Due to family factors, Shen Yixiu didn't go to school except his parents who occasionally taught reading. Fortunately, in the Wen Yuan family like Shen Shi, the female elders in the family are also proficient in literature and pen and ink, and there are more than a dozen women with poems and other works circulating in genealogy or other books. Shen Yixiu, a young man without a teacher, is diligent and eager to learn, asking for words from the female elders at home and studying hard. He can often "learn a lot and recite the history of books", which lays the foundation for learning. A little longer, I can't put it down, but when I think of my mother's early death, I often feel sad between reading, writing and housework. This can't be seen from his poems before marriage, but it can also be proved from the poem "Yan Jun's voice and voice are as bad as before after giving up donations" written by his father when he died. There is a line in the poem: "The crying is no longer heard, and the ileum is self-cracking", which is heartbreaking to read. In the thirty-third year of Wanli (1605), Shen Yixiu married Ye at the age of sixteen. At this time, the host was already "handsome and long, and his sideburns could be learned". When he returned, he was already "a deer with a cloth and no resentment". This marriage can be said to be a match made in heaven, which not only conforms to the external conditions such as mutual suitability and love in the city at that time, but also opens the door to love for the two boys and girls in Seeds of Love. No wonder people sigh: Qiongzhi Yushu, cross each other. That year, Ye was seventeen years old, fashionable and beautiful, just like Xie Fengyi. Shen Yixiu's heart is full of quality, and he works in chanting; There should be many poems between them. Shen Yixiu, who is good at reading, likes to read widely and write poems when he is free. He can't forget it after reading it once. He also likes to write poems and lyrics. His works have a wide range of themes, diverse forms, novel ideas and a girlish feeling. Everyone who saw them praised them for their Xie Daowen style. However, such a beautiful and versatile daughter-in-law, her mother-in-law is worried that her poems will affect Ye's study, because after the poems are written, it is inevitable that husband and wife will reward each other and even answer each other, and Yuzryha will be distracted. So she doesn't like and doesn't want Shen Yixiu to write poems, so that Shen Yixiu can give up writing poems and concentrate on housework. Although Shen Yixiu was dissatisfied with her mother-in-law's request, she was deeply influenced by traditional culture. She refused to go against her mother-in-law's wishes, causing family discord, which in turn affected her husband Ye's study and had to give up her poetry creation temporarily against her will. Shen Yixiu is a quiet and tidy woman. In Ye's Shen An Chuan The Dead Room, she said, "... sex is so clean, the bed screen is a little flickering, and no fibers are allowed. "Just got married, a green bed hung for 30 years. "It is not easy to be hot or cold, and the color is old and clean." Shen Yixiu's character as a good housekeeper was even more prominent when Yejialu fell.
A few years after their marriage, Ye studied imperial examinations in a museum. At that time, Ye and his cousin Ye lived together to study and work. In order to cope with the imperial examination, we must do articles such as raiders. Every time Ye Yuan Shao finishes writing a paper, he takes it home for Shen Yixiu to criticize and correct. Shen Yixiu can often point out right and wrong, and his opinion is convinced by Yuzryha Yuan Shao. In order to help Ye, Shen Yixiu often helps Ye to copy his exam-taking strategies and other articles. His beautiful handwriting (especially small letters) was praised by everyone who saw it as the style of Mrs. Wei (a famous ancient female calligrapher). However, Ye, a famous writer in the south of the Yangtze River, was "tired of the imperial examination, and his family was ruined." Shen Yixiu always encourages frustrated husbands in the examination room, and "encouraging each other from cow clothes" makes her husband full of confidence in his talents, and "never said a word of shame". In this case, on the one hand, Shen Yixiu struggled to raise her children, on the other hand, she "never touched Mrs. Feng's heart", and on the other hand, she sold her dowry jewelry to subsidize her family, so that "there is nothing to decorate". The mother is the most filial, and the younger brother Shen Zizheng said, "Sorry, strict requirements. Every time I swallow it softly, I am afraid of going against my aunt's mind. There are many husbands and children, but few aunts who don't want to die. My sister kneels down and confesses for life. " However, Shen's "spare time, rice, salt and wine, do not waste chanting." When her husband tried again, Shen Yixiu gave it a poem entitled "Jia Zi Shao Zhongqiu tried Jinling", which contained the sentence "Don't like autumn too much, don't make me shy", expressing his hope humorously and euphemistically. Ye Lombardi, the first scholar in the next five years (1625), was chosen as a scholar, and Deng Nangong was patented as a concubine by Luan, but he was also "indifferent, not happy". Ye has since entered the official career. He first worked as a martial arts professor in Nanjing, then moved to Guo Zi as a teaching assistant, and in less than two years, he became the director of the Ministry of Industry, so his career was smooth sailing.
