Preface to Wang Tengting is a parallel prose written by Wang Bo, a writer in Tang Dynasty, in the second year of Shang and Yuan Dynasties (675). The full text reveals the author's ambition and resentment. Except for a few function words, the whole article is double. Syntax consists of four sentences and six sentences, arranged neatly; Almost a whole story, more natural and appropriate, elegant and skilled.
The full text is as follows:
Ha ha! Bad luck, bad luck. Feng Tang is easy to get old, but Li Guang is hard to seal. Qu Jiayi is in Changsha, not without a master; Is there no time to escape from Hongliang to Haiqu? A gentleman plays it by ear and knows the world. When you are old and strong, would you rather be moved? Poverty is strong, not falling into the sky.
I feel that Chanquan is very cool, but I am still very happy after doing it. Although Beihai is on credit, it can be accepted; The cold corner has gone, and the mulberry is not late. Meng has noble taste and is free to serve the country; Ruan Ji is crazy, how can he cry to the end of the road! (See Opportunity: Poverty Alleviation)
The translation is as follows:
Well, everyone's timing is different, and the fate of life is often not smooth. Feng Tang is prone to aging, but Li Guang is rare. Jia Yi was wronged and demoted to Changsha, not because there was no monarch, but because Hongliang fled to Qilu seaside. Isn't this an era of political prosperity?
Only because a gentleman is content with poverty can a knowledgeable person know his own destiny. Although you are old, you should be more ambitious. How to change your mood when you are old? Although the situation is difficult, we should be more ethical and never give up our lofty aspirations.
Even if you drink the water from the greedy spring, your mood is still fresh and clean; Even if you are on a dry main road, your mind is still cheerful and happy. Although the North Sea is far away, it can still be reached by a whirlwind of horns. Although the morning has passed, it is not too late to cherish the night. Meng Changjun is noble, but he loves to serve his country in vain. Ruan Ji is a dissolute person. How can we learn from his poor crying!
Extended data:
In 675 AD (the second year of Shangyuan), in order to celebrate the new pavilion, Wu, the son-in-law, was invited to make a preface on September 9 to show his name. Unexpectedly, just as he pretended to be modest, Wang Bo began to write. In the name of "changing clothes", Yan angrily left the meeting, and someone was waiting for him to write a letter.
When I first heard that "Zhang Yu is an old county and Hongdu is a new house", Gong Yan felt that "it is also a cliche"; Next, "the pillow is in the summer suburbs, and the guest and the host are in the beauty of the southeast", which is awkward for public hearing; As for the phrase "the sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, the autumn waters are * * * and the sky is one color", it is even more surprising. "This is the real genius and should be immortal!" , for the sake of Apollo side and view, hence eager to please dinner, very huan.
There have always been two opinions about the creation time of preface to Wang Teng-ting. One of them is Don Yi Yan written by kings in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties: "At the age of fourteen, I wrote Preface to Wang Tengting." At that time, Wang Bo's father may be appointed as the order of Liuhe County (now Jiangsu Province), and Wang Bo will go to Liuhe through Hongzhou.
In this preface, there is a saying that "teenagers know everything and say everything", which can also be proved. Secondly, the new Biography of Tang Caizi in Yuan Dynasty believed that the Pavilion Preface was written when he visited his father in Jiaotoe (northwest of Hanoi, Vietnam) (at that time, his father was a county magistrate in Jiaotoe), and passed by Nanchang in the second year of last year (675).
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