all one's life
Both the great-grandfather and the great-grandfather of the tomb served in the imperial court, while his father only worked in Zhengzhou as the main book of Guancheng County for several years. When Wang Ling was five years old, her parents died one after another and her only sister got married. The tomb became an orphan and helpless, so he had to come to Yangzhou alone with his great-uncle Wang Yi, who was a junior military attache in Huainan East Road Town and Yangzhou at that time, and grew up under his great-uncle. So the tomb calls itself Guangling.
When Wang Ling was seven or eight years old, she went to a bookstore to study. He often plays with school children during the day, goes home to study alone at night, and sometimes stays up all night. As a teenager, Wang Ling was helpful, tolerant and generous, and he criticized others' unfair behavior without scruple. Everyone respects him.
In the eighth year of Li Qing, Song Renzong (1048), the sixteen-year-old tomb followed his uncle's eldest son to Guazhou (now south of Yangzhou, Jiangsu). The following year, the tomb left her great-uncle who had lived for ten years, set up another portal and took back her widowed sister and nephew. Since then, Wang Ling has lived with her sister for ten years, living in a lonely and poor family. Economically, I lost my dependence on my great-uncle, and the burden of a family of three fell on Wang Ling, who was only 17 years old. Shortly after settling in Guazhou, Wang Ling went to a school in Shanyang County as a teacher alone. The following year, I was invited to a family school named Duan in Tianchang County. Here, the tomb spent five spring and autumn periods. The Shu family is one of the deepest confidants in Wang Ling's life. He gave financial support and emotional comfort to lonely Wang Ling. In fact, the second son of the Shu family is about the same age as the tomb and has some knowledge. The tomb's "Answering the Filial Piety Sutra" says: Brothers and sages, I was shocked when I met those people. The article was sparkling and contained many obscure meanings. Close the door and be self-sufficient. Why do you want to entertain me more when you are free? Know the kindness of the people and care about the poor and hungry. Wang Ling's name is Mr. Bandu, and he never pretends to be Mr. Bandu ... With the help of Shu's family, Wang Ling maintains his life with his family.
After traveling for four years (1052), the imperial examination was held in the imperial court, and the 2/kloc-0-year-old Wang Ling gave up the opportunity to make progress and become famous despite the persuasion of others. Since he was a child, he hoped to live a peaceful life, study ancient times, and strive for self-improvement seriously to make up for the status quo, but now he is unfortunately down and out, not as good as usual ("On March 21st, Renchen read Li Hanlin's epitaph, taking Ren Xia as the reason and Du Zichang as the hormone"). In the following years, Wang Ling never took the imperial examination again. The dark social reality and the lonely and poor life under other people's fences make him have the ambition to save the world and the people, but he doesn't want to turn his six-foot body into five skins. He thinks that life is only a temporary place, and he is just a shuttle, so he can improve his strength and look up to Danguizhi. On New Year's Eve this year, amid the laughter and laughter of thousands of people, Wang Ling wrote "Sending the Poor" in tears to describe his miserable life, so as to vent his anguish: I was born today, but I was caught before and after and lost my life. Raise your head and hinder the sky, stretch your feet without land, focus on smallness, and you can't live! Carving barren is not fat, bones are exposed, winter is often cold, and daytime is short and hungry. ...
As Shu's children grew up, Wang Ling felt guilty about not resigning and accepting gifts, so he bid farewell to Shu's family and went to Gaoyou to study together. In the first year of He Zhi in Song Renzong (1054), Wang Anshi was summoned to Beijing by Zhou Shu and passed through Gaoyou. Wang Ling sent a book and a poem "Field of Nanshan" to Wang Anshi as an audience, and his "communication" with Wang Anshi began. Wang Anshi is eleven years old. Before that, he knew Wang Yi and his son well, and the tomb had long appreciated his character and articles. In the book with Shu Boren, the tomb said: Since then, Gai has never studied Linchuan. Wang Anshi also attached great importance to the character and talent of the tomb. In his reply, he praised the tomb for its rich materials, which were beyond the reach of one person and his trip. He learned the way of being a gentleman. From then on, the two exchanged letters frequently and became inseparable friends. At the recommendation of Wang Anshi, many prestigious scholars began to sing with the tomb, and the poems of the tomb were copied and circulated. The reputation of the tomb is impressive, and so many people who like to be attached to the wind wait on him and pay tribute to him, which makes the lofty and stubborn tomb very angry. He wrote many books on the door to see what I was after. It's annoying to come, but I don't want to be a guest when I go.
