The reason why these two talented women are singled out is mainly because they are both talented women with "beautiful color and artistic beauty".
Li Jilan, a gifted scholar in the Tang Dynasty, said that she was "beautiful with a weak expression", which shows that she is a beautiful girl. This beautiful woman is not only good at writing poems, but also good at playing the piano. How good are Li Jilan's poems? Her contemporaries, Liu Changqing, who claimed to be the "Great Wall of Five Words", and Gao Zhongwu, a famous critic who edited Zhongxing Miracle, all spoke highly of her. Liu called her a "heroine" and praised her as "rare after Bao Zhao".
Li Jilan's romantic literary talent is mainly manifested in his communication and conversation with a group of male poets. After becoming a monk, Li Jilan traveled back and forth to Shaoxing, and had close contacts with hermit Lu Yu and high monk Jiao Ran. On one occasion, Jiao Ran wrote in a reply to Li Jilan: "Goddess wants to dye clothes. I can't stand Zen, and I still hold presbyopia. " It is conceivable that when they are together, their manners are quite casual.
More casual is with Liu Changqing and others. Once in Kaiyuan Temple in Wucheng (present-day Xing Wu) with a group of literati, Li Jilan learned that Liu Changqing was seriously ill with yin, that is, hernia, so he joked about Tao Yuanming's poem "The weather is getting better every day". Liu Changqing is certainly not Woodenhead. He replied, "All birds are happy to be entrusted." . It is also a poem by Tao Yuanming. I'm afraid some very pure friends can't understand it. Let me rap and explain: Li Jilan refers to the most intimate part of Liu Changqing's body with the homonym of "mountain spirit"; Liu Changqing did not shy away from using "bird" to refer to "Diao", indicating that scrotum enlargement is also useful-the second child has something to rely on. With Tao Yuanming's poems, elegant; Refers to the secret parts of the body, vulgarity. It is romantic to describe great customs gracefully. It is said that the effect at that time was "laughter" and "the best of both worlds". In other words, their romance was recognized by people at that time.
Xue Tao is a famous prostitute of a generation. It is recorded in the literature that "she has a beautiful appearance, a particularly good tone, and she is rewarded between words and jokes" (He Guangyuan's Lessons, Volume 10). Xue Tao is undoubtedly a versatile woman. As we all know, in addition to writing poems and playing music, she also made a technical invention of making short poems-she was named "Xue". In addition, according to Xuanhe Shupu, her calligraphy is also very good. "Writing is not feminine, and the brushwork is fierce. The beauty of her calligraphy is comparable to that of Wang Xizhi. " During the Northern Song Dynasty, Xue Tao's original poem Hemerocallis was collected.
Xue Tao's poems are only widely known, and I introduced them slightly in that article. Let me talk about her eloquence here.
Xue Tao in the communication field, the ancients used eight words to describe: "alert and carefree, laughing and laughing". During the dinner, Xue Tao and a secretariat played a game called "Thousand-character Wen Ling", and the sentence "Thousand-character Wen Ling" he recited must contain a word of birds, animals, fish and birds. The secretariat said #e#' s "Yu" first, and the other guests at the table held back their laughter and didn't punish him. It's Xue Tao's turn. She said "Zuo's Aheng". The secretariat immediately pointed out that there were no words like fish and birds in Xue Tao's sentence, and Xue Tao should be punished. Xue Tao said with a smile, "There are also small fish in the constant word. Your sentence' Yu Tangtao' actually has no fish. " It seems that this secretariat is a clown and doesn't know Chinese characters-he uses "Yu" as a "fish". On another occasion, Xue Tao once played a game of "one-word command" with Gao Pian, the highest official in Chengdu (he is also a poet), put forward an pictographic character, and then explained it in rhyming sentences. Gao Pian said first: "Mouth, it seems that there is no dispute." Beam, handle also. Without thinking, Xue Tao replied, "Chuan, there are three rafters." Gao Pian asked why there are three rivers instead of one winding river. Xue Tao answered him, "You are an envoy to give up, but you still use a bucket (measuring device) without a handle. A poor girl like me has three rafters at home, one of which is curved. What's strange? " Through homonym, she skillfully transformed the word "Sichuan" with the meaning of rivers into the word "rafter". 9 7 3 1 2 4 8 :