Huang Yuanjie

Huang Yuanjie

Huang Yuanjie, a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, was born into a Confucian family. She lived in the period of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Under the pressure of secularity, female morality and livelihood, she either studied calligraphy and painting, or studied in a boudoir school. In order to support her family, she moved to Jiangnan. She exchanged songs with famous officials and ladies, and wrote poems, poems, Fu and landscape flowers God, incisively and vividly release the feelings of the soul, thoroughly express the feelings of life. Huang Yuanjie, who has the talent of golden boudoir and rabbit garden, has a unique social value and artistic charm in her creation, which pushes the undergrowth created by Xie Daokai to the peak. It not only shows the factors connecting the past and the future, but also urges the awakening of women's consciousness, which has a far-reaching influence.

Life of the characters

childhood sweethearts

Huang Yuanjie, whose words are all Ling, is the daughter of a scholarly family in Jiaxing. Huang family's poems and books have been handed down from generation to generation. Although they are not big families, they can also be regarded as middle-class wealthy families. Huang Yuanjie is very gifted. She is very intelligent in reading, writing, reciting poems and painting. Therefore, she is highly valued by her father Huang Yunsheng. When she was 13 or 4 years old, her name became popular. People in Jiaxing said: "Huang family has a daughter, ice and snow are smart." Huang's father had long planned for his daughter's marriage. When Yuanjie was ten years old, he made a baby marriage with Yang Shigong, the son of a classmate friend. Huang Yuanjie and yang are not far apart. Adults often communicate with each other, and they don't restrict their children's communication because of the "incompatibility between men and women". Therefore, young Huang Yuanjie and his fiance Yang Shigong of the same age often read and play together, and they are very close to each other.

War chaos

Huang Yuanjie lived in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, which was a period of national change. With years of war and displacement, intellectuals and the general public were deeply affected by the "body reading revolution". Especially for the traditional scholar bureaucrats who wrote by Gu Li in Dong Hu's works and lived in his history, it may be in the thought of where to go. Wu Weiye (Meicun) and Qian Qianyi (Muzhai), who are good friends with Yuanjie, are faced with such a choice: under the understanding of obedience to heaven, it is impossible to submit moral adherence to life consciousness to comply with the new ruling forces. Then, one can practice moral adherence by sacrificing one's life, and get absolute transcendence of spirit through the destruction of the body; another can become a monk, convert to Buddhism, and live a living life of sacrificing one's life; or one can escape from the mountains and retreat to the countryside, and obtain both the form of morality and life. Wu and Qian both chose the last one, but this choice itself contains the duality of retreat and advance. Being an official but not an official is just a threshold difference. At the beginning of the new dynasty, it is necessary to consolidate the rule of the specific environment, especially the separation and opposition between the nations, and personal resistance will undoubtedly endanger the existence of life. As the old ministers of the former dynasty, Wu and Qian had a high reputation, so they should naturally become the focus of the new regime. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve. In order to protect their families, they were forced to become officials, and finally they could not escape the Qing Dynasty's invasion and suffered great pain as "second ministers". At the same time, a group of celebrities, as the official family members, also hesitated in the contradiction of patriotism and returning to the former dynasty, but their husbands were "two ministers". For example, Liu Rushi, the king of Hedong in Qian Muzhai's side room, and Xu can, who was once rated as "the best girl in the boudoir since the Southern Song Dynasty" by Chen Weisong's women's collection. Liu Rushi once urged her husband to die after the change of Yiyou and may, but "Uncle Zong (Qian Muzhai) can't thank him" (Volume I of Liu Rushi's stories) so she wanted to fight for the national calamity in the pond in her backyard, but she was grabbed by her husband and couldn't help it. Therefore, later generations called it "Lin Lin has husband wind" (Luo Zhenyu's collection of the old man negative pine). Xu can's husband, Chen Zhilin, became a scholar of the Ming Dynasty and became a Bachelor of the Hongwen School of the new dynasty. Xu can was killed by the fall of his native country. He who loves his country depends on his husband. Facing the reality that half of the rivers and mountains of the old Dynasty no longer exist, he forgets his country and becomes an official! While enduring the loss of his country, he added a great humiliation. This is different from Wu, Qian and other intellectuals in another form of soul and flesh division. This kind of double pain makes Xu can's heart lonely and helpless, and he sighs "the boundless homeland, why is the boat flying". In this extraordinary period, the values and outlook on life of the literati are facing a huge test. They are suffering from the trauma of war and mental torture. As a weak girl in the chaos, Huang Yuanjie is not immune. She was born in Qingmen, a Confucian family, and was even poorer in troubled times. Forced by her family background, her sister Yuanzhen married Guiyang and became the stepwife of Zhu Maoshi, the then governor of Guiyang. After Yuanjie's fiance Yang Shigong was hired, her family was so poor that she was unable to get married. Later, Shigong was exiled in Suzhou and did not return for a long time. During this period, some celebrities and dignitaries came to the door to talk with each other and were willing to marry Huang Yuanjie. However, Huang Yuanjie did not change her original intention. She was so infatuated that when the prodigal son returned from his hometown, she married him. Soon after they got married, they suffered from the chaos of revolution. "They trudged between Wu and Yue, trapped in Li, in the clouds, and lived in the cold mountains." After a hard time settling down, she was forced to be a female teacher, so she "traveled to Jiankang, moved to Jinsha, and stayed in Yunyang." On the way to Tianjin, his son drowned and his daughter died the next year. It's really a broken family! Therefore, Huang Yuanjie made many "sad and sorrowful words of exile", but he was gentle and generous, resentful but not angry, which fully reflected the innocence of his personality. It is no wonder that Jiang Shaoshu, in his history of silent poetry, became "the boudoir has the wind under the forest".

