? Beauty Shang Linglong: A West Lake brothel woman who fascinated both Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen.

She is an official in Hangzhou. She is good at painting, knows good food and can sing and dance. She refused to give in to the other side. Later, she devoted herself wholeheartedly and enviously wrote Colorful Feathers for her. So she went to Yuezhou to have an affair. When she was discovered, she was expelled from the official prostitute status. She went to Yuan Zhen to take her in again. At this time, Yuan Zhen had a new love, but he never saw each other again. After that, she stopped playing and dancing. I just looked at the West Lake with disappointment and opened a pub with plain clothes. ……& gt； Bouncing >: For Bai Juyi, the West Lake night in August 822 AD made him unforgettable. This night, the bright moon is in the sky, and the thick osmanthus fragrance almost makes people want to taste it with their tongues. Playing the piano is amazing. She naturally stays in Bai Juyi's poems forever, just like the pipa girl Bai Juyi met in Jiangtou, Xunyang. Bai Juyi came to Hangzhou in July this year to make a secretariat. He loves Jiangnan, as can be seen from his poems. In Hangzhou alone, he wrote more than 200 poems, accounting for almost one tenth of all his poems. When he arrived in Hangzhou, he was very busy, digging ancient wells and building Bai Causeway. At that time, the poet Yuan Zhen was pushed out of the palace and became an official in Shaoxing, which was boring and a bit broken. I was too excited to sit still when I heard that Brother Bai had come to Hangzhou. He and Bai Juyi were so good that they changed their trousers that they were called "Bai Yuan" by later generations. Bai Juyi came to Hangzhou for half a month, but also rushed over and arranged a welcome banquet for Bai Juyi in Xubaitang. Bai Juyi said, "Forget it. It is better to do less things that waste people and money. Yuan Zhen said discontentedly, "Oh, just be a small sesame official and turn your back on others. "To tell you the truth, brother, I actually heard that there is a beautiful woman named Shang Linglong by the West Lake. I also want to take the opportunity to meet her true colors. Don't spoil my fun." Bai Juyi was originally a lothario who couldn't move his feet when he saw a beautiful woman. When she heard that there was a beautiful woman, of course she wanted to feast her eyes. & gt that autumn night, Shang Linglong was the last finale. She has just appeared, with a graceful figure and a plain white skirt. Under the breeze, she is accompanied by the melody of the sad ancient song "Ya", just like a moonlight, or just a dream. Xi Murong, a contemporary Taiwan Province poetess, described such an artistic conception in her works: > Is the woman who plays the piano also sixteen? & gt or, me tonight, > is that woman? & gt It has been waiting for thousands of years, > That gentle and humble soul, > When Yingying blooms, she lingers and cries. > the same person ... > Bai Juyi fell in love with Shang Linglong that night. Shang Linglong is an official prostitute, who is good at painting, knows good food and can sing and dance. Although in his most official days, he has fallen in love with countless women with excellent color and art, Shang Linglong is undoubtedly the most attentive and affectionate one. When he is free, he likes to drive her around the West Lake in a carriage, and he also likes to whip his horse to run. Shang Linglong was frightened and couldn't help getting into Bai Juyi's arms. Bai Juyi stroked Shang Linglong's petite body, and the tide of love flooded his old heart. He held her tightly in his arms like a frightened bird. However, he never hurt her, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't bear it. The flirting between Bai Juyi and the monk Linglong certainly reached Yuan Zhen's ears across the water. The lecherous poet finally could not sit still. He made up his mind to send Shang Linglong ten poems in a row, but Shang Linglong ignored them. In a rage, Yuan Zhen rushed to Hangzhou. You know, in front of women, he Yuan Zhen has never been so despised. His love story is also good, better than Cui Yingying in The West Chamber. Xue Tao, a Chengdu poetess, was a talented woman who invented Xue Tao's notes and was also his ex-girlfriend. He doesn't believe that he can't play with you. Yes, you are a peerless beauty, but no matter how beautiful you are, you are also an official prostitute. You have an extra license than a prostitute. What's there to boast about? It was the poet's trip to Hangzhou that gave birth to a new epigraph in poetry: Linglong Four Offenders. & gt "Linglong Four Criminals" is wonderful > When Yuan Zhen came to Hangzhou, all he could think about was Shang Linglong. Bai Juyi, a good friend, showed