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是也看出了其中虚而不实、大而无当的弊病。从此，他决心依据事实和历史的发展，写一篇《三都赋》，把三国时魏都邺城、蜀都成都、吴都南京写入赋中。
为写《三都赋》，使得笔笔有着落有根据，左思开始收集大量的历史、地理、物产、风俗人情的资料。收集好后，他闭门谢客，开始苦写。他在一个书纸铺天盖地的屋子里昼夜冥思苦想，常常是好久才推敲出一个满意的句子。经过十年，这篇凝结着左思甘苦心血的《三都赋》终于写成了！
可是，当左思把自己的文章交给别人看时，他却受到了讥讽。当时一位著名文学家陆机也曾起过写《三都赋》的念头，他听说名不见经传的左思写《三都赋》，就挖苦道：“不知天高地厚的小子，竟想超过班固、张衡，太自不量力了!”他还给弟弟陆云写信说：“京城里有位狂妄的家伙写《三都赋》，我看他写成的东西只配给我用来盖酒坛子！”
左思的《三都赋》在文学界品评时，那些文人们一见作者是位无名小卒，就根本不予细看，摇头摆手，把一篇《三都赋》说得一无是处。左思不甘心自己的心血遭到埋没，找到了著名文学家张华。
张华先是逐句阅读了《三都赋》，然后细问了左思的创作动机和经过，当他再回头来体察句子中的含义和韵味时，不由得为文中的句子深深感动了。他越读越爱，到后来竟不忍释手了。他称赞道：“文章非常好！那些世俗文人只重名气不重文章，他们的话是不值一提的。皇甫谧先生很有名气，而且为人正直，让我和他一起把你的文章推荐给世人！”
皇甫谧看过《三都赋》以后也是感慨万千，他对文章予以高度评价，并且欣然提笔为这篇文章写了序言。他还请来著作郎张载为《三都赋》中人魏都赋做注，请朱中书郎刘逵为蜀都赋和吴都赋做注。刘逵在说明中说道：“世人常常重视古代人东西，而轻视新事物、新成就，这就是《三都赋》开始不传于世人原因啊！”
在名人作序推荐下，《三都赋》很快风靡了京都，懂得文学人人无一不对它称赞不已。甚至以前讥笑左思人陆机听说后，也细细阅读一番，他点头称是，连声说；“写得太好了，真想不到。”他断定若自己再写《三都赋》决不会超过左思，便停笔不写了。
同是一篇文章，有人将它贬得一钱不值，有人使之名噪一时。这其中当然有鉴别力高低人区别，可是更重要人是反映了人们是否重视新生力量，能不能慧眼识英才的问题。
晋代文学家左思，小时候是个非常顽皮、不爱读书的孩子。父亲经常为这事发脾气，可是小左思仍然淘气得很，不肯好好学习。
有一天，左思的父亲与朋友们聊天，朋友们羡慕他有个聪明可爱的儿子。左思的父亲叹口气说：“快别提他了，小儿左思的学习，还不如我小时候，看来没有多大的出息了。”说着，脸上流露出失望的神色。这一切都被小左思看到听到了，他非常难过，觉得自己不好好念书确实很没出息。于[1] [2] [3] 下一页
，暗暗下定决心，一定要刻苦学习。
日复一日，年复一年，左思渐渐长大了，由于他坚持不懈地发奋读书，终于成为一位学识渊博的人，文章也写得非常好。他用一年的时间写成了《齐都赋》，显示出他在文学方面的才华，为他成为杰出的文学家奠定了基础。这以后他又计划以三国时魏、蜀、吴首都的风土、人情、物产为内容，撰写《三都赋》。为了在内容、结构、语言诸方面都达到一定水平，他潜心研究，精心撰写，废寝忘食，用了整整十年，文学巨著《三都赋》终于写成了。
《三都赋》受到谅也评，人们把它和汉代文学杰作《两都赋》相比。由于当时还没有发明印刷术，喜爱《三都赋》的人只能争相抄阅，因为抄写的人太多，京城洛阳的纸张供不应求，一时间全城纸价大幅度上升。
故事出自《晋书·文苑·左思传》。成语“洛阳纸贵”，称颂杰出的作品风行一进。
Overwhelming Popularity of a New Work Causes Shortage of Printing Paper
In the Jin Dynasty (265-420) there was a famous writer whose name was Zuo Si who, however, was very naughty and did not like to study when he was a small kid.His father often got angry, and yet young Zuo Si was as naughty as ever and would not study hard.
One day, Zuo Si's father was chatting with his friends. his friends envied him his clever and loverly son. Hearing this, Zuo si's father sighed, "Please do not mention him. My son Zuo si does not study as well as I did when I was young, although I did not study well enough myself. It appears that he is actually a good-for-nothing." So saying, he looked disappointed. All this was witnessed by young Zuo Si. He felt very sad, feeling intensely that he would not be able to have a bright future if he did not study hard. So he was determined to study assiduously from then on. Day after day and year after year, Zuo Si gradually grew up. Because of his unremitting afforts in hard study, he became an erudite scholar and wrote very excellent essays. The "Ode to the Capital of the State of Qi", which took him one year to write, showed his brilliant literary talent and laid the foundation for his becoming an outstanding writer. then he planned to write an "Ode to the Capitals of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu Han and Wu" with the local conditions and customs as well as the produce of the three capitals as its content. In order to achieve the desired effect in content, struct上一页 [1] [2] [3] 下一页
re and language, he applied himself to research work with great concentration, and was so absorbed in creative writing as to forget food and sleep. It took him ten whole years to finish the writing of "Ode to the Capitals of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu Han and Wu", a literary masterpiece.
The "Ode to the Capitals of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu Han and Wu" was well received by the broad masses of readers after it made its appearance to the public, and people considered it as superbly written as the "Ode to the Western Capital (Changan) and to the Eastern Capital (Luoyang)" written by Ban Gu (32-92) and the "Ode to the Western Capital and to the Eastern Capital" written by Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D.220). As the art of printing had not been invented at that time, people who were fond of this "Ode" had to make handwritten copies of it themselves. As there were so many people who vied with each other in making handwritten copies, the supply of writing paper fell short of the demand in Luoyang went up greatly.
This story comes from "The life of Zuo Si" in the book "Literary Field" of The History of the Jin Dynasty. Based on this story, people have coined the set phrase "the price of writing paper went up greatly", meaning the overwhelming popularity of a new work causes shortage of printing paper, to show how popular an outstanding piece of literary work is.
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