Li Qingzhao, a famous poet of the Song Dynasty, in the eyes of contemporary people, is not only exceptionally talented, but also a "poisonous tongue" woman with "sharp teeth and sharp mouth".
According to online legends, Li Qingzhao once wrote an article with a radical content, which scolded half of the Tang and Song Dynasties, plus famous artists such as Liu Yong and Yan Shu, and was a good derogatory one.
Based on this situation, some people ridiculed Li Qingzhao, saying that her meanness and bitterness can be compared with Sister Lin in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
However, Li Qingzhao's style of words changed greatly after his southern crossing, and he once wrote many poems with patriotic feelings, and his lyrics clearly carried the tone of worrying about state affairs, and appeared to be quite manly.
However, it is like such a strange woman who loves and hates very clearly, but she married a cowardly husband Zhao Mingcheng, so the latter inevitably has some husbands.
So, how do Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao get along on a daily basis? Will it be because the woman's personality is too strong, there will be yin and yang decline, gender inversion?
After Li Qingzhao was newly married, he once wrote a poem to her husband Zhao Mingcheng, "Minus Magnolia Flowers Selling Flowers on the Burden". Judging from this poem, Li Qingzhao in her teenage years is also like an ordinary woman, who will sell cuteness to her husband.
But because Zhao Mingcheng's personality is too honest, Li Qingzhao sometimes even boldly teases him. Li Qingzhao once wrote a poem "Ugly Slave: A Gust of Wind and Rain late", which portrayed the situation of the two getting along after marriage very vividly and quite interesting in life.
"Ugly Slave Late To a Gust of Wind and Rain" appreciation
"Ugly Slave: A Gust of Wind and Rain later" - Song Li Qingzhao
In the evening, a gust of wind and rain washed away the heat. Straighten out the spring, but light makeup on the diamond flower.
Thin ice muscles, snow creamy and fragrant. Laughing Tan Lang: Tonight the kitchen pillow is cold.
The boldness of this poem has completely exceeded the understanding of the Song people today. The first sentence of the word is to explain the time of the event, which was after a storm in the evening.
Some people will automatically understand the "wind and rain" here as "cloud rain" because of the style of the whole song. The latter, in ancient Chinese culture, is a special image involving the love of men and women.
Song Yu of the Warring States period once wrote a poem "Divine Daughter Endowment", in which he described the encounter between King ChuXiang and the goddess at Wushan. Later, the term "cloud rain" almost refers specifically to the joy of men and women.
However, I believe that the "wind and rain" here does not mean "cloud and rain". The beginning of the word is simply to explain the scene, which is on a summer evening, after the shower, the heat dissipates, and the temperature drops.
When the weather was cool, it was suitable for sleeping soundly, but Li Qingzhao was not in a hurry. She first took out her instrument and played it for a while, then actually began to put on makeup in front of the rhombus mirror. Is she going out to a party? Apparently not.
Next, she deliberately put on a red silk coat as thin as a cicada's wings, and then in front of Zhao Mingcheng, she revealed her condensed and crispy skin. Then he smiled and said to Zhao Mingcheng: The pillow mat in the yarn tent is so cool at night.
Li Qingzhao wrote at the beginning that the shower "washed away the scorching light." It can be seen that she is very satisfied with the drop in ambient temperature. But later, why did she dislike the cold pillows and mats?
This is naturally because Li Qingzhao wants to invite Zhao Mingcheng to warm his bed. In this way, it is easy to understand that she is in front of her again, and she is also dressing in the mirror, and she is also deliberately wearing a revealing red silk coat dangling in front of Zhao Mingcheng, which is easy to understand.
Therefore, this song "Ugly Slave: A Gust of Wind and Rain Late" is actually a poem describing the love of life between husband and wife. It's just that Li Qingzhao's enthusiasm for Zhao Mingcheng in the poem is bold and actively teased, which makes modern people a little confused.
It turns out that we all said that the Song Dynasty was an era of ritual cannibalism. In ancient times, everyone was not necessarily able to do such a thing. Even if it is found out, it is also private, how can you write this kind of boudoir secret into the words and spread it everywhere?
In fact, this is because everyone does not understand the situation of the Song Dynasty, the most stringent etiquette in ancient China, which began after Zhu Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was the most prosperous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, while the Northern Song Dynasty was very relaxed.
After the opening up of the Tang Dynasty and the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song Dynasty was founded, and until the era when Li Qingzhao lived, Zhu Xi had not yet been born. Moreover, before and after Li Qingzhao's era, Song Dynasty poetry was particularly popular to write "yanzi".
The ancients often said that poetry is poetry, words and feelings. The poems about ideals were all written for the Tang people, and the literati of the Song Dynasty turned to love. The civil servants of the Song Dynasty were highly paid, and they generally had to keep kabuki or go in and out of the party.
The big lyricists represented by Ouyang Xiu and Liu Yong have written many "beautiful words" describing the love affairs of men and women, and Su Shi is no exception. Because of the leadership of these circles of words, the wind of "yanzi" was very popular in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Li Qingzhao's father was originally a Sumen student, and her family often interacted with Su Shi's eldest disciple Chao Shuzhi, so it was infected by the "yanzi" atmosphere, and it was common to write one or two poems. Moreover, the object of teasing she describes in the words is her husband, not an outsider.
The reason why Li Qingzhao teased her husband in the words was in addition to the above reasons. The most fundamental reason is that after the two of them got married, they gathered less and left more.
In the first year of the Jianzhong Jingguo, after Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng were married, Li's father was imprisoned for committing crimes. At that time, Zhao Mingcheng's father was in the position of a beggar, and Li Qingzhao wrote a letter begging his father-in-law to help him catch people without success.
Later, implicated by his father, Li Qingzhao was expelled from the capital and returned to live in his parents' home in Shandong. Her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, was an official in the capital.
Therefore, after Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng got married, they were forced to live separately soon after, and this time lasted about two years. She has always been alone in the air and wrote many grievances, such as "Drunken Flower Yin" and "A Cut of Plum".
In the poem, in order to hope that her husband and wife will return home, she waits until "people are thinner than yellow flowers". When writing "Ugly Slaves: A Gust of Wind and Rain Later", it was the time when they were newly married, so Li Qingzhao would show extra enthusiasm.
Zhao Mingcheng was an official in the capital, and naturally there was an opportunity to enter and exit the land of the wind and moon. Therefore, he is not in any hurry about the affairs between husband and wife. However, when Li Qingzhao saw that he did not express it, he could not sit still.
So-called: If the mountain does not come to me, I will go to the mountain. So Li Qingzhao first played music to seduce her husband, only to find that her husband was indifferent. So I had to put on makeup and put on a thin gauze to let him see his own beauty.
Helplessly, Zhao Mingcheng still learned "Liu Xia Hui" there, so Li Qingzhao had to bite Zhao Mingcheng's ear and said to him directly: It's so cold in the tent at night, don't you come to warm the bed for me?
epilogue
Li Qingzhao said in "The Theory of Words" that Su Shi did not understand music, so his words were not well written. Zhao Mingcheng also does not understand music, so her husband should not be the same. The words are euphemistic and authentic, and to write warmly and elegantly, it must be done by women like Li Qingzhao.
Otherwise, even if su shi is as talented as Su Shi and has the rich experience of "thirty years ago, I was a handsome man", it is only "the back of the silver candle hanging from the back of the tent, entertaining". Such a "one-sided approach" will reduce many ambiguous and warm details.