When I was a child, as soon as I entered the lunar calendar, there were many New Year paintings sold on the street, especially on the walls on both sides of Handan Street, which were hung with various New Year paintings to form galleries, with rich and colorful contents. I remember that there was a four-fan screen that said "Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiang are similar", because I was too young to care at that time. As I grew older and more sensible, I slowly learned that Zhuo Wenjun was also a native of Handan and a native of our country.
After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, he ordered Handan to "move the rich to other places", so that the "hao" of the bureaucratic aristocracy of Handan and the "rich" of the hugely rich and the rich left the homeland of Handan and moved to other places. Zhuo Wenjun was "rich in iron smelting", so he moved with his father to Linqiong (Qionglai, Sichuan). Sima Qian's "Records of History" says: "Before the Shu Zhuo clan, Zhao Renye also used iron to smelt wealth." Qin broke Zhao and moved to the Zhuo clan. To Linqiong, Daxi, that is, the iron mountain drum casting, planning, the people of The Shu Dynasty, the rich to a thousand people, the joy of Tianchi shooting and hunting, intended to be a man. It can be seen that after Zhuo Shi left Handan, he settled down in Linqiao, a promising Shu land, continued to smelt iron to get rich, and developed into a great rich man.
Zhuo Wenjun, formerly known as Wenhou. Born in 175 BC, she was beautiful, intelligent since childhood, proficient in music, good at playing the piano, inheriting the tradition of "Zhao Nü custom to be good at playing the piano". The piano she plays can make people "drunk when the moon is noon" and "a long song sleeps!" Therefore, she is known as one of the four talented women in China (Zhuo Wenjun, Cai Wenji, Shangguan Wan'er, and Li Qingzhao). Unfortunately, she was widowed at the age of seventeen. During this time, when her father was feasting at home, he met his sweetheart and resigned to Sima Xiangru. Sima Xiangru was born in 179 BC in Chengdu, Shu County. Because he admired Lin Xiangru of Handan during the Warring States period, he renamed Sima Changqing sima Xiangru. When he was young, he liked to read and learn fencing, so he called himself Inuyasha. During the reign of Emperor Xiaojing, he served as a regular attendant of the Wu Dynasty. Later, "From the Liang Xiaowang lobbyist scholar Zou Yang, Huaiyin Mei Cheng and Wu Zhuang Jifuzi, and Zhusheng Youshi juju for several years, is the author of "Zi Fei Fu". After that, Liang Xiaowang died. It's like returning home, and the family is poor. Zhuo Wenjun's father was hospitable, and from time to time he welcomed up to a hundred people at home.
One day, Zhuo Mansion entertained guests, and Wang Ji of Linqiong Ling was also among them, and Wang Ji of Linqiong Ling had a close relationship with Sima Xiangru, so he invited Xiangru, who was idle at home, to drink together in Zhuo Mansion. In the Book of Han, it is said: "Like each other, sit down and fall down." Drunk, Lin Qiong ling prelude to the piano: "Eavesdropping on Changqing is good, willing to entertain himself." 'Say thank you again and again for the drum. Just when Xiang Ruqin was playing very beautifully, it was heard by Wenjun. He came to the front room to eavesdrop, but unexpectedly a gust of wind blew open the curtain, and the two of them were invariably the same, looking at each other. Like a handsome appearance and a fresh piano tone, she could not help but admire wenjun in her heart; and Zhuo Wenjun, a "talented woman" who was as beautiful as a heavenly immortal, was even more terrified, and when she saw each other and hated the night, she deliberately played a "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" piano song and picked it with her heart. When the song "Feng Xi Feng Xi returns to his hometown, travels around the world to seek his phoenix, he is a Mandarin duck with his neck crossed, and Hu Jie soars together!" At the time of the piano tone, Zhuo Wenjun was stirred by the sound of this "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix". Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of staying in Zhuo Mansion like a drunken drunk, the two met at night, exchanged heartfelt feelings, and discussed and arranged for the two to elope together. Finally, on a bright night, Wenjun broke through the shackles of feudal etiquette, did not tell his father, and eloped to Chengdu alone with Xiangru. It is easy to play a love story of "Piano Picking Night Run".
