Pu Songling has very strong feelings and love for Gu. The reason is mainly because Gu is a literary beauty that Pu Songling came into contact with in his youth.
Sun Hui is from Pu Songling. In the tenth year of Kangxi, Pu Songling was invited to Baoying County, and Sun Hui was appointed as the county magistrate. Gu is a concubine who can sing and dance well and likes to write poems. Gu often attends parties with friends. Thus, Gu began to appear in Pu Songling's poems.
In the tenth year of Kangxi, Pu Songling wrote at least four poems by Gu. From these four poems, we can see how much Pu Songling loves this Jiangnan beauty.
Choose 100 quatrains of Tang poetry for Xia Qing;
In order to select hundreds of fragrance poems, the keynote of each poem is musk orchid.
The warbler sends out a real pair. She likes to pay Chloe to sing and listen.
Pu Songling chose one hundred Tang poems for Gu, so that Gu could sing like an oriole. Pu Songling called Gu "Keer", which is a satisfactory person. Did Pu Songling call Sun Hui "Kerr"? No. Because Pu Songling didn't explain in the title of the poem that this poem was written for Sun Hui, was it because the title of the poem was too short to be marked? Not exactly. Some of Pu Songling's poems are more than 20 words long. If you write to Sun Hui, you must indicate it in the title of the poem. Pu Songling's poetic title is only Gu, which is affectionately called. Therefore, choosing Tang poems for Gu was either Gu's request or Pu Songling's recommendation. This poem is Pu Songling's description of his feelings, which he didn't want Sun Hui to know.
Listen to Xia Qing's poem:
A man's voice is charming and refreshing.
Such as wearing willows in March, drinking and listening to orioles.
This is Gu's poetic description of poetry. Pu Songling felt that listening to Xia Qing's poems was like listening to the cry of an oriole. Gu is quite young, with a beautiful voice and a good figure, such as an innocent girl.
A quiet sentence, followed by "Listen to Xia Qing and Yin Shi";
The flag pavilion is painted with low walls, and the elegant poems are still fragrant.
It is best to have a bosom friend in the future. The colors of Aika trees are hidden and sunny.
This poem is still a poem about Gu, and there is a caption: "Love holding clouds and slanting", which shows that Pu Songling has listened to Gu's poems not once or twice but many times, and he knows which one Gu likes to recite best.
In the same year, there were three poems about the same woman, which is rare in Pu Songling. What is more noteworthy is that this year, Pu Songling also wrote a long poem that was ignored. In Eighty Rhymes of Dreams, Pu Songling dreamed of meeting a goddess and falling in love with an elegant goddess.
Hanging double emeralds,
Put two mandarin ducks on the pillow.
Knife ruler gentle house,
Qin Shu Mohanchang
This poem was evaluated by Wang Yuyang as "touching and beautiful". What is Pu Songling like as a dream goddess? "Tired, you are silly and charming, you are charming and crazy. Meishan is low and beautiful, and the eyes send streamers. " I was jealous of the weak willows and accidentally slept in the begonia. It is a unique word in Pu Songling's poems to say that Gu is simple and naive and to describe Gu with Liu and Haitang. Therefore, the "eighteen rhymes of dreams" is actually the imaginative deformation of Gu in Pu Songling's Dream.
Sun Hui is very charming. There are many women around her. She also looks for flowers and makes love everywhere. She is often drunk, "singers wear red makeup" and "girls are on ivory beds". Being his concubine is actually very painful. Pu Songling's "Playing for Sun" wrote: "The leaky board is faint at night, where is Tan Lang drunk Yao Sheng?" Ling Bo was wet and weak, leaning against the dangerous fence to watch the moonlight. It's probably about gu's feelings. She hoped that Sun Hui would show more concern and get along with her. But Sun Hui didn't do it. Sun Hui doesn't know unrequited love. She used money and power to give rain and dew to women inside and outside the family. In his mind, Gu, no matter how young and beautiful she is, is just one of several ordinary concubines when she writes poems and recites them again. Sun Hui can go outside to enjoy "The Red Mansion is more expensive than a beauty" and "Laugh at the golden hairpin clasping the jade pot". She can go home to other concubines' rooms and make eyes at the maids, just like another quatrain in Pu Songling's "Playing the Sun" says: "You can't understand the east wind, but you can laugh at the flowers and play the jade lang." Sun Hui is happy and has a wide range of relationships. Gu can only honestly wait for "good luck" and often live alone. Sun Hui is jealous of each other because she has too many concubines. This embarrassing situation even appeared in Pu Songling's poems. "A Hundred Banquets on a Tree": "It doesn't hurt to open a bottle when you go to the toilet." Who's Zhao Yan? Let me see you. Because Sun Hui took one more look at any woman, other women began to make trouble, and they could not enjoy drinking at family dinners. Sensitive and fragile Gu is so helpless and pitiful in such a "sea of vinegar storm".
