Just at a glance, till dead end
These two poems are written by different people, but they are filled with the same resentment and helplessness, because they tell the same story. It tells a sad love story - Tang Wan and Lu You Shen Yuan's regret. !
Lu You was a famous patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in a prosperous scholarly family in Shanyang, Yuezhou. When he was a child, the Jin people invaded the south, and he often fled with his family. At this time, his maternal uncle Tang Cheng's family had many contacts with the Lu family. Tang Cheng had a daughter named Tang Wan, also known as Huixian. She was quiet and smart since she was a child, not good at words but considerate. They are very similar to Lu You, who is similar in age. The two are childhood sweethearts and have been together for a long time. Even in the chaos of war, the two young people who are not familiar with the world still spend a pure and beautiful time together. As they grew older, a lingering affection gradually grew in their hearts. In their youth, Lu You and Tang Wan were both good at poetry. They often expressed their feelings through poetry. In front of flowers and under the moon, they recited poems and sang to each other. Their beautiful figures were in pairs, like a pair of colorful butterflies fluttering among the flowers, and their brows were filled with happiness. harmonious. The parents of the two families, as well as all the relatives and friends, also believed that they were a match made in heaven, so the Lu family made a marriage agreement with the Tang family using an extremely exquisite family phoenix hairpin as a token. After becoming an adult, Tang Wan became the wife of the Lu family after a night of wedding ceremony. From then on, Lu You and Tang Wan became even more harmonious and deeply in love. They were immersed in the world of the two of them. They didn't know what time it was, and they temporarily put all their imperial examinations, fame and wealth, and even their family and loved ones out of the sky. At this time, Lu You had already made love to become an official, but this was only the first step in becoming an official. He would then go to Lin'an to participate in the "Lock Hall Examination" and the Ministry of Etiquette Examination. Newly married Lu You lingers in the gentle countryside and has no time to worry about his exam homework. Lu You's mother, Tang, is a dignified and domineering woman. She wholeheartedly hopes that her son Lu You will be named on the gold medal list and become an official, so that he can shine in the family. Seeing the current situation, she was very dissatisfied. She scolded Tang Wan several times as an aunt and even as a mother-in-law, ordering her to focus on her husband's future in the imperial examination and to neglect the love between her children. However, Lu and Tang were deeply in love and couldn't look back, and the situation never improved significantly. Mother Lu was disgusted with her daughter-in-law because of this, believing that Tang Wan was really the star of the Tang family and would delay her son's future. So she went to Wuliang nunnery in the suburbs and asked the nun Miaoyuan to tell her son and daughter-in-law's fate. After some calculations, Miao Yin said in a serious manner: "Tang Wan and Lu You are not compatible. First he misled them, but eventually his life was in danger." Upon hearing this, Lu's mother was so frightened that she hurried home, called Lu You, and forced him to say: : "Quickly write a letter of divorce and give up Tang Wan, otherwise I will die with you." This sentence was undoubtedly a thunderstorm on a sunny day, which shocked Lu You and didn't know what he was doing. When Lu You's mother recounted Tang Wan's misfortune, Lu You felt as sad as a knife. He, who had always been filial, had no choice but to cry secretly when faced with his resolute mother.
Unable to disobey his mother's orders, Lu You had no choice but to agree to send Tang Wan back to her parents' home. This situation seems to be unreasonable today, and the relationship between two people cannot be allowed to be interfered with by others. However, in ancient Chinese society that advocated filial piety, the mother's destiny was the imperial edict, and the son of a man could not obey it. In this way, a pair of deeply affectionate mandarin ducks are about to be torn apart by unwarranted filial piety, secular power and mysterious destiny. Lu You and Tang Wan were inseparable, and they couldn't bear to leave without a chance to get together, so they quietly built a separate courtyard to accommodate Tang Wan. Lu You went there as soon as he had the opportunity to renew his dream with Tang Wan, and their love was as good as ever. Unfortunately, nothing could stop the fire, and the shrewd Mother Lu quickly noticed the incident. He strictly ordered the two of them to cut off contact with each other, and married Lu You to a docile and dutiful daughter of the Wang family, completely severing the long love between Lu and Tang.
Lu You had no choice but to put away his grievances. Under the supervision of his mother, he focused on studying for the imperial examinations and studied hard for three years. At the age of twenty-seven, he left his hometown of Shanyin alone and went to Lin'an. Participate in the "locked hall test". In Lin'an, Lu You won the appreciation of the examiner Lu Fu with his solid foundation in Confucian classics and brilliant literary thinking, and was recommended as the leader.
After returning from this tired trip, Tang Wan has long since passed away, and she is already in her twilight years. However, she still has a deep attachment to the past and Shen Yuan. I often walk alone on the quiet path of Shen Garden, recalling the shocking scene that is deeply imprinted in my mind. Shen Garden is the place where Lu You feels nostalgic, and it is also the place where he feels sad. He was thinking about Shen Yuan, but he was afraid of going to Shen Yuan. When spring comes again, the sultry pink willows and willows, the annoying fragrance of birds and flowers, although the dying Lu You can no longer go to Shen Garden to look for traces of the past, but that encounter with Tang Wan, the beautiful woman's sad eyes, timid attitude, and helpless The way he walked and hesitated to speak made Lu You remember it in his mind.
Since then, Shen Garden has changed owners several times, and all the personnel and scenery have changed from the past. One spring day when Lu You was eighty-five years old, he suddenly felt physically and mentally refreshed and extremely light. He originally planned to go up the mountain to collect herbs, but because he was not physically strong enough, he turned back to Shen Garden. At this time, Shen Garden was reorganized and the scenery was roughly restored to its original appearance. Lu You wrote the last love poem of Shen Garden affectionately:
The flowers in Shen's home are like brocades, half of them were the old man who knew him;
I also believe that beauty will eventually become ashes, and cannot bear the hurried dream.
Soon after, Lu You passed away suddenly. Time has passed, the scenery of Shen Garden has changed, and the poems on the pink walls have disappeared. . . . . .