Xue Mei
Xue Tao is my favorite poetess in the Tang Dynasty.
Gao Chao, a writer in Qing Dynasty, said in A Dream Shadow: "A red dress doesn't have to be literary, but it must be interesting." Xue Tao is both poetic and insightful. How can I not love such a woman? Unfortunately, her love is a vast wasteland with dim flowers.
Bashu land, Lingshan Xiushui, outstanding people. When the stories of Huang Li, Zhuo Wenjun and Mrs. Hua Rui were widely circulated in Shu, a famous talented woman appeared in Chengdu. She was Xue Tao.
God's care gave a talented woman Zhu Yan a beautiful appearance, gave her extraordinary talent, but deprived her of happiness. It was the fate of a talented woman in feudal times that her family declined and her fate was ill-fated and she became a prostitute. Xue Tao can't escape this fate.
Xue Yun, a small official in Kyoto, experienced an Anshi rebellion. He witnessed the horrors of fighting each other, rivers of blood and separation of his wife and children. Behind the prosperity is an earth-shattering bloody fight. So after the war, his family moved to remote Chengdu, hoping to live a quiet life away from the stormy land of Beijing.
Society is still in turmoil. Xue Yun and his wife Pei, who are in exile in Chengdu, Sichuan, live in fear every day. Soon, Pei gave birth to a daughter, and Xue Yunsi thought twice and named it Tao with the word "Hongdu".
Social unrest made Xue Yun see through the world. He is tired of officialdom, so most of them stay at home, concentrate on his daughter, carefully set her up and teach her to read poetry books. Xue Tao, who is clever and witty, not only makes people unforgettable, but also speaks amazingly from time to time, which makes his father fondle admiringly. It is said that Xue Tao showed extraordinary talent when he was very young. At the age of eight, he could know the melody and write poems.
There is a story in The Return of Celebrities: One day, Xue Yun was sitting in the yard, pointing to a buttonwood tree by the well, and he recited the first two sentences: "An ancient paulownia was excluded from the court and rose into the clouds". After Fu Xue finished, he asked Xue Tao to continue the next two sentences. Xue Tao Jr. looked at the tall buttonwood and replied, "The branches welcome birds from north to south, and the leaves supply air." Hearing this, my father was silent for a long time. Living on a branch, seeing her off, these two words pop up inadvertently, which seem to indicate her turbulent and unfortunate fate all her life.
Life is impermanent, mixed with sorrow and joy. Just as Xue Tao was immersed in his father's care and grew up day by day, his poems increased greatly, but his father died. What a heavy blow this is to a girl of 14 years old! This means that the solid tree on which she lived has fallen down, and she really wants to be a dusty woman who "welcomes birds from the north and the south and stays in the wind." Xue Tao and his mother, Pei, live together, and their lives are extremely difficult. She wanted to cry, but she couldn't say anything. In desperation, she had to rely on her extraordinary beauty, exquisite poetry and temperament, and began to entertain guests in Happy Valley, thus being forced to become a "prostitute".
Let me see, how unwilling Xue Tao is! Who would want to embark on this humiliating road of no return if life did not force them?
Xue Tao was already famous when he was sixteen. In Tang Dezong, the imperial court appointed Wei Gao, secretary of the central government, as our ambassador to Jiannan to manage the southwest region. Wei Gao is an elegant official who is good at poetry and prose. Hearing that Xue Tao was an outstanding poet and official, he called her to the government to entertain guests. In Shuaifu, Wei Gao saw Xue Tao with fine features and fell in love with her. In order to test her talent, he ordered her to improvise poetry. Xue Tao leisurely, after a little meditation, the title of the poem "Memorial to Wushan Temple":
Visit Gaotang at the ape's crow, and smoke vanilla all the way;
The mountains have not forgotten Song Yu, and the sound of water makes you cry.
Under the balcony at night, rain is the death of Chu;
There are many willows in front of the temple, and the thrush comes to the sky in spring.
This seven-character poem is full of scenery, feelings and historical allusions, revealing a sad and melancholy feeling. After Xue Tao's poem was written, Wei Gao took a look. He couldn't help exclaiming, "What a talented woman!" Since then, Wei Gao, who loves talents, has shown great affection for Xue Tao. Every time he hosted a banquet in Shuaifu, Wei Gao asked Xue Tao to wait on the banquet and write poems. Xue Tao became a frequent visitor to Shuaifu.
