Yong Tao, a talented, arrogant and com passionate poet
大和三年，繁盛的大唐即将进入暮年。朝廷派宰相杜元颖出任剑南节度使。此人到任后横征暴敛，克扣军饷，边务日弛。南诏国趁机发动了一次突袭，侵入成都，川西平原遭遇一次空前的浩劫。当时有一个诗人亲历了这一切，于是用他充满感情的笔调记录了这段动荡的历史。
但见城池还汉将，岂知佳丽属蛮兵。
锦城南度遥闻哭，尽是离家别国声。
这位诗人叫雍陶，这是他最为脍炙人口的诗作之一。
雍陶，成都广都（今双流）人，是中唐时期有名的诗人。年少时家贫，但他非常用功，立志入仕途有一番作为。他进京赶考，临行前曾如司马相如一般立誓，“出门便作焚舟计，生不成名死不归”，这破釜沉舟的决心甚至比司马相如还坚决。然而在长安这座大城中，他如一片小小的浮萍，多方干谒，却无结果。
饱尝了一番世态炎凉、衡门无媒的苦辛，他又短暂回到了蜀地。这一时期去拜访过薛涛，并赠送她《巴陕图》，薛涛也回诗酬谢。南诏入侵成都之后，他写了不少反映成都百姓疾苦的诗作，这些诗大多想象丰富，饱含深情，引起了人们的共鸣。自那之后，雍陶的名气渐起。大和八年，他考中进士。
雍陶的才华为白居易、裴度等前辈所推重，但他恃才傲物的性格也几乎与他的才名不相上下。《唐才子传》说当时的名家对他的作品评价甚高，贾岛也在诗
中夸他“不惟诗著籍，兼又赋知名”。他也不谦虚，称自己有宣州谢朓、吴兴太守柳恽之才。谢朓为李白所推崇，是中国文学史上举足轻重的人物，雍陶敢以之自喻，口气也是不小。雍陶出任雅州刺史时，雅州城外有一座送别桥，名为情尽桥。他觉得不妥，于是将其改名，写了一首诗刻于其上：从来只有情难尽，何事呼为情尽桥？自此改名为折柳，任他离恨一条条。情尽桥于是改名为折柳桥，雍陶的名字也随着这首诗和这座桥被更多的人记住。(www.xing528.com)
雍陶是晚唐诗人群体中的一个典型代表，其身世经历以及诗歌创作都表现出晚唐特征，他那些带着温度的诗句为晚唐生活留下了宝贵的记录。
Yong Tao, born in Guangdu（today’s Shuangliu）, Chengdu, was a renow ned poet of the m id-Tang Dynasty. W ith a humble background, he studied diligently, aspiring to be an official and make a difference. Before heading for the capital to attend the imperial exam ination, as Sima Xiangru once did, Yong made an oath, “Determ ined to burn the bridges behind once leaving home, I would not return alive until rising tofame.” However, things did not turn out as he had w ished. He brief ly returned to Sichuan after savoring the f ickleness of the world. Later, the state of Nanzhao invaded Chengdu. Local people suffered a lot. Yong w rote a number of resonating poem s on these sufferings. For example:
“Only the city and moat were recovered by Han generals, but its beautiful wom en captu red by barbarian soldiers.”
“Cries could be faintly heard from the south of Jincheng, and the entire city was filled w ith the sounds of the displaced.”
Follow ing this invasion, Yong Tao rose tofame and caught the attention of prom inent w riters including Bai Juyi and Pei Du, but he was as arrogant as he was talented. In the eighth year of the Dahe period（834）, Yong finally became a presented scholar. Yong Tao’s life experience and poems both ref lect the features of the late Tang Dynasty. His warm verses are invaluable records of social life at that time.
书法 雍陶诗
The callig raphy of Yong Tao’s poem
雍陶画像
The callig raphy of Yong Tao’s poem
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