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Distinguish lilacs from heritage
-Read "Gu Taiqing's Poems of Yi Hui"
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There is a love affair between Gu Taiqing and Gong Zizhen in Ceng Pu's Evil Sea Flower, which is not a novelist's story.
It is said that Gong Zizhen is a talented Baylor who is in charge of Yi Hua, the owner of Zongren House. The easy-to-draw side of Fujin is called Taiqing Xilin Spring, which means Gu Taiqing. One day, Gong Zizhen and Yi drew a picture of a trip to the Western Hills, which made them lovesick. Later, at a temple fair, Gong Zizhen saw that Yihua was not around, so she went forward to strike up a conversation. Too clear also answer with a smile, left the appointment. Gong Zizhen went to an appointment, was drugged and put into a black car. In a daze, she had an intimate relationship with Taiqing. Since then, the two have been in contact from time to time and have an affair. Soon the story came to light. Gong Zizhen fled the capital, met a colleague in Danyang's clan mansion, and died suddenly after returning. He suspected that his enemy had sent someone to poison him.
"Evil Sea Flower" is a famous innuendo novel with many prototypes. Gong Zizhen and Gu Taiqing in the novel are even useless aliases. The story should be original, but the content is contemptuous and the plot is absurd.
The introduction of Gu Taiqing's identity and family background in the novel is completely true, but whether her affair with Gong Zizhen is true or not has always been controversial. There were some rumors before "Evil Sea Flower", which were only circulated orally and could not be verified. Mao Heting's Reading Six Poems of Gu Taiqing in Tai Su Mingshan Hall first appeared in the text. The sixth cloud: "Taiping Street by Taiping Lake, Nanguchun was buried at night. People are all over the country, and lilacs are low. " [1] In the first sentence, I painted the mansion where Gu Taiqing lived. Yi's "Shangyuan" poem and painting: "There is Taiping Lake in the west and Taiping Street in the east"; The second sentence is about the place where two people are buried together, Dafang South Valley in Shandong; The third sentence hides a word "Gu", that is, Taiqing; The fourth sentence involves Gong Zizhen, which leads to a confusing "lilac case-solving".
The so-called "clove" in the poem has a "modern code name". In Gong Zizhen's Ji Hai Miscellaneous Poems, there is a poem that reads: "Wandering in an empty mountain, dreaming of spring in the west of the city. When I gave it to Judy on horseback, I had given it to the man in clothes in the breeze. " Later, he wrote: "Recalling a lilac in Taiping Lake in Xuanwu Gate." The artistic conception of this poem is vague and unclear. It can be said that it is "Taiping Lake" and "Judy", which obviously refers to the paintings of Baylor House. "Lilac" and "Yuen Long Spring in the West of the City" naturally make people suspect that it is too clear for Xilin Spring.
This is the only "conclusive" evidence linking Gong Zizhen and Gu Taiqing, and the poem is not convincing enough. Therefore, when Mao Heting later wrote Gossip about Flowers of Evil, although he still firmly believed that the poem Lilac was "written too clearly", he had to add "However, it was not a daydream". Mao Heting was deeply surprised and sorry when he saw that the author of "Evil Sea Flower" arranged such an obscene story according to the prompt of "Poem of Taiqing Legacy": "I didn't expect the author to pick it out in the book and suddenly fell into hell."
Mao Hege claimed that when he was young, he heard the details of Taiqing legacy from his ancestor Zhou Xingyu, but did not provide more information. Ceng Pu's attachment, especially the legend about Gong Zizhen's death, may have another source of word of mouth. But for ordinary readers, these are just unofficial history's novels, which are not so real. It was not until Meng Sen, an expert in Qing history, seriously wrote a textual research article to defend Gu Taiqing's false accusation that "Lilac Case-solving" was regarded as a major event in the literary world of Qing Dynasty.
Meng Sen's three episodes of "Lilacs" in "History of the Heart" were quoted by others, which clarified Taiqing's life experience. The author denies the erotic history of Gong Zizhen and Gu Taiqing. The main reason is that Gong's poems were written by Ji Hai, and Yi's paintings died the year before last. Why seek revenge? At that time, Taiqing crowded out Yihua's eldest son and moved to the west of the city to raise horses, which was far from Taiping Lake, and "Taiqing was old and widowed for 48 years, which was not the time for the Qing Dynasty to swagger" [2].
Strictly speaking, these reasons are not sufficient. Those who have read this article carefully are afraid that they will not get the impression of refuting its fallacy. On the contrary, the article left some doubts and topics. First, Meng Sen did not deny that the poem Lilac was related to Taiqing, but quoted the "clothing towel" in the poem Zheng Feng outside the East Gate and interpreted it as a "married woman". Taiqing had many contacts with the families of Hangzhou officials who were in Beijing at that time. Gong Zizhen is also from Hangzhou. It is normal for her to give gifts as soon as possible. Secondly, the author suspects that Taiqing has contacts with Gong Zizhen's family, and some people falsely accuse him. After Yi Hua's death, Taiqing was expelled from the house, which may be related to this. Thirdly, the article also picks out seven tunes in God Blessed Song Ji, denouncing the owner of the Fairy Pavilion, thinking that Chen and Gong are fellow villagers, and rumors may come from their mouths, so it is too clear to get so angry.
