Early in the morning, I could only hear the rapid sound of horses' hooves from afar, approached the door, and knocked on the door of Li Mansion.
Today is the seventh day of the first month of July, and it is Li Yu's birthday. Emperor Taizong of Song sent envoys to send congratulatory gifts, in addition to gold and silver jewelry, brocade and satin, and a cup of fine wine given by the emperor.
After prostrating himself to Xie En, Li Yu raised his wine glass and drank it all. In less than a few moments, he spat out white foam, convulsed, fell to the ground and curled up into a ball, and finally died of exhaustion.
This year, Lord Li Hou was only forty-two years old.
In 937, Li Yu was born in Jinling (Nanjing). At that time, his grandfather Li Fu "bian" had just been called the emperor of the founding of the country, and the history was called the Southern Tang.
Since childhood, Li Yu has been weak and intelligent, proficient in poetry and song, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. In his bones, Li Yu, who was home from the Buddha lineage, had an imperial appearance.
He had no quarrel with the world, and he read only the books of the sages and wrote only the words between flowers with both hands. However, current affairs were manipulative, and in 959, Li Hongji died of illness, and several brothers died young, and according to the order of elders and children, the position of crown prince finally fell to Li Yu's head.
After Li Yu succeeded to the throne, he was a Zhouquan of The Southern Tang Dynasty and never stopped paying tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty. And he is still "at ease" to continue to spend the front of the moon, song and swallow dance.
The Southern Tang Emperor was drunk and dreaming of death, and secretly lived, but the ambitious Zhao Kuangyin did not stop for a moment.
In 976, Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was captured and the Southern Tang perished.
In the same year, after Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he renamed Li Yu the title of "Duke of Longxi". This hatred of the subjugation of the country, Li Yu's shame and pain, no one can complain about, only to use words to comfort.
Wordlessly go up to the West Building, the moon is like a hook. Lonely sycamore deep courtyard lock Qingqiu. Cut continuously, rationalize and chaos, is away from sorrow, do not be a taste in the heart.
- "Meet and Greet (Speechless alone on the West Building)"
Also captured along with the Hou Lord was his wife Xiao Zhouhou.
During Li Yu's reign in the Southern Tang Dynasty, he successively established two main chambers, Emperor Zhou'e and his sister, known historically as The Great Zhou Hou and the Little Zhou Hou.
Although Li Yu was born in the royal family, he had no heart for state affairs, liked the romance of the wind and snow, the joy of honey, and did not love the country and the mountains and loved the beauty.
After he succeeded to the throne, he made his favorite concubine, Emperor E, empress dowager, empress dowager.
At that time, zhou hou was nineteen years old, with the appearance of a sinking fish and a falling goose, and was born into a famous family, knew books and etiquette, and was also fluent in music and music, good at singing and dancing. The pipa she played at that time was unbeatable, it was simply a special thing in the world, which made Li Yu drunk.
However, since the ancient red face had a short life, it was not able to escape this spell after the Great Zhou.
After Xiao Zhou entered the palace to take care of her sick sister Da Zhou, Xiao Zhou's appearance and talent were not under her sister, which made Li Yu fall in love at first sight and never forget it.
Li Yu often avoided her entourage to date her, and she often sneaked out to go to appointments in the hazy moonlight, also barefoot, gently carrying golden shoes in her hands, and her back shadow walked in the mist of flowers in the moonlight.
The dark cage of the bright moon is light and foggy, and it is good to go to Lang's side this evening.
Socks step incense steps, hand-held golden shoes.
Seeing the south bank of the painting hall, I have always been snuggled and trembling.
It is difficult for slaves to come out, and the gods are merciful.
- "Bodhisattva Man"
After the death of Emperor Zhou'e, Li Yu was full of guilt and grief, and in order to mourn his deceased wife, he wrote a long elegy "Zhaohui Zhou Houyi":
Holding the hand of the son, growing old with the son. What about now, not the end? Hanging lonely shadows and mourning, selfish pity and pain are endless.
Fragrant soul, vast heavenly steps, caress and caresses, where is the invitation?
However, soon Li Yu remarried the fifteen-year-old Xiao Zhou, and three years later he made her the main chamber. He was pampered and pampered for this little week.
After the surrender of the Song Dynasty, Xiao Zhouhou was crowned "Lady Zhengguo", and according to the regulations, she had to go to worship Tianzi and Empress He on a regular basis along with other edicts.
Every time he entered the palace, he had to stay for many days after a small week, and when he returned, he often burst into tears and cried bitterly.
Li Yu came to appease her, and was loudly reprimanded by her, and the lord was silent, so he had to turn around and leave, no one knew what Xiao Zhou had experienced in the palace.
The king of a country, sending people to the fence, this hatred of the subjugation of the country tormented him, and he hated and regretted the beginning.
It has been three years since the Fall of the Song Dynasty, although Li Yu sang songs and feasted and enjoyed the moon every day, as the king of the subjugated country, three glasses of turbid wine were in his stomach, and he had a different taste in his heart.
He ascended to the attic, stood by the railing, looked around, drunkenly misty-eyed, looking south...
Thinking that he is now in an enemy country, enduring humiliation and stealing life, even his beloved wife cannot protect him, not only tears in his eyes, but also mixed feelings.
Back in the bedroom, he turned to the side, unable to sleep for a long time, thinking about when such a day would be over, so he got up in his clothes and wrote down this famous poem:
When is the Spring Flower autumn moon? How much do you know about the past. Xiao Lou had another east wind last night, and the homeland could not look back at the middle of the moon.
The carved fence jade should still be there, but Zhu Yan changed. How much sorrow can you have? It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward.
This song is written with blood and tears in the eyes, and the words are cone-hearted.
In Ye Chuqiao's book "I Don't Know Who I Am in My Dreams — The Poetry and Wine Years of song Dynasty Lyricists", it is said that this poem established Li Yu's status as the "emperor of words", and also brought him the disaster of killing himself.
Li Yu's new words "Xiao lou was the east wind again last night" and "a river of spring water flowing eastward" were widely recited in Bieliang, and Zhao Guangyi knew that this monarch who missed his homeland must not stay any longer, so he sent someone to send a cup of poisoned wine on the birthday of the later lord.
After Li Yu's death, Xiao Zhouhou was devastated, washed his face with tears all day, and soon died depressed, at the age of twenty-nine.
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