Riding the wind of rebirth

"It's amazing for Xue Tao to get such a literary name in the Tang Dynasty where there are so many stars." Li Dongping couldn't help feeling admiring.

While speaking, everyone came to Pipa Lane, and Zhou Zhi said: "That is, many famous poets such as Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu, Zhang Hu and others have paid contacts with her. .”

"Wang Jian has a famous poem "Sent to Xue Tao's school book in the middle of Shu" which is written like this: "Girls' school book by the Wanli bridge, and the door is closed under the loquat flowers. How much is a talented man who sweeps eyebrows, it is better to lead the spring breeze.'"

"Since then, Xue Tao has gained another nickname - Sweeping Eyebrow Wit."

Listening to Xue Tao's story in the alley where Xue Tao lived, everyone couldn't help being fascinated. Li Yijia couldn't help asking: "So many poets admire Xue Tao, then did she find her own home?"

Zhou Zhi shook his head: "It was infinitely close, but in the end it was a pity."

"In March of the fourth year of Yuanhe, the poet Yuan Zhen, who was in full swing at that time, was ordered to go to the place as a supervisor of the censor. He had heard the name of the poet Xue Tao in Shu for a long time, so after arriving in Shu, he specially invited her to stay in Zizhou. See you."

"Xue Tao happily went to the appointment. As soon as we met, he was attracted by the handsome appearance and outstanding talent of this young poet who was only 31 years old. The two discussed poetry and politics, and their friendship gradually deepened. The belated love made the 40-year-old Xue Tao feel I have never experienced happiness, and I wrote "Two Birds on the Pond" with true feelings."

"The two lingered on the banks of the Jinjiang River, and stayed together in Shushan and Qingchuan. But separation was inevitable after all. Soon Yuan Zhen was transferred from Sichuan to work in Luoyang."

"Xue Tao is very helpless. In order to send poems to Yuan Zhen, Xue Tao became obsessed with the letterhead for writing poems. She modified the local paper-making process, dyed the paper pink, and cut it into exquisite narrow paper, which is especially suitable for writing love letters. She is called Xue Tao. note."

"It is also because of longing and longing that Xue Tao created her most famous poem, "Four Poems of Spring Hope."

"Flowers bloom differently, and flowers fall differently. If you want to ask the place of lovesickness, when the flowers bloom and fall.

Grasping the grass to form a heart, will leave a bosom friend.The sorrow of spring is being cut off, and the spring birds are mourning again.

The wind and flowers will grow old, and the good time is still elusive.If you don't get together with people, you can't get together with grass.

Nakan is full of flowers, which turns into lovesickness.The jade chopsticks hang down towards the mirror, and the spring breeze knows it. "

"It's a pity, talented people are affectionate and playful." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Yuan Zhen had already married Wei Cong, the daughter of the high-ranking official Wei Xiaqing, but he fell in love with Xue Tao in Shuzhong. .”

"He himself admitted that 'although his poetic talent is not as good as Tao's, but his appearance is so beautiful that Tao can't match'. So the two hit it off. Yuan Zhen also made this affair vigorous and colorful. He stayed in Zhejiang for seven years. The personal relationship lasted as long as seven years."

"Once Yuan Zhen had a great time drinking, and wrote a poem saying: 'Because you have not returned, you are not in love with perch.' Colleague Lu Jianqiu saw the poem and joked: 'Although the prime minister is not for perch, he is a good spring ear in Jinghu Lake!'" It can be seen that the relationship between Yuan Zhen and Liu Caichun was well known at that time."

"Like Xue Tao, Liu Caichun and Yuan Zhen's affair was widely circulated, but the relationship ended without a problem." Zhou Zhi said, "The reason is very simple. Yuan Zhen is used to liking the new and disliking the old. Liu Caichun, like Xue Tao, has a low status. The door is wrong, the door is wrong."

"Back to Xue Tao," Zhou Zhi said, "Yuan Zhen was demoted to Luoyang later, and lost his wife and concubine. In the spring of the ninth year of Yuanhe, Yuan Zhen took office in Jiangling, and Xue Tao was summoned again. Xue Tao went from Shudu to Jiangling to meet Yuan Zhen."

