We are all familiar with Li Bai and Du Fu's poems, and children can read them in a sentence or two, but few people know that Ji Gong, who we are familiar with, is also a poet. His poems are brilliant and have left many excellent works, but few people can recite them. Everyone's familiar mantra "wool is on sheep" comes from Jigong's doggerel. The original poem goes like this:
"Tang please loiter, mother monk. Two hundred dollars and five flavors, the wool is on the sheep. "
Dao Ji, whose legal name is Jigong, was originally named Li Xiuyuan. Many people think that his family is poor after reading his description. Actually, it's just the opposite. Before Doggi became a monk, the family was rich. His great-grandfather was Li Zunzuo, who was a husband and his father was an official, and later resigned and retired. There are some legends about his life. It is said that his father has no children for nearly six months.
The Li family believed in Buddhism for generations, and Jigong had an indissoluble bond with Buddhism from birth. Since then, he has often been influenced by Buddhism. Therefore, after his parents died, he went to Lingyin Temple and followed the famous Zen master Hui Yuan in history. After he entered the Buddha, he was uncharacteristically, not only drinking and eating meat, but also often interacting with * * *, and wrote many poems related to this, including a poem called "Residing".
Husband and wife sleep, Zen and lust are not connected. Last night, my aunt obeyed your wishes and gave my devout grandmother more than five yuan.
In ancient times, "the head of a line" was often used to refer to a beautiful prostitute, so the meaning of this poem is very simple and clear. He went to the place where Liu Xing slept first, but did nothing. Why? Because he is very Zen, he has no other thoughts. When he got up the next morning, he gave the pious woman another five dollars. Even so, the poem is a little vague to read. I'm afraid the ancients who claimed to be gentlemen were embarrassed to see it. In people's eyes, the Chikyi Palace, which has no scruples about going in and out of these places, is shameless, which is why it has always been called "crazy monk".
If he only writes this kind of poetry, of course, he can't be said to have a gift for poetry. Ji Gong also wrote four West Lake quatrains. As soon as these four poems came out, it was no problem for Ji Gong to call himself a poet, especially the last two sentences of one quatrains, which were profound in Zen, vivid in picture and famous throughout the ages.
The peach blossoms on the shore are bright red, and the willows on the embankment are light green. Watching egrets peep at fish, it is a little green to break through Pinghu. The West Lake is cool in May and autumn, and the new lotus leaves are fragrant. Where will the flowers fall next year? Nod to the wine.
Among them, "looking at the egrets peeping at the fish, breaking the Pinghu Lake is a little green." There is stillness in the movement, and there is movement in the stillness, which is particularly brilliant. Nan commented on his poems and said: "On the poetic style, it is not inferior to Fan Chengda and Lu Fangweng, the four great poets in the Song Dynasty." It can be seen that this poem is highly appraised.
You can't just look at a person's appearance. Jigong has done many things that ordinary people can't understand, but this is only superficial, just like few people know that he can write poems, and even fewer people know that he has superb medical skills and has saved many poor people who have no money to see a doctor. On the whole, Ji Kang wrote many poems that are both Zen and poetic. What do you think of them?