Zhao Shichun's Original _ Translation and Appreciation

Zhao Shichun (AD 509- 1567) was born in Pingliang. Born in Zhengde, Ming Wuzong was four years old, and the year of his death is unknown. He is the author of sixteen volumes of Zhao Ji, which ranks alongside Pingliang Fu Zhi and Si Mu Zong. Zhao Shichun lived in Huating for many years, and wrote Huimin Canal, Retro South Gate, Inscription of Chaona Temple, Rebuilding Lingyan Temple, Mid-Mountain Fog, Yishan Song, Night Return to Yizhou, Denggu Yizhou West City, Huating Road and Huating Rain Fog. The Mystery of Zhao Shichun's Death During the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Zhao Shichun, one of the "Eight Masters of Jiajing" in Pingliang, was an outstanding talent, but throughout his life experience, he was a tragic figure who made people feel infinite regret.

Zhao Shichun lived to be 57 years old. It was only ten years before and after he entered the imperial court as an official. This decade has also seen three ups and downs. He has been in the prison of Royal Guards and Emperor Dining, and even the final cause of death is confusing. Zhao Shichun is a figure in Pingliang national history, but the Biography of Zhao Shichun made no mention of his cause of death, even the date of his death, which is rare in official history. So how did Zhao Shichun die? The simplest answer to this question has always been death. Zhao Shichun spent his life in prison, beaten and defeated, almost lost his life, and fell ill very early. It seems natural to say that he finally died. However, some people questioned that it was definitely not death, but was harmed by two thieves who broke into houses (see Zhao Shichun Biography co-authored by Jing Aimin and Yang Weizhou). This kind of suspicion and speculation is not bad, but there is still a lack of in-depth analysis and exploration. Not bad, because Zhao Shichun is really suspected of being assassinated. Zhao Shichun died in the twelfth lunar month of Jiajing forty-five years (1567, 1), and Jiajing died in the twelfth lunar month of the same year (1 1). In other words, when Jiajing Yan arrived in January, the prince had not officially ascended the throne, and the DPRK was mourning for the change of imperial power, so Zhao Shichun suddenly died. This happened.

As early as the 18th year of Jiajing (1539), Zhao Shichun was first "taken prisoner for the people", and was recalled to Beijing as an official nine years later, and was ordered to compile and edit books for imperial academy. Why did Zhao Shichun return to Beijing to resume his official duties after nine years? It depends on why he was demoted. When Zhao Shichun was in charge of the punishments department, he twice gave Jiajing the book The Root of Deterioration, pointing out Chen's shortcomings and advocating innovation. Instead of being adopted, he flew into a rage. As we know, Wu Han wrote a historical drama "Harry scolded the emperor". The emperor that Hai Rui scolded was Jiajing, which made people's livelihood decline and "every family is clean". In fact, Harry is not a precedent for scolding Jiajing. After reading The Root of Deterioration, the first person to scold Jia Jing was not another one, but Zhao Shichun, who was full of blood. Therefore, from the beginning of the relationship between monarch and minister, Jiajing did not like Zhao Shichun. Because "Chong Tan Zhishu" stung Jiajing's sore spot, Jiajing hated it even more. If he is not young, he will be put to death.

In the 18th year of Jiajing (1539), why did Zhao Shichun return to Beijing to resume his official duties? This is mainly because the contradiction between the emperor sitting in the dragon chair and Prince Chu Jun standing around gradually eased. Imperial academy is generally run by the prince, and the prince is expanding imperial academy, in fact, in order to find and strengthen his own strength. He inevitably thought of Zhao Shichun, that is to say, Zhao Shichun's "worship of roots" was truly appreciated by the prince. So, Zhao Shichun returned to Beijing to resume his official duties, and immediately became an "Oriental Palace official", working in imperial academy and getting along with the prince day and night. At this time, Jiajing was dissolute and heartless. A maid-in-waiting who is difficult to adapt to Jiajing's excessive lust almost strangled her while she was sleeping. After Jiajing woke up, he executed the maid-in-waiting extremely cruelly, but Jiajing still didn't take it as a warning. Instead, she became more obsessed with the alchemist's red pills, constantly indulged herself and refused to take care of her illness for days and months. Treacherous court official Yan Song is to blame for all the big and small issues of the country. At this time, Zhao Shichun, together with the Prince's cronies Luo Hongxian and Tang Shunzhi, went to the Imperial Palace to invite the Prince to be a regent and accept the congratulations of officials, that is, to carry out a coup and seize power. This was a step to promote the political reform in the Ming Dynasty, and Jiajing was furious when he saw it. He said, "You can't afford it." Zhao Shichun was once again "flogged for 80 years, cutting his membership for the people", and Luo and Tang were also flogged, which dealt a heavy blow to the forces of the Prince.

