There are three touching letters from ancient times: Yunzhen to her husband, Tan Sitong and his wife, and Cao Cao's suicide note

Everyone knows Lin Juemin's "Letter with Wife", which is full of anger and intestines, and makes people cry. Today I would like to introduce a letter from a Qing Dynasty woman to her husband. Let's first explain the background story.

Fan Qiutang is a Huainan Xiucai, who lost his mother since childhood, and when he grew up, he had a stubborn personality and was proud of his talents. His stepmother was a fierce woman, and Fan Qiutang was intolerable to the fire, and was accused of disobedience to the government, and Fan Qiutang was sent to Yili as a pawn, and did not return home for fifteen years. His wife, Yun Zhen, knew dali and exchanged letters with her husband.

Jin Xiangguo's nephew was friends with Fan Qiutang when he was on the frontier, and he once saw the family letter brought by Yun Zhen, lingering and complaining, touching to the heart. So a copy was copied and circulated. The content is as follows:

It has been more than ten years since the autumn pavilion was sent off and pinched. The end of the world, the same lovesickness, the same loneliness. I am still better than you, because I have the love of my mother, and the children are wrapped around my knees, and I can still get a moment of relief. Poor you are alone outside guarding the frontier, who can give you a cold greeting? Who cares if you are thirsty and hungry? Although it is thousands of miles away, I can also understand the desolate situation.

In nine years, I took seven letters and got only three replies. The most recent letter was received at the Fourth Master during the Dragon Boat Festival the previous year. I was sick, cold all over my body, lying alone in bed. Seeing your letter, I suddenly grew my spirits, but I was sad and unbearable.

In July of that year, I asked someone surnamed Lao to carry a letter, but I never got a reply, maybe you didn't receive it. Fast forward two years. The trees in my mother-in-law's cemetery have grown tall, and the walls have been reinforced so that they will not be eroded by running water.

Uncles would occasionally come to inquire, and other uncles did not come to ask us. Although the eldest sister and the eldest brother-in-law often came to visit, they could not help much. The second brother-in-law has passed away, and the second sister has married another person. Although the eldest brother of Yiting is mean, he is the one who relies on his mother (it is mentioned later that his mother-in-law is dead, and the mother mentioned here should be Fan Qiutang's stepmother. The next time you write a letter, say something nice to him and make him happy. I try not to ask others for something, and clean myself up so as not to attract unnecessary rumors.

Qiong'er (Fan Qiutang's daughter) died of a rash on August 12 this year, and more than ten years of hard work were in vain. On the eve of her death, she put her arms around my neck and said, "How many years has Daddy been away from home?" If I die, don't let Daddy know. "Whenever I think of what she said, I burst into tears.

Ding Lang (Fan Qiutang's son) reads with your style, but it is a bit impetuous, and the writing of articles is not concise. It was better for him to write poetry, but it was too complicated to write eight strands of text and could not revolve around a theme. I will copy his poems in the future and show them to you.

My mother died last spring, and Yongyuan (presumably the nephew or righteous son of Fan Qiutang's mother-in-law) was not biological, indifferent, and only knew how to clean up the family property, which was sad and hateful. When my mother died, I was even more lonely. The family's income is all taken care of by my mother (Fan Qiutang's stepmother), and I can't make ends meet, I have wanted to sell the vacant house many times, but my mother will not allow it, and now it has been eroded by the wind and rain, and it has become a deserted area.

A few rented out houses, the rent has been appropriated by the negative person (may refer to the wing court brother), and the current old house, the decadent wall, is no longer what you looked like when you left home.

(A large paragraph is omitted, which mentions many times that the negative people are greedy for their belongings, and that the fourth master who carries the letter is a ranger or something like that cannot be believed.) ）

At the end, Yun Zhen wrote: We must put our minds at ease, overcome difficulties and wait patiently, there will be a day of reunion. Whenever I see the weak grass dust, I think that a hundred years of life is just a dream bubble, for life and death, I have thought about it countless times in my heart, and I have already seen through death. The present day, like in the ghost sting, is as painful, but it is bound by many responsibilities and has to leave this shell. Even if I see each other again in my lifetime, I will not be worth the suffering I have suffered all these years. If I can't wait for you to come back, I will also train my son to grow up and succeed in his studies, and then my heart will be solid. All in all, if you don't come back one day, my burden will not be able to put down for a day.

