empress Dowager Cixi stood up with an expression: "Jiangshan can move, but the country can't move!" Cai Que's old mother stopped the guards of Empress Dowager Cixi for mercy, and Empress Dowager Cixi made up her mind that she should not only be demoted, but also never be put back. Of course, Fan Chunren, who spoke for Cai Que, was also implicated and demoted to Yingchang Mansion.

In the eighth year of Yuan You (1093), Cai Queke died in Xinzhou at the age of 56. On September 23 of the same year, Empress Dowager Gao died. Before she died, she told the ministers to "leave early" so that the "official" (Zhezong) could use another group of people. Sadly, five years later, Herry Liu, who impeached Chua, also died in Xinzhou, the exile, living in the same temple and room, which was called "two phases" in history.

Zhezong finally sat on the dragon chair from the "hip back" of the Queen Mother Gao and began to govern independently. He inherited the political ideal of Father God and took the road of "Xifeng". As "party member of Yuan You", Su Shi and Su Zhe are naturally unpopular. Su Shi was demoted to Danzhou, Hainan, and only with amazing perseverance and understanding (Su Shi was once instructed by a monk) was he able to leave this land alive, but he still failed to escape the hand of the god of death on his way back and died in Changzhou. However, Su Zhe was demoted because he "misquoted the metaphor"-comparing Zongshen, the former emperor, to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. At this point, to be fair, Su Zhe or Fan Chunren. "History calls Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty the master of the seven systems of the Han Dynasty, which is comparable to the first emperor, and it is not slander." Fan Chunren not only defended Su Zhe who was angered by the emperor, but also advised the angry young emperor, "Your Majesty should be polite when advancing and retreating, and should not be so hasty."

The ups and downs of Cai Jing, written by Mr. Chen, is characterized by narrative tension, language quality, rigorous historical facts and independent opinions. He jumped out of the tortuous and obscure historical context and told you whether Cai Cai Jing Bian (Wang Anshi's son-in-law) was a "traitor"; He broke away from people's worship of giant heroes and wondered whether Su Shi and Su Zhe were "gentlemen". He insisted on literary research from the perspective of "round figures" and investigated the "official personality" of the Cai family in Fujian; He has a strong interest in "mind learning" and thinks that Fan and his son have "high standards of personality".

Impressively, Mr. Geng was outspoken and gave Fan and his son this evaluation: "Although Fan Zhongyan and Fan Chunren have different political ideas, one focuses on change and the other tends to get better, but their personality is at the peak. Capable ministers and good ministers like Fan Zhongyan and Fan Chunren are not only superior, upright and respected, but also rare in the history of China. "

The Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away heroes. The waves will also wash away the treacherous people. So Lao Tzu said, "The wind never stops, and the rain never stops for a day." Historical records are sometimes vague. No wonder Liang Qichao said that "twenty-four histories are not history, and the genealogy of twenty-four surnames is positive", but after all, there is a scholar's conscience and literati's character in the gap between time and space, and there is also a vague truth and eternal justice in "language and writing".

Fan Chunren in the Northern Song Dynasty reminds me of Cao Yin, the grandfather of Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty. He also speaks fair for people who are irrelevant or even "out of phase". When it comes to Cao Yin, it is inevitable to mention Jiangsu's "cities" and "events", such as Suzhou Shengci, Jiangning Weaving and Yangzhou Bookstore.

After working in Suzhou for two years and eight months, Cao Yin was transferred to Jiangning Weaving to take over his father's position before his death. Suzhou people appreciate his "ruling Wu" and set up a shrine for him in Tiger Hill. Confucian scholars in the south of the Yangtze River traveled to the east and had close contacts with Cao Yin, and wrote a book "Memorial Hall of Four Farmers Cao Gong Tiger Hill".

