That year, the Great Tang, which had experienced the An Shi Rebellion, had just calmed down.
In the suburbs of Chang'an, at the foot of the Terminal Mountain, the door of a villa was closed.
A group of people gathered outside the door, some with quilts, obviously waiting here all night, with a sign at their feet that reads: queuing on behalf of ten taels of silver.
It was already dawn, and the crowd began to get agitated and talk to each other.
Suddenly, the door opened.
A scholar holding a trash can dumped a pile of waste paper outside the door. The crowd swarmed and grabbed it all in a moment.
Some people shouted: Wow! It's a painting, a draft of "Rim River Drawing", I'm rich.
Some people shouted: "I don't see anyone on the empty mountains, but I hear people's voices", wow, it's a draft of a poem.
Another person shouted: "I can't believe it's a music score! My son can pass grade 8 on the pipa, oh yeah.
Of course, there were some who were so disappointed that they opened the ball of paper and read "Death to the paparazzi" or the WIFI password.
After an hour, the crowd slowly dispersed, and quiet returned to the entrance of the villa.
An old man pushed open the gate, poured out the dregs of tea, and took a glance at the lawn that had been trampled by the crowd:
Ha goat, old man can't even try to have a quiet life.
This villa is called 'Rim Chuan Bieye'.
This uncle is the owner, his name is Wang Wei.
02
As we all know, in any era, chicken soup literature has a market.
Wang Wei's landscape idylls have also been treated as a pot of old chicken soup.
People would put their hands on skewers, hold their teacups, recite a few lines of "When the water is empty, sit back and watch the clouds rise", and then go to sleep amid the sound of domestic road rollers. I woke up the next day, still swollen inside.
But that's not how you read Wang Wei's poem.
That year, at the age of 15, Wang Wei traveled from his hometown in Shanxi province to Chang'an to earn a degree. Unlike his fellow coal-owning townspeople, Wang Wei started out with an ambition:
I want to conquer the world with my talent.
He wasn't bragging.
Since the age of nine, Wang Wei has been a master of poetry, calligraphy, painting, and in his spare time, playing the pipa. While other kids were still watching cartoons, young Wang Wei was already a top student.
At the age of 17, when other kids were still reading their best essays, Wang Wei was already a top Internet celebrity with his poem "Thinking of my family during the festive season".
At the age of 20, Wang Wei's life has been hanging.
In the poetry world, he threw out the refreshing "red beans are born in the south, spring to hair a few branches".
In the world of painting, his works surpassed many of his predecessors and set auction records for living painters.
In the singing world, his "Yu Lun Robe" is a hit, from the square dance to the Datang Spring Festival Gala, it is the finale.
He, an all-rounder.
And his circle of friends spread from the middle class, to the celebrity class. Xuanzong's brothers, King Ning, King Xue and King Qi, and his sister, Princess Yu Zhen, all stood up for him.
Li Guinian, the heavenly singer of the Tang Dynasty, was proud to sing his words.
At this time, Li Bai Gao Shi Meng Haoran guys, still casting resumes everywhere, Du Fu children are still carving the word 'early' on the desk.
With the recommendation of a number of big names, Wang Wei successfully secured the first prize.
In the night sky of the Great Tang, a new star rises, radiating a sexy light.
Every nightfall, the voice of scolding children will come from the home of Chang'an citizens:
Look at other people's children.
Seeing this, are you particularly envious and jealous:
How come I don't have Wang Wei's talent?
Don't worry, there are you more envious.
03
Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, there are five famous families in China: Cui, Li, Lu, Zheng and Wang, of which there are two branches of the Cui surname, two branches of the Wang surname, and *** seven doors, or in short: five surnames and seven hopes.
The children of famous families get married, and they are concerned about the family. Even if you have five suites in Chang'an, you can't marry a girl from their family.
In Yuncheng, Shanxi, a young man from the Wang family married a girl from the Cui family.
Their eldest son, was Wang Wei.
Along with Wang Wei, who belonged to the Taiyuan Wang Clan, there were Wang Bo, Wang Zhilu, and Wang Changling.
So, if you traveled to the Tang Dynasty and came across those surnamed Wang and Cui, don't call them randomly: old Wang, little Cui, the consequences are serious.
If your neighbor came to a 'next door old king', also be sure to get good neighborly relations.
All in all, noble birth, all-round talent, plus "wonderful years of white" face value. The young man, Wang Wei, was a perfect man.
So, after scolding their children, the women would also take their husbands along with them: look at Wang Wei.
At one time, no matter men or women, when they hear Wang Wei, they are always ready to offer their knees.
At celebrity parties, poetry symposiums, and music festivals, there are often conversations like this:
What's your name, Mr. Wang Wei?
