Speaking of Li Xiangjun, I believe that friends who are familiar with history are certainly not strangers, as for the reason, because she and Dong Xiaowan, Chen Yuanyuan, Liu Ruyi, etc. are called "Qin Huai Bayan". In addition, she and Hou Fangyu are also one of the top ten lovers in ancient China, and the emergence of these two identities makes it difficult not to make her famous.
Li Xiangjun was not originally surnamed Li, her surname was Wu, and she had two older brothers above her, who were the children of the Wu family in Fengqiao, Zhaomen, Suzhou. His father was originally a military attaché of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also a famous person, so it is conceivable that Li Xiangjun's life was also quite moist. Everyone knows that in the late Ming Dynasty, the party quarrels were particularly fierce, and this did not come, because his father was a member of the Donglin Party, and after being emasculated by Wei Zhongxian and his gang, the family road fell.
The Wu family is backward in the road, because there are too many children in the family to raise, always have to give up a child to reduce the burden on the family, and because of the preference for sons and daughters, Li Xiangjun has become the poor worm who was abandoned by the family. As a result, Li Xiangjun, who was only 8 years old, wandered around in order to be able to eat with mixed food. Soon, she met Li Zhenli, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, and recognized Li Zhenli as her mother, probably to make a complete break with the past, Li Chunjun also changed her surname from "Wu" to "Li", and from then on, she began her career as a prostitute.
Probably think that this opportunity is not easy to come by, Li Xiangjun strives to learn the artist's arts with people, the rhythm of poetry, the silk bamboo pipa are all proficient, she is especially good at singing southern songs, her singing is sweet, deeply admired by the four wanderers, and because of the adoptive mother Li Zhenli, who is righteous and proud and knows the style, so most of the guests of Meixianglou are some literati and honest and loyal ministers, hou Fangyu is one of them.
Hou Fangyu also came to MeixiangLou to see the style of Li Xiangjun, the "incense fan pendant". As soon as Hou Fangyu walked into Li Xiangjun's room, he saw that the indoor calligraphy and painting antiques were furnished, and there was a fresh breath, and the atmosphere of this scene was completely different from that of the general Qinglou. When Li Xiangjun saw the guests coming, he smiled and invited Hou Fangyu to sit down, and immediately a poet sent a tea and fruit, at this time Fangyu was attracted by a large banner hanging on the front wall, which was a "Hanjiang Xiaopan Map", above the cold and snow-filled Qingjiang River, a leaf lonely boat swung in the heart of the river, the sky was clear, the water was vast, there were few people, a long and indifferent mood, not only that, the painting also had a poem inscribed: "The west wind is pure and far away, and the rivers and mountains are hanging in the mirror." I don't know where the smoke waves, the sunrise hu'er pan fishing boat." There was no money on the painting, and Hou Fangyu expected that this painting was not from the hands of a famous artist, so Hou Fangyu smiled and asked, "Who is this painting?" Li Xiangjun saw that he paid so much attention to the painting, and said slightly shyly: "It is a little girl's graffiti work, which is not enough." "Did you do it?" Hou Fangyu couldn't believe that such a petite and immature Qinglou woman could actually make such a charming poem and painting, which was really impressive. Therefore, the two began with this painting, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and they directly regarded each other as confidants. One is a charming young man, the other is a delicate and affectionate, fertile blue heart of the Qinglou Jade Girl, after several consecutive exchanges, they both fell in love, entangled, began a poignant love that can be sung and wept. At this time, Li Xiangjun had just turned 16 years old.
After the two established their relationship, in order to be with Hou Fangyu from time to time, Li Xiangjun had to pick up guests and stay with them, because in this way, she could be with Hou Fangyu Zhengda guangming. But don't worry, because Hou Fangyu was the first man to accompany Li Xiangjun, and in ancient China, the first time a prostitute received a guest and stayed with him, he had to hold a ceremony called "combing", otherwise he could not receive guests. And to hold this ceremony, it is necessary to invite a large number of gentlemen with heads and faces, and also pay a generous gift to the mother of the bustard, but unfortunately Hou Fangyu has no silver, and seeing that the combing ceremony will not be completed, at this time, Hou Fangyu's friend Yang Longyou sent charcoal in the snow and gave him strong financial support, and the grooming ceremony was held smoothly. That night, Hou Fangyu gave Li Xiangjun a high-grade openwork ivory bone white silk palace fan with an amber fan pendant from the Hou family's ancestors. Li Xiangjun was well aware of Hou Lang's sincere intentions, and from then on he stayed in the Meixiang Building.
