Qiuxiang is also known as Jinlan, and Qiuxiang is her nickname. Born in the first year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1450), he was 20 years older than Tang Bohu. The surname of Tingzhong was born in an official family. Because she was the only daughter raised, she was regarded as the apple of her eye by her parents. Qiuxiang has been smart since she was a child. She is familiar with poetry and books, and loves the art of calligraphy and painting.
Unfortunately, her parents died before she reached the age of hairpin, and she was adopted by her uncle. Not a few years. When his uncle saw that Qiuxiang had grown into a beautiful and graceful lady, he took her to Jinling, the southern capital. At that time, Nandu was extremely corrupt, and Qiuxiang was forced to work as an official prostitute in the sensual scene due to the pressure of life. She is beautiful, intelligent, and beautiful for a while.
Also from Shi Tingzhi and Wang Yuan's literary paintings, the brushwork is clear and elegant. Later, Qiuxiang resigned from her family and became a good friend; an old friend wanted to rekindle their old relationship with her, so she painted a willow on a fan and wrote a poem to decline: "In the past, Zhangtai dance had a thin waist, and you could climb and break the young branches. Now it is written in the painting, don't allow the east wind to come again." Shake.
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As early as the Jiajing or Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, the story of Tang Bohu and Qiuxiang was recorded in the notes of Jiaxing native Xiang Yuanbian. Later, Zhou Xuanwei's "Jinglin Miscellanies" gave a more detailed story about Tang Bohu and Qiuxiang, which basically formed the prototype of "Three Smiles".
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong wrote "Tang Jieyuan". The title "Marriage with a Smile" was incorporated into the widely circulated "Warning to the World". In the late Ming Dynasty, there were also dramas such as "A Smile in front of the Flower" written by Meng Shunqing and "Marriage on the Flower Boat" written by Dan Renyue, which used the stage. The form of the performance has made it popular in thousands of households.
In fact, according to notes such as "Cha Yu Ke Hua" and "Ear Talk", there was indeed an incident involving a maid in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Selling himself into slavery was a matter of a scholar named Chen Yuanchao, and the bad guys attached it to the name of Tang Bohu
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