The Qing Dynasty can be said to be the closest feudal dynasty to us, and China's thousands of years of feudal dynasties came to the end and finally stopped at the Qing Dynasty.
However, today's introduction is not the Qing Dynasty, but the feudal dynasty defeated by the Qing Dynasty, a talented woman in the Ming Dynasty - Liu Ruyi. She was a famous singer and talented girl in the Ming Dynasty, why did she choose to die by throwing herself into the river in the face of the attack of the Qing Dynasty army? Why did her life after being rescued make future generations regret?
She was a famous singer during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and later generations even called Liu Ruyi, Ma Xianglan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan, Gu Hengbo, Kou Baimen, and Chen Yuanyuan as "Qin Huai Bayan". And she is even the head of Qin Huai's eight yans.
Needless to say, this is undoubtedly a versatile and beautiful woman, and in a poem "He Bridegroom" by Xin Jiu of the Song Dynasty, he wrote: "I see Qingshan is very charming, and I expect Qingshan to see me as such"
Liu Ru's name comes from this, and it is also very in line with the otherworldly temperament of this talented woman.
Legend has it that Liu Ruyi's father Liu Yangwu was a physician of the Ming Dynasty, so it seems that Liu Ruyi was also from a scholarly family, so why did she become a singer later?
This has to mention that the editor previously wrote an article about the "Red Pill Case", one of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty. His father Liu Yangwu was framed and killed by Wei Zhongxian, who was known as "9,900 years old". Soon after, the family fell into the middle, and after a long time, the family soon could not make ends meet, and due to the poverty of the family, Liu Ruyi was sold to the green building at such a young age and began her own floating life.
First of all, why Zhou Daodeng? Because this man is a well-known local man, he likes young and beautiful women, and often goes in and out of the green building such a place of smoke, as the saying goes, "just because the crowd looks at you more, I can never forget your face." Zhou Daodeng then spent a large amount of ransom to redeem the 14-year-old Liu Ru from the Qinglou and buy her home to become the maid of the old lady of the Zhou Mansion. Zhou Daoden even took her as a concubine. At only 14 years old, Liu Ru is not only gorgeous. He is also knowledgeable and reads poetry.
I don't know if everyone has such doubts, wasn't she sold into the green building? How can you read a lot of poetry and be talented? Here the editor has to say: "Don't blame the uneven road, only people can't do it" Although her life is not clear, she is more like Aomei in winter. Fortitude and unyielding. A secluded fragrance in a dark and remote corner.
Her fair lady, her grace, her erudition. It also makes her have a fresh and vulgar that is different from other women. Zhou Daodeng often took Liu Ru to appreciate famous poems and paintings, and especially pampered this little wife.
But Zhou Daodeng is a womanizer after all, and it is not too much to exaggerate the beauty of the harem three thousand. Presumably, everyone also knows that there are many women, and Zhou Daodeng only has one flesh and blood, so this jealous thing is not uncommon. Zhou Daodeng favored Liu Ruyi so much, which caused strong dissatisfaction among other wives and concubines.
So later, someone framed her and framed her for fornication with the servants in the family, and she finally brought misfortune to herself. This week, Dodon is also a layman who listens to the wind and rain, and he is even more convinced of this rumor, thinking that she was a smoke woman before. It was not impossible to have such behavior, so Liu Ru was sold again and reduced to a song prostitute again.
What fate will she have if she falls back into the dust?
Because of this painful experience, Liu Ru also became a lot more cautious about her future husband, and even more demanded that her husband be talented. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Ru happened to go out on a street tour disguised as a woman, and happened to meet Qian Qianyi, an official of the imperial court who was also playing at that time. This made the two who were 36 years apart have a spark of love.
Qian Qianyi was a learned and talented young man, and became a famous scholar at the age of only 17. At the age of 29, he won the top three jinshi. He worked as an errand in the Hanlin Academy and was also one of the directors of the Hanlin Academy at that time. In terms of learning, Qian Qianyi is very much in line with Liu Ruyi's criteria for choosing a mate.
