Qinhuai eight beautiful refers to the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties Jiangnan region of Nanjing, Nanjing Qinhuai River, eight talented geisha, ten miles of the Qinhuai River is where the prosperity of Nanjing, a water between the two sides of the river, respectively, is the southern region of the General Examination Jiangnan Tribute Court (i.e., today's Museum of the Chinese Imperial Examinations), the other side of the south of the workshop geisha gathered place famous for the old hospital, bead city.
The first in Yu Huai's "Banqiao Miscellany" wrote Gu Hengbo, Dong Xiaowan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Kou Baimen, Ma Xianglan six people. Later people added Liu Ruyi, Chen Yuanyuan and known as the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai.
The "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai" refers to the eight famous southern opera singers on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing at the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, and is also known as the "Eight Beauties of Jinling".
Yu Tanshin, a surviving member of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in his "Banqiao Miscellany" that Liu Ruyu, Gu Hengbo, Ma Xianglan, Chen Yuanyuan, Kou Baimen, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, and Dong Xiaowan were the eight most famous girls of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Taiwan's Zheng Jingsheng, in his article "The Mystery of Dong Xiaowan," replaces Ma Xianglan with Zheng Touniang. Wang Deheng and Chen Yuyi co-authored the book "Shunzhi and E Fei", a large change, it added Li Shuniang, Gong Zhilu, Huang Yanqiu three people, removed Ma Xianglan, Kou Baimen, Bian Yujing.
Banqiao Miscellany, the author of Yu Tanyu heart and the "Qinhuai eight women" is contemporaneous, but also live in Jinling, the Qinhuai River for the regulars, it seems that what is said is not wrong. In addition, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Ye Yanlan engraved the "Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai Chart Wing", now exists in Dong Xiaowan and Bao Paijiang's former residence in Rugao Water Painting Garden in the "Eight Beauties of the Jinling Mountains" description, as well as Liu Peilin, Zhang Deyi co-authored the long novel "Qinhuai Kabuki Dong Xiaowan," listed in the "Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai" name, but also with the "Miscellany of Banqiao", and the "Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai River".
Liu Liu and Zhang Deyi are the first to write about the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai" in their novel "Dong Xiaowan", which is also the same as "Banqiao Miscellany".
Liu Ruyi
Activated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties at the time of the change of the famous Kabuki girl, her strong personality, integrity and intelligence, the courage of the fantastic, no less famous than Li Xiangjun, Bian Yujing and Gu Mei-sheng. Liu Ruye name hidden, word such as, small word confabricated, the original name of Yang Ai, because of reading the words of Xin Qiji: "I see the green hills more charming, the material green hills to see me should be such as", so the self-title such as; later also known as "Hedong Jun", "confabricated Jun
She was also known as "Hedong Jun" and "Gracilar Jun".
She is a native of Jiaxing, born in 1618 in the forty-sixth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty. She was smart and studious at a young age, but because of her family's poverty, she was sold to Wujiang as a servant girl at a young age, and fell into a chapter of the stage at an early age, and changed her name to Liu Yin, and traveled between Jinling, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang in the chaotic world. Due to her beauty and talent, she became a famous concubine in Qinhuai. She left behind a lot of memorable anecdotes and literary poems, "grass on the lake", "wuyin grass", "shakujin".
Liu Ruyue was once friendly with Zhang Shibi, the leader of the Southern Ming Restoration Society, and Chen Zilong, with whom she was in love, but Chen died in an unfortunate defeat in the anti-Qing uprising. Liu's choice of son-in-law requirements are very high, many celebrities to propose marriage she did not see, some only stay in the friendship stage. Finally in Chongzhen fourteen years when she was more than 20 years old, married more than half a hundred Donglin leader, the famous bureaucrat Qian Qianyi. Qian married Liu, for her in Yushan built a spectacular and gorgeous "Jiangyun building" and "red beans Hall", the Golden House. Liu had a daughter. Some "red" people believe that Cao Xueqin designed Jiangyun Xuan is from the Liu's Jiangyun building.
