Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
Author: Yuan Zhen
Original text:
The rain is wet and the dust is light, which separates the fragrance of the courtyard. Jade people first wear white clothes.
Half filled with melancholy, leisurely watching embroidery, a pear flower is like a bed.
Lotus root silk blouse and willow skirt are empty and fragrant.
Laugh at Zhou Fang on the screen and waste your efforts to draw clouds.
I think the scenes described in these two White Clothes are related to the daily life, clothes and interesting characters of Cui Yingying and Wei Cong.
Yuan Zhen's original wife was Wei Cong. Before marrying Wei Cong, she had an affair with a woman named Yingying. As for Yingying, Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying (also known as Huizhenji) is the most widely circulated, and Yingying Biography became the blueprint of Wang Shifu's The West Chamber.
In the 19th year of Zhenyuan (803), Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi entered the secretary province and served as school clerks. Yuan Zhen, who was eager to be an official, considered that although Cui Yingying had both talent and beauty, he didn't help his career progress much, so he weighed the gains and losses and finally abandoned Yingying and married Wei Cong.
Maybe it's the condemnation of conscience, maybe it's the unforgettable memory of the first love Cui Yingying. So many years later, Yuan Zhen took his first love as the prototype and created the legendary novel Yingying Biography, which is the predecessor of The West Chamber. Zhang Sheng in Yingying Biography is actually a story of Yuan Zhen himself and Cui Yingying, and Zhang Sheng lives for Yuan Zhen himself.
Mr. Lu Xun said in A Brief History of Chinese Novels: "Yuan Zhen lived beside Zhang Sheng and described his personal experience." Yuan Zhen also wrote "I am lazy to look back on flowers, half-repairing and half-mending", which means that he has no attachment to other women, and there is no woman who can make himself emotional except Jun.
The half-life relationship between Yuan Zhen and his wife Wei Cong is even more talked about. Yuan Zhen once left a beautiful sentence, "The sea is difficult for water, and amber is forever", which was written by Yuan Zhen in memory of his late wife Wei Cong.
. "This is a sorrow that all mankind must know, but it is not as people who have been poor together know." Poor couples are always like this. Although they love each other, they can't make their loved ones happier because of poor material conditions. Wei Conghui will remain in the hearts of future readers forever because of several groups of affectionate poems. Baidu baike