Cui Jiao, a poor talent during the Tang Dynasty, is not well known.
Only one poem of his is included in the Quan Tang Poems, and it is the only poem he has left behind.
With this poem, he not only got a beautiful wife in vain, but also received a generous dowry!
What kind of poem is this? Why is this poet so fierce?
Cui Jiao's family was very poor, almost 30 years old, did not marry a daughter-in-law. Moreover, he participated in the imperial examination and failed many times before he was admitted to the xiucai.
Cui Jiao is a reader, he can't make money, and he can't do farm work without the strength of chickens.
He passed the Xiucai examination, and of course he wanted to continue to participate in the imperial examination and fight for fame. If you pass the entrance examination, won't you be rich and noble?
But his family was poor, and his parents could not support his studies.
At that time, Cui Jiao's aunt married a good family in Xiangzhou, the family owned dozens of acres of land, and the family was still relatively wealthy. So Cui Jiao cheekily borrowed to live in his aunt's house and studied hard every day.
The slaves in his aunt's house bullied him into being poor and bitter, laughing at him every day, and his aunt did not have much good looks for him.
Man under the eaves, had to bow his head, who called him a poor and sour talent? Cui Jiao just buried his head in hard reading every day, ignoring their teasing and ridicule.
Cui Jiao had thought that he would always be in a good place and read quietly. But he was finally distraught.
Because he fell in love with a man named Chun Hong.
Although Chun Hong is a squire, she is beautiful, but she also knows the rhythm, sings very well, is intelligent and kind, never teases or ridicules Cui Jiao, and gives him some help from time to time.
What man doesn't like such a beautiful and kind woman?
Although Cui Jiao is poor, as a reader and a xiucai, his heart has always been very high, and he always thinks that he is a dormant dragon. Therefore, the pursuit of Spring Red was launched.
Cui Jiao's character is still good, and Chunhong also looks at him. Although he is now poor, but the good villain is a showman, as a squire, how can he have other luxuries?
Therefore, the two fell in love and soon fell in love, vowing each other and dying.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Cui Jiao plucked up his courage, met his aunt, and begged him to marry Chunhong to him.
The aunt was not happy when she heard it, and scolded Cui Jiao: Although your father is his own brother, there is no need to raise a son for him. You boy, who borrowed from my house, ate me, drank from me, and used my pen, ink, paper and paper to read. Even if this is enough, but you still have to rely on others to live, after marriage, even your wife will have to be supported by others?!
The aunt's scolding made Cui Jiao blush, ashamed, and unable to speak.
Alas, people are poor and short-minded, and they can't choose their own lives, so what else can they say? Cui Jiao sighed, speechless tears.
The aunt took measures to put Chunhong under house arrest, preventing her from meeting Cui Jiao, and at the same time looking for a good family, planning to marry her off.
It just so happened that at that time, Xiangzhou Sikong (that is, the official in charge of water conservancy in Xiangzhou) wanted to take a concubine, and heard that the aunt's family's lady Chunhong was beautiful and knew the rhythm of music, so he sent someone to inquire.
The aunt was very happy, and did not talk much about it, asking for 400,000 yuan, she sold Chunhong to Yu Ying.
Because he was married as a concubine, there was no pomp and circumstance for a marriage, and Yu Wei only sent a flower palanquin to pick up Chunhong.
Cui Jiao, as a poor talent, faced with Chunhong's marriage, did not have any means to deal with it.
The moment ChunHong walked onto the flower palanquin, he was watching from the sidelines, sad and helpless, only tears that did not fight, could not stop flowing down.
Maybe Chunhong married the other party than she married herself. Cui Jiao looked at the flower car far away and thought bitterly.
What he didn't know was that Chunhong was sitting in the flower palanquin, and her tears were also wetting her clothes.
Chun Hong thus married Xiangzhou Sikong Yu, and from then on, she was dressed in fine clothes and food, and had no worries about food and clothing.
He thought he had forgotten Chunhong, so he often dreamed of her in his dreams. Cui Jiao took an exam and returned to Xiangzhou. It's just that he no longer lives in his aunt's house.
On the day of the Cold Food Festival, Cui Jiao stood under the willow tree by the lake and saw chunhong wearing silk satin.
He thought he had recognized the wrong person, did not dare to recognize her, but just looked at her in a daze.
Chunhong also saw him. At that time, Chunhong was alone, returning from incense in the temple.
Chun Hong approached, and he regained his senses and said to her with a bitter smile: "It is difficult for you to recognize me!"
Chun Hong did not speak, the tears flowed down first, and said angrily: What do you think I am? How can I live my life autonomously?
Cui Jiao looked at the tearful spring red, and his heart ached, and he also shed tears.
Two people who love each other, standing silently opposite each other, look at each other and cry.
Here and now, in this situation, they can no longer hold hands and hug.
The two recount their past experiences, unconsciously the sun is about to set, Chunhong wiped away tears, and said goodbye to Cui Jiao.
Cui Jiao was heartbroken to see that Chunhong was leaving. When the emotion came up, a seven-word poem was naturally generated in the mind, and it was chanted to Chun Hong:
The princes and princes and grandchildren followed in the footsteps of each other,
Green beads droop teardrops.
As soon as Houmen entered the depths of the sea,
Since then, Xiao Lang has been a passerby.
Despite the chase of prince Gongsun, the beautiful woman still wet her clothes in tears. Once you enter the high-gate compound as deep as the sea, the former lover has since become a stranger. "Xiao Lang" originally referred to Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, who was versatile and later became a synonym for lovers.
Chunhong remembered the poem and wrote it down silently after returning home. Unfortunately, another concubine who was jealous of her knew about it and reported it to Yu Wei.
After Yu Wei saw it, he sent someone to bring Cui Jiao to his mansion.
Cui Jiao was terrified along the way, not knowing what Lord Sikong meant by taking himself, was it a private meeting with Chun Hong and was discovered by him? Will he be sentenced to death?
With a feeling of uneasiness, Cui Jiao saw Yu Wei.
There was no speculative thunder fury, and there was no rough board, as soon as they met, Yu Wei said to him very kindly: "As soon as you enter the Houmen Gate, it is as deep as the sea, and from then on Xiao Lang is a passerby, is this sentence written by Mr. Wang?" ”
Cui Jiao didn't know what his attitude was, so he had to carefully reply: "Yes."
"Sir has such a talent, you should have told me earlier, otherwise, I wouldn't have taken love with a knife." After Yu Wei finished speaking, he sent someone to call Chun Hong, let Cui Jiao take him home, and gave him a rich dowry.
Cui Jiao and Chun Hong couldn't believe that such a good thing could happen to them under the sky, hugging each other and feeling the real body temperature before confirming that it was not a dream.
In this way, Cui Jiao, a poor talent, with a poem, not only won a beautiful daughter-in-law in vain, but also obtained a rich dowry, and since then the family has spent money and is no longer poor. The two have lived a happy and happy life since then, which can be described as envying others.
This story is recorded in the Quan Tang Poetry, and it is recorded in history along with Cui Jiao's poems.