1. Female seamstress
Chen Yuanyuan Their parents were originally from Benniu Town, Changzhou. Their father was Chen Yushu. They picked up a pair of sugar burlap and started the business of replacing scrap copper, rotten iron and rag heads. He is the youngest in the clan, and everyone calls him "change candy A Xiao", but the big one is forgotten.
The first year of Tianqi Changzhou has flooded, and Benniu Town is also full of ocean. A Xiao took his wife He Qiaogu to flee to Kunshan and defected to his sister Xing Chen.
Brother-in-law Xing Abao works as a clerk in a hotel next to Baozang Temple in Taohuawu, Suzhou. After the restaurant closed, he moved to the south gate to work as a cooking chef for an oil mill. He rarely goes home all year round. Xing Chen lives in Bendu Village, Wai Pindu Village, Lizemen, Kunshan. He set up a sewing stall at home and relies on the girl to make a living.
Change sugar A Xiao got married to Pendu Village and found that this small village in Kuwai was close to the foot of the city. The back pillow flowed from Suzhou through Taicang in Loujiang . The water and land transportation are very convenient, there are many pedestrians passing by, and the location is quite lively. Therefore, just by a lotus pond at the entrance of the village, two thatched huts were built, with tall apricot curtains, and a small hotel was opened to make a living.
Later, He Qiaogu was in confinement and raised a little girl. It is said that on the day the girl was born, a feathered pheasant flew over the hotel room and cried away three times. In the lotus pond opposite, there is a withered lotus resurrected, and a and pedestal lotus is opened.
suddenly attracted the people of the city to come and watch it, and they all thought it was a strange sign. The little girl's nickname was called "pheasant". She was born with beautiful appearance and elegant temperament since she was a child.
When he was five years old, his parents died one after another. Fortunately, his aunt Xing Chen was kind-hearted and took the girl by his side and raised her as an adopted daughter. When the girl grew up, she learned to have good needlework, cutting, making, embroidery and sewing from her aunt, and she quickly became a skilled female sewing worker.
People in Bandu Village used to call the girl the little tailor of the Xing family, and the girl followed her uncle's surname and named it Wanfen.
On a day, the magistrate of Kunshan invited the Xing family to make clothes at the mansion. Xing Wanfen did not dare to neglect and made several sets of clothes for Yang Zhixian's family very seriously. They tried on them all, and the stitches were even and dense. The wife and the lady had a good impression of Xing Wanfen. With the approval of Yang Magistrate Yang, it was said that Xing Chen went to the mansion to give a lecture, so that Xing Wanfen would stay in the mansion, accompany the lady to teach the girl, and accompany each other to recite poetry and books. The ICBC was the best every month and would never be a maid.
Soon after, Wanfen's aunt died of illness again. She was lonely and Madam Yang became old and adopted her. In addition to threading needles and threading with the lady, Xing Wanfen also read a lot of poetry and books with the lady and gained a lot of knowledge. She even recited poems and wrote lyrics.
At that time, Kunqu was very popular in Kunshan. Many palace gentry, merchants, poets and friends loved to hum children to show their elegance and elegance. Some scholars with similar interests also organized the "Draw Qu" club, which was named "Mingfeng", "Cinhe", and "Qin Song" and other club names. They gathered together every time, played and sang, and called it "doing the same period".
Yang Magistrate Yang, who loves art and elegance, also organized a "Yufeng" music filming club in the county government. He often invites members to "do the same period" in the flower hall.
Mrs. Yang often took her lady and Xing Wanfen to sit behind the screen and listen to music, and sometimes she even learned to sing and recreation in the inner hall. The magistrate was flute, the wife beat the fist, and the lady and Xing Wanfen sang loudly. With Xing Wanfen's wise and natural golden voice, she was highly appreciated by Yang Magistrate. Whenever there were banquets in the yamen, she often asked Xing Wanfen to sing a few songs.
Xing Bufen's reputation of singing Kunqu opera gradually spread. Her singing voice was round and smooth, just like a oriole singing, and she gave her a nickname - Yuanyuan. She returned to her original surname, and people called her Chen Yuanyuan.
2. The poet of the wonderful couplet
Taicang poet Wu Weiye was summoned to Beijing in the 12th year of Chongzhen . When passing through Kunshan, the magistrate Yang Yongyan held a banquet at Cuiwei Pavilion in Ma'anshan.
Walking to the place where you drink, Yang Yongyan ordered Chen Yuanyuan, who was fostered in the mansion, to sing Kunqu opera impromptu. Wu Weiye was moved by Chen Yuanyuan's voice and expression, so he actually fell in love with her and wanted to take her as a concubine and take her to Beijing. Yang Yongyan saw Wu Weiye’s thoughts, so he flattered and recommended Chen Yuanyuan to Weiye.
Chen Yuanyuan was only sixteen years old at the time, while Wu Weiye was already thirty-one. How could a girl in her teens willingly marry a man in her thirties? If you express your unwillingness on the spot, you may be afraid of being adopted by the magistrate. I had no choice but to board the official ship with Wu Weiye and sailed west.
