Since ancient times, talented people and beautiful women have been a perfect match. However, the foundation of this emotional match is naturally a family background or wealth that can be relied on. Only in the quiet years can the relationship be safe and sound, and we can grow old together.
A generation of talented women
Once a relationship is tested by the vagaries of the world, no matter how sincere the relationship is, it seems that it cannot withstand the vagaries of the world. Human nature always fails to withstand trials and tests. If they can survive all kinds of hardships safely, they can stay together for a lifetime. If not, they will part ways and never see each other again.
Li Qingzhao was one of the few strange women in ancient history who dared to love and hate. After all, in ancient feudal society, women had a low status and were mostly men's accessories. Therefore, women were required to obey three virtues and four concubines, while men had three wives and four concubines. Life is depressing and painful.
Li Qingzhao is a special case. First of all, she was fortunate to be born in the Song Dynasty when folk customs were relatively open, women had a relatively high status, and they could pursue careers. In addition, Li Qingzhao's parents are very open-minded and do not hesitate to educate their daughter, so they have cultivated a daughter with such a temperament.
On March 13, 11084, Li Qingzhao was born in Zhangqiu, Song Dynasty Qizhou. The Li family had served as officials in the imperial court for generations, and they were all civil servants. Over time, the Li family became a people who loved literature and art through the accumulation of several generations. The family of scholar-bureaucrats.
Almost everyone in the family loves literature, which created a good literary environment for Li Qingzhao, allowing her to be exposed to poetry and poetry from a young age, and she also became interested in poetry and poetry.
Moreover, the Song Dynasty was a dynasty that valued civil servants over military military officers. It was a dynasty with talented people and arty people. Literary hobbies were popular in the social atmosphere. From the officials of the current court to the small households, they all liked to recite poems and write poems.
Therefore, officials who hold important responsibilities in the government are almost all civilian officials, such as Wang Anshi , Su Shi and the like. Li Qingzhao's father, Li Gefei, , was a student of Su Shi and served as a minister of rites in the court.
Li Gefei studied under Su Shi, so he was naturally proficient in all kinds of poems and songs. He had extremely high literary literacy. He had countless books at home, including many unique inscriptions and poems. Li Qingzhao's mother was also a young lady from a well-known family, and was the daughter of the current prime minister.
Li Qingzhao’s mother was very talented. She was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was good at calligraphy. Li Qingzhao naturally inherited the good genes of his parents. In addition, he lived in a family with a strong literary atmosphere. His parents guided him, influenced him through his ears and his family education, and cultivated his outstanding literary talent and talent.
Li Gefei was very open-minded and did not think that it was virtue for a woman to be without talent. The entire cultural atmosphere of the Song Dynasty cultivated many talented women. Li Qingzhao was sent to a private school to study when he was a child, which laid a solid foundation for his literary foundation and literacy, and laid a solid foundation for his future literary path.
Li Qingzhao also doesn’t like the female celebrities that most women like. When she has nothing to do, she often hides alone in the bookcase at home and reads silently. This is the happiest time for her, and she never feels lonely or bored.
Although she was a young lady from a wealthy family, Li Qingzhao never paid much attention to her external appearance. She always dressed casually and plainly, mainly in plain colors. She never wore jewelry or jade, but occasionally wore pearls and jade earrings. embellishment.
As time goes by, Li Qingzhao's temperament has accumulated. He has a poetic and scholarly temperament. He has a literary and artistic temperament, is knowledgeable and reasonable, and has a superior temperament. He has become a unique existence among women of his age.
Li Qingzhao also began to try to write poems and poems. She could often write stunning and elegant poems. Her talent was beyond the reach of ordinary people's hard work. Her talents gradually emerged, and her reputation as a talented woman spread far and wide.
Only people in Zhangqiu, Qizhou knew that Li Gefei had a very talented daughter. Li Qingzhao gradually became well-known in the Song Dynasty, a talented woman who was stunning in ancient and modern times. This was because her family moved to Bianjing, the political center of the Song Dynasty.
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When Li Qingzhao was 17 years old, Li Gefei was recommended by his teacher Su Shi to serve in the court. After his official promotion, Li Gefei also moved his family from Zhangqiu, Qizhou to Bianjing.
As the capital of the Song Dynasty, Bianjing was naturally very prosperous and lively, which was very different from Zhangqiu.
At a young age, Li Qingzhao was fascinated by the prosperous world in front of him, and he couldn't help but marvel in his heart. Therefore, Li Qingzhao expressed his feelings and thoughts.
She wrote a poem " is like a dream, ". Once this poem came out, it immediately attracted the admiration and appreciation of a large number of literature lovers in Bianjing, who believed that Li Qingzhao was the most talented woman rarely encountered in the ages.
After the reputation of the talented woman spread, she also became a bargaining chip for Li Qingzhao when he was engaged. It happened that Li Qingzhao was 18 years old and at the age of getting engaged. Li Gefei was a newly promoted official in the court and was deeply loved by the emperor. This upstart was very popular.
Therefore, people who come to the Li family to propose marriage have crossed the threshold. Whether it is the royal family, a large family, or a civilian family, marriages are all about the right person, the order of the parents, and the words of the matchmaker.
Therefore, even a woman with a free and easy temperament like Li Qingzhao cannot make the decision on her own in matters of marriage, and must still obey her parents' arrangements. Fortunately, Li Qingzhao is not too rebellious about marriage and pursues true love.