At this time, the home was "standing on all sides, and poor." Xiang Ru asked Wen Jun, "Why is this so?" Wenjun replied, "Ronghua how to compare love!" Shortly thereafter, the two returned to Qiong to surrender, but Wenjun's father, Zhuo Wangsun, was furious, saying, "The woman is not talented, I can't bear to kill, and I don't share a penny." He believes that his daughter's elopement with others is too hurtful, and the male family is poor and walled, which is really humiliating, severing the relationship between father and daughter, not giving her a penny, and no one is useful in persuading.
Back in Linqiao, his father did not recognize, helpless, Wenjun pawned jewelry, in Linqiao to buy a wine house wine, like a miscellaneous, so that Wenjun "Dangdang". At this time, Wenjun put down the value of "a thousand gold and noble body" and was willing to sit on the street and sell wine by the mound. This move was insulted by the "Confucianism and Taoism" religion at that time as an "obscene run". People's gossip passed into the ears of Zhuo Wangsun, who "smelled and was ashamed" and "dumen did not come out" for this reason. Shame on you. At this time, just like the "ZiFu Fu" originally written for the King of Liang, which was played by the Shu people Yang Deyi, Emperor Wu of Han was very appreciative after reading it, and when he appreciated it, he summoned Xiang Xiang like Jinjing. Naibai is the general of the Middle Lang. As if he had been promoted to an official and changed the attitude of Wen jun's father, he felt that "now Wenjun has lost himself to Sima Changqing, and Changqing is tired of traveling, although poor, his talents are also dependent on each other". Then he pushed the boat along the water, and "distributed to Wen Jun's servants a hundred people, millions of dollars, and his clothes and belongings when he was married." "Therefore, send the daughter back to Chengdu" to buy a field house for the rich. ”
Sima Xiangru was very much appreciated by Emperor Wu of Han, and sent him to bashu to appease the local ethnic minorities, with good results, and the second time he sent him to Shudi to establish a festival to send envoys, "Too guarding the following suburbs to welcome." The county ordered the bearer to take the lead in the body, and the Shu people thought it was favored. Therefore, "King Zhuo's grandson Linqiong and all the dukes offered cattle and wine to rejoice." King Sun of Zhuo sighed, "Since I thought that sima Changqing was late, I would divide her female wealth with men." At this time, King Sun zhuo was even better under the favor of Taishou, county orders, and the Shu people to his son-in-law. Decided to divide all the wealth in the family to Wenjun, and treat him the same as his son. However, the good times did not last long, and when Sima Xiangru returned to Chengdu to visit his relatives, some courtiers were jealous and made false accusations to Emperor Wu of Han, falsely accusing him of accepting bribes from people in Shu and being dismissed from office and imprisoned. Wen Jun knew that fu had been wronged, his heart was like a knife, tears were flowing, and it was like going out to the prison cart to say goodbye.
