At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were eight Goulan beauties on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, Jiangnan region: Ma Xianglan, Liu Rushi, Dong Xiaowan, Li Xiangjun, Gu Hengbo, Bian Yujing, Chen Yuanyuan, and Kou Baimen, and they were called "Qinhuai Bayan". In Jinling City, on the banks of the Qinhuai River, the years have been submerged and the past of the city has been covered. The word Jinling alone makes people's hearts flutter with tenderness. Turn over history, clear the fog, and explore the traces in the smoke and dust of history. Ma Xianglan is not outstanding in appearance on the banks of the Qinhuai River, where the beauty is weaving, but stands out for her Rulan's character and transcendent orchid painting attainments and infatuation with love, ranking eighth.
Ma Xianglan, a famous poet and painter in the Ming Dynasty. His real name is Ma Shouzhen (true), the small character Xuan'er, also known as Yuejiao, ranked fourth at home, so it is also called "Siniang". She has a beautiful temperament, can be good at poetry and painting, and is especially good at painting orchid bamboo, so she is known as "Xianglan". Ma Xianglan was born in Jinling, since childhood unfortunately fell into the dust, among the many admiring visitors, she and Wang Zhideng have a very good friendship, the two of them wrote the letter "Ma Xianglan to Wang Baiyu Codex Volume" original letter eight, hand scroll box on Wu Hufan signed inscription. From the Qing Dynasty Xu Naipu, Xu Naiji to ** Wu Hufan, Pan Boying, Zhang Zongxiang and other famous inscriptions, paper ink marks, moving people's hearts. This masterpiece of the secret line is probably the only authentic calligraphy of Ma Xianglan in the world, and it is now framed as a handscroll by later generations.
In addition to being able to recite poems and paint, Ma Xianglan is also good at talking and talking with people, with a voice like a warbler's cry, a coquettish demeanor, and an empathetic attitude. In this way, she became famous on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Jinling. After that, Ma Xianglan built a small building by the Qinhuai River, which is quiet with flowers and stones, winding corridors, and full of orchids everywhere, named "Youlan Pavilion".
In the midst of prosperity, but the taste of loneliness, although accompanied by the bright lights, Ma Xianglan has few confidants, until she was twenty-four years old, she met a down-and-out talent - Changzhou Xiucai Wang Zhideng. Wang Zhideng was born in a famous family, rarely has a literary name, good calligraphy, according to legend, four years old can be right, six years old good at writing big characters, ten years old can recite poems and endows, grow up to be even more talented. He once worshipped Wen Zhengming, one of the "Four Talents of Wu County" at that time, as a teacher and joined the "Wu Sect". In the last years of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, he traveled to Beijing and became a guest of Yuan Wei, a university scholar. Because Yuan Wei offended the powerful Zaifu Xu Jie, Wang Zhideng was affected and failed to be reused by the imperial court.
After Wang Zhideng returned to his hometown in Jiangnan in discouragement, he came to the "Youlan Pavilion" by chance, and during the conversation with Ma Xianglan, he fell in love. As a result, Wang Zhideng often went in and out of the "Youlan Pavilion", cooked wine and chatted with Ma Xianglan, and enjoyed the orchid together, which was very pleasant. Wang Zhideng's calligraphy is lush and majestic, and there are many changes, while Ma Xianglan's pen is smooth and strong, and the inner strength is not inferior. Ma Xianglan was afraid that Wang Zhideng would see her as a water-based poplar woman, so she specially made a picture of an orchid, showing that she was like a lone orchid on the cliff, and an extraordinary husband and woman could see the fragrance. Wang Zhideng is such a smart person, of course he understands the meaning of Ma Xianglan's poems and paintings, but he has a lot of concerns.
Soon after, Zhao Zhigao, a scholar of Kyoto University, recommended Wang Zhideng to participate in the compilation of national history. Ma Xianglan set up a banquet for him in a complicated mood, she was not only sad for Wang Zhideng's parting, but also happy for his pride, which was really sad and joyful. At the resignation table, Ma Xianglan told her in every possible way, reluctantly, and impromptu gave a poem "Farewell in Zhongchun Road" as a gift.
Unexpectedly, this time Wang Zhi's entry into Beijing was not smooth, because of the exclusion of a group of literati under Zaifu Xu Jie, although he participated in the compilation of history, but he was assigned to do some miscellaneous things, he swallowed his anger, and saw that there was really no future to speak of, so he simply packed up and returned home. Wang Zhideng returned to Jiangnan, unwilling to face the infatuated Ma Xianglan anymore, so he simply moved his family to Gusu to never have the idea of staying with Ma Xianglan for the rest of his life. Ma Xianglan was still in love, and when she heard that Wang Zhideng was disappointed, she hurriedly rushed to Gusu to comfort Wang Zhideng. After Wang Zhideng settled in Suzhou, Ma Xianglan always went to Gusu to live in Gusu for a few days every once in a while, and talked to Wang Zhideng about his heart. More than 30 years have passed unconsciously, and in the past 30 years, Ma Xianglan has been alone in the "Youlan Pavilion" in addition to going to Gusu as a guest. On Wang Zhideng's 70th birthday, Ma Xianglan rushed to Gusu with illness and held a grand birthday banquet for him. Before she died, she ordered her servants to fill her chair with fragrant orchids. When the news of his death reached Wang Zhideng, he was grief-stricken and wrote an elegy: "Singing and dancing were the first class in the year, and his name won the Qinglou." Affectionate died before he died, and he turned into a hibiscus and his head."
Ma Xianglan to Wang Baiyu Codex Volume" has a total of eight posts, namely: "Yesterday's Annoyance Post", "Quasi-You Wuzhong Post", "Dafang Murder Post", "Huilan Post", "Bitter Rain Post", "Yunuo Post", "Handshake on the Heart Post", "Wenjia Post", from this eight Zaza, it can be seen that Xianglan is like an orchid, not only talented, and confidant, but also heart like a rock. That relationship not only aroused her romantic style, but also inadvertently stimulated her potential and affected the prosperity of talented woman culture in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Qin Huai Bayan" is the only one who is not married is Ma Xianglan, and Wang Zhideng is also a friend and brother to her. In the face of Wang Zhideng's cowardice, Ma Xianglan did not give up this emotion, but always followed her heart and spent her life singing poems with Wang Zhideng. Ma Xianglan and Wang Zhideng's love affair fell in love at first sight, fell in love at second sight, and fell in love at third sight for life. There is no liver and intestines, no life and death, and no sea is dry and rotten. Some are as calm as water, without waves of the past and past. He gave her a moment, and she returned him for the rest of his life. The so-called "death is like it", you can only understand it by reading Ma Xianglan's story. No matter how future generations sigh that "it's a pity that there is no entrustment, and there is no chance between the flowers and the water", Ma Xianglan finally lived a true self, just like the orchid she loved, spotless, noble and beautiful.