The story about "Mei Wife Crane" Lin Bu (He Jing) in the Northern Song Dynasty lived in a lonely mountain in Hangzhou, unmarried and childless, but planted a plum crane named "Mei Wife Crane", which was passed down as an eternal story. There is a famous sentence in his poem "Xiaomei in the Mountain Garden": "The shadows are shallow, and the fragrance floats at dusk." It is a vivid portrayal of plum blossom, a household name, and is known as the eternal swan song. Canon-Song Shen Guo. Meng Qian's pen talk. Volume 10 personnel. After the metaphor of lofty or secluded, also known as: Meihe karma, wife Meihe.
As for the legendary story of "Mei's wife and crane", people in the Mei community know that there are many plum blossom scenic spots in Hangzhou, such as Xiaogushan in the West Lake of Hangzhou, where there is a crane pavilion and the tomb of Mr. Lin Hejing, where the famous poet Lin Bu (Lin Hejing) of the Northern Song Dynasty was buried. At that time, he planted plums here, wrote many famous sayings, and was also famous for the legendary story of "Mei Wife Crane".
According to historical records, Lin Bu (967 ~ 1024) was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou) and was a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. In his early years, he traveled to Jianghuai and other places, and then lived in seclusion under the lonely mountain of West Lake in Hangzhou. Because I am at home all the year round, I take pleasure in planting plums and raising cranes, and because I am said to have never been married, there is a story of "Plum Wife Crane". Today, many people know the story of "Mei Wife Crane", and even the entry about "Mei Wife Crane" in our current dictionary "Ci Hai" is recorded as follows: "In the Song Dynasty, Lin Bu lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of the West Lake in Hangzhou, and had no wife and children, so he planted Mei and raised cranes for his own entertainment, calling it" Mei Wife Crane ".
With the prevalence of Yongmei in the Song Dynasty, the names of Lin Bu and Gushan Plum Blossom became hot in the literary world, and appeared: Chu Shi's home is in the bright moon in Gushan (Tao's poem), Gushan Banchun (Zhao Meng's poem), Lonely Man Singing Snow in Gushan (Wen Zhiming's poem) and so on. Wang Yi, a poet in the late Ming Dynasty, had the idea of "not being soaked by dust at all, and the fence was covered with grass". In fact, the plum in the lonely mountain was already in Bai Juyi's poems in the Tang Dynasty. When Bai Juyi left Hangzhou, he wrote a poem "Remembering Plum Blossoms in Hangzhou, Sending Xiao Xie to Recall the Time Past": I was bored for three years in Yuhang, and I was drunk with Plum Blossoms several times; Wuxiang Temple is as snowy as snow, and Gushan Garden is as beautiful as makeup. This proves that there were plum blossoms in the lonely mountain of West Lake in Hangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, but why did Lin Bu's poems later cover up the white poems? This is not only because there are many good sentences in our poems, but also because of the spread of "Mei Wife Crane". In addition, it is also related to Lin Bu's personality, social environment and political background at that time.
More than 40 years ago, in Guangming Daily1961March 2 1 Sunday, Mr. Xia, a famous Chinese poetess and professor of Zhejiang University, published an article entitled Plum Blossoms in the Dongfeng World. The article mentioned something about Lin Bu, which roughly means: Lin Bu lived in seclusion in an isolated mountain. At that time, Hangzhou was a satrap, and he was sponsored by writing every year.
After Lin Bu died in the sixth year of Tiansheng (1028), the emperor at that time specially gave posthumous title "Mr. He Jing", and Lin's reputation became even greater ... The reason was that the former old emperor Song Zhenzong was placed on the palace gate and Mount Tai by the minister Wang Qinruo in order to save his prestige lost in foreign wars.