"The two of them are 'as a couple' in their poems. Xue Tao only left Shudu twice in his life, both for Yuan Zhen, but Yuan Zhen finally married Pei Shu, the daughter of the family .”

"However, Xue Tao took off his favorite red dress and put on a dull gray Taoist robe. He left the bustling Huanhuaxi, moved here, and built a poetry hall in Bijifang Loquat Lane, where he lived quietly .”

"In the sixth year of Yamato, Xue Tao, who was never married, passed away." During the conversation, everyone came to a cemetery covered with stones and covered with green grass. The Tomb': "This tombstone was inscribed by Duan Wenchang, a former prime minister, for Xue Tao."

"Wait a minute, 'Once the sea was too difficult for water, except Wushan is not a cloud. Take the flowers and look back lazily, half of the monks and half of the king.' I remember this poem was written by him, mourning the deceased wife!" Tong Xiaolin's face was pale, a look of being affected He pretended to be cheating, gritted his teeth and said, "This scumbag man writes poems to deceive people everywhere! He married Wei Cong, flirted with Xue Tao and Liu Caichun, and then turned around and married a girl from the Pei family. Which relationship is true for him? !"

"It was indeed written by him, but why did you react so strongly, Xiaolin?" Zhou Zhi felt terrified. This is the school book?

"My favorite poem, I thought the author must be a big lover." Tong Xiaolin was very angry: "It turned out to be Chen Shimei!"

"Uh, in fact, before Wei Cong, he had an affair with a girl surnamed Cui. However, although the Cui family was talented and beautiful, and the family was rich, they had no power after all. Zhuo Zhu was appreciated by the new Jingzhao Yin Wei Xiaqing, and climbed to the top by marrying Wei Cong." Zhou Zhi said: "After that, he adapted his own story and wrote it into a Tang Dynasty legend, which is the predecessor of "The West Chamber". "The Story of Yingying."

"Damn it! This is really scum to the bottom!" Now not only Tong Xiaolin, but everyone began to condemn angrily.

In fact, this kind of thing was very normal in the Tang Dynasty. Both Xue Tao and Liu Caichun belonged to the "bad family" or once belonged to the cheap family. In the Tang Dynasty, the cheap family could not constitute a normal "social person" in the legal sense, and social rights were seriously lacking. , even if the best of them can get out of the country and become good, they have basically reached the apex of their own class, and it is difficult to cross.

For example, Liu Caichun had a husband when he was in close contact with Yuan Zhen, and the two ran a small drama club called "Joining the Army" that was popular at the time, and every time they appeared on stage, everyone was empty-handed.

However, someone like Yuan Zhen who can sing poems with him and be commensurate with a concubine, for Liu Caichun, is already a "gracious kindness" of a high-ranking official.

For the generation born under the red flag and growing up in New China, it is difficult to bring it into ancient times to consider the social ecology at that time. In the state at that time, Yuan Zhen's wife was Wei Cong, and later his wife was Pei Shu. Love is deep and righteous, there is nothing wrong with it.

As for Xue Tao and Liu Caichun, they are just "appendages" that add charm to Yuan Zhen. Their feelings for Yuan Zhen are just fantasies that even they themselves never expected to be able to realize.

Therefore, in Xue Tao's poems, there are only deep emotions, only continuous thoughts, no resentment, no regrets, no regrets.

But he didn't dare to say it out, otherwise everyone who was filled with righteous indignation would scold him as Yuan Zhen.

Loquat Lane is not big, Xuetao Well, Zhuojinlou, Xuetao's Tomb, you can finish shopping in a short while.

Coming out of the construction area, there is a river beach, where you can see the traces of the ancient wharf, the pebbles and reeds on the riverside, and many water birds, which is a bit of an artistic conception of "the reeds are green".

This is undoubtedly a good place to take pictures, with Jian Jia as the close-up view and the red wall and ancient bamboo bushes on the pier behind as the distant view, the results are very good, and everyone murdered a lot of films here.

"Eh? Here's a poem!" There was a big stone ox by the river, Huang Ruishan found something on the base of the stone ox: "Elbow, come and have a look, what does this mean?"