Wang Bo, Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty . Luo Binwang , Lu Zhaolin , Wang Bo, Yang Jiong were all the most talented poets at that time, but all four died bizarrely. Regarding Wang Bo's death, there are drowning and drowning deaths, there are deaths of 28 and 35 years old, and there are deaths in the South China Sea and Wu Yue. But no matter what, although Wang Bo's ill-fated life was short, it was very glorious.
Wang Bo, whose courtesy name is Zi'an, was from Longmen, Jiangzhou (now Hejin, Shanxi), and was a famous talented man in the period of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian. His grandfather, , Wang Tong, was a famous scholar in the early Sui Dynasty, named ", neutron ", and his uncle, , Wang Ji, was a famous hermit poet in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty. Wang Bo was able to write at the age of six. At the age of nine, he read the " Han Shu " annotated by the famous scholar Yan Shigu . He was able to write the ten-volume "Han Shu Notes Zhixia", pointing out many mistakes in the book. At the age of fourteen, the poems were already well written. In his youth, Wang Bo "forced his family to be poor and received his salary before his path was completed." After he became an official, he served as the military officer of Guozhou and then abolished his official position twice due to his affairs, and was depressed and unsuccessful throughout his life.
Wang Bo is a young poet with both talent and knowledge. He has written many academic works. In terms of poetry creation, he took a completely different path from those court poets of the same period. His representative works are popular five-character poems, such as the famous quotes in " Send Du Shaofu to Shuzhou " are catchy and meaningful; parallel prose is rumored and meaningful; " Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion " is rumored by the world. Yang Jiong said in "Preface to Wang Bo's Collection": "(Bo) used the first book of Longshuo (661) to transform the literary scene, and the complex structure was made into a carving. It is mixed with gold, jade, dragon and phoenix, and the turquoise is turbulent and purple, green and yellow. The shadows are used to show their achievements and to praise their beauty. The backbone and energy are exhausted, and they are not heard of. Thinking about reversing their shortcomings, they use their profession... So they make the complex and shallow techniques without the solidity of barriers; painting small talents in many ways, losing the danger of golden soup. The years are broken, and the concise is clear in one day." From this comment, it can be seen that Wang Bo's opposition to the poet Gong Shu, represented by "Longshuo Chuzao", represented by Shangguan Yi , and his preliminary achievements in the field of poetry innovation.
For a long time, the traditional saying about the cause of Wang Bo's death, the place of death, and the year of death is believed that he died when he fell into the sea and fell into the water in the South China Sea. This statement comes from the relevant records of the new and old " Tang Shu ". " Old Book of Tang " says that Wang Bo died because he went to Jiaozhi to visit his relatives. In the second year of Ding Shangyuan (675): "(Bo) fell into the water and died at the age of twenty-eight." However, in " New Book of Tang ", it is recorded as "Drowned in crossing the sea, died at the age of twenty-nine." According to the calculations of the "New Book of Tang", Wang Bo died in the third year of Shangyuan (676).
Yang Jiong, a poet of the same era as Wang Bo, also verified this statement. In his "Preface to the Collection of Wang Zi'an", he also believed that Wang Bo died in the third year of Shangyuan. Therefore, for a long time, people have generally accepted this and believed it. However, some people think this statement is quite suspicious.
After a series of research, some scholars pointed out that the new and old "Tang Book" and Yang Jiong's preface were wrong, and they also found that Wang Bo died in August of the first year of civilization (684), at the age of 35. At the same time, it was also found that Wang Bo's "Preface to the Shangsi Zhuan" in March, there is a record that "in late spring in the second year of Yongchun (683), the scenery was slow and charming in the suburbs", and it was known that Wang Bo was still alive this year. At that time, the location of 后后 should be in 后后 , which proves that Wang Bo also spent a long-lasting seclusion in Jiangnan in his later years.
Someone has seen the Japanese collection "The Lost Text of Wang Zi'an" compiled by Luo Zhenyu, which is a woodcut version of Wuwu year (1918). There is an appendix article titled "After the Dead, Peng Zhigu, Meng Xianzhong and his brothers", which is a letter written by Wang Bo to the "Wang Liuxian Brother". Wang Bo has six people in total, and Wang Guan ranked sixth, so he is named Wang Liu. Wang Quan was also a young poet with great talent. The New Book of Tang praised him in this way: "If you have a son like this, you can praise him." Peng Zhigu and others said in his condolence letter: "How can you say that a virtuous brother dies and turns into a foreign object. The pen is gone, the words are so large, and the beams and woods are broken, so I will put them down.Xiaguan and other generous and upright people, Xue Luoquanshi, passed Daliang and thought about Hou Ying , climbed Jiuyuan and remembered the meeting. The swamp of Panhuangmen, there is no more Qin Zun, and the pool platform of Mengchangjun, , is empty. The sadness is gone, what. "So it can be seen that Wang Bo's death was due to "self-destruction", that is, he died in the sea.
