From ancient times to the present, there is no more prosperous place than the capital. Therefore, top entertainment venues are always opened in the bustling places of the capital. For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous "Fan Lou" was opened in the bustling area of the capital city of Beijing. Fan Lou, also known as Alum Lou, is also a famous elegant place because it was built in Beijing.
It is said that Fan Lou is beautifully decorated, with both fine wine and food, as well as countless beautiful people. Therefore, the Song Dynasty poet Liu Ziyi (Yin Tonghui) once left: "Liang Yuan sings and dances with enough wind and current, and fine wine is like a knife to break off sorrows." Remembering the happiness of Chengping, the lights went up to the Fan Building in the middle of the night. " hymns.
Therefore, the dignitaries in the capital city always like to go to Fan Lou to have fun. Among them, including the Song Huizong who came to the world. In the history of The Song Huizong Zhao Tuo was frivolous all his life, in addition to loving flowers, trees, bamboo stones, birds, animals, insects and fish, Juding calligraphy and painting, immortal Taoism, he also loved women like life, and later, he was immersed in it all day long, wandering skeletons, unable to extricate himself.
The number of concubines in Emperor Huizong's harem was staggering, and the history books recorded that there were "three thousand pink daisy and eight hundred smoke petites". The temperamental Song Huizong was even more itchy after hearing the name of Fan Lou, and often secretly sneaked into Fan Lou to have private meetings with Master Li of Hua kui. In "Water Margin", one of the four famous works in China, there are two descriptions related to Fan Lou.
The first time was in the sixth time: It is said that Gao Yunei, the son of the traitorous minister Gao Qi, had always coveted Lin Chong's wife, and his men deliberately tricked Lin Chong into eating wine in FanLou in order to help him take Lady Lin Chong.
The second time was in the seventy-second time: when Song Jiang and Chai Jin went to Fan Lou to eat wine, they had just sat down and heard someone singing in the next room. After Listening to Song Jiang, he went to see that it was the good Han Nine Dragon Shi Jin and Mu Hong who did not cover up. Shi Jin and Mu Hong drank a lot of good wine in Fan Lou, and sang in Fan Lou when they were drunk.
The Northern Song Dynasty's Fenjing City can be said to be the most prosperous place in the world, and the first of the seventy-two most luxurious restaurants in Fenjing is naturally Fan Lou. According to the records of the time, Fan Lou's business was very hot, and the liquor tax paid to the government every day was two thousand dollars. As for the liquor sold every year, even, it reached 50,000 catties.
Fan Lou exclusively brews two kinds of fine wines:
One is called Mei Shou;
One is called purpose.
Each of the two wines has its own flavor, and the taste is mellow and haunting. During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, Emperor Renzong often came to Fanlou for a banquet. In the Song Dynasty dialect "Zhao Bosheng Tea Shop Meets Renzong", there is a poem "Partridge Heaven" that records this incident. The words read:
"The restaurant in the city is high in the sky, and the dragon is boiled and the phoenix flavor is fatty.
Gongsun got off his horse and smelled drunk, and he did not hesitate to spend ten thousand dollars to drink.
Recruit distinguished guests, attract high sages, and sing and line the orchestra upstairs.
All kinds of beautiful things are precious and shy, and the four sides of the railing are painted with eaves. ”
It is said that a rich son named Shen Kai once came to Fan Lou to repeatedly pursue a famous prostitute. After Shen Kai came to Fan Lou, after seeing her, he took it to heart and could not sleep for this night. In order to be able to meet her again, Shen Kai did not hesitate to go to Fan Lou many times to pursue. Unexpectedly, the famous prostitute held her own color and art and did not put Shen Kai in her eyes.
Shen Kai thought deeper and deeper, and he wanted to see her again at great expense. The woman saw that Shen Kai had a deep affection, and her heart was also quite moved, so she agreed to meet them. One day, the two of them went up to the Fan Building together, and in addition to their excitement, Shen Kai said to the thousands of drinkers in the building: "Although you eat and drink, in the end they are all counted on my account." ”
Restaurants in Beijing are generally only three stories long, with the exception of Fan Lou. Due to the fact that there are too many guests who come here for entertainment, Fan Lou was directly transformed into a five-story three-story main building during the Huizong period, which can be described as magnificent and magnificent. In order to facilitate the communication of guests in several main buildings, a lot of flybridge railings were specially built inside the Fan Building. These railings are interconnected and illuminated like daylight.
When the Fan Building was just rebuilt, the first people to come could even get the golden flag sent by the operator. When it comes to the Lantern Festival, fanlou is even more lively. In order to welcome the Festival of Lights, the operator deliberately filled the roof of fanlou with lotus lanterns. Fan Lou is already brightly lit, and this has become the city that never sleeps in Beijing.
Fan Lou is very tall, from the top floor of the West Building is the Ouchi, considering the safety of the emperor, Fan Lou prohibits drinkers from looking out from the West Building. Because, Huizong and Master Li often met in the West Building. Emperor Huizong did not like to deal with political affairs, and only loved poetry and wine, and there were three thousand harem beauties. However, after learning that a generation of beautiful people, Li Shishi, sat in Fan Lou, Huizong was willing to bow down under her pomegranate skirt.
The two of them drank and wrote poems here, played the piano and composed music, and were not happy.
Fan Lou's luxury, even Huizong, who was accustomed to a life of brocade and jade food, could not help but fall for it. It is said that the people in the capital city knew that Emperor Huizong liked to go to FanLou to find Master Li. Therefore, whenever Huizong and Master Li entered the West Building in the Fan Building, the guests tacitly left the West Building. The West Building in the Fan Building, in fact, also became Huizong's private private room.
After the Jin soldiers crossed the Yellow River and captured Beijing, the Northern Song Dynasty collapsed. Emperor Huizong, who had been dressed in fine clothes, went north under the hostage of Jin Bing and was imprisoned in the Five Kingdoms City of jin. In the far north, after hearing the news that Master Li had been killed, Emperor Huizong could not help but remember the past of the two men. Deep in love, Emperor Huizong wrote a "Small Biography of Master Li" with a stroke of his pen.
Unfortunately, in an enemy country, this biography has not been passed down.
In fact, after the Southern Crossing of the Song Dynasty, Li Shishi's whereabouts are unknown, some people say that she donated her family to fund the Song Army's resistance to Jin, and she became a Taoist priest in ciyunguan; some people say that she was plundered by the Jin army, she was disheveled, she refused to wash and change clothes to see the Jin people, took no one to prepare, swallowed the golden hairpin and committed suicide; some people said that she casually married a merchant as a concubine, and later drowned in the Qiantang River.
Today, Master Li has been dead for more than eight hundred years, but the story of her is still circulating. The gorgeous Fan Lou has long disappeared, but I wonder if the story in the Fan Lou will be staged again?
Resources:
["The History of the Development of Fan Lou", "The Outer Biography of Li Shishi", "The Popular Interpretation of Song History"]