During the reign of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a famous writer named Zuo Si. He once wrote Sandu Fu, which was widely circulated in Luoyang, the capital. People are amazed and plagiarize one after another, making paper several times more expensive. The original paper with 1,000 words per knife suddenly rose to 2,000 words and 3,000 words, and then it was thrown out; Many people have to go to other places to buy paper to copy this ancient name.
However, Zuo Si's "Sandu Fu" has attracted a lot of attention. Without knowledge and talent, perhaps this "Sandu Fu" will become a pile of waste paper and may not be circulated.
When Zuo Si was a child, his father always looked down on him. Father Zuo Yong started from a small official and slowly made suggestions. Seeing that his son is short, ugly and stuttering, he shows a silly look and often tells outsiders that he regrets giving birth to this son. After Zuo Si became an adult, Zuo Yong also said to his friends, "Although Zuo Si is an adult, his knowledge and reason are not as good as when I was a child."
Zuo Si, unwilling to be despised, began to study hard. When he was reading "DuDu Fu" written by Ban Gu and "DuDu Fu" written by Zhang Heng in the Eastern Han Dynasty, although he admired the grand boldness and gorgeous rhetoric, he wrote the capital features of Luoyang in Tokyo and Chang 'an in Xijing, but he also saw the shortcomings of vanity, unreality, size and irrationality. From then on, he decided to write a "Sandu Fu" based on facts and historical development, which included Yecheng, Chengdu and Nanjing, the capital of Wei.
In order to write Sandu Fu, Zuo Si began to collect a large number of historical, geographical, property, customs and other materials. After receiving it, he closed the door and began to bury himself in writing. He pondered day and night in a room full of books and papers, and it often took him a long time to hammer out a satisfactory sentence. After ten years, this "Sandu Fu", which embodies Zuo Si's painstaking efforts, has finally been written!
However, when Zuo Si showed his article to others, he was laughed at. Lu Ji, who first entered Luoyang at that time, also had the idea of writing Sandu Fu. He heard that Zuo Si, a little-known figure, wrote Sandu Fu to his brother Lu Yun, saying, "There is an arrogant guy in Beijing who wrote Sandu Fu. I guess what he wrote can only be used to make cans for me! "
When Zuo Si's Sandu Fu was evaluated in the literary world, the literati saw that the author was a nobody, shook his head and waved his hand, and simply ignored it, making an Sandu Fu useless. Zuo Si was unwilling to bury his hard work and found the famous writer Zhang Hua.
Zhang Huaxian read Sandu Fu sentence by sentence, and then inquired about Zuo Si's creative motivation and process in detail. When he looked back at the meaning and charm of this sentence, he could not help but be deeply moved by the sentence in the text. The more he read, the more he loved it, and finally he couldn't bear to let it go. He praised: "The article is well written! Those secular literati only value fame more than articles, and their words are not worth mentioning. Mr Huangfu Mi is famous and honest. Let me join him in recommending your article to the world! "
Huangfu Mi was deeply moved after reading Sandu Fu. He spoke highly of this article and happily wrote a preface for it. He also invited the author Zhang Zai to annotate Du Wei's Fu in Sandu Fu, and Zhu Zhongshu and Liu Lang Kui to annotate Shudu Fu and Wudu Fu. In his explanation, Liu Kui said: "The world tends to attach importance to old things and despise new things and achievements. This is why Sandu Fu began not to spread to the world! "
Introduced by celebrities, Sandu Fu quickly became popular in Kyoto, and people who know literature all praised it. Even Lu Ji, who used to laugh at Zuo Si, read it carefully after hearing about it. He nodded and said yes. "It's so well written that I can't believe it." He decided that if he wrote Sandu Fu again, he would never surpass Zuo Si, so he stopped writing.
It is the same article. Some people belittle, some people celebrate. Of course, there are differences between people with high and low discrimination ability, but it is more important to reflect whether people attach importance to new forces and whether they can identify talents.