Beijing, August 7, 2018 Title: [The Ancients Have Addictions] "Tang Xianzu's Thousand Layer Routine" on the hot search, what kind of person is he?
Author: Ren Siyu
If Tang Xianzu came to the present, he would definitely receive private messages from many netizens every day:
"Tang Xianzu, you are really a waste of firewood!" "Xiao Tang please walk independently!" Do your own thing! ”
Tang Xianzu: ??? What did I do with me?
Draft: Ni Wenbing.
Recently, the video "Tang Xianzu's Mille-feuille Routine" went viral. In an ancient style game, players who go out on expeditions need to experience a "peony pavilion" style love story - helping Tang Xianzu chase after Li Niang.
However, the great dramatist Tang Xianzu was "disliked" by the players in the game, because this weak and powerless talent did not do anything, so that the first place was called: "Words let me build, flowers let me pick, paint let me send, gifts let me buy, even bad people let me rush... Why do you chase girlfriends for me? ”
The setting of the game is fictional, so apart from the joke, is Tang Xianzu himself really "cowardly" in history? How was the amazing "Peony Pavilion" written?
Not only is he not weak, but he is often "hard"
In 1550 AD, Tang Xianzu was born in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, in ancient times, most literati had to "learn and excel", Xiao Tang also lived up to the family's expectations, from a young age, he was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, proficient in the Five Seven Words and Poems of Lefu Song, 12 years old, 21 years old, and published the poetry collection "Red Spring Yicao" at the age of 26.
However, on the road of examination, the young Tang Xianzu planted a lot of heels.
A widely circulated story is that when Zhang Juzheng, the chancellor of the dynasty, for his sons' examinations, had entrusted people to woo Tang Xianzu several times and wanted to pull him as a foil, but Tang Xianzu cherished his integrity and integrity, expressed his refusal, and did not want to go with him.
It was not until the year after Zhang Juzheng's death that Tang Xianzu, who took the exam for the fifth time, was able to enter the list of scholars, when he was 34 years old.
After that, Tang Xianzu did some official positions, but his disposition did not change, he refused to go with the flow, and he still liked to be "tough" in the face of injustice.
In the nineteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1591 AD), the comet appeared in the northwest sky, and the emperor thought it was unknown, accused the official of dereliction of duty, and asked everyone to cultivate morality and reflect. Tang Xianzu then played "On the Auxiliary Minister Kechen Shu", he witnessed the drought, famine and bureaucratic corruption at that time, and pointed directly to the abuses of the dictatorship of the current prime minister, which shook the imperial court, and he was relegated to Xuwen, who was far away on the Leizhou Peninsula.
Later, Tang Xianzu was transferred to Zhi County, Suichang County, Zhejiang. On the third day of his term of office, he went to inspect the local educational facilities, and later donated all his money to build a shooting hall and a college, not only that, he often went to the school to visit and personally correct articles for the children.
Despite his good political achievements, Tang Xianzu still did not get any personal promotion, and after seeing through everything, he had the idea of resigning from the government and retiring. In the twenty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar, Tang Xianzu returned to his hometown on a long vacation and abandoned his official position.
The Most Loving "Peony Pavilion"
Tang Xianzu's reasons for abandoning the official office are some dissatisfaction with the mining tax, and there are also theories of exclusion; in short, the official field did not give full play to his ideals, but his writing outside the official field made Tang Xianzu's talent stretch out.
From his youth, Tang Xianzu began to write and create, and between the five and seven years of the Wanli Calendar, Tang Xianzu tried to compose "Zi Ji Ji" in his hometown, and then revised it to write "Zi Ji Ji".
According to scholars' research, Tang Xianzu completed the "Peony Pavilion Returning the Soul" in the first year of his return home, after which the "Nanke Ji" and the "Handan Ji" were also finalized, and his representative work "Four Dreams of Linchuan" was completed.
The most familiar of the "Four Dreams" is the "Peony Pavilion", which is still staged today. "Tang Yi still came out of "Peony Pavilion Dream", recited by family, and several times the price of "West Chamber" was reduced."
Many of the storylines of "Peony Pavilion" are taken from the script "Du Li Niang Mu Se Returns the Soul", but Tang Xianzu adapted it with "zhi qing" as the main idea, changing the original affair into a touching story of Du Li Niang's death due to love and resurrection because of love.
In the ancient feudal society, women needed to face many normative constraints in the name of etiquette, and Du Liniang knew the book dali, but knew very little about the outside world, not even her own garden. In the story of "Peony Pavilion", "dream" is the key, and the dream of visiting the garden has changed Du Liniang's life; "love" is the soul, and Du Liniang's pursuit of feelings is more born from self-consciousness and the awakening of human consciousness.
The "love" here is not only love, but also some "true feelings" that resist the shackles of feudal etiquette.
The popularity of "Peony Pavilion" with its female readers
For hundreds of years, "Peony Pavilion" has been constantly innovating on the theatrical stage, and has continued to circulate through books, plays, and reviews. Behind its popularity in Jiangnan, there is also a phenomenon worth paying attention to, that is, the spread among women.
There are several legendary stories, for example, Yu Erniang of Loujiang, Jiangsu Province, has been frail and sick since birth, but she is a smart and clever talented girl, one day, she saw "Peony Pavilion" in her hospital bed very much, not only read carefully, but also used fly-head small kai to closely circle the side note, later, Yu Girl was sad about Li Niang's encounter, and died of anger at the age of 17.
Later, Tang Xianzu was extremely touched after learning the story of Yu Erniang and "Peony Pavilion", and he wrote "Crying Loujiang Women's Second Order" with regret to mourn.
In Hangzhou, there is also an artist Shang Xiaoling, who has excellent looks and acting skills, who is especially good at acting in "Peony Pavilion", but because she is too involved, she will always associate her own encounter with Du Liniang. She once had the intention of falling in love but finally could not, so whenever she went to "Finding Dreams" and "Haunting" several sad scenes, she acted in a miserable and miserable way, with tears in her eyes, and in the long run, she became depressed.
One day, Shang Xiaoling performed "Looking for Dreams" again, and when she sang "To be beaten and incense the soul, rainy and plum days, keep a Megan to meet", suddenly grief-stricken, fell on the stage and died of exhaustion.
In the past, in the circulation of famous works, it was often rare for female readers to see the figure, but Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion" was twisted and moving, and Du Liniang was bold and brave, which brought a lot of spiritual impact to the women who were deeply suppressed at that time, and many people had a strong resonance, and even hardcore fans wanted to marry Tang Xianzu.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was also a "Wu Wushan Three Women's Joint Comment on the Peony Pavilion and the Soul" by three women, which was very distinctive.
This book was co-authored by the fiancée of the Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Ren and the next two wives, of which the fiancée Chen Tong had obtained the manuscript of the "Peony Pavilion" drama, regarded it as the most precious treasure, and wrote a large number of comments and comments, but unfortunately died of illness before marriage was completed; later, Wu Ren's wife Tan accidentally discovered this review book, and also imitated Chen Tong's thinking to supplement the review, but she also died a few years later.
After more than ten years, Qian Yi, the third wife of the Wu people, saw the commentaries left by the two men, and she was very eager to keep the manuscript she had co-created, so she persuaded her husband to help them publish it, and even sold gold noodles as publishing funds. The three women have never met, but they all really like "Peony Pavilion", and the story of this review book is also a good story.
"Four dreams in a lifetime, the only thing that is proud is in "Peony."" Today's readers may no longer be "obsessed" about such a story, but the artistic dream created by Tang Xianzu and the true feelings in the story continue to exude influence... So now, will you still "dislike" him? (End)
Source: China News Network