Who are the eight beauties in Qinhuai?

"Eight Yan's in Qinhuai" refers to the eight famous artists in Nanqu of Qinhuai River in Nanjing in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, so it is also called "Eight Yan's in Jinling".

Gu Hengbo, Dong Xiaowan, Bian Yujing, Li and Kou Baimenhe are the characters in Banqiao Miscellanies. Later generations called Liu and Chen Yuanyuan the Eight Wonders Qinhuai.

The eight of them have several similarities. First, they all have patriotic national integrity. Except Ma Xianglan, all the people in Bayan, Qinhuai experienced the great turmoil of regime change from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. At that time, many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty were afraid of death and betrayed their country for glory. In sharp contrast with them, the Eight Swallows in Qinhuai, although a woman who is oppressed at the bottom of society, can show lofty national solar terms at the critical moment of national survival. This is one of the reasons why they are famous.

Extended data:

In the Ming Dynasty, the old man Yu recorded Liu, Li, Chen Yuanyuan, Koubaimen, Bian Yujing, Li and Dong Xiaowan in Banqiao Miscellanies. Zheng Jingsheng of Taiwan Province Province replaced Ma Xianglan with Zheng Tuoniang in The Mystery of Dong Xiaowan. The book Shunzhi and Princess Hubei, co-authored by Wang Deheng and Chen, has changed a lot. Li Shiniang, Gong and Huang were added, while Koubaimen and Bian Yujing were removed.

Yu, the author of Banqiao Miscellanies, and Eight Colors of Qinhuai are contemporaries and have lived in Jinling for a long time. They are frequent visitors on the Qinhuai River. It seems that what they said is true. In addition, the name of Eight Colors of Qinhuai carved by Ye in the late Qing Dynasty, the description of Eight Colors of Jinling in Rugao Ink Garden, the former residence of Dong Xiaowan and Mao Bijiang, and the novel Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, co-authored by Liu and Liu are also the same as Banqiao Miscellanies.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Qinhuai Bayan