Associated with this fact, we should not only ask: Jia Jing is driving, the prince is planning to ascend the throne, and Zhao Shichun is originally "going back to his hometown to listen to music". It seems that his comeback is expected, and the time for relocation is ripe. Why did he die suddenly at this time? The time of death was that the news of Jiajing's death spread all over the world, and King Pingliang also mourned according to the state. If Zhao Shichun was killed by two thieves by mistake at this time, and the thieves only stole for a living, why did they go directly to his room to kill people? From this point of view, these two thieves are extraordinary and have high means. Although Zhao Shichun is a bachelor of arts, after all, Yanmen, the governor of Shanxi Province, is good at riding and shooting, and was once the commander-in-chief of the militia fighting. Will he die at the hands of two thieves without any struggle or sound? What we mean by this is nothing else, but we can conclude that Zhao Shichun was not killed by petty theft, but most likely by a professional killer. Since the establishment of the East Factory by the Central Committee of the Ming Dynasty, eagles and dogs have been everywhere, and there have been many arrests and assassinations. On this basis, we have every reason to say that, first, some people are afraid that Zhao Shichun will come back to deal with them and that the new king will rob them before the imperial edict; Second, it is also possible for the East Factory to faithfully carry out Jiajing's secret imperial edict of death and tide wait for no man, which is also the reason why later historians can't write it. The exact cause of Zhao Shichun's death has never been recorded. For more than 400 years, he sank like a stone to the bottom of the sea.

Zhao Shichun has three brothers, and he is the second. His brother Zhao Shiyuan and his brother Zhao Shitai were both born to half-brothers. Zhao Shiyuan was born by Zhao Shichun's father, and his ancestral home was Shijia. He was in his teens when he was in Changchun. According to Pingliang folk legend, Zhao Shiyuan is honest and has never been famous in his life. He opened an oil mill in Gucun, south of Pingliang, known as "Zhao's Oil Mill". Zhao Shiyuan has three sons, whose names are keeping promises, respecting and keeping jobs. Zhao Shichun was born to his father's second wife, Xu. Zhao Shichun has two sons, one is strict and the other is stupid. His younger brother Zhao Shitai was born to his father's concubine Wang, the so-called "concubine". What is puzzling is that after Zhao Shichun's death, all his brothers, sons and nephews disappeared, or left Pingliang to hide their names, or abandoned their family business and went away from home, so that Zhao Shichun's descendants could never take the exam in Pingliang again. Only his son-in-law, Zhou Jian, served as an inspector and special envoy of Henan twice, and still enjoyed a high reputation during the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty. Imagine that if Zhao Shichun's death is unknown, there must be hidden songs and even swords and shadows. Why is Zhao so afraid of disaster? So that it disappears in Pingliang, isn't it sad!

So, what is the subjective cause of Zhao Shichun's final tragedy?

With the printing and publication of Zhao Shichun's Anthology handed down from ancient times, Mr. Li Xiaolin wrote in the preface of Zhao Shichun's Anthology compiled by the Political Consultative Conference of Kongtong District in Pingliang City in 2006: Zhao Anthology 10, Pingliang Fuzhi 13 and Zhao Shichun's Poems. In his later years, he began to sort out the collection of poems in Zhao Shichun's Selected Works. After his death, his son Zhao Shouyan sorted out and published Si Cheng Tang Mi Zi. When Zhou Jian, the son-in-law, was appointed as the special envoy of Henan, he arranged his poetry and prose collections in the capital of song dynasty. During the Republic of China, Li, a native of Zhuanglang, edited Gu Jun Wen Chao. Celebrities such as Xu Jie He and Li Kaixian, the first official of Jiajing Dynasty in Ming Dynasty, made a preface to Zhao Wen Ji and spoke highly of it. "It roughly explains the publication of Zhao Shichun's collected works after his death, but it is not accurate to say that Zhao Shichun did not publish his own collected works before his death.