Just when Li Xiangjun and Hou Fangyu were enjoying a beautiful little life, someone came to the door and actually asked for a debt! What's going on? It turned out that the money that Yang Longyou gave to Hou Fangyu was not his own money, but a person named Ruan Dacheng gave Hou Fangyu a favor, with the purpose of wooing Hou Fangyu to join the staff. Hou Fangyu was still hesitating whether to agree to Ruan Dacheng, but Li Xiangjun directly went mad, and the splitter took off the hairpin on his head and scolded Hou Fangyu. This is not all, Li Xiangjun also sold the jewelry, borrowed money four times, and finally made up enough money and threw the money back to Ruan Dacheng.
Speaking of this, some friends wondered, saying that Ruan Dacheng wanted to win Hou Fangyu into the staff, is this not a good thing? Why did Li Xiangjun want to make such a big fire, and it was selling jewelry and borrowing money, as for it? That's because you don't understand what kind of person Ruan Dacheng is! It is said that Ruan Dacheng was originally a dramatist and literary scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, but his character was very low, what is the advantage of working with such a person?
Hou Fang domain image
The flowers bloomed two flowers with one branch each, and it was said that Li Xiangjun threw the money back to Ruan Dacheng, which was a great shame for Ruan Dacheng! He was a figure with a head and a face in the literary circles, and he had thought that one day he would be disgraced by a prostitute, "This vendetta will not be repaid, and the oath will not be human!" Ruan Dacheng waited patiently, waiting for the day when he would take revenge on Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun. Time passed, ruan dacheng finally waited for the Ming Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to take the throne, and after Zhu Yousong took the throne, he used Ruan Dacheng, and Ruan Dacheng sneered darkly: "Hou Fangyu, Li Xiangjun, your good days are over!" Ruan Dacheng first took the opportunity to frame Hou Fangyu and force him to defect to Shi Kefa. On Li Xiangjun's side, even if there are thousands of kinds of reluctance, there is no choice, after all, the emperor's order is difficult to violate, Hou Fangyu left Li Xiangjun in tears, Hou Fangyu probably did not expect that when he left, Li Xiangjun's nightmarish day would come!
It is said that after Li Xiangjun went to Fang Domain, he ended his career. Wash away the lead, close the door to thank guests, and wait for their waiting son to return. But would Ruan Dacheng let Li Xiangjun wait so comfortably for Hou Fangyu to return? "Li Xiangjun, you stinky bitch, you dare to put down Lao Tzu's face, today, I will let you see Lao Tzu's strength!" Doesn't Hou Fangyu like you? I'll let him hit the water in a bamboo basket! At the instigation of Ruan Dacheng, Tian Yang, the great red man of the Hongguang Dynasty, came to greet Li Xiangjun as a concubine. Of course, Li Xiangjun resolutely refused to comply, Tian Yang still insisted, in a hurry, Li Xiangjun simply crashed headlong into the railing, and blood splashed on the fan that Hou Fangyu sent her. When the person who married his relative saw that there had been a murder, he had to sneak back with the palanquin in gray. In the end, Hou Fangyu's friend Yang Longyou used blood spots to draw a tree of peach blossoms in the fan and gave it to Li Xiangjun.
But even if it happens like this, Ruan Dacheng is not going to let Go of Li Xiangjun, Tian Yang can't marry a concubine, it doesn't matter, Ruan Dacheng this time replaced the candidate with a person of great stature - the emperor. When Li Xiangjun recovered from his injuries, Ruan Dacheng immediately recruited her into the palace under the guise of the Holy Word. This move Li Xiangjun really couldn't resist, she was a Qinglou woman, where did she dare to disobey the Saint Shang! As soon as the palace gate entered the depths of the sea, when would you see Hou Lang, who was missing day and night? I don't know! "Hou Lang, I miss you so much, do you know how hard I am living here?" Li Xiangjun very much wanted to send a letter to the distant lover and let him come back to see him, but at this time, the war was tight, the traffic was cut off, and the letter could not be sent at all. With infinite thoughts and regrets, Li Xiangjun entered the palace, and the only thing he held tightly in his arms was the peach blossom fan written in blood to alleviate the endless thoughts of Hou Fangyu.
