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Clusters of brocade-like ziwei, brilliant in the summer wind and under the sun, so eye-catching, can be described as "Rong Hua Wan Wan Ming Xia". Among the many poems of the literati of the past generations, I love this "TaSha Xing Ziwei Flower":
Finely cut rouge, lightly containing agaricus.
Fang Fei 100 days of gathering.
Red makeup lazy to fight ChunYan, Kaoru wind alone coral trees.
The green leaves are caged, and the qiongpao is embellished with fog.
Xiang curtain shadow rolls up the orangutan rain.
The old name of the Xianlang Forbidden House, the pavilion is good to accompany the west window twilight.
This rich and delicate and moving handwriting comes from Ye Xiaoluan, a talented woman of the late Ming Dynasty, who is ye Xiaoluan, who many scholars have studied and verified that it is one of the prototypes of Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the character Qiongzhang. Through the purple weed flowers in the words that are both like a cage of smoke and like a cluster of cut rouge, it seems that the delicate figure of the flower appreciator also appears, which makes people feel pity, and the girl who is as gorgeous as this summer flower has passed away like an autumn leaf in this most brilliant year.
In the forty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1616, Ye Xiaoluan was born in the Wujiang Fenhu family in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, his father was the late Ming dynasty literary scholar Ye Shaoyuan, a descendant of the famous Song Dynasty poet Ye Mengde; his mother Shen Yixiu, Zi Wanjun, was born in the Shuxiang family of Wujiang Songling, the niece of the opera composer Shen Jing, Shen Jing was the leader of the "Wujiang School" in the Ming Dynasty opera circle ("Linchuan School" was Tang Xianzu), Shen Wanjun was also a talented daughter with excellent poetry and painting, perhaps because of such family genes, several children of the Ye family had high artistic talent.
Ye Xiaoluan was the third daughter of the Ye family, a few months after his birth, Shen Wanjun's sixth brother Shen Zizheng's family had another newborn baby unfortunately died, in order to appease his younger sister, the Ye family sent Xiaoluan to the Shen family, and was cared for by Xiaoluan's aunt Zhang Qianqian. Shen Zizheng once recalled in the text: "Rusheng June, swaddled, eyebrows are picturesque, like a jade person. ”
Zhang Qianqian is not only Shen Wanjun's sister-in-law, but also Wanjun's maternal cousin, and the children born are difficult to survive, according to modern medicine, it should be caused by close relatives. Zhang Qianqian is also extremely talented and has outstanding character, and her sister Concubines jokingly call her "Huaqing Palace People". Zhang Qianqian took care of Xiaoluan as a biological child, found that this child was particularly smart and early-sighted, and taught her to read and hyphenate more carefully, Xiaoluan was able to recite "Leaving Sorrow" and ten thousand Tang poems at the age of four, and she could also say the meaning, Zhang Qianqian said to Wanjun: "It is Er Linghui, and in the future, when Qi Ban (Zhao) and Cai (Wen Ji) are very comparable, their posture is also very comparable." ”
In 1625, Ye Shaoyuan was admitted to the jinshi and would take his family to Jinling to become an official, and the Ye family took Xiaoluan back to the same place, at this time Xiaoluan was already familiar with poetry and books, full of spiritual thoughts. One day and autumn night, the family was in front of the church to admire the moon, the trees and flowers in the garden were bathed in the moonlight like water, Shen Wanjun casually chanted: "Gui Han qing dew wet", before thinking about the next sentence, Xiao Luan casually continued: "Maple cold and red withering", the ten-year-old little girl has such a high talent, comparable to xie Daoyun in ancient times, Wanjun was surprised, and after many years to recall this scene, suddenly shocked: "Sad husband! Is it a sign of unsatisfactory life? But at that time, there was only joy, and in the future, more attention was paid to cultivating the literary talent of the younger daughter, and Xiaoluan was also very talented, and when he was twelve years old, he was already very good at composing poetry, such as this "Spring Dawn Makeup":
The mirror is clear and the double moth is painted.
The flowers are about to stop, and the willows are sounding.
Between the lines of Qing Li Keren's words, they are all the agile style of the Ye family's little girl who has just grown up.
After Xiaoluan returned to the Ye family, Zhang Qianqian did not have a son and a half daughter under her knees, and her husband was away for many years, her livelihood was difficult, and she was getting weaker and weaker and depressed all the time, but she died of illness in two years. Xiao Luan was heartbroken when he learned of this, and returned to Wujiang from Jinling, kneeling in front of his aunt's tomb, and the poem "On the Tomb of The Sixth Uncle and Mother":
Ten years of grace is difficult to repay, and Chongquan does not hear.
Every spring the grass is colored, and the intestines are broken in a lonely grave.
