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In the history of ancient Chinese literature, Wei Yingwu is an important poet.

His poetry is full of landscape and pastoral artistic conception and a detached attitude towards life, and he is known as a landscape and pastoral poet.

However, Wei Yingwu's life was not all smooth sailing.

He experienced many twists and turns in his life and eventually became a highly respected poet.

"Every time I read the Tang poems written by Wei Yingwu, I am struck by the calmness and lightness revealed in the poems."

“The pastoral pictures I depict always remind me of the day when I can escape from this world and live a secluded life.”

"People are familiar with his poems, but they don't know Wei Yingwu, who wrote such gentle and tranquil poems."

"When he was young, he was a well-known bad boy in Chang'an City."

"Not only does he not like to study, he also relies on his status as a royal guard and a son of the Wei family to drink and gamble."

"Although he has not committed any serious crimes, he is still a rich young master who runs rampant in the village."

"It was just the arrival of a disaster that made this prodigal son wake up and eventually become an anomaly among the poets of the Tang Dynasty."

"There was a saying among the people that Wei and Du in the south of the city are five feet away from the sky. This saying refers to the Wei and Du families at that time."

"Although by the time of Wei Yingwu's generation, the Wei family's brilliance had begun to lag behind that of the Du family."

"But Wei Yingwu's ancestors, from prime ministers to officials appointed by the court, were all highly valued by the emperor."

"Wei Yingwu, who was born with such a noble silver spoon in his mouth, is naturally a very precious young master in Chang'an City."

"When I was young, I didn't like studying. I preferred to date other rich kids and indulge in sensual pleasures."

"When he was 15 years old, he often went in and out of the palace and became Tang Xuanzong's personal bodyguard."

"At that time, because he had a dual identity, he was even more arrogant and domineering to the extreme."

"He once wrote a poem called 'Meeting Yang Kaifu', and this poem of reminiscence shows his absurd past."

"How can he, who is still young, understand the sorrows of the world?"

"He always thought that this world-shattering wealth was enough to allow him to live a carefree life, so he could not see the coming disaster that would destroy the mountains and rivers."

"The outbreak of the An-Shi Rebellion in 755 AD shattered the illusion that the Tang Dynasty was living a life of luxury and debauchery."

"A seemingly powerful empire underwent a huge change overnight, and many people became victims of the tragedy in this war."

"The emperor also fled all the way to Shu at this time, and Wei Yingwu finally lost his backer."

"He is no longer a close minister to the emperor, nor is he an unscrupulous young master in Chang'an City."

"Suddenly, it seemed as if fate had abandoned him."

"At this time, Wei Yingwu was only 20 years old. He should have been a young man who wanted to do something."

"But what he waited for was the darkness and suffering of the world."

"These days have made his past life dim."

"But fate did not treat him unfairly. A woman was brought to his side. She was his 16-year-old wife Yuan Ping."

Xin Qiji: If you never leave me, I will stay with you through life and death. This is the legendary life of the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu, full of joys and sorrows.

Speaking of the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu, he was a typical Beijing ruffian and a typical playboy when he was a child.

Wei Yingwu's family was absolutely prosperous during the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty alone, the Wei family produced 17 prime ministers, all of whom were wise and capable people.

He was unruly and unruly, and ran rampant in the countryside. People avoided him when they saw him and nicknamed him Wei Jianchou.

Seeing how self-indulgent he was, his elders felt that they could no longer let him go.

So when he was 15 years old, he was arranged to become the close guard of Emperor Xuanzong as a Sanweilang.

When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled in a hurry with Yang Guifei, and Wei Yingliu was destitute and dismissed from his post.

From then on, Wei Yingwu's character underwent a dramatic change.

There are probably two reasons for this.

First, with the changing times, the family's fortunes declined.

When Wei Yingwu was born, his family was no longer prosperous, especially after the Anshi Rebellion.

He was just 20 years old at that time, and his identity, status and living conditions had undergone tremendous changes, which caused him to suffer a greater psychological gap and forced him to consider his future.

This was one of the social reasons why he changed his eccentric personality and started to study hard.

Second, the influence of his wife Yuan Ping on him can be said to be the main factor in Wei Yingwu's character transformation.

His wife Yuan Ping came from a prominent family. Her ancestor was Emperor Zhaocheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and her father was Yuan Yi, a member of the Ministry of Personnel.

She learned women's education since she was young, and she is knowledgeable, sensible, and virtuous.

His wife's virtue, gentleness and kindness influenced him subtly.

It allowed him to relax and enjoy the warmth of the family, which gradually changed his cold and grumpy character. He turned over a new leaf and devoted himself to studying hard.

