Yan Rui, whose surname is Zhou and whose given name is Youfang, is of Han nationality and whose date of birth and death is unknown, is a female poet in the mid-Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in a low-end society and studied music and poetry since childhood. Later, he became a prostitute in Taizhou and changed his stage name to Yan Rui. Yan Rui is good at playing the piano, playing chess, singing and dancing, playing silk and bamboo, calligraphy and painting. His knowledge covers both ancient and modern times, and his poems have fresh semantics. He was famous all over the world and traveled thousands of miles to visit each other.
Human life
In the ninth year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Taizhou magistrate Tang registered as Yan Rui and Wang Hui, and returned to Huangyan to live with his mother.
In the same year, Zhu, the envoy from Changping in eastern Zhejiang, visited Taizhou. Because the Yongkang faction of Tang Dynasty opposed Zhu Neo-Confucianism, Zhu impeached Tang Dynasty in six consecutive sentences. The third and fourth sentences dealt with Tang and Yan Rui's crimes. He ordered Huang Yan to arrest Yan Rui, take him to Taizhou and Shaoxing, whip him, and force him to confess. "In two months, he was beaten to death many times." Yan Ruining refused to accept and said: "As a cheap prostitute, even if there is abuse between the prefect and the prefect, the teacher will not die; but no matter whether it is true or false, you cannot slander a person. Scholar-bureaucrat, even if you die."
The government and the public discussed this matter, which shocked Song Xiaozong. Xiaozong thought it was "scholars competing for leisure", so he handed Zhu over to Yue Fei's descendants, imprisoned him for a period of time, and then released Yan Rui and asked about his family. Yan Rui wrote about Bu Suanzi's love for Fengchen: "It's not love, it seems to have been mistaken by the frontier. When the flowers bloom, I always follow Dongjun. If you go, you have to go to survive! If the mountain flowers are blooming, don't ask whether the slave will come back." "Lin Yue was ordered to be a good servant, and was later adopted as a concubine by Zhao Kuangyin. There are only three poems, such as Meng Ling, Magpie Bridge Immortal, and Fortune Telling. Based on this, the play Mo Wennu Returns has been running for a long time.