Li Shishi, a native of Kaifeng, Henan, was a well-known courtesan in the late Northern Song Dynasty. He is good at singing and dancing, and is proficient in poetry. She is generous and has a quick name, known as "General Fei". And because Master Li is upright, dares to love and hate, he is known as "Red Makeup Jibu", and is quite famous in the local area. It is the object of the pursuit of literati, eunuchs and wealthy businessmen.
She was originally the daughter of Wang Yin, who ran a dyeing house in Bianjing City, and when she was three years old, her father sent her to the Buddhist temple, and the old monk made a roof for her, and she suddenly cried. The old monk thinks that she is very similar to Buddhism, because everyone calls Buddhism "teacher", so she was named Wang Shishi. When Wang Shishi was four years old, his father died in prison for his crimes. Li Yun, the brothel boss, saw that she was a beauty, so he adopted her, and changed her name to Li Shishi with her surname, and taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing.
Master Li has a beautiful and moon-like appearance, **fair-skinned. Born with a good voice, coupled with Li Yun's careful guidance, she taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing, and served both color and art. Master Li is best at "small singing", and he sings many "long and short sentences", which is today's Song Ci. Before the age of 15, he is already "romantic, tactful", leading the first in the capital's teaching workshops, and standing tall and gorgeous. For a time, Li Shishi became a famous prostitute in Bianjing, and was the object of competition between literati and scholars, princes and grandsons.
She was good friends with the famous literati Zhou Bangyan and Chao Chongzhi, and the poet Chao Chongzhi was young, and whenever he could drink, he often asked her to feast. It also left famous poems such as "the door invades the willow weeping bead foil, the window rolls the cherry veil", "the horse willow is low when the leaves are low, and the peach is welcomed out of the partition wall flower", "watch the dance of the neon dress and feather clothes, listen to the song of the jade tree backyard flowers" and other famous poems.
Song Huizong Zhao Ji was frivolous all his life, in addition to loving flowers, trees, bamboos and stones, birds, beasts, insects and fish, calligraphy and painting, fairy Taoism, but also fond of women, and later indulged in it all day long, wandering into the wreckage, unable to extricate himself. The concubines in Huizong's harem are like clouds, the number is amazing, and the historical records record that "three thousand fandai, eight hundred Yanjiao". But if you eat too many delicious dishes, you will get bored, and at this time, someone introduced Master Li to him.
Huizong had heard of Master Li for a long time, and he had long wanted to see it. So on a certain day, he wore civilian clothes, pretended to be a businessman Zhao Yi, and went out of the palace to meet Master Li. As soon as he saw Master Li's stunning beauty, he was fascinated. Since then, Huizong has often gone out of the palace to visit Master Li, the golden house is delicate, fragrant and soft, and the two are extremely restrained. Master Li also did not dare to entertain foreign guests. The powerful princes and nobles could only avoid the three houses, and she was later summoned to the palace and canonized as Concubine Li Ming.
In the second year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers went south and broke through Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and after Song Huizong was captured and gave the throne to the crown prince Zhao Huan, Li Shishi was deposed as a concubine and driven out of the palace. Since then, the whereabouts of Master Li have also become confusing.
As for the whereabouts of Master Li, there are several theories in historical sources:
The first statement.
Martyrdom. "The Biography of Master Li" records that after the Jin people broke through Tokyo, the gold lord also heard of Master Li's name for a long time, so he asked his boss to be lazy to look for Master Li, but he didn't find it for many days. Later, with the help of the traitor Zhang Bangchang, he finally found Master Li. Master Li was unwilling to serve the gold master, so he first stabbed himself in the throat with a golden hairpin, but he did not succeed, so he broke the golden hairpin and swallowed it to commit suicide. Before she died, she scolded Zhang Bangchang: "Sue a cheap prostitute, be favored by the emperor, and have no other ambition to die." If the seniors are high-ranking and generous, why should the court lose to you, but everything is to kill the sect and society?”
The second statement.
Old dead rivers and lakes. "The Legend of the Green Clay Lotus" records: After the Jin soldiers broke through Bianjing, Li Shishi wandered in all directions and finally fled to the south. Zhang Bangji's book "Mozhuang Manlu" said that after Master Li was confiscated from his family property, he lived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and sometimes returned to his old business and sang songs for local scholars. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Chen's "Water Margin" inherited this statement, saying that in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Li Shishi lived in Hangzhou, lived in Geling, West Lake, and mainly engaged in the old business, "singing Liuqi Township 'Yangliu Waixiao Wind and Wanyue 'Moon'". The Song Dynasty commentary "Xuanhe Legacy" also has a similar account, but adds "After living in southern Hunan, it was obtained by merchants". Liu Zihui, a Song dynasty man, said in his "Tokyo Chronicle Poem" that he met Li Shishi by chance in Hunan, and Li Shishi was already dying of old age and living a life of exile. This statement is poignant and earnest, full of melancholy, and has the bitter taste of "snubbing the cars and horses in front of the door" and "meeting the king in the season of falling flowers".
The third statement.
Captured and heading north. It is said that Li Shishi was captured and went north after the fall of Tokyo, and was forced to marry a sick and disabled Jin soldier as his wife, and ended his life in disgrace. Qing dynasty Ding Yuekang's "Continuation of the Golden Vase Plum" and other books are all true. But some people also raised objections, at that time, Jin Shuai was lazy to ask for palace women according to the list provided by Zhang Bangchang and other ministers, and Master Li had already become a female Taoist, so naturally not in this case, the so-called "Master must have left Tokyo first, not in the list of seeking, otherwise he must not be able to get out."
The fourth way of saying.
Donate to become a monk. It is said that Li Shishi was lucky enough to be dragged by the Jin soldiers when they broke through Bianjing and was not captured by the Jin soldiers. After that, he donated all his belongings to help the Song army fight against gold, and later begged for a female Taoist priest in Ciyun Temple.
Which statement do you prefer?