"Xu Niang is Old and Charming" comes from "The Biography of Xu Fei, the Southern History of Emperor Liang Yuan", which is about the love affair of Xu Zhaopei, the princess of Xiao Yi, the Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasties. According to "Southern History", she was the granddaughter of the former autumn of Qi State and the daughter of the detained general of Liang Dynasty. In December of the 16th year of Tian Jian, when Xiao Yi was the king of eastern Hunan, she married Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan, was the seventh son of Liang Wudi in the Southern Dynasties. When Xiao Yi was born, Emperor Wu dreamed of a monk with a burning incense burner in his hand, and went straight to the palace, claiming that he would be born in the palace. When Liang Wudi woke up, a maid-in-waiting reported that the right queen had given birth to a prince. When Xiao Yi was born, he was stunned. Emperor Wu remembered his dream, because he believed in Buddhism very much, so he doted on Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi studied tirelessly and read widely since he was a child. When he grew up, Gaozu asked him, "How old was Sun Ce when he made meritorious deeds in Jiangdong?" Xiao Yi replied, "Seventeen." Gaozu sighed, "It's your age." So Xiao Yi was named the king of eastern Hunan and went out of Jingzhou, which is a secretariat.
Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of A Liang in the Southern Dynasties, is good at literature, music rhythm and calligraphy, which can be described as versatile. The four fathers and sons, both famous writers and brothers, created a bohemian poetic style. Like his father, Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan, loved literature since childhood, but lost interest in politics. When Xiao Yi was in Jingzhou, all military books, articles and poems were written with a brush. He said of himself, "Because of my words, I am ashamed to be a soldier." He wears cloth every day, eats only thick beans and soup, and enjoys talking about metaphysics with literati.
Because of the Hou Jing Rebellion, Emperor Wu walked with the puppet in his later years and died of humiliation. Xiao Yi ascended the throne for Emperor Liang Yuan. Yuan Di is blind. Xu Zhaopei, a concubine, was born in a noble family and was plain, but she didn't have any good family charm, so Yuan Di was very cold to her and slept with her only once every two or three years. She tried to break into her husband's interest circle, so she changed her routine and went to the literati party without makeup. Xiao Yi still has no feelings for her and still talks about metaphysics. Finally, Xu Fei was at his wit's end and began to lose heart, so he turned from catering to music to another face.
From then on, every time Yuan Di came, Xu Fei was not as flattered as before, but as cold as ice. Every time she knew that Yuan Di was coming, she painted heavy makeup on one side of her face and no powder on the other side, thus humiliating Yuan Di's blind eye. Later generations have a poem satirizing Yuan Di: "Don't boast that this place is divided into the world, so Xu Fei has half makeup." When Yuan Di saw it, she knew she was going to laugh at it. Of course, she was furious and left. Since then, I haven't been in the princess's room for several years. Xu Zhaopei is still lonely in the palace, and his youth is wasted. As the years passed, she became old.
Xu Fei is a heavy drinker and often gets drunk. If Yuan Di meets him when he returns to the palace, he will vomit in his robe. Yuan Di is even more disgusted. Nevertheless, Xu Zhaopei is a living woman, and also has secular desires. She can't stand the loneliness and desolation of the palace. Xu Fei took a fancy to a wise man from the Hall of Heroes in Jingzhou, who had a good face and had an affair with him.
Yuan Di is a good reader. He has a lot of books, but he doesn't take them when he is reading. He lets the left and right officials take turns to take them, often around the clock. So the left and right officials come and go at will. Xu Fei chose those handsome young courtiers to commit adultery in the harem. Soon, Xu Fei took a fancy to the Jijiang River around Yuan Di. In the season when Jiangfeng is beautiful and well proportioned, Xu Fei sent a confidant maid to quietly lead him into the harem for intimate sex. Whenever Xiao Yi talked with his ministers about Zhuangzi and Zhuangzi in the temple, it was also the time when Xu Guifei and Yoshioka enjoyed themselves in the inner garden of the deep palace.