him around the West Lake. Anyway, he doesn't like anything, and he is bent on seeing Shang Linglong. Bai Juyi said, "Qian Qian, a beautiful woman by the West Lake. Why do you always have to struggle with me? " It used to be like this, and it still is. You must be in love with all the stereotypes I like, and your eyes are always staring at my mouth, brother. What do you mean? Yuan Zhen retorted, "You can't say that. You have only been in Hangzhou for two months, so I recommended this Shang Linglong to you. How can you say you fell in love with me for the first time? Bai Juyi said to him in a low voice, "Although I haven't been in Hangzhou for a long time, I know many girls in Hangzhou. How about I take you to meet some? Yuan Zhen said, "Great secretariat, no matter how good the girl is, you'd better keep it for yourself. I only like Shang Linglong. To tell you the truth, if you don't take me to see her tonight, I won't recognize you as a brother. & gt or, me tonight, > is that woman? & gt It has been waiting for thousands of years, > That gentle and humble soul, > When Yingying blooms, she lingers and cries. > the same person ... > Bai Juyi fell in love with Shang Linglong that night. Shang Linglong is an official prostitute, who is good at painting, knows good food and can sing and dance. Although in his most official days, he has fallen in love with countless women with excellent color and art, Shang Linglong is undoubtedly the most attentive and affectionate one. When he is free, he likes to drive her around the West Lake in a carriage, and he also likes to whip his horse to run. Shang Linglong was frightened and couldn't help getting into Bai Juyi's arms. Bai Juyi stroked Shang Linglong's petite body, and the tide of love flooded his old heart. He held her tightly in his arms like a frightened bird. However, he never hurt her, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't bear it. The flirting between Bai Juyi and the monk Linglong certainly reached Yuan Zhen's ears across the water. The lecherous poet finally could not sit still. He made up his mind to send Shang Linglong ten poems in a row, but Shang Linglong ignored them. In a rage, Yuan Zhen rushed to Hangzhou. You know, in front of women, he Yuan Zhen has never been so despised. His love story is also good, better than Cui Yingying in The West Chamber. Xue Tao, a Chengdu poetess, was a talented woman who invented Xue Tao's notes and was also his ex-girlfriend. He doesn't believe that he can't play with you. Yes, you are a peerless beauty, but no matter how beautiful you are, you are also an official prostitute. You have an extra license than a prostitute. What's there to boast about? It was the poet's trip to Hangzhou that gave birth to a new epigraph in poetry: Linglong Four Offenders. & gt "Linglong Four Criminals" is wonderful > When Yuan Zhen came to Hangzhou, all he could think about was Shang Linglong. Bai Juyi, a good friend, showed him around the West Lake. Anyway, he doesn't like anything, and he is bent on seeing Shang Linglong. Bai Juyi said, "Qian Qian, a beautiful woman by the West Lake. Why do you always have to struggle with me? "It used to be like this, and it is still like this. You must be in love with all the stereotypes I like, and your eyes are always staring at my mouth, brother. What do you mean? Yuan Zhen retorted, "You can't say that. You have only been in Hangzhou for two months, so I recommended this Shang Linglong to you. How can you say you fell in love with me for the first time? Bai Juyi said to him in a low voice, "Although I haven't been in Hangzhou for a long time, I know many girls in Hangzhou. How about I take you to meet some? Yuan Zhen said, "Great secretariat, no matter how good the girl is, you'd better keep it for yourself. I only like Shang Linglong. To tell you the truth, if you don't take me to see her tonight, I won't recognize you as a brother. & gt Bai Juyi listened without saying a word and immediately returned to the yamen with Yuan Zhen. Yuan Zhen thought he would take him to see Shang Linglong, so excited that he found himself back in the yamen, filled with unhappiness. Bai Juyi said, "You know, an official prostitute like Shang Linglong has a long queue in front of her door every day. Yuan Zhen seemed to believe it, and Bai Juyi said, "Of course, I am a secretariat. If I plug in the back door, no one will gossip. Ok, I'll send her a message to stay with us tomorrow night, but she's alone, but there are two of you and me. What did you say?/Sorry? "Yuan Zhen thought for a long time, and suddenly he had a brainwave, saying that it was better to fight poems with two people to see who wrote the poems, so Shang Linglong was invited to judge and reason. Bai Juyi nodded in agreement, and the two of them separately began to write poems in paper and ink, using words and sentences. & gt The next day, I got my wish and met Shang Linglong in Xubaitang. