In the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang heard that there was a talented and beautiful girl in the family of the chancellor Wu Shiyan (yuē), so he recruited the 14-year-old Wu Clan into the palace and gave him the title of "Wu Mei". Later generations have been falsely rumored to be Wu Mei Niang, perhaps the "feminine lady" sounds more beautiful.
Before entering the palace, her mother Yang Shi cried bitterly, she knew the truth that "once she entered the palace door, it was as deep as the sea", if she did not get the emperor's appreciation, she was likely to end up alone and end up with a white hair guarding the empty boudoir. But Wu Mei was full of vigor at this time, and said to her mother: If you serve the Son of Tomorrow, do you know that it is not a blessing, so why should you cry and cry, and be a child?
Twenty-three years after Zhenguan, Tang Taizong died, and Wu Mei was classified as a nun in the Ganye Temple according to the Tang Palace Shou Law, and began to guard Li Shimin's life. Entering the Ganye Temple is equivalent to Sun Wukong wearing a tight hoop, which is equivalent to announcing that a colorful life has come to an end, and the seven passions and six desires are no longer touched. However, at this time, Wu Mei was only 29 years old, which was the age when she needed to be loved and loved, and she absolutely could not bear such loneliness, and she resolutely made a decision against her ancestors.
Wu Mei, as an abandoned woman of the former dynasty, went so far as to openly write a love letter to the king of the current dynasty! The four years in Ganye Temple were the darkest period of Wu Mei's life, the most frustrated four years of her life, and the most poetic four years of her life, because she usually had nothing to do when she was idle, and she could only write poems to dispel her sorrows. During this period, Wu Mei wrote the most poignant poem of her poet's career, which was the rave reviews of "Ruyi Niang".
"Ruyi Niang"
Looking at Zhu Chengbisi, he was haggard and fragmented as a memory.
In disbelief, Bi Lai burst into tears and opened the box to check the pomegranate skirt.
This poem integrates the style of the Southern and Northern Dynasties Lefu, extremely sad, subtle and clear, fresh and gorgeous, only 28 words of short appeal, but left with infinite meaning, clear in the twists and turns, can be called Wu Zetian's poetry works. It is said that It is precisely after Reading this gentle and poignant poem that Emperor Gaozong of Tang gaozong li zhi re-welcomed Wu Mei into the palace and made him re-embark on the peak of his life, otherwise perhaps this famous female emperor may have to be a nun for a lifetime. Let's appreciate it.
"Look at Zhu Chengbisi, haggard and fragmented for Yi Jun."
The starting sentence is the stroke of God, "Look at Zhu Chengbi" simple 4 words actually contain three meanings, Xiao Xie privately thought that just by these four words, it was enough to make this poem seal the gods, let Wu Zetian seal the gods!
First, what does "look at Zhu Chengbi" mean? It is to mistake red for green, wu Zetian said that I am not suffering from color blindness, but because of "thinking about it". Because I think of you, I can't think of your eyes, so I can't distinguish between red and green! Wu Zetian vividly expressed his mood of excessive thoughts, so that his soul was not guarded and trance, and he simply wrote into the softest depths of Li Zhi's heart.
Second, why "look at Zhu Chengbi" instead of "seeing Bi Chengbi"? This leads to the method of Bixing in this sentence, which regards the red flower as a green leaf, and to go deeper, even the red flower is only a green leaf in her eyes, because there is no love in her eyes. Wu Zetian used this to allude to the passage of spring light, a metaphor for the gradual passing of his youth.
Third, the two colors of Zhu and Bi are very different, implying that their lives have changed from the former songs and laughter to a desolate and painful situation, which constitutes a strong emotional contrast between cold and warm. Wu Zetian seemed to be gently telling: Ah Zhi, in the days without you, I will cherish myself even more... Wrong! It should be that I will never cherish myself again... It was wrong again, and no one should cherish me again!
The first sentence is very subtle, and the second sentence is straight to the chest, and the emotion is undisguised: I think you want to be haggard, emotionally broken, mentally confused, and has almost become a neurosis. The first two sentences simply broke the heart of a sifu woman, and there was nothing else between the lines, just loneliness, loneliness, sadness and sorrow, full of the most hateful and bitter tears.
"I don't believe it, but I burst into tears and opened the box to check the pomegranate skirt."
If you don't believe the tears I've left behind because I've missed you in recent days, then open your suitcase and see the speckled tear marks I've left on my pomegranate skirt!
If the first two sentences are just implicit hints of hook-up, then these two sentences are a blatant show of love. Determined, bold, unpretentious, undisguised. Sometimes, the most straightforward language is often the most touching, because this straightforwardness often contains the true emotions that the author cannot hide.
The pomegranate skirt is a clothing style that is highly favored by women in the Tang Dynasty, but the beautiful legend of the pomegranate skirt that can be left in history is inseparable from the poem of Wu Zetian.
The "Four Ming Poems" commented on this poem, saying: "Where the beginning sentence is like exposing bamboo, the sudden sound is easy to penetrate", "The closing sentence should be like a bell, and the clear tone is more than enough." This is true, because none of these four verses are vulgar, but all of them are good sentences.
"Famous Lady Poetry Return" commented: "The old fox is very charming, not flattering and not evil." On the surface, it is mournful and miserable, but in fact, the old fox is very charming, but it is neither foxy nor vulgar to read, which is the brilliance of Wu Zetian's poetry. There is no word here, only worship.