Author: Qiao Yongsheng
(Ban Jieyu)
Ban Jieyu's fame, on the one hand, is because of her flowers and moon appearance, her manners are all square, and she was deeply loved by Emperor Hancheng. On the other hand, her lexicographic articles are quite appreciated by everyone in poetry. Zhong Rong's "Poetry" of the Liang Dynasty commented that his work was "in a hundred years, there will be a woman, only one person." "Moreover, it is this talented and virtuous concubine who knows how to choose between trade-offs and have a basis for going in and out, so that countless people who are fighting in the official arena and the love field have to be ashamed.
(1) Entering the palace
Ban Jieyu's ancestors lived near Shuozhou, Shanxi, and her father, Ban Quan, was a lieutenant of the Yue Cavalry, and was a general who rode the frontier and expelled the Xiongnu in the late Han Dynasty. Ban Jieyu was born in such a famous family, naturally full of poetry and books, and knew Dali. Coupled with cleverness and handsome appearance, after entering the palace, she was made a concubine by the Hancheng Emperor.
Ban Jieyu's entry into the palace brought great comfort to Emperor Hancheng, who was trapped in the inner court. Emperor Cheng's depression stemmed from the intervention of his mother. In fact, this situation has long been a tradition of the Han Dynasty. Several emperors in the early Han Dynasty generally did not live long, and most of the emperors were under the supervision of the empress dowager at the beginning of their ascension to the throne, and gradually the court became the world of foreign relatives. The Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and those who were sons could not openly turn their faces with their mothers. Therefore, once the new emperor's personality is weak, and then touch a more domineering mother, basically can only swallow his anger. The same was true of Emperor Hancheng's mother, Wang Zhengjun.
(Wang Zhengjun)
Wang Zhengjun was incapable of governing the country, but he was well versed in using the harem to dissipate his son's dissatisfaction with himself. She knew the little lusts of the men, and they all crawled around on the beautiful women. Dealing with her own son, she unequivocally grasped this shortcoming. Wang Zhengjun looked for beautiful women for his son everywhere, and kept them in the harem for his son's entertainment. The cowardly Hancheng Emperor had no way to rebel against his mother, and simply put his mind on the harem beauty. At this time, Ban Jieyu, who is talented and has excellent character, will play.
(2) Favored
Ban Jieyu's mature charm, beautiful and generous, and the conservatism of a smile made The Hancheng Emperor suddenly fall into the magnetic field of the two sexes. She was familiar with the history books, excellent in words and words, and often told Emperor Cheng some things about songs and songs, and history, and enlightened Emperor Cheng to have a long-term vision and an open mind. In Emperor Cheng's leisure time, she sat in front of the piano, plucked the silk strings with her fingers, and the music relieved the knots, so that Emperor Cheng found a good partner in the loneliness and emptiness.
At this time, Ban Jieyu can really be described as thousands of pets in one, and the Hancheng Emperor is tired of being with her every day, and even the carriage and horse travel want to travel with her. Ban Jieyu was also deeply touched by this pampering. She thought that only by truly loving Emperor Hancheng, using her own tenderness to resolve the king's sorrows, and using her wisdom to help her lover mediate, could he cheer up his spirits, make a difference, and become a shrewd and capable monarch.
Emperor Hancheng also fell deeply for Ban Jieyu. In order to be able to accompany her, he specially had people build a large car, so that when they were touring the palace garden, they could travel in the same car with two people.
According to the etiquette system of the Han Dynasty, the emperor's car was made of Ayara curtain, the brocade mattress was a cushion, and the two people in front of him dragged away. And the car in which the empress concubines took could never be the same as the emperor's, nor could they ride in the same car as the emperor.
When Emperor Hancheng happily took Ban Jieyu's hand and invited her to ride with her, she said: "Concubines look at the pictures of ancient times, the Holy Emperor xianwang traveled with famous courtiers on the side, I did not hear that traveling with women, passed down to the end of the three generations, there were concubines." Now His Majesty wants to ride with the concubines, which are similar to the last lords of the three generations, and the concubines do not dare to obey the orders! ”
This rational and sober remark made Emperor Hancheng a little embarrassed, and he also vaguely planted the idea that the two people were gradually indifferent.
