Zhang, whose real name is Zhang, swore to be an official when he died, and often sighed, "Why don't saints sigh when gold people are on the throne?" So he changed his surname to "Jin", the word "Shengtan", and the celebrity Rui.
How talented is Jin Shengtan? Xu Zeng, a fellow countryman's friend and poet, praised Jin Shengtan in the preface of All Talented People Must Read: "Sage sigh is also a stranger who learns the most, learns the most, knows the most and writes the fastest. Every book once its eyes, such as a mirror out of the box, will shine when it is hidden; Through his hands, it is reasonable to know how to solve the cow, for example; Through its mouth, it is like hanging a river, and everyone is very happy. Winter is like fire, warm and hot, and drinking water in summer is cool. "
Xu Zeng praised Jin Shengtan's talent in Das Kapital, and he is a "genius" because he is completely unconventional and contrary to mainstream values, and his thoughts and actions are amazing!
Two thousand gold, one beauty. Is the master tempted?
Although Jin Shengtan's talent is everywhere, because of his extreme thinking and grotesque language, he was repeatedly frustrated in the imperial examination, and it took him several years to get a scholar.
One year, candidates came down from above, and an article entitled "Is it safe to be tempted like this?" From Mencius, many students were puzzled. How dare respectable students hand in a blank sheet of paper? They have to talk nonsense everywhere. Jin Shengtan is also taking the exam. He had a brainwave and wrote on the test paper: "There are two thousand gold in the empty mountains and valleys; Besides the Millennium, there is another kind of beauty. Excuse me: Is Master tempted? Say: move! Move it. Move it. ..... "He wrote 39 words" move "in a row, and the font was very large, just filling it on the white paper.
When the inspector saw it, he couldn't help laughing, but pretended to be angry and said, "How ridiculous!" Jin Shengtan solemnly said: Mencius said that I was forty and was not tempted; Confucius also said that forty is not confusing. In other words, people are easy to "be tempted" and "be confused" before the age of 40, and Confucius and Mencius are no exception-didn't Confucius and Mencius itch when they saw the golden beauty before the age of 40? It's normal to itch even in your heart. So I wrote 39 "dynamic" words in a row, and one "dynamic" word represents one year, just before forty years old. If I write 40 words "move", it will be the shame of Confucius and Mencius.
Three generations of great traitors
Jin Shengtan had an uncle, who was a big official in the early Qing Dynasty. At that time, he was an assistant minister in the Ministry of Rites and was regarded as a literary master. On Qian's birthday, a lot of flatterers came and drank three rounds. Someone said to Qian, "Your nephew, Mr. Qian, is a famous scholar in Jiangnan. He is famous all over the world. Today, let me wait and see. "
Jin Shengtan did not refuse. He got up calmly and wrote: "a civilian with a small face." When everyone looked at each other, money also showed an awkward look. Jin Shengtan went on to write: "The elder of the Three Dynasties ..." The guests all laughed, and Qian secretly nodded. I saw Jin Shengtan quickly write down three words, threw the pen away and roared off.
This couplet is "a traitor with a small face in three dynasties". In fact, it satirizes the money that was originally the assistant minister of the Ming Dynasty. After his death, Nan Ming was established as the minister of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing. After the Qing soldiers went south, they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became assistant ministers of the Qing Dynasty. Jin Shengtan doesn't like his uncle, the "elder of the three dynasties", and shows no mercy in front of everyone.
Six books of genius
Zhuangzi, Li Sao, Historical Records, Du Shi, Water Margin and The West Chamber are called "Books of Six Tales". It was originally planned to annotate them one by one, but only the last two books were completed, and Du Shijie was killed before he could finish them.
Jin Shengtan was radical and didn't like the corruption of the imperial court. "Water Margin" is just a novel describing the corruption and shameless of corrupt officials and traitors and the heroic uprising of various civilians. Therefore, Jin Shengtan attaches great importance to the water margin. If it is only because of its proper use of grammar, how can he praise: "There is no article in the world that is right; No gentleman in the world is right except Mr. Shi Naian. " .
