Through "Guangling San", I got to know the Seven Sages, and it turns out that ancient China once had such a candid experience.
The Chinese nation has been able to move forward continuously despite hardships.
Chinese culture has remained vibrant after enduring vicissitudes.
Perhaps it is because we have the blood left to us by these ancestors in our bodies.
Ji Kang: On a sunny day, at the execution ground of the eastern market of the ancient capital Luoyang, a man who looked like a celestial being played the timeless masterpiece "Guangling San" calmly in front of the executioner's axe, finally writing the word "truth" of humanity to perfection.
Shan Tao: A letter of friendship severance that has been passed down through the ages has made him criticized by later generations. However, the friend who swore to "cut off relations" with him entrusted his son to him without hesitation on his deathbed.
Liu Ling: Every sacred cause will have many devout believers. If "wine" is also a sacred cause, then he is the most genuine believer from ancient times to the present. No one can compete with him for the title of "the first drunkard."
Wang Rong: He is the Chinese version of Gargantua, the number one miser in history. In order to prevent others from getting good seeds from his family, he drilled every plum kernel before selling them. Even his good friends called him a rare "worldly person."
Ruan Ji: People say he is the first "madman" in history. When his mother was buried, he only cried twice, but drank several liters of wine and then spat out several liters of blood, trampling the rites and laws with no dignity, yet showing filial piety unmatched by anyone.
Xiang Xiu: Perhaps no one is more like a pure "scholar." Apart from learning, his life was spent accompanying his friends in forging iron. Some people find beauties in books, some find treasures, while what he found was a forever pure heart.
Ruan Xian: There is a musical instrument called "pipa." People have plucked it for nearly two thousand years, but they do not know that this instrument actually originated from him. "Pipa" is his name. The pipa gained its eternal soul because of him, and he gained his lifelong spirit because of the pipa.
In Chinese history,
the most unique dynastic change,
the most painful struggle of human nature,
the most mysterious and transcendent philosophy,
and the most unconventional and elegant celebrities.
They are, the backbone of Chinese literati.
They are, the pioneers of an era of elegance.
Those years, those people, those things...
Author's Introduction:
Liu Yaru, female, from Beijing. "Chinese Artist." She has been engaged in literary creation since 1995. She has published over one million words of novels, scripts, essays, etc. Representative works: novel "Sacrifice," TV series "Yesterday's Whistle," long historical essay "True Scholars, Naturally Elegant: Xie An as a Person," and the novel "Elegance."