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Cheng Shui Rujian Author Cui Hao Tang Dynasty
Sages will compare, be kind and have deep feelings. Whiteness depends on virtue, and clarification is intentional.
Upside down without scratching, upside down without scratching, difficult to invade. You have a high opinion, and your career has been entrusted to Lu Chen.
Self-discipline is like a mirror to spring. Honest and prudent in running a family, fragrant in ancient and modern times.
About the author:
Cui Hao (704-754), a native of Bianzhou (now Kaifeng, Henan Province), was originally from Anping, Boling (now Anping County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province). A famous poet in Tang Dynasty. Born in Cui Shi, Boling was a top gentry in Tang Dynasty. He used to be the deputy general of Fugou County, Xuzhou, and his official position has not been obvious. After traveling around the world, Tianbao was appointed as the censor around nine years ago, and he was a member of the foreign minister from official to Si Xun. In the 13th year of Tianbao (754), he died.
In the 11th year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (AD 723), he was a scholar, and he was the official to Taibu Temple. During the Tianbao period, he was Si Xun's foreign minister. Faithful and witty, his works are passionate and magnificent. Most of his early poems were about boudoir and women's life, and his poetic style was frivolous, reflecting the life of the upper ruling class. In the later period, frontier fortress poetry was the main style, which reflected the heroic frontier fortress and the hardships of the army.
The most famous is the Yellow Crane Tower, which once made Li Bai gasp in admiration. It is said that Li Bai put pen to paper for this purpose, and once had the admiration that "there is a scene in front of him, and Cui Hao inscribed a poem on it". There are 42 poems in The Whole Tang Poetry, but the original collection has been lost, including Cui Haoji and Tang Renji.
Personal life
In the 11th year of Kaiyuan reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (AD 723), he was a scholar. Wen Yuan Biography of Old Tang Dynasty mentioned him together with Wang Changling, Gao Shi and Meng Haoran, but his official career was ups and downs and ended in failure. He is honest, frank and quick-witted. His works are passionate and magnificent, including Cui Haoji. His poems are very famous, but his deeds are rarely circulated, and only forty poems exist. Cui Hao was an official of Taibu Temple, and Tianbao was a foreign minister of Sixun.
Legend has it that Li Bai traveled around the world in his prime, leaving poems everywhere. When he boarded the Yellow Crane Tower, he was fascinated by the beautiful scenery upstairs and downstairs. When he was about to write a poem as a souvenir, he suddenly looked up and saw the Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao: A long time ago, a yellow crane carried a saint to heaven, and now only the Yellow Crane Tower is left. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked at my hometown, and the twilight was getting thicker, and the mist of sadness was filled on the river waves.