First of all, her worldly talents are second to none.
There is no doubt about Li Qingzhao's talent. There are many famous poems handed down from generation to generation. In contrast, Cai Wenji and Zhuo Wenjun's masterpieces are few and far between. We are only impressed by Cai Wenji's Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia and Poems of Sorrow and Indignation or Zhuo Wenjun's Poems of Bald Head.
Li Qingzhao's masterpieces are much more widely sung than them. There is a saying that "things are people, not everything, and tears flow first." Helpless; There is a "curtain rolling west wind, people are thinner than yellow flowers." Haggard; There is a sorrow of "looking for it, cold and clear, miserable and miserable"; There is even more "why light blue and deep red?" It is a first-class flower. " Heroism. We are all familiar with these famous sentences. Her "do you know it's green, fat, red and thin?" It even became the title of a novel and was adapted into a TV series, and its influence can be seen.
To make a simple comparison, everyone should know that "I want to be single-minded and don't want to leave each other." However, it is estimated that few people know that this poem is from Zhuo Wenjun's "White-headed Poetry". Compared with Xie Daowen, perhaps we only know the phrase "catkins are not caused by the wind", but we know little about other things.
Compared with modern Zhang Ailing and Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing's novel art is undoubtedly wonderful, but it can't escape its limitations. Compared with Li Qingzhao's ci, her novels are not widely read, and the scope and influence of novels from the Republic of China to today are not comparable to Li Qingzhao's ci from the Song Dynasty to the present. Xiao Hong's early death due to illness is also a great pity, leaving fewer works, and her fame is naturally not as good as that of Li Qingzhao.
At the same time, Li Qingzhao and her husband Zhao Mingcheng like to collect ancient cultural relics. At the same time, they also cooperated with the Records of Stone Inscriptions, which is one of the earliest stone inscriptions catalogues and research monographs in China. The comments are unique and have played a powerful role in promoting the research activities of ancient cultural relics in China. Li Qingzhao's personal preface to the record of the stone has become the object of study by historians of past dynasties.
Other talented women's works are less well-known, while Li Qingzhao's ci is more well-known. She has made outstanding contributions to the study of ancient cultural relics in China, which is the biggest reason why she can overshadow other talented women.
Second, her romantic love is unprecedented.
Compared with other talented women, Li Qingzhao has a happy marriage. She and her husband Zhao Mingcheng were congenial and fell in love at first sight. At that time, it was a legendary story of a talented person and a beautiful woman. After marriage, Li Qingzhao wrote more famous works through the ages because of the nourishment of love. Of course, the most famous poem is "Dried Plum". "There is nothing I can do to get rid of this feeling. I can only frown and take it to heart." The affection between her and her husband lingered in her heart for a long time, just dissipated from her brow, but it came back to her. How can such love be undesirable?
In contrast, the feelings of other talented women will be more bumpy. Cai Wenji was married three times. Although three marriages seem full of legends, it is not difficult to find that Cai Wenji was forced to get married almost every time. She has no right to pursue her own happiness, and of course she is much weaker than Li Qingzhao.
It is very worthy of recognition that Zhuo Wenjun was able to run away with Sima Xiangru and join the modern society, but it was a "shame" at that time. So in previous years, Zhuo Wenjun might be compared with Li Qingzhao for this reason.
In modern times, Zhang Ailing's lover Hu Lancheng is a famous prodigal son. Maybe some readers will "hate my dog" and dislike Zhang Ailing who had a love affair with Hu Lancheng. The story between them is naturally less romantic than that between Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao.
A love story between Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng, which is sung by the world, is also one of the reasons why she is more famous than other talented women.
Third, her patriotic enthusiasm is admirable.
Although Li Qingzhao is only a graceful poet, she also has the same lofty aspirations as a heroic poet. Her summer quatrains "Life is a hero, and death is a ghost hero. I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong. " It not only satirized the inaction of the Song government in the face of the attack of the Jin people, but also strongly encouraged people of insight at that time to rise up and resist. The songs "Fisherman's Pride" and "90,000 Li Fengpeng" are all positive moves. As soon as the wind stopped, the ship blew away three mountains. "It has always inspired the world to move forward.
