Dong Xiaowan in film and television dramas
Since jinling (Nanjing), the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the literati and rioters have been coming and going, and the Qinhuai River has had unlimited scenery for a while. Whenever it is night, the lights on the banks of the Qinhuai River are beautiful, the handsome and beautiful characters in the water towns of Jiangnan are boiling, the paintings on the Qinhuai River are bustling with songs and dances, and the sound of silk and bamboo on both sides of the strait is endless.
The most prosperous jinling city is Qinhuai. The Ten Mile Huai River runs through the city, and the other side of the river is the Jiangnan Gongyuan, the main examination hall where Jiangnan Talents will take the test. Since ancient times, talents have loved beautiful people, and various famous tricks have gathered here, and the world-famous one is "Qin Huai Bayan".
Eight women with unique style, the fate is different, but when it comes to them, it is always inseparable from the eternal topic of love and men. The joys and sorrows of talented women always touch people's hearts. Today's talk is about the legend of the amorous Shunzhi Emperor and Dong Xiaowan.
Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (福林) was the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty and the ninth son of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty. In 1644, Shunzhi ascended the throne at the age of six and was regent by the Emperor's uncle Dorgon. In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), Dorgon took the throne after his death. Political history records that in the first month of the 18th year of Shunzhi, Shunzhi died of smallpox at the age of 24.
However, according to wild history and folk legends, it is said that Shunzhi did not die at that time, but became a monk, so why did Shunzhi become a monk? It is said that it is related to Dong Xiaowan, Dong Xiaowan was a famous prostitute of Qin Huai in the late Ming Dynasty, and later became the wife of a famous soldier in Jiangnan who ventured to open up Xinjiang, and after the Qing army entered the customs, Duo Duo, the Prince of Qingyu, attacked Nanjing, plundered Dong Xiaowan to Beijing, and presented it to the Shunzhi Emperor. After Dong Xiaowan entered the palace, he gave the surname Dong E, and Shunzhi was very fond of Dong E,, and soon became an imperial concubine. On August 19, the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (660), Dong Eshi died of illness, and Shunzhi was deeply saddened, and personally guarded her spirit, not only bombarding the dynasty for five days, but also making an exception to posthumously name Dong Eshi as empress. Because of Dong E's death, shunzhi was greatly stimulated, so that shunzhi was sullen and unhappy all day long, and Shunzhi abandoned the emperor's position and fled to Wutai Mountain in Shanxi to convert to Jingshi. This is the legendary story of Shunzhi's monasticism.
There is also a theatrical version of "Dong Xiaowan and the Venture to Break the Frontier", which makes the story of Shunzhi becoming a monk widely circulated. The drama is about the love between Jiangnan celebrities and Jiangnan famous prostitute Dong Xiaowan. After the Qing army invaded Nanjing from the south, Dong and Dong Xiaowan were scattered, and Dong Xiaowan plundered Hong Chengyu for the sake of descending the Qingming Dynasty, and Hong changed Dong Xiaowan's name to Dong E's name and sent him to the palace as the daughter of the royal dong'e king. Shunzhi was very fond of Dong Eshi and was given the title of Imperial Concubine, second only to the Empress. When Mao Peijiang learned of this, he bought the eunuch through his relationship, mixed into the palace, and met Dong Xiaowan. Husband and wife see each other, and the two are extremely sad. At this time, Empress Xiaozhuang and empress dowager broke in, saw the situation and were furious, and gave Dong Xiaowan Bai Aya to death. In a fit of rage, Shunzhi gave up the throne and went to Mount Wutai to convert to the Empty Gate and became a monk.
In the current film and television dramas, when it comes to Dong Xiaowan, it is inseparable from the legend of the Shunzhi Emperor.
Concubine Dong Guifei after entering the palace
Shunzhi has always been a good Buddha, and Shunzhi has two Zen masters in the palace. Shunzhi was very devout and had the idea of shaving his hair as a monk. A few days before announcing Shunzhi's death, Shunzhi also asked his favorite internal supervisor, Wu Liangfu, to go to the Temple of Mercy to cut his hair and become a monk, and he himself went to see it. In addition, at that time, Shunzhi was at odds with Empress Xiaohui, and wanted to depose Empress Xiaohui and make Concubine Dong guifei empress. Due to the opposition of Empress Xiaozhuang, it did not succeed. This is also the reason why some people think that Shunzhi is a monk. They also used the famous poet Wu Meicun's "Fang Xing did not move" in the "Qingliangshan Praise of The Buddha" as evidence, and used the imperial star in the sky did not fall to prove that Shunzhi did not die.
