Xinzhou characters: Bai Pu, Hequ County, one of the "Four Greats of Yuanqu"

Bai Pu (1226-1306), originally known as Heng, zi renfu, later changed his name to Pu, zi Taisu, Langgu, Aozhou (present-day Hequ County). Born in a family of eunuchs, his father Bai Hua (白华), ZiWenju (字文舉), Trumpet Yu Zhai (号宇斋), Jin Zhenyou (金贞祐三年) (1215) Jin Shi (金贞祐) was a scholar, and was initially a YingFeng Hanlin script. For seven years, he was appointed as a judge of the Privy Council, and he was highly relied upon by the emperor for his organic strategy and good argumentation. After Jin's death, he moved from the Assassin to the Song Dynasty and served as the Viceroy of Junzhou. Later Fan used Ji to kill the governor of Junzhou to send money to the Northern Dynasty, and Hua returned to the north.

Bai Hua was the third son, and Bai Pu was the second son, who lived with his father in the Capital Of Nanjing (present-day Kaifeng) with his father. When he was 7 years old, the Mongol army captured Nanjing, his mother was taken away by the rebel army, his father had previously fled to Dengzhou with Emperor Aizong of Jin, and Bai Pu was led out of Beijing by Yuan Haowen and crossed the Yellow River north to Shandong. Yuan and Bai are Zhongzhou Shiqi, the sons of the two families, each holding a Changqing story, and exchanging poems and texts. Bai Pu asked yuanhao about his nephew, young reading Ying enlightenment, yuan hao asked about his studies with concern whenever he went to his home, and once gave a poem: "Yuan Bai tong family is old, Zhulang Du Ruxian." A few years later, Bai Pu's father returned to the north and Bu Zhu was in Luoyang (present-day Zhengding, Hebei), and Xie Yuanhao asked: "Gu I really became a lost dog, and Lai Jun once protected Luo'er." ”

Bai Pu suffered the difficulty of subjugating the country at a young age, and he lost his mother in a hurry, so he had a sigh full of mountains and rivers, often depressed and unhappy, bent his self, cynical funny, and specially designed for the study of the law. In his youth, he roamed Dadu (present-day Beijing), Shuntian (present-day Baoding), Shouchun (present-day Shou County, Anhui), huaizhou (present-day Qinyang, Henan) and other places. At the beginning of the Central Unification, Zhongshu Zuo Xiang Shi Tianze proposed to recommend it to the dynasty, and Bai Pu repeatedly thanked him, "Perched on the Gate of Chi Hengmen, and regarded RongLi as contemptuous as also". At the age of 55, he migrated to Jinling, from the relics of the old people to the mountains and rivers, day with poetry and wine to travel, with The Use of Yazhi. In Dadu, he once entered the Yujing Book Club with Guan Hanqing and was a prominent figure in the drama world at that time. Jia Zhongming hanged Zhao Zixiang Ciyun: "Bai Renfu, Guan Hanqing, Li Qingji, the world is popular." "In his later years, he returned to his hometown in the north, and died more than 80 years ago.

Bai Puyou works in songwriting and is one of the "Four Greats of Yuanqu". He is the author of 2 volumes of the collection of words "Tianlai Collection" and 1 volume of "Tianlai Collection"; 15 kinds of miscellaneous dramas: "Absolute Wisp Society", "Rushing the River", "Liang Shanbo", "Earn Lan Ting", "Silver Kite", "Beheading the White Snake", "Wutong Rain", "Xingyue Palace", "Cui Hu Gurudwara Pulp", "Qiantang Dream", "Gao Zu Guizhuang", "Phoenix Ship", "Wall Head Horse", "Flowing Red Leaves", "Arrow Shooting Double Eagle". There are only two kinds of complete miscellaneous dramas that exist today: "Wall Head Horse" and "Plane Tree". There are also fragments of fragments of "Flowing Red Leaves" and "Double Eagles Shooting arrows". The "Record of the East Wall" circulating today is suspected to be not Bai Pu's original work.

"Wall Head Horse" ("Pei Shaojun Wall Head Horse") and Guan Hanqing's "Baiyue Pavilion", Wang Shifu's "West Chamber", zheng Guangzu's "Qiannu Leaving the Soul", known as the "Four Love Dramas" in the Yuan Miscellaneous Drama. Its structure is rigorous, witty like pearls, dramatic conflicts are sharp, the characters are distinct, and it is extremely anti-feudal, which is a masterpiece in the history of Chinese theater.

"Wutong Rain" ("Tang Ming Emperor Autumn Night Wutong Rain") is Bai Pu's famous work. Its style is lingering and beautiful, elegant and timeless, "writing love is refreshing, writing scenery is in people's eyes and ears". The sentences are endless, and the force is heavy. In the last scene, write about the desolation of the rain and the desolation of the scenery: "[Nagging Order]: A tight price, like ten thousand pearls falling in a jade plate." A price rings out, like a few clusters of songs before the tortoiseshell feast. A price is clear, like a cold spring waterfall at the head of the green rock. A price will be fierce, like an embroidery flag under several sides of the sign of the exercise. Vultures are not annoyed to kill people, and Vultures are not annoyed to kill people. He was overwhelmed by the sound of his rain. [Ruo Xiucai]: This rain beat the leaves of the sycamore withered, and a little bit of people's hearts were broken. Surrounded by a bed of gold and silver, he had to make firewood and saw it down. "The predecessor's Sheng pushed "Wutong Rain", that is, in its lyrics.

Ming Zhuquan said in the "Taihe Zhengyin Spectrum": "The words of Zi Renfu, such as Peng's Nine Xiao, wind and bone, and the etymology of Pei, if dapeng originates from the North Meditation, and the wings are overpowering the Nine Xiao, there is a will for a thousand miles, it is advisable to crown the first." "Kingdom Weiyun White And Simple" in the poem Liu Mengde, the words in Su Dongpo, gentle and bold, both beautiful covers. His "Wall Head Horse" was translated into Japanese, and "Wutong Rain" was introduced overseas by the famous French sinologist Bazan in the first year of Qing Xianfeng (1851).

Source: Xinzhou Regional Chronicle, December 1997. Huang Xiang (Yin Shan Worm) was sorted out in January 2022