Wei Gao shogunate is full of talents, and most of them are famous. Xue Tao often greets and delivers things in Shuaifu, and her fame is widely spread in Chengdu without any hype. She became an important figure in the communication field in central Sichuan.
Xue Tao has been in contact with many powerful people for a long time, and he has learned to observe what he says and does with discretion. In addition, he is smart and reasonable, and sings with his aides, which won the praise of his aides. Many people want to see her beauty and appreciate her poetic talent, so Wei Gaojia is often full. Wei Gao even praised her. He thought that the poetess who asked her to be a social party wronged her, so he tried his best to support her.
After careful consideration, Wei Gao decided to report to the court and asked Xue Tao to hold the post of school book lang. But the guards in the government advised, "When the military affairs are in a hurry, please ask a prostitute to be an official. If the court thinks it is indecent, it will not bring trouble to the reputation of comely; Even if you are lucky enough to be allowed, the red dress will inevitably damage the dignity of the government, and it is easy to leave an excuse for those who refuse to accept it. I hope the handsome guys think twice! " The address of "prostitute" in this passage and the words "a red dress will inevitably harm the dignity of the imperial court" show how humble Xue Tao is in the eyes of the world!
No matter what kind of virtue and ability Xue Tao has, she is a poetess after all, and she can't escape this fate. Unlike now, some female stars become famous overnight after being imprisoned, and there are countless flowers and applause, so the spotlight is on every day. In fact, behind the glamorous, there is also a bitter history. So what they are most afraid of is the exposure of erotic history.
If we leave Xue Tao now, she will be a red and purple actress.
In this way, Wei Gao's application to Xue Tao for a girls' school book was put on hold. Although the application for school books has not been completed, in Wei Gao's mind, Xue Tao is already an out-and-out school book for girls, and her name of "school book for girls" has spread like wildfire. Wang Jian once wrote a poem "Send a Book to Xue Tao School in Central Sichuan": "Wan Li Girls' School has a book by the bridge and lives in a pipa flower. It is better to lead the spring breeze than to sweep your eyebrows. " In this poem, Wang Jian spoke highly of Xue Tao.
Under the love of Wei Gao, Xue Tao lived a happy life as a girl who didn't know the taste of sorrow and lingered in poetry, wine and songs. She even interfered in the political affairs of the shogunate. He Guangyuan's "Lessons" Volume 10 records: "There are many people who should be invited to see Tao, and Tao is arrogant and arrogant. Regardless of suspicion, he often receives gold and silk." This caused the anger of Wei Gao. In the fifth year of Zhenyuan, Xue Tao was sent to Songzhou.
This little girl is really brave. It would be great if she gave some sunshine. Can we interfere with Wei Gaozheng? Have you forgotten who touched the red light? Have you forgotten your identity? No matter how favored you are, you are a prostitute after all!
Songzhou is the frontier of surprisingly, sparsely populated and desolate. Xue Tao felt the scene there, combined the scene of frontier fortress desert with his own inner bitterness, and wrote two poems, Punishment with Wei Xianggong and Punishment with Wei Xianggong. To tell you further, Xue Tao wrote Ten Poems for Wei Gao, saying:
After practicing Zhumen for four or five years, Mao Xiang was full of pity for his master.
Bite a family guest for no reason, don't sleep on the carpet in HongLing.
-"The Dog Away from the Lord"
The more you confess, the more flowers will be scattered on the red paper.
All fate is exhausted with a long front, and it is not allowed to be in the hands of Xi.
-"the pen leaves the hand"
Snow ears, red hair, shallow green hooves, chasing the wind and going to Japan.
In order to surprise her husband, Hua Xuan shouldn't even be booed.
-"The horse leaves the stable"
Longxi, alone, flew around and went to gold and silver.
It's inconvenient to talk, so we can't call people in cages anymore.
-"The Parrot Comes Out"
In and out of the doors, I can't bear to throw them away. The host often loves to make friends.
Mud and dirty coral pillows are not allowed to nest between beams.
-"Swallows Leave the Nest"
Bright and round, connected inside and outside, as clear as a crystal palace.
Because of a little shame, you can't stay in your hand all night.
-"pearls leave the palm"
Jump into a deep pool for four or five years and often wag your tail to take the bait.
You can't swim in the clear waves if you break the hibiscus flowers for no reason.
