We chatted about the situation in the Ming Dynasty and the customs and customs without feeling bored, and we entered Suzhou unknowingly.
This is a city that is not inferior to Hangzhou at all.
Here, you can't feel the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty at all, and you can't feel the urgency of the situation at all. The life here is exquisite and comfortable, full of paradise style.
No one here is in a hurry, everyone is in a leisurely manner. Perhaps because of this, Suzhou has always been rich in talented people and beauties.
Ding Yunyi and his party arrived in Suzhou for the first time, and they didn't know where to find Wang Chengen. They just found an inn and settled down. Thinking about the beautiful scenery of Suzhou, they left the inn and walked all the way.
After walking for a while, I asked a passerby where the scenery was good nearby. The passerby looked at them and pointed forward: "In front is Taohuawu, but all foreign guests who come to Suzhou go there."
Wu Nong's soft words are very helpful to your ears.
"Taohuawu?" Ding Yunyi scratched his head: "I remembered a person and a poem."
"Third brother is talking about Tang Yin, right?" Qin Yun said with a smile.
Ding Yunyi also laughed: "It's Tang Yin. Tang Yin is Tang Jieyuan, known as 'the most romantic talent in the south of the Yangtze River'. You, Qin Yun, are Qin Jieyuan, and I'm afraid you're not as popular as Tang Jieyuan."
Qin Yun laughed "haha".
When we come to Taohuawu, there are many former gardens and residences, and gentry halls. Common people's houses are lined up in rows. Business workshops can be seen everywhere, the most prosperous of which is the New Year painting workshop.
Then I came to a New Year painting workshop. The painting was of a peach blossom tree, and there was a poem beside it, which was Tang Yin's famous "Song of Peach Blossom Temple":
"In Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, there is a Peach Blossom Fairy under the Peach Blossom Temple. The Peach Blossom Fairy plants peach trees and picks peach blossoms in exchange for wine money. When he is sober, he only sits in front of the flowers. When he is drunk, he comes to sleep under the flowers... If the flower wine is used
Competing with chariots and horses, how busy are we? Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others because they can’t see through it. There are no tombs of heroes from the Five Tombs, and there are no flowers, no wine, and hoeing in the fields.”
Qin Yun fell in love with the painting as soon as he saw it, and bought it immediately without negotiating the price with the boss.
When you come to Suzhou, you have to go to Taohuawu, and when you come to Taohuawu, you have to go to Liyuan, otherwise your visit will be in vain.
Several people entered the opera garden, and there was a sign hanging that was about to perform the Kunqu Opera "The Romance of the West Chamber", which is considered a famous drama.
I found a seat and sat down, and gave the waiter tea money. Looking around, I saw that the seats were full. If I had come a little later, there wouldn't even be a seat left.
Looking at the tea guests, all of them looked excited and expectant, not knowing what they were waiting for.
After a while, "The Romance of the West Chamber" officially started. Kun Opera Ding Yunyi and his brother could hardly understand it, but they thought it was very pleasant to listen to. It was like Wu Nong's soft words, which made people enjoy it greatly.
The person who plays Cui Yingying is a famous prostitute from Taohuawu with a very famous name, but the strange thing is that the tea guests don't seem to be interested in it at all.
"Matchmaker..." When "Cui Yingying" shouted this, the whole room burst into applause.
The matchmaker actually steals the limelight more than Cui Yingying? Ding Yunyi is just curious.
"The Romance of the West Chamber" originally tells the story of the death of the former Prime Minister Cui. His wife Zheng and her daughter Cui Yingying were taking her husband's coffin back to Hebei for a safe burial. However, they were blocked on the way and temporarily stayed at Pujiu Temple in Hezhong Prefecture. Cui Yingying was only nineteen years old.
A knitting girl, capable of poetry, calligraphy, and arithmetic. When her father was still alive, she had been betrothed to Zheng Heng, the eldest son of Zheng's nephew Zheng Shangshu. Later, scholar Zhang Sheng happened to meet the young lady and matchmaker who were playing outside the palace.
.The story of two people who fell in love with each other and finally got married with the help of a matchmaker.
In the story, Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying are the worthy male and female protagonists, and the matchmaker is a supporting role, but now it seems that the supporting role has the intention of replacing the protagonist.
When the matchmaker came up, the cheers were even louder, making the play unbearable.
The "matchmaker" opened her mouth and the whole place fell silent again.
The "matchmaker" applied a little pink powder, Ding Yunyi looked forward, and when it fell on the "matchmaker's" face, she suddenly felt that even Han Xiaoxiao was slightly inferior to her.
It's not the kind of breathtaking beauty, but as soon as I see her, I feel that all my worries will disappear with the wind. She is beautiful, extremely beautiful, but that is not the most important thing.
When you face her, you will feel that the world is so peaceful and your mood is so calm. No matter what kind of confusion you have, it will disappear without a trace because of her appearance.
"There are still such stunning women in the world."
This sentence was spoken by Qin Yun, Ye Dahai, and Xiao Yifeng at the same time.
At this time, everyone's thoughts were no longer on "The Romance of the West Chamber", but all on "The Matchmaker".
When the second song "Cui Yingying Listens to the Musical Opera at Night" was finished, everyone started shouting and shouting like crazy.
After a while, the madam came on stage and managed to calm everyone down:
"Today is my Yuanyuan's first appearance on stage..."
Round?
Ding Yunyi suddenly knew who this "matchmaker" was.
Her surname is Xing, her given name is Yuan, and she has the courtesy name Yuanyuan and Wanfen. Her mother died early and she was raised by her aunt Chen's family, so she changed her surname to Chen.
Chen Yuanyuan!
"Weeping and mourning, all the three armies are in mourning, but being angry at the crown will turn beauty into beauty!"
Chen Yuanyuan!
Although Chen Yuanyuan was far less handsome than Liang Hongyu, she charmed Wu Sangui, Liu Zongmin, Li Zicheng and the Dashun Dynasty with her beauty, and she also charmed countless men many years later.
Even if Li Zicheng lost to the Manchus, if Wu Sangui had not surrendered to Dorgon, the Manchus would have been at least decades late in entering the country. Chen Yuanyuan influenced others with her personal charm and changed history.
In the days that followed, Wu Sangui, who was known as a national thief, took Chen Yuanyuan as his spiritual support. He crossed the Yellow River from Shanxi, entered Tongguan, conquered Xi'an, defeated Li Chuang, settled in Yunnan, and drove Yongli away.
, made great contributions to the unification of China by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.
In fact, it is not necessary to shift all the blame to Chen Yuanyuan.
She is just a woman. She has no ability to really change history. Everything about her is passive. When has she ever taken control of her own destiny?
"The Qi of the Ming Dynasty was in disarray, and King Chuang raised an army to cause great turmoil. If Wu and Liu couldn't compete for the beauty, how could one hundred thousand Qing soldiers enter the pass?"
But almost everyone shifted the responsibility to Chen Yuanyuan, making her, a weak woman, take on responsibilities that she should not have had to bear in the first place.
Ding Yunyi finally met Chen Yuanyuan with his own eyes. How old was Chen Yuanyuan this year? Eleven? Or twelve? Ding Yunyi couldn't remember.
In his mind, the song "Linjiang Immortal Beauty Pain" about Chen Yuanyuan came up again:
"It is said that a beautiful city and a country are nothing more than a misfortune and beauty. How can you be happy when you have no owner? Just now, I burst into tears, and I shed tears again. The iron horse fights the world, the dynasties change, the king succeeds and the loser kills all his sons. Why do you have to bear the disaster with your daughter?"