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Chapter 39 Ming Renzong——Zhu Gaochi

Zhu Gaochi (1378-1425), the eldest son of Chengzu Zhu Di.Chengzu made many expeditions to the north and ordered him to supervise the country as the crown prince.Historical records: Zhu Gaochi was young and quiet, and his words moved with scriptures.Good at riding and shooting, with a hundred shots and a hundred hits.Very knowledgeable.After ascending the throne, he built a Hongwen Museum outside the Sishan Gate in the capital, and talked about classics and history with Confucian officials all day long.Reigned for only one year, died, and was buried in Xianling (now Changping County, Beijing).The temple name is Renzong, and the posthumous title is Emperor Xiaozhao.

Zhu Gaochi is good at diction, and he is open-minded to study. There are two volumes of "Yu Zhi Ji". Lin Qiu wants to retreat when the smoke is on the frost, but when the rouge is blown off, he still feels the westerly wind is tender.
①One inch: refers to the heart.The ancients said that the heart is a square inch of land, so it is called. ② Shame: Abbreviation of "the face of shame".The ancients described a woman's beauty as "the face of a closed moon and shameful flowers". It is already late autumn in the "smoke and frost forest", so it is said that "autumn is about to recede", but the bright red crabapple flowers are blooming with smiles, and the bright red flowers are open to the wind, making the westerly wind seem soft and weak. "Since ancient times, every autumn has been sad and lonely" (Liu Yuxi's poem), the court ladies "the weather is cold and the green sleeves are thin", timid the autumn wind, and worrying about the dusk. The word "who passed it on" contains infinite hope and disappointment.

In the first film, Begonia opens in the westerly wind, and describes the lonely mood of the court ladies at dusk in late autumn. This kind of loneliness, this kind of inner sorrow and resentment, will inevitably cause a lot of worries and thoughts, and you can't be yourself.The bright moon rises, shining on the beautiful crabapple flowers, but these court ladies who "close the moon and shame the flowers" can only lean on the flower trees tiredly, reviewing the pain of homesickness and the sorrow and hatred of life experience.As the author of the prince, I was also bored at this time. "Spin picking", that is, picking casually, reveals the author's state of mind at this time, and it seems that the melancholy of being helpless to pass the autumn night is showing in leisure. "Drunk leaning against the shadow of flowers in the small lanai", I want to use wine to relieve my worries and boredom. After drunk, I lean on the small lanai, and the shadow of begonia flowers is close to my eyes. In the haze of drunkenness, it is suspected that the spring breeze has broken the rouge, but when I think about it carefully, spring is still far away. "Should not", that is, "no", the flowers bloom at this time, not because of the fate of the spring breeze first.

The next film is about picking flowers and hairpins, leaning on the small corridor to watch the flowers drunk, thinking of the melancholy that the spring breeze is still far away. The poetry of chanting things is to express the author's mind through the things chanted.The ancients also chanted Begonia, such as Su Shi's "Begonia" poem, which chanted the spring Begonia: "The east wind is misty and the Chongguang, the fragrance and mist are empty and the moon is turning around the corridor. I am afraid that the flowers will fall asleep late at night, so I burn high candles to illuminate the red makeup." Expression. It is the feeling of cherishing spring, which is very simple, obvious, and straightforward.Of course, what the author cherishes also includes all good and beautiful things. "Butterfly Love Flower·September Begonia" is written as Begonia, which blooms facing the westerly wind, and will also endure the ravages of the westerly wind.The feelings conveyed by the author through her are not so clear at a glance.

Renzong was the eldest son of Chengzu, who had been the crown prince for a long time and died one year after ascending to the throne.After he was established as the crown prince, although he did acts of benevolence many times, the county kings Gao Xu and Gao Sui every day took the opportunity to slander him, making his crown prince status "on the brink of danger and doubts repeatedly".Although he verbally told people that he didn't know about slander and "only knew how to do his job", it was impossible for him not to be free from worries.As a prince, he couldn't express his worries clearly. "Butterfly Love Flower·September Begonia" expresses his state of mind very euphemistically.

The idea of ​​the word is novel.Literally, "rouge" and "green sleeves" are accompanied by delicate and beautiful women, and "bright moon" and "fine wine" make people intoxicated. It cannot be said that they are not beautiful.But in these beautiful beauties, people's "sorrow" is deep in the heart, and "hate" is endless.Judging from the selection of lyrics, a series of actions such as "picking flowers", "hairpin flowers", "drunken wine" and "leaning on the lanai" are all details of life in the palace.It is these little things that reflect the author's boredom and express deep melancholy seemingly inadvertently.The "shouldn't" sentence at the end points out the source of melancholy.The sustenance of words is not too deep.The words used in this word are rigorous and skillful, and the characters "po", "nen", "chuan" and "sheng" are all vivid and vivid.The rhythm is beautiful and the image is clear. In addition to the rouge-like begonia in the main body, the court ladies lined with emerald green sleeves, picking flowers under the bright moon, inserting temples, watching flowers from the small appendix, etc., all form a beautiful picture.Therefore, it is not an exaggeration for later generations to comment on this word as "juicy and beautiful" (Volume 10 of "Ci Hua" by Wang Yiqing of the Qing Dynasty).

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