Time is like an arrow, in the blink of an eye to the first year of Qing Shunzhi (1644 AD), the Qing soldiers attacked Yangzhou, directly approached Nanjing, the Hongguang Emperor heard the wind and fled, when the city of Nanjing was broken, Li Xiangjun escaped from the "cage" of the palace with some palace people at night, at this time the city streets were already in chaos, the Qing soldiers burned and looted, and the refugees fled everywhere. Li Xiangjun walked towards the Qinhuai River with one foot high and one foot low, and when he walked there, he only saw the flames everywhere soaring into the sky, and the night sky reflected a blood red. It was not easy to come to the long board bridge, stand at the head of the bridge, and look in the direction of Meixianglou, but found that Meixianglou had also disappeared into a sea of fire. Li Xiangjun's heart sank, his feet went soft, and he suddenly fell to sit on the bridge deck, his mind blank. Coincidentally, at this time, Su Kunsheng, the master who was teaching Music for Li Xiangjun, passed by the Changban Bridge, accidentally found Li Xiangjun sitting on the ground and making a fool of herself, and quickly lifted her up, only to know that she had nowhere to go, so he took her with the fleeing crowd and ran to Suzhou. In fact, hou Fangyu was also in the city of Nanjing that night, and he escaped and returned to Nanjing after the defeat of the Yangzhou army. When he arrived, just as the Qing soldiers were wreaking havoc on slaughtering the city, he was anxiously worried about Li Xiangjun's safety, and he rushed to the Qinhuai River with fire, but he saw that the Meixiang Building was burning into a ball of flames, and no one familiar with it was seen. He wandered around the Meixiang Building all night, but he could not see Li Xiangjun's shadow; In fact, at that time, Li Xiangjun was sitting on the longboard bridge just a stone's throw away from the Meixiang Building, helplessly teasing people, but did not let them meet.
Li Xiangjun suffered a lot in Nanjing, and in desperation, in the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645 AD), accompanied by bian Yujing, the former sister of QinHuai, he lived in the Baozhen Nunnery in Qixia Mountain. It was also in the autumn of that year that Hou Fangyu found Li Xiangjun in Qixia Mountain, where he was thinking about it. When the two men met, "there was no word for each other, but there were thousands of tears." When Li Xiangjun saw Hou Fangyu, he just hugged Hou Fangyu and cried, and Hou Fangyu also had red eyes. After consultation, the two decided to cross the river north hand in hand and go to their hometown of Shangqiu. Li Xiangjun concealed the identity of the singer and lived in the Jade Building in the West Garden as a concubine of wu women. Here, she gets along with her in-laws; Respected by Hou Fangyu Yuanpi's wife Chang Shi as a guest, and the sisters were commensurate; With Hou Fangyu fish deep water affection, Qinse harmonious. In the eight years from 1645 to 1652, Li Xiangjun lived a peaceful and comfortable life, which can also be said to be the happiest period of her life.
But the weather is unpredictable, and people have bad luck. Just when Hou Fangyu went to Nanjing to seek a son and relatives for Xiangjun, the identity problem that Li Xiangjun often feared was finally exposed. After Gonggong Hou Ke learned that Li Xiangjun was the true identity of Qin Huai's singer, he immediately ordered Li Xiangjun to get out of the Jade Building, and after being interceded, he reluctantly let her live in Hou's firewood and grass garden, which was fifteen miles away from the city, the Chicken Garden. It was a desolate village with no village in front and no shops in the back. At this time, learning that Li Xiangjun was pregnant, arousing the sympathy of her mother-in-law and Lady Chang, the two repeatedly interceded with Hou Ke, and Hou Ke reluctantly agreed to send a little girl to serve there.
Former residence of Li Xiangjun
After Hou Fangyu returned to Guide (present-day Shangqiu), he took Li Xiangjun back and lived on the Jade Floor. Because of his lowly origins, Li Xiangjun was driven to live in the Hou Manor (now Li Ji Garden), 7 kilometers from the city. Li Xiangjun was discriminated against, depressed all day long, became ill for a long time, and had no choice but to suffer from tuberculosis and die, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve. Li Xiangjun left in this way, ending her extremely bumpy life, and when she left, she must have a bleak smile and endless sorrow.
Li Xiangjun was not satisfied with her life, but perhaps she herself did not expect that her influence on future generations was extremely large. In Qin Huai Eight Yan, whether it is appearance or talent, Li Xiangjun cannot rank first, but she ranks first in Qin Huai Eight Yan. Casually find someone on the street to ask Qin Huai Bayan, everyone may not be able to say it all, but Li Xiangjun is well known to everyone. The reason why Li Xiangjun is so famous is mainly her loyalty to love and noble patriotism. Such a Li Xiangjun, do you like it?