When the Chongzhen emperor hanged himself, the Qing army occupied Beijing, Nanjing built Hongguang small court, known as the Southern Ming. Liu Ruyi supported Qian Qianyi to become the Minister of Rites of the Southern Ming. Soon the Qing army to the south, when the soldiers under the city, Liu persuaded the money with its martyrdom in the water, the money pondered speechless, and finally walked down to the pool to try the water, said: "the water is too cold, can not go down". Liu's "body to sink into the pool water", but to the money hard to hold. So the money will be coy face welcome down. Qian surrendered to the Qing Dynasty to Beijing, Liu stayed in Nanjing do not go. Qian did the Qing dynasty's Ministry of Rites and Hanlin scholar, due to Liu's influence, half a year later, he claimed to be ill and resigned. Later, he was implicated in a case and suffered two lawsuits. Liu Ruyi in his illness on his behalf to bribe rescue from prison, and encouraged him to contact Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan, Qu Shizhi, Wei Keng, etc., who were still resisting. Liu and do their best to fund, comfort anti-Qing volunteers, these all show her strong patriotic national spirit. Qian Qianyi's surrender to the Qing Dynasty should have been criticized by later generations, but the righteousness of Liu Ruyi diluted people's antipathy towards him.
Yu Dafu in the "Entertainment Xia Miscellany" recorded Liu Ruyi's "spring I smell room" poem. In terms of literary and artistic talent, she could be called the first of the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai". The famous scholar Chen Yin Ke read her poems, "also have jaw-dropping" feeling, Liu Ru Shi's "clear words and beautiful sentences" is very admirable. Qing people think that her shakuji "more colorful than the six dynasties, deep love Ban Cai". Liu's also proficient in music, dance, calligraphy and painting is also negative fame, her painting skillful simplicity, beautiful; calligraphy is y appreciated by later generations, called it "iron wrist with silver hooks, once will be a wonderful trace of collection".
After Qian's death in 1664, the countryside clan gathered to seize his property, Liu's in order to protect the Qian family property, but also with a silk knot neckline to kill themselves. Though the villains were scared away, a generation of talented women ended their lives in this way. Liu's death was buried in Yushan Fushui Villa.
Liu Ruyue was a very talented poetess, and her heirloom works include Wuyin Cao, Liu Ruyue's Poems, and Ruler's Continuation. Liu Ruyi's main poems:
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Chen Yuanyuan
Was originally a courtesan from Kunshan who lived in the Qinhuai district, and because of her exceptional color and skill, and because she was linked to major historical events, the Qing Dynasty included her in the "Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai District". Chen Yuanyuan was originally named Xing, Yuan, Yuanyuan, and Wanfang, and changed her surname to Chen when she was a child from her foster mother, Chen. She was a beautiful woman, with bright flowers and beautiful snow, and she could sing and dance well, and she was a champion of color and art.
The end of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant insurgents shocked the court, Chongzhen Emperor day and night restless. Relatives Jiading Zhou Kui want to give the emperor to seek a beautiful woman, in order to relieve the emperor's worried heart, so sent Tian Fei's brother Tian Wan down to Jiangnan to find beautiful. Tian Wan found Chen Yuanyuan, was intoxicated by her beauty, so he privately occupied for himself. Soon Li Zicheng's troops approached the capital, and the Chongzhen Emperor called Wu Sangui to the town of Shanhaiguan. Tian Wan on the peasant insurgents all day worry and fear, they set up a feast for Wu Sangui farewell party, Yuan Yuan rate singing team into the hall performance. After seeing Yuanyuan, Wu Sangui was so excited and happy that he hugged Yuanyuan to accompany him. Wine after three rounds of the alarm suddenly, Tian Wan fearfully up to Wu said: "the enemy to, what will happen?" Wu Sangui said: "can be round to see the gift, I first of all to protect the family unharmed." Tian Wan did not wait for the answer, Wu Sangui is to take the round bye-bye. Wu Sangui was persuaded by his father, who supervised the imperial camp, to leave Yuanyuan in his capital residence to prevent his peers from inviting right and wrong for the emperor to know.