Pu Songling watched helplessly as her favorite and cherished poetess was ignored, unloved and even left out in the cold. I feel like I knocked over a five-flavor bottle on my chest. Can he take care of Xia Qing? No, Luo Fu is married. But he fell in love with Gu more and more at first sight, and he could only bury his feelings deeply in his heart.
Is there any basis for saying that Gu was left out? Yes Look for it from Pu Songling's poems. In the second year of Pu Songling's southern expedition, that is, the twelfth year of Kangxi, a long poem was sent to Sun Hui. The reason for writing this poem is that Sun Hui wrote to tell Pu Songling that one of his wives died, and he was so sad that he didn't even want to do it. Pu Songling comforted Sun Hui and said, "You should also reward those wise saints, and don't decide to stay because you are discouraged." . Still think about national affairs, think about the emperor's grace, and don't resign for a woman! This woman who is so emotional is not Gu. Ancient names continue to appear in Pu Songling's later poems. In the same year, Pu Songling wrote a poem entitled "Give Sun Anyi Again", in which he wrote: "The bun is fragrant with fog, and the red curtain hangs over his shoulders to cut off the red light." I studied Changmenfu at home and didn't bribe Mao Ling with my daughter. "Sun Hui's little beauty, can write their own" Changmen Fu ",don't have to learn from Chen Ajiao, and take her daughter to Sima Xiangru to buy Fu. Who else can write poems around Sun Hui? Gu Xiaqing. She wants to write a poem to save her impetuosity.
Since then, Pu Songling's group poem "My Boudoir Love Show Sun Jian", as can be seen from the title, has gone to the emperor's side as a speech officer. Pu Songling's Boudoir Love was written by a beautiful woman that Sun Hui didn't bring. In the poem, he said, "Xiao Lang has traveled thousands of miles", "It's a pity that spring comes and dusk doesn't come", "It's a tearful word to write about lovesickness" and "It's beautiful to sleep in the sunny window and lean against the east wind for twelve stops". All the poems express a meaning that Xiaomei misses her distant husband and has basically abandoned her wife.
In the 21st year of Kangxi, when Pu Songling was forty-two, another group of poems clearly indicated in the title that it was written by Gu: "Sun made comments on Gu Jigong's poems and made this play as a gift". According to this poem, when Gu was very young, she was a concubine. "I went to see you then." . In the eighth year of Kangxi, he went to Baoying as the magistrate, and Gu soon became his concubine. About fifteen or sixteen years old, half younger than Sun Hui. Gu is good at calligraphy and painting, as well as poetry. She was jealous and framed by other women around Sun Hui, which was very painful.
Calligraphy is like a hook, and talent is more romantic.
The drow is jealous of his wife, so he dare not sing "Whitehead" high.
In fact, Gu was excluded from the favorite woman in the 21st year of Kangxi. Sun Hui was an official in Beijing, but Gu was left in Zichuan, which she was not used to, and in the desolate mountain village. The village where Sun Hui lives is called Kuishan Village. I once visited it. In the 1980s, that place was still a small mountain village with inconvenient transportation. 300 years ago, Gu, a beautiful woman from the south of the Yangtze River, spent a whole day alone in that small mountain village. "Now that your majesty is far away from Wan Li, the autumn master is more boring.". Pu Songling's Poems on Sun Wei Gu Jiegang's Plays consists of eight poems, and he wrote dozens of poems for Gu. Pu Songling never wrote so many poems about his wife in his life. If he doesn't care about it, if he doesn't really care about it, he is deeply in love and infatuated. What concubines did Sun Hui leave at home? Which one hurt Pu Songling!
