Full-text Translation of Biography of Chao Gu

1. Translation: modify the word Wogu. My father's name is Zhong Shi. He was born in a peasant family in meishan county. When he was young, he studied with local people with status and prestige, and when he was old, he became a village teacher. Wogu studied with his father since childhood. Although unpretentious, his knowledge is profound. Later, I came to Beijing to take the Jinshi exam, and when I saw those who joined the martial arts, I really liked them. Wogu has always had strength, so she threw away everything she learned before, accumulated bows and arrows, and learned to ride horses and shoot arrows. After a long time, I finally achieved something in Wushu, but I failed in the Wushu exam.

Wogu heard that there are many brave and vigorous people in the border areas of the western regions, who are the best in all kinds of martial arts, such as riding, shooting and fencing, so he left his hometown and traveled to Qin Feng and Jingyuan. Wherever you go, you make friends with outstanding people there. There is a man named Han Cunbao who is very friendly to him. Wogu taught him the art of war, and the two became friends of life and death, and their friendship was rock solid. During the Ningnian period, Cunbao served as a general in Hezhou and made great contributions. He is known as a famous soldier in Hehe area, and the court also attaches great importance to him.

It happened that the chief of the ethnic minority "Luzhou Man" invaded the border, and the officers and men in the nearby counties were helpless and unable to conquer it. The imperial court ordered Han Cunbao to lead troops to make a crusade. Han Cunbao was not familiar with the situation of "Luzhou people", so he invited Chao Gu to join the army and asked him about it. Later, because Han Cunbao led the troops to retreat without authorization, the court blamed him. Before his arrest, Han Cunbao estimated that he would definitely be executed, so he said to Wogu, "I am a warrior in Jingyuan area, and I have nothing to regret when I die.

It's just that the wife and children will be hungry and cold without anyone to rely on. My bag contains several hundred taels of silver, and no one can give it to them except you. "Wogu agreed to save Bao's request, changed his name, put on silver, walked on the road, went straight to save Bao's house and gave the silver to his son. No one else knows about it. After Cunbao was executed, Wogu was implicated because he was also in the army at that time, so he fled to the Yangtze River and Huaihe River and hid until the court issued an pardon order, and then he appeared again and returned to Sichuan.

As a fellow countryman, I have known him since I was a child, knowing his ambition and integrity, and knowing that he is a person who can be trusted in an emergency. When I was an official in the imperial court, Wogu floated around the village and never came to see me once. In his early years, he was offended and relegated to Yunzhou, then moved from Yunzhou to Leizhou and from Leizhou to Zhou Xun. Brother Zizhan also moved from Huizhou to Changhua.

During this period, people who used to meet as officials avoided communicating with our brothers and relatives and friends who had nothing to do with us before. However, Chao Gu said angrily from his hometown of Meishan that he would walk to express his condolences to our two brothers. Everyone who heard him laughed that he was a little crazy. In the first month of the following year, Chao Gu sent me a letter from Meizhou, which said, "I came to see you on foot not far from Wan Li, but I never thought I could save my life. Since we are in Meizhou, we will definitely meet in a few days. In this way, even if I die, I have nothing to regret. "

I was surprised and happy, and said to myself, "People nowadays can't do this. This person is not like a snob now, but like a person with solar terms in ancient times. " After the two met, they held hands tightly and could not help but burst into tears. Then they told each other about the situation since they separated, and they still felt dissatisfied after reuniting with each other for more than a month. At this time, Nest Valley was seventy-three years old and sickly, and was not as strong as Nest Yuan.

He had to go to Hainan Island to see his son. I pitied him for being old and sick, so I stopped him and said, "Your heart is too good. However, it is thousands of miles from here to Danzhou, and you have to cross the sea by boat. This is not something that the elderly can do. " Wogu said, "I don't think I will die soon, so don't discourage me."

I can't persuade him to keep him because he doesn't have much money in his bag. Although I was poor at that time, I had to reluctantly give him financial support and send him away. He took a boat to Xinhui, where he was robbed of his wallet and luggage by people who were servants of ethnic minorities, and fled to the first district of Xinzhou and was captured. When Chao Gu followed him to New South Wales, he fell ill and died. Hearing the news, I burst into tears and regretted that he didn't listen to me. However, it is amazing that he realized his ambition because he didn't listen to me.

Once upon a time, Zhao Xiangzi was besieged in Jinyang City, and Zhi Bo led the Han and Wei families to open Fenhe Irrigation City. The wall is only three editions short of being submerged. The city is full of water, so we can only cook with fire. People can't stand hunger any more because they have no food, so they have to exchange their children for food. In this case, Zhao Xiangzi's liegeman gave him a little cold shoulder, and Gao Gong was the only one who always kept due courtesy to him. When Xiangzi got rid of the siege of Zhi Bo, North Korea and Wei by his stratagem, he broke through the predicament and rewarded his men, giving Gao Gong a head start.

Alina Zhang said: "When Jinyang is in trouble, only the high arch has no credit. Why give him a blow? " Xiangzi said, "When Jinyang was trapped, all the officials were a little slow to me. Only Gao Gong has always maintained his proper demeanor, so I gave him a credit. " In loyalty to friends, Wogu is no worse than Gaogong, and will not be ashamed of it. It's a pity that he didn't stop Zhao Xiangzi from being taken seriously, but he met Han Cunbao first, and then we two brothers.