How did Wang Bo "self-destruction"? Wang Chenglie, the uncle of Wang Bo, had a tribute to the tribute. He wrote: "I am sad for a long time and have been sad for several years. The waves shocked the east and the scenery fell into the west. "The "East Meeting" should refer to the area around Kuaiji , while "Xiyu" refers to the area around Longmen, the hometown of Wang Bo. Because the two emperors of Yu Shun had built their capital in Puyang, it was generally called "Xiyu". "Bo Jingdong Meeting" refers to the fact that he committed suicide by jumping into the water in Kuaiji area. If the suicide place was in Kuaiji, it would be consistent with the previous article that Wang Bo had had a seclusion in Jiangnan. Wang Chenglie's memorial was written in August of the first year of civilization. It is the first sacrifice not long after Wang Bo's death. Therefore, what Yang Jiong said about the "third year of Shangyuan" is very likely to be the mistake of the "first year of civilization".
With these historical materials, the mystery of Wang Bo's death over the past thousands of years can be cleared and revealed. After Wang Bo's death, according to Wang Chenglie's letter, Wang Bo's coffin was mentioned. "I asked the envoy next to him that he said: The coffin of Sun was there. I heard it and became more confused. "This place also refutes the saying that Wang Bo died in the South China Sea. Wang Bo has indeed been to Jiaozhi, and has also supported his father there. Yang Jiong's "Preface to the Collection of Prince An" says: "If you abandon your official position and sink, you will be raised in Jiaozhi. "Can we combine these words and understand that Wang Bo goes to Jiaozhi and falls into the South China Sea? Obviously not. From Wang Bo's collection of essays, we can see many articles written by Wang Bo . He came back from Jiaozhi, proving that he came back safely from Jiaozhi. We only need to think about it carefully and you can see that under the conditions at that time, it is impossible to find Wang Bo's body in the South China Sea.
So what is the reliability of the Japanese collection of "The Lost Writings of Wang Zi'an"? Scholars found that the end of these lost manuscripts contains the words "July 26, the Fourth Year of Qingyun". Qingyun is the year name of the Japanese civil and military dynasty period of the Japanese Civil and Military Dynasty, which is equivalent to the first year of Jinglong (707) of the Tang Dynasty Zhongzong . If we assume that Wang Bo died in the first year of Wenming (684 If the year is established, this copy was written 23 years after Wang Bo's death. The original copy also included the imperial pen of the Japanese Yuanmasato King. Yuanmasato was the second queen of the Nara dynasty. He ascended the throne in the first year of Linggui (715), and was in the eighth year of retirement (724) 2011) abdicated. This book is collected in the treasure house of the Japanese Emperor . It is a secret book of the Japanese treasure house and is rarely released from the warehouse. The examiner also told in detail how he obtained this book and how he later obtained a long lost text volume of the handwritten manuscript at the Yanjing Library of Harvard University in the United States. It also stated that it was originally collected by Ueno, Japan. In addition, the words "Heaven", "Earth", "Star" and other words in the Masakura Inn photocopy that scholars saw were written in fonts originally created by the Wu Zetian period. It can be judged that it was a copy of the early Tang Dynasty, without a doubt. The scholars' words are convincing, and the analysis is reasonable and the evidence is conclusive. They have made a new explanation and reasoning about the death of Wang Bo, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, thus overthrowing the public recognition of people for thousands of years. The fact that the South China Sea drowned.
Some people later published articles that Wang Bo's father fell into the sea during the return of the southern province, but was eventually rescued. Because Wang Bo was not familiar with water, he was frightened and fell ill after being frightened. He died in the second year of Yifeng, Gaozong, at the age of 28. " Wang Zi's An Ji " contains " Shangsi Fujiang Banquet Preface ", which is the same as "March Shangsi Huo" Preface has many similarities. When Wang Bo was also written by him when he was traveling to Wuyue, the specific time should be during his tenure as the compilation of Prince Pei's Mansion, that is, the spring of the second year of Zongzhang. Therefore, the "Yongchun 2nd year" in the preface should be the mistake of "Zhongzhang 2nd year". To examine Wang Bo's deeds, he should die in the south and be buried in the south. Wang Chenglie's residence at that time was far away from Wang Bo's death, so he wrote a tribute to the text. It is also possible that Wang Chenglie gave a sacrifice to the text several years after Wang Bo's death, when his coffin was moved back.According to this view, Wang Bo did not die of drowning, but died of illness. He did not die in Wu and Yue, but near the South China Sea. Wu Yue’s poems and essays are just works he passed by before.
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