The Huaqing Troupe is famous and will continue for five hundred years in the future. It is an important force in the development of Qin Opera art.
Kang Hai, the number one scholar in the 15th year of Hongzhi, and Wang Jiusi, a scholar in the 9th year of Hongzhi, were the main founders of the Huaqing Troupe. Kang Hai was even known as the "originator of Qin Opera".
Today, the two of them are enjoying the drama "Wine and Spring Outing" created by Wang Jiusi.
Kang Hai frowned and said nothing when he saw the third fold.
Wang Jiusi smiled and asked: "Brother Duoshan, how is this show?"
Kang Hai said helplessly: "Why is this necessary?"
"Liquor and Spring Outing" is a political complaint drama. When Wang Jiusi was writing the drama, he compared Li Dongyang to the traitor Li Linfu, Kang Hai to Du Fu, and himself to Cen Shen.
Just because the two of them were dismissed from office by Li Dongyang.
Kang Hai and Wang Jiusi were both fellow villagers of the great eunuch Liu Jin. Wang Jiusi really had contacts with Liu Jin, but he did not do any evil. Kang Hai, on the other hand, asked Liu Jin to release his friend in order to save Li Mengyang.
After Liu Jin was overthrown, both of them were beaten as eunuchs.
Wang Jiusi stroked his beard and smiled and said: "I have revised the draft of this drama several times, and I think it is exquisite and emotional. Since the Eight Tigers, the court has been controlled by traitors. If they can do it, I can't write it? But the second king of Guizhou,
He was also promoted by the treacherous Prime Minister Li Dongyang, who only knew how to incite the faint king to engage in military violence and put the people of the world in dire straits..."
"Be careful!" Kang Hai interrupted quickly.
Wang Jiusi was proud and proud: "What are you afraid of? When a real man is alive, he speaks out for justice, but he is framed by Xiaoxiao, which is no more than a scar as big as a bowl."
Kang Hai was too lazy to pay attention to this guy and shouted to the troupe leader: "Exchange for a discount!"
A No. 1 scholar and a common scholar, both of them have nothing to show for themselves at the moment.
Kang Hai even sat cross-legged on a high chair, drinking wine and eating peanuts like an idle man. Peanuts have been introduced to Shaanxi, but the cultivated area is not large, and the price per pound is much more expensive than salt.
Suddenly, several officials came in and asked: "Mr. Duishan, are Mr. Meipi here?"
When Wang Jiusi heard the accent in the capital, he was so frightened that he thought that the powerful people in the capital had found out about his resentful remarks and sent people to arrest him.
Kang Hai's face did not change, he continued to eat peanuts and said, "I am Kang Duishan."
The leading official came over and presented a document and a collection of essays: "Please return Mr. Duoshan to Beijing and resume his duties!"
Kang Hai was stunned, thinking he heard wrongly.
Wang Jiusi jumped up in shock and asked, "I am Wang Jiusi, do you have my reinstatement documents?"
"Yes." The official took out another document and an anthology.
Wang Jiusi carefully checked the documents. Although he did not reinstate his official position, he made him a Hanlin official again. Look at the collection of essays, called "Return Collection", which contains more than ten of his poems and prose. The person who wrote the preface turned out to be
Wang Yuan, the powerful official of the dynasty.
Wang Jiusi couldn't help being happy, he took out the silver coins and gave them to several officials as money for announcing the good news: "I'd be grateful if you could send the message."
"Congratulations to Wang Hanlin." The officials were equally happy.
Wang Jiusi carefully read Wang Yuan's preface to "The Collection of Revivals" and suddenly said with emotion: "If Mr. Xu is really a virtuous prime minister, I, a country man who has been out of office for twenty years, have actually been recalled to the Hanlin Academy to serve as an official. If
If Duke Xu is to be the chief assistant in the future, there will definitely be no sages left in the world!"
Kang Hai couldn't help it anymore and muttered: "You just said that the king of Guizhou is resorting to military violence and abandoning the people..."
"Brother Shan, be careful what you say!" Wang Jiusi interrupted in shock.
Kang Hai also gave some copper coins to the officials, ate the peanuts slowly, held a wine flask and said, "Wang Ruoxu wants to change the bad government in the world, and I should help him!"
The two went to Beijing together, quickly completed the procedures, and both became bachelor's degree lecturers at the Hanlin Academy.
They were invited to work in the East Pavilion, and when they got there, they discovered that there were more than a dozen reactivated retro-style literati.
Two months ago, Yang Tinghe began to resign, but the emperor refused.
A month ago, Yang Tinghe resigned again, but the emperor refused.
I'll probably be able to resign this month, so I'll resign three times.
Wang Jun, a Hanlin bachelor and in charge of the imperial office, was elected by Wang Yuan to be a bachelor of Dongge and became a cabinet minister. Wang Tingxiang, the minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, was elected by Wang Yuan to be a Hanlin bachelor and in charge of the imperial office.
Such a transfer of duties is completely confusing.
Two years ago, Wang Tingxiang and Zheng Zibi forced the Yang family in Bozhou to rebel, and then quelled the chieftain rebellion at an amazing speed. Before that, Wang Yuan and Wang Tingxiang had no contact at all, so how could Wang Tingxiang suddenly be promoted to control the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial House?
