Sikong Tu wrote in "Elegance" in "Twenty-Four Poems": "Falling flowers are speechless, and people are as pale as chrysanthemums." It describes a person who should be as calm and persistent as a chrysanthemum. He should be calm beyond temptation and within his integrity. He should reject prosperity and keep his heart as simple as simplicity.
The poet Yuan Zhen even pointed out the reason for loving chrysanthemum: "It's not that chrysanthemum is preferred among flowers, but that there will be no flowers after all the flowers are in bloom." In late autumn, when all the flowers have faded, only the chrysanthemum can endure the wind and frost without withering. It is not ranked among the other fragrant flowers, adding vitality to the world.
There is such a woman in "Liancheng Jue", Jin Yong praised her in his review as "she is as pale as a chrysanthemum". This is an appropriate description of her. She is well-named, has a delicate appearance, and has a character as noble as a chrysanthemum.
Her name is Ling Shuanghua.
"Liancheng Jue" is a special one among Jin Yong's works. It is a "bad book" that writes about the "badness" of all kinds of people in the world: a disciple kills his master, his father kills his daughter, and he seizes the throne. A wife harms her friends' lives, friends turn against each other, fellow sects kill each other, heroes are violent and ferocious, gentlemen reveal their selfish desires, they are pure and evil, and they are extremely bad.
This book writes about the human heart, the state of the world, and true love. Especially under the extreme ugliness of human nature, true love is particularly precious and dazzling.
It would be gratifying to say that Di Yun and Shui Sheng joined hands with Snow Valley and stayed together for life in a clean and warm world. The love between Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua spanned life and death, leaving a touching swan song story.
The chrysanthemums are blooming, and I know you.
At the Chrysanthemum Festival in Hankou in September, Ding Dian, an ugly and rough man who lives in the rivers and lakes, encounters Ling Shuanghua, an official lady who is admiring chrysanthemums. Miss Ling is wearing a bright yellow shirt. She is as pale as a chrysanthemum, elegant and beautiful. He was stunned, like a young man who fell in love for the first time, he turned into a headless fly and foolishly followed him to the Hanlin Mansion.
In his heart, he just hoped to see Ling Shuanghua a few more times and be satisfied. Ling Shuanghua was kind-hearted. Seeing his appearance, he put chrysanthemums on the window sill of the red building. After more than six months, Ding Dian would do this every morning. When I go to enjoy flowers, Lingshuanghua will always change the flowers into a pot regardless of rain or shine.
Think of the red building. There are windows upstairs and flowers on the window sill. Behind the flowers is a beauty. The two of them were secretly in love because of the chrysanthemum.
Later, Ding Dian was killed by two monks from the Blood Knife Sect. During the injury and recuperation period, I missed my daily appointments. When they met again a year later, the two confided in their hearts. At night, they roamed in the wilderness, talking about everything, but never behaved in the least. They were more confidants than the best friends in the world.
The chrysanthemums are floating, just like you.
Ling Shuanghua is a lady who abides by "the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker". She wants to tell her father, Ling Tuisi, about the two of them. She said that his father loves her the most and will definitely agree. In this way, the two of them will No need to be sneaky.
Ling Tuisi did agree readily, but they did not expect that Ling Tuisi would be the biggest obstacle on their road to love. The tiger's poison does not eat its seeds, so he sacrificed himself in order to get the Shen Zhao Jing and Liancheng Jue from Ding Dian. his own daughter.
Ding Dian was shackled, pierced with pipa bones, imprisoned, and tortured. Ling Shuanghua was forced by Ling Tuisi in every possible way to get her married. When she was helpless, Ling Shuanghua cut her own face with a knife.
A beautiful girl’s face was slashed seventeen or eight times horizontally and vertically. Her muscles were turned out, and there were bright red scars all over her face. Her eyes, nose, and mouth were all crooked. , become like a demon.
Even so, Ling Tuisi still did not let Ling Shuanghua go, asking her to swear a poisonous oath not to see Ding Dian, otherwise her mother would be bullied by evil spirits every day in the underworld.
Ling Shuanghua was a filial person and told Ding Dian that we could not be together in this life. She only hoped that we could be buried together after we died. Ding Dian is willing to go back to prison and look at the flowers by the window of Ling Shuanghua's upstairs every day, expressing his longing for him. As long as the flowers bloom every day, this miserable prison will become warm.
The chrysanthemum remains, and the king's point.
Finally one day, the flowers by the window withered. In order to obtain the treasure, Ling Tuisi used methods that could no longer be described as vicious. It was simply frightening.
He buried his daughter alive, sprinkled poison on the coffin, and harmed Ding Dian.
Before Ling Shuanghua died, he carved on the coffin lid with his nails: "Ding Lang, Ding Lang, we will be husband and wife again in the next life."
Ding Dian also died of poisoning, and Di Yun Fulfilling their wish, Ding Dian's ashes were scattered on Ling Shuanghua's body, so that they could live in the same nest and die in the same cave, leaving people missing each other.
Di Yun had been betrayed by his junior sister Qi Fang, so he questioned whether Ling Shuanghua was deceiving Ding Dian.
Ding Dian said to Di Yun: "Brother, you have been betrayed by women, so much so that you don't trust women in the world, and I won't blame you. If Shuanghua was ordered by her father to use her beauty trap, , Why should she lie? Just say, in my heart, this wonderful book is nothing more than dirt." He used the story of himself and Ling Shuanghua to teach Di Yun a lesson, so that Di Yun could understand the world. Complex, but also restored the pure and simple side of the heart,
Roland Barthes said: "During the violent attack, because the lover feels that the realm of love is like a dead end, a trap from which he cannot extricate himself, She would rather destroy herself.”
Ling Shuanghua's belief in love transcends life and death, and transcends despair. She looks down on the vicissitudes of life, looks down on the beauty of the moon, and faces death with a transcendent attitude with her lover, fulfilling pure love.
But people like Ling Tuisi attach great importance to fame, wealth, gold and silver, and judge others by themselves, thinking that everyone in the world is like him who values ??wealth over righteousness. He has forgotten that the world has always been about wealth and righteousness. Some people stick to their principles and integrity, and they remain persistent and determined no matter how spring flowers and autumn months come and go.
It’s September again.
In front of the tomb on a hill twelve miles away from the east gate of Jiangling, the ground is covered with yellow flowers, blooming frost, gold pistils and silver petals, competing for beauty, as if telling a silent, poignant and touching love story. .
This is the chrysanthemum Di Yun planted in front of the tombs of Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua.
Here is buried a girl as pale as a chrysanthemum and her lifelong lover.
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