After all, women in ancient times still had relatively traditional and conservative thoughts, and everything was decided by their parents. Li Gefei loved his daughter very much, and he was not a person who pursued fame, fortune, and wealth, so he was very cautious about his daughter's future husband.
After much selection, Li Gefei took a fancy to Zhao Mingcheng, the son of the Minister of Rites of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Mingcheng is only 21 years old and a very talented young man. He is currently studying at Taiyuan University.
Whether it is the family background of the two families or the age of Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng, they are very similar. What's more, the two of them have common interests and hobbies, and both love literature very much. They are a good match made in heaven.
In the first year of the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, 18-year-old Li Qingzhao married 21-year-old Zhao Mingcheng and started their married life. The two were very happily married. Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng did not live in the Zhao family, but lived alone in a house outside.
Zhao Mingcheng was still a student at Taiyuan College at this time. The two of them lived alone and could not rely on the Zhao family. Moreover, the Zhao family and the Li family are both honest and honest official families. Most of the literati are honest, but their property is not rich, and they are not very wealthy.
Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao still lived in poverty after they got married. Li Qingzhao's natal family often supported the two of them to supplement their household income. Zhao Mingcheng has to live and study in Taiyuan University on weekdays. Only on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year can he take leave to go home to visit Li Qingzhao and reunite his wife.
Although Zhao Mingcheng is poor, he also attaches great importance to the sense of ceremony. For him, when he goes home, he must bring some gifts to Li Qingzhao.
Since he had no money, Zhao Mingcheng could only pawn his clothes every time in exchange for some money, and then go to the very lively Xiangguo Temple market behind Taiyue College to buy the inscriptions and some fruits that both he and Li Qingzhao liked, and take them back to eat and enjoy. .
Although they are poor, Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng are very happy with their married life. Perhaps they did not expect that even this ordinary life of frugality and poverty would become a luxury in the future.
Duckweed in Troubled Times
Sometimes what seems like an inconspicuous and ordinary life is actually the rarest of days. This period of time is also the most comfortable and happy time for Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng to be together, and it will no longer exist in the future.
A court that values civil servants over military ministers can be imagined to have huge risks and crises. Without military attaches to defend the country on the frontier, the country is prone to instability.
The court where most of the civil servants are civilians is also full of factions, and there are constant battles. Each faction wants to firmly control the political power in their own hands.
Moreover, Huizong of the Song Dynasty was a "good old man". He had a generous and benevolent personality and was extremely tolerant. The emperor's unclear attitude also led to more intense fighting between civil servants in the court.
It seems to be a coincidence, it seems that there is a trick of fate. Li Qingzhao's father, Li Gefei, and Zhao Mingcheng's father, Zhao Ting, belong to different factions, so their political interests are involved.
Li Gefei belonged to the teacher Su Shi's faction. During the struggle between the old and new parties, after Su Shi's accident, Li Gefei was also falsely accused and imprisoned. Although he was not executed, the Li family was sent to a bitter cold land.
At the same time, Zhao Tingzhi's official career was extremely smooth. He was promoted all the way and became Shangshu Zuocheng , a high-power position. Li Qingzhao was eager to save his father, so he put down his body and asked his father-in-law Zhao Tingzhi for help. Zhao Tingzhi rejected Li Qingzhao's request for the sake of his political career.
And as the case fermented, the struggle between the various parties in the court became more and more intense, each wanting to kill the other party. Li Gefei's crime of being a "Yuanyou Party member" was actually implicated in Li Qingzhao.
Li Qingzhao was forced to separate from her husband Zhao Mingcheng, and was exiled with the Li family. At this time, Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng had only been married for a year. They were originally newlyweds, but they did not want to suffer such an accident and were forced to separate.
After the Li family got through the difficulties, the Zhao family failed again in the factional struggle, and Prime Minister Cai Jing slandered the Zhao family. Zhao Tingzhi was dismissed from his official position and died of depression.
Li Qingzhao followed the Zhao family into exile in Qingzhou and began a pastoral life in the countryside. During this period of peace and tranquility, they did not have to worry about any party struggles, and the two concentrated on creating.
However, Zhao Mingcheng was reinstated within a few years. When he was guarding Jiangning, he later died of illness due to war and other factors, leaving only Li Qingzhao alone.
In troubled times, it is difficult for a woman to live alone. The large truck Li Qingzhao was carrying, most of the calligraphy, painting, inscriptions and property collected by her and Zhao Mingcheng were also stolen on the way.
Li Qingzhao, who was exhausted physically and mentally, met Zhang Ruzhou who was greedy for her property. Zhang Ruzhou disguised himself well at first, making Li Qingzhao, who was wandering in the war, mistakenly think that he had found support.
After marriage, Zhang Ruzhou revealed his true colors, it was just for property and domestic violence against Li Qingzhao. Li Qingzhao did not hesitate to divorce Zhang Ruzhou even if he went to jail.
With the help of the Li family, the original three years of prison life was reduced to 9 days. After coming out of prison, Li Qingzhao also saw through the vicissitudes of the world, no longer placed hope on others, and wanted to live well by himself.
Later, Li Qingzhao had a sudden idea and came up with a couplet: Lonely and cold, widowed in an empty window . She even declared to the outside world that as long as she could match this couplet, she would marry anyone regardless of their origin.
However, it was not until ten years after Li Qingzhao's death that a plain-looking coachman wrote the following line: Far and near reaches Xiaoyao . However, the two obviously had no connection and missed their marriage.