Shen Yixiu, who was born in an official's family and was broad-minded, said, "Being kind to others and easy to get along with others, being a servant can tolerate good words, that is, having concerns and knowing the original feelings of caves, so there is no anger of reconciliation, which is nothing but the blame of reason", which is commendable in the old society. Although his life is also very difficult, sometimes he has to borrow money, but Shen Ye's ancestors once owned vast land, which spread to Ye's territory. Because of poor management and poor family, I had to sell some land to subsidize my family. Later, there was little left. Part of the land in hand is planted by hired people, and tenants grow food. The annual land rent can be used as the main source of income for families. During the famine, Ye Jia "deducted the extra money from the regular expenses", while Shen Yixiu even "ordered the master planner to change a small amount". When Ye's friend was poor and helpless, Shen Yixiu "took off his erbium and gave him dozens of gold." Then Ye said, "When you get here, your box will be empty, and you will have no resentment." Ye moved to say that Zhai Guancui's resignation would be used to repay her, but Shen Yixiu said, "Since you are committed to Jun, can you report to He Yun?"
The happiest days in their husband and wife's life were two years before Ye resigned and retired. During that time, the old mother with white hair in the hall was still in high spirits, and there were a group of talented people who were absolutely beautiful. The couple are in their prime. How can they be unhappy with such a big family that is happy, kind to relatives and friends, full of books and full of literary atmosphere? Ceng Yun Zhang Chao, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, said: "The value of peace was born in Hushan County; The official is clean and quiet, and his family is well-off; Marry a virtuous woman and have a smart child. Life is really blessed. " It is appropriate to describe the life of Ye Jia at this time.
A happy life can best stimulate people's poetic interest, as the poem Xiao Qi says: "Peony is like a smiling face, charming cloister. Roses are curled up, and the shelves are full of rubies. The scenery is so leisurely, we can talk about eliminating dust customs. " It can be seen that he is cheerful and cheerful when he gets up early. Ye Shao and Xue Yuan wrote eight poems about Autumn Village Residence, and Shen Yixiu also wrote eight poems about Harmony according to the rhyme of Autumn Village Residence. His poems are full of joy and love for life. There is a poem: "The land is a secluded village, and the door is open." There is a sentence in the fourth poem: "seclusion from the rain, a pillow full of flowers." These poems show the love of husband and wife, family harmony and lovely joy in life. There is a line in the poem "Zhi Zhu Ci": The distant trees hang faintly on the lake, and the whitebait is fresh. The countryside favors the beauty of Qiu Guang, and beauty forces the lotus under the water. Put the joy into the scene and read it as you saw it with your own eyes. There is also the poem "Happy Rain" which says "Flowers are about to drip, fine grass is tender and floating", and the scenery after the rain is written in a happy mood, which is quite artistic in Du Shaoling's "Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night". Ye, who was on a business trip alone, was not keen on the ups and downs of official business and soon got tired of government affairs. Coupled with his concern for his wife and children at home and his yearning for his mother, he used his mother Feng's age as an excuse to support his parents and eventually abandoned his post and returned to his hometown. According to his chronicle, in November of the third year of Chongzhen, he was ordered to return to his last nursing home. This shows that Ye has a heavy homesickness complex. Shen Yixiu gave birth to eight men and three women for Ye Jia. "I love my children all my life. They are all self-explanatory." Under his careful teaching and leading by example, they all made achievements in the future. Ye's family was rich, lived in a pool of bamboo and stone, and all the poems in the boudoir were written. They gave flowers and plants to each other and carved clouds on the moon, which became a romantic story of a large family in the south of the Yangtze River. However, in the end, I lived in Asahi all my life, became an official, lived a hard life, and made a living by land, not by glory and profit. As his sixth son, Ye Xie, said: "Bare life, words don't mean money", "Dooms at home are full of books" and "handling things frankly and happily, but not necessarily straight". Another example is Yuan Jingtuo's sentence: Ye "sings all day long, bears no children, and his family is getting worse". Therefore, this heavenly life did not last long. Times change suddenly, and people have a destiny. The autumn of five years in Chongzhen should be an ominous season for Ye Jia, and bad luck came one after another. Ye Xiaoluan, who was only 17 years old, died suddenly five days before her centenary wedding ceremony with Liping, Zhang Kunshan. Sister Wan cried too much for her sister, but she died with her sister two months later. Second sister Ye Xiaowan wrote a drama "Yuanyang Dream" to express her grief. In addition to grief, it is really touching to write three sisters into the play. The once lush green leaves have fallen in the bleak autumn wind. The occurrence of this series of events made Shen Yixiu unprepared and the balance of life began to tilt. She still can't accept that such a talented child will go first by himself. Does it really prove that genius is jealous? Three years later, in the depths of the child's memory, this talented woman in Jiangnan died. At that time, "the handmaid cried in the room, the servant cried in the court, the city vendor cried in the city, the village and the farmer cried in the wild, which was a bit out of place, and there was no singing in the alley."
Since then, with the stormy end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ye family in Jiangnan has rapidly declined together. In the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1645), that is, the second year after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, Ye and his third son abandoned their homes and lived in (now 60 miles southeast of Wujiang, Jiangsu).