What is the reason for Li Xiangjun's blood-splattered peach blossom fan?
For the name Li Xiangjun, the first time everyone heard of it was when introducing the famous opera writer Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan". There are twists and turns between Li Xiangjun and Hou FangyuThe Love StoryAs well as its unwavering pursuit of love and high national integrity, it moved the viewers very much.
There is a saying that goes well, "Art comes from life and is higher than life." Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" made him famous through the ages, but at the same time we need to know that this opera actually has historical archetypes. "Peach Blossom Fan" is based on the love story between Li Xiangjun, a famous prostitute in the Qin and Huai Dynasties, and Hou Fangyu, a child of the aristocratic family, when the regimes overlapped in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. In other words, although Li Xiangjun is a character in opera, in fact, there is such a person in history. And this person, like Li Xiangjun in "Peach Blossom Fan", is both color and art, and is loyal and patriotic.
Li Xiangjun was one of the "Qinhuai Eight Yan" who were active on the banks of the Qinhuai River during the alternation of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. She was originally a woman from a good family and a young lady from an official family. Jiazi was born in Wuzhai, Fengqiao, Changmen, Suzhou in the fourth year of the Ming Apocalypse. Her original surname was Wu. Her father was a military officer, and there were three siblings in the family, two older brothers and one younger sister. Later, because of the rape of Wei Zhongxian, his father was a Donglin party member, and he was a political enemy with the eunuch headed by Wei Zhongxian, so Li Xiangjun's father was convicted and imprisoned for the structure of the eunuch. After his father was imprisoned, misfortune befell Li Xiangjun's family. At that time, Li Xiangjun was eight years old, and after following Li Zhenli, he changed Wu to Li, and followed his adoptive mother Li Zhenli's surname, Li Xiang, and his name was Xiangjun. "Dance down the heart and moon of Yangliulou, and sing the bottom wind of the peach blossom fan." After Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" came out, Li Xiangjun also became famous in the world.
Li Xiangjun's adoptive mother, Li Liji, was generous and elegant. Under the influence of her adoptive mother, Li Liji was also quite chivalrous, so most of the guests of Meixianglou were literati and honest and loyal ministers. Li Xiangjun was the signature of Meixianglou, and she was strictly educated by Li Liji since she was a child. Not only were everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but silk bamboo, pipa, and poetry and rhythm were also easily accessible. Especially Li Xiangjun's playing and singing "Pipa Song" made her an instant hit. But unfortunately, Li Xiangjun did not open his voice easily.
"Hou Sheng of Xueyuan, I came to Jinling and met him." Li Xiangjun met when Hou Fangyu was taking the exam. The two had feelings for each other and were happy with each other. At that time, Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu often met with poems and gave gifts with songs.
According to legend, when Hou Fangyu entered Li Xiangjun's boudoir, he was attracted by a "Hanjiang Xiaofan" hanging in the room. On the snow-filled Qingjiang, a lonely boat swam in the heart of the river, the sky was clear, the water was vast, and there were few people. What a distant and indifferent artistic conception.
Upon closer inspection, he found a poem inscribed on it: "The west wind clears the sky, the mountains are like a picturesque mirror hanging. I don't know where the smoke waves, the sunrise calls for fishing boats." The painting was unsigned, and Hou Fangyu was wondering who wrote it, but Li Xiangjun had shyly said later: "This poem is a little girl's graffiti, which is not enough."
Hou Fangyu was surprised that a young girl in a brothel could make such a beautiful poem. After some conversation, the two of them had a different color, so Hou Fangyu wrote a poem as a gift: "It is about a little fairy, who was born sixteen years ago; the snow on the half peak of Yushan Mountain, a lotus in Jade Lake. In the evening, the incense was kept by the courtyard, and the spring night moon was accompanied by sleep; when I was leaving, I was speechless, and my mother was by my side."
Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun knew each other and fell in love, but unfortunately the two did not get a good ending later. Hou Fangyu later separated from Li Xiangjun because of the turmoil, and then Li Xiangjun disappeared in the history books, without any trace.
Li Xiangjun's blood splashing peach blossom fan is a plot in "Peach Blossom Fan". It is said that after Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun have been in love for life, Ruan Dacheng, who has some grudges against the two, tried every means to harm the two. Because Hou Fangyu left temporarily, Ruan Dacheng made his idea on Li Xiangjun. He encouraged the rich to come and force Li Xiangjun. A group of martial men and small students, blowing and even bringing ropes, are bound to win Li Xiangjun.
Faced with the threat of powerful people, Li Xiangjun, a little woman, only thought of resisting with death. When the warriors wanted to force her into the palanquin, she crashed into the pillar, and in an instant, blood flowed, and the silk fan given to her by Hou Fangyu was splattered with blood. The people who forcibly married her left in a hurry when they saw that someone had died. Li Xiangjun then splashed the blood-stained fan and sketched it with ink, which turned it into a cluster of peach blossoms, which was the name of "Peach Blossom Fan".