This year, there was a locust plague in Jianghuai, and there were hungry people and desolation everywhere. Seeing this, Wang Ling angrily wrote a poem "Dream Locust".
The following year, the tomb was invited by Shao Biqiang, a member of Gaoyou Zhijun, to become a Gaoyou academic officer. Soon, he wrote to Shao Bi: Every man has his own ambition, and he should be poor. I hope you pity his ambition, but he is not strong at all. Long Liang resigned himself to fate. The tomb returned to Shu's home and came back again. If he is given food, he will be delayed. But he was generously given by others, but he was forced to starve without enough reward. He could not lead himself away. He is ashamed of it. The life belief of not seeking fame and wealth and the poverty of life made Wang Ling fall into an embarrassing situation and could not extricate himself.
The king knew that he could not spend his life with Shu's pity. So in the autumn when he was twenty-five, he bid farewell to the Shu family and went to Runzhou (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province) to earn a living. However, things didn't take long in Runzhou, and I have to return to Guazhou.
Since the age of seventeen or eighteen, Wang Ling has been running around alone to support his family, suffering from human feelings. He often compares the lonely goose: Wan Li frequent visitors, why can they fly freely? Don't go near when you know that the meal is urgent. ..... undertaker cut himself, who is sad. ("Wild Goose") He lamented that people's hearts were sinister ("Difficult to give to Du Xian"); He longs for one day, he can buy land and return to Shandong, plant trees around the house and live a silkworm class. I whipped the cows, taught my wife to weave baskets, made me sit there laughing, forgot my old age, and got together and became a bald head ("Yang Shan homesick for my female brother").
The trip to Runzhou gained nothing economically and wasted a year, which made the tomb fall into a more embarrassing situation. Although Wang Lingfeng is a widowed elder sister like strict father and teaches orphans and nephews like a child, in order not to starve to death, he has to decide to remarry his elder sister who has lived together for many years. According to feudal ethics, after the death of her husband, a woman should remain chaste for life and cannot remarry. In order not to embarrass himself and his sister in front of acquaintances, Wang Ling moved his family to Jiangyin and Jiyang soon after he came back from Runzhou.
The eaves and columns are not connected, the tiles are scattered and the beams are empty, the door is not closed, and the dog is always arrogant. From this description in the tomb's Four Poems of Jiyang Residence, we can know that his home is in ruins. The master felt sorry that he couldn't repair it himself, so he found a mason for him. The mason saw that the tomb was too poor to entertain, so he took the opportunity to run away. The family has no land to eat and store, the sparrow and mouse are not my enemies, living in their houses, and the poetry and calligraphy teaching has not changed ("Four Poems of Jiyang"). Wang Ling is still poor, and still depends on Professor Jutu to make a living. At the same time, he borrowed money everywhere and tried to raise the funds needed for his sister's remarriage.
After my sister got married, Wang Ling became a different person. Loneliness, poverty and worsening beriberi troubled him, making him depressed and difficult to cheer up. In the middle of the night, he often looks at the flickering candlelight alone, sighs the shadow, and tears drip down his cheeks. He lamented that he was stubborn, lost his city, fell into a deep ditch, and could not bear to be treated. Homeless, out of the kitchen (sitting at night). He hopes to die with his relatives as soon as possible and end the fate of suffering.
In his later miserable life, the only thing that brought him comfort was that with Wang Anshi's care and efforts, he finally got married and got married. At the age of eighteen, Wang Ling told her sister that I would marry a woman, but the life of widowhood, orphans and nephews made it difficult for him to do so. When the tomb was twenty-six years old in Runzhou, Wang Anshi wrote many books to his uncle Yanwu, and strongly recommended the tomb to let Yanwu's daughter marry the tomb. In the third year of Jiayou, Wang Ling married in Qichun County (now Qichun County, Hubei Province) where Yanwu worked, and returned to Jiyang in November. /kloc-October/February, at the invitation of people, went to Changzhou to give lectures.
After the wedding, my wife got pregnant the next year, which brought a little comfort and sweetness to Wang Ling's lonely and poor life. However, at this time, his beriberi became more and more severe. Illness forced him to stay in bed. After his foot disease, he was guilty and forgetful, in a trance and bored (with Wang Shu). On the second day of June in the fourth year of Jiayou (1059), Wang Ling, who was only 28 years old, died of poverty and illness.