When the boat arrived in Suzhou, Chen Yuanyuan remembered that her uncle Xing Abao made a living as a chef in an oil mill in Suzhou. It would be better to try to get rid of Wu Weiye and return to her uncle.
She came up with a solution and said to Wu Weiye: "I want to go ashore to meet my uncle."
Wu Weiye let her go. After a while, Chen Yuanyuan returned to the boat and refused, "My uncle knows you are a famous poet. He wants to come up with a couplet to test you. If he can match it, the old man agrees to marry me to you. If he doesn't, the old man doesn't agree to me going to Beijing. Therefore, please give up your hand and let me go back to my uncle."
Wu Weiye thought: A little chef must have only oil and water in his stomach and nodded and asked her to come out. Chen Yuanyuan named the first couplet of the bridges in Kunshan City, which had three bridges in his hometown, Jiufang Bridge, Tonghe Bridge and Wuwei Bridge:
Jiufang Bridge and the river are not bad;
Wu Weiye could not have imagined that such a strange and erotic couplet would come up with, but he couldn't answer it for a while.
Chen Yuanyuan's wonderful couplet stumped the poet Wu Weiye, and he said goodbye with a smile. However, Wu Weiye did not give up. After arriving in Beijing, he wrote letters to the famous Kunshan scholars Guizhuang and Gu Yanwu for advice. The two of them also struggled to answer, and it was once the absolute in Kunshan.
After more than ten years, in order to write the long poem " Yuanyuanqu ", Wu Weiye came to Kunshan again in the sixth year of Shunzhi to collect and visit Chen Yuanyuan's life in Kunshan.
Accompanied by Guizhuang, he visited many scholars in Kunshan and became familiar with many streets and alleys in Kunshan City. He suddenly remembered the first couplet that Chen Yuanyuan stumped him back then. He used the three alleys in Kunshan City, one Guo Lao Lane, the butler's lane, and the Dongtaiping lane - a couplet, and wrote the second couplet:
Guo Lao Lane Dongtaiping.
is called Xianren Zhang Guo, the old housekeeper, and of course the boss is in peace.
The two of them laughed with their hands, happy to make up this wonderful couplet. This couplet has been passed down to this day and is a beautiful story.
3. Rouge Beauty Mole
Chen Yuanyuan is elegant and simple in nature, and she is at ease in dealing with the world and dresses in a simple and clean manner. The black hair is combed with Japanese-fallen sauce without inserting gold and silver; the pure melon-shaped face has no smell of powder. But there was a rouge beauty mole on the top of the left cheek. This mole is actually the crux of the scar, a sarcoma scar the size of half a grain of rice.
In order to reject Wu Weiye's desire to take a concubine, Chen Yuanyuan devoted herself to living in the life of Xing Abao, a chef in Suzhou.
After someone instigated him, he became a famous actor in Jinshi Lane, Shen Tianhong, but was hired by a opera troupe to sing opera before he could finish his career.
Suzhou, a prosperous place in Jiangnan, had long had acting activities, but until the end of the Ming Dynasty , there was no theater in the city that had begun to take shape. Audiences have always been used to watching open-air plays, and some performed on an open ship, called "scroll opera". The audience hired a ship called "Shafei" or "Niu Tongue" to watch the show around the "rolling tip". There is also a small boat in the shape of melon-shaped skin to travel and ferry for the audience, and this kind of boat is called the "Danghu Boat". Chen Yuanyuan often appears on performances. Every time she appears, the audience will applaud her with thunderous applause, applauding her outstanding voice and acting skills.
However, under the reputation, it can sometimes be troubled or troubled.
Once, Chen Yuanyuan sang the "Shit Play" in Huqiu, two shows day and night. In the masculine drama "The Story of the White Rabbit", Chen Yuanyuan plays Li Sanniang, and in the night scene "The Story of the West Chamber", Chen Yuanyuan plays the matchmaker. The madonnaary scene had just ended, and Chen Yuanyuan was removing her makeup in the back cabin. An official in the city sent a servant and a Qingke to pass on the message, asking Chen Yuanyuan to go to the government office to sing at the evening.
Chen Yuanyuan is like going to the official house, and the "Shusband Opera" nightclub will not be able to sing it. And the boss of the theater has already taken Bao Yin, how can he become a temporary cheat? The boss refused Chen Yuanyuan to go to the concert, but offended the official family and the disaster was about to come.
Chen Yuanyuan finally decided to stay and sing "The West Chamber".As soon as the show started, the official's son led a group of slaves to cause trouble, grabbed broken bricks, mud and stones on the spot, and threw them into the "rolling show" boat like meteors. A good show made three tanks of clear water and six tanks of mud, and the performance was forced to be interrupted.
The official young master vented his anger on Chen Yuanyuan, directing his servants to aim at her and throw them together, threatening to throw her to relieve her hatred.