The most rare thing is that Qian Qianyi is not only rich in learning, but also a person in the world, and his family is very prosperous. The biggest obstacle between the two is that the door is not right, although Liu Ru is full of poetry, talented, and beautiful, but after all, she is a woman of smoke, her identity is not clear, and she is really not worthy of Qian Qianyi, who has a clean family.
But Qian Qianyi loves Liu Ru very deeply, and he doesn't care about the world's eyes. With a rich dowry, Ming Media married Liu Ruyi. Although the two are far apart in age. But believe that they are happy at this moment.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant army successively captured various cities and was called "King of Trespassing" by the people, and soon after, Li Zicheng marched into the Jingshi Division and forced the Chongzhen Emperor to hang himself. At the same time, Pingxi Hou Wu Sangui led the Qing army to step into Shanhaiguan, the people's life was in dire straits, and the Qing army was even more miserable everywhere it went, as the richest Jiangnan generation at that time, naturally could not escape the clutches of the Qing army.
The people of Jiangnan were panicked, and the literati and scholars discussed who could provoke the Liang to resist the Qing army. Talking on paper is a common trick of the literati. And Liu Ruyi, who is full of worries about the country and the people, often talks with her husband Qian Qianyi at night, and at this time, Qian Qianyi is already in the year of flower armor, and the greed and fear of death in his bones are even more vividly expressed.
However, in front of Liu Ruyi, because of the man's face, he would not show weakness, and in order to leave the manly husband spirit in his wife's heart, Qian Qianyi, who was in the year of Huajia, reported to the imperial court to show that he was willing to lead troops to battle.
But there was no one to use in the imperial court, the emperor hanged himself, and the ministers were even more busy saving their lives, and no one paid attention to his thoughts at all, but Liu Ru, who "the merchant girl also knows the hatred of the country", is by no means a person who "sings the flowers of the backyard across the river"!
Soon after, Li Zicheng's peasant army completely occupied Beijing. Liu Ru is still not afraid of life and death. Leading his old husband Qian Qianyi to travel the outskirts of the city to investigate the former site of the Song Dynasty generals Han Shijie and Liang Hongyu who jointly broke the golden army, Liu Ruyi also wanted to be Liang Hongyu, hoping to save the dying nation with her husband.
But the naïve Liu Ru, despite her full of blood, she has no soldiers, and her hands are difficult to defeat, not to mention that her husband is still a greedy person who is afraid of death.
At this time, many scholars and doctors in Jiangnan not only did not unite to resist foreign invasion, but sent gifts to the Qing army, wanting to let the Qing army leave a way to live, and the Qing army had just gone through many wars, and indeed needed the offerings and praise of these wall grasses to buy people's hearts.
But Liu Ru is a tough woman, she does not want to become the laughing stock of future generations, let alone betray her own nation, so Liu Ru told her husband Qian Qianyi, hoping that he could jump into the river and hang himself like himself, and Xu Guo with his body, but Qian Qianyi was afraid of death and feared his head and tail. Liu Ru never thought that her husband was such a timid and cowardly person, so she jumped into the river angrily, but she was saved from death by her family in time.
The dead elders of the Ming Dynasty saw that things were not good, so they fled across the Yangtze River to Jinling, which is now Nanjing, and supported the Fu King Zhu Yousong who was not afraid of death to establish a short-lived Southern Ming Dynasty for the emperor.
At this time, the Qing army was even more powerful, but the small court of the Southern Ming did not know that others were about to hit the doorstep, and was busy fighting in the open and in the dark, fighting for power, and the most active person here was Liu Ruyi's husband Qian Qianyi, who exchanged the blood of others for high-ranking officials, and successfully mixed up a small Cheng in the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Liu Ru still thought that her husband was reused, and she was happy, I don't know how she would think of her husband's behavior when she knew the truth later?