You Dong recorded Cao Yin's official voice and public opinion in Suzhou, while Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden recorded Cao Yin's life in Nanjing: during the Kangxi period, the grass lotus (neem tree) pavilion was woven for Jiangning, and every time he went out, he had to take a book and read it endlessly. People ask, "Why do you want to learn?" "No," he said. I am not a local official, and people will stand up when they see me. I don't trust, so I cover my eyes and ears with this. "Sue and Jiangning satrap Chen Pengnian is out of phase. The conviction of Chen is a secret recommendation to Chen. People value it. His son Qin Xue wrote A Dream of Red Mansions to commemorate the prosperity of romantic life. I read it and admired it.

It can be seen that Cao Yin is aboveboard, has no personal grievances, does not put on airs, and is very good to the people and colleagues. Although it was not in harmony with the local officials, it did not harm the convicted person, but recommended it to Kangxi. Here Yuan Zicai made a mistake. It is not his son who wrote A Dream of Red Mansions, but his grandson.

Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions, which is a peak of China literature. Legends and inscriptions written by Cao Yin have also benefited the people.

Cao Yin is the "coat" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the "eyes and ears" of the Jiangnan emperor. He is also a "domestic slave" with both glory and crisis, and a "favorite" with diligence and loyalty handed down from generation to generation. He won the honor of being given ice cubes, cherries and medicine by the emperor. He was ordered to set up Yangzhou Poetry Bureau and Yangzhou Bookstore, and published Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty and Pei Fu. He worked as a weaver in Jiangning four times. Kangxi made five southern tours, and Cao Yin took the driving thousands of miles until Yutai County on the bank of the Grand Canal in southern Shandong. When the emperor returned to China, Cao Yin took pains to escort him and sent him directly to Baoying, an ancient canal town in Yangzhou.

People, whether Dan Qing is famous or not, whether unknown or household name, are tied together with time and space, inseparable from the times and related to geography. The trajectory of A Dream of Red Mansions is very similar, starting with the "small ups and downs" of the Zhen family in the southeast Gusu, and ending with the "big ups and downs" of Jia Wang and the four families in Beijing.

"Dou Yun's author is stupid, who can understand the taste?" Cao Yin arrived in Jiangning at the age of five or six, and Cao Xueqin left Nanjing at the age of twelve or thirteen. A road to go, ups and downs, south to north, pick up the driver to send me, sing "good songs"-good is good, good is good, and it says "good things end"-where will it be in ancient and modern times? A pile of grass on the wasteland is missing.

"Open the HarmonyOS system, who is that kind of love?" Cao Xueqin, the grandson of Cao Yin, wrote A Dream of Red Mansions in a crisis, and wrote pride and roughness into the novel, just like a fantastic biography carved on a stone. Fan Zhongyan, the father of Fan Chunren, wrote the story of Yueyang Tower with "Benevolence". Although he was sad when he returned to his hometown, he never forgot that "those who live in temples worry about their people, and those who live far away in rivers and lakes worry about their kings."

"The red peony in front of the stage today will have some new flowers. I don't understand hue when I am open, and I know it is an illusion when I am backward. " Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, sent a poem "Being a Teacher" with "Feeling Peony Flowers", which is just suitable for my immersion and extension-"Feeling a Dream of Red Mansions", "Feeling the History of Northern Song Dynasty", "Cao Xueqin" and "Fan Chunren".

All families, old and new, rich and poor, should have a spiritual inheritance. The ancients said: farming and reading have been handed down from family for a long time, and poetry and books have helped the world for a long time. Today's cloud: A good family style is a family heirloom. Cao Yin and Cao Xueqin, Fan Zhongyan and Fan Chunren inherited fairness, decency, kindness and beauty, and of course poetry. How lucky the elders are that grandparents and grandchildren, father and son confirm each other and achieve each other! How lucky the younger generation is!

About the author

Zhou Shujuan, female, from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, graduated from Chinese Department of Huazhong University of Science and Technology 1992. Member of Chinese Writers Association, member of China Dream of Red Mansions Society, member of China Prose Society, member of the 9th Committee of Jiangsu Writers Association, vice chairman of Xuzhou Writers Association, and winner of Bing Xin Prose Award.

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