Source: Zhong Rong's "Poetry": "Xuancheng County was flooded at the beginning, and Suye Pavilion was established. I dreamed of a beautiful husband who called himself Guo Pu. Yan said,' I have a pen that I have used in your office for many years. I can return it.' When you are immersed in your arms, you will get a five-color pen. Then there was poetry, not idioms, and Jiang Yan was exhausted after his death. "
Idiom allusions:
Jiang Lang refers to Jiang Yan (444-505), a famous writer and essayist in Southern Dynasties, who was born in Kaocheng, Jiyang, Songzhou (now Chengzhuang Town, Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province). Zhong Rong's Poems: In the early days of Xuancheng County, there was a flood, and Suye Pavilion was established. I dreamed of a beautiful husband who called himself Guo Pu. Yan said,' I have a pen that I have used in your office for many years. I can return it.' When you are immersed in your arms, you will get a five-color pen. Then there was poetry, not idioms, and Jiang Yan was exhausted after his death. "Biography of Southern History and Jiang Yan": "Swallowing is a five-color pen in the bosom, which is given to you. Later, there was no beautiful sentence in poetry, and people called it the most. " It refers to being brilliant when you are young, and your literary thoughts gradually decline in your later years. "finished", finished, gone. Metaphor talent decline.
In addition to the above story, Heather also recorded a similar story of "seeking gold", which happened between Zhang Xiehe and Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan of the Southern Dynasties was born in Kaocheng, Jiyang, Songzhou (now Chengzhuang Town, Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province). When he was young, he became a famous writer and his poems and articles were highly praised at that time. However, with the growth of age, his articles are not as good as before, and they have also regressed a lot. His poems are plain, and he still can't write a word after a long time. Occasionally inspiration came and I wrote a poem, but the sentence was dry and the content was too dull to be desirable.
Therefore, it is said that Jiang Yan once stopped by boat near the Zen Temple, and dreamed that a man who claimed to be Zhang Jingyang asked him for a piece of silk, so he took out a few feet of silk from his pocket and returned it to him. Therefore, his articles are not wonderful in the future. It is also said that once Jiang Yan took a nap in the Ye Ting Pavilion, he dreamed that a man who claimed to be Guo Pu came up to him and asked him for a pen, and said to him, "Brother Wen, I have used your pen for a long time, so I should be able to give it back to me!" Hearing this, Jiang Yan conveniently took out a five-color pen from her pocket and returned it to him. It is said that since then, Jiang Yan's literary thoughts have dried up and he can't write any good articles.
Jiang Yan once proudly said to his disciples: I am an ordinary official, and I don't want wealth. As for this, I'm going to stop talking for the rest of my life. In this pampered environment, Jiang Yan never wrote a good article again. Jiang Yan's literary thoughts dried up, and so did Jiang Lang.
In fact, it's not that Jiang Yan ran out of talent, but that after he became an official, on the one hand, he was busy with government affairs, on the other hand, he was proud of his official career and didn't need to write by himself, so he didn't write again. Over time, the article will naturally become inferior and lack talent. (Excerpted from Applied Writing No.8 1995 "Jiang Lang is inexhaustible")