Chapter 914 Drunk Bai Poetry Party
Chang'an willow catkins are flying, the konghou is ringing, and passers-by are drunk; painting the upper reaches of the boat lake, drinking a cup for a cup;
Water embroidery is beautiful, flat gold method, painting landscape; The poet's words fly, and the rouge sweeps across the eyebrows.
——BY: ediq "Singing at Night in the High Tang Dynasty"
While poetry and wine were flying in Prince Yu's Mansion, Prince Jing's Mansion, a close neighbor of Prince Yu's Mansion on the same street, gave a lecture to the newly appointed Minister of Prince Jing's Mansion. The reception banquet organized by Xu Pu, a bachelor, also turned into a poetry gathering.
The inertia of literati is no exception.
However, compared to the Yuwangfu’s Pergola Poetry Club, the specifications of Jingwangfu’s Poetry Club are much higher than that of Yuwangfu. The scene is just as ediq sings in "The Night Sing of the Tang Dynasty", it is a luxurious and prosperous time. scene.
King Jing set up the poetry meeting in Zuibai Garden in his mansion.
Zuibaiyuan is a garden built after King Jing opened his palace. There are many dancing pavilions and singing stages in the garden. In the center is a mirror-like blue lake with sparse flowers and trees on the lakeside. There is a rockery inside the lake, and the landscape is beautiful. , beautiful environment. The reason why Zuibai Garden is named Zuibai Garden is because it is believed that if the great poet Li Bai were reincarnated and came to visit the gardens here, he would definitely be intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of the gardens, hence the name Zuibai Garden.
To be precise, the Jingwangfu Poetry Club is located in Ailian Lake in Zuibai Garden. To be more precise, it is a painting boat in Ailian Lake.
This painting boat is naturally not an ordinary painting boat. It was carefully designed by the ten most famous top painting boat masters in Jiangnan and carefully built by nearly a hundred skilled craftsmen. It is a large-scale, high-end luxury boat that integrates the functions of navigation, style collection, entertainment, leisure, and banquets. In a sense, yachts are like the money-burning yachts of modern European and American wealthy people.
It looks like a painting boat, but more like pavilions and pavilions floating on the water. It has carved eaves and exquisite corner pavilions. The high pavilion on the spine, the stage, and finally the high-rise building imitating the Tang Dynasty. On the painting boat, the decoration is extremely luxurious, with beauty seats, lattice windows, coiled dragon pillars, dragon-carved screens and other exquisite furnishings. The reliefs on the dragon pillars are well-proportioned with auspicious clouds, and the carved dragons look like living creatures. Every scale on the body is so fine that it can be counted...
On the boat, several large cases are placed in order. It is full of mouth-watering delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the wine in the luminous cup is intoxicating. Each case is accompanied by a side table with pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Or communicate with laughter, the stunning dancers dance gracefully on the stage to add to the fun, and the singer Yuxiu sings a masterpiece of poetry with a light voice.
King Jing also set up lottery jackpots, six in total. The number of lottery jackpots was three times that of Prince Yu’s Mansion, and the value of the lottery jackpots was countless times higher. The most eye-catching one was the jackpot - Wang Xizhi The authentic half of the "Peace Note". Although there is only half of it, with a total of more than 20 words, its value is immeasurable. Most of Wang Xizhi's authentic works have been lost, and the number of authentic works passed down to the Ming Dynasty cannot exceed five fingers.
In short, the level of the Zuibai Poetry Club in Prince Jing’s Mansion is not known to be higher than that of the Poetry Club in the Pergola of Prince Yu’s Mansion, and so are the fine wines and delicacies at the banquet.
The truth can be seen from the number of beggars outside the two palaces.
There was a beggar huddled in a corner outside Prince Yu's Mansion, sniffing deeply with a happy and intoxicated look on his face, taking in the smell of wine and meat coming from Prince Yu's Mansion, putting the moldy steamed bun in his hand into his mouth and chewing it. Take a deep breath, take a bite, it's sweet.
