Translation of Han Yuchuan's Old Tang Book

Lead: Han Yu was an advocate of the ancient prose movement in Tang Dynasty, and was regarded as the leader of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties" by later generations. His prose writing theories, such as "the unity of literature and Taoism", "vigorous speech and appropriateness", "doing nothing" and "following words", have important guiding significance for future generations. I want to share with you the original text and translation of "Biography of Jade in the Old Tang Dynasty", hoping to help you.

Original text:

Han Yu, Zi Hui, is from Changli. Father Zhong Qing, nobody. Born at the age of three, he was lonely and raised by his father and brother. The more you learn from being alone, the harder you study Confucianism, and there is no reward. He praised Jinshi and wrote articles between officials, so Qing Yu was quite famous, so it was very famous at that time. Find a Jinshi.

Prime Minister Dong Jin went out of town and became the governor. In addition to the government, Xuzhou Zhang Jianfeng asked him to be a Binzuo. The truer you are, the more fearless you are, the more upright you are, and the more clumsy you are in world affairs. Four doctors were transferred to supervise the empire. In the later years of Dezong, there were many political affairs, and the Prime Minister did not specialize in government affairs. The disadvantages of the palace market are not heard by the remonstrators. The last chapter is more and more relished. If he didn't listen, he angered Lianzhou Yangshan and moved to Jiangling House to slap Cao.

The more brilliant you are, the more exhausted you are. "Learning solutions" is a self-metaphor. When you are in power, you will look at its words and pity it. With its historical talent, you will surpass Langzhong and the History Museum. Over the age of 40, transfer to the exam, learn the imperial edict, and worship the Chinese book. If Russia is unhappy, it will bury the past, and if it doesn't heal, it will drop Jiangling Cao. The Jingnan Festival has made the museums in Pei Jun quite thick, and they are all frivolous. People close to them will save their father. The more so, the more they call themselves. This theory is very popular in the court, and sitting is for the right bastard of the prince.

In August of the 12th year of Yuanhe, Pei Du, the minister in charge of slaughter, was appointed as the envoy of Huaixi, and was appointed as the marching Sima. Huai returned to the DPRK in December, awarded the assistant minister of punishments with merit, and still wrote more about Pinghuai West Monument, in which Pei Du was more talked about. It's unfair to enter Cai Zhou first and capture Wu Yuanji, and Su Li was the first to work. When his wife went in and out of the Forbidden City, because the inscription was untrue, Tang Xianzong ordered Duan Wenchang, a bachelor of Hanlin, to write a new article to help the stone.

Fengxiang Famen Temple has a pagoda to protect the country, and there is a phalanx of Buddha in the pagoda. His book spread, opened thirty years later, rich and beautiful. In the first month of the fourteenth year, an imperial envoy Du went to Lingao Post, holding fragrant flowers to greet Buddha's bones. Three days after entering the Forbidden City from Guang Shun Gate, I sent the nobles of the temple to escape and give alms to prevent people from burning their heads and arms in bankruptcy. The less I like Buddha, the more I talk about it.

The richer you are, the more you make friends with others, and it is not easy to be proud. When I was young, I was good friends with Meng Jiao in Luoyang and Zhang Ji in Dong Jun. They didn't pursue fame and gain, the more they didn't avoid the cold and heat, saying that they were recommended to the public and officials, and eventually became the division, which was rewarded by the land division. Although the post is expensive, every time I retire, I will talk about banquets and write poems, just like the past. And the opinions of all powerful people, such as servants, ignore them. And it can lure him down. The people in the museum are sixteen or seventeen years old. Although they don't give it in the morning, they don't mind. Generally speaking, it is a matter of raising fame and teaching and rewarding righteousness. Nearly 10 people have married friends and orphans at home and abroad.

Changqing died in December of the fourth year, at the age of 57, and he was given the history of the Ministry of Rites.

Note (1) Bibi Department: one of the four departments under the Ministry of Punishment, with one doctor, one foreign doctor and four directors.

Translation:

Han Yu, Zi Hui, is from Changli. His father's name is Han Zhongqing, and he has no fame and status. Han Yu lost his father at the age of three and was put in foster care at his cousin's house. Han Yu thinks he is an orphan, so he studied Confucian classics hard since he was a child, without the reward and supervision of others. When he was promoted to the imperial examination, the article was sent to Chinese officials, and Zheng Yuqing, the former prime minister, gained great fame, making him famous in the contemporary era. Then Han Yu was admitted to Jinshi.

