Li Zhongrun, formerly known as Li, was renamed Li Zhongrun to avoid Wu Zetian. He is the grandson of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, and the eldest son of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian and Wei Ruyun. In the novel Zhuquemen, Li Zhongrun has a beautiful face that fascinates all beings, and a strong body that has practiced riding and shooting. He is good at dancing and playing the flute, and he is also very studious. He is proficient in six arts of poetry and calligraphy. It is the first protagonist in the novel Zhuquemen. However, he looks almost perfect in appearance, but in the eyes of his family, he is a wayward child with many quirks. Stubborn and surly.
Li Zhongrun was once loved by his grandmother Wu Zetian because he resembled his grandfather Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. However, his personality defects made him slowly fall out of favor in front of Wu Zetian, inadvertently offended eunuchs, maids and two brothers, and gradually lost his foothold in the court. And the death of his beloved fiancee Pei Huan. Is to make Li Zhongrun finally crazy. He hated everything in the world, resented the right and wrong of Zhuquemen, and finally suffered from the exclusion of two brothers politically, and finally broke out! During the dinner, he denounced the two brothers and accused Wu Zetian of being groggy in his later years. As a result, Li Zhongrun committed suicide, and his brother-in-law Wu Yanji was also killed, which led to the tragic death of his sister Princess Lee Hyun-hye of Yongtai.
The death of Li Zhongrun's brother and sister Li Xianhui finally brought a fatal blow to the loyal couple. As a result, Tang Zhongzong's Li Xian and Wei Hou were gradually distorted, which eventually led to the outbreak of "political disorder in Wei Hou", "the change of Prince Jeb's Xuanwu Gate" and even "the change of Tang Long in Li Longji", which was also the decisive plot of the later novel Zhuquemen.
In the novel Zhuquemen, the symbol of Li Zhongrun is bamboo. Wei Ziyu, the author, commented on the characters in the novel as follows: "Frank and reserved, with an empty stomach". This is the simplest description of this character, honest and frank, with integrity, but without talent. Such a man is the tallest in life, but he is a gentleman through and through. But as the heir of the royal family, he has no talent, and it is inevitable that he will eventually encounter a tragic fate!
Li Zhongrun's marriage is little known. Year number: "Zhongzong succeeded to the throne, the Crown Prince of posthumous title, and posthumous title' Yide' were buried in Ganling. I also want to hire imperial academy's wife to be a ghost wedding and buried together. " 197 1 year, when archaeologists were excavating the tomb of Prince Yide, they found two broken skeletons, a man and a woman, in the sarcophagus of the tomb. After identification, it is consistent with the literature. From this point of view, Prince Yide was never married before his death, but married in the underworld after his death, that is, "ghost marriage".
The custom of "ghost marriage" was formed as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is a very special form of marriage in ancient China, also known as ghost marriage or funeral. Is to form a marriage relationship for the dead men and women and be buried together. It is the primitive worship of ghosts and gods, which was regarded as "incest theory" in the Zhou Dynasty and was forbidden by rites. In fact, this custom was not banned later, but was inherited by the rulers of past dynasties, with a strong political color. The Tang Dynasty was a prosperous time for China's developed feudal culture and open society. People's cultural literacy has improved compared with the previous generation, but this bad habit can't be eradicated, and it appears from time to time among the feudal upper rulers. When people regard "ghost marriage" as emotional sustenance, it can be understood that a crown prince who has never been married and was killed by slanderers enjoys the vulgar courtesy of "ghost marriage" when buried, which is in sharp contrast with the special intimacy of "tomb is tomb", the prominent political status and special identity after rehabilitation, and it is not difficult to imagine the hardships of the rulers of the Tang Dynasty for their own political interests.
At the same time as the "ghost marriage" ceremony appeared, there was also a "divorce" in the underworld. When the Prince was in Tang Zhongzong, Wei Ruyun engaged the late Runan brother Wang Weixun to the late the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China secretary Xiao Zhizhong's daughter. Later, Li Longji staged a coup in Xuanwumen, killing Zhongzong, while Wei Ruyun and her Wei Wu henchmen prepared to face the court. Afraid of implicating others, Xiao Zhizhong dug Wei Xun's grave and carried his daughter's coffin back, indicating that they were "divorced". The bad habit of "ghost marriage" became a special product of people's political life in feudal times.