(3) Falling out of favor
The clever Ban Jieyu did not expect that this Hancheng Emperor, who looked depressed on the outside, was not a dedicated man, let alone a person who wanted a real confidant in his heart, and the pure and upright Ban Jieyu's high purity and conservatism could only be wishful thinking.
Emperor Hancheng was only a mediocre man with the position of a monarch and no talent in the world, he was absurd and shameless in nature, he did not want xian neisuke, not the emperor's hegemony, he just wanted to mix in the pile of women, watch them sprinkle gentleness, pampering, flowers, jealousy, and Ban Jieyu, who did not understand the style, could not unravel his "play girl" complex.
Ban Jieyu's sober and rational reason is fortunate for an ordinary man who has the ambition to act, and for the emperor of the Lord of All Saints, especially the Emperor Hancheng, who has no grand ambitions, what she should do is to be happy and amused, but the order is obedient. Her purity and cleanliness can only be "clean and self-purifying" for men who are caught in the fat powder pile of the harem and do not want to make progress.
(Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede sisters)
Moreover, in the vast harem, the women who dream of competing for favors are not at all piano, chess, calligraphy, paintings, and moral articles, but charming and charming, and kung fu in bed. In this quagmire, She wanted to clear herself and Xianghe's independent Ban Jieyu, who was not married to The Lord of Shengming, and this "Qing" word made her ruin her love and also ruin her youth.
When this matter reached Empress Wang, the empress dowager praised her and compared Ban Jieyu to Fan Ji of King Zhuang of Chuzhuang. However, her son was not the King of Chuzhuang, neither politically minded nor talented, and the woman he wanted was only a special object for him to play with, and all he wanted to do was toss and turn between the beds.
(Zhao Feiyan)
(4) Avoiding disasters
Ban Jieyu's solemn self-sufficiency and strict etiquette encountered the debauchery of Emperor Hancheng and the difficulty of becoming a great instrument. The love between the emperor and the concubine was not equal, not to mention that The Hancheng Emperor was a master who chased the wind and the moon, and could not hold an ounce in his crotch.
Soon, Emperor Hancheng transferred his affection to Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede's sisters. And when Emperor Hancheng was confused and overwhelmed by the graceful posture and whispering of these two sisters, the virtuous Ban Jieyu could only invite herself to the Changxin Palace to serve Empress Wang.
Since then, she has placed herself under the wings of Empress Wang, evaded the frame-up of Zhao Feiyan's sisters, quietly retreated in the dappled cold of the red wall of the deep palace, coldly looked at the red face of the harem, burned incense to write moral articles through the ages, let her heart beat, and knocked on the door of the resignation in the light shaking of the tuan fan.
The greedy and absurd Emperor Hancheng finally died in the body of the Zhao sisters in indulgence. However, the obsessive Ban Jieyu took the initiative to take on the task of guarding the hancheng emperor's mausoleum, accompanying this pathless prince who had made her experience love, open her heart, and finally betray her soul.
(5) Contemplation
When I thought about This choice of Ban Jieyu, I suddenly felt that in fact, in her heart, she had never given up her loyalty to Emperor Hancheng, the object of her first love, and had never given up her responsibility to use moral articles to transform her husband.
She can see her own heart in the shadow of the lonely lamp, and she can find her own faith in the loss of time. Perhaps, for a woman like Ban Jieyu, fate wants to make a joke with her. Otherwise, it will not arouse her unwillingness to "hate life in articles", and will not leave those brilliant works, so that we can see the image of a pure woman who is willing to live for love and die for love in the glorious historical sky.
It is also her rare persistence that has given many flower-hearted men a model of "the red flag at home does not fall, and the flag is waved outside the home". Therefore, generations of men have enlarged the story of this woman who was snubbed in the palace and written it to the "restless" women.
However, wise women will understand from Ban Jieyu's loneliness, whether it is love or marriage, when they can be confused, they are confused, too sober people can not feel happiness, and unexamined life will not produce value.
【Author's Profile】Qiao Yongsheng is committed to examining historical figures from a modern perspective and writing more to restore human nature.
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