Speaking of ancient Chinese talents, Zhuo Wenjun, a beautiful woman in the Western Han Dynasty, Cai Wenji, a writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li Qingzhao, a female lyricist in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Shangguan Wan'er, a female official in the Tang Dynasty, are undoubtedly the most respected by later generations and are known as the "Four Talented Women of Ancient China". Although the four of them are of different times and have different identities, they are all legendary women who cultivate both inside and outside, and are literary and elegant.
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Zhuo Wenjun of the Western Han Dynasty disregarded the common opinion of the lintel, and made a private lifelong agreement with Sima Xiangru, a poor and depressed Han Fu family at that time, as the daughter of a rich family. The husband and wife sang with the wife, when they sold wine, they were poor and happy, and the husband and wife played a famous song through the ages - "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix". According to legend, the famous article "Baitou Yin" of Han Yuefu is also written by Zhuo Wenjun, "I wish to have one heart, and the white head is not separated" has become a famous sentence that has been handed down to this day.
Cai Wenji, a female writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, had a fateful life. Married to Wei Zhongdao at the beginning but unfortunately endured the pain of widowhood, and later due to the invasion of the Huns, he was taken away by the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, married the Huns, and gave birth to two sons. Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north, ransomed her with a lot of money, and married her to Dong Ci. The tortuous fate of leaving her homeland made her depressed and generous. The two poems of "Poems of Grief and Indignation" and "Eighteen Beats of Hu Ji" describe the sadness and pain of her being exiled outside the Saiwai and feeling nostalgic for her homeland. "Entrusted to the newcomer, do your best to encourage yourself. Exile becomes contemptible, and he is often afraid of returning to the waste. When life is long, I have worries all year round. The bloody verses made future generations sigh.
Li Qingzhao, a female lyricist in the Southern Song Dynasty, is undoubtedly the most talented among the talented women in ancient times. When he was young, he married Zhao Mingcheng, a student of Tai, and studied Jinshi calligraphy and painting together. Later, Zhao Mingcheng died of illness, and she drifted alone in Hangzhou, Yuezhou, and Jinhua, and spent her old age in misery and loneliness. Li Qingzhao's words are exquisite, there is no ancient, no one has come, and she is respected as the suzerain of grace, and later generations praise her as "the first talented woman in the ages". Her lyrics include "Do you know, do you know?".It should be green, fat, red and thin", and there is the loneliness and melancholy of "looking for and seeking, cold and lonely, miserable and miserable".
Shangguan Wan'er is a female official and poet in the Tang Dynasty, because her grandfather Shangguan Yi was convicted and killed, she entered the royal family as a servant with her mother, and at the age of 14 she was reused by Wu Zetian because of her intelligence and good writing, and she was in charge of the palace for many years, and was known as the "Prime Minister of Women". She advocated and influenced a generation of literary styles through literary activities such as selecting talents and appreciating poetry and essays, and became the symbol and leader of the Zhongzong literary circle. "All Tang Poems" included 32 of her poems, and later generations praised her for "bright talents, comfortable pen tone, and the style of celebrities".
These four talented women are veritable "divas of the literary world", and the "divas" must not only be famous, but also have both ability and political integrity, and be talented. "There is poetry and calligraphy in the belly", this kind of intellectual and timeless bookish atmosphere exuded from the inside out, which can travel through time and space, and it makes us modern people feel its unique charm.