[sic] All the people who are at peace with the encounter, the two places are patiently quiet, the mirror is still beaded, and the two of us would rather not be reunited in the end. Every thought of weak grass dust, a hundred years like a dream, a dream bubble, the inner canon, the two paths of life and death for a long time, the thoughts are ripe. Don't come to the situation, don't reduce the Chu prisoner; now the time is yin, almost the same Luosha. He Nan swung the sword of wisdom, super cool, as if the fate was like silk, firmly bound, had to leave this shell, ghostly pomp, hoped for a side of the fate, not to live up to the suffering of several years. It is the day that the head is white, and the widow becomes famous. Big things are shouldered, hands are handed over, and chastity is comfortable. In short, the Master does not return for a day, and this burden cannot be put down for a day.

Here are two more letters from the ancients. Tan Sitong also wrote a "Letter with His Wife" in prison, which is relatively short and not as famous as Lin Juemin. But it was earlier than Lin Juemin's letter to his wife.

The leap wife saw the letter as the face (Tan Si and his wife were called Li Yan):

Fifteen years after marriage, I was supposed to meet white-headed and old, but now it seems that I am going to break my oath!

I was a man of the world when I wrote this letter, and when you read this letter, I had become a ghost in Hades. Life and death are about to be parted, so I will not say this. Although I am now dead, my spirit is still there, and although the small self is destroyed, the big self is long-lasting. In the future, we will also be like the birds of the same fate in the underground, flying with wings.

May you regard glory and wealth as a dream bubble, and life and death as an ordinary thing, without sorrow or joy, and let nature take its course. I am waiting for you in Elysium with my dying son. In the future, we will reunite underground, and we will be reunited. Don't be sad, the souls of me and my children are around you and won't go far.

On August 9 of the year of The Fifth Dynasty, he wrote the same book.

【sic】 The leap wife (Tan wife Li Yan) is like the face:

　　Fifteen years after the marriage, the original covenant was kept to die, and now I have betrayed the alliance!

　　Writing this letter by hand, I am still a man in the world, and when you read this letter, I have become a ghost, dead and alive, and I will repeat what I say. But although this body is gone, this feeling is unswerving, and although the small self is destroyed, the large self is eternal. In all lifetimes, dwelling in the lotus flower, such as the bird with the same fate as the Yingling Piga, flying with wings, can also laugh at each other. May the king regard glory as a dream, regard death and humiliation as a common thing, have no joy or sorrow, and listen to its nature. I am with my son in the Western Elysium, and he will reunite and reunite. The soul of the martyr and me, the soul is not far away, and the dream of the king's soul is dependent, and I hope that the king will be cherished.

　　On August 9, He Tong.

Cao Mengde's suicide note: I woke up in the middle of the night, felt that my health was not good, ate porridge in the morning, and took soup medicine. I'm strict in the military, and that's right. As for not being able to control your emotions and getting angry, and making some mistakes, you must take this as a warning and do not make such a mistake.

I will be buried after I die, I can wear my usual clothes, and the officials will come to mourn, and don't let them cry for too long. After the funeral, you take off your mourning clothes, and the generals are not allowed to leave their guard positions because of the funeral, and the officials are still required to work as usual.

Buried me on the West Hill, near the Ximen Leopard Ancestral Hall. Do not use gold and silver jewelry to accompany the burial. My concubines and prostitutes were very hard, so I placed them in the Tongquetai and treated them well. Set up a my spiritual seat on the bronze sparrow platform, and the spiritual bed can be three feet, and food sacrifices are placed every day. On the first and fifteenth day of the first year, the prostitutes played a burst of music to the spirit seat. Go up to the TongqueTai and look at my grave from a distance.

The stored spices were distributed to the ladies and not to be buried by suicide. Usually there is nothing to do, and the ladies can learn to make shoes and sell for money. I have collected all the ribbons I have received from all official positions, and my fur clothes have been stored separately, and if they cannot be properly stored, your brothers can also divide them.