Xiao Luan remembered his aunt's nurturing and teachings, and sorrow came from it. The aunt is tall, but the usual poems have not been preserved, most of them are scattered, in the days that followed, Xiaoluan wrote down the poems that his aunt chanted in his memory and saved them in a concentrated way to remember, and we have the privilege of getting a glimpse of Zhang Qianqian's poetry today.
XiaoLuan has two older sisters, the eldest sister Ye Yiyi, the second sister Ye Xiaoyun, the three sisters have some strengths in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and their feelings are harmonious, and their mother Shen Wanjun often sings poems and paints with them, and the Qing Dynasty poet Qian Qianyi recorded in the "Small Biography of the Poetry Collection of the Dynasties": "Wanjun and the three daughters are related to the inscription flowers and grass, the moon cuts the moon, the atrium of the atrium, not inferior to the Xie family; the jiaonu chapter, there is more than the Zuo clan." So the uncles and sisters, and then the first concubine, did not screen the knife ruler and the chapter, abandoned the group and worked with ink. Above the Pine Tombs, on the shores of the lake, the boudoir shows the xing, and the tongguan is intertwined. The scene described is really a scene of a literary and artistic home at the forefront of the times, among which Xiaoluan's poems have a special kind of emotion, such as "Dotted Lips, Summer Rain Scene":
The bamboo path is deep, and the flowing clouds are quiet.
Rain a few gusts. The ground is full of tung flowers cold.
Wet green invaded the eyebrows, faint moss shadow. Look endless.
Screen people. A view of XiangXiang.
Sometimes it is full of spirit and immortality, especially the several "Partridge Heavens" composed in his dreams, the fifth of which is:
Go west to the Pond of the Queen Mother. Qiongsu wine pan nine Xiajie.
The sky is full of stars and buckets, and the clouds and smoke seem to be clothes.
Ride a white deer, ride a green ant. Qun Xian Qi and Bu Virtual Words.
Before leaving, there is a double gift, giving me a golden stem five-colored zhi.
The longer Xiaoluan grew, the more beautiful it was like a fairy, and his father Ye Shaoyuan couldn't help but joke that his younger daughter had a unique posture, and Xiaoluan listened to it and said with an unhappy face: "The color of the woman's fall, what is the most expensive, why should the father add to the child?" This is what Shen Yixiu wrote in the "Biography of Ji Nu Qiongzhang", recalling Xiao Luan's personality characteristics of "high sex, tired of prosperity, love of smoke and Xia, and zen theory". Xiaoluan does not love fat powder, only loves to flow in nature, she planted a plum outside her residence, the residence is called Shuxiang Pavilion, she is also nicknamed "Shuxiang Pavilion Lord", in front of the window to learn to paint, watch a tree blossom, is Xiaoluan's favorite. One day the flowers bloomed just right, the dark fragrance was elegant, but it was worth a night of wind and rain, and in the morning, I saw the petals on the ground, and the little luan felt nostalgic, and made "Bodhisattva Man" to mourn the falling plum:
Tender cold first release of snow on the branches. Leaning out of the window late at night to peek at the flower moon.
Dawn roll up the curtains to see. Floating through the canvas.
Flying crippled a thousand points white. Break through the moss.
When is the wind and rain off. Patrol the eaves to worry about it.
Xiao Luan was sixteen years old, was already a fairy and a well-known talented woman, this year, the Kunshan Zhang family, who had a marriage contract when he was young, came to discuss the marriage date, Zhang Liping, the son of Zhang Weilu, was the future third son-in-law of the Ye family, the two families were of equal wealth, Ye Shaoyuan saw that Zhang Liping was also a reader, and wanted to get along with the little girl, and the marriage date was agreed on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar in 1632.
This was originally a happy event, but Xiao Luan's later poem "Yu Meiren" seems to have a decaying sound:
A cup of light tea to chat about. No wonder people are sad.
Recently, there have been many diseases and red makeup.
Intolerant of depression in the clear daylight, recumbent bed.
The waiter turned rouge. The land is still surplus.
The spring breeze is half-hearted.
The swallows don't know the flowers, there are not many.
