She is only 19 years old, but she has been remembered by Chinese for more than 1,500 years

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-01-30

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In the 5,000-year-long history of China, countless romantic figures have emerged, who have left us a rich cultural heritage. However, in the context of the times, it is often much more difficult for women to succeed than men, and women who can leave their names in history are all excellent to the extreme.

There is such a person in history, she only lived to be 19 years old, but she has been loved by future generations for thousands of years. She is Su Xiaoxiao during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Su Xiaoxiao's family was wealthy when she was a child, she was the only daughter of her parents, she was regarded as a treasure, Su Xiaoxiao had a very good life in her childhood, she was smart and clever, and she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

The good times didn't last long, and Su Xiaoxiao's parents both died when she was fifteen years old, leaving Su Xiaoxiao alone as an orphan girl. In those days, an orphan girl couldn't stand the family property, and even became someone else's "family property". Therefore, Su Xiaoxiao sold her property and took her nurse to live in a small building by the West Lake in Hangzhou, and lived on her family property.

Living by the beautiful West Lake, Su Xiaoxiao often walks by the lake, in order to better enjoy the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, she also made a small and flexible oil wall incense car, when she sits in the car to travel, it has also become a beautiful scenery by the West Lake.

At the age of young age, Su Xiaoxiao has grown into a stunning beauty with outstanding temperament. At this time, Su Xiaoxiao did not have the constraints of her parents, and she was also good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, and she was also very willing to associate with literati and elegant guests.

She often met friends with poetry, and the smart and beautiful young women coupled with her outstanding talent finally made the literati and writers of Qiantang City fall under Su Xiaoxiao's pomegranate skirt.

Su Xiaoxiao's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and literati and artists from all over the world continue to come to see Su Xiaoxiao.

On this day, another talented man asked to see, Su Xiaoxiao closed the door, but this talented man was very persistent, asking to see day after day, this sincerity touched Su Xiaoxiao, after the two met, they found that each other's poetry attainments were very good, and they hated to see each other late, and soon they were together.

History believes that this was the happiest time in Su's life.

It's a pity that this talented man's family background is too good, this is Ruan Yu, the son of the prime minister of the dynasty, Ruan Yu's family wants to take him home, Ruan Yu made an agreement with Su Xiaoxiao before following his family back, waiting for Ruan Yu to pick her up. Su Xiaoxiao believed it, and every day she was looking forward to it, but Ruan Yu didn't show up in the end.

In the end, Su's little wait turned into a joke.

Su Xiaoxiao has experienced emotional setbacks, but she still has not wiped out her yearning for feelings.

Once when playing, I met a young man with extraordinary energy, but plain clothes, seeing his depressed look, Su Xiaoxiao asked someone to ask him for details, and learned that this person's name was Bao Ren, because his family was poor and could not make up the plate to go to Beijing to catch the exam, so he helped out. This move was like a relief in the snow for the young man, he was full of gratitude to Su Xiaoxiao, and made a promise that he would come back to marry her when he stayed in high school.

However, before the young man came back, in the spring of the second year, Su Xiaoxiao died because of the ineffective treatment of wind and cold, and died.

And the young man she valued was indeed the high school she expected, when the young man came to Su Xiaoxiao's door full of joy, he caught up with Su Xiaoxiao's funeral.

So Bao Ren from high school funded the repair of the cemetery for his benefactor on the shore of West Lake, and erected a monument in front of her tomb: the tomb of Su Xiaoxiao in Qiantang.

There is a hexagonal spire pavilion built on the tomb, called "Mucai Pavilion", which is said to have been built by Bao Ren. Bao Ren added a place to bury incense on the side of Xiling Bridge, which not only fulfilled Su Xiaoxiao's last wish, but also added color to the landscape of West Lake.

It is precisely because of the embellishment of Su Xiaoxiao's residence and cemetery that the beautiful scenery of West Lake adds a faint sadness out of thin air. West Lake has since become Su Xiaoxiao West Lake.

After that, Su Xiaoxiao's name frequently appeared in the poems, lyrics, and notes of the literati.

As far as the Tang Dynasty is concerned, there are Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, Li He, Quan Deyu, Zhang Hu, Li Shangyin, Luo Yin, Wen Tingyun, etc., and Zhang Dai of the Ming Dynasty has also described Su Xiaoxiao, and many poets have poured rich emotions into her from different angles.

Throughout Su Xiaoxiao's life, misfortune and luck are intertwined, free and easy to achieve an extraordinary life, short but not losing the essence, sad but not losing the beauty. It is Su Xiaoxiao's extraordinary unrestrained personality that finally made the literati and writers of the past generations linger, and the landscape is to the small, as the small is to me.

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