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Wu Sangui's father surrendered to the rebel army, and Chen Yuanyuan was plundered by Li's men. When Wu Sangui promised to surrender to Li Zicheng, Wen Yuanyuan has been occupied by Li's generals, the crown of anger, shouting "a man can not protect his own room what life for?" So he surrendered to the Qing army and went to war with the peasants. This is Wu Meicun in the "round song" in the said: "mourning the six armies are onyx, a crown of anger for the red face".
Li Zicheng, after the defeat, will Wu's father and his family of 38 mouth all killed, and then abandoned the capital out of the country. Wu Sangui holding the killing of his father to take his wife, day and night to chase the peasants to Shanxi. At this time Wu's generals in the capital searched for Chen Yuanyuan, fly riding transmission, since the introduction of Wu Sangui with Chen Yuanyuan from Qin into Shu, and then occupied Yunnan. Wu's into the title of king of yunnan, want to Yuanyuan as the main consort, Yuanyuan excuse to resign, WuSanGui don't marry. I do not want to marry the main consort of fierce jealousy, Wu's love of Ji more framed wrongly killed, Yuanyuan then live alone in a separate house. Yuanyuan lost favor with Wu gradually centrifugal, Wu had plotted to kill her, Yuanyuan learned, so begged to cut her hair as a nun, from now on in the Wuhuashan Huaguo Temple long fasting embroidered Buddha.
Later Wu Sangui declared independence in Yunnan, the Kangxi Emperor's troops in Yunnan, the winter of 1681, Kunming City, Wu Sangui died, Chen Yuan Yuan also sunk in the temple outside the Lotus Pond, died and was buried in the side of the pool. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the temple also hides Chen Yuanyuan small shadow two frames, the pool left a stone poem.
Li Xiangjun
Also known as Li Xiang, a native of Nanjing, a famous prostitute in Moling, one of the Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a very degenerate era, most of the court ministers were so numb that they could no longer feel the situation they were facing, which was becoming more and more internal and external problems. On the banks of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, in the embroidered buildings with their richly scented clothes, there lived a group of women who were very worried about the future of the Ming Dynasty.
Mei Xianglou, located in the middle of Banknote Bank Street, is one of these embroidered buildings. Its owner, courtesan Li Xiangjun, was a household name. In fact, among the Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai at that time, Li Xiangjun's fame was not as great as that of Liu Ruishi or Chen Yuanyuan. This is the only embroidery building that can be found in the old alleys of the Qinhuai. This is a two-story embroidery building, narrow stairs, walking footsteps, through the floor clearly upward. Chongzhen twelve years of autumn, only 21 years old, but has been known in all directions, one of the four sons of the Fuxie Hou Fangwei, just came to Nanjing from Henan Shangqiu, will put aside the upcoming township exams, directly on this dark red staircase. In that year, Li Xiangjun was just sixteen years old, "gentle and delicate, only to accompany the tortoiseshell feast, and shy, not yet in the hibiscus tent." She was sitting in front of the lattice window with the embroidered curtains hanging down, looking at the Qinhuai River, waiting for the love of her dreams. When Hou Fangwei suddenly appeared in front of her, she must have sensed that the marriage she had been waiting for had arrived. It should have been a love affair between a talented man and a beautiful woman, but it was just a pity that it was set in the wrong era. The Ming Dynasty is rapidly collapsing as the Manchurian iron hooves enter the country. Prince Zhu's hasty transition to the south, in the midst of a pandemonium, hastily set up the Southern Ming regime in Nanjing.
Ruan Dacheng, a nemesis of the Fuxing Society, seized the opportunity and emerged from the deep alleys of Jinling. He defected to Ma Shiying, a Southern Ming sycophant, and appeared on the front stage of the political arena. Ruan Dacheng was originally a figure scorned by the Qing class, but he still wanted to change his ways. Thus, he attempted to bribe Hou Fangwei with money to achieve his personal political goals. This trick was soon recognized by the talented Li Xiangjun. She firmly rejected Ruan Dacheng's money temptation, and asked Hou Fangwei immediately cut off relations with him, and draw a clear line. Ruan Dacheng, infuriated, retaliated with despicable means. Hou Fangwei had no choice but to leave Nanjing in tears, and this short-lived love also hastily drew a sad conclusion.
