The meaning and story of being a ghost under the peony flower

The origin of "death under the peony flower, being a ghost is also flirtatious" is Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion". The story describes du Liniang's dream that a scholar asked her to write a poem with a willow branch in her hand, and then was held by the scholar to the side of the Peony Pavilion. Later, it gradually evolved into this sentence. Let's take a look at this story together.

Meaning

The original meaning of "death under the peony flower, being a ghost is also flirtatious" should be: "to die under the peony flower is also an elegant thing." Later, it is often quoted by some naughty boring people when flirting with women, or cheap to express their feelings to women, peony-extended to a woman (beauty), that is: for the sake of a beautiful woman, she is willing to die!

Poetry

"drunken Xi Shi"

Yuan Pearl Curtain embroidery

Take care of the old flirtatious, recently gradually feel small and thin waist. Think of all kinds of kindness at the beginning, but now it has become a courtship. It made me frown on the autumn waves, teardrop spring shirt sleeves, like peach blossoms with rain rouge. Green, fat, red and thin, it is a time to be sad.

The wind is soft, and the curtain hangs with jade hooks. Afraid of both swallows, two warblers, right at the right time. Where is the unrequited love in Qin Lou? Win the old disease and add the new disease, the new sorrow holds the old sorrow. Yunshan is full of eyes, ashamed to go to the evening makeup building.

The flower smiles, the willow brings shame. Where is the sorrow in the dance floor? If you want to pass the ruler, who will fix it? The Acacia is ticked off, and the desolate grass increases thousands of sorrows. Hugh, Hugh, the heart is broken and the Xiangjiang River is about to end.

Lonely when to rest, looking forward to the music book skyline. Add people sick yellow bird branches, help others worry about the decline of Weicheng willow. The eyes of Chunjiang are full of tears, but also a lot of sorrow. If you come back and work together, you will die under the peony flowers and be a ghost. The east wind is light and cold all night. It is reported that the peach blossoms follow the current, and do not turn your head from the east.

Allusions

During the Southern Song Dynasty, Nanan Taishou du Bao gave birth to only one daughter, named Liniang, 16 years old, not yet betrothed.

In order to make his daughter a role model for female students who are knowledgeable and reasonable, du Bao hired Chen Zhiliang, a 60-year-old scholar for her. Li Niang's feelings were provoked by Chen's Book of songs.

The maid Chunxiang, who accompanied the reading, occasionally found the garden behind du Fu and led Liniang to secretly tour the garden. Li Niang, who had been trapped in the boudoir for a long time, moved to visit the spring under the influence of the good spring.

When Li Niang returned to the house, she suddenly had a dream. I dreamt that a scholar asked her to write a poem with a willow branch in his hand, and then he was carried to the side of the Peony Pavilion and became the joy of cloud and rain.

When Li Niang woke up, she wanted to sleep, and the next day she went to the garden to look for her dream. Under disappointment, Acacia became ill and described as wasting away day by day.

One day I looked in the mirror and saw that I was so thin. I busy asked Chunxiang to bring red and blue, plain silk, draw my own spring appearance, and write a poem on it. She talked about the dream mirror with Chunxiang, and asked Chunxiang to frame the painting as a framing painter.

When du Bao and his wife heard that their daughter was seriously ill, they quickly asked Chen Zhiliang to take medicine and let Shi Dao come to recite the scriptures, but to no avail.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liniang passed away. Before she died, Chunxiang asked Chunxiang to put the spring appearance in a red sandalwood box and hide it under the mountain rock of Taihu Lake in the garden, and asked her mother to bury her under the plum tree beside the peony pavilion in the garden.

At this time, Li Quan, the king of thieves who surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, led troops to encircle Huai and Yang, and the court promoted du Bao to Huai and Yang an, and set off immediately.

Du Bao had to bury his daughter hurriedly, built a plum blossom nunnery to worship the throne of Liniang, and entrusted Shi Daogu and Chen Zhiliang to take care of her.

Du Bao took his wife and Chunxiang to Huaian. Because of the military crisis, Mrs. du Baorang and Chunxiang took a boat back to Lin'an on the way.

