This "Jincheng Smoke Cloud" tells the story of the legendary woman "Lady Huarui" of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Among the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there are three people known as the "Lady of the Flower". The "Lady Huarui" in this novel is written by Fei Rui, the concubine of the Later Shu lord Meng Chang. This Favored Concubine of Meng Chang looked like a delicate flower with beauty, so she was given the title of "Lady of The Flower".
Madame Huarui is not only beautiful, but her "Palace Words" also won her a position in the "Quan Tang Poems". She is known as the "Four Talented Women of ShuZhong", along with Zhuo Wenjun, Xue Tao, and Huang E. The best talented women in the wartime are bound to draw an equal line with the legend.
Romance novels set in history, with a historical figure as the protagonist, basically predetermine the ending after the character. Historically, Meng Chang surrendered on sixty-six days after facing the pressure of the Great Song Dynasty. The whereabouts of his concubine Lady Huarui are unknown, and she is suspected of being taken captive to the Song harem.
Author Gong Yingying took this famous Lady Huarui as the prototype and wrote a love novel that was lingering and pitiful during the chaotic period.
The novel begins with the encounter between Fei Rui and Meng Chang Meng Renzan when they were young, two little boys and girls from superior births encountered a raging tide when they were playing by the river, and the two children struggled on the lone rock in the river for a long time before they were rescued. This beginning basically foreshadows what happened to the two after that.
Meng Chang inherited the throne of Later Shu and lived in a remote corner of Shu land, striving to rule with great efforts. Fei Rui fell in the middle of the road, and fell into the wind and dust. These two former friends with a huge disparity in status meet again, what kind of story will happen after that?
The author lays out a family feud for Meng Chang and Fei Rui like Romeo and Juliet. The bloody feud of death at the door drew a deep chasm between the two. Love is small and powerless in the face of hatred, no matter how hard Meng Chang tries to get closer, he can't get a true heart from Fei Rui.
The emotional line is like this, in the career line, the author believes that Meng Chang is not as absurd as the legend. Every time I talk about Meng Chang, I can always remind people of "Seven Treasures Night Pot" and "Lady Huarui". This person and thing basically nailed Meng Chang to the column of shame of absurd pleasure.
In fact, at that time, the five generations and ten kingdoms of war and chaos were everywhere, but Houshu was a rare and happy place. Most of the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and were rarely affected by war. In addition to the remote location of Shudi, Meng Chang's governance could not be erased. It can be seen from this that Meng Chang may have sincerely decided to surrender to the Song Dynasty in more than sixty days out of concern for the safety of the people. Although this act was characterized as cowardice, it also saved the people of Shudi from being ravaged by war.
Meng Chang in the novel is such a king, worried about internal and external troubles, the emperor rotates five generations and ten kingdoms with a very fast speed, Meng Chang is worried about the suffering of the people, and his heart is exhausted. So much so that Lady Huarui, who held hatred for him, could not bear to attack him because of his love for the country and the people.
What is the great righteousness of the country and the hatred of the family? It becomes an unsolvable multiple-choice question in front of Madame Huarui in the novel.
The historical Lady Huarui left two famous poems, from which the final attitude of Madame Huarui can be seen.
"The heart of the first departure from Shu Dao will be broken, and the hatred will be long. Spring is like a year, and you can smell the cuckoos all the time. ”
The Shu Kingdom was born in the homeland of Si Yang yu Si for Lady HuaRui, and the country broke the natural heartbreak and sadness.
"The flag was lowered in the king's city, and the concubines were in the deep palace that learned?" 140,000 people were disarmed, and not a single one was a man! ”
It can be seen from this that For Meng Chang to fall without a fight, Madame Hua Rui was extremely sad. It is even more with such sharp words to express the indignation of the heart. This famous poem was very bold at the time.
Legend has it that because of this poem, Lady Huarui has since gained Zhao Kuangyin's appreciation. This kind of statement is not to insult Madame Huarui. Beauty is her appearance, intelligent and erudite, insight into the world, is the real essence of Mrs. Huarui.
This "Jincheng Smoke Cloud" has made a novel-type beautification of the emotional story of Madame Huarui and Meng Chang in history, and the whole story reads more of a sense of historical heaviness and helplessness than ordinary romance novels.
Gong Yingying's writing is very gorgeous, in line with the temperament of Madame Huarui. The only drawback is that the scene switching is somewhat unreasonable, and the reader often needs to contact the front and back to understand which part the author is writing now.