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen waited for a long time in the living room, and Shang Linglong came out slowly from behind the veil. The servant quickly set a table of dining tables in the yard. Through the flower window, the West Lake is as flat as a mirror, and the moon is broken into rotten silver and hung on the lake. Shang Linglong filled two glasses of wine in Yuan Zhen's infatuated eyes, and the two poets sitting on both sides nodded and smiled. Bai Juyi got up and paced for a moment, then whispered: > From the north side of Gushan Temple to the west side of Jiating, the lake was just flush with the embankment, the clouds hung low, and the waves on the lake became one. & gt Several early orioles raced to the sunny tree, and their new swallows carried mud in their nests. & gt Colorful spring flowers will gradually fascinate people's eyes, and shallow spring grass can barely cover the horseshoe. & gt I love the beauty on the east bank of the West Lake, and I can't get enough of it, especially the white sand embankment under the green poplar. & gt Yuan Zhen has always been competitive, but he certainly doesn't want to fall behind Bai Juyi. He looked up at the moon for a while, and then recited a poem: > Under the west wing of the moon, the windward door was half open. & gt The flowers on the wall are moving, and it is suspected that they are jade people. & gt After several rounds, it was difficult for the two men to win or lose, which made Shang Linglong very embarrassed. It is said that in the end, Shang Linglong refused to let them write freely, but set the rhythm and number of words of the poem, so that they could fill in the words according to a certain epigraph. Yuan Zhen didn't agree, and he was flushed with Shang Linglong. With a wave of his hand, Bai Juyi wrote a farewell song on rice paper: > The picturesque scenery in the south of the Yangtze River has long been familiar. & gt When spring comes, the sun rises from the river, the flowers on the river are brighter than red, and the green river is greener than the blue grass. & gt How can people not miss Jiangnan? Jiang Nanyi, the most memorable is Hangzhou. & gt Looking for laurel seeds in Zhongshan Temple, watching the tide on the pillow in the county pavilion, when will you revisit? & gt After singing this poem, even Yuan Zhen applauded and admitted defeat. However, the clever and exquisite Shang Linglong couldn't help but be overjoyed after reading it. When he was about to set this poem to music, he played it out and sang it, which led Yuan Zhen to stay in Hangzhou for a long time. At his suggestion, Bai Juyi asked Shang Linglong to find some young ladies who can sing and dance and set up a music class. Shang Linglong plays the piano, Xie plays the guzheng, and plays the piano and sheng respectively. Whenever there is a bright moon, Bai Juyi invites a group of literati to go boating in the West Lake and play the flute to enjoy the moon. Yuan Zhen envied this beautiful day in the world, and took out money to "borrow" Shang Linglong to accompany him to play in Shaoxing for a month. Bai Juyi flatly refused, and Shang Linglong naturally declined. Finally, Yuan Zhen angrily returned to Shaoxing. Not long after, he found that the poetic rhythm set by Shang Linglong was named "Linglong Four Offenders" by Bai Juyi, and new epigrams had been circulated among scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. > Bai Juyi got a new epigraph, Linglong Four Offenders, which was deeply loved by people. Yuan Zhen was so jealous that she secretly wrote a poem "Colorful Feather" for Shang Linglong to sing by her little sisters. Shang Linglong has entrusted himself to Bai Juyi at this time, and the two fell in love in the spring breeze. Bai Juyi wrote more than 200 poems praising the West Lake, probably written during this period. As a close friend, he certainly knows Yuan Zhen's character. It is right to keep him away from Shang Linglong, and it is also an effective protection for Shang Linglong. Other officials, because of the secretariat's face, knew that Shang Linglong was Bai Juyi's pet prostitute and voluntarily retired. But "Cai Yu" changed hands several times and was finally delivered to Shang Linglong. Shang Linglong has been immersed in the romantic scenery of the West Lake for a long time and knows that good poems are bad. She couldn't put it down, so she couldn't help secretly tryst with Yuan Zhen without telling Bai Juyi, and hinted to him that if "Colorful Feather" could be matched with music, she would definitely play at the concert. & gt Yuan Zhen was very excited. He stayed up for three nights, and then put "Colorful Feathers" with music