Re-debate on the Clove Mystery, written by Sue later, was supplemented and developed on the basis of Meng Sen's thought. Su Wen provided a strong disproof: "According to the official chronology, the owner of his clan house was not B (fifteen years of Daoguang), and Baylor was no longer in the clan house." [3] Gong Zizhen is neither a staff member of Yihua, and there is no chance to come into contact with Taiqing, and there is no possibility of romance. But Su, like Meng Sen, thinks that Gong Zizhen's poem "Lilacs" is about the friendship between his wife and Taiqing, and further speculates that the rumor may have originated from this group of Hangzhou people's families and was spread by his female disciples. She also put forward a bold hypothesis: it was violence, listening to rumors, oppressing the common mother to run away from home after her father died, seeking revenge and poisoning Gong Zizhen. As for the reason why Tai Qing was falsely accused, Su believes that it stems from some coincidences and hints in Gong Zizhen's many poems. She even quoted Wang Guowei accusing Gong Zizhen of "nothing in cool thin", suspecting that Gong was secretive and insinuating.
In fact, when Kuang Zhouyi wrote the preface to Fishing Songs in the East China Sea, he advocated not to dwell on the unverifiable details. If you know Taiqing's personality, you can know whether such a thing will happen: "In the last days, there are few perfect people in the room. Weiyun can't avoid the beauty of an ethereal wit. The chaos of black and white, the flow is Danqing, although the people in the party are heard, or they are also happy with their new, but they are not aware of it; There are also people who use the facts to test the years as arguments to defend it. Yu said: Words are from the heart. If you read words that are too clear, you can decide people who are too clear without arguing.
In Kuang Zhouyi's view, if you want to identify the legacy of Taiqing, you need to know who it is; If you want to know him, you need to read his works. In the most complete Poems of Gu Taiqing and Poems of Yi Hui, Gong Zizhen's "original certificate" is not involved at all. Throughout the book, there is not only a word related to Gong Zizhen in Taiqing's poems, but also in Yi Hui's poems.
Reading a book of poems by Gu Taiqing and Yi Hua, the first thing people feel is their deep affection. The two were born in the same year, with the same font size, a word spring and a word seal; Number one is too clear, number one is Tai Su; One is called Yuncha unofficial history, and the other is called Huanyuan Jushi. His collection of poems, one is "God Blessed Songs" and the other is "Mingshan Tangji"; His ci collection, fishing songs in the East China Sea, sung by Nanguqiao. Husband and wife are congenial, intimate, poetic and picturesque, and complement each other. In fact, they are another pair of immortal companions in the history of literature after Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng.
Yi Hui's great-grandfather was Gan Long. Yi Hui attacked Baylor at the age of seventeen and became an official at the age of twenty-seven. Later, he was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Han army in Zhengbaiqi. Taiqing's life experience has always been different. According to the textual research of the compilers of Gu Taiqing and Yi Hui's Poems, Taiqing was originally a Manchu scholar with Chinese culture after E Ertai's family in Xilin Gol. Grandfather went to the governor of Gansu and committed suicide because he was involved in the literary inquisition. Because of the descendants of sinners, the combination of Taiqing and Yihua was blocked. The daughter of Gu Wenxing, the guardian of Hourong Wangfu, changed her name to Gu and was able to marry the side room of Yihua.
Although Taiqing is a side room, Yihua always respects each other emotionally and is single-minded. After Pei Di's wife Miaohua died young, Yihua did not continue to marry or take concubinage. In addition to the common affairs in the officialdom, she just climbed mountains and drew poems and paintings with Taiqing, who cherished this friendship very much. The emphasis on marriage and the relationship between husband and wife can be found in poems, and there are countless examples. This beautiful marriage lasted until Taiqing was forty years old, and Yihua died of illness. There are many poems about mourning and missing my late husband. One of them is entitled "After the death of my late master, I didn't mean to be a poem. I looked up the manuscript in the winter window, and many poems in the volume sang together, which made me feel shocked and unforgettable. So I assigned a number, and I dare not complain. I also told the misfortune of my life and showed my two children in the early days of Zhao. "Said I had an affair with romantic literati Gong Zizhen, regardless of family background, I don't know where to start.
As for the expulsion of Taiqing, judging from the related poems, prefaces and postscripts, and self-records, it should be caused by the discord between the common mother and the eldest son, and the eldest son and the common son. Taiqing is respectful and obedient to Mrs. Miao Hua and Mrs. Taitai, and has some complaints about Miao Huasheng's children. Some people think that the struggle between local governments and ordinary people will not be so serious, and they really lack understanding of the internal contradictions of large families at that time. Think about it. After Qian's death, Liu's favorite concubine was forced to hang herself by her family. Too clear to suffer is much luckier.
