Lake Biwa is located on the outer edge of Purple Mountain, in the former lake scenic area, under the roots of the Imperial City, "Youhu Qingxi". Walking between mountains and lakes, it seems particularly peaceful, overlooking the Purple Mountain in the distance, and the characteristics of the nearby Ming City Wall are also unique landscapes. In the autumn, the forest is dyed, the lake is full of autumn colors, the sunset is afterglow, above the city wall, in the lake, it is the appearance of Lake Biwa! Mr. Lao She Shiyun: Lake Biwa Reflects Mount Bira, Silver Peak Jasper Bay. Mo complained that the cherry blossoms were red and not blooming, and the double dove soft language broke the spring cold.
Lake Biwa
The reason why Lake Biwa is called Lake Biwa is related to Dong Xiaowan, one of the eight Yans of Qin Huai.
Dong Xiaowan, here we must first correct a misunderstanding. Dong Xiaowan is actually a geisha. This Qin Huai eight yan, everyone has a unique skill. Dong Xiaowan's unique skill is the pipa, known as the "Needle God Qu sheng", when listening to Dong Xiaowan play a song is a tattoo of silver 20 taels, equivalent to a year's income of the wage-earnings layer.
Dong Xiaowan
In Qin Huai Bayan, Dong Xiaowan's posture may not be the most top-notch, but her cold and unworldly temperament has attracted the pursuit of many literati and scholars. Although she is in the Qinglou, Dong Xiaowan is a goddess of many people, but she is not interested in those admirers around her. Because in Dong Xiaowan's heart, there was already a person who lived in it, and this person was Mao Xiang.
Mao Xiang (冒襄), also known as Chao Min (巢民), also known as Pu Chao (朴巢), was one of the four princes of the late Ming Dynasty, and his father, Emperor Maoqizong, was a chancellor of the Ming Chongzhen Dynasty, and the official was the imperial history of you. Mao Xiang was intelligent since childhood, sensitive and wise, outstanding in appearance, full of demeanor, and tuna, he had a long reputation, was good at musical rhythm, good at calligraphy, and good at poetry. Dong Qichang, a giant of Wenyuan, compared him to Wang Bo of the Early Tang Dynasty, and although the road to the imperial examination was not smooth, he was a flying prince on the wind and moon field, and it is said that his people "have a heavenly posture and a clear skin... All women who see it, there are those who are not happy as noble women, and those who are willing to be concubines of their masters and concubines."
Breaking new ground
However, the person who Mao Peijiang likes is Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan's girlfriend. But who could have imagined that chen Yuanyuan was actually robbed and had a long-lasting love affair with Wu Sangui.
It was only the second time that Dong Dong met, when Xiao Wan was ill, lying obliquely at the head of the bed, his face full of misery, and a look of exhaustion. Mao Xiang had a great sense of pity for the disease, seeing that she was sick and weak, Mao Xiang proposed to return early several times, but Dong Xiaowan was diligent in staying, and the two talked until late at night before breaking up and saying goodbye. Xiao Wan told Mao Xiang: "Eight days out of ten, I have no food and sleep, I am like a dream, and I am terrified. When I saw jun this morning, I felt refreshed. ”
Dong Xiaowan expressed his commitment to Mao Xiang, who borrowed drunkenness to perfunctory past, and hurriedly bid farewell the next day. Xiao Wan had no choice but to say: "Since the prince is leaving, I have all dressed up, so I will send you all the way." ”
The first stop of this farewell, at the shore of Lake Bibi, Dong Xiaowan played a song "Plugged Song" for Mao Xiang, expressing his grief and sorrow. Pretending not to understand the sound of the strings, Xiao Wan threw the pipa into the lake and said I will give you another ride. After twenty-seven days in a row, from Huguan to Beigu, Xiang Xiang also rejected her twenty-seven times in a row. When they arrived at Jinshan, Xiao Wan pointed to Jiang and swore: "Concubines are like rivers descending to the east, and they will never return to Wumen!" And Mao Xiang said in the "Memories of Ying Mei An" that when Mao Xiang and Dong Xiaowan ascended the Golden Mountain, "there were thousands of people in the middle of the mountain, and the two people left behind were referred to as gods."
Just this winter, under the mediation of Liu Ruyi, Qian Qianyi came forward to redeem Xiao Wan, and the following spring, Mao Xiang Na Dong Xiao Wan as Mrs. Ru, when Mao Xiang was 33 years old, Dong Xiao Wan was 20 years old, after marriage Dong Xiao Wan took care of the family, and invented a series of dishes, focusing on plate and shape, light taste, bright color, unique style. Therefore, it was called Dong Cai in later generations. It is said that the famous snacks "Dong Sugar" and "Dong Meat" in Yangzhou are also invented by Xiao Wan. People listed Xiao Wan as one of the top ten famous chefs in ancient times. They lived happily together for nine years. Even later, in the midst of the chaos of the war, He took the risk of breaking through xinjiang from a rich brother with no worries about food and clothing to a poor boy with no money, Dong Xiaowan still did not change his affection for him.
The husband and wife played the piano and sang, chanted poems against each other, traveled in all directions, and in the same happiness and suffering, they also loved Dong Xiaowan more and more, but it is a pity that Dong Xiaowan died of illness in the ninth year of marrying Mao Peijiang, at the age of twenty-eight.
Lake Biwa of Purple Mountain wrote down the story of this talented and beautiful person in the name of pipa. Listen to "Drunk will not be happy and miserable will be goodbye, don't be immersed in the moon in the vast river." Overhearing the sound of pipa on the water, the host forgot to return to the guest. It was the autumn wind plucking the strings of Lake Biwa, telling this ancient love.
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