Liu Mengmei, the former Liu Chunqing, a scholar in Guangzhou, changed her name to Liu Mengmei because she dreamt that a woman was standing under a plum tree in a garden and said that she was married to him.

Liu Mengmei went to Lin'an for the exam, and Ruth entered Baochen Miao Shunbin for assistance. When I got to Nan'an, Liu fell ill and stayed in the plum blossom nunnery.

When willow disease was getting better, I traveled to the garden, just beside the stone in Taihu Lake. I picked up Liniang's spring appearance box, went back to my study, hung it in front of the bed, and burned incense every night.

Li Niang stayed in the underworld for three years, and when the King of Rip sent the ghost, Cha Deli Niang did not have the end of her life and made her go home.

The ghost of Li Niang swam to the plum blossom nunnery and happened to meet Liu Sheng who was begging for his true appearance. Li Niang was so moved that she had a party with Liu Sheng and claimed to be the daughter of the west neighbor.

The laughter of the two of them every night alarmed Shi Daogu.

One night the two were talking and laughing when they were scattered by the sudden arrival of the stone road. The next night, Li Niang had to tell Liu Sheng the truth and begged Liu Sheng to dig the grave and open the coffin in three days. Liu Sheng had to tell Shi Daogu the truth and asked her for help.

The next day, they dug up the grave and opened the coffin to bring Liniang back to life. Fearing that the affair between Liu Sheng and du Liniang would be discovered, the Taoist aunt hired a boat that night, and the three went to Lin'an together.

Chen Zhiliang found that Liniang's grave had been stolen and hurried to Yangzhou to tell du Anfu. Chen Zhiliang was captured by the rebels before he arrived in Huai'an. Li Quan heard that Chen Zhiliang was the du family's school teacher, and that du Bao still had his wife and Chunxiang, so he followed his wife's advice, lied that he had killed Mrs. du and Chunxiang, and then released Chen Zhiliang.

Chen went to Huaian to see du Bao, that is, the young lady's grave was stolen, and the old lady and Chunxiang were killed. Du Bao was greatly grieved after hearing this.

After Dubao endure the pain to repair two books, let Chen Ziliang give Li Quan and Li's wife, seal official promise money, recruit Li Quan, Huai'an encirclement.

Li Niang went to Lin'an and stayed by the Qiantang River. by the time Liu Sheng knew about the exam, the examination time had passed, thanks to Miao Shunbin, the examiner, she was able to make up the exam.

At this time, due to the military affairs of Huai and Yang, the court postponed the release of the list. Li Niang asked Liu Sheng to visit her parents in Yangzhou first. Shortly after Liu Sheng left, the old lady and Chunxiang who came to Lin'an met Li Niang and Shi Daogu because they were looking for a place to stay.

Liu Sheng went to Yangzhou and heard that du was in Huai'an and went to Huai'an to see du Bao. Du Bao thought his daughter was dead, so why did he have a son-in-law and ordered people to be taken to Lin'an for trial with Liu Sheng on fake charges.

Du Bao returned to Lin'an, where he was promoted to prime minister because of military meritorious service, and Chen Shiliang was promoted to Huangmen playing official.

At this time, at the bottom of the list, Liu Zhong was the top pick, but he could not find Liu everywhere. It turned out that Liu was being beaten by du Bao, because the spring appearance of Li Niang was found on Liu, and du Bao thought Liu was a grave robber.

At this time, when Miao Shunbin heard about it, he rushed to du Fu and saved Liu Sheng. Miao told du Bao that Liu Sheng had won the top prize in the exam.

When du Zheng was angry, Chen Shiliang came and said that the young lady was really alive again and that Liu Sheng was his son-in-law.

Du thinks it is a matter of ghosts and demons. Please play the emperor and wipe it out. Chen told the emperor that the emperor wanted the prime minister, miss, Liu Sheng and the old lady to come to testify.

In the Jinluan Hall, everyone arrived, and the emperor looked in the mirror to see if there was any shadow and concluded that Liniang was indeed alive.

Du Bao insisted that Li Niang and the old lady were changed by ghosts, and later the emperor ruled that their father and daughter and husband and wife would recognize each other.

Li Niang advised Liu Sheng to recognize her father-in-law, du Bao, and the whole family was reunited.