What is particularly noteworthy is that Pu Songling has a long word "death, play with the advice of Jane's grandson". Use love and poverty to describe Gu. Why is it that the title does not specify Gu, but it can be concluded that it is written about Gu? Because you can find hard evidence from the words themselves. It is written clearly between the lines: This beautiful woman around Sun Hui likes "West Palace's Spring Complaint" best among hundreds of Tang poems. Previously, Pu Songling's poems were clearly written. He chose hundreds of Tang poems for Gu, and Gu liked Wang Changling's poems best. Therefore, Xi Die, Play Jian Sun Jian can be regarded as a biography written by Pu Songling to Gu in the form of colourful words. Pu Songling showed Gu's beauty, loveliness, simplicity and naivety incisively and vividly with his pen and ink.
Xiujuanjuan, the green pearl looks like a fairy.
At the beginning of the phoenix, the wing powder is not dry.
Short hair covers the shoulders, and begonia sleeps.
Obviously, the prostitute in Yuedong once lived in this world.
The thin arms are half-embraced, and the shadow floats with the swallow.
I love myself again, and I'm just a beginner in helping powder, so I can bend my legs.
That's the funniest place to laugh, especially for people who are naive and love makeup.
Under the sunny window, the jade wrist is light, like clouds.
Listen to the song, jade is broken, pearls are round, wisdom distinguishes beauty early. There are hundreds of Tang people who love dragons and label them as "West Palace Spring Complaints".
Yet we called and urged a thousand times before she started toward us, ZhuangRong stood squinting at the curtain.
When I was teaching a poem to a guest, my voice didn't ring and I was dizzy with shame.
I remember trembling like a flower, graceful like a willow, and feeling infinite.
I hate crazy people. They travel all over Qian Qian with pink necks and often draw embroidered ribbons.
I haven't taken the fairy class for several years, and I don't know how I won it in those years.
Sister Zhao said, I pity you, fellow villager Nizi!
In Pu Songling's works, Gu Yuan was originally a young prostitute who had just made her debut. Beautiful short hair draped over beautiful shoulders looks like a newly awakened begonia and a newly asleep tender willow. Like a flying swallow, smiling, simple and naive. She writes Tang poems silently, like clouds and paper. Recite palace words, such as orioles singing. Among the quatrains of Tang Dynasty 100, Wang Changling's "West Palace Complaint" is her favorite. Although she was born in a brothel, she has great self-esteem. How many times people called her out, and then she stood there solemnly, her eyes glancing at the distant curtain. Let her recite poems to the guests, but before she could speak, her face turned red first. That lovely appearance, like trembling flowers, like swaying willows, all the guests are fascinated by her. She just hung her head and was embarrassed to embroider ribbons ... this beautiful woman hasn't seen you for years, shouldn't she be more beautiful? Even if Zhao sisters see her, they will say: I love this girl!
Is Pu Songling's evaluation of Gu "I still pity you"? No, it's "I feel more pitiful"!
In the 26th year of Kangxi (1687), when Pu Songling was 47 years old, Gu died. Sun Hui was already dead. Sun Hui's death must have something to do with indulgence. After his death, most of his concubines were scattered, and only Gu stayed in Sun's family and lived a more lonely life. Soon, the fragrance died, and he was only thirty-three or four years old. Gu was sentimental, but she met such a fickle and ungrateful man, and her long-term depression led to her early death. Sun Hui, a fellow countryman who had a close classmate relationship with Pu Songling, the "master" who supported Pu Songling in those days, and the courtier who wrote to recommend Pu Songling to the examiner, died. Pu Songling never wrote a poem of mourning. Sun Hui's concubine died, but Pu Songling wrote a mourning poem affectionately, which is unusual and abnormal!
What is even more unusual and abnormal is the feelings expressed in this song "Hurting Xia Qing":
The song seems to be in my ear, and I dare not look at the tomb door without an echo.
There is powder left in the swallow house, and the fragrant soul hangs under the peony pavilion.
This poem expresses Pu Songling's feelings very clearly. Pu Songling is not generally sorry for Gu's death, but so sad that he wants to "hang a fragrant soul under the peony pavilion". This is an obvious hint: he can't get along with Gu in this life, and he wants to have sex with Gu in the afterlife.
