Zhuo Wenjun wrote this poem "Poem on a White Head". According to the author's mood at that time, Sima Xiangru, who once made an oath with himself, now wants to abandon the dross, betray the oath between them and marry a concubine. Because Zhuo Wenjun once won Sima Xiangru's heart, but this man is not single-minded. So what Zhuo Wenjun yearns for is single-minded love. What she wants is a hand that belongs to only two people and grows old with her son.
The expanded material "White-headed Ballad" is the work of Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, after Sima Xiangru made his fortune, he gradually indulged in pleasure and lived in a powder pile day after day until he wanted to marry a Maoling woman. Zhuo Wenjun couldn't bear it anymore, so he wrote this poem "White Stone Ballad" and presented it in the same way. This poem embodies the author's lofty attitude towards love. Although she has memories and fantasies about old feelings, she is more of a profound reflection on life. Therefore, she is quite different from the general image of abandoned wife in ancient poetry.
The love stories of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun in the Western Han Dynasty were widely known, such as Running at Night in Wen Jun and Selling Wine. Zhuo Wenjun, a strange girl with an eyebrow eye and a lotus face, is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Sadly, she was widowed at 17. One day at dinner, Zhuo Wenjun was fascinated by Sima Xiangru's passionate and bold confession of Phoenix Begging for Phoenix, which made him fall in love. Despite her father's strong opposition, she resolutely ran away from home and eloped with her sweetheart to Chengdu in the dark night.
How brave it takes a weak woman to make such a decision in a society with strict feudal ethics! What's more, at that time, Sima Xiangru was just a down-and-out and dissolute scholar, living a life of selling wine by standard clothes and not having today's life. After Zhuo Wenjun married Xiangru, she also exchanged her salary for food, and did not complain that her husband had not made progress. He opened a hotel with the money from the headdress pawn and made a living by selling wine himself. From a lady to a poor woman, Zhuo Wenjun has paid too much for love, but she has no regrets.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhuo Wenjun's "White-headed Song"