What did Wei Zhuang write to a Taoist at the age of 65? Why did the Taoist priest die of hunger strike after reading it?

In the Tang Dynasty, Taoism was regarded as the state religion, so the daughters of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty often practiced Taoism. After becoming female Taoist priests, they live freely and can actually fall in love. It has become a fashion for aristocratic women to become Taoists, and ladies and daughters are also happy to become Taoists. It is precisely because of the strong wind of advocating Taoism in the Tang Dynasty that many literati also entered Taoism to study and practice, so many poets have been in love with female Taoist priests. For example, Princess Yu Zhen, the sister of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, has no real Taoist name, and both Li Bai and Wang Wei have become rivals in love because they like her.

It is nothing new that Wei Zhuang, who was born in troubled times in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote lyrics for female Taoist priests. Wei Zhuang was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and was a representative of China Huajian School with Wen. The style of writing is beautiful and the feelings are elegant. Wei Zhuang once had an affair with a female Taoist priest. A year after he left this Taoist woman, at the age of 65, he wrote the immortal masterpiece The Queen of Women to express his homesickness.

In the Tang Dynasty, women didn't wear crowns, only women Taoist priests wore crowns. The inscription of the female crown comes from Taoist music. In this poem, Wei Zhuang tells the story of lovesickness in the tone of a female Taoist priest, which is actually the opposite, in order to express his love for the female Taoist priest. Among them, the most classic sentence describing the worries of lovesickness of female Taoist priests is: put up with tears and put on a mask, and be ashamed. It means that women don't want their lovers to see their lovesickness with tears all over their faces, so they simply don't see each other. There must be a reason for not looking at each other, and that is shyness. This sentence can be described as amazing.

After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Zhuang went to Qianshu to serve Wang Jian and became prime minister. Wang Jian, on the other hand, forcibly took away his favorite woman, that is, the woman written in the crown of women, so that Wei Zhuang could write this historic masterpiece. The last sentence of this word is the saddest: no one knows it except for half a month. I don't want my lover to be ruthlessly taken away by the king. This kind of bitterness, only the moon knows. How can I follow it?