Edit this paragraph of Xi Shi
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A generation fell in love with the city and chased the waves, Wu Gongkong recalled his son's family. The girl from East Village imitates the frown and smiles, her head is white and her hair is still hanging by the stream.
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1. Two sentences of "Generation" - a generation of stunning beauties finally disappeared like waves. She missed her childhood hometown in Wu Palace in vain. After the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, there are two theories about Xi Shi's fate: one is that he returned to Fan Li and followed him to swim across the rivers and seas; the other is that Wu died and Xi Shi was buried in the river to repay Wu Zixu, who was buried in the river by his husband. The poem only talks about passing in general terms. Qingcheng, the synonym for stunning beauty, is also called "Qingguo". Li Yannian's Song of the Han Dynasty. See "Book of Han·Biography of Wife's Wife": There is a beautiful woman in the north, peerless and independent. Looking at the beautiful city and the beautiful country, I would rather not know the beautiful city and the beautiful country, no matter how rare a beautiful woman is. Yi'er's Family, "The Story of Huansha" compiled by Liang Chenyu in the Ming Dynasty based on the legend of Xishi, has a "Siyi" section, which only writes about her memories of her love affair with Fan Li in Huansha River when she was in Wu Palace. 2. Follow the example of frowning - According to legend, there was an ugly girl in the East Village of Xi Shi's hometown, who was called Dong Shi. Because she saw Xi Shi's beautiful appearance of "holding her heart in front of her and frowning (frowning her brows)", she also learned to frown while holding her heart in front of her, only to become even uglier. Published "Zhuangzi Tianyun". See the note on "Xizi" in "Praise to Lin Daiyu". Huansha, Xishi and the women from her hometown once rinsed cotton yarn by the Ruoye River. See the note on "Ruoye Creek" in "Zanhuifangyuan". "Ode to Xi Shi" by Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty: "At that time, we were not allowed to return home in the same carriage. I thanked the neighbor's son and imitated An Kexi!" And "A Daughter's Journey to Luoyang": "Who pities the Yue girl who has a face as beautiful as jade? Yarn." The last two sentences of this poem take the meaning of these two poems. But Wang Wei's poem said that Xi Shi has enjoyed all her glory, but her old partner still has to work hard to wear her yarn; this poem says that although Xi Shi is beautiful, she has passed away like water, but the East Village girl can still live to grow old despite being ugly.
Edit this paragraph Yu Xi
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Heartbroken Wu Zui howls in the wind at night, Yu Xi hates the heavy eyes. Tao Peng was willing to receive his nian's coin
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1. Yu Ji - Xiang Yu's concubine. In the final stage of the Chu-Han War, Xiang Yu was surrounded by Liu Bang's army in Gaixia. At night, when the Han army was besieged on all sides, Xiang Yu felt desperate and wrote a tragic song to Yu Ji: "With great strength, the world is overwhelming, and the times are not good, but the bad things are not going away. What can be done if the good things are not going away. What can I do if I am worried?" Yu Ji also composed a song. Harmony. The matter can be found in "Historical Records·The Chronicles of Xiang Yu". In the Spring and Autumn Annals of Chu and Han, there is a poem written by Concubine Yu, which goes like this: "The soldiers of the Han Dynasty have conquered the territory", which is suspected to be a forgery of later generations. There was no such five-character poem in the Qin and Han Dynasties. 2. "Heartbroken" sentence - the neighing of horses at night is heartbreaking. Wu Zui, according to historical records, Xiang Yu had the "horse name Zui". Cheng Gao originally changed it to "Wu Ciao", which was a big mistake. "Ye Xiao Feng" must be interpreted as "The night wind is like a roar in the sky," but this sentence has no historical basis at all. In fact, "Xiao Feng" refers to the sound of a horse, and it is also often called "Xiao Feng". 3. Yu Xi - using the original lyrics from Xiang Yu's song. Double pupils refer to Xiang Yu. "The Chronicles of Xiang Yu": "I also heard that Xiang Yu also had double pupils (two pupils in one eye)." 4. "Taipeng" sentence - Tingbu and Peng Yue were actually willing to be chopped into meat sauce in the future and surrendered to Liu Bang. Tingbu and Peng Yue were originally Xiang Yu's generals. After surrendering to Liu Bang, they made great contributions to defeating Chu. Tingbu was named King of Huainan and Peng Yue was named King of Liang. Later, Ying Bu rebelled with his troops and was killed by Liu Bang; Peng Yue was also involved in separatism and was executed and chopped into pieces. Mint (yinhai), meat sauce. This refers to the torture of chopping up corpses and flesh. 5. Drink the sword - kill yourself. The fact that Yu Ji committed suicide in the Chu tent must have been staged by "Chu Han Chun Qiu" and other books based on basic historical facts in "Historical Records".