After unremitting efforts, he finally passed the imperial examination at the age of 27 and completed the transformation of his life.

Although Wei Yingwu entered the government as an official, his career was not smooth.

His official position was not high, his salary was meager, and his family lived in extreme poverty.

After decades of ups and downs, I have been worn out by life like a duckweed.

His wife Yuan Ping married into the Wei family in the 15th year of Tianbao and passed away in the th year of Dali, a total of twenty years.

It can be said that she worked hard for Wei Yingwu all her life and rarely had a day of leisure and enjoyment. She never enjoyed a single day of a rich life.

This was an unspeakable pain in his heart, especially when he had to borrow land to hold his wife's funeral due to financial difficulties. It also made him feel guilty and remorseful towards his wife for the rest of his life.

The dead are gone, but the living cannot rest in peace. Wei Yingwu could never let go of the guilt he felt towards his wife.

The death of his wife made him disheartened. Whenever he thought of his virtuous and gentle wife and the dark officialdom, he began to have no intention of pursuing a career in politics.

He arranged Yuan Ping's funeral and placed a lock of Yuan Ping's hair in a brocade bag, then began his journey of traveling with his wife.

During his travels, he shared everything with his wife, and always set out two bowls for meals, just like when Yuan Ping was still alive.

At the same time, he also wrote nineteen elegiac poems to mourn his wife whom he missed.

From this poem, one can feel Wei Yingwu's helplessness over the loss of his beloved wife, as well as his remembrance, guilt and longing for her.

At the same time, he expressed his lonely, bleak, adrift and helpless inner world after losing his beloved wife.

In the first half of his life, Wei Yingwu was arrogant, unruly, eccentric and indulgent, and was hated by his fellow villagers. However, in the second half of his life, he remained loyal to love.

When his beloved wife passed away, he was 39 years old, in the prime of his life.

But he never remarried, and missed his beloved wife deeply until the end of his life.

After his beloved wife passed away, he devoted himself to nature and wrote many poems reflecting the sufferings of the people while remembering his wife.

"In such a turbulent time, their wedding was extremely low-key."

“Perhaps people think that the prodigal son’s return is sometimes difficult and mostly only appears in picture books.”

"But this woman not only made him turn back, but also changed the rest of his life."

"Yuan Ping's family is originally a noble family. She was able to marry this once ridiculous boy at the lowest point in her life."

"We don't mention his past, nor do we care about his future life. We just give him more support."

"Such a gentle and virtuous wife finally awakened Wei Yingwu."

"A year later, Guo Ziyi led his troops to recapture Chang'an, and Wei Yingwu began to consider what path he would take in his life."

"Looking back on his past, he had to throw all that away."

“He must understand the darkness of this era and face up to the great changes that the entire empire is experiencing.”

"So he wanted to help his broken country and the millions of suffering people in that turbulent era."

"Moreover, for the sake of the long-declined Wei family, do something serious."

"In that era, the best choice for scholars was still to take the imperial examination."

"Compared to those who have already become famous at a young age, it is indeed too late for him to start studying poetry and books at this age."

"But it's not too late. Born in the Wei family, he naturally has better talents than ordinary people."

"What's more, after experiencing such a huge change, he can concentrate on studying. He wants to turn his life around in this way."

“Even if you are a prodigal son, God will not always take care of you.”

"Everything is achieved through hard work, and the same is true for Wei Yingwu's life."

"He didn't pass the imperial examination in one try. After all, studying hard for 10 years is not a joke."

"So when he took the first step, reality reminded him that there are not so many shortcuts in life."

“Only after years of hard work can we see whether it is worth it.”

"Although the career path was not successful, in the following years."

"He continued to study hard, and his poems and articles gradually became famous in Chang'an City."

"When he was 27 years old, fate did not treat him unfairly, and Wei Yingwu finally had his first transformation during these difficult years."

"The court also noticed this talented person, so with the recommendation of others, he was finally able to serve as an official in the court."

"During the years of burning incense and reading, time also honed her personality to be more resilient." Li Qingzhao: Wei Yingwu was a prodigal son half of his life and a poet for the other half, completing his self-transformation in turbulent times.

In ancient times, aristocratic families had an important influence on the politics and economy of the dynasty.

Many famous politicians, writers and poets came from large families, of course relying on the system of yin.

There were also many children from large families who were uneducated and unskilled, and Wei Yingwu was one of them.

There were two big families in Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty, Wei and Du in the south of the city, and Tianchiwu away.

What it means is that the people of the Wei and Du families are so awesome that they are only one and a half feet away from the sky.

During the Tang Dynasty, seventeen people from the Wei family and twelve people from the Du family served as prime ministers.