Due to the ignorance of the specific era, many speculations are based on the psychology of today's people to imagine the ancients, so that they are irresponsible. There is a frequently quoted legacy of Taiqing, which also belongs to this category. Mao Heting said after Taiqing's "Ten Poems on a Spring Tour": "As soon as I listened to Taiqing's visit to the Western Hills, I immediately played the iron pipa, my hands were as white as jade and the pipa was as black as ink. The audience called it the picture of Wang Qiang leaving the fortress. " It is said that Gong Zizhen was fascinated by similar scenes. Mr. Qian Zhongshu put it well: "Taiqing handmaid learns from her wife, strives for the upper reaches, and associates with Ruan Yuntai, Xu Diansheng and Qian Lishi. Are you willing to be such a prostitute? " 〔4〕
After Tai Qingyuan was a sinner, he fell down with his father in his early years and pampered his wife. Of course, he must "race to the top". How can he be arrogant and openly ostentatious? In ancient times, the so-called talented women were divided into geisha and virgins, belonging to two completely different worlds. Yu and Xue Tao in Tang Dynasty were the former, while Li Qingzhao and Zhu in Song Dynasty were the latter. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the world was open, and the former was popular. Sheng Qingyi also tends to be conservative, and the latter has revived. There is no contact between geisha and ladies. If there is, it is after geisha recovers. Ladies have always disdained making friends with geisha, and they don't want their poems to be included in the anthology together with geisha, which will set them on fire. It's too clear. How can there be such unclean behavior?
Taiqing's friends are indeed wider than ordinary ladies. Besides entertaining celebrities, talented women and family members of scholar-officials, Taiqing also sang operas with celebrities of the opposite sex, such as Ruan Yuan, Pan, Xu Naipu and Zai Quan. Looking at his works, they all involve daily social activities, and there is no relationship between men and women. Chen Wenshu, who likes to cling to powerful people, attract celebrities and play up romantic stories, is ashamed to avoid it, even willing to put down his virtuous and sincere face and do his best to ridicule and curse, which shows his way of making friends. Shortly before Yi Hui's death, Ruan Yuan put a Song version of The Records of the Stone, which was too clear, and wrote a Song of the Stone. It reads: "Regret and falsehood are contrary. Mr. Lai You counted the date of birth and remembered the old age of Iraqis. The case of the times has been turned over. " "Cloud" Note: "According to legend, Yi Anshi and Zhang Ruzhou are the most detailed disputes between Yuntai and Mrs. Liu in Jing Chunju." Whether Li Qingzhao remarries is another matter, and Taiqing's attitude towards this is worthy of attention. If you don't agree to remarry normally, will you move on while your husband is alive and your piano and instrument are harmonious?
No one who stands in Gu Taiqing's position will believe that she is having an affair with Gong Zizhen. People who stand in Gong Zizhen's position either believe or prefer to believe the truth of the "Lilac" incident. Recently, some people intend to regard Taiqing as the heroine of Ding An's love poems, and some even say that "regret" has nothing to do with them, which is intriguing. In fact, there is another legend about Gong Zizhen's death. It's just that Taiqing's husband sent someone to poison her: Ling Xiao, a lover prostitute (who is often mentioned in Ji Hai's miscellaneous poems), had a different interest, and Gong Zizhen gave her zhenniao medicine to poison her and didn't want to be poisoned by her. People talk about the "Lilac Case" and are unwilling to publicize the "Ling Xiao Case". It should be to ensure Gong Zizhen's romantic and chic public image. In order to fulfill a Gong Zizhen, it is not unusual to sacrifice a Gu Taiqing in a patriarchal society!
In his later years, Taiqing continued to write A Dream of Red Mansions, which became twenty-four times. There is a dream of Feng Jialian: "Color is more important. Just for a moment's pleasure, you ruin the honor of others and your own character. And the yin on the corners of the mouth, which is more important. You must never say that other people's boudoir is embarrassing. " [5] Those who believe and are more willing to believe that the rumor of "Lilac" is true don't know what they think after reading this passage.
Precautions:
[1] edited by Zhang Zhang: Poems of Gu Taiqing and Yi Hui, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1998, p. 775. The following are all quoted from the book unless the source is indicated.
[2] Meng Sen: "Lilac", "History of Mind Series", Liaoning Education Press, 1998, p. 1 195.
[3] Su: Re-discussion on the riddle of lilacs, Collected Works of Su (Volume IV), Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House, 1996, p. 38 1 page.
[4] Quoted from Fan Xulun: "Rong An Ting Ji Zao and Mao Guangsheng", Vientiane, No.2, 2005, p.49.
[5] Quoted from Xi Yun Tong: "There are Chinese immortals in my boudoir: Comments on Gu Chun's Poetry", Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 2004, p. 6.
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