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"If you live in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only marry Zhang Dai": Interesting, it is the highest level of sexiness for a person

Interesting, is a person's highest level of sexy

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Zhang Dai came from an official family. His great-grandfather, Zhang Yuanyi, won the first prize, and was awarded the Hanlin Academy to compose and read. His grandfather, Zhang Rulin, was a Jinshi in the 23rd year of Wanli. Father Zhang Yaofang indulged in posting for more than 40 years and failed repeatedly, and later became the king of Shandong Lu.

Zhang Dai is not only from a good family background, but also intelligent. There is such a record in the history books:

Zhang Dai went to Hangzhou with his grandfather Zhang Rulin and met the famous Chen Jiru. He heard that Zhang Dai was good at pairing, so he pointed to the "Picture of Li Bai Riding a Whale" on the screen and said, "Taibai rides a whale, fishing for the night moon by the quarry river."

Zhang Dai immediately replied, "Mister Mei crosses the deer, and the autumn wind blows in Qiantang County."

Chen Jiru laughed after hearing this, praised Zhang Dai for his intelligence, and called Zhang Dai a little friend.

Zhang Dai has a lot of knowledge, and all of them should be familiar with the collection of classics and history; all of them are dabbling in astronomy and geography.

His "Shi Kui Shu" can be compared with Tan Qian's "Guo Ju", and later became the blueprint for "Ming History Chronicle Benmo"; his "Night Ship" covers everything, from three religions and nine streams to gods and ghosts, from political and personnel affairs to The history of laws and regulations and other knowledge from all over the world are included; his "Tao'an Dream Memory" written by him can make you feel the life and customs of the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Dai is not only good at writing books, but also a leader in eating, drinking, and having fun.

He is good at playing the piano, and after reaching the level of "oily tune", he is not satisfied, and he also strives for the realm of simplicity, so he returned to the unfamiliar from the proficiency, and finally started his apprenticeship in a simple style.

He can taste tea, and just take a sip to know the origin of the tea, the source of the water, and whether it is spring tea or autumn tea, all can be identified.

He also has a lot of research on tea utensils, and can confidently say who the author of the tea utensils is without engraving the author's seal.

In addition, he also developed a new tea. The fragrance of the finished tea is like Sulan, and the soup is like Xuetao. Zhang Dai named it "Lanxue" tea, so that Huizhou people who only drink Usnea tea also "don't eat it." Usnea, only eat Lanxue."

He can write plays. Once, Zhang Dai went to Yanzhou to celebrate his father's birthday and invited Liu Rongsi, Minister of Industry, during the banquet. During the banquet, he asked the family opera troupe to perform his perfected "Bingshan Ji". Liu Rongsi's evaluation after reading it was "Ten Got eight or nine."

After listening to Zhang Dai, he wrote lyrics overnight, adding seven more plays, and the next day he went to Liu Rongsi's house and asked the family drama troupe to move in again. Liu Rongsi was shocked when he saw it.

You think he's just a playboy who understands everything, but it's not. He also cares about people's hardships and has political vision.

He once presented the article "Dripping the City River Chengzi" to the prefect of Shaoxing, in the hope of dredging the city's lifeline and river.

He once funded himself to ask the county magistrate to issue an order, and recruited thousands of people to level the ponds and waterways at the foot of Wolong Mountain.

Being responsible at work, enjoying it in private, knowing not only the romantic situation, but also the firewood, rice, oil and salt, how can such a man not be loved?

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People can't be friends without addiction, because they have no affection. People can't be with each other without faults, because they don't have true qi.

Zhang Dai himself is the true portrayal of this sentence, he is a vulgar person.

Have you ever met someone who wrote their own epitaph? Zhang Dai not only wrote an epitaph for himself, but also found a cemetery for himself in advance.

It is enough to write an epitaph. He also said in the epitaph that he "can't learn books, can't learn swords, can't learn righteousness, can't learn essays, can't learn immortals, learn Buddhism, learn agriculture, and learn gardens."

Zhang Dai once pretended to be a Water Margin character to pray for rain, and his uncle Zhang Rumao rebuked him: "What does "Water Margin" have to do with praying for rain? Recently thieves are rampant, are you going to welcome thieves?"

Zhang Dai responded with "timely rain", and everyone who heard it cheered and praised, and Zhang Rumao also laughed and left.

Zhang Dai is a foodie, and he is very particular about it. He likes to eat local specialties, but he doesn't eat out of season, not the best food.

For example, he eats cheese, there are many ways to eat.

