Dong Xiaowan Profile: Dong Xiaowan (1624 ~1651 AD), name Bai, qinglian, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu. A singer and prostitute, one of the "Eight Yans of Qin Huai", is a member of the Nanjing Jiaofang Sile Book. In 1639, Dong Xiaowan became acquainted with the famous people of the Fu Society. After the death of Ming, Xiao Wan fled with the Mao family, and then shared happiness and suffering with the Mao Family until his death.
Dong Xiaowan (1624-1651), known as Bai, Xiaowan, Qinglian, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu. Because of the divorce of his parents and his poor life, he fell into the Qinglou. When she was 16 years old, she was already a famous Que, and she was the same as Liu Ruyi, Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun, etc. as "Qin Huai Bayan". In 1639, Xiang Xiang and Xiao Wan occasionally met in Bantang, Suzhou. She fell in love with Xiang Xiang at first sight and said, "Alien! Inhuman!" Although she had expressed her admiration for Mao Xiang many times, she did not get his approval. Because Mao Xiang had already belonged to Chen Yuanyuan, a famous prostitute in Wumen, he "made a marriage contract" in 1641.
The following year, when he passed through Suzhou for the sixth township examination and revisited Chen Yuanyuan, he was already empty, coupled with the frustration of the science field, and his mood was extremely depressed. In the winter of that year, under the mediation of Liu Ruyi, Qian Qianyi came forward to redeem Xiao Wan, and then hired a boat from Bantang to rugao. In the spring of the following year, Mao Dong married a couple. Xiao Wan is talented, can poetry and painting, and is especially good at playing the piano. The guqin in the Jinshui Ming Building was what she was concerned about at that time. Dong Xiaowan has a good and quiet nature, and whenever he goes to the remote forest, he is in love with it, and because he abandons the noise and luxury, he lives alone in Suzhou Bantang for six years. Xiao Wan was fascinated by the mountains and rivers. Under the beautiful scenery, she is also prone to surging tenderness, and sincerely gives people a feminine smile. Therefore, she was invited by people again and again.
How did Dong Xiaowan die? When, where, and why did this generation of famous prostitutes and troubled women die? So far, there are many opinions, and there is no consensus.
In 1985, the "Mystery of Chinese Culture" published by Shanghai Xuelin Publishing House listed it as a major historical unsolved case. The 1990 edition of "Ci Hai" only says: "When the Qing soldiers went south, (Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pujiang) were in the same period of chaos for nine years, and then died of overwork", and there is no detailed explanation. In 1992 and 1994, the literary and historical writer Zhou Gaochao published a novella in "Mass Literature and Art" and "China Enterprise Political Work Information Newspaper" and a literary and historical exploration "The Mystery of Dong Xiaowan's Death", collecting various legends to examine and identify, and unveiling the mystery. The editor is excerpted below for the benefit of the reader.
1. Blood stained Viyang:
At the beginning of 1645, the Qing army took the opportunity of the infighting in the Southern Ming Dynasty to attack the south, and on April 18, the Dor rolling troops came to the city of Yangzhou, and the Southern Ming general Shi Kefa led the soldiers and civilians in the city to fight the enemy for seven days and nights, during which Time Dong Xiaowan was entrusted by the risk of breaking the frontier to rush from Rugao in Taizhou to the Yangzhou Labor Army, rushed to the city wall of the four gates, and distributed the crisp candy she had made to the Southern Ming generals. However, in the end, because of the invincibility, the city was destroyed on the 25th, and a generation of national hero Shi Kefa was martyred, and Dong Xiaowan also refused to be humiliated, and the blood spilled on Qiongcheng. Later, in order to commemorate Xiao Wan, the people of Yangzhou named the crisp candy of her labor army "Dong Sugar", and wrapped her appearance in red paper to show Xiao Wan's blue blood and the red heart of General Shi, and "Dong Sugar" is still a traditional name in the Weiyang area.