He not only approved the Water Margin, but also deleted all the plots after the seventy chapters of the Water Margin, and continued to write "The Heroes of the Water Margin" as the end of the book, which was published by Guanhuatang in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, so it was also called "Guanhuatang Edition". In the last 300 years of the Qing Dynasty, this is the most popular water margin. It is an exaggeration to say that "this one is useless when it comes out". Due to the deletion of nearly half, there is a saying that Jin Shengtan cut the water margin.
Why did Jin Shengtan praise Du Fu, but did not include the great poet Li Bai in the list of gifted scholars? It may be because he and Li Bai are somewhat similar, both natural and refined, and brilliant. Maybe he subconsciously only allows himself to be arrogant and despise powerful people, and does not allow others to do the same.
Jin Shengtan's literary talent was even praised by the emperor. The emperor shunzhi read Jin Shengtan's article and commented: "This is a master of ancient Chinese prose. Don't look at him with his current prose." Hearing the holy word, Jin Shengtan "cried and bowed his head to the north."
Philosophical thinking
However, there are always some conceptual differences among talented scholars, and some people even fall into a dead end and get mental illness. Jin Shengtan's thought is also wonderful, which people have never thought of, but it feels quite reasonable to read and is full of philosophical speculation. For example, Jin Shengtan wrote in the preface of The West Chamber of Jin Shengtan:
Tens of millions of years have gone by like an arrow and lightning. As for this year and this month, there is me for the time being. I've been here for a while, and I haven't forgotten the cloud. It's gone like lightning, but fortunately, it's still a while. Fortunately, I'm still here for the time being, so what will I do for fun?
Many people have lamented that the deceased is like this and life is impermanent. Reading these words of Jin Shengtan makes people suddenly enlightened, everything will pass like lightning, and all troubles and worries are not worth worrying about. We should cherish "fortunately, it is still temporary" and waste our lives on beautiful things.
After mourning the ancients, he left it to future generations:
What gift does Jin Shengtan want to leave for the missing descendants?
He said, how can I give it? People who love reading need light, but I can't give it to future generations with body oil. How can this be good?
He added, "I asked for the incarnation of10 billion yuan, not only for the famous mountains and rivers, exotic flowers and herbs, but also for the good fragrance, good tea, good wine and good medicine. I thought it was a gift." "But later generations don't know this famous mountains and rivers, strange trees and flowers, good fragrance, good tea, good wine and good medicine are all my embodiment. How can this be good?
I can also be transformed into a bosom friend, I can also be transformed into a rat liver worm, but I don't know how future generations will treat me. How can this be good?
Although it took a long time to write, Jin Da didn't leave anything behind, but I appreciate his kindness as a descendant.
Playing tricks on Daniel Dae Kim
Li Bai is a poet and Jin Shengtan is Jin Xian! Because his sideline is "helping women". What do you mean by "Wisdom Fofo Agbo"? Generally speaking, it is a ghost. The professionalism of Kin ki Style is unique in ancient and modern times. After the body of the deceased, Jin Shengtan wanted to write what the deceased had to say.
According to the literature, he said: "colorful words, scattered and scattered, colorful prose, colorful spirit." Not only writing, but also drawing. Once, he painted four flowers on the spot. "Before hanging the Buddha, the goddess offered flowers, and the audience admired her incredible merits", so that the history books recorded that "the holy sigh is in Wuzhong, and it is not without status". Obviously, Kim is a top-down ghost year, and this is his true love.
