卢纶的一生行迹（739-799）
卢纶（约739—约799），字允言，河中蒲州（今山西永济）人，"大历十才子"之一。其边塞诗雄健有力，《塞下曲》组诗为传世名篇。
河中蒲州（739） · 生平
卢纶（约739—约799），字允言，河中蒲州（今山西永济）人，"大历十才子"之一。其边塞诗雄健有力，《塞下曲》组诗为传世名篇。
生平纪略
- 约739 · 河中蒲州 — 卢纶字允言，生于河中蒲县（今山西永济）。安史之乱爆发后举家避难，移居鄱阳，青年时代在颠沛中度过。
- 约760s · 屡试不第 — 天宝末举进士不第，此后数度应试皆黜落。大历初，经宰相元载、王缙推荐，补阌乡尉，从此辗转小官十余年。
- 约770s · 十才子之交 — 与钱起、司空曙、苗发、吉中孚等唱和于长安，时称"大历十才子"。卢纶才情雄健，为十才子中翘楚，其诗多饯别酬唱之作，兼有雄浑边塞气象。
- 780 · 昭应县令 — 建中初任昭应县令，居京畿。期间与舅父韦渠牟唱和，诗名益盛，公卿贵族争相延致。
- 784 · 浑瑊元帅府判官 — 朱泚之乱起，浑瑊任河中元帅，卢纶入其幕府为元帅府判官，随军征伐。军旅生涯激发其边塞诗创作高峰，《塞下曲》六首（和张仆射）即成于此期："林暗草惊风，将军夜引弓。平明寻白羽，没在石棱中""月黑雁飞高，单于夜遁逃。欲将轻骑逐，大雪满弓刀"传诵千古。
- 约799 · 卒 — 约卒于贞元中，年约六十。其《卢户部诗集》传世，塞下曲组诗为唐诗边塞题材中艺术成就最高的组诗之一。
The Life Journey of Lu Lun, the Border Voice of the Ten Talents
Lu Lun (c. 739-c. 799), of Pu in Hezhong, failed the examinations repeatedly and became, by patronage and by war, the most forceful of the 'Ten Talents of the Dali Era' — the anarchy's poets. His six 'Frontier Songs,' written in the staff of the marshal Hun Jian, put the old border-ballad energy back into a tired century: 'In dark night the wild geese fly high; the Chanyu has fled — light horse to pursue him, and great snow filling the bow and the blade.' The Dali decade's manners, and the Tang's early iron, in one man.
Timeline of the Journey
- c. 739 · Hezhong — Born at Pu on the Yellow River bend — into a world about to break: the An Lushan rising drove the family south to Poyang in his teens.
- c. 760s · The Failed Lists — Examination after examination missed through the chaos years — the career only beginning when Yuan Zai and Wang Jin's patronage brought him a county lieutenancy at Wenxiang.
- c. 771 · Xiangyang? — The Dali years in the capital's poetic circle: with Qian Qi, Sikong Shu and the rest — the 'Ten Talents' name attaching itself to the decade's banquet verse.
- 780 · Zhaoying — Magistrate of Zhaoying under the new reign: the plain county years between the poems.
- 784 · The Marshal's Staff — The Zhu Ci rebellion: Lu Lun into the field headquarters of Marshal Hun Jian as judge — the war seen from inside at last, and the 'Frontier Songs' written out of the staff tent: the arrow in the stone's edge, the flight through the snow.
- c. 799 · Hezhong — Dead at about sixty, in or near the marshal's circuit: the banquet-poet who ended at the front — and whose four best lines every Chinese child still recites.
'At dawn they look for the white-feathered arrow — sunk whole in the stone's edge.' The archer-legend of General Li Guang, retold in twenty syllables: Lu Lun gave a broken century back its strongest memory.