Hu Song, the right deputy capital of Duchayuan in Ming Dynasty, wrote a preface to Zhao Shichun's Anthology in the spring of Jiajing forty-one year (1562). In the preface, I said, "When I visited Mr. Gu Jun's Huiguang Pavilion in the library, I was grateful for reading the poems written by Mr. Jun all my life. When I am worried about my time, I recite my thoughts, write my things, reward me and give gifts. How can I be as brave as Meng Ming's uncle, the son of Qin Miaogong? ... I am covered up and has a deep connection with Yu's theory, but that is a residual topic.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), Li Kaixian wrote Preface to Zhao Shichun's Collected Works. He said that "Zhao Zi's poems and essays in Gu Xun have been engraved for a long time", which also confirmed the publication of Zhao Shichun's collected works mentioned in Hu Songzhi's preface. In this preface, Li Kaixian said that he was entrusted by Zhao Shichun to write this preface. "People in the city have a thin official. Every time they pronounce the cloud, the poems are out of order. They know that love is not like the middle foot among friends. Don't shrink back because of the order." In this preface, it is said that Zhao Shichun's collected works are "ten volumes, six volumes of poems and nine volumes of articles, and the author will continue."

The preface of Hu Song and Li Kaixian was written by Zhao Shichun. As can be seen from the preface, Zhao Shichun had already finished the compilation of Selected Works when he was alive. The first sentence in Li Kaixian's preface is, "Zhao Zi's poems in Gu Xun have been engraved for a long time." It can be seen that when Zhao Shichun was alive, his poems should have been published. From the thirty-second year of Jiajing (1553)1February15, Zhao Shichun was defeated by Shanxi "going back to his hometown to listen to songs" until his death. After he finished writing "Pingliang Fu Zhi" in the forty years of Jiajing (156 1), he focused on sorting out his poetry collection. Because since the Tang and Song Dynasties, scholars have regarded sorting out their poems as a major event in their lives. During the six years since Zhao Shichun was invited to Hu Song to write a preface to Zhao Shichun's Death, Zhao Shichun never forgot to publish his own anthology.

Zhao Shichun died when Xu Jie prefaced the collected works of Zhao Shichun, and Xu Jie prefaced it in the winter of Wanli Chen Geng (1580). Xu Jie said in the preface: "I am deeply saddened to go to Yuzhi Cemetery. I hereby collect these fifteen years. That is to say, when Xu Jie prefaces, it is already fifteen years after Zhao Shichun's death. This anthology is an anthology. " Sixteen volumes and more than a thousand poems. At first, it was donated by the government, but later his son kept the secret of the rock in Sichengtang. Her husband, Zhou Jun, the governor of Henan Province, learned to appreciate the history of Henan Province and won his ambition. Therefore, he spread it to Bian for a long time, which is the elegance of his genre and the strangeness of his style, so he detailed Tu Hu. "

This anthology, prefaced by Xu Jie, was published by Zhao Shichun's son-in-law Zhou Jian when he was in Henan fifteen years after his death. Judging from the book, it should be a manuscript edited and produced by Zhao Shouyan, and some articles have been added, "It's been a long time, but it's still being debated".

Zhao Shichun's poems will make the altar mellow, the ice paste fine and the guests at the lantern festival brightly lit. Don't teach white hair to invade people until it is cold. The incense turns over the laurel shadow, the candle is thin, and the red elm is flat. The group products are bright and colorful, and Taiping is still alone. —— Zhao Shichun's Two Poems on Drinking Pottery at Lantern Festival in Ming Dynasty, and two poems on drinking pottery at Lantern Festival.

Ming Dynasty: Zhao Shichun

The wine in the altar will be made into exquisite ice paste and will be brightly lit during the Lantern Festival.

Don't teach white hair to invade people until it is cold.

Lantern Festival, drinking poems, autumn sounds filled, and the gas was suffocating. On the ninth day of climbing the mountain, the mountain was credited. Light glutinous rice or clear water, green wine to yellow flowers. When the swan returns, the clouds will fall forever. -Nine Days in Yuanzhou by Zhao Shichun in Ming Dynasty: Nine Days in Yuanzhou

The sound of autumn is suffocating, but the air is suffocating.

On the ninth day of climbing the mountain, the mountain was credited.

Light glutinous rice or clear water, green wine to yellow flowers.

When the swan returns, the clouds will fall forever. Double Ninth Festival, climbing high, writing landscapes, driving off the branches of the moon, and rolling up the right arm to the west. Guan Yu's postal route is like a line. You can see 100,000 divisions in Hexi. -Zhao Shichun's Three Poems in Hexi in Ming Dynasty

Modu chanyu caught the next branch and tried his best to level his right arm.

Guan Yu's postal route is like a line. You can see 100,000 divisions in Hexi. See more poems by Zhao Shichun.