A Brief Introduction to Li Shishi in History
Li Shishi * * *1102-1129 * *, Bianjing, a prostitute in a brothel in the Northern Song Dynasty. She is good at singing and dancing and knows poetry like the back of her hand. Her deeds are mostly seen in unofficial history and note novels.
Li Shishi's father, named Wang Yin, runs a dyehouse in Bianjing. When Li Shishi was three years old, she was named in a Buddhist temple. The old monk in the temple thinks that she is a famous teacher because she is predestined friends with Buddhism. After being found guilty and died in prison, Li Shishi was slim and graceful at that time, adopted by the brothel madam, and changed Li's name to King. Li Shishi studied piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing in a brothel, and at one time became a famous prostitute in Bianjing, quite famous among officials.
Li Shishi's talent was loved by poets Zhou Bangyan and Evonne of Song Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty. Once, Zhou Bangyan saw Hui Zong flirting with Li Shishi. He was so jealous that he wrote an acid poem satirizing Hui Zong. After Hui Zong knew about it, he was expelled from Bianjing, and the friendship between Li Shishi and Zhou Bangyan had no chance to develop. According to legend, Li Shishi was later called into the palace and named Li, but was later captured by the Jin people, and Li Shishi's whereabouts were unknown.
The legend of Li Shishi
Song Huizong Evonne was frivolous all his life. He loves flowers, trees, bamboo, birds, animals, insects, fish, calligraphy and painting, and immortal Taoism, and he also loves women like life. Later, he has been addicted to it and can't extricate himself. Hui Zong harem concubines like clouds, historical records "three thousand powder and eight hundred cigarettes charming". But with these concubines lingering day and night, embracing day and night, no matter how delicious you eat, you will be tired, and the scenery will no longer be novel. One day, he was so bored that he wrote fourteen words on a round fan, "If you choose a meal that you don't like, the chef will waste eight precious dishes." Suddenly, his thoughts dried up, and he asked a college student to continue. This man is especially good at reading Evonne's mind, so he continued: "Everyone has tasted everything, except Jiang Mei." Sweet and sour bayberry will definitely relieve the boredom of the royal chef. Evonne's "little sour" is Li Shishi, a famous brothel geisha in Beijing.
Li Shishi, whose birth and death are unknown, was a famous geisha in Bianjing at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. My surname is Wang, and my father died when I was four years old, so I became a prostitute in the Li family and changed my name to Li Shishi. According to records, she is elegant in temperament, familiar with melody, calligraphy and painting, and is well-known in Kaifeng city. Perhaps because of the bleak childhood life, Li Shishi was deeply branded in her heart. When she became famous, she always gave people a faint sadness. She likes sad poems, loves to sing sentimental songs, and often wears ivory clothes and light makeup. All these constitute the tone of a "cold beauty", but they are even more charming. Hui Zong has long heard of Li Shishi. One day, dressed as a scholar, he found Li Shishi in a small sedan chair, claiming to be Zhao Yi, a scholar, and asked for Li Shishi. Finally, he witnessed the beauty of Li Shishi: the crow on the temple is green, the phoenix is green, the autumn water is bone, but the petals are like her face, and the willow leaves are like her eyebrows. Hui Zong listened to the teacher's lyrics, watched the teacher dance with Le Man, and drank several glasses of wine. He was fascinated, so he hugged Li Shishi and joined Luo Wei. That night, the pillow was soft and twice as emotional as concubine Yu. Li Shishi's gentle and lovely temperament makes Song Huizong dreamy. It's a pity that the days are long and the days are short. In a blink of an eye, Hui Zong was helpless and had to get up in clothes. In the later period of dating Li Shishi, she reluctantly left.
Since then, Hui Zong has frequented brothels in Li Shishi. Li Shishi also dare not entertain foreigners. Powerful princes and nobles can only avoid three houses. Her brothel door has long been deserted, but one person, Li Shishi himself, can't give up. He is Zhou Bangyan, the tax director. Zhou Bangyan is also a gifted scholar. He was a great poet at that time, with unique elegance and extensive knowledge of a hundred schools of thought, and he could compose music according to music scores. His poems are long and short, with clear rhymes. On one occasion, Song Huizong was ill, and Zhou Bangyan took the opportunity to see Li Shishi. Two people are intimate, suddenly called the SAN jia, Zhou Bangyan nowhere to hide, had to hide under the bed in a hurry. Song Huizong gave Li Shishi a fresh orange with a fast horse and flirted with her while eating it. On this day, Hui Zong didn't stay because he was not feeling well. After Hui Zong left, Zhou Bangyan wrote a poem entitled "Feeling Old in Youth", sarcastically saying: "Knife is like running water, salt is better than snow, and new oranges are broken between your fingers. At the beginning of the brocade, the scent of animals remained unchanged, and the Zheng sat opposite each other. Ask in a low voice: Who are you with? It's already midnight in the city, and the horses are slippery and frosty. It is better to take a break and there will be fewer pedestrians. " This word vividly shows the details of prostitutes in Hui Zong.