No matter how Hou Fangwei behaved later, it should be said that Li Xiangjun was beyond reproach in her own love life. Afterward, still on this embroidered building, she y lamented to her friend, "Is not Mr. Tian different from Mr. Ruan? I to the praise of Duke Hou is what? Today, it is the concubine who sells the Duke to profit from his gold and go to him!" The pursuit of love so steadfast, and is happening in a Qinhuai courtesan's body, it is rare.
Qing Shunzhi three years (1646 AD), the fall of Nanjing, the Southern Ming Dynasty into a bubble in history. For Li Xiangjun, the external environment in which she lived changed forever, and her quest for love was eventually dashed by Hou Fangwei's return to the north. The famous scholar who was labeled in books as having the will to serve the country, Hou Fangwei, a former official's son, did not hold on to his political temperament for long, as he was forced to sit for the imperial examinations organized by the Qing Dynasty in the eighth year of the Shunzhi era, which once again ended in failure. In his love life, he also did not reunite with Li Xiangjun at Qixia Mountain, as written in Peach Blossom Fan. Reading over Hou Fangwei's life history again, he should be a tragic figure.
In the late spring of the 12th year of Shunzhi (1655), the peach blossom trees had already withered and fallen red everywhere. Li Xiangjun quietly closed the fan inscribed with a poem by Hou Fangwei, and sadly packed up her traveling clothes, bidding farewell to the past. She came alone to the bottom of Mount Qixia and became a monk in a silent Taoist temple. History books say that Li Xiangjun did not know where she ended up afterward.
According to the evidence, Li Xiangjun met Hou Sheng afterward and died in Ta Ji Yuan.
Hou Fangwei, in pain and guilt, erected a monument and wrote a couplet for Li Xiangjun. A monument was erected in front of the tomb and a couplet was written on the monument:
Qing died with hatred, and husband was ashamed for the rest of his life.
Dong Xiaowan
Name Bai, a word Qinglian, alias Qinglian female history, her name and word are due to the admiration of Li Bai. She was a smart, elegant, and graceful woman, and was a first-rate character in the old courtyard of Qinhuai. Her beauty had caused a group of famous ministers, gentry and merchants to fight. But this woman in the wind and dust despise the power and wealth, skill and maneuver, the courage to fight. Dong Xiaowan fell in love at first sight with one of the four geniuses of the late Ming Dynasty, Mr. Bold Bějían, who was rich in talent and suave. He was known as a "beautiful young man", and was one of the most talented men in the Fuxing Society.
After XiaoWan joined the family, she got along very harmoniously with the family. Ma Gongren (Paijiang's mother) and Su Yuanfang (Paijiang's wife) were especially fond of Xiaowan, and Xiaowan was very respectful and obedient, serving them with more care than a servant girl. In their spare time, Xiaowan and Paijiang often sat in the study of the painting garden, splashing ink, enjoying flowers and tea, commenting on landscapes, and identifying jinshi. When Xiaowan first entered the Bold family, she imitated Zhong Yao's post and learned from Cao E's stele, writing thousands of words every day, neither missing nor missing words.
Xiaowan also wrote small-case fans for relatives and friends instead of Paijiang. Once upon a time in Suzhou, Xiaowan had studied painting for a while, and was able to draw small clumps of cold trees with churlish brushwork. The Painted Butterflies, which she painted when she was 15 years old, is now collected in the Wuxi Museum, and is inscribed by Xiaowan, with two seal seals and a highly rated poem by a recent author. There are very few paintings of Xiaowan in the world, and the picture is a rare masterpiece. After arriving at Rugao, she kept her special hobby of painting, playing with her newly acquired scrolls and small axes or her old collection at home.
The most convincing thing about Xiaowan is that she lived her daily life in a romantic and beautiful way. Xiaowan's nature is indifferent, not addicted to fat and sweet food. With a small pot of tea boiled rice, and then accompanied by one or two plates of watercress fragrant edamame, is her meal. Paijiang meals like to eat sweets, seafood and waxy smoked food. Xiaowan knows the taste of Paijiang very well, she made for Paijiang's food is fresh, clean and delicious, with a variety of patterns. Such as brewing syrup for the dew, wine, white porcelain cups with dozens of kinds of flowers dew, not to mention the mouth to taste, alone that five-color floating, the strange aroma of overflowing, it is enough to quench the thirst to quench the effect of drink. In terms of drinking tea, Xiaowan and Paijiang have **** the same hobby. They are often a person a pot, in front of the flowers and the moon in silence relative to each other, savoring the tea color and fragrance of the temperament.
