Chapter 31 Song Taizong - Zhao Jiong

①Chen Tuan (906?—988): Zi Tunan, self-named Fuyaozi.Song Zhenyuan (now Luyi, Henan), born in the late Tang Dynasty, failed the Jinshi examination, lived in seclusion in Huashan to practice Taoism, and avoided the frequent turmoil of the Five Dynasties.Zhou Shizong Chai Rong once called him to be an admonishing doctor, but he refused. Song Taizong bestowed the title Mr. Xiyi, and died in the early years of Taizong's Duangong Dynasty.He is the author of Taoist works such as "Zhiyuan Pian", "Fable of Sanfeng", "Heluo True Number".According to folklore, he is a god, called "Chen Tuan Patriarch".

② Three peaks: Refers to Huashan Mountain in Xiyue.Huashan has three peaks of lotus, star, and jade girl, the most famous of which are often used to refer to Huashan.Tang Cuihao's poem "Journeying through Huayin": "Tiaoyao Taihua looks down on Xianjing, and the three peaks outside the sky can't be cut." Yuan Wang Shifu: "I hate to press the three peaks and Huayue to be low."The middle finger of the poem is given.Tang Li Bai's poem: "A good saddle and a good horse beg for others." If you have read Lu Xun's novel "Blessings", you will always remember the "longevity" character written by Zhu Tuo and Chen Tuan hanging in the study of Master Lu Si.Even after reading Ma Zhiyuan's Zaju "Chen Tuan Lying High", I can't forget the story of Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En asking Chen Tuan for fortune-telling in "Wei Shi".Chen Tuan's ingenious calculations predicted that Zhao Kuangyin would be the unifying Taiping Emperor.After reading "Water Margin", I can't forget the anecdote written in the "Introduction" part of Chen Tuan's congratulations at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty: "At that time, there was a scholar Chen Tuan in Huashan, Xiyue, who was a man of high morals and virtue. One day, he rode a donkey down the mountain and was walking towards Nahua's vagina. He heard the legend from the passengers on the road: "Tokyo Chai Shizong has now abdicated and Zhao Jiandian has ascended the throne." When Mr. Chen Tuan heard this, he was very happy in his heart, and he added it with his hands. Uh, laughing on the back of the donkey, knocking the donkey off. People asked why, and the gentleman said: "The world is settled from now on!"" Because of the special relationship between Chen Tuan and Song Tianzi, according to Wang Pizhi's " "Mian Shui Yan Tan Lu" records that after the world was stabilized, "at the beginning of Taiping and Xingguo, he was summoned to the palace, Taizong bestowed imperial poems, Mr. Huayang scarf, straw shoes hanging down, and sat down as a guest." The poem "Tuan" was written when Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty summoned Cizuo.

In fact, Chen Tuan did not become famous until he got acquainted with the Zhao brothers (Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Song Taizong Zhao Kuangyi, that is, Zhao Jiong).As early as the Zhou Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, he was often summoned by Zhou Shizong (Chai Rong) and given the title Mr. Baiyun.The first sentence of this poem: "Zeng Qianqianchao (chao) named Baiyun" recalls the history of Chen Tuan. The second sentence "Later, the news was unknown" refers to the fact that Chen Tuan lived in seclusion until the Northern Song Dynasty settled down. Now that the world is stable, Song Taizong summoned Chen Tuan to go to the palace, one is to repay him for creating public opinion for the unification of the Song Dynasty, and the other is to hope that he can use the mysterious power of Chen Tuan's ancestor to help him implement the rule. He proposed to Chen Tuan The exchange condition is: "Now if you are willing to follow the call, you will always beg Sanfeng to the king. "If Chen Tuan is willing to serve as his think tank, he will reward the old Taoist priest with the three peaks of Huayue Mountain. This is what the seven-character quatrains are about.

This Qijue song is as clear as words. Although it is more rhythmic than Zhao Kuangyin's "Ode to the First Day", it is far less grand than "Ode to the First Day".The content of the poem is a naked transaction: Taizong asked Chen Tuan to come out of the mountain, hoping to use Chen Tuan's divine power to consolidate his monarchy; but Chen Tuan's divine power was sold rashly at the cost of the three peaks.This old ancestor was a wise man. He would rather be a thousand-year-old tortoise as Zhuang Zhou said. over the temple".His way of self-defense is very strange, that is, he fell into a deep sleep.According to the "Mian Shui Yan Tan Lu": "Shang (Song Taizong) wanted to conquer Hedong, but Mr. (Chen Tuan) advised him to stop. The army has been raised, and the imperial garden was ordered to sleep. It took more than a hundred days to start. The soldiers returned, but there was no fruit. Gong. The kindness and etiquette are unique, and he was given the name Xiyi." Being able to sleep for more than a hundred days before he woke up, it can be seen that the ancestor Chen Tuan had indeed received the true teaching of Taoism.Apart from sleeping, Chen Tuan also writes poems.He begged to return to the poem and said: "The imperial edict of Cao Ze, Tu Nan Tuan's surname is Chen. The three peaks carry thousands of tourists, and there are idle people all over the world. The state of the world has never been thin, and the poetic sentiment is self-satisfied. Begging for the fullness of the elk, where is it not a minister." Compared with the poems bestowed by the emperor, this ancestor's writing style is much better.

Let's talk about Song Taizong later.Zhao Jiong, like his mother and elder brother Zhao Kuangyin, was also born in the army, so there are very few writings.If you judge this song "Giving Chen Tuan" with Tang Xian's Samadhi, it really doesn't have any benefits.But what is valuable about Zhao Jiong is that he is able to appreciate literature even though he has no literature.Ye Mengde's "Swallows in the Stone Forest" said: "Taizong has nothing to do in the day, he pays attention to art and literature, and the piano and chess are also top-quality." Write Wang Youjun (Wang Xizhi)'s brushwork.He also said that "Taizong was keen on literature and history. Taiping Xingguozhong, Zhao Li Fang, Hu Meng, Xu Xuan, Zhang Ji, etc., wrote a thousand volumes of books on various categories, and named them "Taiping Yulan". He also wrote a collection of unofficial history as " There are 500 volumes of Taiping Guangji, and 1,000 volumes are selected from the previous generation's articles. It is published in "Wenyuan Yinghua". Taizong reads three volumes of "Yu Lan" every day. Because of the lack of things, he catches them up in his spare time. Taste:' It is beneficial to open the book, and I don’t think it’s laborious.’” According to "Yuhai" records: In August of the fifth year of Xiangfu, Song Zhenzong (Zhao Heng, the third son of Song Taizong) edited the eighteen volumes of Taizong's imperial writers, and combined them into two One hundred and forty volumes: In November, another fifteen volumes were compiled, with a total of two hundred and thirty-six volumes.An emperor with few words and ink can leave so many writings, it cannot but be said that he is diligent and eager to learn.If there is no such painstaking study that will make up for one's weakness with diligence, maybe even a poem like "Giving Chen Tuan" would not be able to be written.