The Qin clan had a good daughter who called herself Luo Shi. What is the age of LuoShi? Twenty is not enough. - Le Fu poem "Strange On Sang"
Qin Luoshi, a 17- and 18-year-old peasant woman who grew up in Handan, Hebei Province, is the embodiment of a "goddess" in the minds of many Chinese: beautiful, virtuous, and graceful.
This woman, who appeared in the lefu poetry collection more than 1,000 years ago, has not seen her appearance today, but has given her the best wishes and imagination, becoming synonymous with ancient beauty.
Why does a peasant girl who makes a living by picking mulberries have such a great charm? As the famous quote in the movie "The Pianist at Sea": As long as you have a good story, you will never be forgotten. The story surrounding the name "Qin Luoshi" has been praised by people from the Han Dynasty to the present, and has undergone many evolutions and enrichments, but it has never changed its original intention, and also reflects the yearning for the noble qualities in human nature in traditional Chinese culture.
"Qin Luoshi" first appeared in the famous Han Dynasty Lefu poem "Mo Shang Sang", this poem is also known as "Yange LuoShixing", "Sunrise Southeast Corner Line", about the young Qin Luoshi to the southeast corner of the city to pick mulberry, her beauty was passed by the Ambassador Zhao Wang a glance at the eyes, so that Jun jun asked Qin Luoshi: How about we ride together?
In the Han Dynasty, "riding" was a kind of travel behavior that highlighted identity and a symbol of "high wealth and handsomeness", so that Jun's admiration and covetousness for Qin Luoshi were vividly displayed in just one sentence.
Although Qin Luoshi was less than 20 years old at that time, he knew that his beauty and male favor were by no means only the "silly white sweetness" of beauty. In a hurry, Qin Luoshi bravely said bluntly: "Make you stupid!" You already have a wife, and I already have a husband. After saying this, in order to ease the tense atmosphere, Qin Luoshi also introduced his husband to the envoy: he was an official in the east, and there were more than 1,000 people in his entourage, and when the gathering was full of elites, everyone praised my husband for being outstanding.
When Lingjun heard Qin Luoshi's words of refusal, he revealed his husband's "background" between conversations and laughter, and had to give up in sorrow. The peasant family picks the sang women in a hurry to be wise, and Fuqin writes poetry to reject high-ranking officials, and has both beauty and loyalty, wisdom and decency, which is the character label of Qin Luoshi.
In China's long literary history, the story of Qin Luoshi has been repeatedly borrowed and carried forward. The Han Dynasty poet Xin Yannian's "Yulin Lang" can be seen as a variant of the "Qin Luoshi Motif": Hu Ji, who sells wine, has a soft and rigid personality, and rejects the flirtation of a powerful and powerful slave in words:
Men love their wives, and women value their ex-husbands.
There are new things in life, and the nobility and the lowly do not exceed each other.
If the story of Qin Luoshi in "Mo Shang Sang" does not write the ending, and the resolution of the crisis with poetry is just the good wishes of people, then the dialogue in "Yulin Lang" is more direct and expresses the voice of women in the weak.
Dance "Luo Shi Xing"
Whether it is "Mo Shang Sang" or "Yu Lin Lang", whether it is a mulberry picking girl or a wine seller, people love and admire "Qin Luoshiki", and even regard her as synonymous with beautiful women and talented women, and what they admire is nothing more than a kind of grandeur of "rich and noble cannot be obscene, poor and lowly cannot be moved, and mighty cannot be bent".
Although the scope of women's lives in ancient times was very limited, and their vision and experience were not broad, they could still show the dignity and decency of life like Mencius's "big husband", soft with tenacity, and still firm in humility.