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Author: Ren Siyu
If Tang Xianzu came to the present, he would receive many private messages from netizens every day:
"Tang Xianzu, you are such a waste!" "Xiao Tang, please walk independently! Do your own things!"
Tang Xianzu:? ? ? What did i do to me?
Drawing: Ni Wenbing.
Recently, the video "Tang Xianzu's Melaleuca Routine" became popular. In an archaic game, players who are out exploring need to experience a "Peony Pavilion"-style love story-helping Tang Xianzu chase Liniang.
However, the great dramatist Tang Xianzu was "disliked in every way" by the players in the game, because this weak and feeble talent did nothing, and called the first place: "Let me take the words, let me pick the flowers, paint Let me give it, let me buy a gift, even the bad guys let me rush... Why do you chase your girlfriend?
The setting of the game is fictitious. Apart from the joke, is Tang Xianzu in history really "cowardly"? How was the amazing "Peony Pavilion" written?
Not only is he not weak, but he is often "hardened"
In 1550 AD, Tang Xianzu was born in Fuzhou, Jiangxi. In ancient times, most literati had to "study and be good at official business". Xiao Tang lived up to family expectations. He was proficient in four books and five classics since he was a child. Composing poems, at the age of 21, he was admitted in the exam. At the age of 26, he published a collection of poems "Red Spring Yicao".
However, the young Tang Xianzu had a lot of troubles on the way to the exam.
A widely circulated story is that for the imperial examinations of his sons, Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the time, had asked someone to win over Tang Xianzu several times and wanted to use him as a foil. However, Tang Xianzu cherished his integrity and expressed rejection and was unwilling to do so. Co-current.
It was not until the year after Zhang Juzheng's death that Tang Xianzu, who took the exam for the fifth time, was able to be on the top of the rankings. He was now 34 years old.
After that, Tang Xianzu held some official positions, but his temperament remained unchanged, he refused to go with the crowd, and he liked to be "hard-hard" in the face of injustice.
In the 19th year of Wanli (AD 1591), a comet appeared in the northwestern sky. The emperor thought it was unknown, accused the supervisor of negligence, and asked everyone to reflect on their morals. So Tang Xianzu played "On the Ministers and Ministers Shu". He witnessed the drought, famine and bureaucratic corruption at that time. The article directly pointed out the abuses of the power of the prime minister. As a result, he shocked the court, and he was demoted to Xu Wen in the Leizhou Peninsula. .
Drawing: Ni Wenbing.
Later, Tang Xianzu was transferred to the magistrate of Suichang County, Zhejiang. On the third day of taking office, he went to inspect the local educational facilities, and later donated all his salaries to build shooting halls and academies. Not only that, he often visited schools and personally corrected articles for the children. During his tenure in office, Suichang's style has been greatly changed.
Despite his good political achievements, Tang Xianzu still did not get any personal promotion. After seeing everything, he had the idea of resigning from office. In the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Tang Xianzu reported that he had returned to his hometown during a long holiday and abandoned his officialdom.
The most affectionate and sexual "Peony Pavilion"
Tang Xianzu’s reasons for abandoning officialdom include dissatisfaction with the mineral tax and exclusion. In short, the officialdom did not maximize his ideals, but his writing outside of officialdom allowed Tang Xianzu’s talent to relax.
From his youth, Tang Xianzu began to write and write. From the fifth to the seventh year of Wanli, Tang Xianzu tried his hometown of "The Story of the Purple Xiao", which was later modified and written as "The Story of the Purple Hairpin.
According to scholars’ textual research, Tang Xianzu completed "The Resurrection of The Peony Pavilion" in the first year after he abandoned the official and returned home. Later, "The Story of Nanke" and "The Story of Handan" were also finalized, and his representative work "Linchuan Four Dreams" was completed. .
The most familiar of the "Four Dreams" is "The Peony Pavilion" which is still being performed today. "As soon as Tang Yi's "The Dream of Peony Pavilion" came out, it was recited by family members, and the price of "West Chamber" was reduced a few times."
Drawing: Ni Wenbing.
Many of the plots of "The Peony Pavilion" are taken from the storybook "Du Liniang: The Resurrection of Love", but Tang Xianzu adapted the main idea of "love" and changed the original romantic affair to Du Liniang's death due to love and death. A touching story of resurrection.
In ancient feudal society, women had to face many norms and constraints in the name of etiquette. Du Liniang knew well about books, but she didn't know much about the outside world, even her own garden. In the story of "The Peony Pavilion", "dream" is the key, and dreaming in the garden has changed Du Liniang's life; "love" is the soul, and Du Liniang's pursuit of emotion is more born out of self-consciousness and the awakening of human consciousness.
The "sentiment" here is not only love, but also a "true affection" that resists the feudal ethics.
The popularity of "The Peony Pavilion" and its female readers
For hundreds of years, "The Peony Pavilion" has continued to innovate in the theater stage, and has continued to circulate through books, scripts, and commentaries. Behind its popularity in Jiangnan, there is another phenomenon worthy of attention, which is its spread among women.
There are a few legendary stories. For example, Yu Erniang of Loujiang, Jiangsu has been frail and sick since she was born, but she is a smart and talented woman. One day, she saw "The Peony Pavilion" on her hospital bed and liked it very much. Read it carefully, and use the marginal notes in teeny lowercase letters. Later, Miss Yu was saddened by Liniang's experience, and she died at the age of 17.
Later, when Tang Xianzu learned about the story of Yu Erniang and "The Peony Pavilion", he was very touched, and he regretted writing "Two Orders of Cry Loujiang Women in Order" to mourn.
Drawing: Ni Wenbing.
In Hangzhou, there is also an artist Shang Xiaoling with excellent looks and acting skills. She is especially good at performing "The Peony Pavilion", but because she is too involved, she always associates her experience with Du Liniang. She used to be deliberately unsuccessful, so every time there were several sad scenes in "Looking for Dreams" and "Sorrows", she would act lingeringly and with tears in her eyes. If things went on like this, she would become sick.
One day, Shang Xiaoling played "Looking for a Dream" again, and when she sang "To be played and a soul, rainy plum sky, meet Megan in the guard", she suddenly fell into grief and fell on the stage. Die.
Female readers are often rarely seen in the circulation of classics in the past, but Tang Xianzu’s "The Peony Pavilion" has twists and turns, and Du Liniang’s boldness and bravery brought a lot of spiritual shock to the suppressed women at the time, and many people had a strong impact on it. There are even hardcore fans who want to marry Tang Xianzu.
In the Qing dynasty, there was also a very distinctive "The Resurrection of The Peony Pavilion" by three women.
This book was co-authored by the fiancée of the scholar Wu in the Qing Dynasty and the latter two wives. Among them, the fiancée Chen Tong once obtained the manuscript of the play "The Peony Pavilion" and regarded it as a treasure. Yao; Later, Wu Ren's remarried wife, Tan, accidentally discovered this review notebook and followed Chen Tong's ideas to add comments, but she died within a few years.
After more than ten years, Qian Yi, Wu’s third wife, saw the commentary left by the two. She hoped to keep this co-created manuscript, and she persuaded her husband to help them publish it. Publication funding. The three women have never met, but they all sincerely like "The Peony Pavilion". The story of this review book is also a good story.
"Four dreams in a lifetime, the only place to be proud of is "Peony"." Now readers may no longer be "mad" for such a story, but the artistic dream created by Tang Xianzu, and the true feelings and meaning in the story, continue to circulate With influence... So now, would you still "dislike" him? (Finish)