Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, in history left a lot of rumors and anecdotes, including "Zhao Taizu thousands of miles to send Jing Niang", the hero and beauty of the bridge section, this story "Cautionary Tales" is included, but also adapted into many opera repertoire.
At that time, Zhao Kuangyin was not yet a leader, known as Zhao Gongzi, who liked to make friends with the world's heroes Haojie, and also liked to fight unevenly. He hated the emperor for being absurd at that time, and smashed the emperor's playthings in one breath. In order to avoid the emperor's thunderous anger, he could only wander the world alone, and finally fled to the Taiyuan territory and lived in the Qingyou Temple.
One day, Zhao Kuangyin was walking in the temple and found that a young woman was being held in the Descending Demon Hall. After careful questioning, he learned that this little girl was originally called Zhao Jingniang, who was twenty-eight years old, and was snatched away by two bandits on the way to follow her father Shangxiang to make a wish.
Because Jingniang was young and beautiful, the two bandits were vying to be the lady of the village, and they could not bear to be afraid of ruining the brotherhood, so they imprisoned her in the Qingyou Temple and intimidated the Taoist priests to guard her strictly. The two are ready to grab a young and beautiful one again, and the two pairs are good to become relatives together.
Since Zhao Jingniang was a woman of a good family and suffered misery, Zhao Kuangyin felt that she had an obligation to escort her back to her hometown.
Along the way, the two encountered many thieves and bandits, including even two bandits who abducted Zhao Jingniang (no coincidence, no book), of course, they were all solved by Zhao Kuangyin, who was highly skilled in martial arts and thoughtful.
Zhao Kuangyin's life-saving grace and heroism deeply touched Jingniang, and she confessed to Zhao Kuangyin and expressed her admiration: I was abducted by thieves and could only be bent on death, but now that you have rescued me and sent me home thousands of miles away, I have no way to repay, and I am willing to give my life.
Who knew that Zhao Kuangyin was a straight man, he felt that he had saved Zhao Jingniang for justice, and if he had selfish thoughts about her, he would be taking advantage of the danger of others, and there was no difference between him and the bandits who abducted her. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin politely refused Jingniang's admiration and insisted that the two be called brothers and sisters.
The two returned to Jingniang's hometown, and Jingniang's family was very grateful to Zhao Kuangyin. Jingniang's parents also want to marry their daughter to Zhao Kuangyin, but Zhao Kuangyin insists that the two are just brothers and sisters, and they are clear. Then it was gone.
But the world was more complicated than Zhao Kuangyin thought. People in Jingniang's hometown began to point fingers at Jingniang, they thought that Jingniang and the strange man had been alone for such a long time, could the two have a relationship? Even Jingniang's parents refused to believe their daughter.
In the face of misunderstandings and gossip, Jingniang was unable to argue and finally committed suicide.
Many years later, Zhao Kuangyin became emperor and sent someone to inquire about Jingniang.com. After learning that Jingniang committed suicide, he was very sad. He went to the ferry port where he had sent Jing Niang home, and in order to commemorate Jing Niang and his feelings, he named this ferry the name "Zhao Du".
It should have been a godsend for the appearance of a talented woman, but it ended up with a tragic ending, which is really regrettable.