The Peony Pavilion is a famous event in which Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei fell in love and killed each other. Every time the word "Peony Pavilion" is mentioned, it has nothing to do with love. Pu Songling mourned Gu with "the fragrant soul hanging under the Peony Pavilion"! Is this about Sun Hui's wishes? Definitely not. Because Sun Hui is dead, if Pu Songling expresses his feelings for Sun Hui, he should be glad that they met underground. We should mention Sun Hui's name in our poems or write Sun Hui in argot, and then use such allusions as "three lives and ten lives". But Pu Songling used Peony Pavilion, and his feelings for Gu were naked.
Pu Songling's love for Gu is platonic, but it is strong and persistent. It has influenced Pu Songling's thoughts for decades and directly influenced the birth of many famous works of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. For example, Liancheng, Huanniang, Girl in Green, Liansuo, Lin Siniang, Bai Qiulian, Fox Harmony and so on.
One of the most famous love stories in Liaozhai is about the love between men and women. Sheng Qiao, the hero, dedicated two poems to the heroine, one of which is:
Unintentionally green, embroider the blue lotus to the blue window early.
Stabbed the soul of Yuanyang and frowned at the moth.
This poem played an important role in the earth-shattering relationship between Liancheng and Sheng Qiao. This poem was moved by Pu Songling from the poem "My boudoir is illuminated by the sun" intact. As mentioned earlier, "My Boudoir is asking Sun for advice" is about Gu. Loyalty to love is a change of care. However, Liancheng is not in love with a high-ranking official, but a poor scholar of Pu Songling's style!
Official Mother —— One of the most poetic love stories in Liaozhai. Female ghosts fall in love with human scholars and cannot be combined, so they meet in the afterlife. This is the fictionalization of the idea of "Hanging a Sweet Soul under the Peony Pavilion". In this novel, there is a key poem "Xi Yu Chun Ci" written by a female ghost official mother. The word is also from serial words moved intact:
Because of hatred, I turned my thoughts into thoughts, and my feelings are reversed every day.
Begonia is drunk, willow hurts spring, just like a general's hug.
Even if you have new troubles and old troubles, you will be reborn, just like grass.
Since the separation, only in the helpless days, the degree will be dull pain.
Now I have been bruised by the spring mountain, and I have abandoned it.
How to sleep well if you want to sleep?
It is said that a night is like a year, less than a year.
It's been three years since midnight. Who's not old?
The word Pu Songling writes about the feelings of missing one's lover, which is very touching. Pu Songling and his wife do not have such feelings, and there is no "mistress" that people speculate. This word must have something to do with Pu Songling's secret love for Gu.
Lian Suo and Lin Siniang are elegant and shy female ghost poets, the woman in green is a green bee who can recite poems and sing with soft voice, and Bai Qiulian is a baiji whose life is poetry. Like Gu, they regard poetry as life, including their image and the voice of poetry. For example, the female ghost chain, with beautiful calligraphy to write Lianchang Palace words, with a gentle voice chanting Tang poetry, is simply copying!
And the lovers of these beautiful women, except Chen Baojian in Lin Siniang, are all poor scholars and copies of Pu Songling! It can be said that Pu Songling used a famous serial story to transform a real person into a fairy couple with his dream lover in the form of a ghost fox.
Please pay special attention to Fox Harmony. Look at Pu Songling's manuscript, which is the one with the most changes, the most detailed deliberation and the most consideration. This novel refers to cursing at mulberry trees and cursing at ancient tragedies!
"Fox and Harmony" is a humorous story about a glib fox woman bickering with several scholars. The fox is full of wit and wit. Fox girl's lover is called "Wanfu". At the end of the novel, Sun Deyan, who has been fighting with the fox, made a couplet: "Prostitutes go out to visit their beau, and when they come, they leave' Wanfu'", and embedded the name "Wanfu" to ridicule. Ms. Fox replied, "The Dragon King asked for a direct warning, as well as the tortoise's words and tortoise's words." That's right. Sun Deyan's name is embedded in it, calling Sun Deyan clever.
Pu Songling hid the needle in cotton wool, which means "swearing without spitting out the nucleus" in Shandong dialect. In fact, the fox's other one-liners are all paving the way for the last sentence "the tortoise also speaks, and the tortoise also speaks". Pu Songling hid the most crucial sentence in many humorous discourses.
