Chapter 45 Li Qingzhao: Memories of Blowing Xiao on the Phoenix Stage

Volume 25 of "Cipu" quotes "Supplements to Lie Xian Zhuan": "Xiao Shi is good at playing the flute, which makes the sound of the phoenix. Duke Mu of Qin had a daughter who played jade and was good at playing the flute. He used his wife to play it, so he taught him to play the phoenix. For more than ten years, the phoenix came and stopped. The father made the Fengtai, and the couple stopped on it. For several years, he made jade and rode the phoenix, and Xiao Shi rode the dragon to go."

According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Qin Mugong's youngest daughter was nicknamed Nongyu because of her love for jade since she was a child. She was proficient in rhythm and was especially good at playing the sheng.In the year of Jiji, Qin Mugong began to look for a husband for his sweetheart, but Nongyu said nothing about marrying.Qin Mugong understands his daughter's thoughts, but where can he find a music master who can match his daughter well? One night, Nongyu was playing the sheng under the moonlight, and vaguely heard the sound of the xiao, which was actually in harmony with her own sheng music.This continued for several days.Duke Mu of Qin sent people to search for him until he reached Mount Hua, where he heard the woodcutters say: "There is a young man named Xiao Shi who lives in seclusion on the Mingming Cliff, the middle peak of Mount Hua. He likes to play the flute, and the sound of the flute can be heard for hundreds of miles."

In this way, Nongyu and Xiao Shi finally met each other and got married.Xiao Shi taught Jade to play the flute, and after ten years, both of them had reached a state of perfection in flute flute, and they were able to attract phoenixes with the sound of the flute.Qin Mugong built a Phoenix Terrace for the couple to live in.One day, when the two were playing flute on the stage, they suddenly saw a pair of golden dragons and purple phoenix flying towards them. Nongyu sat on the purple phoenix, Xiao Shi stepped onto the golden dragon, and they both turned into immortals and left.The poem "Recalling Blowing Xiao on the Phoenix Stage" comes from this legend.

"Sweet and cold, golden scorpion, being turned into a red wave, she gets up and combs her hair lazily. Ren Bao's dowry is full of dust, and the curtain is hooked in the sun." This sentence means that the heroine sleeps until the sun hits her buttocks, and then she gets up and does not burn incense. , do not fold the quilt, do not comb hair, do not make up, do not clean, and do not eat breakfast.Such a lazy woman, can she still see people?Who the hell, for a woman who dares to live like this, there is only one possibility, her husband is not by her side. "I'm afraid of the pain of parting, how many things I want to talk about", the most feared thing in life is the pain of parting, the hidden feelings in it, want to say but don't know where to start, let alone how to say, let alone follow Who will tell.Only those who have experienced it can say these words and understand the taste of them.

"Newly thin, it's not drinking because of illness, not sad autumn", I lost weight again, not because I was addicted to alcohol, nor because of the phrase "It's cool in autumn"! "Xiuxiu! This time, if you go back to Yangguan, it will be difficult to stay." A good sentence of "Xiuxiu" is like a high-pitched singing in a play, implying the arrival of the climax.As soon as he left, even if he sang the Yangguan song a thousand times and ten thousand times, he still couldn't win back his heart!Desperate to the extreme. "Near Wuling people are far away, and smoke locks Qin Tower." When saying "Wuling people are far away", many readers will think of the Wuling people in Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring, but there are other people in Wuling here.Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasties "You Ming Lu" records that in the Han Dynasty, two people named Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao went to Tiantai Mountain to collect medicine, and they accidentally broke into the peach forest where the fairies lived. Lived together for more than half a year.After returning home, their wives and children were no longer alive, only the seventh grandson was seen. The third volume of "Northern Ci Guangzheng Pu" says: "Liu Chen once entered Wuling River when we are destined to meet each other thousands of miles away." And Han Qizhong of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote: "Wuling looks back, people are far away, wave and green", and the artistic conception is similar to Li Qingzhao's words . The Qin Tower in "Smoke Lock Qin Tower" is Fenglou, which is the residence of Nongyu, the heroine in the story of Fenghuangtai we mentioned at the beginning.

"People in Wuling are far away, and the smoke locks the heavy building."Now, there is only Nongyu in the Qin Tower, but there is no flute player, because he is staying in the peach grove by the Wuling River.People from Wuling should refer to Zhao Mingcheng, Qinlou refers to the residences of Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng, and the word "smoke lock" is Li Qingzhao's hint that something has changed in the original harmonious couple relationship between himself and Zhao Mingcheng.Using this allusion, the most reasonable explanation is that Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng separated, and the reason for the separation was that Zhao Mingcheng had a new love.From then on, "Only the flowing water in front of the building should remember me and stare at me all day long. From now on, there will be a new sorrow at the place where I stare at."

Writer Zhang Xiaoxian said, "If I don't love you, I won't miss you, I won't be jealous of the opposite sex around you, I won't lose my self-confidence and fighting spirit, and I won't be in pain. If I can stop loving you , That would be great." At that time, men regarded "jealousy" as a woman's immorality, which not only interfered with her husband's "freedom of love", but also affected family harmony.Li Qingzhao's jealousy probably also aroused Zhao Mingcheng's annoyance, so he went to work alone with his concubine.Jealousy is originally one of the instincts of human nature, and it is an instinctive reaction of human self-protection.Unfortunately, jealousy cannot win back love.Fortunately, being of a noble background, she maintained a sober rationality towards her husband's liking for the new and loathing the old. Even though she locked Qin Lou with smoke, she still kept her marriage. "Wuling people are far away, smoke locks the heavy building" seems to be just a small episode in Li Qingzhao's marriage, which did not cause much disturbance.Following the sound of iron hooves from the golden men, the husband and wife joined the team fleeing south, and he finally took her hand back.