After a year, as if his grievances were clear, after his release from prison, he was ordered to go to Maoling to manage the errands of the emperor's mausoleum. At this time, it was similar, but there was a problem in love with his wife who was far away in Shu County. He wanted to make the beautiful woman of Na Mao Ling a concubine, so he wrote a letter to Wen Jun, writing: "One two three four five six seven eight eight ninety million" thirteen words, and let Wen Jun read it and reply to the letter. After Wen Junguan's letter, he was full of emotions, and felt that her husband had forgotten the past feeling of "eloping on the night of the piano picking the moon", so he sadly wrote: "After one parting, two places are suspenseful." Just say March or April. But who knows five or six years. The seven-stringed piano has no intention of playing, and the eight-line book cannot be passed on. Nine consecutive rings were broken from it, and the ten-mile long pavilion was eager to penetrate! A hundred thoughts, a thousand thoughts, all helpless to blame Lang! "I" is inexhaustible in a thousand words, bored and bored. Heavy nine ascended to look at the lone goose, and the mid-autumn moon in August was not round. In July, the incense was burned and asked the heavens, and in June, people shook my heart cold. May pomegranate red like fire, partial to cold rain watering flower end! April loquat is not yellow I am confused about the mirror, who knows march peach blossoms with the water! In February, the kite fluttered zero and broke the line, Lang YaLang, I wish that in the next life you will come to me as a man! ”
Writing this, Wen Jun's heart fluttered like a wave, and his worries were not exhausted, so he continued to write "Bai Tou Yin" to express his self-extinction; "It is as snowy as the mountains, and as bright as the clouds and the moon." Wen Jun had two intentions, so he decided to break up. Today's drinking party, Mingdangou water head. On the ditch, the ditch water flows east and west. Miserable and miserable, there is no need to cry when marrying. May the people of one heart and the white head not be separated! ”
Just like watching his reply and "White Head Yin", the words and sentences are piercing, the heart seems to be fried, and the mind recalls the original "love at first sight", playing the "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" piano to pick the night run, the family is surrounded by disciples, the husband and wife are drunk and living, but they love each other. Thinking of this, he felt deeply ashamed of Wenjun, and immediately dismissed the idea of taking a concubine, and took Wenjun to Maoling. It was as if he was kissing Wenjun in the Ten Mile Pavilion with tears in his eyes. Husband and wife hug each other and are as good as ever.
Since then, Sima Xiangru has loved his wife, and the two have respected and loved each other and encouraged each other. Similar words such as "Zi Xuan Fu", "Shanglin Fu", "Adult Fu", "Nagato Fu", "Beauty Fu", "Sorrowful Qin II Fu", etc., have become the model of the fu texts of the literati after the Han Dynasty in China; and Zhuo Wenjun, as a talented woman, is proficient in piano, chess, books, and paintings. In particular, the "wish to have a heart, the white head is not separated" in the "White Head Yin" chapter has become a classic sentence throughout the ages. And this "Bai Tou Yin" has also become a famous song of the Chinese music house "Chu Tune"! Their husband and wife have a deep affection, and they grow old together and become a model of love. Before Zhuo Wenjun died of illness, he was like not leaving the hospital bed and taking care of it carefully. Wenjun died of illness in 121 BC, and three years later, in 118 BC, Sima Xiangru also died of illness one after another, becoming a pair of "Mandarin ducks flying with wings and wings"!
The love story of Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiang has long become a popular theme for later generations of literati's novels, poems and various miscellaneous dramas. Zhu Quan of the Ming Dynasty compiled a volume of "Zhuo Wenjun Eloping sima Xiangru": a drama compiled by Shu Wei in the Qing Dynasty, "Zhuo Wenjun Dangyuan". And "Zhuo Wenjun" is also the representative repertoire of the four famous Dan Shang Xiaoyun and Xun Huisheng of Peking Opera. It can be seen that the love story of Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiang has a deep influence and is widely circulated in China.
Handan, a brilliant spirit, since ancient times, the unique geographical environment and cultural heritage, has created many heroes, talents and beauties, and is admired by people. Lin Xiangru was admired by Sima Changqing, who was thousands of miles away in Shu, and renamed sima Xiangru, and later married Zhuo Wenjun of Handan for a hundred years. If King Wuling of Zhao is the first military reformer in Chinese history, then Zhuo Wenjun can be called the first marriage reformer in Chinese history, she broke through the shackles of the world, regardless of the noble and lowly "disciples", the pursuit of marriage autonomy, the spirit of bold elopement with the sweetheart, is indeed the founder of thousands of years of marriage freedom, but also the later "Liang Zhu", "Wang Baojun", "Xi Xiang" and many other examples of love story creation.
(Author; Wang Jingchun, a native of Xiguan Street, Handan City, a member of the Municipal Writers Association, an economist, an elderly man, retired from a bank)
June 20, 2021 (May 11, 2021)