Wang Wei waved his hand:
Don't kneel. My surname is Wang.
04
The young man became famous, the spring breeze.
At this time, Wang Wei, exuding a murderous aura, every word in his works is boiling with blood, he wants to build a career:
Xinfeng beautiful wine bucket ten thousand, Xianyang ranger how many years.
We meet and drink for you, and tie our horses to the willow side of the tall building.
A bucket of ten thousand good wine I pay the bill, come on, young man, it is okay to get drunk, the BMW is parked downstairs.
Born in the Han Dynasty, he was the first to fight with the Hussars in Yuyang.
Who knows that you will not suffer in the border court, even if you die, you will still smell the fragrance of chivalry.
We are a family with a great reputation, the first time I entered the workplace is the forbidden guards, followed by the general to go to Yuyang to do battle. If I'm not allowed to go, I'm not happy. Even if I die, I have a backbone.
And his "look back at the eagle shooting place, thousands of miles of twilight clouds flat."
These poems are not bad at all, even if they are put in the first-class border poems.
However, fate is a comedian, coldly give you a joke.
When Wang Wei was about to reach the peak of his life, he was confronted by the An Shi Rebellion.
05
As we all know, the Anshi Rebellion is a weapon of mass destruction for poets, Li Bai, Du Fu, did not escape.
Wang Wei was no different.
The great warlord An Lushan attacked Chang'an, searched around, and took a look, and managed to capture a super V alive.
Without being told, Wang Wei was taken hostage in the army and put in prison.
In prison, Wang Wei had no spoons and no Michael brothers, and escaped several times without success.
After the An Lushan group collapsed, the court settled scores and wanted to kill Wang Wei as a rebel.
Just at the moment of life and death, Wang Wei fished out a poem from his pocket.
This poem, called "Nimbus Pond", is written in a very patriotic and touching way:
All the houses are sad with wild smoke, when will the hundred bureaucrats face the sky more?
The leaves of the autumn acacia fell in the empty palace, and the strings were played at the head of the Ngingbi Pond.
This time Xuanzong has abdicated, the new emperor Tang Suzong saw the poem, moved to cry out of snot bubbles, and immediately Wang Wei was promoted to four ranks, do the right minister of Shangshu.
Hey, if Li Bai had done the same, maybe he wouldn't have been sent to Yelang.
But there would have been no "one day to return to Jiangling".
06
Though it was a shock, Wang Wei had seen it through.
At this point in time, the Great Tang was no longer the Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong. Officialdom was characterized by collusion and villainy, and the bosses listened only to hymns and not to people.
Numerous nights, Wang Wei home from work, sitting in the car, silently lit a cigarette.
The cigarette is brightly lit, illuminating a middle-aged tired face:
This meticulous day, do not want to.
So Wang Wei began another life.
The teenager who sang little love songs was gone, the cynic who drank heavily and killed his enemies with a long sword was gone.
He plunged headlong into the landscape and fields, brushing his screen with a country ballad.
At one time, it was like people were drinking nourishing chicken soup: I also want to be indifferent to fame and fortune, I also want to drink tea and play with strings, I also want to be light.
Whenever this time, Wang Wei will smile slightly:
Did not go through the wind and clouds, where is the lightness of the wind and clouds?
Because people only see his "line to the water, sit and watch the clouds rise", but not see the "occasional value of the forest old man, talk and laugh no return period."
This is the realization of financial freedom, do not have to go to work in order to have the capricious.
People only see him "sitting alone in the secret grove", but can not see him "play the piano and whistle".
That is out of the half-life, return is still a young boy's youth whistle.
People only see an uncle "leaning on a stick outside the wood door, listening to the wind and cicadas".
People only see an old man "leaning on his staff outside the wood gate, listening to the cicadas in the wind", but they don't see him "drunk on a carriage, singing wildly in front of the five willows".
That is the sea of laughter after a happy life.
People only see the "empty mountain after the new rain, the weather late in the fall".
People can only see "after the new rain on the empty mountain, the weather is late in the fall".
This is his villa in the Rim River to depict the view of Zhongnan Mountain, in Chang'an Zhongnan Mountain villa is what concept? Think of Sheshan in Shanghai and Xishan in Beijing.
It is not a rich merchant, not the children of the aristocracy, you can "self can stay"?
See, you think he burned incense and chanting Buddha is the world. The people just blocked the circle of friends, do not want to go on the class, can not go on; do not want to see the people, can not see.
He can find a woodcutter to chat with, and he can also find the king's grandchildren and nobles to fish.
When he is happy, he will be "blowing the pine wind to undo the belt, the mountain moonlight playing the piano".
If he wanted to be quiet, he would "return to Songshan Mountain and close the door".
Wang Wei at this time, just do not do big brother for many years.
But he is still a big brother.