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Two eloped women, with different ends
Text/Yan Lingyang
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Li Jing is a real figure in history, but the Red Whisk Girl is not, she is a legendary figure.
During the Tang Dynasty, someone wrote a legendary novel "The Legend of the Bearded Guest", which portrayed the love-hate entanglement of the bearded guest, Li Jing and the red whisker.
I really think that only the Tang Dynasty can portray such a woman.
The father of the Red Whisk Girl was a general of the Chen Dynasty, and her mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan, her father was killed when the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Chen Dynasty, and she and her mother were sent to Yang Su's house by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, her mother became a nurse, and she was selected as a prostitute because of her beautiful appearance.
She is good-looking, can dance, is a business card on Yang Su's house, and is often called out by Yang Su to socialize, because she likes to carry a whisk with her and likes to wear red clothes, so she is called "Red Whisk Girl".
When you see this, it is not difficult to find that she really knows how to stand out and how to build her own identity.
How can such a person be willing to be a prostitute for the rest of his life?
The gears of fate began to turn, and Li Jing, who had no talent and great ambitions but was not ambitious for the time being, came to the Yang Mansion to join Yang Su, but Yang Su treated him coldly, and even lay on the bed to talk to him - this was a very arrogant behavior in ancient times, in fact, it is also in modern times.
Li Jing also behaved very deductively and reprimanded Yang Su, Yang Su immediately changed his attitude towards him, and invited him to eat and drink, but Yang Su was already old at this time and no longer had Lingyun ambition, so he politely rejected Li Jing.
But Hongfu remembered Li Jing's conversation in her heart, she had seen so many wine bags and rice bags in the palace, and naturally she also had a little ability to know people, she thought that Li Jingxiong was talented and worth following, so she staged a Red Whisk Night Run.
It's really a super adventurous and courageous thing. She never seemed to think about where she would go if Li Jing rejected her.
Fortunately, Li Jing was also impressed by her courage, and the two evaded Yang Su's search, disguised as businessmen, and successfully left the city, and then met a sloppy-looking bearded guest.
Hongfu could see that the bearded man was a great talent, and took the initiative to come forward to worship him as a brother and sister of the opposite sex, intending to persuade him to go to Li Shimin together.
And when Hongfu and Li Jing went to Li Shimin, they learned that the bearded guest was a super-rich man, and this bearded guest also gave them his money and military books, and he traveled all over the world.
Li Jing studied these military books diligently, followed Li Shimin's southern and northern wars, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.
Pan Yingzi has played the Red Whisk Girl, and Shu Qi has also played the Red Whisk Girl.
When I was a child, I only thought she was so beautiful, but now I think about it: what is beauty? People's vision and courage are first-class.
But if Hongfu is a real person in history, I feel that her future married life will probably be a piece of chicken feathers.
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Red Breeze Running at Night, it is considered to be the right one, finding a person of choice, and realizing the counterattack of the class.
And Zhuo Wenjun, a talented woman in the Western Han Dynasty, eloped, but only made herself a bridge for her husband to ask for benefits from her father.
Zhuo Wenjun's father is named Zhuo Wangsun, a rich businessman, and she is smart from Xiaoice Xue, and she is proficient in poetry and songs.
The poor boy who let her elope was named Sima Xiangru, and when he was a child, he was named Sima Dog (at first glance, this name was given by his father);
Later, after he learned a little knowledge, he felt that his name was too ugly, because he admired Lin Xiangru of the Warring States Period, so he renamed himself Sima Xiangru.
When he grew up, he bribed to get a small job working beside Emperor Wu of Han, which was equivalent to a security guard and cheerleader when the emperor was hunting.
He found the job really boring, so he went to a prince to get an errand.
The prince valued the talented person, appreciated and reused him, but then the prince died, and Sima Xiangru had no job, so he had to return to his hometown in Sichuan and mix for a while.
Later, he thought of a friend Wang Ji who was a county magistrate, so he went to him.
Wang Ji gave him advice and encouraged him to get close to the Zhuo family, and the best way was to marry Zhuo Wenjun, who had married someone once but returned home (some people say that her husband died, and some people say that she was divorced because of infertility).
Soon after, Zhuo Wangsun held a grand banquet, and Wang Ji took the opportunity to introduce Sima Xiangru to Zhuo Wangsun and boasted about his talent, and Sima Xiangru also played a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" that had been prepared a long time ago.