"Steam it with Crane Flower Dew in a retort, and use it to heat; or mix it with bean flour, and make it rotten, and use it to cool it; or fry it, or make a skin, or bind a cake, or congeal it with wine, or pickle it with salt. Or catch it with vinegar, it's all good."

A small piece of cheese was eaten by him.

And no matter how far, as long as Zhang Dai wants to eat, he will spare no time to taste it.

Zhang Dai had been to Yangheling and tasted the Jade Belt Spring, and thought that "Jade Belt" was indecent. In addition, Yangheling was his family's ancestral tomb, and his great-grandfather was born here, so he wanted to use his great-grandfather's name "Yanghe". " to name the spring "Yanghe Spring".

The locals were afraid that Zhang Dai would take the spring as his own by changing the name, so a monument was erected beside the spring. This operation made people laugh and laugh.

When Zhang Dai was young, he set up a cockfighting club under Wolong Mountain. Zhang Lianfang and Qin Yisheng often came to fight with Zhang Dai, and Zhang Dai won many times.

Until one day, Zhang Dai learned from the unofficial history that Tang Xuanzong was born in the same year as him, but after he was defeated by cockfighting, he stopped cockfighting.

When Zhang Dai was young, he liked to travel in the mountains and play with water, climb Longshan Mountain to watch snow and sing songs, read books at Tianwa Mountain House, climb the Incense Burner Peak to watch the sunset, admire the moon on Jin Jianshi, admire dragon boats on Qinhuai River, and pay homage to the Confucian Temple in Qufu.

Whether it's at Jinshan Temple at night, or a gathering of friends, when the mood comes, let the actors sing directly, making everyone stunned.

As Liang Qichao said: "I think that life is valuable only if mortals must live in taste; if they endure for decades, then life will become a desert. What's the use of him?"

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Sheng Minglan once said in "Knowing or Not": "To stay with people, we ultimately rely on the lowest place, the lowest place of character."

After the death of Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai has fallen to the lowest point in his life from brocade clothing and jade food to rough tea and light rice.

But he did not feel unhappy because of such a situation, but lived his life more carefully.

He neither accepted the invitation of the Qing government to continue serving as an official, nor did he choose to protest in such a decisive way as not eating Zhou Su.

Therefore, some people feel that he has lost the integrity of the literati. In the face of other people's misunderstandings, he is reluctant to explain.

He knew clearly from beginning to end that he was just a literati, so he chose to live in seclusion in the Siming Mountains, stick to poverty, and devote himself to writing.

During this period, he completed "Shi Kui Shu" and "Tao An Dream Memory".

He wrote "Shikui Shu", which took 27 years to complete. After the manuscript was removed, he added and edited it from time to time. He must seek the truth and the words must be accurate. , 50 years before and after the calendar, "Shi Kui Shu" was able to appear.

When he was young, he recorded what he saw and heard when he was traveling in the mountains and waters, compiled it into a book, and there was "Tao'an Dream Memories".

What he writes about is the love of life. In "Tao'an Dream Recollection", it is not about high officials and dignitaries who are drunk with money, but a group of people who love life and their simple and ordinary daily life.

Zhang Dai likes to make friends, but he doesn't care about the status of each other. Among his friends, there are dignitaries, literati, and ordinary people such as prostitutes and traders.

He admires the bamboo carving artist Pu Zhongqian, and admires his ability to stick to his principles, not to yield to money and power, and to carve freely even if he is poor.

He praised the storyteller Liu Mazi. Although Liu Mazi did not have a beautiful face, but with his superb storytelling skills, he was loved by everyone, and his popularity was not inferior to Wang Yuesheng, who had a good face.

He took pity on the woman who became a thin horse in Yangzhou, and with just a few strokes, he depicted the scene of a thin horse being sold as a livestock by a woman with no dignity at all.

In Zhang Dai's eyes, the elegance and beauty of the scholars and beauties are not comparable to those of rural women who wear makeup and powder; the fragrance of fanglan is not comparable to the fragrance of fragrant flowers and herbs; the music of silk and bamboo strings is not comparable to those who drum in their hands The liveliness of blowing the sheng with the mouth; the brilliance of bronze ware is not as expensive as the price of those clay figurines and bamboo horses; the famous paintings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties are not as expensive as the paper of those lake-view Buddha statues.

Zhang Dai lived to be nearly 90 years old and died, which was rare in ancient times, and it must have something to do with his temperament.

Zhang Dai has passed away, and we have no chance to see him, but he used his life to tell us that a person who is interesting and loves life will not be treated badly by fate.

No matter what the outside world is like, the important thing is to live your life well.

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