Zhang Hongqiao

Zhang Hongqiao

Zhang Hongqiao, a talented woman in the early Ming Dynasty, lived in Hongwu (1368-1398) of Ming Taizu. She was born in Fujian county (now Fujian Province) and lived in Hongqiao.

After that, she was a member of Fuqing catering department, wailang and Lin Hongqi. When Hong visited Jinling, Zhang was moved by his illness.

Life background

Zhang Hongqiao lived in the early Ming Dynasty. Because he lives in the west side of the red bridge, he named himself the red bridge. Hongqiao has been famous for its intelligence and talent since childhood. The local gentry scrambled to marry him, but Hongqiao refused, saying, "I want to marry someone as talented as Li Bai." So many famous scholars sent poems as media. Wang Gong, who is known as a talented man, and Wang Dang, who is known as Changle, have failed to win the favor of Hongqiao. When Lin Hong, a gifted scholar of Fuqing, passed through Fuzhou, he saw Hongqiao burning incense in front of the court. He also asked his neighbor's old woman to bring a poem to Hongqiao. The poem said, "the incense burning wine in GuiDian is half awake, and the dew is as bright as water. With the desire to tell the heart, shame to see Petunia Vega When Zhang Hongqiao saw the poem, he was very happy. He wrote a poem and said, "the pear blossom is quiet, the Chan is beautiful, and the silver man is leaning in front of the embroidered house. I've never told the sky about anything. " The old woman handed the poem to Lin Hong and congratulated her: "Lady Zhang has never been able to write poems with others. It's very promising to write poems with you today." Lin Hong was overjoyed, so he took the old woman as the matchmaker and married Hongqiao. A year later, Lin Hong went to Jinling on business. Hongqiao missed him and died a few months later. When Lin Hong came back, he was devastated to learn that Hongqiao had passed away.

Anecdotes of characters

There is a beautiful Hongshan Bridge in Minhou County, more than ten kilometers outside Fuzhou City. Although the bridge is not big, it has its own characteristics. The whole bridge is made of bright red bricks, which is quite poetic and picturesque. It is a favorite place for local literati and scholars to meet. Because the bridge looks like a red flame from a distance, people used to call it a red bridge. The infatuation story of talented woman Zhang Hongqiao happened here in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Hongqiao's real name is Xiufen. Because she lives on the west side of the red bridge, her real name is the same as that of the red bridge, so people call her Zhang Hongqiao, but forget her real name. Zhang Hongqiao is not a native of Fujian. She was born in a big family in Central China. Because of the war in the late Yuan Dynasty, her parents took her to the south. Unfortunately, both of her parents died of illness on the way, and Xiao Xiufen was entrusted to her aunt. Aunt mother is a senior official family's favorite concubine, beautiful, knowledgeable, and knowledgeable. During the war, her husband's family was defeated. With her young niece, she lived together and lived in Min County, Fujian Province. Finally, she settled beside the Red Bridge in Dangshi county.

The two women, one big and the other small, had no choice but to rely on their own beauty and talent to recruit some exiled nobles and local literati. They gathered together, chatted and entertained with tea and wine, and maintained their lives in a way that looked like prostitutes but not prostitutes.

As time goes by, my aunt grows old. But with the careful cultivation of my aunt, xiaoxiufen is bright and beautiful day by day. She is good at poetry and prose. She has become a well-known little beauty and talented girl. Zhang Hongqiao's name is gradually crowned on her head. Other people come to their home no longer to be entertained by their aunt, but to admire Zhang Hongqiao's name. However, her aunt cherishes Hongqiao very much and doesn't let her treat her guests easily. Instead, she wants to find a favorite marriage for her niece.

Zhang Hongqiao himself is also very noble. He doesn't pay attention to the dandy and romantic childe at all. He just claims that he wants to take his husband as a poet, and he wants to find a poet like Li Bai to accompany him. In this way, it even aroused the interest of the scholars with high self-esteem around them, and they threw poems to Zhang Hongqiao, hoping to win the favor of beautiful women with poems as the media. But the poems were piled up on Zhang Hongqiao's desk. She carefully evaluated them and arranged them in order, but she didn't like any of them, so she disdained to respond.

Lin Hong, Wang Cheng, Wang Gong, Chen Liang, Gao Bing, Tang Tai, Wang Bao, Zhou Guang, Huang Wu and Zheng Ding were all pretentious scholars. Naturally, some of them launched an offensive against Zhang Hongqiao.

Wang Gong of Min county was the first one to write a poem on Zhang Hongqiao's desk

At chonglian point, the sun is dim and yellow, and the Wai of collaterals breaks the intestines;

Several times you don't answer the letter, Yanfei should not arrive at Hengyang.

Although the mood is strong and poetic, Zhang Hongqiao is still not moved by it because he thinks it is shallow.

At this time, Wang Cheng, a gifted scholar of Yongtai, came back from his study tour and stopped by Xiaozuo in Min county. When he visited Wang Gong, a literary friend, he was immediately interested to hear him talk about Zhang Hongqiao's beautiful name and his son-in-law with poems. Wang Cheng is also known as a "talented man in Northern Fujian". He is natural and handsome. He is quick in thinking. He once traveled to Hunan, leaving poems and showing mercy all the way. Since Zhang Hongqiao was not easy to be moved, he adopted the strategy of gradual attack. He rented a house near Zhangjia first, in order to win the favor of the beautiful lady and win her heart. It was called "the best way is to get the moon first".