2. Gu Su Yu died:
The former Ming Dynasty governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengzu, had been under the command of DuoDuo, the king of the Qing Dynasty of Heshuo Yuqing, and in 1645, with the military affairs of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and by the second half of 1650, there was not much war in the area from Suzhou and Fujian, so Hong Chengyu and Duoduo together moved the xingyuan from Nanjing to Gusu City, which was known as a beautiful woman. Idleness is wrong, not to mention that these two people are originally lustful people.
In order to curry favor with Duoduo, Hong Chengzuo first brought Huang Gongliang's step-brother Changshu beauty Liu Sanji to pay tribute, and then went to Suzhou Bantang Street to find Dong Xiaowan unsuccessfully, so he wore a flag to asi Town to Rugao and falsely said that he invited Xiaowan to Suzhou to teach catering production, and it happened that at this time, he ventured out of Xinjiang to avoid disasters because of the "Chen Junyue's anti-Qing case" in the city. Dong Xiaowan knew that it was a plan, but in order to save his family, he had to go to Suzhou alone, and the next day, Dong Xiaowan committed suicide with scissors hidden in his clothes and martyrdom, and the blood splashed Suzhou Wuyunxuan. Before his death at the age of 82, Mao Peijiang also wrote a poem: "Ice silk new lotus lotus robe, the earth when the feast in one fell swoop; Once sang Yang Guan sprinkled away tears, Suzhou lonely when returning home. ”
3. Forbidden Purple:
It is also said that since Dong Xiaowan was taken captive by Qing soldiers in Qinxi in 1645, he was soon transferred to Hong Chengyu, which was engaged in military affairs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Hong Chengzu had a deep calculation, and decided to send Xiao Wan to the Forbidden City, first, he could add officials to the throne, and second, he wanted to use the Confucian culture of the Han people to influence the princes and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, especially the emperor, so that Xiao Wan would play the role of Wang Zhaojun and Princess Wencheng, and he would also leave a name in Qingshi. Xiao Wan's plan was calculated, and he also wanted to enter Beijing to restore the Han People. Therefore, with the friendship between Hong Chengzu and the minister of the interior, Eshuo, Xiao Wan entered the Efu Mansion and was adopted as a righteous daughter by E Shuo, taking the name Dong Eshi, and the Han name was still called Xiao Wan.
Three years later, Xiao Wan's dress, speech and demeanor were all alive and completed into a Manchu personality, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Shunzhi Emperor to choose a concubine, Xiao Wan successfully entered the palace with her natural beauty and outstanding talent to win shunzhi's favor, first as a virtuous concubine, and then as an imperial concubine. Two years later, she gave birth to a dragon son and died unexpectedly 3 months later, Shunzhi made an exception to posthumously name him the prince of "Heshuo Rong", but Xiao Wan could no longer bear the grief of losing her husband and losing her son, coupled with the East Window Incident, the desperate letter left for Mao Peijiang before entering the palace was discovered by Empress Zhuang, so Xiao Wan calmly drank away. After The death of Concubine Dong, she was honored with honor and was honored as "Filial Piety and Respect for the Empress".
It is said that Shunzhi was depressed from then on, and soon ran to Mount Wutai to cut his hair and become a monk. According to Liu Chengyu's "Shi Zai Tang Poems", the modern scholar Huang Kan once said when he was lecturing on qing history at the university: "Xiao Wan entered the palace, and Gu Tinglin (that is, Gu Yanwu) was the mastermind, with the intention of offering Xi Shi Numa Wu", and said that "it was confirmed" but "concealed from people".
4. Sleepwalking in Jinling:
According to research, the character prototype of Lin Daiyu, the number one protagonist in Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber", is actually Dong Xiaowan (see "The Relationship between Dong Xiaowan and Lin Daiyu" for details), and Dong Xiaowan has also lived in the Qinhuai River in Nanjing for a long time, and is one of the "Eight Yans of Jinling". Jinling is the final place of Lin Sister's disappearance, of course, it is also the place where Dong Xiaowan returned. Cao Xueqin was born in Nanjing, and has been living on the banks of the Qinhuai River until the age of 10, and should know the rumors and destination of Dong Xiaowan, which can be corroborated in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
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