After entering the autumn, the Ye family began to prepare for the joy of Yingying, and the eldest sister Ye Ling, who had already married, also returned to her mother's house to accompany the little sister to be married. On September 15, the Zhang family sent a "make-up ceremony" according to etiquette, according to Shen Yixiu's "Biography of Ji Nu Qiongzhang", on this day Xiaoluan was still teaching his younger brother Shi To read "Chu Ci", and there was no physical discomfort, and Xiaoluan fell ill after the make-up ceremony of the son-in-law's family arrived, and did not expect that only half a month "could not afford to become a disease", the Zhang family heard it, proposed to advance the wedding date to the beginning of October, the Ye family agreed, told the xiaoluan on the sickbed, Xiaoluan sighed: "So fast, how to come in time." On the tenth day of the first month of October, his condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and in the early morning of the next day, he rested on his pillow in Shen Yixiu's arm, "The starry eyes are shining, the voice of the Buddha is chanting, clear and clear, and it must pass away." ”
The Ye family mourned the loss of their beloved daughter, and the eldest sister, Ye Yi, was too sad and sick, and died two months later in her mother's house and followed her sister. Ye Yiyi's marriage is not happy, her husband jun died early, she and the little sister have deep feelings, the heart is interconnected, perhaps the eldest sister's unfortunate married life invisibly brought the little sister's fear of marriage, and the heart disease caused by anxiety is not known. However, when Xiao Luan entered the coffin seven days later, he still had a beautiful color, his body was light, and his family did not believe his death, and they all thought that it was Shengxian who had gone. After that, the mother and brother often dreamed of Xiaoluan, as if they were still living among them, and the family thoughts were difficult to suppress, so they invited a famous "Master of Qi" who was then a helper to summon souls, to help them realize a dialogue across the spirit world, and learned that Xiaoluan was a maid of honor in the Moon House, named Han Reed, so there was the famous "Ten Yin of Breaking the Ring", the most well-known pair of questions and answers was: "Have you ever been stupid?" Xiao Luan replied, "I have committed a crime." Reluctantly abandon the bead ring to collect Han jade, and donate a powder box to bury the soul of the flower. ”
This "Master Of Qi" was the later famous Jin Shengsi, these vivid, completely small luan-like dialogue, Ye Shaoyuan recorded, entitled "Miaowen", collected into the "Noon Dream Hall Collection", this is Ye Shaoyuan for these brilliant women in the family to make a collection of poems, including Shen Yixiu, Zhang Qianqian, as well as the daughters' poems, essays, etc., of which Ye Xiaoluan's poetry collection is called "Return to Life". All the women of the Ye family are good at poetry, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and have outstanding postures, each with their own personality, with the bud of the awakening of female consciousness beyond the times, becoming a phenomenon-level cultural landscape at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Ye Shiyi, the younger brother of the Ye sisters, Ye Xie, later became a famous poetry critic in the Qing Dynasty, and wrote a poetry monograph "Original Poems", and had a good personal relationship with Cao Yin. After studying this relationship, Mr. Zhou Ruchang believes that the Ye family women in the "Noon Dream Hall Collection" have a certain influence on Cao Xueqin's creation of the Dream of the Red Chamber, especially Lin Daiyu, who "buries the soul of the flower in the cold moon", and the beautiful and talented "idiot women" group portrait in the Grand View Garden.
Ye Xiaoluan 《Boat Trip》
Ye Xiaoluan's uncle Shen Zibing once got three pieces of fine brick materials and made a three-sided yantai "eyebrow, eyebrow lady, eyebrow beads" to give to these talented nieces, Xiao Luan got eyebrows, 纨妆眉娘, Xiao Luan got eyebrow beads. The inscription on xiaoluan's eyebrows reads: "Uncle Shi obtained three bricks from the sea, and the composition was given to the brothers; Qiong Zhang got the eyebrows Yanyun: Tianbao flowers have sunk, and Chengdu painting hands can be new." Now I am only in the first three months of school, and I am afraid that some poets will say small things. Plain sleeve light cage golden duck smoke, open window small exhibition Wu note. Open a cherry rain, moisten to the first few strings of the Qingqin. After Xiao Luan's death, this piece of eyebrow stone used before his death, after experiencing the wars of dynastic changes and the decline of family roads, after several turns, fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty scholar Gong Zizhen, who after receiving this stone, made a poem "Tianxian Zi Zi Zhi
The Celestial Immortal Doll was tired of Qiong Lou.
Beggars once traveled on earth.
Who passed down the small silver hook.
The smoke is faint and the moon is soft.
Accompany me incense and accompany me to repair.
Mei Ziyan now does not know where it is left, and like its owner, it has left a little myth. Gazing at the depths of time, Ye Xiaoluan was like a shock, temporarily staying in the human world to write Qiongzhang, brilliant as a summer flower blooming warmly after returning to the sky, I wish her as written in the words of "Partridge Heaven", if she really went to the Yaotai Wonderland by the wind ——
Green mountains are even better after rain. The waterfall is about to invade the steps.
Boundless herbs who know, intentional mountain flowers waiting for me to bloom.
Idle overlook, Mo arranged. The chanting chanted and forgot.
Fluttering seemed to want to ride the wind and go to live in the White Jade Terrace of Yaochi.
Leaf Luan "Flower Cordyceps"