Wang Cheng lives in the upper floor next to Zhang Hongqiao's house. Looking down from the window of the building, you can see most of Zhang's house. Zhang Hongqiao's boudoir is opposite to the window of his room. Zhang Hongqiao's every move in the house can be reflected into Wang Cheng's eyes through the window screen, making Wang Cheng enjoy the beauty.

One afternoon, Wang Cheng sat in front of his window and looked at the movement of Zhang Hongqiao. At this time, Hongqiao was taking a nap. It was midsummer, and she was wearing a short gauze shirt as thin as cicada wings, lying in the blue gauze tent. Her plump and white body was faintly visible, which aroused Wang's reverie. She only felt the warm fragrance of jade lingering around her. Red sun slants to the west, red bridge wakes up, looks lazy and naive, powerlessly holding the towel to try sweat, posture is more and more provocative. Guo sat in the window and watched Wang for a whole afternoon. Then he woke up and wrote down his feelings

Ivory Jundian blue gauze cage, graceful beauty sleep is thick;

Half wipe Xiao Yan cage peony, a pool of autumn water soak hibiscus.

Travel to Pengdao three thousand, dream around Wushan twelve peaks;

Who put? Sound suddenly startle feel, get up fragrant sweat wet crisp chest.

After writing, he realized that his words were beautiful and fragrant. He not only praised Zhang Hongqiao's charm, but also expressed his wish. Therefore, he was very satisfied and entrusted Zhang's servant girl to the dressing table of Hongqiao. Zhang Hongqiao stands over and looks at the poems. The diction and artistic conception of the poems are very elegant and fresh, but the words such as "dream around Wushan mountain" and "sweat wet and crisp chest" are too frivolous. Originally, Hongqiao had noticed that a handsome young man lived in his neighbor's house. Knowing that he was watching himself every day, he was very happy and secretly expected that he would be a man of outstanding literary talent. Today, when I saw the poem he sent me, I also admitted that his poetry was not vulgar and had some talent. However, I thought that he was not serious enough and was not the ideal person to trust for life. Therefore, I refused to reply according to the usual practice.

Just as Wang chengzuo and others were looking forward to no reply, his friend Lin Hong came to visit. Lin Hong is a descendant of a family in Fuqing county. He is intelligent, studious and brilliant, so he is listed as the first of the "ten talents in central Fujian". In the early years of Hongwu, Lin Hong was recommended to Nanjing by the local sheriff in the name of talent. Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, presided over the palace examination in person. Lin Hong wrote a poem and won the favor of the emperor. He was appointed as wailang, a member of the ceremonial ministry. In the capital, Lin Hong married Zhu, a lady of a wealthy family. Zhu is also a talented woman. She is good at writing and writing poems. The couple sing poems together, which is very sweet. It's a pity that Lin Hong's life is not as good as her red face. Less than three years after her marriage, Zhu died of illness, which made Lin Hong heartbroken. At this time, Lin Hong had a conflict with her boss because of her high temperament. The combination of the two events made Lin Hong disheartened, so he simply quit his official post and returned to his hometown.

When they had nothing to do in their hometown, they went around to visit old friends. When they met Wang Cheng in Min County, they were very happy. They sat in Wang Cheng's house and had a long talk all night. It is the night of the full moon. When I look out of the window, I catch a glimpse of a charming beauty in the courtyard next door. She is burning incense under the moon and is silent in the sky. Her expression is focused and quiet. In the bright light of the bright moon, she looks like a Buddha carved with jade and a fairy coming down to earth. She feels the scene and says casually:

GuiDian incense wine half awake, dew flowers such as water sound point screen;

With the desire to tell the heart, shy to see Petunia Vega.

Then Lin Hong asks Wang Cheng about the woman. Wang Cheng tells his friends all he knows about Zhang Hongqiao. Lin Hong understood that this woman should not be treated lightly, so he carefully transcribed the poem with Jasper, put it into a brocade bag, and politely asked Wang Cheng's landlady to hand it over to Hongqiao. When Hongqiao saw the poem, he couldn't help smiling. The poem is eloquent, with vivid and elegant scenery and love. It is full of admiration and exploration, but it is solemn and not frivolous. She unconsciously moved her heart and wrote a poem, which she still asked her neighbor's old woman to hand over to Lin Hong

The pear flowers are quiet and graceful, and the silver man is leaning in front of the embroidery house;

Self love, burning incense, vanishing forever, never tells the sky.

She uses poems to express the lonely news of her heart, and pretends to be reserved, just like a young girl who wants to talk but stops. The landlady returned to Wang's room with the note and said to Lin Hong: "since she grew up, no less than a hundred people have been using poetry as a matchmaker, and she has never seen her reply. This is the first time for you, young master. Naturally, Lin Hong was overjoyed and praised the old lady. He quickly unfolded the note and read it. He was so intelligent and affectionate that he naturally understood Hongqiao's heart and wrote another one immediately Poetry, the landlady of Qing Dynasty sends again:

Yun'e is like Dong jiaorao. She hates her every spring;

However, the sky of Pengshan is far away, and the red bridge is close to the painting column.

Wang Cheng lived close to Zhangjia for several months, but he was always far away from home. Although Lin Hong sighs in his poem that the sky is far away from the Red Bridge

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