This sentence is intentional, clever and subtle in scold Sun Hui.
Scold her teeth, scold to the marrow, scold twists and turns secret, scold incisively and vividly!
Sun Hui was a court official who gave advice to the emperor, also known as "remonstration". Pu Songling has always been an honorific in his poems and letters. Now he borrows a novel character's mouth to say that a person surnamed Sun has a right word (officials surnamed Sun also have a right word), that is, a turtle has a right word, and a turtle has a right word! This is equivalent to saying: What is Grandmaster Sun to an admonition officer? Son of a bitch
Pu Songling and Sun Hui were good friends when he was young, and finally Sun Hui was mentioned in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Why? Twenty years ago, when I was writing Pu Songling's biography, I noticed that after Sun Hui became a lecturer, his family was rampant in his hometown, and others dared to be angry but dared not speak. Pu Songling was angry and wrote an exhortation letter from his grandson to expose his family's bad behavior. This incident may have caused a gap between the two. After years of exploration and thinking, I found that Pu Songling hated mainly for care.
Will you be suspicious because you find that your former guest, a poor scholar, has special feelings for his concubine, alienated Pu Songling and neglected Gu? There is no such sign in Pu Songling's poems. Pu Songling maintained a friendly attitude in many poems written by Sun Hui. However, after he died, Pu Songling's feelings for him changed suddenly. It is estimated that Pu Songling died of the depression of a beautiful woman, and only after getting a better understanding of this dude did he express his inner resentment through Fox Harmony.
It is not uncommon for writers to express their inner secret feelings through novels. 10 years ago, when I visited the United States, as soon as I got off the plane, I was dragged to a gathering of China contemporary writers and Japanese researchers, and talked with Japanese contemporary literature researchers with five or six other contemporary novelists.
Japanese scholars who study contemporary literature ask China novelists face to face: Why do you write novels? I still remember the different answers given by China writers.
The map of the Yangtze River reflects War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's repeated saying: "I write novels to truthfully record the great War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression."
As soon as this language came out, the heads of Japanese scholars bowed down. I have heard some legends that are unfavorable to old writers before, and I am skeptical. I was awed by his words.
I replied, "Great changes have taken place in universities in China since the reform and opening up. I want to be the secretary of the times like Balzac. Record all this with my novels "Blue Eyes and Black Eyes", "Eye in the Sky" and "Feeling the Four Seasons".
Japanese scholars nodded gently to this academic answer.
Female writer Chen Ran said: "I write novels as a spiritual walk."
Japanese scholars scoffed at this poetic answer.
Liu Heng, who is famous for Fuxi Fuxi's literary world, said: "I write novels to love people I want to love but can't, and to scold people I want to scold but dare not."
The Japanese scholar was stunned for a while, and then smiled knowingly.
Liu Heng's speech is interesting and true. What he said about inner secrets is probably shared by many writers, but few people are as outspoken as him.
Pu Songling wrote serial novels, and some of them also used novels to love people who want to love but can't, and to scold people who want to scold but dare not and are not good at it. Of course, a serial love story can't be related to Gu, but Gu certainly influenced some serial stories. Sun Hui's behavior will definitely affect some serial stories. The clever use of the name "Sun Deyan" in "Fox Harmony" is to scold Sun. I want to scold him in my life, but I dare not scold him directly or openly.
Is it unkind and unkind for Fox Harmony to be so "guilty" to Sun Hui? If it is out of love for Gu, does it mean putting color before friends? Not exactly. Pu Songling saw through Gu's misfortune and other similar dude. These people are two-legged animals. Liao Zhai wrote "Wei Gongzi" to hunt his own children, just to draw pictures for them. They play with women, they regard beautiful jade as a stubborn stone, they burn pianos and cook cranes, they don't know how to cherish love at all, and they don't deserve real love.
True love can be just spiritual love and inner call. Although it has never been pointed out, it is strongly and persistently buried in my heart. Then through imagination and deformation, the essential power of love is turned into a demon, and through the twists and turns of the characters in the novel, eternal pity, deep love and bitter secret love are skillfully displayed.
Find out the emotional trajectory of Pu Songling and Gu, and then look at the serialization. If you can't say that you will have a brand-new understanding, you can at least read a little stale than usual.