-"Fish Leaving the Pool"
Claws like sharp eyes like bells, catching rabbits in the plain is called high emotion.
Without reason, you can't escape Qingyun, and you can't hold the arm of the king.
-"the eagle leaves the pheasant"
I planted four or five new elements, and I was often exhausted in the autumn frost.
For the sake of bamboo shoots and spring, you are not allowed to build a jade hall.
-"Bamboo Leaving the Pavilion"
The casting mirror began to open and lingered in March and May.
In order to be blinded by infinite dust, you are not allowed to go to Huatang Yutai.
-"The Mirror Leaving Taiwan Province"
These ten poems compare themselves to dogs, pens, horses, parrots, swallows, pearls, fish, eagles, bamboo and mirrors, and compare Wei Gao to the owner, hands, stables, cages, nests, palms, pools, arms, pavilions and platforms on which he relies. Just because dogs bite relatives and friends, their pens are exhausted, the famous colt surprises Yu Lang, parrots open their mouths indiscriminately, swallow mud and sweat pillows, pearls are slightly flawed, fish play hibiscus, eagles rush into the clouds, bamboo shoots drill through walls, and mirror flowers and moons, which is really self-inflicted, regardless of rank!
Shi Li shows not only Xue Tao's extraordinary talent, but also her intelligence. Knowing that she had gone too far, she had to repent and atone for Wei Gao. Anyway, she is still entangled in his heart. Smart and witty Xue Tao, you know? After reading this poem, Wei Gao was deeply moved. Recalling all her beauty, she was quickly recalled to Chengdu and loved her as before.
Wei Gao is really kind to Xue Tao. He dotes on her and she is attached to him, but she knows that she is a vase for people to appreciate after all.
After Shi Xian was released, Xue Tao returned to Chengdu and gradually matured. Soon, she took off her music and retired to Huanhuaxi. The scenery there is beautiful. She often wears red clothes and wanders by the stream among the flowers. Without the stimulation of Shuaifu's entertainment and poetry, she threw herself into the embrace of nature, watched wild flowers and sucked the dew at night, and lived a free life. She is very satisfied. During this time, Xue Tao traveled to Rongzhou and other places, and the natural landscape ignited her poems. She wrote a lot of scenery to express her joy of being intoxicated with nature.
In the days of seclusion by the Huanhua River, Xue Tao used a brush or brush to draw red cockscomb, lotus and unknown safflower on a small piece of paper, mashed the petals into mud, added water, took the dye from the safflower and painted it on the paper to make a beautiful red note. From then on, "Xue Tao Notes" spread. Red makes people happy and excited, and also symbolizes her desire for normal life and beautiful love. She often writes poems on stationery to pay tribute to celebrities. Xue Taojian, invented by Xue Tao, left a precious cultural heritage for the Chinese nation, which also shows what an interesting woman she is!
In Yongzhenyuan, Wei Gao died. Among the ten towns after us, Duan Wenchang, Li Deyu and other five towns admire Xue Tao's talent and have close contacts with her in poetry and books. At that time, famous poets such as Wang Jian, Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi and Du Mu also sang with Xue Tao. Xue Tao, a middle-aged man, still lives a life of friendship.
Xue Tao's literati, dignitaries and Zen masters all come and go like the spring breeze, but fate never refuses to stay on her.
When the flowers should be folded, we should fold them quickly, and don't wait for the flowers to wither before folding one. Xue Tao, a woman with both talent and beauty, is eager to fold her own flower of love in her youth. However, the shame of being a prostitute, like the spots on her face, can never be eliminated. She had to stand on the bank of love and wait and see, waiting for the flower of love to bloom. However, all she had was the desire for love, but it didn't bear fruit. Therefore, she had to weave a dream of love and fill the gap in the emotional world with poetry.
There are many men who love her, but who wants to live with a tainted woman?
At the age of forty, the first true love in her life came late.
In the spring of Yuanhe four years, Yuan Zhen, a 30-year-old imperial adviser, was sent to Sichuan on orders from the DPRK. With the help of SiKongYan, Xue Tao met Yuan Zhen, Ren Dongchuan's suggestion, in Zizhou. It is said that as soon as they met, Xue Tao wrote Ode to Four Friends, praising inkstone, pen, ink and paper cloud: "Polishing Mr.' s belly hides a captain's head. It is embarrassing to introduce books and media and have a rest in Wenmu. " Yuan Zhen was shocked when he saw it.
