Yang Sheng'an's famous sayings are as follows:
1. The wild flowers and grass are full of sorrow, how many springs and autumns are the dragons and tigers fighting? Wu, Yue, Qin, Chu, and in a blink of an eye, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Zhou dynasties, the whole world is busy and old, how many people are willing to rest before death?
2. Walk around and sit around, no need to fight for others or me. A hundred years pass by in a blink of an eye, no matter how successful you are. Yesterday, the drums urged the flowers to bloom. Today, the willows are singing and the crows are singing. The swallows are flying in front of the Wang Xie Hall. I don’t know whose house they are flying into. ?
Introduction to Yang Sheng'an:
Yang Shen (December 8, 1488 - August 8, 1559), also known as Yongxiu, originally named Yuexi, Sheng'an, and also named Yishi Shi, Bonanshanren, Dongzhenyi, Southern Yunnan garrison history, Golden Horse and Jade Rooster veterans, etc. A native of Xindu, Sichuan (now Xindu District, Chengdu City), his ancestral home is Luling (now Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province). A writer, scholar, and official of the Ming Dynasty, he was the first of the three talented men of the Ming Dynasty and the son of Yang Tinghe, a scholar of Dongge University.
Yang Shen passed the imperial examination in the sixth year of Zhengde (1511) of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty. He was awarded the title of editor of the Hanlin Academy and participated in the compilation of "Records of Emperor Wuzong". When Wu Zong came out of Juyongguan, he went to Shu to resist admonishment. Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne and was reinstated as a Hanlin editor and lecturer on classics and banquets. In the third year of Jiajing (1524), he was involved in the "Great Ceremony Discussion" incident, which angered Emperor Shizong. He was dismissed from office and relegated to Yongchang Guards in Yunnan.
When he was in southern Yunnan, he led his slaves to help quell the rebellions of Anquan in Xundian and Fengchaowen in Wuding. After that, although he traveled back and forth to Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, he still ended up in Yongchang Guard. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), he died in the garrison at the age of seventy-two. During the reign of Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, he was posthumously given the title of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, he was given the posthumous title of "Wen Xian".
Yang Shen has been in southern Yunnan for thirty years and has read extensively. His poems, lyrics and music are all in various styles and have a certain style of their own. His poems were popular in the Six Dynasties, and he was inspired by the late Tang Dynasty. He created erudite and beautiful poems with profound attainments and independent of the trend. And Yuefu pioneered "Flower Room", which influenced the fashion of Long and Wan below, and they all tended to be beautiful. There are more than 400 kinds of works, covering classics, history and local chronicles, astronomy and geography, epigraphy, calligraphy and painting, music and drama, religious language, folk customs, etc., which were compiled by later generations into "Sheng'an Collection".
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Yang Shen has been diligent and studious since he was a child. One day at noon, Yang Shen passed by a private school and saw his teacher beating a student with a ruler, so he stepped forward to ask. The teacher told him: "This morning I wrote the second couplet and asked them to write the first couplet. It took half a day and they still hadn't completed the sentence, so I punished them one by one."
Little Yang Shen asked the teacher for the content of the second couplet. , the husband then said the second line: The grain is yellow, the rice is white, and the rice is like frost. Yang Shen originally wanted to help his students out, but he pondered for a long time to no avail. After that, he kept thinking about it all the time, but he never found a satisfactory answer.
Later, he went to Beijing with his father Yang Tinghe. One day, Emperor Hongzhi hosted a banquet for officials in the imperial garden, and Yang Shen, who was fifteen or sixteen years old, also went with his father. It was cold winter, and the black charcoal was burning with a blazing red fire in the heating brazier.
Emperor Hongzhi fell in love with the scene and said to the ministers: "I have a couplet to see who among the ministers can match up." Then he read out the first couplet: Carbon black, fire red and gray like snow. After finishing speaking, he looked at the ministers with a smile, waiting for the answer. The ministers all bowed their heads in thought. Seeing that no one objected, Yang Shen took two steps forward and said calmly: "The rice is yellow, the rice is as white as frost." When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he couldn't help but exclaimed and praised loudly: "That's right! That's right!"
Another day, Yang Shen's father and uncles looked at the painting and asked Yang Shen: " A beautiful scene is said to be like a painting; a good painting is said to be like a real painting. Which one is correct? " He was asked to write a poem to explain it. Yang Shen thought about it and immediately wrote a poem: "Understanding the landscape is really like a painting, a famous artist. Paintings look real; dreams are difficult to distinguish between imperial bandits, and shadows and shapes are presented to the poets of Jin Dynasty."