Yan Ruyu comes from "The East City is High and Long", No. 12 of "Nineteen Ancient Poems". It is often used to refer to young and beautiful women, especially in the poem "Li Xue Pian" by Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng, " "The book contains thousands of bells of millet, the book contains its own golden house, and the book contains its own beauty like jade" is the most famous. ?Zhao Kuangyin used Chenqiao's mutiny to establish the Song Dynasty, which made him physically and mentally wary, so he formulated an important national policy to depreciate military personnel from participating in politics and establish a political system of scholar-bureaucrats. All local governors across the country appointed civil servants.
The country had to employ so many civil servants at one time, and the Song Dynasty inherited the long-term wars in the Five Dynasties. Most people did not like to read, and even fewer were good at reading. Therefore, in order to implement the established national policy, the imperial court must, on the one hand, widen the channels for scholars to become officials, and on the other hand, try its best to promote the culture of reading. Zhao Heng, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, personally wrote the "Encouraging Learning Chapter" and spread it throughout the world. This short chapter has fascinated scholars all over the world for nearly a thousand years.
Encouraging Learning
Author: Zhao Heng?
Era: Song Dynasty
Rich families do not need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of bells in the book millet.
You don’t need to build a high-rise building to live peacefully. There is a golden house in the book.
Don’t hate an unscrupulous matchmaker when marrying a wife, there is beauty in the book.
Don’t regret having no one to follow you when you go out. There are so many carriages and horses in the book.
The man wants to fulfill his life ambitions and reads the Five Classics diligently in front of the window.
Notes
1. Yan Ruyu: refers to a beautiful woman like jade. ?
2. Six Classics: The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Annals, and Yue (lost ). ?
3. In front of the window: In ancient times, reading was mainly based on recitation. It must be recited independently facing the wall. In front of the window is equal to in front of the wall.
The east city is high and long
The east city is high and long, winding and connected.
The returning wind is blowing, and the autumn grass is already green.
The four seasons change, and the end of the year comes so quickly!
The morning breeze is full of painstaking efforts, and the cricket is hurt and cramped.
Pursing away emotions, what is the end of oneself!
There are many beauties in Yan and Zhao, and the beautiful ones are as beautiful as jade.
Wearing clothes in Luo Shangyi, we can sort out the music at home.
How sad is the sound! The string is urgent and the column is urgent.
The whole turban is full of affection, chatting and wandering in silence.
Thinking of two flying swallows, holding a mud nest in the king's house.
Extended information:
Zhao Heng was Song Zhenzong, and his words were the "theory" and "thoughts" of the country's top leader at that time, just like we are going to talk about the "three "Representative" and "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" are both famous sentences that encourage people to do good.
In "Poems to Encourage Learning", Song Zhenzong used "golden house" to refer to a beautiful and prosperous life, and "Yan Ruyu" to refer to beautiful and delicate women. However, this cannot be understood as reading just for these two things, but as a pursuit of a better life. I hope everyone will study seriously. Only things obtained through legal channels and through the power of knowledge are real and truly Belong to yourself.
These two sentences summarize the purpose and pursuit of reading by many scholars in the past. People often use this sentence to encourage others or their children to study well in order to gain respect from society. Here, two points should be emphasized in particular: First, reading can help you live a better life; second, knowledge can gain more respect from others. Having a "golden house" means that you can live a good life, and having "Yan Ruyu" means that you can be respected by beauties and others.
In "The Bookworm" of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", the author Pu Songling triggered his imagination by the phrase "there is beauty like jade in the book", and used it on the heroine in the form of a name ( Yan Ruyu, a book fairy), was the wife of the bookworm Lang Yuzhu. She trained her husband from a "bookworm" to a useful person, and was later burned to death. In film and television works, it is more common to use "Yan Ruyu" as a woman's name. It just so happens that the character "Yan" does have its own surname, so it naturally became a naming habit.
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