It wasn't until Wang Yuan resurrected more than a dozen literati from the retro style that all civil and military officials suddenly realized that it turned out that Wang Erlang wanted to reuse the retro style!
Emperor Hongzhi was, among other things, truly tolerant and kind to the civil servants, so a new trend of thought emerged in the Hongzhi Dynasty.
In terms of Confucian classics, New Heart Study, New Qi Study, and New Neo-Confucianism began to emerge. In terms of literature, the Restoration School suddenly emerged and constantly launched attacks on the Guange School.
Guange style is not only a calligraphy genre, but also a literary school that dominates the literary world of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Dongyang was the last master of the Guange School and the guide of the Retrograde School. He was a link between the past and the future in the literary circles of the Ming Dynasty.
There are many rules in Guange literature, which severely restrict literary creation.
Let’s put it this way, before the seventh son Li Mengyang, poems in memory of his deceased wife were not allowed to express feelings, but could only praise his wife for adhering to women’s ethics and being virtuous and virtuous. Starting from Li Mengyang, the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty mourned their deceased wives and could finally write about the love between husband and wife. (Note:
Don’t be confused, Li Mengyang and Li Dongyang are not the same person.)
Yang Shen is also a retro sect, one of the Six Dynasties and Early Tang Dynasties sects.
Li Mengyang, Kang Hai, Wang Jiusi and others are the prosperous Tang school among the retro-restored schools. Their prose is based on the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the ancient poetry is learned from the Han and Wei dynasties, and the modern poetry is learned from the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This school not only has literary opinions, but also political opinions.
It is to clean up the bad governance in the world and bring the Ming Dynasty back to the prosperous times of Han and Tang Dynasties.
Of course, Wang Jiusi was an outlier of the High Tang School. He and Kang Hai were close friends from the same hometown, so he had good friendships with the literati of the High Tang School, and his literary opinions were affected by this, but this guy had no political opinions at all.
New Neo-Confucianism, New Qi Science, New Mind Science, physics, as well as the literary retro school, as well as the painting innovations of Tang Bohu and others, these combined are the Renaissance movement of the Ming Dynasty!
Wang Yuan wanted to carry out reforms, first of all, cultural and ideological reforms, rather than simply clearing the land and reforming taxes.
Only new ideas and new literature can bring about a new atmosphere, otherwise it will end up dead.
People like Wang Jiusi can also be used, and they are very useful, because he can write poems for propaganda, and he can write whatever he is asked to write.
Including the previous period, Bian Gong, the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing, who was dismissed from office because of his alcoholism. When he was young, this man advocated reform and dreamed of recreating the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties. After more than ten years, he sat down as an idle official and also became sycophantic. When Zhu Houzhao visited the south
, most literati wrote poems to ridicule, but Bian Gong wrote several hymns. Unfortunately, this flattery was not noticed by Zhu Houzhao.
Wang Tingxiang, who was transferred back to the capital to take charge of the Hanlin Academy and the imperial imperial office, the first thing he did when he returned to the capital was to visit Wang Yuan.
The old gentleman, facing the young man, bowed respectfully and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang, for your support."
Wang Yuan smiled and asked: "Mr. Junchuan, what kind of cat am I?"
Wang Tingxiang was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "Pi Mao!"
"Hahahaha!" Wang Yuan also laughed.
The early retro-style literati in the Ming Dynasty either focused on poetry or prose, and there were really not many good prose writers.
And Wang Tingxiang was a master of prose. He wrote an article "The Story of Lions and Cats", the general content of which is as follows:
There is a cat that looks like a lion, called a lion cat (a cross between a Persian cat and a civet cat). I have had several cats at home. They are naughty, cute, and very smart. My daughter likes them very much.
When I moved to a new house, rats were infested, so I caught the lion cat. At first, the rats were too scared to come out when they heard the cat's meow. Later, the rats tried it and found that the cats were lying still. They learned that these cats were just like animals and collectively
He came out and drove away a group of lion cats. He bought new native cats to eliminate the rat infestation.
Cats have three qualities: protection, disease and food.
Once a cat becomes powerful and domineering, its bark will scare the mouse, and its gaze will make the mouse afraid to move. This is called: Pi.
The second-class cat is agile and can catch mice every time. This is called disease.
Third-class cats are greedy and sleepy, and are simply foodies. This is called: food.
Where there are lion cats, there are lion ministers.
Officials are divided into three classes just like cats. Lions and ministers belong to the lowest class. They are good-looking, seem smart, and have a pleasant sound. They think they are awesome, but in the end they only know how to eat and sleep. They are not treated well and even lose their temper.
, and even steal things from the master to eat.
This article was also included in Wang Yuan's "Retro Collection" and was personally ranked No. 1 in prose.
Before the literary restoration movement, scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to write such articles. They could only expound moral principles. From this, we know how important the restoration movement is. Wang Yuan wanted to be the leader of the literary and ideological restoration movement.
In terms of thought, not only Xinxue, but also Xinqi Xue and New Neo-Confucianism were still highly praised by Wang Yuan as long as they made sense.
Spring is when a hundred flowers bloom, and prosperity should be so open and inclusive.