"Red Beans"
Tang Wang Wei
Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches are sent in the spring.
May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia.
What a "red bean" poem...
Jiangnan drizzle, a reader sitting in front of the window, looking at the scenery outside the window, two eyes staring into the distance for a long time...
"Sixth Lady, after so many years, are you okay?"
This reader was Wang Chutong, a famous scholar during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Wang Chutong (王初桐), also spelled Yuyang (虞阳), also spelled Geng Zhong (耿仲), was a native of Fangtai (now part of Anting Town), and was good at filling in words.
In the forty-first year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1776), the emperor summoned the examination, Wang Chutong was initially listed as a second class, and was given the transcription of the Sikuguan, and soon served as the county magistrate of Qihe County, and later as an official in Shandong.
Wang Chutong's family was poor since childhood, with nothing, and was almost extremely poor.
"Everything is inferior, but the reading is high!"
Wang Chutong knew that his family was not well off, and the only way to get out of the predicament was to study hard.
"There is a beautiful jade in the book, and there is a house of gold in the book."
Wang Chutong read hard in the cold window day and night, looking forward to his nomination on the gold list.
This is the only opportunity for ancient readers to get ahead.
Wang Chutong's hometown has a girl with the surname Chen, the name Xiangping, and the milk name Liu Niang.
Liu Niang is dignified and generous, has a beautiful face, loves poetry, calligraphy and painting, and plays the piano well.
Liu Niang was born into a famous family, the family road is solid, is a big girl.
The Chen family and the Wang family are close neighbors, and Liu Niang has known Wang Chutong since she was a child.
Green plum bamboo horse, two small no guess ...
"Sixth Lady, you really... That's nice. ”
"Brother Chutong, you are also very good."
Wang Chutong's heart was always thinking of Liu Niang, and Liu Niang's heart was always thinking of Chu Tong. "How nice it would be that we could always be like this!"
Forever like this, always what?
Flowers blossom, time flies...
Wang Chutong and Liu Niang both grew up.
One is a handsome and dashing reading lang, and the other is a beautiful and beautiful woman.
"Sixth Lady, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?"
Everyone can't get out of the boudoir door, the second door is not going out, and the sixth lady can only miss her lover in the boudoir.
"Brother Chutong, how are you, can we be together?"
A teardrop slipped down quietly...
"Our Chen family is a big local family, so how can the Wang family be so poor, how can they marry us?"
Liu Niang's parents rejected the Wang family's marriage proposal.
"Brother Hatsuki..."
Liu Niang was in tears in the room, but there was nothing she could do!
The marriage of children and daughters has never been decided by themselves.
"How can a girl think of spring?"
Liu Niang's parents, fearing that their daughter would do something wrong, hurriedly mated Liu Niang to the son of a rich local family.
The son of the rich man was unlearned, frivolous, and a completely clumsy man.
Liu Niang did not love that frivolous child, helpless parents did not allow it, the etiquette was difficult to tolerate...
A flower withered like that!
With a burst of blowing and blowing, the sixth lady got on the flower palanquin and became a bride.
"Brother Hatsuki, farewell forever."
Liu Niang cut the love thread with a fierce heart...
"Six Niang, Liu Niang..."
Wang Chutong looked at the distant flower palanquin, grief-stricken and extremely depressed.
"I only blame myself for being too poor!"
The only way to relieve worries is to read.
Wang Chutong put away his love for each other and read hard every day and night.
Plotting is in man, accomplishing things in heaven...
Although Wang Chutong was only eight buckets high, learned to be rich in five cars, helplessly had bad official luck, and after ZhongxiuCai repeatedly failed in the examination, his name fell behind Sun Shan...
"Wang Chutong, who is poor and sour, still wants to be nominated for the gold list, which is simply a dream."
"He's still a poor egg until he dies!"
The family is poor, and everyone is slandered!
Wang Chutong looked up, and the sky was gray and dark...
"Do I really want to be poor for a lifetime?"
No, no, no......
Wang Chutong was really unwilling!
In the forty-first year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1776), the Qing court quelled the Rebellion of Jinchuan in Sichuan, and the Emperor Longxin was overjoyed and summoned the examination to show his favor for the disciples of the world.
Forty-eight-year-old Wang Chutong decided to go to Beijing to take the exam...
"I can't get ahead of myself!"
As the saying goes, ten years to grind a sword, Wang Chutong finally succeeded in the test.
Wang Chutong was listed as a second class and awarded the transcription officer of the Siku Quanshu Library. Later, he served as an official in Shandong, successively serving as an official in Xincheng, Zichuan, Pingyin, Shouguangzhi County, and also serving as a Tongzhi in Ninghai Prefecture.
As soon as he entered the army, the clouds went straight up, and everyone knew it and looked at it with astonishment.
"I can finally raise my eyebrows."
Wang Chutong laughed, with vicissitudes in his smile and regret...
"Sixth Lady, I haven't seen you for many years, are you okay?"
At this time, Wang Chutong had already married a wife, and her wife was very virtuous, but she was not the sixth lady.
Madame Wang is a good wife and mother in the traditional sense, but she can't chant and paint, and she doesn't have the aura of Liu Niang.
"Sixth Lady, are you okay?"
Wang Chutong's heart was only six niangs...
Is Liu Niang okay?
Not good, very bad...
After the sixth lady got married, her husband was idle, wandering skeletons, and the family wealth was lost!
The family is defeated, the people go...
Liu Niang was full of grief and indignation, overwhelmed, and had no branches to rely on.
Tick the bar to laugh, helpless...
Poor Sixth Lady is talented but can only come to the Qinglou...
"After I am famous, I don't sell my art!"
Liu Niang is beautiful and talented, and the guests around her are constantly...
After several years of such a life, Liu Niang had some savings and left this dirty place.
After Liu Niang "went ashore", she rented a room in Nanxiang alone, the roof leaked rain, the walls were moldy, and the ground was mossy and broken.
The rich and noble self of the past is yesterday's yellow flower...
Things people non,Things are absent.
The sixth lady faces poverty, and is safe and simple...
"Selling beads to repair houses, planting bamboo flowers, spinning and weaving fabrics, chanting poems and paintings, quiet and doing nothing."
Liu Niang was very content with her current life, but her life alone seemed too lonely.
"Brother Chutong, where are you?"
Alas, it's all over...
Wang Chutong took a boat trip to the lake when he suddenly heard a familiar and sad piano sound.
"What a familiar sound!" Could it be the Sixth Lady? ”
Wang Chutong couldn't believe his ears, he was busy ordering the boatman to dock...
The sound of the piano is melodious, and the Yi people are haggard...
"Sixth Lady, is it really you?"
One is a group of children, and the other is alone!
We can't go back!
Since you can't be a husband and wife, let's be brother and sister.
Wang Chutong secretly funded the six ladies and silver two, and the two of them ignored the frequent comings and goings of people, talking about literature and poetry, you chanted me and me.
"Brother Chutong, this is my self-portrait, sent to you to repay your kindness."
What a beautiful self-portrait!
"The cold green sleeves are thin, and the sun is leaning on the bamboo."
"Liu Niang, this is a verse from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Beauty". Wonderful! ”
Wang Chutong was overjoyed and put four words on the portrait one by one
"A great beauty."
When the local literati learned about it, they stepped on it and left their own inscriptions.
This self-portrait of Liu Niang has been circulating in the capital, and many literati and scholars in Beijing have also seen this painting...
"Liu Niang is really a beautiful person!"
Unfortunately, since the ancient red face has a short life, Liu Niang can only be Wang Chutong's sister for the rest of her life.
The love is shallow, and the empty is left with hatred!
Wang Chutong died in his hometown of Jiading in the first year of Daoguang (1821) at the age of ninety-three.
"Sixth Lady, we will continue the frontier in the next life!"
Jiangnan rain is pouring, leaving people with tears...
Note: The 2017 "Chinese Choir" was adapted into an animated short film "Acacia" based on the love between wang Chutong and Liu Niang, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty.
About the Author: A woman who likes to read, is obsessed with history, and loves to write articles. What is a good article, I don't know. I only know that writing an article is writing what I want to say, what I want to write. This is me, a layman in the world, who worries about the deep valley and the sky, and the fragrance of Youlan!