to write "Clothing and Accessories". Shang Linglong invited Xie, Shen Ping and three geisha to rehearse a "Clothing and Accessories Score", which was performed twice in a row by the West Lake, causing a sensation in Hangzhou. Bai Juyi pretended not to know after knowing it, but turned a blind eye. However, Yuan Zhen pushed his luck and let him "borrow" Shang Linglong to Yuezhou (Shaoxing) for a month to perform "chicken feathers in clothes", which made him somewhat humiliated. In Bai Juyi's era, it was a very decent thing for officials, literati or wealthy businessmen to get together and have geisha as escort, not to mention Shang Linglong was a famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River. Bai Juyi flatly refused. He said to Yuan Zhen, "You and I are like brothers. You can borrow anything, including money. I promise you for nothing, but I can't borrow Shang Linglong. You know who she is. She is the pride of this official. Hearing this, Yuan Zhen turned pale and knew that it was useless to say anything, so he had to return to Shaoxing despondently. & gt Later, an ancient book, Tang Yulin, was found in the Shanghai Library, and this story was recorded in the moldy and tattered thread-bound book: "In the second year of Changqing, Bai Juyi took Chinese books as the secretariat of Hangzhou, and there were official prostitutes in Hangzhou, such as Shang Linglong and Xie, who were skillful in coping with it and could sing and dance well. Bai Juyi celebrated with poetry and wine. When Yuan Zhen heard of Yuezhou, he invited Linglong with thick coins, and gave him a song in vain. & gt The records in the history books are quite different from the folklore of the West Lake. According to legend, Shang Linglong did not actually send Bai Juyi to Yuezhou, but secretly made an appointment with Yuan Zhen and lived in Yuezhou for a month before coming back. But she lied to Bai Juyi, saying that her mother was critically ill and wanted to take a leave of absence in January to wait on her. In the face of filial piety, Bai Juyi certainly can't refuse. Never thought, Shang Linglong couldn't hold on to Yuan Zhen's persistent pestering and beating, and his heart moved greatly-besides, the other party was a handsome guy who was beautiful, rich, romantic and talented, and the "clothing spectrum" was beautiful and moving, just like Yue Xian, which really moved her. Shang Linglong, who is used to seeing the romantic West Lake, couldn't bear to refuse and secretly dated him for a month. Yuan Zhen can't bear to pretend anything. When I sent Shang Linglong back to Hangzhou to see Bai Juyi again, I showed him a poem: > Don't send Linglong to sing my words. My words are all poems for you. & gt However, he turned back to the river. > When the moon sets, it's time to go. & gt Bai Juyi thought of Shang Linglong's "disappearance" this month, and vaguely felt that something was wrong. After repeated questioning, Yuan Zhen confessed what had happened. Bai Juyi wore a cuckold husband and was livid with anger. It is said that when he left Hangzhou later, he fired Shang Linglong's official prostitute. Shang Linglong sent Xie Hao to plead with Bai Juyi, but Bai Juyi was unmoved. Shang Linglong had no choice but to leave the West Lake and come to Shaoxing to take refuge in Yuan Zhen. At this time, Yuan Zhen had a new lover. At first, he rented a house to settle Shang Linglong, came to see her from time to time and gave her a few small coins. Later, after a long time, I couldn't even see her face. Shang Linglong's life was unsustainable and she flowed into the ranks of wild prostitutes. Soon, he fell ill, returned to Hangzhou and died in a grass temple near Jianhu Lake. A small businessman named Xie found her and helped her go to the yamen to find Yuan Zhen. It never occurred to me that Yuan Zhen was transferred to other places as early as six months ago. Unbearable, the small businessman paid for her treatment and decided to take her away sadly and asked her where she wanted to go. Shang Linglong thought about it and said only two words: Hangzhou. & gt Soon, a pub opened in Baigongdi, Hangzhou. The proprietress in plain clothes is Shang Linglong, but Hangzhou people have not recognized her. In the dead of night, she will come to the West Lake alone to have a look. She no longer plays and dances in clothes. She didn't say anything. She just glanced disappointedly at the water that gave her hate and love. By the way, she threw a basin of face washing water into the West Lake, which was said by Zhang Ailing. She said: "West Lake water is the face washing water of famous prostitutes in the former dynasty. & gt People who visit the West Lake will not think that this ordinary woman who washes her face in the West Lake is a beautiful woman who once played by the West Lake. & gt