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Author: Song Yan
There is such a person in literary and artistic works, who is gentle and understanding, who walks around with female friends like butterflies, understands them, listens to them, appreciates them, takes good care of them, but does not ask for them. For example, Jia Baoyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Such people are jokingly called "friends of women" in modern society. Men call out the word, usually a mixture of envy and contempt; and women, who would not want to meet a friend of two such women!
On the banks of the Qinhuai River in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there are still many stories of talented and beautiful people, Li Xiangjun, Liu Ruyi, Mao Pujiang, Hou Fangyu... Behind these good stories, there is a friend of a woman who has paid silently, and he has strung together these talents and beauties, but they have been obliterated in the legend.
This man's name is Wang Ranming, the son of a salt merchant, the second generation of the rich, a lover of literature and art - the way he loves literature and art is to make friends with literary and artistic youth. At that time, he would pay for almost every bureau of literary and artistic celebrities, and almost every circle of literary and artistic celebrities had his praise. Generous and bold is the label on him. In all his dealings with literary and artistic celebrities, the friendship with young literary and artistic women is particularly worth mentioning.
Wang Ranming is not a talented man, but he has also published a collection of poems, one of which is called "Qi Yong". The main theme of this book is his contacts with famous literary and artistic young women, which basically focus on elegant things such as books, wine, tea, and paintings. A celebrity of the time wrote a preface to his poetry collection and praised him greatly—the words were secondary, and the people and lives involved in the book were truly admirable.
Wang Ranming has seen many women in his life, many of whom have left their names in history, such as Lin Xue and Yang Yunyou, who were written as legends by Li Yu, such as Wang Wei, who was once famous as Qin Huai, and Liu Ruyi, who is still well known today. Wang Ranming has financial support for them, marriage fulfillment, and assistance in publishing books, just like an old father who worries about many daughters. Judging from the poetry records left behind, Wang Ranming did not have any ambiguity with them, he really liked them, cared about them, and had no intentions.
Liu Ru is in the movie "Liu Ru is"
How much did he care about them? Yang Yunyou died early, it was a cemetery bought by Wang Ranming, and he did the aftermath, and later went to the sacrifice sweep every time he came to the festival day. The famous prostitute Wang Wei loved tan yuanchun and became a nun, and Wang Ranming built a villa "jingju" for her on a small island on the shore of the West Lake for her to devote herself to the Buddha. Considering that Wang Wei was inconvenient to live alone in and out of the lake, he also built a boat to facilitate her visit, and this painting ship called "Untied Garden" later became a celebrity salon on the West Lake, and received many late Ming people including Qian Qianyi, Dong Qichang, Li Yu, Zhang Dai, Chen Hongshou and many other late Ming people in the past few decades, and became a landmark that had to be punched in the cultural circle at that time.
When Liu Ru met Wang Ranming, she was driven out by her boyfriend Chen Zilong's family and had nowhere to go. Wang Ranming was full of pity for this young talented girl, settled her in the quiet environment of Xixi, and accompanied her on a trip to relax. Later, Liu Ru proposed that she wanted to move out, and Wang Ranming bought a house for her by the West Lake. Wang Ranming did have male and female thoughts about Liu Ru, but Liu Ru politely refused, saying that "I hope that Mr. Liu will maintain it." Wang Ranming sensed that Liu Ru's meaning was not in her, but was looking for a more famous person, so he wholeheartedly helped her, as long as he heard where there was a gathering of literary youth of the right age, he took Liu Ru to visit the class, and finally promoted Liu Ru and 60-year-old Qian Qianyi's year-round love.
Willow is like that
Two years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Ranming suddenly remembered the famous trick he had befriended many years ago, Lin Xue, who had been one of his earliest confidants when he was young. Lin Xue returned to his hometown in Fujian 20 years ago, and they occasionally exchanged letters. In that era when transportation was not very convenient, Wang Ranming went through several tosses and turns, and it took half a year before he appeared in front of Lin Xue in the dust, two men and women who had entered middle age, met in an era that was about to collapse, and remembered that there was really a feeling of "Fancy Years". Lin Xue accompanied Wang Ranming to tour the Fujian landscape, drank and played the piano together for half a year, and separated again, Wang Ranming embarked on the way home, and the two went their separate ways from then on.
Wang Ranming in the movie "Liu Ru is"
Wang Ranming died 10 years after entering the Qing Dynasty, when the untied garden was almost abandoned and often requisitioned by the new government. In his later years, he wrote a poem: "The world seems to be a total drama, how to bias me alone and hurt." Whenever there is no man by pressing the sword, Yu Xi Tan poetry meets the girl", expressing his admiration and love for the female friends in his life.
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