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Does Su Shi really have a sister named Su Xiaomei? According to legend, one day when Su Shi was idle, he joked about his sister's appearance and described his sister's convex forehead and concave eyes: "Before leaving the hall, three or five steps, the forehead first went to the painting hall." The girl is most afraid of others saying the weakness of her appearance, Su Xiaomei immediately replied: "Last year, a drop of acacia tears has not flowed to the cheek." His quick thinking can be seen, Su Shi heard his sister ridicule his long face, his face suddenly changed, and from then on, he did not dare to easily take his sister away.
As one of the "Four Bachelors of Sumen", Qin Guan is also widely known because of the story of Su Xiaomei's cave house flower candle night "Three Difficulties Qin Less Tour". In recent years, some operas and film and television works have made Su Xiaomei legendary, making her one of the symbolic characters of intelligent and talented women. So, is there really a person Su Xiaomei in history? According to the records of the Three Su Temples, there are indeed people in history, but Su Xiaomei died at a very young age.
However, Su Shi did have an older sister, called "Su Baniang", who was a year older than Su Shi. Su Baniang was born in such a scholarly door, with a father and two younger brothers who are also "Tang and Song Eight Greats", according to which the owner of the Jintang speculated that Su Baniang's talent must be very good, and her father Su Xun also said: "Female children are eager to learn, generous and superior, and there is often joy for Wen." With Su Shi's personality, he and his sister in the boudoir of the word are laughing at each other, but there is this possibility.
However, when Su Baniang was 18 years old, she married her uncle's son Cheng Zhicai, and had no half-cent relationship with Qin Shaoyou. Qin Shaoyou's wife, surnamed Xu (徐), was the daughter of Xu Chengfu, the former chief bookkeeper of Ningtai in Tanzhou. Perhaps it was Qin Shaoyou's literary talent that was deeply appreciated by Su Shi, and only then did he have this beautiful legend of the Su family.
In fact, Su Xiaomei is completely a figure made up by later generations, and the dialogue between "Buddha Seal" and "Cow Dung" mentioned earlier is also purely entertainment. Perhaps it was the brilliant and studious Su Baniang, whose tragic encounter of unhappy marriage and early death with hatred, which attracted the sympathy of the literati, and the good deeds moved flowers and trees to fabricate the legendary deeds of Su Xiaomei. For more wonderful historical stories, the owner of Qingjintang will continue to share it with you in the next issue!