"Li Taibai and Du Zimei, with their unique posture of Yingwei, transcend hundreds of generations, and ancient and modern poets are all abolished." ——Su Shi, "After the Collected Poems of Huang Zisi"
The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous period of poetry culture in Chinese history, and the literati and inkers led the way and had their own characteristics, especially Li Bai and Du Fu. Another feature of the cultural circle of the Tang Dynasty is that compared with other dynasties, there are many talented women, and unique personality and boldness, Wu Zetian understands literature and history, and becomes a female emperor, Shangguan Wan'er is too talented, from a slave to a "female face".
In addition, there are also many folk talents, and Du Qiuniang, who was born in the dust, is one of the best. Du Qiuniang is a real historical figure, and Du Mu's "Du Qiu niang Poem" tells her story. She was born around 791, when the Tang Dynasty had begun to decline, and the reigning emperor was Tang Dezong (great-grandson of Tang Xuanzong), who was born a few years ago, and another talented woman, Xiang Yuyu, died.
That talented woman was the famous Li Ye and Li Jilan. Li Jilan and Xue Tao, Yu Xuanji, Liu Caichun and called "the four great female poets of the Tang Dynasty", Du Qiuniang is not as popular as they are, she was born in Runzhou, the beautiful landscape of Jiangnan nourished her temperament, talent, and her appearance is also very outstanding, white skin like gelatin, let people see the vulgar. If she was born rich, perhaps Du Qiuniang could become the fifth female poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Unfortunately, the Du family was poor, and Du Qiuniang was bought by Li Kun at the age of 15 by Zhenhai Jiedu and became a kabuki. Li Kun was also a member of the Tang Dynasty clan, but with a rebellious intention, frantically searching for rare treasures, and gathering a large number of outlaws, the imperial court had anticipated his next move, deliberately arranged him in the position of Zhenhai Jiedu envoy, Ming ascended and secretly descended, and relieved him of his previous position as a salt and iron transport envoy, lest he accumulate more money.
Unexpectedly, Li Kun did not know himself at all, but instead acted willfully and arbitrarily, harming many children of the liang family, and Du Qiuniang was forced to enter the Li Mansion at that time. With extraordinary wisdom, Du Qiuniang guessed Li Kun's idea, deliberately wrote a strange poem that has been passed down through the ages, "Golden Silk Dress", and frequently sang to Li Kun when performing songs and dances:
"Advise the king not to spare the golden robe, and advise the king to cherish the youth; the flowers can be folded straight and must be folded, and the flowers are not waiting for the flowers to be empty and the branches are folded."
This poem is very wonderful, a thousand people can understand a thousand meanings from it, some people think of taking advantage of their youth, do a big cause; some people think of taking advantage of the good time and enjoying themselves; some people will think that it is a love poem, cherish the people in front of you, and confide in their hearts in time; because Du Qiuniang did not point out what the flowers that you want to take are represented, and people like Li Kun immediately thought of starting a rebellion as soon as possible.
Therefore, he felt that Du Qiuniang was worthy of his "confidant with a red face" and immediately accepted her as a concubine. At that time, Li Kundu was 64 years old, Du Qiuniang was young and young, of course, there was no match, it turned out that Li Kunguang had no ability to think, his rebellion was resolved by the imperial court in just one month, Tang Xianzong executed him, Du Qiuniang as his concubine was enslaved in the palace, she used to be a song and dance ji, and still did her job after entering the palace.
Du Qiuniang who entered the palace was only sixteen or seventeen years old, she was both talented and beautiful, and she was smart and beautiful, when performing "Golden Silk Dress", the tune was lingering and mournful, like a grudge, deeply fascinated by Tang Xianzong, Tang Xianzong heard the sentence "There are flowers that can be folded straight and straight", without thinking, he thought that this was a hint that he should be a concubine, so Du Qiuniang completed a change of identity because of this poem and became Tang Xianzong's autumn concubine.
Du Qiuniang spent more than ten years in the palace as a concubine of Tang Xianzong, not only deeply loved, but also often discussed some major state affairs with Tang Xianzong, the emperor was impatient, Du Qiuniang gently dissuaded him, giving him some appropriate advice. After Tang Xianzong obtained the "Yuan and Zhongxing", he gradually became addicted to pleasure, and also pursued immortality and took Dan medicine.
In 820, Tang Xianzong suddenly died, and then Tang Muzong Li Heng and Tang Jingzong Li Zhan, who succeeded him, were all addicted to fun and did not do their proper work, Du Qiuniang found someone to conspire to get rid of the eunuchs in power, and Li Zhuo, the king of Zhang, became emperor, but did not expect that things would leak, she was not killed but was relegated to a commoner, and returned to her hometown to spend the rest of her life. When Du Mu saw her, she was very old and living a poor life. If she was also born into an aristocracy like Wu Zetian, I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty will have one more talented woman who can stir up trouble.
In any case, Du Qiuniang is definitely a legend in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and she actually realized the transformation from a commoner to a palace concubine because of a poem. Her "Golden Robe" has been handed down and has become a famous passage that everyone can recite, and everyone can read the taste of life from it.