Now, I live with the ethnic minorities in the south, and like them, I die of old age here. Although he knows the virtue of Nest Valley, how can he show it to the world? I heard that there was a son named in the army around Jingyuan, and I made a biography for him. Give it to him later. Wogu was originally called "Buddha", and it was not until we met in Zhou Xun that it was renamed "Valley".

Second, the original text: from the Northern Song Dynasty? Su Zhe's Luan City Collection

Wogu, word repair, father in the Middle Ages, Meishan farmer also. Learn less from the scholar-officials and always be a teacher in the school. Gu You inherited his father's footsteps, though simple and extensive. I took Shi Jing, a scholar, saw the four martial arts, and had a good heart again. Gusu was strong, so he abandoned his old learning, learned to ride and shoot. After a long time, the business succeeded, but not at the beginning.

I heard how brave Xixi was, riding a spear, which was the highest in all directions, and went to visit Qin Feng and Jingyuan. His best friends, Xiu Jie and Han Cunbao, are very kind to him. They are close friends. In Ning, the treasure was saved as a general of Hezhou and was named as a "great general of Xihe", which was somewhat strange to the court. Brother Lu Zhou's begging was alarmed at the border, but the counties could not control it, but they ordered Bao Bao to send troops to discuss the matter. Treasure was unfamiliar with barbarians, so he invited Gu Zaijun to ask questions. When he offended Bao, he will be arrested and expected to die. He said to Gu, "I am a warrior of Jingyuan, and I don't want to die. I can't help being cold and hungry.

There are several hundred taels of silver in the coffin. You must keep it. "Gu promised to change his name, take the money and teach his son. People don't know. He died saving the treasure, and Gu escaped from Jianghuai, so he was forgiven.

Give it to your hometown, let you know it when you are young, know its ambition, and let you trust those who are in a hurry. In North Korea, in the ups and downs of the valley, I have never seen. At the beginning of Shao's life, he was exiled to Yunzhou and moved from Yunzhou to Leizhou. Give your brother and son a look and move to Changhua. Scholar-officials dare not travel with their brothers, and their relatives and friends will never be heard from again. Gudu is very generous, so he wants to visit his brother on foot if he carries Meishan back. Everyone who heard it laughed at it. In the first month of the second spring, he left a letter to the book from Meizhou, saying, "I went to Wanli to see the public, but I didn't care enough. Now I am in Meizhou." See you in ten days, and die without hate. "

Give a surprise: "This is not a modern person, it is an ancient person!" Meeting, shaking hands and crying, I have lived all my life, and I am not tired of it for more than a month. Valley at the age of seventy, three years old, thin and sick, did not return to the past. I will see my son again in Hainan, and I will regard him as an old, weak and sick person. I will stop saying, "Your intentions are good, but since then, I have traveled thousands of miles across the sea, not for the elderly."

Gu said: "I don't think I saw it when I died, and the public can't stop me!" " "Keep it, no, watch, there are countless thousands of dollars, to the party, also strongly disagree. When the boat arrived at Xinhui, some barbarians stole clothes and fled. They got it in Xinzhou and Guxin, so they died. I cry when I hear it. I hate that it doesn't use my words, but I am also surprised that it doesn't use my words to carry out its will.

Yesterday in Jinyang, Zhi Bo led Han and Wei to encircle the water. The city is not heavy, the third edition, the county kettle is thick, easy to eat, the minister is slack, but the respect is not lost. Xiangzi, on the other hand, talked with Alina Zhang, surrounded by three families, and rewarded the ministers with courtesy first. Talk about: "Jinyang is difficult, but Gong is useless, first?"

Xiangzi said, "In the Jinyang rebellion, all the officials were slack, and I was respectful and took the lead." He who cares about the righteousness of his friends is truly worthy of high respect. He regrets that he did not meet his son, but met his brother after meeting his treasure. Yu Fang lived in Nanyi, lived in and lived out in Nanyi, and the cover would eventually come to an end. Although we know its sages, why do we do it? I heard that Gu Youzi was in Jingyuan Army, so I made a biography and gave it to him another day. Gu, formerly known as Yi and Ren, was later renamed Gu Yun.

Extended data

First, the creative background

The story of Wogu was written in the second year of Fu Yuan (1099). At that time, both Su Shi and the author were demoted by the court. Chao Gu walked to Zhou Xun to visit the author, then went south to Hainan to visit Su Shi, and died on the way. This article is a biography written by the author after Vogue's death.

Two. Brief introduction of the author

Su Zhe (1039—112) was born in Yingbin and Meishan, Luancheng, Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan). During the reign of Emperor Jiayou, he was a scholar and was awarded a military attache in Shangzhou. In the sixth year of Yuan You (109 1), he became an assistant minister. Disappointed in his later years, his migration was impermanent, and he finally settled in Xuzhou (now Xuchang, Henan Province) and built a house on the waterfront. After his death, he was named Sue. Su Zhe was one of the eight famous poets in Tang and Song Dynasties, and he was also called "Three Sus" with his brothers Su Xun and Su Shi. Author of Luan Cheng Ji, Ji Zi and San Ji Zi * * 84 volumes.