Author: Ge Jian
The heroine of "The Record of Hairpins", Huang Zifeng, is based on Huang Chonggao, a talented woman in Shu in the fifth generation.
Not only do the first and last two characters highly coincide, But Huang Zifeng's pseudonym "Yang Chonggu" in the book is a homophony, and even the surname "Yang" is the surname of Huang Chonggao's family. It's a tribute that can't be more homaged.
Who is Huang Chonggao? Is her life really as legendary as in "The Book of Hairpins"?
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The Yellow Girl in "The Record of hairpins" is the delicate daughter of shuzhong Junjun, Minghui is sharp, at the age of twelve, she can help her father decide the doubt, at the age of seventeen, the Huang family in addition to her family bizarre poisoning violent death, Huang Girl fled, thus beginning a legendary career in life.
The family background and character setting are in line with the basic historical situation, the difference is that the real Huang Zhijun family died one after another when the daughter was twelve years old.
The author of "The Record of hairpins", kindly let the yellow girl enjoy the family warmth for five more years.
Whether it is orphaned in her teens and lost her shadow at an early age, it is the beginning of misery for a girl, not to mention that it was the era of partition at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
In the traditional dramas we have seen, women in such a context are often forced into slavery or deceived into prostitution.
But Huang Chonggao provided a new way of thinking for future generations of playwrights.
Instead of crying and dazed, she worked with the only old servant woman in the family who cared about her old feelings, cultivated and woven by herself, and calmly walked towards life.
A little bigger, pack your bags, and travel to Sichuan and Shu.
And the two dollars earned by the old woman's hard work were not used to buy clothes and accessories, and the dowry was accumulated, but all spent on the road, understanding the customs and customs of various places, the people's livelihood, seeing the majestic and dangerous sword gate, climbing the deep and steep Qingcheng Emei.
Today, we say, this is called "rich nourishment." Broaden your horizons, broaden your knowledge, cultivate your sentiments, and cultivate your aesthetics. But it was a feudal society more than a thousand years ago, and the self-confidence and openness of the Tang Dynasty gradually drifted away, and Huang Chonggao's behavior, although it would not be attacked by the theorists like the later Song and Yuan dynasties, was enough to make people stunned.
So, she's always dressed up in men's clothes.
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We can know the story of Huang Chonggao today, thanks to Zhou Kuo.
The historical Zhou Ku is not the pedantic and stubborn old man in the "Records of the Hairpins", he is the most important strategist of Wang Jian, the founder of the Former Shu, and the tired officials Chengdu Yin, Yushi Zhongcheng, and Situ.
Huang Chongga went to Linqiong City one day, there was a fire in the city, and she was suspected of being an arsonist and imprisoned when she passed by, Zhou Ku was the governor of QiongZhou at the time, and Huang Chongga wrote to Zhou Ku:
Occasional words are hidden in Linqiao, the line is stronger than the pine, what is the government is as clear as a mirror of water, tripping him wild crane in the deep cage.
This poem, the thesis is flat, but the writing is robust, simple, bright, not at all the late Tang Dynasty fashion of the kind of wrong and charming, charming, charming, Zhou Ku is a pragmatic person, this poetic style is quite in line with Zhou Yu's spleen and stomach, he quickly summoned Huang Chonggao, the two chatted a few words and then ordered the release of people - in the final analysis, the arrest and release of Huang Chonggao is a question of "suspicion of guilt" and "suspicion of guilt from nothing", no evidence, depending on the official's personal feelings.
Subsequently, Zhou Kuo elected Huang Chonggao to join the army as a prefectural secretary, which was a low-level position of seven or eight pins, but was responsible for the household registration of the people's livelihood in a state, such as bookkeeping, roads, passes, charms, miscellaneous, negative, good and lowly, jiaowei, rebellious travel, marriage, field litigation, filial piety and other specific things.
Similar to today's police stations, tax bureaus, grain and material reserve bureaus, civil affairs bureaus and court comprehensive offices, it is a test of managers' discernment and decisiveness, and they are not competent to write a few acid poems.
Holding such a position is Zhou Ku's test of Huang Chonggao, and it is also the cultivation of Huang Chonggao, and to know that Zhou Yu himself was once a Sicang soldier, it is almost equivalent to saying to Huang Chonggao: This is the road I have walked, you can just follow the footprints.
Huang Chonggao did not live up to Zhou Ku's Bole, during her tenure, she clarified the accounts, handled the backlog of cases, mediated disputes, won unanimous praise, typical of the world's practical talents, Zhou Ku is even more pleased with his own wisdom and pearls, as soon as he is happy, he will marry his daughter to Huang Chonggao.
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This story was enthusiastic about by later playwrights, and the excitement was here.
The vast majority of people have a hidden desire for voyeurism and gossip.
A generation of empressEs, Wu Zetian, was talked about by future generations not for her great achievements in "opening the yuan and ruling the Hongzhen Temple", but for those palace secrets that fluttered with beauty and bloodshed.
Huang Chongga, who is also a woman, no matter how good she is, good at governance and good ability, people are keen to spread the embarrassing fact that she was selected as the east bed by the chief official.
With her as the heroine or prototype, later generations created "Spring Peach", "Female Pony", "Phoenix Pond", "Qiankun Circle" and other plays. The famous literati Xu Wei, Feng Menglong, and Ling Maochu all wrote about her.
Cave room flower candle night, when the gold list is inscribed. These are the two dreams of Chinese readers, Zhongzhuangyuan as a donkey horse, is undoubtedly the most perfect way to present these two dreams, but for thousands of years at the same time to achieve these two dreams of the reader can be called nothing - in China's feudal society, there is only one Zheng Hao of Tang Xuanzong's body was called a donkey, but Zheng Hao himself was extremely resistant to this marriage, and spent his life frantically retaliating against matchmakers.
This matching of top talents and top resources only exists in the hypothesis of the frustrated scholars, and the real Dianyuan would never dare to make up such a story, which is called coveting, called great disrespect, and it is enough to be exiled for three thousand miles.
Only those losers who are counted by the dragon gate will place their dreams on the body of the protagonist of the work, borrow other people's wine glasses, and pour their own blocks, just like the joke that circulates: there are two kinds of birds in the world, one is to fly by themselves, and the other is to lay an egg, and put their hopes on the next generation.
The real Huang Chonggao, who had never participated in a scientific expedition, after knowing his daughter, also quietly let her return to her hometown, not daring to cause a storm. For a separatist regime in a quiet corner, stable development is the most important, and correcting the country's customs and changing its course is a feasible chapter in the prosperous world.
Whether it is "The Record of hairpins" or "Female Pony", it is a good wish of people, huang Chonggao's ending, that is, the township song Confucianism is plain and old, the only consolation is that this young woman who has been widowed has successfully turned her life from tragedy into a positive drama with her efforts.
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