As expected, the Qing army soon hit the south of the house, and the paper tiger of the Ming Dynasty broke through as soon as it attacked and fell apart. Fu King Zhu Yousong was captured, and Liu Ru's husband Qian Qianyi, in order to protect himself, as the prime minister, he personally led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city to kneel down and surrender, and the courtiers offered rare treasures to the Qing army, countless in number, to show their position, and Qian Qianyi was even more outrageous, hundreds of poetry and paintings and antiques said to send them, for fear that they would send less.
Soon after, the Qing emperor Aisin Juelo Nurhachi decreed that Xiangcheng should serve in Beijing, after all, these Xiangcheng were loyal and served the Qing dynasty.
The Qing army escorted the courtiers forward slowly, including Liu Ruyi's husband Qian Qianyi, but Liu Ru looked down on her husband's behavior from the bottom of her heart, so she resolutely refused to go, but that could follow her heart, so in order to humiliate these greedy and fearful courtiers, Liu Ru dressed in a big red robe and stood at the gate of the city to see off her husband Qian Qianyi.
You know, the "Zhu" of the Zhu Ming Dynasty is the big red, this move is tantamount to raising a big banner of "anti-Qing and restoring the Ming", Liu Ru's move is like death, she just wants to provoke the Qing army, and then martyrdom, but did not want to enter the Central Plains of the Qing army did not understand the meaning of this move, so she survived.
In the face of Niu Ruyi's feat, all the subordinates felt ashamed and embarrassed, and when the country was in trouble, they could not withstand a smoke-and-dust woman, who had courage and courage, and Qian Qianyi was even faceless in the face of Liu Ruyi.
After Qian Qianyi took office, perhaps because of his advanced age, he really had no intention of participating in the open and secret battles of officialdom, and only wanted to enjoy his old age with his wife, so he used his position to collect many precious books, and then hurriedly went to Liu Beiliu to find Liu Beiliu. After that, Qian Qianyi concentrated on studying history at home, away from officialdom, while Liu Ruyi concentrated on taking care of her baby and taking care of things at home.
I thought that I would spend the second half of my life quietly, but I never thought that there would be unexpected storms, one night, Liu Ruyi's daughter accidentally knocked over the candle while playing, and a fire overwhelmed the world, because of the fierceness of the fire, the house was burned to the ground, and along with the fire there were tens of thousands of precious history books, just like that, which was known as the richest personal library building at the time.
After the house was burned down, only the family was left with the belongings to make ends meet, and Qian Qianyi at this time was even more late. He has no power and no money, and he has many debts.
A few years later, Qian Qianyi, who was poor and sick, died at home at the age of 85, and at this time Liu Ru was only in his early forties, in middle age, facing the village bully's door-to-door debt collection for three days was already painful, just when Qian Qianyi's body was not cold, the bully made a big disturbance in the spiritual hall to force the debt, Liu Ru really had no choice, and planned to wait for her husband to be buried, and the net was broken.
Soon after, in the face of the bully's visit again, Liu Ru resolutely removed the filial belt around her waist, threw it on the beam, and ended her life. In this way, the generation of beautiful people, fragrant and jade died.
Liu Ruyi's life is not most concerned about the life of prosperity and wealth, bells ringing and eating, but the most basic dignity as a woman, "the merchant girl also knows the dignity of the country and hatred" the nation, but also made her hide her face and cry, she was willing to pay her life for this, when she persuaded her husband to martyr the country and did not achieve her wishes, she resolutely chose to die in the river.
Although she is a smoke and dust woman, she has the decisiveness and strength of a man, and although she is a smoke and dust woman, she is indifferent to fame and fortune, and has the courage to fight against people who sell power, some people evaluate her righteousness, and later generations also call her a generation of heroines. The husband's greed for life and fear of death have become the laughing stock of posterity.
What do you think of this talented woman?