This word must be familiar to everyone. Yes, this is the lyrics of Cui Yingying's farewell to Zhang Sheng in The West Chamber.
Before I read The West Chamber, I always thought Zhang Sheng was a person's name. After reading The West Chamber, I found that Zhang Sheng's name is Zhang Xun, and the word is Junrui. Because at that time, scholars were generally called "students", which is the origin of Zhang Sheng's name.
Before The Romance of the West Chamber, the legendary novel Yingying Biography of Yuan Zhen in Tang Dynasty was also a story about Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, but Zhang Sheng in Yingying Biography was an unwritten man who abandoned chaos. He cheated Cui Yingying's love, abandoned him and married another high school. Later, the description of Cui Zhang's love story appeared in different versions. The Romance of the West Chamber broke through the previous writing style and was the pinnacle of the Northern Song Dynasty. As soon as we walk in, we will linger.
Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng may be love at first sight in our eyes, but I never believe in love at first sight. I only believe that love will pass with time.
It's Miss Cui. Her father died of illness, and her mother and Yingying wanted to help Cui bury him in Boling (now Dingzhou, Hebei). Because they were blocked on the way, they arrived at He Zhongfu (now Yongji, Shaanxi) and put the coffin in Pujiu Temple. Yingying and her party lived in a house under the west wing of Pujiu Temple, where the story began. Zhang Sheng took the imperial examination in Chang 'an and wanted to take this opportunity to visit an old friend, so he stayed in a nearby hotel.
Zhang Sheng asked the bartender about the nearby scenic spots, and then went to Pujiu Temple, where he met Cui Yingying, a stunning beauty as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. At that time, a beautiful love sprouted.
As we have seen or experienced, many loves are not smooth sailing, so is the love between Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng. After suffering from lovesickness, the obstacle of welcoming their mothers, the torment of separation between the two places, and Zheng Heng's framed marriage, they never wavered, broke through many obstacles, and finally ushered in a happy reunion of fame and fortune.
Wang Shifu's description of Yingying and Zhang Sheng's love in The West Chamber is a masterpiece. Delicate feelings are revealed in the beating pen tip, and the words are beautiful and moving, which makes people linger.
I also extracted some to share with you:
In fact, I excerpted far more than that. The description in The West Chamber is really beautiful, and many poems of predecessors are used in it. I can't find the right words to describe the wonderful feeling when simple Chinese characters are combined together. I believe everyone knows that it is a hundred times better just by revealing it between the lips and teeth.
If you are also touched and want to know more about the love story between Yingying and talented woman Zhang Sheng, please read The West Chamber.