Chen Yuanyuan's beautiful jade body became the target of public criticism. A stone flew over to hit the left cheek, cutting through the hole that was more than an inch long. Her face was full of blood, and she immediately fell on the cabin in pain. Fortunately, two martial artists came over and rescued her from danger, so that she could save her life.
Although Chen Yuanyuan was saved, her face was very strong. Even if the wound healed again, a scar would definitely be left on her face, and the beauty would be destroyed.
Her teacher Shen Tianhong rushed over and took out a secret recipe he had collected for many years to treat her.
This secret recipe was passed down from the Palace of the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. Sun Quan 's son Sun and danced a sword once, but accidentally injured his wife Deng's cheek. The wound was deep and big, and blood stained the silk shirt red. He quickly sent someone to invite Hua Tuo to treat it. Hua Tuo used an extremely precious medicine - the spinal cord of white otter, and added cinnabar, amber and other medicinal materials to make it into powder and applied to the wound. It was indeed very effective and it took effect soon.
After Mrs. Deng's wound was healed, her cheeks were not only without any scars, but also became more and more red, white and cute. Shen Tianhong found this medicine from a monk in Lingyan Mountain to cure his wife's face stabbed by a lake bandit more than ten years ago.
He used the remaining medicine powder to relieve Chen Yuanyuan's critical injury. However, this medicine powder has gradually failed due to its long life. After applying it to the injured area, the medicine is insufficient and the injury recovers slowly. When new muscles are proliferated, the wound contracts into a tumor scar the size of half a grain of rice, which can no longer be eliminated.
4. Subordinate
There was a very strict etiquette in the Ming Dynasty, and scholars and officials could not marry brothel prostitutes.
Chen Yuanyuan was neglected and became a " Qinhuai Eight Beauty " and became an artist of Nanqu who did not sell her skills. Therefore, he did not settle the home.
She was found by Tian Hong when she went to Maopijiang to see the appointment of Dangui in Huqiu, and bought her and another singer Gu Shou into Beijing for 2,000 taels of silver.
After Chen Yuanyuan and Gu Shou arrived in Beijing, they were sent to the palace by Tian Hongyu, and were incorporated into the palace female musician, living in Lonely Yongxiang.
Once, Emperor Chongzhen received a good news from the general officer of Liaodong Liaodong Wu Sangui , and reported that he had led the army to Shanhaiguan and fought a battle with the Qing soldiers who invaded Jielingkou , beheading thousands of enemies and retreating hundreds of miles away. This was the first victory since Songshan fell.
Chongzhen felt a little happy when he saw the play, and said that the female musician was singing. Chongzhen wanted to know how to use his own lyrics and music and self-singing female music to accompany him. Only Chen Yuanyuan met the unique conditions and was summoned to Shangyuan.
When Chongzhen saw the wonderful face of this Kunshan girl with a rouge beauty mole, he couldn't help but ask, "When will you enter the palace?"
"I have been in office for more than a month." Chen Yuanyuan lowered her head and replied.
"Oh, is it the female musician presented by Mr. Tian to the palace?"
"That's right."
"Okay, I'll play and sing for me."
Chen Yuanyuan has already considered the songs he has filled in recently, so she chose one or two to sing them.
After hearing this, Chongzhen said, "I have three unique colors, skills, and talents, and I have occupied all the spring branches of the world. I can be called the leader of all flowers, and I have a generation of red makeup!"
Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly knelt down to thank him, and then thought: Although I have three unique colors, skills, and talents, my life is as thin as paper. I live in Yongxiang . When will I succeed? A layer of sadness was shrouded on his face.
"Your dear sings again." Chongzhen ordered.
Chen Yuanyuan plucked the strings and sang a song again.
"Your dear sings his heart, and he is a soulmate." Chongzhen interrupted Chen Yuanyuan's singing and sighed, "I and you are both poor people!"
Chongzhen asked again how Chen Yuanyuan was selected into the palace and wanted to accept her as a concubine. Unexpectedly, Chen Yuanyuan revealed her miserable life experience. Not only was she born in a humble background, but she was first born in the Liyuan family and then became a singing girl. Now she was sold to the palace as a female musician. All three misfortunes fell on her.
Chongzhen heard this and issued an order, "You are young and commendable. You are kind enough to be a good person. You can leave the palace. If you have no support in the capital, you will stay in the Tian Mansion."
Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly thanked him, but knelt on the ground and did not get up, tears fell like rain. Chongzhen asked, "Do you don't want to leave the palace?" It turned out that Chen Yuanyuan remembered another miserable sister Gu Shou, and asked Chongzhen to give up his grace and leave the palace together.
Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Gu Shou also left the palace to follow the good side."
months, Tian Hongyu took the two back to his house by orders. Later, Wu Sangui went to the Tian Mansion to attend a banquet and loved Chen Yuanyuan. He secretly investigated the story of Chen Yuanyuan's resignation in Qing Dynasty and then married him as his wife.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-