When they go hiking in spring, they all think of a famous poet named Wei Chuhou in Tang Dynasty.
Wei Chuhou was born in 773 in Wannian County (now Chang 'an District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province). Wei Chuhou is from Shaanxi. What's his connection with Kaizhou in Chongqing?
In 806 AD, Wei Chuhou was admitted to the Jinshi examination and was appointed as the school book lang. Since then, he has served as a right gleaning, a left supplement, a history of rites, and a history of officials. Just as Wei Chuhou's official career was advancing steadily, in 8 18, he was regarded as an accomplice of Wei Guanzhong, the prime minister, and was exiled to the southwest as the secretariat of Kaizhou and assistant minister of Kao Gong.
Wei Chuhou worked and lived in Kaizhou for three years. In the past three years, Wei Chuhou has made outstanding contributions to farmers and mulberry farmers, caring for people's feelings and developing the economy. Not only that, Wei Chuhou also presided over the reconstruction of Changning Temple (now Shengshan Xueyuan Temple), which was built in the 24th year of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (2 19), forming a magnificent temple, grand hall and flourishing incense.
Wei Chuhou is a poet. Besides dealing with official business, he also likes to come to the holy mountain in the suburbs to relax. Wei Chuhou often lingers because of his lush vegetation and his ability to climb high and look far.
In the past three years, Wei Chuhou has successively created a set of five-character quatrains "Twelve Scenery Poems of Shengshan" with the theme of Shengshan 12 scenic spots. The 12 scenic spots are: Ting Yun, Hidden Moon Cave, Liubeichi, Pipatai, Panshi Deng, Hulu Marsh, Embroidered Stone, Meixi, Taowu, Bottle Spring Well, Chaling and Zhu Ya. Wei Chuhou expressed his feelings about mountains and rivers, clouds and the moon with concise brushstrokes, and his writing was brilliant.
In the first month of 820, Tang Xianzong Chunli died in the Zhonghe Hall of Daming Palace, and Tang Muzong Hengli acceded to the throne. Tang Muzong appreciated Wei Chuhou's knowledge and talent, recalled him to Beijing, and appointed him as a bachelor's lecturer in imperial academy, and soon became a China scholar. Later, Wei Chuhou's career was prosperous and he was promoted frequently. He has served as an assistant minister of the Ministry of War, an assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and a bachelor of Hanlin, and has served as an official of the Chinese book to an assistant minister. Assistant minister Zhongshu and Pingzhang are equivalent to the functions and powers of the prime minister, which means that Wei Chuhou is now the prime minister.
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Wei Chuhou worked and lived in Kaizhou for three years. He was diligent and loved by the people of Kaizhou. When he left Kaizhou for Beijing, it was the ninth day of the first lunar month. After hearing the news, the people in Kaizhou reluctantly went to see them off, climbed the holy mountain and watched the figure of Wei Chuhou drift away ... Since then, in order to miss Wei Chuhou, Kaizhou people have to climb the holy mountain every year on the ninth day of the first lunar month. In the long run, it gradually formed the custom of climbing mountains on the ninth day of the first month of Kaizhou every year until it evolved into today's "Mountaineering Festival".
Wei Chuhou returned to Beijing and brought back the poem "Twelve Scenes of Victory Mountain" he wrote in Kaizhou. After reading these five-character quatrains, poets and literary friends in Beijing were amazed and began to compose poems. Among them, there are more than 10 literary masters such as Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Yuan Zhen and Yanwu.
For example, Wei Chuhou wrote in the poem Suyun Pavilion: "When it rains, Qi Fei builds dangerous buildings, and when the sky opens, the window opens. Flush with Liu Guo, there is a ring river. " Zhang Jihe's poems come down in one continuous line: "Pure and deep, empty and far away." There are no ordinary customers in the roller blind, you should only see the clouds coming. "Wei Chuhou wrote in a poem" Meixi ":"The shore is clear and the branches are shallow. Taste recommendation, wax is near the beginning of spring. " Zhang Jizheng sang a poem: "I love Mei Xin very much, and I will find a way to go on. "If you don't teach people to sweep the stone, you may fall out."
Zhang Ji is Han Yu's big disciple, and Wei Chuhou is seven years older than Wei Chuhou, so he is considered a contemporary. At that time, Zhang Ji was quite famous in the literary world, especially good at writing Yuefu poems, and together with Wang Jian, he was called "Zhang Wang Yuefu". Zhang Ji is weak and sickly, and his eye disease is very serious after middle age. Wei Chuhou specially sent banana from Kaizhou to Zhang Ji in Chang 'an. After receiving the medicine, Zhang Ji was so grateful that he wrote a seven-character quatrain to express his gratitude.
Finally, Wei Chuhou's Poems of Twelve Scenes of the Holy Mountain and all the poems of the chorus are collected into a collection of poems, which is prefaced by Han Yu, the first of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties.
In this article entitled "Twelve Prefaces to Webster's Holy Mountain", Han Yu diplomatically criticized the imperial court for relegating Wei Chuhou, an important official, to other places, believing that this was a waste of talents. "People call it a scholar, and they show Cao in the exam, and the sacred mountains and quiet counties, take what is appropriate and accept its evil, and waste its materials, so they will complain and not let go." Fortunately, Wei Chuhou did not give up on himself, but faced up to difficulties and did his duty for the people of Kaizhou, which reflected the due responsibility of an important official.
Wei Chuhou, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, lived in Kaizhou, Chongqing for three years, and wrote a five-character quatrain of 12, which attracted Bai Juyi and Han Yu as a preface and became a literary event that was told for thousands of years.