Small Wan often study recipes, see where there is a strange flavor, go to visit its production method, with their own wisdom and skillful hands to do it. Today, people often eat the tiger skin meat, that is, go oil meat, is Dong Xiaowan's invention, so it also has a little-known name called "Dong meat", the name of this dish, although some of the Tangqiu beauty, but and the "Dongpo meat" is the opposite of the fun. In addition, Xiaowan is also good at making candy, she was in Qinhuai with sesame, fried noodles, caramel, pine nuts, peach kernels and sesame oil as raw materials made of sugar, cut into long five points, three wide, thick one point of the square, this sugar outside the yellow inside crisp, sweet but not greasy, people called "Dong sugar", the ancient top ten chefs, fear is not too much.
The color of the moon is like water, the most Xiaowan is inclined to. Summer night cool, Xiaowan like to recite the Tang Dynasty moon and fireflies, playboy fan poetry. In order to appreciate the beauty of the moon, she often move a few couches with the rise and fall of the moon. In the middle of the night back indoors, she still want to push open the window, so that the moonlight hovering between the pillow woven mat. When the moon went west, she rolled up the curtains and leaned against the window to look at the moon, and often recited Li He's poem "The moon is dripping, the waves are smoky and jade" over and over again. "I and you throughout the year, love to enjoy the bright moonlight, the immortal road Zen pass is also in the quiet through." This is how Xiaowan appreciates the subtle and elegant cultural interest in the natural and practical daily life, and admires the poetic life of transcendence and clarity in her humble life.
Paijiang said that he had enjoyed all the happiness of his life in the nine years he lived with Xiaowan.
Being a good friend of the family, he said that he had been living with Xiaowan for nine years, which included sitting in the incense pavilion and tasting the incense. The most appreciated "horizontal separation sink", which is a kind of inner quality firm and texture is horizontal incense. Xiaowan most cherished Dongguan people as the best "daughter incense", they also have a lot of "Penglai incense". Paijiang once found a kind of "raw yellow incense" that tasted like fragrant orchids from Jiangnan, and he took one or two pieces of it to his friend Lai Suiqiu in Guangdong to appreciate, and Lai Suiqiu marveled at it. Xiaowan also made a hundred incense pills with a Western incense recipe obtained from the imperial household. They paid attention to the mood when tasting incense. In a small room on a cold night, with the jade curtain hanging down, two or three red candles are lit, and incense is burned in several Xuande stoves, so it is as if one has entered the depths of the Ruizhu's incense.
Gu Mei Sheng
The late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Ding Ding "Qinhuai eight women", Gu Hengbo is one of the most prominent position, she had been enjoined by the "First Class Lady", Liu Ruyu Chen Yuanyuan also have less than; at the same time, she is also the most controversial one. Controversial one ---- It is said that first there is a private life with her talent due to her back alliance martyrdom and death, and then her husband Gong Dingyu in the Ming Dynasty late unprotected every said "I want to die, Nai concubine refused to how", just like a red face of the scourge of the world, either to harm people's lives or to destroy people's reputation and most people's impression of the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai". Most people think of the "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai" as being chivalrous and gentle, with a deep understanding of the righteousness of the world. Famous historian Mr. Monson tasted "Mrs. Hengbo examined" an article on the character of Gong Gu greatly disdained, that the couple are snobbish, shameless, profit-minded generation. Was once known as "ritual virtuous love, chivalry within the lofty" Mrs. Hengbo, really so bad?