What's even more terrifying is that the Wei and Du families have been relatives for generations. No one dares to confront such a fierce opponent.

The emergence of such a super wealthy family can only be possible because the talents of the Wei and Du families are truly outstanding and honest, which allows the in-law relationship between the two families to be maintained for many years.

But after Tang, there has never been another giant like Weidu.

Wei Yingwu was born into such a family. Even though he was uneducated since childhood, he could become the emperor's close attendant at the age of fifteen.

As such, he naturally does not take the people around him seriously and acts without fear.

During his days off, he hangs out with bad friends, indulges in sensual pleasures, and leads a ridiculous life.

If the great upheaval that changed the fate of the entire Tang Dynasty had not occurred, Wei Yingwu's life might have just continued like this.

After the An-Shi Rebellion, the peaceful and prosperous life in the entire city of Chang'an was gone overnight.

The Tang Dynasty was on the verge of crumbling, Emperor Xuanzong fled, and Yang Yuhuan died at Mawei Slope.

In those war-torn days, what did the protection of ancestors and the favor of the emperor mean? Who would care?
But the appearance of a person changed his life, his wife Yuan Ping.

Yuan Ping was also a lady from a wealthy and noble family, but during the dark moments in Wei Yingwu's life, Yuan Ping chose to stay with Wei Yingwu and gave him hope to continue living.

Wei Yingwu also seemed to have grown up after experiencing setbacks, and decided to return to the Imperial College to change his destiny through studying.

After several years of hard study, he once again entered the officialdom and served as the magistrate of Luoyang.

However, although life smoothed out the edges of his youthful willfulness, it did not break his integrity as a scholar.

Wei Yingwu entered the officialdom at the age of 27 and spent more than ten years until he was 40 years old, wavering between being an official, resigning, and then being an official again.

Fate did not favor Wei Yingwu for long. When he was 40 years old, Wei Yingwu lost his spiritual support and his wife Yuan Ping passed away.

Wei Yingwu was extremely sad and wrote many poems to mourn his deceased wife.

Wei Yingwu served as an official for several years and achieved outstanding political achievements.

He cared about the suffering of the people, and especially the contributions he made to the local people after he became the governor of Suzhou, which made people affectionately call him Wei Suzhou.

Wei Yingwu was aware of the sufferings of the people and often used his salary to do practical things for them, so much so that when he finally left officialdom, he did not even have the money to go home.

He had to live in a temple outside Suzhou and eventually died of illness in Suzhou.

Looking back on Wei Yingwu's life, he enjoyed wealth and glory in the first half of his life, and experienced hardships in the second half of his life.

His relationship with his wife is praised, and Yuan Ping's tenacity in turning the prodigal son back to his roots is also admirable.

Wealth and glory will eventually be fleeting. Only a life journey that is lived with a clear conscience should be remembered. Such a life is also worthy of admiration from future generations.

"So after he entered the court as an official, he worked diligently in his position."

"His wife also joined hands with him, and the two of them went through nearly 20 years of ups and downs together, starting from the An-Shi Rebellion."

"During the more than ten years he served as an official, he also experienced the hardships of being demoted and dismissed."

"The couple traveled all this time, thinking they could get through all the hardships and then return home together in old age."

"It's a pity that fate is unpredictable. Sometimes there is no solution to the game that fate sets for you."

"In the eleventh year of the Dali period, Wei Yingwu was 40 years old and his wife Yuan Ping was 36 years old."

"The first half of my life was too hard and difficult, and coupled with the long years of hard work, his wife died of illness this year."

"Wei Yingwu, who thought he would be able to spend the rest of his life with his lover, now has to endure the most unbearable pain of losing his wife in middle age alone."

"He wrote his wife's epitaph himself, and in the following decades, he wrote more than a dozen poems mourning her death."

"Every word and every sentence is full of nostalgia for his wife. It is a poem interwoven with the deepest blood and tears in the heart of a middle-aged man."

"Each line of poetry is not too sad, but full of sadness."

"Wei Yingwu's life can be divided into two stages by the war, and he can also be divided into two different people because of the appearance of his wife."

"Before the war, he was a prodigal son, a young man who didn't care about his family or his country."

"After the war, he was the son of the Wei family who had to shoulder responsibilities, and he was also an official who had to do practical things for the people of the world."

"He also began to forget this dark period through poetry and to pursue poetry and distant places in the world of literature."

"His life also woke him up from a big dream because of his wife. He wanted to be a man of great ambitions in the world, and he also wanted to walk through this bumpy road hand in hand with his wife."

"So on my wife's tombstone, there is a sentence: 'After a hundred generations, we will be buried together.'"

