But after staying in Hangzhou for a long time, liuyong spent all the money his family gave him. In order to survive, he wants to find a job. So I got a good job by paying tribute-that is, writing a word for the senior officials in Hangzhou at that time. Liu Yong didn't get the job he wanted because of this word, but later generations understood and liked Hangzhou because of this word.
Liu Yong said that Hangzhou was once called "Qiantang" and "prosperous since ancient times". In the Song Dynasty, "hundreds of thousands of different families" appeared. There are "bridges painted with smoke and willows, curtains painted with green" and "the city is full of pearls, and every household is prosperous and competing for luxury." What a vivid city scene.
In addition to the bustling urban scene, there is also "Sanqiu Guizi, Shili Lotus". In the lakes and mountains, people's homes are "cleaning up, singing all night and playing with lotus dolls." The high-ranking officials in Hangzhou he wants to praise are a pair of "riding high teeth, drunk listening to flutes and drums, and enjoying the haze." Appearance, power, prestige, both civil and military.
This is Hangzhou, Hangzhou described by literati. It is not high above, not out of reach, but full of street spirit and humanistic spirit. Here, getting close to anything beautiful is effortless. It floats on the surface of life like a lotus leaf on the lake, just like life itself.
Wu Xiaobo, a financial writer, has lived in Hangzhou for more than 40 years since he was a teenager. He is not from Hangzhou, but in 202 1, when the epidemic was raging, he had time to calm down and read the history of a city, and then wrote a book "Hangzhou on earth", telling the past when he lived comfortably and had beautiful scenery in this city.
Numerous literati live and chant in Hangzhou, where beautiful natural scenery, complicated human history and commercial prosperity blend seamlessly. This consumer city, which belongs to the emerging middle class, makes those scholars unforgettable, leaving behind not only words, but also achievements that benefit one side. Bai Causeway and Su Causeway, which are still in use on the West Lake today, were built by two famous literati, Bai Juyi and Su Shi, when they were in Hangzhou.
Bai Juyi was an official in Hangzhou for more than two years, and wrote more than 200 poems related to Hangzhou's landscape, accounting for almost115 of his life's poems. Among them, the work of chanting for the bosom established the coordinate position of the West Lake in the cultural history of China.
The West Lake was originally named Qiantang Lake, which is the first time that Bai Juyi called it "West Lake" in his poems. In this sense, he is a celebrity and a rediscover of the West Lake.
After leaving Hangzhou, Bai Juyi said that he never liked drinking and was too lazy to write poetry. Life is boring. Bai Juyi spent the most enjoyable and fulfilling life in Hangzhou. Ten years later, he was 70 years old, and a semi-blind poet wrote the famous sentence "Jiang Nanyi remembers Hang Cheng best".
Hangzhou is full of water, so it is necessary to control the lake. Bai Juyi built the Bai Causeway, while Su Shi was in Hangzhou, he also built a lake embankment-Su Causeway, which has been circulated for thousands of years.
Su Shi worked in Hangzhou twice in his life. After Su Shi, who was demoted to Huangzhou, left Hangzhou for the first time, he had a dream that he would return to the West Lake to talk about Zen and poetry with his friends. After waking up, I still remember the poem I wrote in my dream.
After returning to Hangzhou for the second time, I came to Geling Zhiguo Temple where the monk Shen Liao lived. The 93 steps in the temple are exactly the same as those in Su Shi's dream. Su Shi said with emotion in many poems that he has been to Hangzhou all his life, and he was probably from Hangzhou in his last life.
Wu Xiaobo, the author of Hangzhou on Earth, thinks that it is because Su Shi and the West Lake have the same temperament: that is, the shade is suitable and humiliation is not surprising.
Writing about the West Lake in Hangzhou, there is also Zhang Dai, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhang Dai is known to modern people because of Looking at the Lake and Pavilion Snow in the middle school textbook. In the first half of his life, Zhang Dai was a galloping horse and a playboy. In the second half of his life, he returned to the West Lake after his family died in the country.
However, he said, "I'm here for the West Lake. When I saw this today, I would be foolproof if I didn't protect the West Lake in my dream. " Therefore, Zhang Dai wrote a West Lake Dream of about 50,000 words, describing the West Lake in his dream.
The West Lake written by Zhang Dai is like a woman in the south of the Yangtze River who is sobbing, full of grief for her motherland. However, the most important thing for China literati is a man of character. Even in the saddest time, they still follow the teachings of Confucius, that is, to grieve without hurting.
I also want to talk about a scholar who lived in Hangzhou for more than 20 years and died in Hangzhou, but never wrote a word for Hangzhou-Li Qingzhao, a layman in Yi 'an.
Li Qingzhao's best life was born in the north, her hometown of Jinan, Shandong. After her husband died, the country was peaceful, and she fled to Hangzhou, then known as Lin 'an, where she spent the last and loneliest time in her life.
This uninhibited woman, claiming to be a good wine and fond of gambling, was invited by relatives and friends to see the excitement of Lin 'an City during the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou. She just said cautiously, "Now it's haggard, windy and cold, and I dare not go out at night. It is better to listen to people laughing under the curtain. "
How sad, such a state of mind, no matter how good the lakes and mountains are, in her eyes, there may only be gray and humiliation, indifference and boredom. Li Qingzhao lives only ten miles from the West Lake Opera House. For more than 20 years, she must have visited the West Lake, but the prosperity and beauty of the world have no color in her gloomy eyes.
Wu Xiaobo said: the appearance of the world is actually a reflection of fate; The meaning of the world is actually living interest. Once life shrinks, it becomes empty, and it is not even worth recording and describing in one word.
Some people say: there is heaven in the world and Suzhou and Hangzhou in the world. Hangzhou is the appearance of heaven falling to earth. This city, which has no rejection of individuality, not only has beautiful scenery, but also has many souls who have walked here for thousands of years. They appear at different times and overlap in the same space. Be sure to find opportunities to become overlapping images of that space, so as not to live up to this life!