Although she is just a weak woman with no chicken feet, her words reveal a heroic momentum of not letting men be women! Great men are for the country and the people. Although Li Qingzhao can't practice in person, her spirit and soul reveal the solemn momentum of "the great man of chivalry"!
In contrast, Zhuo Wenjun, Xie Daowen and other talented women who rarely leaned out of the boudoir really lost to Li Qingzhao in serving the country and the people. As an important official of Wu Zetian, Shangguan Waner has the reputation of "Prime Minister of Women's Middle School". Although she is better than Li Qingzhao in patriotism and service to the country, she is not as good as Li Qingzhao in singing the aforementioned poems, so even with the compensation of the position of prime minister, her talent cannot be concealed.
Li Qingzhao, she is not only a little jasper who loves poetry and is eager to be affectionate with her children, but also a heroine with great ambitions and ideals, which sublimates her personality charm to a higher level.
Fourth, her divorce shocked the world.
After Zhao Mingcheng's death, in order to protect the cultural relics collected during the war with Zhao Mingcheng, Li Qingzhao took the overall situation into consideration and made up her mind to marry someone else. This man is called Zhang Ruzhou. However, after the marriage, Li Qingzhao discovered that what Zhang Ruzhou originally wanted was the cultural relics in his own hands. These cultural relics were collected by Li Qingzhao and her beloved. She would rather die than give them to Zhang Ruzhou. In order to get these priceless cultural relics, Zhang Ruzhou even insulted Li Qingzhao.
When Li Qingzhao faced a man who didn't love herself or even abused herself, she was able to stand up resolutely and leave a complaint to the government. In the Song Dynasty, it was inevitable that a woman would go to jail for such an act of overstepping etiquette. However, Li Qingzhao is not afraid. She just dared to abandon the secular concept, break the routine, and hurt her pen and ink where others dared not write.
Li Qingzhao gave up her husband's spirit of abandoning the idea that men are superior to women, and put it into modern times to add a lot of points to her title of "the first talented woman through the ages".
In contrast, it is a very admirable event that Ban Zhao continued to write Hanshu for his brother Ban Gu, but Ban Zhao himself once wrote Women's Commandments. It constantly promotes the concept that men are superior to women and advocates "the way of three obedience" and "the instrument of four virtues".
In the period when Neo-Confucianism in ancient Song and Ming Dynasties began to strictly regulate women's behavior, Ban Zhao's "Women's Commandments" was very in line with the trend of the times, but now, it is inevitable that people will sneer at it. Whether men and women are equal is the most important criterion to judge whether a society has stepped into modernization. However, Ban Zhao's Women's Commandment strongly advocates that women should maintain a humble position and diligently serve their husbands and in-laws.
Who will accept such an idea now? If you had a choice, would you choose Li Qingzhao, who advocates equality between men and women, or Ban Zhao, who advocates that men are superior to women?
At the same time, Li Qingzhao's divorce from her husband is not only greatly respected now, but also captured the admiration of many people at that time. After Li Qingzhao divorced her husband, she was sentenced to prison. People along the street pleaded with the government for Li Qingzhao because they admired what she had done. The government could not resist many people's demands and deliberately reduced Li Qingzhao's sentence. From this point, we can also see the influence of Li Qingzhao at that time.
Contribute to the establishment of a society with equality between men and women, which is also an overwhelming reason for Li Qingzhao.
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Li Qingzhao's title of "the first talented woman in history" is certainly not limited to a simple word "talent". Her life is not only poetic, but also full of patriotic thoughts. At the same time, her bones always reveal a strong attack on the society where men are superior to women, and that fascinating love for the whole city also adds a lot of color to her. All this adds up to the birth of "the first talented woman in history"!