For example, an official who retired from his hometown lost his daughter and wanted to know where her daughter was reborn. I saw Jin Shengtan pick up a wooden stick and quickly wrote in the sand: "My girl has become an immortal." The official asked, "Where did you become an immortal?" Jin Shengtan wrote again: "Guanghan Palace." "Who was she in her previous life?" "She is Qin Shaoyou's daughter-in-law, Su Dongpo's sister, and Jianghu people call her Su Xiaomei." "It is said that Su Xiaomei can write poetry. Can she write one? "
Jin Shengtan immediately exerted his eloquent genius and wrote more than a dozen seven-character quatrains in a feminine tone. The client thought that her daughter was really reincarnated by Su Xiaomei and became an immortal, so she quickly took out her gold and silver jewelry to thank the "psychic" Jin Shengtan. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Shengtan conquered a large number of intellectuals by supporting her. Zheng Fujiao, a fellow villager, recalled: "Jin Sheng (referring to Jin Shengtan) is familiar with the road ... Please come, and there is a long chapter. Mr. Jin and his scholars have a road, and they are all confused by his words." That means his business is booming.
The bitterest humor
Since ancient times, people have been jealous of talents, and their life span is not long, and Jin Shengtan is no exception. Blame him for being born in an era of changeable situation and no way to fight against it.
After the emperor shunzhi's death, Wuxian county in Suzhou transferred a new county magistrate to impose heavy penalties on taxpayers, and sold agricultural grain to the people at high prices, arousing public anger. People organized anti-corruption demonstrations under the pretext of Shunzhi's death. After that, 100 many scholars went to the Confucius Temple on the third day to cry and vent their dissatisfaction, and then reported the county magistrate to Governor Zhu Zhiguo. Who knows that Zhu Ren and his wife have already colluded with each other and arrested 18 key figures. The imperial court acted in the opposite direction, asking the scholars to resist sending soldiers and salaries, ringing bells and drums, gathering people to start chaos, shocking the spirit of the former emperors, demanding severe punishment and "making a decision."
In the wailing temple incident, Jin Shengtan was both a participant and the main planner, so he was thrown into prison and eventually fell. However, Jin Shengtan was silent before he died: beheading is the most bitter thing, which was inadvertently obtained.
On the day of the execution, it was bleak and solemn, and a small graveyard in Fiona Fang was surrounded by swords and shadows, which seemed eerie. Jin Shengtan, a literary critic who despised the imperial court, stood alone in the prison car with his chest as thin as a snake and shackles. On the execution ground, the executioner held a ghost knife, and the cold light shone, which was creepy and chilling. Seeing that the execution time is coming, Jin Shengtan's two sons are even more sad when they look at their loving father who will die forever, and they burst into tears.
Although Jin Shengtan was sad, he took his time and thought faster. To comfort his son, he said calmly, "What's the use of crying? Come on, I'll write you a couplet, "so he sang the first couplet," Lian (pity) has pains. " My son knelt on the ground and cried his throat dry, and his intestines were about to crack, so he couldn't bear to write couplets. He thought for a moment and said, "get up, don't cry, I'll make you a couplet." Then read the next couplet "Pear (separated) children have stomachache". The audience was very moved and sad. The word "Lian" in the first pair of couplets is homophonic with the word "Xi", which means that I am deeply sorry to see my son crying. The homonym of "pear" and "Li" in the second couplet means that I am about to leave my son, and my heart is bitter. This pair of life and death parting, superb, punning, rigorous confrontation, can be described as superb and shocking. I saw a flash of cold light, accompanied by this earth-shattering, weeping eternal swan song, a generation of talented people and literary superstars fell prematurely.
Legend has it that after his death, Saint Tan had a dream for Zhu, saying that he had become a lamp-tailed mountain god. Dengwei Mountain is located in Guangfu Town, seventy miles southwest of Suzhou, also known as Feng Wan Mountain, overlooking Taihu Lake with excellent scenery. The plum trees on Mount Weishan bloom like snow, like praising saints, and like lamenting noble character.
Look at his arrogant eyes that despise the world. I believe it was painted by someone who knew him.