Gu Hengbo, born in 1619, Shangyuan (today's Nanjing) people, the original name of Gu Mei, the word Mei Sheng, also known as Gu Mei, the number of Hengbo, also known as Zhizhu, good talent, also known as Mei Sheng, known as "Mrs. Hengbo", changed his name to Xu Shanzhi after marriage. According to "Banqiao Miscellany" records, Gu Hengbo "Zhuang Yan beautiful and elegant, style is superb. Sideburns like clouds, peach blossom face; bow curved small, waist support light Asia", she knows literature and history, good at poetry and painting, painted landscape natural and beautiful, especially good at painting orchids, seventeen years old painted "Orchid Figure" fan now hidden in the Palace Museum, eighteen years old, together with Li Xiangjun, Wang Yue and others to participate in Yangzhou celebrity Zheng Yuanxun in Nanjing, "Orchid Society", people of the time its paintings, "Orchid Society". At the age of eighteen, Li Xiangjun joined the "Orchid Society" in Nanjing with Zheng Yuanxun, a famous scholar in Yangzhou, and the people of the time pursued the style of painting of Ma Shouzhen (i.e., Ma Xianglan, who was born earlier, and also one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai and a famous female painter in the Ming Dynasty, especially good at painting orchids), and her posture was better than that of the others, and she was pushed to be the first one of the Southern Quartet (which referred to the famous prostitutes of the south of the Yangtze River who sold art but not their bodies). She was also good at music and rhythm, and she often played the role of a young boy with Dong Xiaowan in the movie "The Story of the West Tower" and "Teaching the Son".
Gu Hengbo lived in the eyebrow building, "Cherry window embroidery, toothpicks and jade shafts, stacked several cases; Yaoqin Jinsei, furnished around the incense smoke, the eaves Martin when", the people of the time jokingly referred to as the "lost building" ---- some people say "lost building". "refers to the Gu Hengbo streaming charming, visitors are not spellbound, it is a literal meaning. "Lost House" is the Department of Emperor Yang built in Yangzhou, Yangzhou, because the place "winding deep, attic buildings scattered, Xuan curtains cover, and each other even belong to, such as the immortal tour", so the name "Lost House". To "lost building" jokingly called "eyebrow building", the originator of the Yu Huai Department of Jiangnan scholar, at that time and was in love with the horizontal wave, said when the positive meaning, referring to the "eyebrow building" architectural skillful work, layout The building is skillfully constructed, the arrangement is unique, and the view is like a fairyland. Once this reputation came out, it spread and was widely used. Gu Hengbo personality bold and uninhibited, there are men's style, in the Qinhuai eight girls and Liu Ruyi more like, people tasted to say "Mei brother" call, quite like Liu Ruyi's self-proclaimed "brother". But compared to the willow, and a little more capricious and cynical.
Rumor has it that Huang Daozhou, then a rationalist (who was later martyred in Jiangxi Province), boasted of "having a whore in his eyes and no whore in his heart," and that the Donglin students took advantage of his drunkenness to ask him to go to the clothes **** couch and try to find out if he really had the skills of Liu Shihui. This rumor may not be entirely true, but reflects the style of Gu Hengbo in the eyes of the people of the time, who did not take the world's rites for granted. Her style of doing things her own way, not caring about the world's eyes, I'm afraid that she was able to later and Jiangzuo Gong Dingyu, a talented man of the three lifetimes of the important reason for the flight of wings, however, her controversial to a certain extent is also a result of this personality incurred bad consequences. Gu Hengbo talent and appearance, there is "the first of the southern song", naturally favored by the celebrities, so that the eyebrow building door as if the city, almost no feast day, often get the eyebrow building invited to the feast is called "eyebrow building guests", just like a symbol of elegance, and many of the Jiangnan literary feast, but also The company's website is a great source of information about the company's products and services.
Bian Yujing
Name Sai, also known as Sai Sai, because later came from the name "Yujing Taoist", used to call Yujing. She was born in jinling qinhuai official family, two sisters, because of the father's early death, the two fell into courtesan, bian sai poetry, qin, calligraphy and painting can do everything, especially good at the small regular script, but also through the literature and history. Her painting skillful, pen like a line of clouds, "a pen to do more than 10 paper" like painting wind branch curls, especially good at painting orchids. 18 years old when the tour of Wu, living in Huqiu, between the Qinhuai and Suzhou, is the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, a famous courtesan in the Qinhuai. Bian Sai is generally not good at meeting guests, but if she meets a good person, she will talk like a cloud, which makes her fall in love with her.
