Chinese name: Tang Wan
Foreign name: Tang Wan, Huixian
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han
Place of birth: Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province)
Date of birth: 1128 AD
Date of death: 1156
Occupation: Poet
Representative work: "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix"
Document source: "Gift to the Dead Wife" Tang Wan - Female Poet of the Song Dynasty
Tang Dynasty Wan (1128~1156), also known as Wan, also named Huixian, was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. According to "Gift to the Dead Wife", Tang Wan is the only daughter of Tang Hong, the general magistrate of Zhengzhou. Her mother is Li Shiyuan, and her grandfather is Tang Yi, a great scholar in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Tang Wan had been quiet, smart and talented since he was a child. The Lu family once used an exquisite family phoenix hairpin as a token to get engaged to the Tang family.
Lu You married Tang Wan when he was about twenty years old. After marriage, the husband and wife get along well with each other and have a good relationship. Unexpectedly, Tang Wan's talent and close relationship with Lu You aroused dissatisfaction with Lu's mother. Later, Lu's mother believed that Tang Wan had completely delayed her son's future, so she ordered Lu You to divorce Tang Wan. Lu You once built another courtyard to accommodate Tang Wan. After his mother found out, she ordered Lu You to marry another daughter of the Wang family who kept her duty. A few years later, Lu You went to visit Shen Garden and happened to meet Tang Wan and his wife in the garden. Tang Wan obtained the consent of her husband Zhao Shicheng and personally toasted a glass of wine to Lu You. After Lu You drank, he inscribed the poem "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix" in Shen Garden. After finishing writing, he put the pen down and left.
After sitting in the garden for a while, Tang Wan was filled with grief. After returning home, I repeatedly pondered Lu You's lyrics and composed a song with the same tune. Soon I died of frustration. Until his later years, Lu You often paid homage to his legacy and recalled his past without forgetting his old feelings. For this reason, he wrote many touching poems. When people were moved by these poems, they also remembered the story between him and Tang Wan.
The Lu family once used an exquisite family phoenix hairpin as a token to get engaged to the Tang family. Lu You married Tang Wan when he was nineteen years old (the fourteenth year of Shaoxing). Unexpectedly, Tang Wan's talent and close relationship with Lu You aroused dissatisfaction with Lu's mother (it is virtue for a woman to have no talent. Lu You also said when writing an epitaph for a woman named Sun that talent is not a woman's business). Later, Lu's mother thought that Tang Wan's Wan had completely delayed his son's future, so he ordered Lu You to divorce Tang Wan. Lu You once built another courtyard to accommodate Tang Wan. After his mother found out, she ordered Lu You to marry another docile and dutiful daughter of the Wang family. Tang Wan then married Zhao Shicheng, a scholar from the same county and a descendant of the royal family in Shaoxing Prefecture, the capital city, at the discretion of his family. In 1151 AD (the 21st year of Shaoxing), after Lu You failed in the examination of the Ministry of Rites, he went to Shen Garden to play and met Tang Wan by chance. Both of them were very sad. Lu You sentimentally inscribed a poem on the wall called "The Hairpin Head Phoenix" (Hongsu Hands). In 1156, Tang Wan came to Shenyuan again and saw Lu You's inscription. He couldn't help but be filled with emotion, so he composed a piece of "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix: The Love of the World". In the autumn of the same year, he died of depression.
Tang Wan is the daughter of Lu You's uncle Tang Cheng. She has been quiet since she was a child. Although Lu You's mother doesn't like her niece very much, she still likes to kiss and get married in the old days. In addition, the two of them were childhood sweethearts, so they were childhood sweethearts. Lu's mother agreed to the marriage and married her cousin Tang Wan when Lu You was twenty years old.
This is a major event that caused a sensation in the entire Shanyin. The talented and beautiful ladies all came from a family of officials. In the days after their marriage, Lu You and Tang Wan fell in love with each other. However, because Lu's mother and sister-in-law did not get along and made things difficult for her niece Tang Wan, Tang Wan was kicked out of the Lu family in the second year after the marriage. Due to Lu's mother's efforts to break up, Lu You finally failed to survive his parents' fate, and finally said goodbye.