The talented woman of the Ming DynastyShang Jinglan is no less legendary than the legendary poet Li Qingzhao.. However, everyone knows Li Qingzhao, but few know Shang Jinglan. In fact, the experiences of the two talented women are very similar.
Shang Jinglan was born in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty. She had a beautiful appearance, both political integrity and talent. She had a happy marriage for 25 years. Unexpectedly, her husband committed suicide later on, leaving her and her five children to depend on each other. But Shang Jinglan did not give up, but carefully raised and taught his children, creating a decades-long phenomenon of women writing poetry!
However, after being a widow for more than 30 years, she suffered heavy blows many times in her later years. Her children passed away one after another, so that in her later years at the age of 71, she all lamented: " The widow is so unfortunate! "!
Take a look at the legendary and sad life of the talented woman Shang Jinglan.
1: The love of the "golden boy and beautiful girl" in the apocalypse
In 1605 AD, Shang Jinglan was born in Kuaiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). This was a period of social turmoil and court changes in the late Ming Dynasty. It can be said that he was born in troubled times and at the wrong time.
Shang Jinglan's father Shang Zhouzuo was a Jinshi in the 29th year of Wanli . He served as the Shaowu county magistrate for 5 years. Because he was a man of integrity and incorruptible, he almost lost all the merchant's property.
At this time, unfortunately, the eldest daughter Shang Jinglan was born, and the family's life became more difficult, but Shang Zhouzuo never gave up on cultivating his daughter and taught her carefully. Shang Jinglan has been extremely intelligent and talented since childhood. She is proficient in poetry, poetry, music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She has a detached temperament and an open-minded mind at a young age.
Later, Shang Zhouzuo entered Beijing as an official. Shang Jinglan and his sister Shang Jinghui still did not give up studying poetry. Both sisters were talented and good at poetry and composition, and they were famous talented women from all over the country.
" is like its father, like its daughter "!
Because her father Shang Zhouzuo was an upright official, he did a lot of political affairs that benefited the country and the people, and was very popular among the people. Influenced by his father's integrity and honesty, Shang Jinglan's sisters had a dignified conduct and were quite praised .
Shang Jinglan, like talented women of all ages, was still constrained by traditional society despite her high talents. Therefore, Shang Jinglan's early creations were mostly about daily life or the interests of the boudoir, such as chanting flowers, such as "Ode to Pomegranate Flowers", "Picking Jasmine", "Ode to Lotus", etc.
Let's take a look at "Ode to the Lotus" and see Shang Jinglan's early fresh, elegant and soft brushstrokes and aesthetic taste.
Xiaoyuan Lotus are all red in color, and their fragrance is swaying in the blue pond.
It is always hard to stop the autumn frost from rising, spreading the evening breeze in front of people.
Soon, Shang Jinglan grew into a slim and beautiful girl. In 1620, at the age of 16, she had reached the age of marriage.
His father, Zuo of Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Imperial Inspectorate , served as the censor of the capital, and patrolled Fujian to resist Japanese invasion. Therefore, when he left office, the Fujian people built a shrine for him, which was praised by the world. This year, 16-year-old Shang Jinglan also found her husband's wife.
Her husband's husband, Qi Biaojia, is the son of the famous bibliophile Qi Chengshun. . Qi Biaojia himself is also an elegant and talented person who has a successful career in his early years.
In this way, one is extremely beautiful and talented; the other is personable and extremely literary . Shang Jinglan and Qi Biaojia, are a pair of talents and beautiful women made in heaven.
After the two got married, they were loving and respectful to each other. They were very happy and happy. They were very compatible in terms of life interest and poetry and singing. Because of the deep love between the couple and the harmony of the piano and the harp, they were praised by the world as the " golden boy and beautiful girl ".
The couple lived happily for 5 years and gave birth to two sons and three daughters. It is said that this kind of family happiness, where a husband and wife love each other and have children in groups, is the most beautiful thing in the world.
However, it seems that " is not as good as ".The couple's happy marriage only lasted 25 years before it came to a tragic ending.
2: The husband committed suicide for his country, provoking the heavy responsibility of the family.
1 In 1645, the second year after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Qing troops captured Nanjing. As early as 1644, when Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan, Shang Jinglan persuaded her husband to resign from the court, and for this reason, " I will be blessed in front of the Buddha".
In fact, as a woman, most people do not have that personal experience of the feelings of family and country. After all, there are very few talented women with integrity like Liu Rushi who can think of committing suicide with their husbands . At this time, Shang Jinglan was thinking more about the couple returning home.
However, under the overthrow, how can the egg be finished?
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Qing people employed their husbands as officials with generous remuneration. However, Qi Biaojia would rather die than maintain his integrity, and did not want to serve in the second dynasty or be used by the Qing people. Therefore, in early June 16455 committed suicide in the pond of his Meihua Pavilion!
Such unyielding integrity is admirable!
For this reason, Shang Jinglan’s happy married life came to an abrupt end!
When the country is broken, it is also the time when a partner dies. Such a double blow is really too heavy for Shang Jinglan. She could only express her grief in writing. For this reason, she wrote a poem "Mourning" to commemorate her husband who was a countryman.
You will live forever, but I will still love you for the rest of my life.
The monarch and his ministers are all important, and children are also humane.
Zhishen’s past events during his lifetime, and his monument’s name after his death.
Life and death follow different paths, and purity and innocence complement each other.