Bian Sai had a marriage with Wu Meicun, a famous poet in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Chongzhen fourteen years in the spring, Wu Meicun in Nanjing, outside the Water West Gate of Shengchu upstairs farewell send-off brother Wu Zhiyan to Chengdu governor, where he met Wu Zhiyan come to see off Bian Sai sisters, see Bian Sai that noble and contains a few melancholy temperament, can not help but think of Jiangnan prevalent in two lines of the poem: "shop to find Bian Sai, flowers out of the bottom of the Chen Yuan". During the meeting Wu and Bian Sai's literary talent to explore, so Wu could not help but fall in love, after the two frequent exchanges, deepening feelings. Later, Wu in the long dry apartment to get Bian of a brief, know Bian want to marry him, the heart is very contradictory. Because Wu heard a message, the Chongzhen emperor's favorite concubine Tian's brother Tian Wan to Jinling to choose a consort, has been looking at Chen Yuanyuan and Bian Sai and so on. Wu in front of the powerful uncle of the country timid, only in Bian Sai's apartment to play a few songs and then sadly left.
Two years later, Bian Sai married a vassal, because it was not pleased, so the maid Zuo Rou into the service, he begged his own body hair, in Suzhou, as a female Taoist monk, attached to more than 70 years of famous doctor Zheng Baogu, Zheng built a separate palace to fund. Bian Sai long fasting embroidery Buddha, holding class recitation precepts very strict, in order to repay the kindness of Zheng, with three years for Zheng prick tongue blood book "Dharma Flower Sutra".
At this time, Wu Meicun became an official of the Qing Dynasty, the mood of decadence. One day in the seventh year of Shunzhi, Bian Sai saw Wu's four poems "Qinhe Sense of the Old" at Qian Qianyi's house, and realized how much Wu missed her. Months later, the two finally met in Taicang, Bian Sai for Wu's qin, Wu was overwhelmed with emotion, wrote "listening to the female Taoist priest Bian Yujing play qin song" to give, the poem said Bian in the decade, pointing out the Qing army down south, Yujing "strings cold and no sound", a bleak situation. After Bian Sai came to live in seclusion in Wuxi Huishan, more than ten years later, died of illness, buried in Huishan Jiituoan Jin Grove.
Wu Meicun why so uninspired, there have been many opinions, some say it is Tian Guoyu in order to flatter Chongzhen, down to Jiangnan to search for beauty ......
Wu Meicun, so that Bian Yujing waited for a lifetime have not waited for the words of that promise, the disappointment is surely, and may not be sunk into the abyss of pain of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting of the parting.
Kou Baimen
Also known as Kou Mae, Nanjing, is one of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties of the Qinhuai eight women, whose Kou family is a famous family of the world's prostitutes, she is Kou's family of the best in the successive generations of famous prostitutes, Yu Huai said she was "elegant, appearance, smoldering". "Qian Qianyi praised Kou Baimen's talent and appearance. Kou Baimen's life is full of many legends. Banqiao Miscellany" said: "The white door is quiet and beautiful; it is a flowing style, it can do music, good at painting orchids, it knows the rhyme, it can recite poems, but it is slippery and easy to not be able to go to the end of the school. It is because the white door is simple and not smooth, and decided her tragedy in the marriage.
The late spring of Chongzhen 15 years, the prestige of the Minister of State Guobo Zhu Guobi, in the escort of the police to the banknote bank street Kou family, after several interactions, the white door left a good impression of him, polite, gentle and cordial, so in Zhu's proposal to marry will be a mouthful of consent. The autumn night of that year, 17-year-old Kou Baimen heavy makeup on the sedan chair. In the Ming Dynasty, it was the custom of the time for women of Le nationality in Jinling to take off their nationality and marry at night. Zhu Guobi in order to show the prestige and grandeur, sent 5,000 soldiers holding red lanterns from the Wuding Bridge, along the way to the Neiqiao Zhu Mansion, an unprecedented spectacle, becoming the largest one in Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty to welcome the bride scene.
