On New Year's Eve last year, the flower market was lit up like day.
The moon is on the willow tip, and the person is about after dusk.
On New Year's Eve this year, the moon and lights are still there.
Not seeing last year's people, tears wet spring shirt sleeves.
Many people know Zhu Shuzhen's name, probably because of this small word called "Sheng Cha Zi Yuan Xi" (the author of this word is Ouyang Xiu).
This is a prime minister's thoughts, writing about the sweetness of meeting with a lover last year and the pain of not seeing a lover today.
On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month last year, the lights of the flower market lined the night as bright as day. The moon rose in the willow treetops, and he asked me to meet after dusk and talk to each other.
On the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year, the lights are still so bright, and the moonlight is still so gentle. But where is the lover I met last year after dusk? Unconsciously, the teardrops had wet the sleeves.
Plain and simple language, but with an inexhaustible long charm, that kind of old love is difficult to continue, the sentimentality of all people, as if through the thin pages, little by little, soaked in the reader's heart.
Search the Internet for Zhu Shuzhen's entry, which reads:
Zhu Shuzhen (朱淑真), also known as Zhu Shuzhen (朱淑珍) and Zhu Shuzhen (朱淑贞), was a resident of Shezhou, Anhui, or a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang, or a native of Haining, Zhejiang.
Born in the Song Dynasty, it is uncertain whether it was the Northern Song Dynasty or the Southern Song Dynasty. Some people say that she was born in a family of eunuchs, came from a well-off family, grew up in a well-to-do history, could write and paint well, and was known as a talented woman.
Later, she was promised by her parents to a small official (some said to be a street gangster, some said to be a scholar), who only knew how to make profits, did not think about progress, and even openly returned home with a prostitute, and scolded her.
In short, an unhappy marriage. Later, she was humiliated and separated from her husband. Finally met a good man, but he was also hit by war, and the two places were cut off.
She had to return to her mother's house in Qiantang, Zhejiang Province, alone, and spent the rest of her life in the cold eyes of her parents, the ridicule of others, and the loneliness and loneliness of countless days and nights.
Sitting alone, singing alone and sleeping alone.
Standing hurt, helplessly touching people with a cold breeze.
Whoever sees this, tears wash the makeup without half.
The sorrow is still the same, and the dream of eliminating the cold lamp is not successful.
A song "Minus Magnolia Spring Grievance" looks full of sorrow and loneliness.
After her death, her parents accused her of corrupting the lintel and burned the words she had written, which are now circulating.
From the name to the place of origin to the life experience, everything is vague and unclear, trance like a cloud of smoke, and this is Zhu Shuzhen's life.
Obviously, in the sparkling waves of history, she has left such a stunning reflection.
Chen Tingzhuo praised in the "Bai Yu Zhai Words and Sayings Volume II": "Zhu Shu's true words are not able to catch Yi An, but the scale of the Tang and five generations does not lose measure."
Later generations will also compare Zhu Shuzhen with Li Qingzhao, the first female lyricist in ancient times, and make it a "double wall of the word altar".
If someone had not deliberately sought to compile the remaining articles of the disaster into "Broken Intestine Words" and "Broken Intestine Poems" and passed down to the world, Zhu Shuzhen might have been so annihilated in the dust of history, and only the traces of scales and claws would not be found.
And this was originally the fate of thousands of women in ancient China.
In my private heart, I always favored the Tang Dynasty, not only for the glorious atmosphere of the dynasty, not only for the splendid poems of the brilliant stars, but also for an era of rare tolerance for women.
In the Tang Dynasty, women could fall in love freely, could boldly pursue love, and could even divorce and remarry, without having to be killed for a lifetime in the heavy shackles of the three principles and five constants.
Only then did she have women with outstanding personalities and vitality, such as Empress Wu Zetian, Princess Taiping, Shangguan Wan'er, Yu Xuanji, Xue Tao, etc., adding a touch of charm or charm or bright or warm brilliance to the Tang Dynasty.
After the Tang Dynasty, the world of women was compressed to smaller and smaller.
The Song Dynasty, in terms of culture, Song Ci can be compared with Tang Shi Bozhong, but in terms of temperament and open-mindedness, it is greatly inferior, and that kind of weakness and narrowness is deeply engraved in the bones of the Song Dynasty.
Literati and doctors can openly prostitute themselves, and even take it for being a beautiful affair; women who only pursue freedom and love will be insulted and ridiculed by countless people, regarded as "great injustice".
By the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to "Qin Huai Bayan", the figure of the woman was not found at all.
They must destroy all individuality, and no matter how their husbands treat themselves, they must be obedient and gentle.
In this way, unmarried from the father, married from the husband, the husband died from the son, and after death, the tombstone reads "so-and-so clan". In this life, I have been living for others, and I myself am destined to leave no trace in the history books.
Zhu Shuzhen and Li Qingzhao were fortunate to be seen by us because of their poetry, but behind them, there are more women we can't see, and they are lonely all their lives.
During this time, I was deeply touched by two news.
The first is the anti-epidemic drama "The Most Beautiful Retrograde" some time ago, which caused an uproar on the Internet due to the obliteration of the contributions of tens of millions of anti-epidemic heroines.
One is the "fake Jin Dong" incident two days ago, a 61-year-old aunt in Jiangxi was deceived by the "fake Jin Dong" on the Internet and wanted to divorce her husband.
She said something very poignant, "This is the first love I have experienced in my life."
This aunt's deception is not an isolated case, behind her, is the emotional lack of countless middle-aged and elderly women.
Because there is too little warmth to be tasted in a lifetime, when someone has a word of care and warmth for them, they are like moths to the fire, desperate.
Even as we have reached the 21st century, in many places, women are still suffering from inequalities.
Baby girls who are discarded by their "son-preference" parents at birth;
Girls who are "forced out of school" at an age when they should be carefree to study;
The girls who were arbitrarily married in order to earn a generous dowry for their brothers and brothers;
Those who were brutally killed by gangsters, but instead had to be righteously scolded by netizens for "who made you dress so exposed";
Middle-aged and elderly women who have been exploited again and again by scammers for their lack of emotion;
......
We have been on the road of "equal rights for men and women" for a long time, but we still have a long way to go in the future.
Reading this, some readers may say that it is good for poetry to appreciate poetry, why should it be involved in social news?
But the poet would like to say that poetry has never existed in isolation and solidification in history.
The reason why our classical poetry has such a charm, which has not faded through thousands of years and has been immortalized through hundreds of generations, is not precisely because it can cross the gap of time and give us a deep resonance?
The relevance of poetry has always been, it tells about eternal human feelings and human nature.
I just hope that one day, the real sense of "equal rights for men and women" can be realized, and the tragedy of Zhu Shuzhen will not repeat itself.
And every woman wants to tell you:
"The armor is always there, sometimes on your own."
【Copyright Notice】This article is originally published by Poetry World, author: Ye Han.