Although the death of a husband for his country is a feat that will be remembered for generations, as a woman, even a talented woman with extraordinary knowledge will inevitably grieve for the loss of her dear spouse.
However, the deceased is gone, so we cannot continue to grieve for the deceased. After all, Shang Jinglan still has five children to teach. The children have lost their father, and they cannot lose their mother again. Therefore, the death of her husband did not knock Shang Jinglan down .
After that, Shang Jinglan understood the righteousness deeply, took up the important task of educating his children, and took care of all the housework, including presiding over the Qi family poetry meeting. She believed that it was her greatest responsibility to teach her children to grow up through poetry and books, and to continue the legacy of her husband's family. For this reason, she created a Qimen female Xiwen poetry writing phenomenon that lasted for decades.
For this reason, Shang Jinglan often led his son, daughter-in-law, and daughters to learn poems and songs and sing to each other. On the one hand, it was to generate family cohesion and maintain the family; on the other hand, it was to form a new family tradition through poetry gatherings. After all, a good family tradition is the best inheritance of a family.
I have to say that this family tradition has a huge impact on the family.
The two sons born to Shang Jinglan and her husband, Qi Lisun and Qi Bansun, later became famous bibliophiles and poets . The two daughters-in-law were also famous for their poetry. Not only that, Shang Jinglan’s three daughters also have profound literary accomplishments.
Therefore, the Qi family founded a poetry and literary group for women in the Qi family headed by Shang Jinglan, and Shang Jinglan enjoyed it. Historical records of the Qi family:
"Every day when I come here, my daughter-in-law will carry a pen, bed and inkstone with her, and rhyme and topic, which will become a great event for a while."
It is said that everything is developing for the better, but a person's life will not be smooth sailing. Instead, he will experience various hardships and ups and downs, and the same is true for Shang Jinglan.
3: Poetry and the distance to spend the rest of your life, "the widow is unfortunate to be here"
Due to Shang Jinglan's guidance on literature for women of the Qi family, the literary talents of her and her daughters and daughters-in-law were rapidly improved, and their reputation quickly spread among literati, and they became famous.
Under this style of writing, even talented women such as Huang Yuanjie of Jiaxing "Lin Xia Feng" who "has been responsible for the reputation of poetry for decades" came to visit him and became his confidant. Even male poets admired it. This is indeed rare.
Therefore, the poetry activities pioneered by Shang Jinglan can be said to have created an excellent trend of gathering and chanting in boudoirs in the Qing Dynasty.
In this way, Shang Jinglan spent the rest of his widowed life with poetry and distance. This life lasted for more than 30 years. But did not expect that this stable life would be interrupted.
In Shang Jinglan's later years, she suffered many heavy blows one after another. This time the blow was even heavier. She lost several close relatives.
In 1662, the 63-year-old Shang Jinglan lost her daughter Deqiong. In the same year, the second son Bansun was exiled to Ninggu Tower . This was a serious crime worse than death and was called " hell on earth ". The eldest son Lisun died of depression because of this.
Later, although the second son Bansun escaped from Ninggu Pagoda three years later, he became a monk and severed all ties with his family. He eventually died six years later.
Therefore, Shang Jinglan lost three children one after another in his later years. For a mother, it is the most tragic thing in the world for a mother to have a white-haired person give up a black-haired person!!
Therefore, in 1676, when the 71-year-old Shang Jinglan looked back on his life experience, he lamented with emotion: "The widow is unfortunate enough to be here "!
Soon after, Shang Jinglan passed away at the age of 71, completing her tragic and desolate life. Compared with her husband and children, she lived a long life.
With the death of Shang Jinglan, the prosperity of women's poetry writing that she advocated also disappeared. It is indeed a pity.
is written at the end.
Shang Jinglan is known as the talented woman of the Ming Dynasty who has passed the time. She is the author of "Jiangbao Ji", which contains 67 poems, 94 words, 3 posthumous poems and 1 posthumous essay. Through these spiritual poems written more than 300 years ago, we have a glimpse of the peerless talents and joys and sorrows of a generation of talented women.
However, looking back at the life of the talented woman Shang Jinglan, it is inevitable to shed tears.
She was happy in the first half of her life, with a loving father and a happy marriage to her husband for 25 years; however, the second half of her life was miserable. She lost her husband in middle age and remained a widow for more than 30 years and worked hard to raise her children. Unexpectedly, lost her children in her later years and suffered the pain of losing flesh and blood one after another.
Shang Jinglan's life has been full of ups and downs, including joy, sadness, loss and hope. It can be said that she has experienced all the ups and downs.
A famous person once said: "It is not enough to talk about life if you have not experienced crying late at night."
So what Shang Jinglan experienced may be the real life. But in Shang Jinglan's later years, she still lamented " unfortunately ", which shows that life is really hard sometimes!
But there is no doubt that in the days when she spent the rest of her life with poetry and distant places, Shang Jinglan understood the righteousness and was very strong. She led the Qi family to create a family style and raise their children through poetry. It was such a grand occasion and famous far and wide, which was quite difficult for a woman.
Therefore, despite the ups and downs of life, just go with the flow calmly. In life, as long as you work hard, it will be enough!
Finally, I would like to encourage everyone: life is too short and time is too long. Keep a calm mind, face the things that come and think about them calmly. Use the lightest thoughts to interpret the rough life ! What do you think of
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