The Tang Dynasty Du Xunhe recorded such a story in the "Song Window Miscellaneous Records".
A scholar named Zhao Yan asked the painter to draw a picture of a lady, which hung in the library. When he saw the woman in the painting with a beautiful face, he was in love with her, so he kept calling her day and night.
A hundred days later, the woman actually walked out of the painting and became a loving husband and wife with Zhao Yan.
Since ancient times, the stories of fox ghosts and ghosts have been innumerable, and few people have taken it seriously.
However, a thousand years later, during the Kangxi Dynasty, there was really a fool who believed it to be true.
He hung the portrait of his deceased wife in the inner hall, tearfully looking at it, and earnestly calling for it to continue the frontier.
This infatuated prince is Nalan Rongruo, one of the "Three Greats of the Qing Dynasty".
He was born noble, but he longed for the hardships of the mountains; he had a smooth career, but he was tired of the hustle and bustle of the officialdom; he had people he loved, but he suffered from the impermanence of life and death.
Nineteen unsatisfactory life, a drunkenness outside of the peace of the desire. In the life that is always unsatisfactory, Rong Ruo is full of sorrow, in the ups and downs of love and hate, the death of the golden year, sad and lamentable!
In a long life, "unsatisfactory" is the norm, and "unsatisfactory" is life.
The greatest sorrow in life is that in an unsatisfactory life, it is only difficult for yourself.
Can't choose the origin, look down
All avenues lead to Rome, and someone was born in Rome.
In the eleventh year of Qing Shunzhi, Nalan Rongruo was born in the Pearl House, and his starting point was the end point that many people could not reach in their ultimate dreams.
His father, Naran Mingzhu ( Naran Mingzhu ) , a scholar of Wuyingdian University , had lived in the cabinet for thirteen years ; his mother , Ai Xin Jue Luoshi , was the pearl in the palm of prince Azig of England ; the Naran clan, full of powerful people.
However, Nalan Rongruo, who grew up in a golden and jade-wrapped splendid embroidery pile, was born with a cold disease, with a melancholy and indifference in his bones.
He did not want to be a prodigal prince, he longed for the hard study of Confucianism, and he loved Qing Huan in poetry more deeply.
In the tenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Sun Chengze, a disciple of the rich family, held a literati collection in Qiushuixuan, such a feast in the literary world, Nalan Rongruo would naturally not be absent. He is famous for his "Golden Wisp Song".
Shadow Pro Scrolls. With frost, high and low, powder and grease are even. Don't be feminine, red candles cry and rest.
However, after reading all the other words, Rong Ruo did not find a confidant who was in tune with his heart.
He had become a clear stream and a bright moon heart in the nobles of the Beijing Division, and he could not integrate into the muddy world.
He has no wine and meat friends, and his confidants are even more pitiful. He wanted to meet a true confucian, not a vassal of the elegant sack rice bag.
Four years later, the man finally appeared.
At the age of twenty-two, Mingzhu hired a teacher for Rong Ruo, the Great Confucian Gu Zhenguan.
He had heard of Rong Ruo's talent for a long time, and now when he saw it, it was cited as a friend of the year.
Rong Ruo built a "water pavilion" and a few huts at the foot of yuquan mountain in the western suburbs, and often came here with Gu Zhenguan to find some wild fun and drink a glass of light wine.
But I don't know when Gu Zhenguan began to look embarrassed, until one day, he resigned to Rong Ruo and went to Jiangnan.
It turned out that Gu Zhenguan was slandered, saying that he had befriended the powerful and attached himself to the throne, and he could not bear the humiliation and chose to leave.
The noble status that everyone envies has become a shackle here in Rong Ruo.
He wrote sadly: "Don't have roots, not the rich flowers of others." ”
It is not a rich flower, why was it born in a rich family? This torture of fate tormented Rong Ruo's heart.
Born delicate and thoughtful, he could not reconcile with fengge, claiming that "I am a pity guest in the world" and sighing "Shaohua is darkly damaged, and a wisp of tea smoke penetrates the blue yarn".
We are born human, from Providence. Some people landed in the hut, and some people landed in the Ming Hall.
The origin that cannot be chosen is the innate brand on our bodies, look down on the birth, look at it with a normal mind, find the balance between fate and ideals, and life will also show a gentle side.
Can't sway the encounter to look down
After walking through the lush green years, Nalan Rongruo is about to embark on a career path, as a prince of Xiangfu, he was born to shoulder the mission of Guangzong Yaozu.
Rong Ruo was born with a delicate heart, he was quite talented, and he had few talents.
At the age of ten, he entered the Guozijian, at the age of eighteen, he was given the birth of a jinshi at the age of twenty-two, and was deeply appreciated by the Kangxi Emperor.
This made his father Nalan Mingzhu very pleased, Nalan Mingzhu is a very popular subject, he knows that the high position will fall heavy, in order to stabilize the power, he always has to work hard, and his son Nalan Rongruo is the best helper in his eyes.
Perhaps it was Xuan Ye's preference, or perhaps it was Mingzhu's planning, in the 16th year of Kangxi, Rong Ruo was awarded the position of imperial bodyguard when he first ascended to the official field, which was the icing on the cake for the Nalan clan, and for Rong Ruo, it could be described as a smooth step.
However, Rong Ruo's heart is indifferent, he does not like officialdom, he does not like mundane affairs, and he has the purity and backbone of not wanting to be a subject, if he can, he is more willing to send love to the landscape and be a cloth literati.
His friend Cao Yu once said: "The family sings drinking water words, and Nalan's heart is known to several people." ”
Nalan Rongruo, in the midst of not being understood, became the proud son of heaven who learned to be rich in five cars, and became a hot red man in front of the emperor's eyes.
