During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a tragic drama "The Book of Reward red", also known as "The Record of Juan Hong", which was divided into eight plays, and the system was between miscellaneous dramas and legends. Its author was Zhao Xiangyi (1798-1860) from Hefei, Anhui Province, who wrote niantang and called Wild Hang.
Qing Jiaqing's edition of "The Book of Rewards"
The synopsis goes like this:
Sichuan talented woman Cuckoo Red, young and orphaned, lives according to her mother. In the year of The Age of Zhen, every stick disciple gathered to rebel and kill people and rob money. In order to avoid the chaos of war, Juan Hong became ill at the Fuzhuang Station in the land of Yanzhao, and inscribed six poems on the powder wall of the station before dying. Twenty years later, after passing through the station, seeing the inscription wall poem, he was deeply infected, so he and several poems, together with the poems of the Juanhong, were sent all over the same, collected and composed, and the matter of the Huanghong was widely spread.
This drama casts the pain of chaos and the withering of talented women in one furnace, as the saying goes, "It is better to be a peaceful dog than to leave people in chaos" and "red face has a thin life since ancient times", and the penetration of two tragic elements makes the tragic atmosphere of "beautiful loess" particularly strong and quite moving.
According to the records of Zhao Yehang's friends, the plot of this play is not fictional, but has its actual source. In other words, the female no. 1 cuckoo red of this drama is really human, and her misfortune is also a real thing.
It was Cuckoo's red deeds that triggered Zhao Yehang's impulse to create this drama. For example, Wu Songliang (1766-1834) "Jiaqing Six Years Fuzhuang Yi has six poems inscribed with the title of Shu Zhong's female Shi Juanhong, Zhao Junye Hang saw and reconciled, and it is the eight books of the "Juan Hong Ji" (陳红記) that belong to the title after it:
"Xiangsu Mountain Pavilion Poetry Banknote"
Hometown far away from Ma Songpo,
The fire of war is zero Andru Ho.
The title to the small name knows that it is a slur,
There are many lines of red tears.
Flying Heroes all over the world,
Blame the rain blind wind to go to the road credit.
Turning over the envy of the cold girl spring day forever,
The gall bottle is safe for plum blossoms.
A jade flute spectrum clear sorrow,
By virtue of his talent, zhao yilou.
It's a pity that the jade land was not buried,
The tombstone is pro and carved in Suzhou.
Du Yusheng in the night moon high,
Very sad to send sandalwood grooves.
Leaning on the voice like the Xiling woman,
Self-drawn green shirt chanting Chu Sao.
The original note of this poem: "Hangzhou Wu Pingxiang female history self-made "drinking and reading away from the riot" new song, there is "Qiao Ying" a fold of work." This is a group of poetry poems, written by Wu Songliang at the request of Zhao Yehang, for the "Book of Juan Hong".
Wu Shi clearly records the source of the opera in the poem title:
In the sixth year of Jiaqing, the talented woman of Sichuan, Juanhong, escaped the war and wrote six inscription poems before her death in Fuzhuangyi, and Zhao wrote poems and poems after seeing them, and used this as a skill to create the opera "The Record of Juanhong".
Sweep leaf mountain house publication "Reward Red Record"
The poem repeatedly highlights the heroine's red face and thin life, and even unreasonably blames her name for not being good, which is a proverb, that is, "the title to the small name knows that it is a slur, and there are many red tears in the line", what is not good, it must be called "cuckoo red", which clearly indicates that "the cuckoo cries blood ape mourning", how unlucky.
The poem also compares her with Wu Zao, a famous talented woman in the Qing Dynasty. Wu Zao (1799-1862), also known as Pingxiang, wrote the opera "Drinking and Reading Away from Trouble".
The Complete Works of Wu Zao
Gong Fang's poem "Title Hefei Zhao Yehang "Reward Red Record"" preface yun: "Jiaqing sect bandit rebellion, Shuzhong woman cuckoo red flowing swallow thistle, inscription poem Fujiazhuang Yibi, write mourning also." After Zhao Jun's bus passed by here, he and his poems were recorded. ”
This poem and Wu Songliang's poem are obviously records of the same event, although the two expressions are different and the meanings are highly similar. However, Wu Songliang called the play "Juan Hong Ji", and Gong Fang called the play "Reward Red Record", indicating that the two are the same drama. The full text of Gong Fang's poem is as follows:
Thistle Gate Willow Green Silk,
There are not many buses on the road.
