China has a long history, and there have been many outstanding poets, such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, etc. These ancient poets gave the world the impression that they were literati and elegant scholars who were full of knowledge and export, and were highly respected by later generations. In the Qing Dynasty, Lu Fengzao said in “Xiaozhilu” that “the star of poetry is also Meng Haoran.”

Illustration of Meng Haoran’s portrait

In the circle of historical poets, there are some poets with outstanding talents who have left a well-known and magnificent chapter for the world, but their personalities are worrying and people can’t compliment them. Let’s take a look at the three poets who are talented and immoral in history.

The third place, the famous Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao(hào)

“Yellow Crane Tower”: “In the past people have already taken the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is vacant here. The yellow cranes are gone forever, and the white clouds are empty for thousands of years. Qingchuan is full of hanyang trees, and the fragrant grass is full of parrots. Where is the sunset in the village, the misty river makes people sad.”

“Yellow Crane Tower”

This poem is Cui Hao’s representative work, making him famous all over the world, and his literary talent is very natural. Needless to say. It is said that Li Bai discovered the poem inscribed by Cui Hao when he climbed the Yellow Crane Tower, and when he lamented his talent, he improvised four lines of “little poems”: “Smashing the Yellow Crane Tower with one punch, kicking over the Parrot Island with one kick, the There are no Jingdao, Cui Hao wrote poems on it.” Then he stopped writing.

“Old Tang Book Cui Hao Biography”: “Kaiyuan, Tianbaojian, famous literati, Bianzhou Cui Hao, Jingzhao Wang Changling, Gao Shi, Xiangyang Meng Haoran, all of them are not famous.”

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In “Old Tang Book: Cui Hao Biography”, he is compared with the three poets Wang Changling, Gao Shi, and Meng Haoran, which shows that Cui Hao is indeed talented.

Yellow Crane Tower

Cui Hao is known for his talent, but his Character is not worth mentioning. Cui Hao is not only addicted to alcohol, but also gambling, and there are countless scandalous and erotic stories with women. According to historical records Cui Hao:

“The only choice for a wife is to choose a beautiful wife, and Russia abandons them. Every four or five will marry.” , If you are not satisfied, you will abandon it. There are so many experiences before and after. If you don’t marry if you are not beautiful, you marry and abandon it, and you will never tire of it.

The second poet, Yuan Zhen, who is as famous as Bai Juyi

“Li Si”: “Once the sea was difficult, but Wushan was not a cloud. I took the second flowers and looked back lazily, and cultivated Taoism halfway. Banyuanjun.”

Yuan Zhen is very smart, and when he was 14 years old, he had already completed the Mingjing and the first chapter, and he was granted Zuo supplements. Served as Shangshu Youcheng (prime minister), a very personable minister.

Portrait illustration of Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi

He and Bai Juyi share the same subject and First, they became friends, and the two jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, known as “Yuanbai”, and the poem titled “Yuanhe Style”. His achievements in poetry are enormous, and there are more than 830 poems in existence.

Writing a time-honored phrase like “Once upon a time, the sea is difficult to become water, except Wushan is not a cloud”. He wrote it to miss his deceased wife, and it is inevitable that later generations will think that he is an infatuated man with a single-mindedness.

However, he is an out-and-out “scumbag”. He is romantic and has romantic relationships with many women in his life. How ironic the “Shanmen’s Sea Oath” he wrote now seems to be.

Portrait illustration of Yuan Zhen and his wife

First place, famous in the early Tang Dynasty Poet——Song Zhiwen

“Crossing the Han River”: “The foreign language of the mountains is broken, and the winter is restored to the spring. It is even more timid to be close to the nostalgia, and I dare not ask people who come.”

Song Zhiwen, a famous poet in the early Tang Dynasty, officially entered the official career at the age of 20, and was appreciated by Empress Wu Zetian for “robbing a robe” in the Longmen Poetry Society. , created a new style of seven-character lyric poetry and became one of the founders of lyric poetry.

Although Song Zhiwen’s achievements are quite high, he can definitely be called a “shameless” brazen person. He had written erotic poems to Wu Zetian, expressing his desire to be her male favorite, but the queen refused because he could not stand his bad breath.

Song Zhiwen’s portrait illustration

“The Sad Pulsatilla” poem cloud: “Every year flowers are similar, but every year is different.”

Song Zhiwen saw that his nephew, Liu Xiyi, had a good point about this poem, so he wanted to take it for himself, and Liu Xiyi first agreed He gave it to him, but later regretted it, so Song Zhiwen ordered the slave to crush Liu Xiyi to death with a bag filled with soil. This is the story of “killing relatives because of poetry”.

It is sad and tragic that Liu Xiyi, a talented young man, died before his uncle’s uncle’s poems when he was less than 30 years old.