For the sake of the family, for the sake of his father, Rong Ruo worked hard to be a good imperial guard, and he was far away from his hometown again and again, escorting the emperor to travel in all directions.
He walked all the way through Yongling, Fuling, Zhaoling, out of Shanhaiguan, the cold wind outside the plug blew, and the snow like goose feathers drifted down.
Rong Ruo, who was thinking a lot, dressed in armor, stood outside the emperor's tent, he had some thoughts, and he was far away, and he had feelings, and he was deeply entangled.
The melancholy of homesickness turned into sorrow in Naran's words.
A journey to the mountains, a journey to the water, to the yuguan that side of the line, late at night a thousand tent lights.
The wind is more, the snow is more, and the dream of the hometown is not successful, and there is no such sound in the garden.
Looking far away, Rong Ruo recalled the past, and there were too many reluctances in his life.
He did not like to dance with guns and sticks, but he had to learn the riding and shooting of the Eight Flags, he liked to be quiet and inactive, but he had to deal with the socializing among the powerful, and he had to leave the most bitter parting in his heart, but he had to go far away.
Rong Ruo lived to become a bird singing lament in a golden wire cage, and he complained to his friend Zhang Chunxiu more than once: "You must not get out, and you will feel tired." ”
Everyone has the pressure to survive, his Holiness has his sorrows, and his lowly have the suffering of his lowly.
In a person's life, who does not compromise while insisting?
The Buddha said, "Life is a passer-by, so why be so persistent?" ”
In the face of encounters that cannot be swayed, instead of being grumpy and frowning, it is better to learn to let go and look down on the far.
A fate that cannot be changed Look away
In 1959, Hong Kong director Li Hanxiang wrote a poem for his work "The Ghost of Qiannu":
Ten Mile Ping Lake is full of green sky, and the jade hairpin is dark Xu Huanian. If the rain cover can protect each other, only envy the Mandarin duck and not envy the immortal.
A sentence of "only envy the Mandarin duck and not envy the immortal", the road broke the feelings of many idiots and daughters.
Three hundred years ago, Rong Ruo also wrote a Mandarin Duck poem for his wife Lu Shi: "Should i be mad for a lifetime, horizontal waves, be a Mandarin Duck to dissipate?" ”
This woman who let Rong Ruo endure the floating name and changed it to a woman who sang in a shallow low voice, who is also?
She was the daughter of Lu Xingzu, the governor of Liangguang, and was born gentle and dignified.
Before she married into the Xiang Mansion, Rong Ruozheng was sad because her cousin Hui'er entered the palace draft.
Rong Ruo and Hui Er knew each other, but unfortunately, Hui Er was presented to the emperor as a political chip, and the palace gate was as deep as the sea, and Xiao Lang was a passerby from then on.
Because of Hui'er's departure, Rong Ruo was once worried and sick, and had no intention of studying.
At this moment, the family married Rong Ruo, the Lu family, and entered Rong Ruo's life.
Life after marriage is unexpectedly happy.
Lu's Hui Islanxin, mild in personality, thoughtful in his work, and praised this young grandmother from top to bottom.
The days passed suddenly, and three years had passed in the blink of an eye, and Rong Ruo was full of joy for having a wife, and what made him even happier was that the Lu clan was about to be born, and their concubine was about to be born.
However, the weather was unpredictable, and a month after the birth of his son, Lu Shi died of illness.
After the loss of his beloved wife, Rong Ruo lost his soul, and he often stood alone in the courtyard in the middle of the night, muttering to himself: Who knows this hatred, and the heavens and the earth are all hopeful;
He had trouble sleeping and eating, dreaming of his dead wife at night, and the two of them looked at each other with their eyes facing each other, holding hands and looking at each other with tears in their eyes;
He wrote a poem that was so thick that he could not dispel the sorrow.
If life is only like the first sight, what autumn wind and sorrow paint fan.
Waiting for idle changes is the heart of the old, but the old heart is changeable.
Lishan language strikes midnight, and the tears and rain ring bells will not complain at all.
How to be bo lucky Jinyi Lang, than the wings and branches of the day wish.
Compared with the sadness of his youth and the indignation of the official queen, the death of his wife dealt a huge blow to Nalan Rongruo.
He had been sad about mendi's origin and the encounters around him, but now it seems that the impermanence of life and death, the unpredictability of fate, really broke people's hearts.
Nalan Rongruo, in the end, failed to get out of this love injury, at the age of 31, Rong Ruo's old illness recurred, and in infinite worry, he completed his life.
Life is full of all kinds of encounters and separations, encounters, beautiful can be expected, parted, avoided.
The coming and going of all things under the world has its own fate, and we cannot influence the arrangement of fate, and what we can do is nothing more than not forgetting the affection while being born to the sun.
There is no satisfactory life, only a life that looks open.
Over the years, whenever we pass through the years and approach Nalan Rongruo, we will be deeply moved by his lonely and elegant sighs.
Strangers are like jade, the prince is unparalleled in the world, and the talented Nalan Rongruo warms everyone, but only forgets to warm his heart.
He melancholy, like a wisp of smoke, drifted through the years, leaving us with infinite regrets.
Red dust has no way back, the years are full of wind and dust, and life can never be satisfied.
As the writer Bai Luomei said: "Life is a game of chess, about winning or losing, we are always powerless, when we are confused, most of them are in the game, when you understand, people are already outside." ”
Life is a journey of wind and rain, when life is cloudy, but our hearts can not always be in the shadows, let go of obsession, let go of themselves, there will always be a day of clouds and rain.
Then the sun will shine all over the earth.
Author | Jin Shanyue should have nothing to dwell in, but to be born with his heart.
Image | Stills from "Fireworks March", stills from "Lonely Empty Garden spring evening"