After a cuckoo crying blood,
The article has been a sentimental affair for eternity.
Pink wall cry marks after a few years,
The slush claw recognizes the cause.
Wind and frost erosion is difficult to exhaust,
Stay with the world to cry twilight smoke.
Bing Ge has not survived,
Although the fire is destroyed, the blood and tears are removed.
Don't put the sandalwood groove stagnant,
Night Terrace asked About Sword Gate Mountain.
Sweep leaf mountain house publication "Reward Red Record"
The poems of Wu Songliang and Gong Fang and the statements in the preface of the poems are like a harmony of the runes, and the words are conclusive. Based on this, it seems that we can officially declare:
"The Book of Juan Hong" was added and performed by Zhao Nohang on the basis of the real events that occurred during the Jiaqing period, and he even wrote himself into the play as one of the characters "Floating Cha Shan Qiao". Fucha Mountain Tree is another name for Zhao Yehang.
Knock on the blackboard, draw the point, and the earth-shattering reversal is coming. Who would have thought that this would be purely an oolong incident, purely a beautiful mistake. Seemingly real people, seemingly real things, in fact, is simply a figment, the so-called talented female inscription wall poem is actually three big men drinking on the head, hormones burst after the collective forgery.
Surprised? Surprised? The illusion is like a beautiful soap bubble, colorful and dazzling. After puncturing it, the truth, although it is very humiliating, is a fact that cannot be erased.
Originally, the illusion could be retained until one day the counterfeiter himself could not hold back and came out to expose the secret. What makes people laugh is that this self-exposed "scandal" is not a generalist, but Lu Jirui, who was famous in the literary world at that time.
"Chongbai Yaozhai Anthology"
Lu Jiren (1772-1834) "Xin Youzheng Yue, together with Liu Dasi Qihong Dabao Sun Su FuzhuangYi, the cold night was combined into six absolute titles on the wall, signed shu in the middle of the woman Juan Hong, has been spread and spread throughout the Beijing division, the two kings abstain from speaking. If There is Wang Xiucai in Pingliang to quality it, then the red poem of sorrow is in Yan. The feeling of dying and living in the past and the present for the sake of laughter cannot be left in mind, and the book is sent to Liu Daduzhong and invited to do the same work:
Clearly re-unfold the red note,
This matter has been simmering for twenty years.
Even if Lan Ting is not a fake,
It should not be the old Chan Juan.
Hong Xiaoxian went too hurriedly,
The flow of Xiangbo hate is not over.
A Fu Yu Lou recited it all over the place,
Not annoying to the world.
Still a reed blocking the Milky Way,
Cherish the cold night to listen to Yuke.
On this day, the head of the river is maojin.
I am afraid that there will be no tears in the spring waves.
According to the poem title, the six inscriptions of the so-called Juan Hong were forged by Lu Jirui, Liu Sixuan, and Hong Raosun. At that time, they stayed in Fuzhuangyi, on the cold night of the first month, the wine was drunk, and the boring game was combined into six sentences, titled on the yibi, and the prank was signed "Shuzhong Woman Juanhong".
Lady Figure
The truth has come out, the authors of the six inscription poems are not a beautiful and talented woman of the year at all, but three very talented men. It may be that this set of pseudo-compositions and joint sentences is naturally integrated, the simulated female voice mouth is too similar, the result is overplayed, this poem quickly spread throughout the capital, attracting a large number of people and poems, causing a sensational effect, so that the three people were unexpected.
As officials, Liu Sixuan and Hong Raosun were afraid that the truth would come out and have a bad impact on their reputations, and they specifically told Lu Jirui to keep this matter a secret. It is only that the latter, instead of keeping his mouth shut, wrote it into the poem and made it public. However, at this time, Hong Rao's grandson (洪厓), who participated in the forgery, had already died.
It can be imagined that the joint sentence game work of the three people after drinking, if included in their own poetry collection, may not be able to cause any ripples, but the name of the talented woman Juanhong in Shu actually set off an uproar at that time, attracting countless poems, and even stimulating Zhao Yehang to devote himself to creating the opera "The Record of Juan hong", leaving an excellent work in the history of opera, which is also an unexpected gain.
Research on Ancient Chinese Narrative Literature, by Wang Hao, Anhui Normal University Press, February 2017.
I think that there should be more than one similar oolong incident in the history of opera, and if it can be systematically collected and observed as a whole, there may be different discoveries.