The secret of the palace should be kept secret, but Yoshioka felt for outsiders: "White dogs can still hunt when they are old, Xiao Li Yang Ma is handsome when they are old, and Xu Niang is old." It means that white dogs can still hunt when they are old, and Liyang horses are still attractive when they are old; Although Xu Fei is old, she still has feelings. Yoshioka made such a metaphor, indicating that the two had no true feelings at all, but were just playing with each other. Xu Zhaopei invited He Hui, a poet at that time, to Pu Xian Temple for a date, but He Hui was very scruple and flatly refused. Xu Fei came up with an idea. She first went to Fukenji and made a name called He Hui, so He Hui had to go. As soon as he got there, he was immediately taken into the secret room by the maid. Xu Fei treated each other with warm wine, and the wine was hot. Together, they merged into Luo Wei. At dawn, I wrote love poems on the snow-white corner pillow and sang to each other.
When it came out, Yuan Di killed all the people who had an affair with Xu Fei and imprisoned Xu Fei in the harem. Do "slut Qiu Si" to satirize her. Its text is as follows:
"Swing away for ten years, advocating women's self-pity. When you climb the stairs, you can only see that the trees in the distance contain smoke. The plain is so, I wonder how many roads there are? Heaven and water pressure each other, mountains and clouds * * *. Mountains are gray and water is unpredictable. Who can see a bird with only one wing flying and moaning? When autumn is not clear, when autumn is not clear. The situation is a slut who advocates architecture, and this injury. When I was exposed, I was covered in frost. When I looked at the belt, I turned around and saw that my waist was thin. Pay attention to the autumn waters and waves, and the autumn clouds are like a Luo. As soon as the sun is dark, it is dusk, so you cross the river in pettish. Ginger complains about Wen Jin, and you are sad and tearful. Look at each other, how far is it? My sideburns are drifting away, and I turn to lament. Sorrow, sadness, eyebrows, tears. It's over! Autumn leaves fly in the autumn wind, and spring flowers fall in the spring. Spring is still late, and Zi Rong will never return. "
Xu Fei is calm and jealous. She can talk to other concubines that Yuan Di doesn't like. But whenever a pregnant person is noticed by her, she will add a knife to her hand. In the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty, the favored princess of the Yuan Dynasty gave birth to a son and died after delivery. He suspected that Xu Fei had poisoned her and forced her to commit suicide. Xu Fei had to jump into the well and drown. Ordering the body to be returned to the Xu family is called "marriage", which is equivalent to the current divorce. Divorce from the deceased is rare in history. Finally, it was wrapped in straw and buried at the edge of Jiangling Crock Temple.
History records: "When the princess married late, she drove to Xizhou, where the wind was strong and the house was broken." Nothing. The curtains are white when it snows. On the day when the dragon returned, two pillars in Xizhou, Lei Zhen were broken. The emperor thinks this is an ominous sign and the consequences will not end. "
Why does Xu Fei come from a famous family, but her behavior is so unbearable? In fact, everyone is not born kind or sinister. The extreme behavior of people lies in the urging of the environment. Now it can be analyzed that because of her indifference to Yuan Di and her dissatisfaction with her married life and habits, she often made outrageous moves, so that she vented her pain by laughing at the emperor. The more so, the more difficult it is for Yuan Di to accept, until it ends in tragedy.
On the other hand, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Central Plains and Wuhu in the north invaded one after another, and the state power changed like a lantern. The feudal etiquette and law implemented under the unified country is unsustainable, and influenced by the living customs of ethnic minorities with relatively backward civilization entering the Central Plains, so people's pursuit of love is in an open state. The concept of chastity is not as rigorous as later generations, and many women dare to break through the shackles of ethics. Coupled with the popularity of Huang Lao's knowledge and conversation among the gentry, such as the style of Shi Shuo Xin Yu, men pay attention to the non-secular interest of stepping through the snow without trace and being lonely, and are more casual or open-minded in affairs. The upper class is like this, and so are the people of the lower class. Otherwise, we can't understand why Yuan Di was in the mood to write such beautiful poems after being imprisoned in Xu Fei, and such works are no less than the best poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.