Meng Guang

Meng Guang

The story of Meng Guang, who raised a eyebrow and raised a case, is about Liang Hong and Meng Guang. Liang Hong, a Han scholar, returned home to work in agriculture after finishing his imperial college and married Meng Guang, the 30-year-old daughter of the county's rich Mencius. After marriage, they gave up the rich life of the Mencius and went to live in seclusion in the mountains. Later, they helped Gao Botong work as a temporary worker. Every time Meng Guang delivers food to Liang Hong, he raises the tray as high as his eyebrows.

Character experience

Meng Guang, a native of Pingling in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a very fat man with dark complexion and poor appearance, but he had great strength and was able to lift a mortar. There are many matchmakers for her, but they are often declined. He is 30 years old and still lives alone. When her parents asked her why she didn't want to get married, they knew that she already had a lover. It turned out that Meng Guang had long heard that Liang Hong, a poor and knowledgeable man in the same county, had accidentally caught fire when raising pigs in Shanglin garden, causing damage to his neighbors. Liang Hong not only took the initiative to compensate for all the pigs, but also made up for it as a helper. The neighbors blamed the family for demanding too much compensation, and unanimously praised Liang Hong. The neighbors also felt that Liang Hong was virtuous, so they had to give back all the pigs they had received. But Liang Hong went back to his hometown. Meng Guang told his parents that he must find a person with moral character like Liang Hong to marry. This spread to Liang Hong's ears. At that time, many people admired Liang Hong's integrity and wanted to marry his daughter to him. Liang Hong declined. However, when he heard Meng Guang's ambition, he took the initiative to hire someone. Before his marriage, Meng Guang did not prepare gold and Silver Satin, but made cloth clothes, hemp shoes, baskets and weaving tools. Everyone thinks it's strange, but Meng Guang has his own ideas. Just after the door, Meng Guang, like an ordinary bride, was beautifully decorated. But for the first seven days, Liang Hong was indifferent to her. Seeing this, Meng Guang took the initiative to talk to him: "I heard that my husband was righteous and refused many marriages. As for me, I have also declined many employees. Today, my husband married me, but I don't know where to offend him. I hope I can tell you clearly. " Liang Hong said: "what I want to marry is a simple and hardworking woman who can go to the mountains with me and live in seclusion with her own work. Now that you are so well dressed and dressed, how can I hope for that? " On hearing this, Meng Guang said, "that's great. I dress like this on purpose to investigate my husband's ambition! As a matter of fact, I have already prepared the clothes and utensils for my seclusion. " So she changed her hair style, put on her cloth clothes and began to do housework in front of Liang Hong. When Liang Hong saw it, he said happily, "this is Liang Hong's wife." Later, the couple went to the baling mountains to cultivate and weave, and amuse themselves with the lute. They are talented and learn without seeking wealth. They are content to work and support themselves, so they are praised by the world. Meng Guang became an example for many women in later generations.

Historical allusions

"Raising a case to raise eyebrows" is the story of Meng Guang (one of the four ugly women), the wife of Liang Hong, a sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that Meng Guang followed Liang Hong to Wu as a servant. When Liang Hong returned home, Meng Guangmei raised his eyebrows to show his respect for his husband. But this virtuous woman's appearance is "crude incomparable", "fat ugly and black", can "lift the mortar". It is said that Liang Hong was very famous before he got married. Many families wanted to marry his daughter to him, but he refused. When Meng Guang was not married, someone matchmaker for her, but she refused to marry, saying that she would marry Liang Hong. On the seventh day after the couple got married, Meng Guang took off the bride's qiluo clothes and put on coarse clothes to do housework. Later, Liang Hong abandoned the rich life of the Meng family and lived in seclusion in the baling mountains, where men worked and women weaved, sang poems and played the piano, and the couple sang and lived a poor and harmonious life.

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