"Poor Girl" is a poem that was more popular in the late Tang Dynasty, and this poem is ostensibly written about the girl's huaicai and making a wedding dress for people, but in fact it is the writer's own huaicai in the official field.
However, what makes people wonder is that the author of this poem, Qin Taoyu, was the nephew of Yu Chun, the prime minister at that time, and a veritable magnate, so why did he write such a poem without meeting Him?
The nephew of the prime minister, he is deeply loved by his uncle and aunt
Qin Taoyu (秦韬玉), also spelled Zhongming, was born in a Shangwu family in Jingzhao Chang'an, his father was a middle- and lower-ranking officer in the Tang Army, and his uncle was Yu Chun, the prime minister at the time, who was also the prime minister of the dynasty and also the horse master, he married Princess Guangde of Tang Xuanzong, and the Qin family became a veritable relative of the imperial family.
Qin Taoyu's father is not a tool, just a small official, the family conditions are not very good, after Qin Taoyu grew up a little, the family fell in the middle of the road, his father handed him over to his uncle and aunt to raise, one is to reduce the burden on the family, the other is to follow his uncle and aunt can give him a better future.
When they arrived at the uncle's and aunt's house, the uncles and aunts were particularly fond of Qin Taoyu, and the princess regarded him as her own, basically responding to every request.
Qin Taoyu was very talented in writing poetry, and at a very young age, he showed his talent in literature and made many poems, and his uncle and aunt saw his talent and found him a professional teacher to tutor him, so that he became more and more literate and capable.
Uncle and aunt are unconditionally fond of Qin Taoyu, and this pampering has cultivated Qin Taoyu into a very talented playboy, who spends his days idly eating, drinking and having fun with a bunch of fox friends and dog friends.
These fox friends and Qin Taoyu all belonged to the "Fanglin Ten Zhe", these people had a very bad wind evaluation at that time, and Qin Taoyu also wrote such obscene words as "Blowing Sheng Song" at this time, which was simply a failure among the literati.
Uncle Yu Chun was a colleague when he was prime minister, and the famous adulterous Minister Lu Yan was a colleague, according to records, Lu Yan and Qin Taoyu's father had a very close relationship, he entered the phase three years before Chun, but the two had a common political enemy, Xiang Wei Baoheng, both of them had been expelled by him, and the enemy of the enemy was a friend, so the relationship between the two was very good.
In order to make his nephew famous and pave the way for his nephew's future development, his uncle recommended him to Lu Yan to "write documents", and in this way, Qin Taoyu climbed the magnate for the first time.
Princess Guangde openly interfered in the national examination, and the first imperial examination failed
When Qin Taoyu took the imperial examination for the first time, her aunt Princess Guangde personally intervened in the national examination in order to let him openly interfere in the national examination in one examination.
The princess's behavior angered many upright officials in the court, everyone talked about it, the princess's power was still unable to withstand these righteous officials who refused to give in, Qin Taoyu fell on the list this time, in fact, according to his ability, he should have no big problem in passing the examination, who let his uncle be too anxious, directly used his own power to help, after all, it hurt him.
Qin Taoyu's first examination was in the fourteenth year of Xiantong, that is, in this year, a major event that changed his life occurred, during which time, the famous Yellow Nest Rebellion broke out.
In November, their family was unfortunately killed, their uncle and aunt died, the prime minister Lu Yan also fell out of power at this time, Qin Taoyu's two big patrons fell, and from then on, no one could help him.
Because the clinging to the magnates was involved, the second time fell behind
Seven years later, Qin Taoyu took the imperial examination here, and when he took the Jingzhao Fu examination, he was refuted by the then Jingzhao Yin Yang, who was actually tired by the former patron Lu Yan.
Yang Loss and Lu Yan, the two once had a contradiction because of a small matter, Lu Yan took revenge on Yang Loss and degraded his official position, since then, the two are inseparable, water and fire are intolerable.
Now that Lu Yan has lost his position, Yang Wei has been fortunate to rise higher and higher and become the Yin of Jingzhao Province, and he naturally wants to retaliate against what Lu Yan once did to him, and he may not have been able to directly move Lu Yan, so he aimed the spearhead at Qin Taoyu, who took the imperial examination at this time.
Qin Taoyu and Lu Yan had a great relationship, coupled with Qin Taoyu's infamy, so Yang Wei felt that he was attached to the powerful and suppressed him many times, and Qin Taoyu failed to take the imperial examination for the second time.
Qin Taoyu, who had repeatedly encountered a wall in the imperial examination, had no way, at this time there was no one who could help him, he was very eager for Zhongdi in his heart, he wanted to achieve fame, and he found the former eunuch relationship in the family alone and turned to the eunuch.
Quan Castrated Tian Lingzi had some friendship with the Qin family, and took good care of Qin Taoyu, who had lost power, and with his help, Qin Taoyu succeeded in "and the first" and became an official, but he was also known as a "Qiao Eunuch".
Composed the poem "Poor Girl", expressing his feelings of not meeting his talents
"Pengmen did not recognize Qi Luoxiang, and intended to hurt himself. Who loves to be high-style, and pity the frugal grooming of the times. Dare to exaggerate the ten fingers of the needle, do not draw the double eyebrow bucket long. He hates pressing gold threads every year and making wedding clothes for others. ”
Its superficial content is to write about a girl from a cold background, who has a noble character and disdains to compare with those girls with heavy makeup.
She wanted to use her superhuman embroidery ability to find a family affair for herself, but the clothes she embroidered became the wedding dress worn by others when they got married, and her own relatives were still not settled, in fact, the poet Qin Taoyu's own huaicai did not meet.
This poem should have been written by him in the period after his uncle and aunt were both killed, these years are also the saddest years of his life, in fact, the poor woman this poem Poor woman is just like Qin Taoyu himself, Qin Taoyu's family road fell under the fence, although the princess treated him as if she were her own, but after all, the princess is not her own biological mother, what is the difference between him and the poor woman who was born poor?
Later, he repeatedly encountered walls in the imperial examination, and no one could understand him and see his talent, and at the beginning, like the poor woman, he believed that as long as he was talented, he would definitely be able to win and be appreciated by people.
He became an aide to officials, often advising others, just as poor women made wedding dresses for others, but he was not willing to do so, he believed in his own ability. Later, in order to realize his heroic ambitions, Qin Taoyu turned to the eunuchs, and indeed succeeded, although Qin Taoyu's reputation was not good, but his poem became a famous poem throughout the ages.
This poem later resonated with many talented Hanshi who did not meet Bole, and it wrote the voices of many Hanshi who did not meet with talent, because they did not have the recommendation of the relationship between the powerful and the powerful, so they could only make wedding clothes for others like poor women.
Qin Taoyu wrote the poem "Poor Girl", saying that he had exhausted the ups and downs of his life and his nostalgia, although it was an ordinary poem, the details realized his and many cold people's bumpy lives, which made people sigh.