Maybe Xue Tao is more active. After all, she is a puzzled person and ten years older than Yuan Zhen. I think it must be Xue Tao's striking charm and extraordinary talent that fascinated Yuan Zhen, a romantic genius. A 40-year-old woman is beautiful in charm, personality and talent. Although Xue Tao is half-aged in Xu Niang, her rich life experiences and talents must be vivid.
Xue Tao has been looking for a bosom friend since he left the music book. Among the local doctors and scholars she associates with, some people have an unusual relationship with her, such as Zheng Zizhou, Li Langzhong and Xue Tao. But this is the first time she has been so obsessed. She fell into the whirlpool of feelings and couldn't extricate herself, so she easily gave her whole body and mind to Yuan Zhen.
You see, this song "Double Fu on the Pool" is so gentle and sweet:
On the amphibious green pool, fly back at dusk;
The days between concentric lotus leaves will be busier.
When they are in love, they live together, live together and fly together. How gentle is it? Always tie the good wishes of one heart together and play the love song of the heart. When you are in love, even a 40-year-old person still has a burning passion like a pure girl.
After enjoying the beauty of love, Yuan Zhen, a affectionate son, was deeply intoxicated by Xue Tao's affection. He also wrote poems about them:
Everyone is poetic, but I know the exquisite scenery;
The moonlight is full of flowers, and the willow in the rain period is a song.
Although Xue Tao has become a prostitute, she didn't buy poetry. This time, she is serious about Yuan Zhen. "I only know that it is delicious", and the affectionate Yuan Zhen can have the capital to show off.
A year later, Yuan Zhen was demoted to join the army for offending eunuchs, and they broke up in tears. Xue Tao wrote Two Farewell Poems with sincerity. In fact, Xue Tao didn't keep Yuan Zhen's heart, and Yuan Zhen never came back.
Some men, like greedy cats, always like amorous feelings and tasteful women. When they take a few bites and taste the taste of women, they will show off everywhere, tell their own pleasure, and regard women's elegance and amorous feelings as the talk of teasing in front of others. Those who can't eat grapes can only be sour, sighing at the ocean and talking with their mouths wide open.
Women who often appear in public places and have a variety of amorous feelings are stunners in men's eyes, but they are only fleeting scenery. Many men who have fought in love will be called names when they wake up in the middle of the night. They are not women who sing and dance lightly in the communication field, but simple women who know when to wipe tears for men, let him be caring and attentive, and serve tea and water in a corner of life.
Therefore, Xue Tao is just a passer-by on Yuan Zhen's emotional road, and it is natural to be mercilessly abandoned.
"Once the sea is difficult for water, amber forever. Lazy looking back at flowers, half the sky is repaired, and half the sky is a gentleman. " When I first read Yuan Zhen's poems, I was inexplicably moved, but after I wrote the story of Xue Tao and got a deep understanding of Yuan Zhen's love history, I immediately scoffed at him.
Please look at the following record:
In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, Yuan Zhen fell in love with Cui Yingying and abandoned him.
In the 19th year of Zhenyuan, Yuan Zhen married Wei Cong, the daughter of Shaobao pro-Wang Xia Wei.
Yuan and Yuan Zhen have known Tao for four years. In July, his wife Wei Cong passed away.
In the sixth year of Yuanhe, Yuan Zhen married a concubine An Xianyu in Jiangling's relegated mansion. There was a prostitute Liu Caichun before Ann.
In May of the 10th year of Yuanhe, Yuan Zhen continued to marry Pei Shu.
What "once the sea was difficult for water, it will always be amber", and what "I haven't seen you for a long time, and the kudzuvine grows taller."
(To Xue Tao), it's all self-deception bullshit. How much truth can you believe when you meet a man who loves him?
Hu Lancheng, a genius, keeps saying that he never compares Aileen with others, which shows that Aileen is the only one in his heart. But in just two years, he failed her. He brazenly wrote this life (I don't deny the literary value of this book) and put his love history together.
It seems that writing is like a person, and the words between the lines are heartfelt, which is not necessarily accurate; Literature and character are not unified in some people. Yuan Zhen, an emotional liar, deceived the readers with her poem Cong Si, which showed me another side of him.
