In the thousands of years of China, there have been many poignant love stories, although many literary works or myths and legends, and often end in tragedy, but there are also many real people and real events, and happy endings. Among them, the story of Princess Nanchen Lechang and Xu Deyan, the donkey horse, "breaking the mirror and reuniting", has been talked about by the Chinese people for thousands of years. So, what kind of a bumpy love story is this?
Princess Lechang was the daughter of Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen, born dignified and beautiful, beautiful and beautiful, even if she was facing the sky, she could charm all sentient beings. Among the many sisters (Emperor Chen Xuan had 41 princes and 24 imperial daughters), although Princess Lechang was not the one with the highest appearance, she was an excellent one in terms of her comprehensive quality because she was proficient in the subset of scriptures and history and was good at playing the piano and drums.
Princess Lechang was born well, good-looking, and versatile
Princess Lechang was born well, good-looking, and versatile, so before she could reach the age of 14, she had become the object of competition in the family of the princely secretary. Emperor Xuan of Chen went to great lengths to choose a good husband for his daughter, and chose thousands of high-ranking disciples, and finally helped her choose Xu Deyan, the grandson of the prime minister Xu Ling and the crown prince.
Xu Deyan was not only born well and handsome, but also proficient in piano, chess and poetry, and was a perfect match for Princess Lechang. Therefore, when she waited for the year of Ji Zhen, the princess married Xu Deyan, and after marriage, the little two harmonica and Ming, life was extremely sweet. However, just as Princess Lechang was preparing to spend her life with her husband, a major change occurred, resulting in the two being forcibly separated.
Xu Deyan is not only well-born and handsome, but also versatile
It turned out that after the death of Emperor Xuan of Chen, the later lord Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne. Lord Chen Hou was a famous monarch of the subjugated country, during his reign, he was trustworthy and abandoned political affairs, and every day he took pleasure in drinking flower wine and writing beautiful poems with a group of shameless literati, and did not care about the safety of the country at all. At this time, the Northern Dynasty had entered the Sui Dynasty stage, and the reigning Sui Wen Emperor at that time was trying to rule with great efforts to mix the north and the south, and the fainting of Lord Chen Hou just provided him with the opportunity to complete the grand cause.
At the end of 588, Emperor Wen of Sui, with his second son Yang Guang as his commander, supplemented by the chancellor Yang Su and Gao Xi, led the famous generals Han Huhu and He Ruobi to the south to attack Chen, defeating the Chen army along the way with the momentum of destruction and decay, and took only 100 days to capture Jiankang and capture Chen Hou's lords and subjects, in February of the ninth year of The Emperor Kai (588). At this point, the southern Chen dynasty, which had only been established for 32 years, collapsed, and China was once again unified after nearly 300 years of division.
Chen Shubao fainted and destroyed the country, causing Princess Lechang to become the "spoils of war" of the enemy country.
However, the reunification of the north and the south does not mean "gospel" to everyone, at least in the eyes of Xu Deyan, who became a slave to the country, this result means that his wife will be taken to the north as a spoil of war. Therefore, after the fall of Jiankang, in order to prevent the husband and wife from meeting each other again, the princess cut the bronze mirror used for dressing in half and kept half with her husband. The princess and Xu Deyan agreed that once the husband and wife were separated, the horse would go to the streets of Chang'an every year on the fifteenth day of the first month to sell half a bronze mirror until he found himself, so that the broken mirror could be reunited.
The wife of Xu Deyan, the prince of Chen, the sister of the later master's uncle Bao, princess Feng Lechang, was crowned. When Chen's government was in turmoil, Deyan knew that he was not safe, saying that his wife knew: "With the talent of the king, the death of the country will enter the home of the powerful and powerful, and Si will never die." If the love affair is not broken, it is better to see each other, and it is advisable to believe it. But a mirror is broken, and the man holds on to his half, and he says, "He will sell it to the city on the first day of the first month, and I shall be there, that is, he will visit it on a daily basis." See The Poetry of The Book.
Princess Lechang was given the concubine Yang Su, the chancellor
Sure enough, after the fall of Southern Chen, Princess Lechang was given to Yang Su and became the latter's favorite concubine ("And Chen Que, whose wife fruit was not destroyed by the Sui army, Sui Wen was favored by Su, deeply favored by Su, for the camp courtyard, as he wanted.") See The New Chronicle of the Two Capitals). Although Princess Lechang forced a smile in yang mansion, she never gave up the idea of reuniting with her husband in her heart. Kung Fu lived up to the painstaking efforts, and a few years later, the people sent out by the princess finally found Xu Deyan on the streets of Chang'an.
But although Xu Deyan had already found it, how to leave Yang Mansion to reunite with her husband was a big problem in the princess's mind. Princess Lechang thought about it again and again, and decided to confess the truth to Yang Su, hoping that the other party could fulfill them. After Yang Su listened to the causes and consequences, although he had some jealousy in his heart, he remembered that they were deeply in love with each other, and even if he was the one who forcibly retained the princess, he could not keep her heart, but it was better to push the boat along the water and complete them.
Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan broke the mirror and reunited, creating a good story
Soon, Yang Su sent the princess out of the palace to reunite with Xu Deyan, and also gave them a large amount of money, and also recommended Xu Deyan to serve as the Puzhou Sigong, which is really a good person to do to the end ("Su Blamed his miserable and asked why, with a matter of complaint, Su Yanran changed his appearance.) Let the summons return his wife, and dress him with it... When people mourn the exile of the Chen clan, they are forgiving. Ibid.).
After Xu Deyan was reunited with the princess, he only served as an official for a few years, and then he took his wife to hide in Jiangnan, and after a few years, both of them died. The story of Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan has been passed down for thousands of years, touching the world, and can be called a model of loving husband and wife, and later generations called the separation of husband and wife and the reunion as "broken mirror reunion", and its allusion is from Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan.