Speaking of A Dream of Red Mansions, it was first seen in the legendary novel The West Chamber by Yuan Zhen, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. It tells the story that Yuan Zhen fell in love with Cui Yingying at first sight under the disguise of Zhang Sheng, and then abandoned Cui Yingying in the chaos. The ending is tragedy. This legendary novel is only a few thousand words, but it is one of the representative novels of the Tang Dynasty, with tortuous plot, clever narrative and gorgeous language. Since then, this story has spread widely and produced many poems about it.
After a lapse of 400 years, Dong Jieyuan's Biography of Yingying came out in the Jin Dynasty and was called Biography of Yingying. It fundamentally changed the story and characters of Yingying Biography, and the essence of the conflict became the struggle for love and marriage freedom between young men and women and feudal parents. Zhang Sheng became a passionate genius, while Ying Ying became a woman who struggled for love and freedom of marriage. The story ends with Yingying eloping with Zhang Sheng, and the old story opens up a new situation.
Wang Shifu, a famous dramatist in Yuan Dynasty, adapted Cui Zhang's story into a zaju on the basis of Zhu Gong's The West Chamber, which is what we see today. Dong Xixiang's story lines are almost the same, but the theme is more concentrated, rewriting the composition, adding narration and eliminating some unreasonable plots, so his artistic level has been greatly improved and he has become a typical work in China's classical drama. In Yuan Dynasty, Jia's Biography of Yingying said: "New zaju, old legend, east and west towns win the world." In fact, Wang Xizhi, praised by later generations, was written by Wang Shifu on the basis of numerous people's processing. But this is very different from Dong Xixiang, Yuan Zhen's first love. He called it chaos and abandonment.
Yuan Zhen, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, is as famous as Bai Juyi and is known as "the first white courtyard in the world". He lost his father at the age of eight and was passed down from generation to generation by his virtuous mother Zheng. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, he began to study two courses of Ming Jing. 2 1 year-old, first became a deacon of Hefu. However, Deng Ming's masterpiece has just been born, and he must pass the examination of the official department before he can enter the official position. Therefore, when Yuan Zhen saw Cui Yingying, he was preparing to take the exam in Beijing.
First of all, Yuan Zhen described himself in "":gentle, affectionate, personable, handsome, strong-willed and withdrawn. Don't let him do anything inappropriate for the ceremony. Although she is 23 years old, she is still a virgin who has never really touched a woman. Why are you a virgin? He explained, "This lothario is not a lecherous, but he left a bad character. I like beautiful women, but I have never seen them. Why do you say that? I don't pay attention to outstanding beauty. With this, we will know that I am not a person without feelings. " That is to say, I am not horny, but I have never met a stunning beauty.
In the 16th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong, Zhang Sheng visited Zhou Pu and lived in Pujiu Temple in the east of Zhou Pu. At that time, Cui and his mother were going back to Chang 'an, passing by, and lived in this temple. Cui's daughter is Yingying and her mother Zheng is a widow. Her mother's surname is Zheng. Speaking of relatives, Zheng Can is considered as Zhang Sheng's distant menstruation. This year, the army harassed and soldiers looted Zhou Pu. The Cui family has a lot of property, and living here scares them.
I used to have a friendship with one of our generals and asked them to protect Cui's family. Therefore, Cui's family was not harassed by the rebels. After more than ten days, Du Feng was ordered by the emperor to take charge of military affairs, and the army settled down. Aunt Zheng gave a banquet in the class to thank her and asked her to come out to see her eldest brother to show her gratitude. After a long time, Miss Yingying didn't come out and said that she was ill. Zheng said angrily, "If it weren't for your cousin's care and protection, you would have been taken away by the soldiers. What do you pay attention to now? " It was a long time before she came out. Dressed in ordinary clothes, with no fresh decoration, a round bun hanging down to the eyebrows, blushing cheeks and a Zhang Yanli face. She sat down beside Zheng, showing reluctance. But the beauty of Cui Yingying still shocked Zhang Sheng. At this time, Yuan Zhen was twenty-two years old and Ying Ying was seventeen.
Zhang sheng was fascinated by it, and his mood could no longer be calm. He wanted to confess to Yingying, but there was no chance. Yingying's maid was called a matchmaker, and Zhang Sheng kowtowed to her many times in private, taking this opportunity to tell her what she thought. It is well known to all women and children: ask the matchmaker to send it. Miss Cui said, "You got off the Yuexi wing and the windward door was ajar. It is a person who suspects jade. " Zhang Sheng believed this and climbed over the wall into the west wing in the middle of the night. But she was scolded by Yingying and had to go back. In desperation, one night a few days later, the matchmaker came with a quilt and a pillow. Soon after she settled down, the matchmaker came with Miss Yingying. At this time, Yingying is enchanting, shy and beautiful, and her strength seems to be unable to support her body, which is completely different from her previous modesty. That night, the moon hanging obliquely in the sky was very bright, and the quiet moonlight lit up half the bed. Zhang sheng can't help but feel excited. He just suspects immortal blood. In this way, with the help of the matchmaker, Miss Cui went to Zhang Sheng's bed, and Yuan Zhen got her wish. From this, Yuan Zhen knew that if you want to get rid of the young lady, you must first get rid of your confidant maid.
