It is located at No. 150, Dashiba Street, Confucius Temple, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and is the location of Meixiang Building in the past. It is also the former residence of Li Xiangjun, one of the eight Yans of Qinhuai.
In 1631 (the fourth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty), 8-year-old Li Xiangjun was adopted as an adopted daughter by Li Zhenli, the owner of Meixianglou, and changed Wu's surname to Li, named Li Xiang, called Xiangjun, and nicknamed "Xiang Fan Pendant". Yu Huai described Li Xiangjun in "Banqiao Miscellaneous": short stature, white skin like jade, smart and handsome, tactful singing, unparalleled in the world when she laughs, people call her "incense fan pendant, and I have a poem to give her:" Li Xiang is born in a small city, and she is curvaceous in her arms. What is the reason for the twelve witch peak girls, who came to see the king of Chu in a dream. Wutang Wei Zizhong wrote it on the white wall, and Guiyang Yang Longyou painted a clump of bluegrass on the right side of the poem, which was called the Three Uniques at that time. Li Xiangjun's fame spread far and wide in Nanqu, and literati and scholars from all over the world were vying to meet her.
Anecdotes such as Li Xiangjun's affection for Marquis Fangyu, his lament Yuan Chonghuan, his criticism of the traitor Ruan Dacheng, and the blood-spattered poetry fan have been passed down to this day, and they still shine through the ages, shamefully killing the bearded man.
But there are two different theories about Li Xiangjun's final ending, one is that in Suzhou, Li Xiangjun met the former Qinhuai sister Bian Yujing, lived in an elegant courtyard in her mountain pond in Tiger Hill, and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Su Kunsheng saw that Li Xiangjun was pitiful, so he returned to Nanjing for her to inquire about Hou Fangyu's news. After many inquiries, it was confirmed that Hou Fangyu had looked for Li Xiangjun in Nanjing, but after no result, he returned to his hometown Shangqiu in disappointment. Later, he volunteered to go north to Shangqiu to deliver news to a pair of lovers. Soon after Su Kunsheng went north, Li Xiangjun began to cough up blood, the condition was worse day by day, and when she was dying, she struggled to let Bian Yujing cut a lock of green silk for herself, wrapped it in red silk, and then tied it to the peach blossom fan, asked her to hand it over to Hou Fangyu, and left her last words: "The son should keep the festival for the Ming Dynasty, don't be a foreign race, and the concubine will remember the love of the son under the nine springs." Li Xiangjun coughed up the last drop of blood and splashed it on the peach blossom fan that had been dyed red, and the fragrance disappeared, and he never waited for Hou Fangyu, who was hurrying over.
The other is: in the autumn of 1645 (the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty), Hou Fangyu found Li Xiangjun in Qixia Mountain, and the two went to the Hou family in Shangqiu. At first, Li Xiangjun concealed her identity as a kabuki, and lived in the Jade Building of the West Garden as a Wu woman and Hou Fangyu's concubine, living in harmony with her in-laws, and being commensurate with Hou Fangyu's wife Chang's sisters, and in 8 years, the family was happy and harmonious. But when Hou Fangyu went to Nanjing to seek a son and find relatives for Li Xiangjun, Li Xiangjun's identity as a courtesan was exposed, and his father-in-law Hou Sui immediately ordered Li Xiangjun to leave the Jade Building. At this time, Li Xiangjun was pregnant, which aroused the sympathy of her mother-in-law and Mrs. Chang, and the two repeatedly pleaded for mercy, and Hou Sui agreed to send a little girl to serve. Hou Fangyu returned, knelt down in front of his father to admit his mistake, explained to Li Xiangjun that she was not selling her art, and asked her father to take back her life, but in the end she was ruthlessly reprimanded. In the spring of 1653, Li Xiangjun gave birth to a son in the chicken garden, but because of his low status, the child could not be surnamed Hou, so he could only follow his surname Li. Less than a few months after the child was born, Li Xiangjun left the world in depression and despair at the age of 30. The grave is buried at the east end of the village. In pain and guilt, Hou Fangyu wrote a monument for Li Xiangjun: "Qing died with hatred, and his husband was ashamed for life." There is a stone table in front of the stele, and there is a round "ashamed stone pier" in front of the table, Hou Fangyu often goes to the tomb of Xiangjun, and sits on the ashamed stone pier for a long time and can't bear to leave. On December 13, 1654 (the 11th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty), Hou Fangyu also died of depression at the age of 37. Because of Li Xiangjun's low status, he was not able to be buried together.
As a kabuki at the bottom of society, Li Xiangjun distinguishes loyalty and treachery, is loyal and unyielding, and although she is a dusty woman, she has noble integrity and patriotic feelings. In the context of that turbulent era, she died with hatred in the struggle against the times and fate, and Qin Huai Bayan is another person who makes people sigh!
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