“Hey, Ergouzi, what are you doing here, you idiot? Shunzi and Tiedan have already passed by, but you didn’t see them. The place in Prince Jing’s Mansion is more fragrant, that smells better. I almost want to swallow my tongue into my stomach. Come on, come on. Come with me, I'll help you occupy a good position at a disadvantage. If you get there late, you'll be gone." Another little beggar came running from a distance, and without any explanation, he took the beggar in the corner and left. After my son heard about it, he trotted along.
Two little beggars trotted all the way to the side wall of Prince Jing's Mansion. There were more than a dozen little beggars crowded in the corner not far away, fighting for a downwind position while taking deep breaths of air. The smell of wine and meat comes from the house
The Zhu family is smelly of wine and meat, and the beggar is getting drunk outside. Haha, this can be regarded as having fun with the people.
At this time, the Zuibai Poetry Party in Prince Jing's Mansion had passed its climax and was coming to an end. Poems were written on plain paper, dancers danced gracefully, and singers recited poems.
King Jing was sitting on the main seat, chatting and laughing with the lecturers and scholars on both sides. There were two piles of poems and poems on their tables.
The pile of poems on the left are poems written by everyone in Prince Jing's Mansion. The pile on the right, if King Yu and others were here, they would find that the pile of poems on the right are the poems they just did at the Pergola Poetry Meeting. Made above.
"Your Highness, someone has written another poem over there."
A chamberlain trotted over and handed a poem with still wet ink to Prince Yu's table.
"Well, let's go down."
King Yu nodded, picked up the poem, and waved his hand to the servant, indicating that he could leave.
This scene can also be seen from the side how much advantage King Jing has over King Yu. As soon as the new work of the Poetry Society in Prince Yu's Mansion was produced, King Jing got a copy; then Prince Yu's Mansion vs. Jing As for Wang, are there many secrets left? ! According to "Know the enemy and know yourself, you can fight a hundred battles without danger" in "Sun Tzu: Planning for Attack", in the battle to seize the direct descendants, King Jing currently has the advantage.
After reading the poem, King Yu slightly pulled down the corner of his mouth, and then passed the poem to Qian Dongyang, the bachelor at the side.
“Haha, the poem recital at His Highness Prince Yu’s residence is actually titled with chopsticks. It’s really useless and ridiculous. The poems that have been handed down are not very good, that is, Yin Shidan’s "Ode to Chokes" " is readable, but it also lacks the spirit of Chen. Oh, by the way, Zhang Juzheng's "Yin of Bamboo Chops" can also be considered a readable work, no Zhang Juzheng is not from Prince Yu's family. Apart from these two poems, his works are all mediocre. As for this one, "Ode to Chopsticks," it is even more pointless." After Qian Dongyang read the poems he had received, he couldn't help but shake his head and sneered. After making a sound, he passed this newly-transmitted poem "Ode to Bamboo" to Xu Pu, the newly appointed lecturer.
After Xu Pu read it, he smiled slightly and shook his head, without any intention of commenting, and then continued to pass on the poem.
After the poems spread among the people, they returned to the pile on the right side of the table between King Jing and the bachelors and lecturers on both sides.
"Haha, let me tell you, our poems are meaningful. They chant the past and discuss the present, and offer advice and suggestions for our Ming Dynasty to dominate the world. We are scholar-bureaucrats, not cooks, and we write about bamboo chopsticks and so on. , What does it mean to me, the Ming Dynasty?!" Li Dongtang, an official of Prince Jing's Mansion, chuckled, compared the themes of the two Prince's Mansion Poetry Club, and strongly praised the Prince's Mansion Poetry Club, while at the same time he severely dissed the Prince Yu's Mansion Poetry Club.
“Yes, Mr. Li’s words make sense.”
“We second the proposal.”
Everyone in the poetry meeting agreed. They had read all the poems in Prince Yu's Mansion. Just like Qian Dongyang said, only the two poems by Yin Shidan and Zhang Juzheng could be understood. What were the other poems? (End of this chapter)