Stall for a living

According to the normal situation, Huang Yuanjie and Yang Shigong will soon form a happy family. But just as Huang Yuanjie was approaching the age of marriage, the war spread across the country. Because the imperial court was in a daze, all over the country raised the banner of righteousness and launched a rebellion. In the north there were Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, and in the south there was Zhang Xianzhong. Under the chaos, only a few scholars were useless. The way to become an official in the imperial examination was cut off. People who were tired of living no longer had the heart to send their children to study. The Huang family, who made a living by opening a library to teach, had an increasingly urgent life. In order to make a living, Huang Yuanjie's elder sister Huang Yuanzhen married Zhu Mao, the prefect of Guiyang, and worked as a sidekick. Huang Dingping, his elder brother, gave up his studies and started a small business. Huang's family barely survived. However, Huang Yuanjie's fiance Yang's family is even worse. They can't even eat three meals a day. How can they afford to marry their son. Huang Yuanjie has reached the age of marriage. The Huang family begins to urge the Yang family to get married. The Yang family is really unable to hold a strong wedding. Yang Shigong is ashamed and simply leaves his hometown. On the one hand, he wants to go out to find some way to earn money, and on the other hand, he has the right to avoid his immediate troubles. In this gap, Taicang talented son Zhang Pu came to Huang's family to ask for a marriage. Zhang Pu's family background and character are excellent. Huang's father moved his heart and wanted to give his youngest daughter to him. Huang Yuan insists on refusing to accept the letter. She can't forget the carefree days she spent with Yang Shigong. Her heart is tied to Yang Lang, so she resolutely says to her father, "a good horse doesn't deserve two saddles. A good girl doesn't have two surnames!" Huang's father, after all, is a scholar. If he thinks his daughter's words are really polite, he won't force her. When Yang Shigong heard the news from his hometown, he felt very guilty. Yuanjie, a weak woman, was so faithful, but her husband was hiding. He was really sorry for her, so she packed up and went back to her hometown. When the Huang family learned that Yang Shigong had gone home, they went to the door to discuss the marriage: "since things are like this, there is no need to talk about so much ostentation. As long as the children are in love with each other, the rest is not important." When the parents of the two families figured it out, the marriage was very simple. Huang Yuanjie happily married to the Yang family. Although they lived a miserable life, the young couple loved each other and lived happily, Yang Shigong gave up the face of a scholar and made a living selling dustpan. However, with the continuous war, people's life became more and more difficult, and Yang Shigong's dustpan business was also gradually neglected. At last, he was unable to do it, and his family lost the source of life. Huang Yuanjie, who is diligent and thrifty, thinks of her strong points in writing and painting. Can't she make a living on this? She quietly discussed with her husband. At first, he didn't want his wife to appear in the market and sell paintings, but he couldn't find another way to live. Finally, he agreed with Huang Yuanjie. But Jiaxing was poor at that time. How many people could spend their spare money on calligraphy and painting? Huang Yuanjie and her husband had to carry their bags and come to the prosperous Xizi lake to make a living. The couple rent a small loft on the Bank of the West Lake to settle down. Yang Shigong takes care of the housework at home and prepares paper and ink. Huang Yuanjie carries his belongings on his back and resolutely goes to the street to set up a calligraphy and painting stand. Although Huang Yuanjie's stall is always bustling, there are not many people who really pay for calligraphy and painting. Moreover, the remuneration for this kind of street business is very meager. Huang Yuanjie writes and paints everyday, and her income is barely enough to support the couple's life, and she saves some money to take to Jiaxing's parents-in-law. Although the days are hard, Huang Yuanjie keeps the beautiful Xizi Lake day by day and does her favorite thing of writing and painting. Although she is writing and painting for others, she can devote herself to it. She regards it as a kind of practice and creation, and her calligraphy and painting skills are becoming more and more proficient.

Smart playboy

Huang Yuanjie, sitting in the stall, although she is a jingchai in cloth and doesn't use any powder, her natural beauty, elegant and noble temperament still exudes attractive charm, which makes some dissolute CHILDES itch. On a spring afternoon, when there were no spectators in front of the stall, Huang Yuanjie was enjoying the West Lake, which was full of beautiful flowers and clear water. With a strong sense of painting in her heart, she put up her pen and put herself on the rice paper

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