Later, after Hui Zong recovered from his illness, he went to Li Shishi for a banquet, and Li Shishi sang this word for a while. Song Huizong asked who did it, and Li Shishi casually said it was Zhou Bangyan, and when the words came out, he regretted it. Song Huizong immediately understood that Zhou Bangyan must be in the house that day. He couldn't help but change color and become angry from embarrassment. The next day, he went to court and asked Cai Jing to dismiss Zhou Bangyan from office and escort him out of Beijing on the grounds of insufficient tax collection. Li Shishi braved the snowstorm to see Zhou Bangyan off, and sang "The Warrior Lanling" for Song Huizong. Li Shishi wept as he sang, especially when he sang "The wine mourned the strings, and the lamp reflected off the table", and almost burst into tears. Song Huizong also felt too harsh, so he called Zhou Bangyan back and appointed him as the music manager of Shengda House. As for Li Shishi, she was later called into the palace and named Li. However, the nomads from the army advanced on Kaifeng House, and after Hui Zong ceded the throne to Prince Qin Zong, Li Shishi lost his backer, was abolished as Shu Ren, and was driven out of the palace gate, and his position plummeted. It is said that in order to avoid disaster, she begged herself to be a female Taoist priest. Soon, Bianjing fell and the Northern Song Dynasty perished. Li Shishi's whereabouts became controversial and confusing when Jin soldiers were imprisoned and Qin Emperor and many Zhao clan members returned to the north.
Because the official history disdains to mention Li Shishi's name, it has become a topic of relish in unofficial history rumors and people's after-dinner talks, and her story is also legendary and even mysterious. Because Li Shishi has both color and art, looks like a fairy, and at the same time, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are pervasive. Scholar's notes and novels record her contacts with many scholars, such as Zhang's Two Records of the Boudoir, Zhang Bangji's Random Records of Mo Zhuang, etc., all of which record her contacts with great poets Zhou Bangyan and Chao Chongzhi and the story of her poems.
What was the end of Li Shishi?
Report 1
Die for your country. The Biography of Li Shishi records that after the Jin people captured Bianjing, the gold owner also heard the name of Li Shishi for a long time and asked his coach to find Li Shishi, but he couldn't find it for many days. Later, with the help of the traitor Zhang Bangchang, Li Shishi was finally found. Li Shishi doesn't want to serve the money owner. He first stabbed himself in the throat with a golden hairpin, but it was useless, so he broke the golden hairpin and swallowed it to commit suicide. Before she died, she cursed Zhang Bangchang: "If you sue a cheap prostitute, you will get the attention of the emperor as soon as possible. I would rather die than have any ambition. If you have a high position and a high salary, why does the court let you down? Everything is to destroy the clan society? " According to this, Huang Tingjian, a Qing Dynasty man, praised her martyrdom as a manifestation of masculinity. "When I was a teacher, I was not the best at that time. After reading it, I generously donated a paragraph full of powerful husbands, but unfortunately I was stuck in the mire of advocating meanness. I must not compete with the cliff with a broken arm for honor and history. " This behavior will go down in history forever. Most popular novels of later generations follow this statement. However, the author of the novel mainly expresses his feelings of national subjugation through other people's things, and there is no factual basis, so many scholars disagree with this statement. Lu Xun called it a legend in A Brief History of China's Novels and Biography of Li Shishi, and Song Zhi thought in The Emperor and * * * that "the author of a rumor wrote a legend, probably feeling more than fact, and the author probably wanted to satirize the world by Li Shishi's loyalty". Deng Guangming's "Tokyo Dream Notes" thinks that this book "was written by the Ming Dynasty at first glance". The popular Romance of the Song Dynasty and Hou's Romance of the Song Dynasty in the 18th Dynasty also think that the author uses Li Shishi to satirize the world.
Statement 2
Die of old age. "Story of the Green Mud Lotus" records: "The Jingkang Rebellion, the teacher moved south, some people met Hunan, aged and haggard, and never returned to the wind." Zhang Bangji's "Mo Zhuang Man Lu" said that after Li Shishi was deprived of his property, he lived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and sometimes sang for local literati. Between Jingkang, Li Sheng and his companions, Zhao Yuannu, Mao Yuan and Zhen Wu, spread carpets and play the flute, taking their home as an example. When Li Sheng arrived in Zhejiang, the scholar-officials invited him to listen to his songs. He was haggard and devastated. ”。 Chenchen's "Water Margin" in the early Qing Dynasty inherited this statement, saying that in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Li Shishi lived in Lin 'an * * * Hangzhou * *, and lived in the West Lake Geling, mainly because "a wisp of wind outside the willow leaves and the waning moon sings a song". The Song Dynasty's commentary "The Legacy of Xuanhe" has a similar account, but added "I lived in Hunan and earned it by merchants in southern Hunan." Liu Zikai, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in Poems of Bianjing Chronicle: "The hub is prosperous, but it hurts. The teacher is old and has crossed Hunan. The golden sandalwood board is colorless now, and a song touched the emperor that year. " This statement is sad and full of melancholy, and it is quite painful that "there are fewer and fewer chariots and horses at her door" and "I will see you when the flowers fall", probably from the mouth of the people at that time.
Statement 3
Captured to the north. It is said that Li Shishi was taken to the north after the fall of Bianjing, and was forced to marry the disabled nomads from the army, ending his life in disgrace. Ding Yuekang, A Qing Dynasty and Jin Ping Mei are all based on his theory. However, some people raised objections. At that time, Jin Shuai's laziness was based on the list provided by Zhang Bangchang and other ministers, and Li Shishi had become a female Taoist. Naturally, this is not the case. The so-called "teacher must have left Tokyo first, so he is not in the search, otherwise he will not escape."
Looking at the above statement, it seems that the second statement is more credible. Before the fall of Bianjing, Li Shishi was abolished as Shu Ren and became a female Taoist priest, saying that she was hiding among the people and lived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In a word, novelists want to polish their works and polish their characters, so they choose the Li Shishi family? A href ='' target =' _ blank'> What kind of ash? Tracing back to the source, it is mainly because Li Shishi is a woman who is related by blood to the monarch. The emperor is very different from * * *, and his affairs will also involve state affairs. There are many speculations and rumors about her, so her fate will always be a mystery.