Ouyang Jiong, a Hua jian lyricist w ho experienced five dynasties
晚唐五代，无论是百姓还是仕人，都在乱世中载沉载浮。能保全身家还能有所作为，除了北方的冯道，就要数南方的欧阳炯了。
欧阳炯是益州华阳（今双流）人。他生在晚唐，距离大唐王朝灭亡只剩下十一年的光阴。之后，朱温篡唐，建立后梁。同年，王建在成都立前蜀，欧阳炯也就从一个唐人的身份变成了前蜀人。王建去世之后，其子王衍即位，欧阳炯为中书舍人。仅仅六七年时间，前蜀便被后唐所灭，欧阳炯也随王衍一起被俘洛阳，降了后唐，在后唐补任秦州从事。不过数年，西川节度使孟知祥夺取蜀中兵权，拥兵自重，成立后蜀。欧阳炯心在蜀地，于是又回到了老家，为孟知祥做事。孟昶即位之后，欧阳炯迎来了他仕途的巅峰，一路从学士做到了宰相，成为后蜀孟昶一朝的中坚力量。直到公元965年，后蜀降宋，他也随之降了宋。至此，这已是他第二次作亡国之臣了。
Ouyang Jiong was born in Huayang（today’s Shuangliu）, Yizhou in the late Tang Dynasty. A fter Zhu Wen usurped the throne of the Tang, Wang Jian founded the Former Shu. As a result, Ouyang became a subject of the new dynasty. A fter Wang Yan, son of Wang Jian, had succeeded to the throne, Ouyang was appointed as Secretariat Drafter. Six to seven years later, the Former Shu was w iped out by the Later Tang. Together w ith Wang Yan, Ouyang Jiong was captured and taken to Luoyang. He surrendered to the new dynasty and f illed the vacancy as an advisor in Qinzhou Prefecture. Several years later, Meng Zhixiang, m ilitary governor of Xichuan, founded the Later Shu regime. W ith his heart leaning to his hometown, Ouyang Jiong returned to Sichuan and worked for Meng, becom ing a key member of the Later Shu adm inistration. In 965, the Later Shu surrendered to the Song Dynasty, so did Ouyang Jiong. Emperor Taizu of Song appointed him as Right Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary. Soon he was promoted to Hanlin Academ ician, and later dism issed from off ice.
欧阳炯画像
The Portra it of Ouyang Jiong
宋太祖授他右散骑常侍，不久又充任翰林学士，转左散骑常侍。一日，南汉归宋，朝廷遣他前往祭祀南海，他或许心中始终不愿承认是宋臣，不愿以宋臣的身份去颂扬宋朝的兵事，便称病抗旨。这激怒了宋太祖，于是罢了他的职。不久后，欧阳炯就走到了生命的尽头。(www.xing528.com)
欧阳炯以词名世，他是花间派重要人物，词风娓婉清丽，情艳词雅。现存词作四十多首，其中《花间集》收录十七首，《尊前集》载有三十一首。他也仿白居易拟讽谏诗，受到孟昶嘉奖。后来赵崇祚编《花间集》，欧阳炯为此书作序，说“愁苦之音易好，欢愉之语难工”。他自诩阳春白雪，无愧前人。这篇序被认为是词学批评之滥觞。
据传双流牧马山麓的千年古刹应天寺中曾有诗书画“应天三绝”，说的是，一日欧阳炯与蜀中画家景焕同游应天寺，景焕挥毫画天王，欧阳炯作数百字《题景焕画应天寺壁天王歌》长诗相和。后来又有善草书的梦龟和尚将欧阳炯诗书于壁上。至此，景焕的画，欧阳炯的诗，梦龟的草书，三绝便成。如今这长诗还完整地保留在《全唐诗》中，只可惜应天三绝早已湮没，令人惋惜。
书法 欧阳炯词
The callig raphy of Ouyang Jiong’s poem
K now n fo r h is ly rics, Ouyang Jiong is a representative f igure of the Huajian School. The lyrics he created are gentle, fresh, affectionate and elegant. There are more than 40 lyrics by Ouyang Jiong now extant, including 17 included in the Co llection from Am ong the Flowers（Huajianji） and 31 included in the Collection from Before the Wine Cups（Zunqianji）. Ouyang Jiong later w rote the preface to the Collection from Among the Flowers com piled by Zhao Chongzuo, saying that “ly rics about joy and pleasure are harder to w rite than those about sorrows and pains”. This preface is recognized as the beginning of lyric criticism.
The m illennium-old Yingtian Temple at the foot of Muma Mountain in Shuangliu once housed “three treasures”, i.e. a painting by Jing Huan, a poem by Ouyang Jiong and a piece of cursive calligraphy by Meng Gui. Today, the said poem is intact and included in the Complete Tang Poems, while unfortunately the three treasures of Yingtian Temple are long gone.
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