Where did he think that behind his ingratitude, it was the tears that Xue Tao missed so much. Xue Tao was lost in the memory of that short love, thinking about the man who had gone away every day, full of bitterness and thoughts, piled up in his heart, so four poems of "Golden King's Kindness" gurgled out of his heart:
First of all:
Each flower has its own reward, and each flower has its own sorrow;
Ask acacia, when flowers bloom and fall.
Second:
Take care of the knot and unite as one, leaving a confidant;
Spring sorrow is broken, and spring birds mourn again.
Third:
The wind and flowers will grow old, and the courtesy will be ethereal;
If you are not United, you will be United.
Fourth:
It can be full of flowers and translated into two sentences of acacia;
Hosta hangs in the mirror, and Chunfeng knows this.
Flowers bloom, birds sing, and Xue Tao looks forward to summer from spring and winter from autumn. How much expectation and sadness does she have through her autumn eyes? But it's fleeting, and I'll never see that beloved person again!
Don't think about it, never forget it, only a thousand lines of tears. In countless sleepless nights, at the dawn after waking up from a good dream, she sighed, worried, missed her alone and shed tears.
A thousand miles away from your dreams, but your heart is far away from Wan Li. How unpredictable is the human heart?
"If you are not United, you will be United." Writing here, my eyes suddenly moist. This is a talented woman, Xue Tao, who has been searching hard for forty years. Her love has no tears to tell. People are not vegetation, who can be ruthless? However, after her half-life charming romance, an empty heart is like a boat drifting around the world, and there will never be a dock for her feelings. How sad it is for a woman to live like this all her life!
"I just want to put a pillow by the bar and talk about lovesickness all night." I read the resentment and helpless acacia in her heart.
You never know, love will hurt, pain will be tired, near, tired, and finally see through. It turns out that there is a kind of love that has a beginning and no end.
For a woman like Xue Tao, tearing off the coat of love and revealing the real flesh, she sees the lesson of blood: she is just a doll in a man's hand. So after the gorgeous appearance, it is a bleak turn.
I like such a woman because of her clever insight into the world and human feelings. Just like Zhang Ailing, after loving with her heart, she closed the floodgate of her feelings at the age of 46 and devoted herself to literary creation. A woman who loves and lives with her heart, a woman who has a clear understanding of the world, left her with eternal regret and nostalgia.
Love is coming, and love is vigorous; Love is gone, there is no entanglement; The rest is dignity. What I admire is that after Xue Tao's emotional injury, he coldly refused to turn away.
Things have changed, and everything in the field of happiness and eroticism is empty. Smart and well-informed, Xue Tao retired and escaped from the door. She took exquisite pink notes by the Huanhua River in the western suburbs of Chengdu, studied poetry and songs in the ancient Buddha of Deng Qing, slowly bowed her head and died alone. At the age of 65, a generation of talented women closed their eyes in sadness and loneliness. At that time, Duan Wenchang personally wrote an epitaph for her, and on her tombstone was engraved "The Tomb of Xuetao Hongdu, Give Up the Girl Book". At this point, the book for girls really became the alias of Xue Tao.
In memory of talented woman Xue Tao, later generations built Wangjiang Tower on Jinjiang River near Wan Li Bridge, and there is a famous "Xue Taojing" not far downstairs. There are two poems by the well, engraved with the graceful portrait of Xue Tao:
Who will sit alone at night?
How to teach red powder not to turn to ash?
When I wrote these two sentences, I could not stop crying. Emotional deposition, such as mans heart, silent confession, just silent tears, tears. ...
Thousands of years later, the harmony of the soul came instantly. I have read Xue Tao's beauty and sadness, her helplessness and sadness, her charm and loneliness.
Xue Tao is undoubtedly charming and intelligent, but the secular dust of feudal times obscured her talent, and the talented woman was finally determined by later generations. Today, the tombs of Xue Taojing and Xue Tao have become historical sites for tourists to enjoy, and the Xue Tao Research Association has been established in Sichuan Province, which all show her important position in history.
Another couplet on Wangjiang Tower not only summarizes Xue Tao's prosperous and lonely life, but also compares her poetic talent with the great poet Du Fu, which is also a little comfort to her lonely soul:
The ancient well is cold and the sun sets. Ask some trees. Where is the school gate lane?
The river bends over the sill, occupying the misty rain on the first floor, and the thatched cottage of the Ministry of Industry should share it equally.
Life is rough, and Xue Tao, who has no love, will laugh happily if he knows something underground.