"Amorous Jiangshan" is the story of the Shunzhi Emperor and Dong Xiaowan
Legend has it that Kangxi went to Mount Wutai four times, the first three times to see his father Shunzhi. (Qianlong is probably the emperor who loves to visit the most, just wrote that he went to Jiangnan 6 times, and 4 times he went to Haining, and the legend is that he verified his own origins.) When Kangxi went to Wutai Mountain for the fourth time, Shunzhi was already dead, and Kangxi saw the scenery and wrote a poem to mourn: "To the cool realm again, the late rock rolls back and forth: labor and self-examination, thin bones for a long time; Cream rain with the feast, frost spared when the time; Manjushri is in the hue, but may the ghosts and gods know. ”
According to relevant historical records, on the fourth day of the first lunar month in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), the imperial court officially announced to the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs that the emperor was suffering from smallpox. Smallpox was regarded as an incurable disease at the time, and there are also legends that Shunzhi went out of the palace privately, nostalgic for the brothel of Hualiu, and his body was rotten, and Empress Xiaozhuang said smallpox in order to cover up. Then he sent a message to the whole country to "do not fry beans, do not light lamps, and do not splash water", and release all prisoners in prison to pray for the emperor's recovery. On the sixth and half nights of the first lunar month, Shunzhi felt that his life was in danger, and urgently ordered the eunuch to send an edict to Wang Xi and Ma Jile to rush to the Yangxin Hall to record his will. At three o'clock, Shunzhi said that he was "suffering from pox and would not be able to afford it", and asked Wang Xi to hurry up and write a will at the bedside according to the instructions. The edict was revised three times by Shunzhi himself, and it was not finalized until the morning of the seventh day of the first month. In the middle of the seventh night of the first month, Shunzhi died in the Yangxin Temple. Therefore, shunzhi's theory of monasticism is not credible.
Dong Xiaowan in "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain"
According to relevant research, The Dong Eshi clan favored by Shunzhi was not Dong Xiaowan, and Dong Xiaowan had never entered the Qing Palace at all, let alone seen Shunzhi. Dong Xiaowan was born in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty (1624), and when Shunzhi was born in 1638, Dong Xiaowan was already fifteen years old and was already a famous prostitute in Qinhuai. Prince Duo duo of Yu attacked Nanjing in the second year of Shunzhi (1645), when Dong Xiaowan was already twenty-three years old, while Shunzhi was only eight years old, how could the eight-year-old Shunzhi spoil the twenty-three-year-old Dong Xiaowan? The Imperial Noble Concubine Dong Eshi was indeed the daughter of the Minister of the Interior, E Shuo, the daughter of the BannerMan, and was enfeoffed at the age of eighteen in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi (1656), and was made a concubine in August, and a concubine of the Jin Emperor in December. It can be seen that Dong E's clan and Dong Xiaowan have nothing to do with each other. Dong'e - character is a place name, a transliteration of Manchu, can also be translated as Tong E, Dong E, is one of the eight surnames in Manchuria, and is not related to the Han Chinese surname Dong.
Regarding whether Shunzhi was a monk, Meng Sen, an expert in Qing history, once made a detailed study and published an article entitled "Examination of the Truth of ancestral monasticism", believing that Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty did die of smallpox and did not become a monk at all. Most historians agree with this statement. However, there is no conclusion as to why the wild history and legendary Kangxi went to Mount Wutai four times, and why Mount Wutai had so many utensils for the imperial court.
However, Dong Xiaowan is a talented woman who also likes to study food. People often eat tiger skin meat, walking oil meat, that is, her invention is called "Dong meat", and "Dongpo meat" contrasts with each other. Xiao Wan is also good at making pastries and candy snacks, can play and sing, chant and paint, and is really a legendary talented woman with a taste for life.
There are also some so-called red studies enthusiasts, who in recent years have put forward the theory that Lin Daiyu's prototype is Dong Xiaowanzhi, and also said that "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a new viewpoint written for the invasion of Xinjiang. If you are interested, you can look for it to see if it makes sense.
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