Talking about ZuiWeng Pavilion

ZuiWeng Pavilion is located at the foot of Langya Mountain in Chuzhou. Yueyang Tower is situated at the Bank of Dongting Lake in Yueyang. It is situated on both sides of the Yangtze River, thousands of miles from east to west. "Drunken Weng Ting Ji" is from Ouyang Xiu, and "Yueyang Lou Ji" is from Fan Zhongyan. Two short notes, together 770 words. At the same time, the two records were formed in the six years of Qingli (1046).

The Story of Yueyang Tower is magnificent and magnificent, showing Fan Zhongyan's lofty ambition of "tens of thousands of armoured soldiers in his belly" and his lofty realm of "worrying before the world, happy after the world". Ouyang Xiu's strong political distress and sense of life are deeply hidden in The Story of ZuiWeng Pavilion. Nearly a thousand years have passed. Reading Ouyang Xiu carefully, it seems that we can only take the part of "standing up to the mountains".

Ouyang Xiu's "Sixty-one Poetry Talks" created a new genre of literary criticism, and had high attainments in history, Confucianism and epigraphy. Among the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty occupied six places. Ouyang Xiu's "awards" lead to backward progress, such as fear, appreciation, the rate is heard. Zeng Gong, Wang Anshi, Su Xun, Xun Zishi, Zhi, and the cloth screen are unknown. It is said that the reputation of Xiu You is bound to be revealed in the world"(Song Shi Ouyang Xiu Zhuan). At that time, almost all the writers had been promoted and praised by Ouyang Xiu. It is Ouyang Xiu who led the five famous writers to enter the history of Chinese literature.

Song Qi, a historian nine years older than Ouyang Xiu, compiled with Ouyang Xiu the New Tang Book, which entered the twenty-fourth history for later generations'approval. After finalizing the draft, the imperial history sent by the court told Ouyang Xiu that according to the practice of revising the history of previous dynasties, the author could only sign the name of the highest official, "Gong (referring to Ouyang Xiu) Guan Gaodang Shu". Ouyang Xiu answered, "Song Gong has passed on many meritorious deeds to Lie, how can I hide his name?" Therefore, Ji, Zhishu Xiu, biography Qi. Song Qi admired him and said, "Since ancient times, scholars have looked down upon each other. Like Ouyang Gong, such a high-spirited and respectful person, has never heard of it before!

To two years (1055), when Ouyang Xiu served as the messenger of Heqidan Dengbao, the four most important ministers of his country accompanied him at the banquet. Historical records show that "this unusual case is very famous for its reputation", which can also be seen in Ouyang Xiu's high prestige. Later people always believed that Ouyang Xiu's high prestige and reputation were rooted in his "devotion to life in calligraphy" - because his articles were well written. However, when the scholars of Song Dynasty history came to Ouyang Xiu, they exchanged with each other, "they had not tasted articles, but talked about official affairs, which means that articles stop at moistening themselves, and political affairs can reach things". That is to say, Ouyang Xiu believes that military affairs can benefit all things and the people. He writes articles to express his mind, and only nourishes his personal spiritual temperament. In Ouyang Xiu's mind, the famous poems and literary works, including "Superior Fan Shi Jian Shu", "Advice to Gao Shi Shu", "On Friends", "Autumn Sound Fu" and "Drunken Weng Ting Ji", are just by-products of official politics.

When talking about Ouyang Xiu's political career, we can not but mention Fan Zhongyan, who is 18 years older than him. In the third year of Qingli (1043), Song Renzong appointed Fan Zhongyan, Fubi and Han Qi to be in power at the same time. Ouyang Xiu and Cai Xiang were all officials in charge of the Qingli New Deal. In the four years of Qingli, Ouyang Xiu wrote a fine piece of his political essays, The Theory of Friends, which has ample arguments and has thoroughly turned over a historical case involving Friends'disputes in theory. Because of the current maladies, they fundamentally violated the decadent political bloc which is full of twilight. After the failure of the reform, Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu were framed as "friends" and were demoted at the same time. Practice has proved that no matter how carefully the article is in place, it is an indisputable fact that Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu have been deposed. It is unexpected that "the article hates to reach its goal", which is also in the situation of being deposed, and at the same time, two wonderful works in the history of prose appeared: The Story of Drunken Wong Pavilion and Yueyang Tower.

And are recorded and read together, from which we can see that the two authors share the same ambition and similar temperament. Song Shi commented on Ouyang Xiu's "gifted and courageous behavior, although the machine trap is ahead and trigger is ignored." Banishment and exile, as for the third time, ambition is at ease, "the 31 words applied to Fan Zhongyan, it is really seamless. From the common temperament, it is not difficult to figure out why the two of them can write such magnificent and mutually corresponding articles.

In the drunken Weng Pavilion, "the white-haired, decadent, too drunk" - this is Ouyang Xiu's self-portrait. He was less than 40 years old. He had to be white and boasted of being "Weng". Even the emperor felt pity when he saw it. In my opinion, Ouyang Xiu is not the scholar who is so eager for poverty. He is simply the frost and snow of the cruel and merciless political struggle piled on his head. As Ouyang Xiu's self-portrait, the word "drunk Weng" is the most successful and heartbreaking one. Later generations yearned for Chuzhou, many of them came to Ouyang Xiu, just as people yearned for Yueyang, admiring Fan Zhongyan's style and literary talent.

Ouyang Xiu's article is "transcendent and alone, beyond the reach of all". Sun Li, a contemporary writer, should be pushed to truly understand Ouyang Xiu's way of writing. Sun Li believed that "the unity of moral articles and the unity of style between people and writings can be the model of a generation of articles." Also positive.