Edit this section: Concubine Ming
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The stunning beauty left the Han Palace, but the fate of the beauty was poor in ancient and modern times. Even if the king is light on color, why should he give up power to the painter?
Notes on "Ming Fei"
1. Ming Fei - Wang Zhaojun. Jin people avoided the taboo of Sima Zhao and changed their names to Ming Fei or Ming Jun. See the note of "Wang Qiang" in "Jing Huan Xian Gu Fu". 2. Leaving the Han Palace - refers to the marriage. See the poem notes of "Green Tomb Nostalgia". 3. "To take away" sentence - Why leave the decision-making power to the painter? Give, bestow, favor. Seize, deprive, discard. Give, give. 4. "Painter" refers to Mao Yanshou, a court portraitist during the Han Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty had many beauties in his harem, so he ordered painters to draw the faces of the maids and present them to the emperor. The emperor would favor the beautiful ones who found their embroidered portraits. The maids bribed Mao Yanshou to make his painting more beautiful, but Du Zhaojun refused. When Mao Yanshou painted the portrait of Zhaojun, he deliberately painted it ugly, but Emperor Han Yuan did not know it. Later, the Xiongnu came to the court to make peace and asked a beautiful woman in the palace to be named Yan.
Zhaojun petitioned. Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty saw Zhaojun's beauty, but it was too late to regret it, and he beheaded Mao Yanshou soon afterwards.
Edit this paragraph of green pearls
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Throwing a pearl out of rubble, how could Shiwei be so charming? They are all created by the blessings of the previous life, and they share the comfort of loneliness.
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1. Lvzhu - the concubine of Shi Chong in the Jin Dynasty. "Book of Jin·Shi Chongzhuan": "There was a prostitute in Chong who called Lvzhu, beautiful and gorgeous, and good at playing the flute. Sun Xiu asked people to ask for it, and Chongboran said: "I love Lvzhu, but you can't get it! ' Showing anger, he pretended to be the emperor's order and ordered him to arrest Chong. Chongzheng was having a banquet upstairs, and a warrior (samurai) came to the door. Chong said to Luzhu, "I have offended you now!" Luzhu cried and said, "I shall die in front of you." He threw himself downstairs and died. " 2. "Rubble" sentence - discard the bright pearl (yu Lvzhu) as rubble. Shi Chong once fought with Wang Kai for wealth. He casually smashed Wang Kai's two-foot-tall coral tree with Tie Ruyi, and gave him his own that was three or four feet tall. So this is the metaphor. 3. Shi Wei - that is, Shi Chong. He once served as a regular servant and a servant of the Sanqi, and led the Southern Barbarians as a school captain, so he was called Shi Wei. Jiaorao, a beautiful woman, refers to the green pearl. 4. Two sentences of "Duyuan" - After Luzhu jumped off the building and died, Shi Chongye's family was killed. The poem says that he still has the blessings destined to him in his previous life, because there are still green beads that return to the underworld with him, which can comfort his loneliness. Taking tragedy as a blessing is what the book calls "the destiny is novel and unique." 5. A modern poem to save the green pearl: Humanity is here in the south of the Yangtze River, reincarnation, for hundreds of generations. I am still awake in Jiangnan, awake in the flutes and drums of Jiangnan. A thousand years of farewell to the sound of drums. For thousands of years, I have leaned on the railings.
Edit this paragraph Hongfu
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Chang Yixiong's talk is unique, and the beauty's giant eyes know the end of the road. The corpse is in the palace of Yang Gong, how can he restrain his female husband?