Zhang Sheng asked the matchmaker to pass the note, and the matchmaker asked him, "Why don't you propose?" Zhang Sheng, who doesn't call himself an apprentice, found an excuse that all men who don't want to take the responsibility of marriage at home or abroad are deceiving themselves: "I'm afraid I can't control myself when I see a young lady, and I don't even have time to eat and sleep." If Mingmei wants to get married, she has to accept it and ask a name. In three months, I may die of lovesickness. "
In the following month, Zhang Sheng went out in the dark and entered in the dark, and had sex with Cui Yingying in the west wing, staged a midnight carnival. In the meantime, when asked about Beebee Cheng's attitude, Yingying replied: "You know what you can't do. You can do it because you want to." In other words, my mother knows that she is helpless, so she wants to help us.
But after that, there were no followers. Zhang Sheng is going to Chang 'an. Cui Yingying said nothing, but his face was sad. A few months later, Zhang Sheng came to Zhou Pu again and had a party with Yingying for several months. Obviously, Zhang Sheng has no intention of marrying Yingying at all. Why else can't it be finalized after so long? Soon, Zhang Sheng's exam day arrived. On the night before leaving, Zhang Sheng sighed in front of Ying Ying. Yingying already knows that she is going to break up. She complained to Zhang Sheng sadly, "It was a mess at first, but it was abandoned in the end." Later, Yingying played a song "The West Chamber" for Zhang Sheng, but before she played it a few times, the piano made a sad sound, and everyone around her heard its cry. Cui Yingying suddenly "broke the piano and wept bitterly, lingering" and hurried back to his mother's house, never coming out again. The next morning, Zhang Sheng set out for Chang 'an.
In the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan, Zhang Sheng was not admitted to the official department. When he was lonely in Chang 'an, he thought of Cui Yingying and wrote her a letter containing a box of Watson and five-inch ointment. After receiving the letter, Yingying wrote back a long letter, in which she described the suffering of lovesickness and secretly accused Zhang Sheng of causing confusion and abandonment.
Zhang Sheng showed his friends Cui Yingying's sad and touching love letters, and his friends began to have sex and sexual harassment. My friend asked him why he gave up Cui Yingying. Zhang Sheng replied, "Any beautiful creature will hurt others, not yourself." If Cui Yingying marries a rich family, she will become jiaozi and Dragon. I don't know what will happen to her. Once upon a time, the Shang Zhouwang on Zhou Youwang, a country with a population of one million, had great power. However, a woman can make them die, keep them away from others, and make them come to no good end, which is still laughed at by the world. My virtue is not enough to defeat evil spirits, so I have to restrain my feelings and break up with her. "In this way, Yuan Zhen put the blame on a beautiful spoony helpless woman.
Yuan Zhen also wrote in The West Chamber: "After eighteen, Cui got engaged and Zhang got married." According to the year of Yingying Biography, it happened to be the nineteenth year of Zhenyuan, and it was also the time when Yuan Zhen attached himself to the newly appointed Jing Wei and married his daughter Wei Cong. As a result, Yuan Zhen entered the secretarial section and became the treasurer of the school.
After Cui Yingying got married, Zhang Sheng wanted to see her as a cousin, but Cui Yingying refused to come out to see her. A few days later, Zhang Sheng is leaving. She wrote a farewell poem: "Why abandon me now, then kiss myself." I will pity the person in front of me, too. "Since then, there is no news.
Coincidentally, Yuan Zhen's initial confusion and final abandonment are not isolated evidence. The fourth year of Yuan Dynasty was also the seventh year that Yuan Zhen and Wei Cong got married. Wei Cong is ill in bed. Yuan Zhen, who was in charge of supervising the proposal at that time, went to Chengdu on business. In order to please Yuan Zhen, Yan Kong sent Xue Tao, a famous poetess, to serve him. When his wife died, Yuan Zhen and Xue Tao, who was 1 1 years older than him, were inseparable. Xue Tao even pinned his hopes for the rest of his life on Yuan Zhen. A few months later, Wei Cong died, and Yuan Zhen left Chengdu and returned to Chang 'an. Xue Tao's feelings followed in Cui Yingying's footsteps. He is not married.
"Once the sea is hard to find water, it will always be amber. Look at these flowers, half are monks and half are monarchs. " This is a poem written by Yuan Zhen in memory of his dead wife. But what Yuan Zhen wrote is inconsistent with what he did. In the same year from 0755 to 79000, when I was writing a mourning poem for my wife, Yuan Zhen married a concubine in Jiangling House.
In the fifth year of Daiwa in Tang Wenzong, Yuan Zhen died suddenly in Wuchang Uprising at the age of 53. According to folklore, Yuan Zhen died of lightning.
A man who idles all his life and is abandoned at the beginning will never have a good reputation, even though he has a high position and good literary talent.