"When I first knew Wei Yingwu, I thought he was just a minor official who wrote pastoral poems and had a peaceful and comfortable state of mind."

"But when you really read through his entire life, it is hard to imagine that this poet is the same Wei Yingwu who wrote "I have a jug of wine to comfort the dust of the world."

"I actually had such a dark life when I was still a young man."

"He was dissolute in his youth and fell at the highest point in politics."

"Rather than saying that the era did not abandon him, it is not to say that Wei Yingwu did not abandon that turbulent era."

"He was wrapped in layers of darkness, and finally emerged from the cocoon as a butterfly."

"Leave your own brilliance in the sky of Tang Dynasty poetry."

Wen Tianxiang: The legendary life of Wei Yingwu, from a small gangster to a master of the imperial court, from a great poet to a pioneer of ci.

Wei Yingwu's poems are clear, sparse, and desolate.

It has the elegance and leisure of the landscape and pastoral poetry school of Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and others.

There is also the great realism of the great poet Du Fu, who was concerned about his country and his people, and had a deep love for the common people.

At the same time, Wei Yingwu had his own explorations in the creation of Ci.

Wei Yingwu's great-grandfather was Wei Daijia, the right prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. His father Wei Jian was a famous painter and served as a judicial officer in Xuanzhou.

Speaking of the Wei family in the Tang Dynasty, it was one of the most prominent families at that time.

The Wei and Du families in Chang'an City were only five feet away from the sky, that is, the emperor.

What this means is that these two families have produced high-ranking officials for generations.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Du family produced twelve prime ministers, while the Wei family was even more powerful, producing fourteen prime ministers.

Wei Yingwu was born into a wealthy family and had a domineering personality since childhood. He was a typical evil young man from Wuling.

He was a bohemian man who ran rampant in the village. People in the village would stay away from him when they saw him.

Although Wei Yingwu later became a famous poet and a good official of the empire, in his early years he had no idea what reading was and spent his days fighting and killing in the martial arts world.

When he was young, Wei Yingwu did not like to study and liked to wield swords and guns. This was also a popular trend among people in the Tang Dynasty, especially young people in the early and prosperous Tang Dynasty.

They admire martial arts and like to rush to the border and desert to achieve fame on horseback.

Therefore, many poets were vagrants when they were young, and they all pursued to be knights and swordsmen and live the life of wanderers.

Relying on his family influence and perhaps his superb martial arts skills, Wei Yingwu became the imperial guard of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.

The Anshi Rebellion interrupted the Tang Dynasty's continued upward momentum, became a turning point for the Tang Dynasty's heyday to decline towards the end of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and also changed the fate of many people.

Wei Yingwu's fate was also rewritten because of the Anshi Rebellion. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled to Sichuan with Yang Yuhuan, but did not take the imperial guard Wei Yingwu with them.

Wei Yingwu thus became a wanderer in troubled times, thrown into the tide of society and drifting up and down.

At this point, Wei Yingwu realized that the only right way to go was to study hard, pass the imperial examination, and become an official again, so he began to work hard.

Finally, he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi after the Anshi Rebellion, and successively served as the governor of Chuzhou and Suzhou.

Although he was a vagrant when he was young, Wei Yingwu turned out to be a good official who worked diligently and loved the people after he became an official.

But Wei Yingwu's later years were miserable and bleak. When his term as governor of Suzhou expired, he seemed to be completely forgotten by the court and never received a new appointment.

Wei Yingwu did not even have the money to return to Chang'an to find a way, so he had to live in a temple in Suzhou and eventually died in poverty.

The Milky Way, the Milky Way, the dawn hangs over the endless autumn city.

The sad person wakes up and misses his lover, and they are separated in the south and north.

Farewell, farewell, although the Milky Way and the Milky Way are on the same path.

In the previous poem, "Hu Ma", Wei Yingwu wrote about the sadness of a hero who had lost his way, while this poem describes the longing and separation of lovers who were far away from each other.

It is almost dawn, and the brilliant Milky Way is hanging obliquely over the autumn city. It can be seen that this lovesick person has been gazing at the Milky Way all night long, which shows how deep his lovesickness and sorrow are.

The person who is missing his lover gazes at the stars from afar, but the journey to the one he loves is blocked by the south and north of the Great Wall, which makes one feel even more the pain of missing his lover and the hatred of separation.

There are two pieces of Diaoxiaoling, one has the tragic beauty of the desolate frontier, and the other has the graceful beauty of lingering sadness.

Wei Yingwu's poetry skills have reached the level where he can express himself freely.

These two poems are considered masterpieces among the early literati poems. (End of this chapter)