Prime Minister Dongjin left Beijing to guard the girder and recruited Han Yu to the shogunate as an inspector. After the shogunate of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was dismissed, Zhang Jianfeng of Xuzhou invited him as a guest assistant to his shogunate. Han Yu is outspoken, evasive, upright and not good at dealing with world affairs. Later, he was transferred to the fourth doctor and transferred to the supervision empire. In the later years of Dezong, some departments issued decrees at will, and the Prime Minister could not take charge of locomotives independently. The eunuch in the palace forced the people to buy goods, but Dezong didn't listen. Han Yu also handed over thousands of words of letters to remonstrate. Not only did the emperor not listen, but he was also demoted to Yangshan Order in Lianzhou, and later changed to Cao Cao in Jiangling Prefecture.

Han Yu thought he was brilliant, but he was repeatedly ostracized and relegated as an official, so he wrote Shi Xue to enlighten himself. After reading this article, the Prime Minister sympathized with him and thought that he had the ability to compile history, so he was appointed as Bibi Langzhong and the editor of the History Museum (writing history books). After a year, he was transferred to take an examination of the doctor, knew the imperial edict, and worshipped the national scholar. Soon, people who don't like Han Yu collected his past, saying that when he was demoted to Cao Cao in Jiangling House, Pei Jun and our army were generous to him when they were in Jingnan, while Pei E, the son of Pei Jun, was mediocre and vulgar. Recently, Pei E went home to visit his father, and Han Yu wrote a farewell speech for him, saying Pei Jun's words in the preface. This argument spread in the imperial court. To this end, Han Yu was appointed as the right illegitimate child of the prince.

In August of the 12th year of Yuanhe, Pei Du, the Prime Minister, was appointed as the envoy of Huaixi Xuanfu, and concurrently served as our ambassador of Zhangyi Army. He invited Han Yu to be the marching Sima. After Huai and Cai Ping-ding, Han Yu returned to the imperial court with Pei Du in December, and was named assistant minister of punishments for meritorious service. Xianzong also ordered Han Yu to write Ming in Pinghuai West, among which Han Yu described Pei Du's deeds more. As far as Wu Yuanji was captured alive in Cai Zhou at that time, Li Su's contribution was the first, so Li Su refused to accept the inscription. Li Su's wife often went to the palace and took this opportunity to tell the emperor that the inscription was inaccurate. Xianzong wrote a letter to erase the inscription written by Han Yu, and ordered Duan Wenchang, a bachelor of Hanlin, to rewrite the inscription and publish it on the tablet.

Fengxiang Famen Temple has a tower to protect the country. There are phalanges of Sakyamuni Buddha in the tower, which can be used to write scriptures and preach Buddha. Once every 30 years, the tower is crowded with people as soon as it opens. In the first month of the 14th year of Yuanhe (8 19), Du led 30 ladies-in-waiting with spices and flowers to visit the Buddha's bones in Lingao Station. Enter the palace from Guang Shun Gate, stay in the palace for three days, and then send it to the temple. Princes, officials, scholars and ordinary people rushed to see me off and give money for fear of falling behind others. Some people in the people burn their heads and arms in order to support the Buddha's bones. Han Yu has always disliked worshipping Buddha, so he made a suggestion on this.

Han Yu is generous, approachable and sociable with people, regardless of their ups and downs. When I was young, I had friendly relations with Meng Jiao in Luoyang and Zhang Ji in Dong Jun. When the fame and status of Meng Jiao and Zhang Ji were not prominent, Han Yu did not avoid the cold and heat, and praised and recommended them among officials. As a result, Zhang Ji was finally admitted to the Jinshi branch, and the road to being an official was smooth sailing. Later, although Han Yu was a powerful person, he ate and talked with them and wrote poems, just like in the past. However, he regarded the powerful people as slaves, stared at them and ignored them. He can also reward and encourage the younger generation. Sixty-seven out of ten people who are recruited into this family don't care that they can't even provide their own breakfast. He always took it as his duty to revitalize the famous religion and reward benevolence and righteousness, and as many as ten orphans from relatives and friends at home and abroad got married with his support.

Han Yu died in December of the fourth year of Changqing (Mu Zongnian) at the age of 57. The court posthumously awarded Han Yu as a senior minister and posthumous title as a "text".