What are the two partial materials?

The foundation of talent is the sentiment of life. Politicians and artists are two different talents, and they are two different life states, and they are two incompatible life states. If they overtake each other, it will be a tragedy for both lives, and may even lead to social and historical tragedies. .

What is successful politics? In fact, there is only one evaluation criterion, to put it bluntly. As long as it is successful at that time, it is successful politics. History is originally about judging heroes based on their success or failure. The reason is very simple. History is created by successive successes. Therefore, it is often very simple to evaluate people who engage in politics: those who succeed are politicians, and those who fail are politicians. The so-called "those who succeed are princes and those who lose are bandits", the so-called "those who steal hooks will be punished, and those who steal the country", and "the gates of princes, benevolence and righteousness" are not completely nonsense. But people who engage in art are different. Art does not settle for current success. Even the success at that time often marks the superficiality of a certain art to a certain extent. The true artistic value needs to be tested by history. As we all know, if art is dependent on politics, it is very easy to achieve so-called "success", but this short-lived "success" is the root of rapid decay. Therefore, the same goes for artists. Heroes must not be judged by their immediate success or failure. Real artists are formed in the long-term historical process. Obviously, politicians and artists are two states of life that cannot be confused.

However, due to China's specific national conditions, some people who are artistically inclined have been teased by fate and forced to engage in politics. As a result, they have made many jokes and good stories, and more of them are tragic and tragic. tragedy.

We only know how to curse the feudal emperors. In fact, there are many people who were pushed to the throne by fate, but they do not want to be emperors. They would rather be artists or even free ordinary people.

The vast majority of emperors in China were promoted to the throne of emperor due to their "mandate of destiny" by blood. In terms of their personal talents and qualities, they were not necessarily suitable to be emperors. therefore. They are not eliminated through natural selection, and their quality is no longer guaranteed. In this way, China's historical mechanism has created countless foolish kings one after another.

But such a mechanism may create emperors and artists. Artists have a lot to do with innate talents. If you cannot be a politician, under good educational conditions, you are likely to become an artist and the emperor of China. There are so many artists!

For example, Chen Houzhu, the last emperor of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, was a natural musician. His works "Jade Tree" and "Back Garden Flowers" were extremely popular at the time. songs. There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty that says: "Shang girls don't know the hatred of the country's subjugation, but they still sing "The Flowers in the Back Garden" across the river." Later generations even regarded Chen Houzhu's song as the sound of the country's subjugation. Song Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty was not an emperor, but a talented painter. Under his creation and influence, the Palace Painting Academy formed a unique style school in the history of Chinese painting that was both faithful to details and emphasized the poetry of the painting. His masterpiece "Listening to the Qin Tu" has profound artistic attainments. In his personal life, he was also full of "artistic temperament". He went out to travel and hunt for "wild fun", and had a passionate relationship with Li Shishi, a famous prostitute at the time, leaving all the three thousand beauties in the harem behind.

In Chinese history, there are many such emperors and artists, such as Emperor Cheng of Han Dynasty, Emperor Yuan of Liang Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, Emperor Ningzong of Song Dynasty, etc.

However, it must be pointed out that for example, Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty, Cao Cao, wrote "Landing the Jieshi in the east to see the blue sea" and "The old man is in the sky, his ambition is thousands of miles", and Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, wrote "The strong wind is blowing and the clouds are flying. "Weijia is returning to his hometown in the sea, and warriors are safe and guarding the four directions." They cannot be considered artists, because their starting point for writing such poems is not art, but to express their heroic ambitions of making achievements. They are only emperors with a little literary talent. , rather than a true artist who devotes himself wholeheartedly to art.

Since the emperor’s artist devoted his body and soul to art, he certainly had no time to care about politics. His politics would only become more and more corrupt, and it was only natural that the emperor’s artist would gradually transform into a coward. In fact, this is still a superficial reason. The deeper reason is that politics is a rational behavior and art is a perceptual expression. A person who is completely immersed in sensibility looks like a madman to ordinary people, let alone putting him in the court. Therefore, if you let a person who exudes artistic atmosphere sit in the court and do things that require cold rationality to do things rigorously, he will only do bad things but not good things. This is a part of the foolish kings in Chinese history. resulting from this.

Li Houzhu of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties is an excellent example. In the entire history of Chinese literature, he is regarded as a first-class poet and made a significant contribution to the development of Chinese poetry. But writing lyrics could not help him govern the country well. It could only make his country become more corrupt day by day. When the army of the Northern Song Dynasty entered the capital, he was still drinking and composing poems. These affectionate, sad and sad poems could only He moved the talented men and beauties, but could not scare away the millions of soldiers, so he had no choice but to become a prisoner. It is true that the so-called "unfortunate poet of the country", this king of the country's subjugation, wrote about his experience of the country's subjugation in a sad style, thus making him a true great poet who carried on the past and forged ahead, establishing his position in the history of Chinese literature. , however, his poems not only caused the country to perish, it is said that he himself suffered as a result.

Li Yu’s success came from the legacy of Wen Zu. He was good at writing poetry, good at rhythm, and good at calligraphy and painting, but he was not interested in dealing with political affairs, and he always made concessions to the increasingly powerful Northern Song Dynasty regime. More than ten years after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, and Li Yu was taken to Bianjing. When leaving his capital, Empress Li wrote in a poem: "On the day of farewell to the temple in a hurry, the temple still plays a farewell song and sheds tears to the palace maids."

Later, the great emperor of the Song Dynasty Literary scholar Su Dongpo commented: After the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, the first thing Li Hou should have thought of was that he had lost the foundation created by his ancestors. He should go to the ancestral temple to cry bitterly and apologize to the people. But he didn't do that at all. Instead, he went to listen to the "Farewell Song" played by the musicians in the classroom. It was a pity that he would never have the chance to have fun with Gong'e Ayame again. With such a king, it is strange that the Southern Tang Dynasty survived!

However, Su Shi here demands artists according to the standards of politicians. A contemporary great man also said when admonishing a celebrity: "Too much complaining can break the heart. It is better to take a broad view of things." In fact, there are no celebrities in the world who "take a broad view" of "customs" and politicians who "complain". "Complaining" is the character of a celebrity, and "taking a broad view" of "the scenery" is the magnanimity of a politician. These are two different personalities, each with an irreplaceable role.

Politicians are mostly robbers wearing crowns, while artists are the real uncrowned kings. However, when people look at the three inches in front of them, who can take the long-term view? Only knowing success or failure, how can we care about the right and wrong behind us. However, as long as you consider the above principles, you should probably be regarded as an artist or a scholar.

Talent is not just talent, the essence of talent is the mood of life. The mood of life mainly comes from innate temperament, and acquired circumstances are difficult to change. People are not born high or low, but high or low has actually chosen people. After talking about this, I realized that the above principles are all wrong. It turns out that real politicians are connected with real artists at the core of their lives. Isn’t it our ideal politics to handle politics with poetic cultural ideals? It is the ideals of Yao, Yu and Shun of Tang Dynasty that unite our nation, allowing it to endure hardships without being broken, and develop continuously to this day!