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1. Hongfu - a maid in the family of Yang Su, a minister in the late Sui Dynasty. Her real surname was Zhang. Because she held a red whisk (a tool for wielding dust) when serving Yang Su, she was later called She blushed. Once, Li Jing came to see Yang Su in commoner clothes and talked calmly about world affairs. Hong Fu saw that he was majestic and eloquent. He knew that he would not be a mediocre person in the future, so he went to Yang Mansion at night to join Li Jing and went with him to Taiyuan to assist him. Li Shimin launched an army to attack the Sui Dynasty. See "The Biography of the Qiu Bearded Guest" by Du Guangting of the Tang Dynasty. 2. "Changyi" sentence - When Li Jing paid a visit to Yang Su, Yang Su's attitude was arrogant. Li Jing bowed his head (bowed his hands) and refused to bow, and accused Yang of treating guests badly. Yang quickly apologized, and later he was even more convinced after listening to Li Jing's eloquent speech. Cheng Gao originally changed "长揖" to "长剑", which was a mistake. 3. "Beauty" sentence - Hongfu was able to tell that Li Jing would do something in the future when he was still in a humble position, so she was said to have great eyes and insight. 4. Two sentences of "Corpse Residence" - talking about Hongfu running away from Yang's house. The corpse is in the residual energy, which is used to say that a person is about to die, which means that although there is residual energy, it looks like a corpse. The quote comes from "Book of Jin": Li Sheng once said to Cao Shuang: "Sima Gong (Sima Yi)'s body is still alive, and his body and spirit have left, so there is no need to worry about it." Hongfu defected to Li Jing, but Li Jing was afraid that Yang Su would not give up, so Hongfu also said : "The corpse is still alive, so there is nothing to fear." Yang Gongmu, Yang Su's government office. 渻, restraint. A female husband refers to a red whisk. Later generations called her, Li Jing, and Qiu-bearded guest the "Three Heroes of the Fengchen". 5. The sentence "Chang Yixiong talks about his unique status", some versions say "Chang Jianxiong talks about his unique status".
Edit this paragraph of poetry appreciation
Dong Shi Xiaoqian comes from "Zhuangzi" and has an allegorical nature; it is written in "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" that Zhaojun refused to bribe the painter so that he was not known by the Yuan Emperor and was ordered to do so. The plot of leaving the fortress is just a legend; as for the image of Hong Fu from "The Biography of the Qiu Bearded Guest", it has been artistically processed by the legendary author. The discussion in the poem is based on the past and satirizes the present, and is based on realistic feelings. Daiyu laments that the beauty of "a generation of beauty" is like a river flowing eastward, and the waves have disappeared, leaving empty memories of her son's family and not being able to return. Her fate is far more unfortunate than that of the "East Village girl" with white hair and ruffled hair. This is her own destiny. Looking around the Jia family with no relatives, I had a premonition of sadness that the illness would not last long. She despises Ting Bu and Peng Yue, who are capricious, seek glory, and are willing to end in shame. She feels that they are not as good as poppies who "drink swords" in Chu's tent. This is how she relies on her own "pure nature to come and go clean, better than filth and traps" "Quogou" will. She ridiculed Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty for neglecting his power and taking orders from the painter, showing her independent character who refused to be manipulated by others. She felt sorry for Lv Zhu and criticized Shi Chong. She thought that Shi Chong's favor with Zhu Jade and Qi Luo during his lifetime was not worth Lv Zhu's repayment with death when he was in danger. This also shows that in love, he focused on empathy and had a tacit understanding of spirit. She admired Hongfu for being wise and courageous, and for being able to be free from the "fetters" of the power of the prime minister and feudal ethics, which more prominently demonstrated her bold pursuit of the ideal of life of freedom and happiness.
Does the chant in the poem also have some echo with the plot of the novel? This is a question that can be studied. The five poems are all about death or separation, and some also involve failure or being convicted and arrested. This seems to be no accident. The theme of the last chapter seems far away from the plot of the novel, but some of the terms are very pun-like, such as "knowing the end of the road" and the like. Hong Fu ran away without being detained by the Yang Mansion, where "the corpse dwells with lingering energy". Didn't Daiyu finally leave the Jia Mansion, where the "corpse dwells with lingering energy", and returned to Lihentian? Of course, with so few extant materials, it is not easy to clarify the author's intentions exactly. Incidentally, there is an early comment in the Qi Xu version and the Jiachen version that "The Five Beauties Yin" is compared with the later "Ten Du Yin"." The last forty chapters of "Ten Du Yin" are not included in the continuation book, and are considered to be the lost second half. The original manuscript contains poems written by Baochai or Xiangyun. Judging from the title of the poem, it is probably based on the sorrows of ten women who were alone in ancient history, such as widows, abandoned wives, nuns and women who separated from their husbands, etc., to describe the realistic feelings at that time. The so-called "contrast" should not only refer to the title of the poem.