Zhuo Wenjun had long heard of Sima Xiangru's talent, so he hid behind the screen and peeked, and was really fascinated by him.
It is said that after the banquet, Sima Xiangru threw a heavy reward for Zhuo Wenjun's maid, hoping that the other party could help him deliver a love letter.
Zhuo Wenjun was also very brave, and went to Sima Xiangru's place overnight, only to know that Sima Xiangru was so poor.
It is estimated that Sima Xiangru also has a bit of PUA skills, anyway, Zhuo Wenjun saw that his family was surrounded by walls, not only did he not dislike it, but in order to prove that he did not dislike the poor and loved the rich, he would rather break off his friendship with his father than elope with Sima Xiangru.
Zhuo Wangsun cut off all his daughter's financial resources, and Zhuo Wenjun left Chengdu with Sima Xiangru to live in a small county with a smaller cost of living, and also sold alcohol on the street to make a living.
At that time, the social status of the merchant was relatively low, and she knew that her father loved face, so she did it intentionally.
When Zhuo Wangsun learned of this, he was angry and distressed for his daughter, so he had to give land, real estate, money, and subsidize his son-in-law.
Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru had money, so they immediately closed the wine shop and returned to Chengdu to live.
"Historical Records - Sima Xiangru Biography" is recorded here, and the following plot is added to the notebook novel, and I don't know if it is in line with historical facts.
It is said that Sima Xiangru later used the power of the Zhuo family to seek a job in the imperial court, and he submitted the sycophantic poem "Zixu Fu" he wrote to the prince to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and got an audience.
After meeting Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he sent another song "Changlin Fu" to seek a higher position, which can be regarded as a grassroots counterattack.
And at this time, he began to swell, he didn't go home and didn't talk about it, he was still doing a lot of tricks outside, and in the end he even had the idea of divorce his wife.
Zhuo Wenjun knew it and wrote a poem "Baitou Yin", Sima Xiangru felt ashamed after receiving the letter, and finally grew old with Zhuo Wenjun.
"I wish to have one heart, and the white head will not be separated", may have been written by Zhuo Wenjun, but the "Grievance Poem" written by Zhuo Wenjun circulating on the Internet, in which the sentence "I wish I could live in the next life, you will be a man for a woman", is very Yuanqu style, not like Han Fu, it should be written by later generations.
However, the matter of Sima Xiangru taking a concubine later is only a record in a notebook novel, which may not be in line with historical facts. However, Su Shi and Liu Xian, who later generations, both said that Sima Xiangru "stole and stole his wife", and obviously did not look down on his character.
Personally, I prefer to believe in the version of the concubine...... The story of the so-called talented family, if you really look at it, you will find that it is also full of interest exchanges and various compromises of being born.
Zhuo Wenjun may indeed be infertile, and she is married for the second time, and historical materials do not clearly record how beautiful Zhuo Wenjun is, so she is a woman who is very difficult to marry again in ancient times.
Sima Xiangru is a little talented, he is married for the first time, and he stutters, if Zhuo Wenjun doesn't have a rich father, he will definitely feel that he is too wronged to marry Zhuo Wenjun, but this point is difficult to settle, once there is money to make up, it is not enough.
Looking at their lives, you will feel that there is really nothing in this world that is immortal.
When life comes to an end, it is all broken and vain.
Even if they once stood so brightly on the stage of history, if someone lifted the gorgeous robe of their life, there were lice underneath.......
Compared with wanting this and that, I think one of the more valuable things for people is to recognize themselves, recognize the boundaries of their abilities, and then accept it.
Make do with it.
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Author: Yan Lingyang, born in the 80s, emotional columnist, author of new feminism, member of the Chinese Writers Association. He is the author of the best-selling books "Those That Make You Miserable, One Day You Will Say It with a Smile", "May You Let Go of the Past and Be Worthy of the Future", "May You Have a Journey and a Way Out", "I'm Divorced", "With Your Rivers and Lakes Are Not Lonely - An Alternative Interpretation of Jin Yong's Martial Arts Novels" and the children's picture book "Mom's House, Dad's House". With 13 years of experience in financial industry (management), he is currently the founder of a cultural information consulting company in Guangzhou and the co-founder of a cultural media company. Born in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, he now lives in Guangzhou.
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