Ju Guobil is actually a smooth and cunning bureaucrats, he married Kou Baimen is a momentary need, a few months later his ingenuity and widowhood will be gradually exposed, so the Kou's aside, and still walking in the Zhangtai willow alley between. 1645, the Qing Dynasty army south. Zhu Guobi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, soon into the capital, and was placed under house arrest by the Qing court. Zhu's desire to sell even Kou Baimen, including the singer and maidservant together, Baimen to Zhu Yun: "If the sale of concubines income is only a few hundred gold ...... if you make concubines return to the south, between January when the 10,000 gold to report to the public." Zhu thought about it and then agreed, Kou Baimen short clothes and horses with maidservant Douer returned to Jinling. Kou's sisters in the old house with the help of raising 20,000 taels of silver will Zhu Guobi ransom. At this time Zhu wanted to reunite the good dream, but was refused by Kou, she said: "when you used silver to redeem me out of the country, now I also use silver to redeem you back" when the end can be.
Kou's return to Jinling, known as the Warrior Woman, she "built a garden pavilion, the knot of guests, the day and the literati to go back and forth, the wine is hot, or song or cry, but also sighed at the beauty of the late curtains, contempt for the red beans of the floating zero". After a filial piety from yangzhou, not satisfied with the return to jinling, and finally strayed from leji died of illness. At that time the literary altar priest of the donglin leader Qian Qianyi made "kou baimen" poem memorial said: "kou sisters always beautiful, eighteen years in the flower letter fan, today qinhuai fear of the same value, to prevent him from red tears a stained clothes. The red powder of the clumps of residual remembrance of the gentleman's grace, the heroine who knows the Kou Baimen? The heart of the coffin is not dead, a wisp of incense pill is the soul of Fangfei."
Ma Xianglan (1548--1604), a native of Nanjing, can be called a female poet and painter of the Ming Dynasty. According to Qinhuai Guangji, her name was Shouzhen, Xianglan, Xuan'er, and Yuejiao, and because she was the fourth in her family, she was known as "Sinniang". She was a beautiful woman, good at poetry and painting, especially good at painting orchids and bamboos, so she was known as "Xianglan". Although her appearance is not outstanding, "posture head such as ordinary people", but "the spirit of open cleansing, Maohu as spring willow early warbler, spit words and look forward to, and skillfully serve the people".
Ma's high attainments in painting, when Cao Xueqin's grandfather, Cao Yin, had three times in a row for the "Ma Xianglan Painting Orchid Scroll" poem, ***7 sentences, recorded in Cao Yin's "Dongting set". Her painting skill was evaluated as "Orchid imitation of Zigu, bamboo method Zhongji, all can inherit its rhyme" in "The History of Painting through the Ages". In the Forbidden City of Beijing in the calligraphy and painting fine art is also mixed with Ma's orchid album pages, hair with a unique color, her paintings have been regarded as treasures in foreign countries. In literature, Ma was also quite talented, having written two volumes of poems in the Xianglanzi Collection and a play called San Sheng Zhuan (The Legend of Three Lives). Ma was also a versatile artist who was good at music, song and dance, and could write and direct her own plays. The troupe she taught in the workshop was able to perform "The Story of the Western Chamber", and those who learned the technique from her were able to get the true essence of the story.
Ma's grew up in Nanjing, since childhood, unfortunately fell into the dust, but she is open-minded, the nature of the hope of chivalry, often waving money to help young people. Her residence for the Qinhuai victory, the name of the many visitors, and the south of the talented Wang Zhideng friendship, her letters to Wang Zhideng collection in the "generations of famous women in the book". In Wang Zhideng 70 birthday, Ma's capital to buy a boat carrying dozens of courtesans, went to Suzhou to celebrate the birthday of the wine, "banquets and drinks for months, singing and dancing up to the day", after the return of a sick, and finally forced to take a bath in order to ritual sitting and passed away at the age of 57 years old. After his death, Ma was buried in his mansion, near the Bifeng Temple in present-day Beluga Park. In the Japanese Museum in Tokyo, the collection of a Chinese Ming Dynasty "ink orchid", this painting is not from the hands of masters, but the Ming Shenzong period of the Qinhuai courtesan Ma Xianglan made, but the Japanese people as treasures.