The story about the birth of shadow play

Who knows, rain or shine, Li Furen entered the palace for only a few short years, but unfortunately he fell ill and soon became terminally ill until he was bedridden. Emperor Wu was very sad and went to see her in person. As soon as Li Furen saw the arrival of Emperor Wu, he quickly covered him with a quilt. He said, "My concubine has been ill for a long time and her appearance is ruined. I can't see your majesty again. I would like to entrust her to King Changyi and my brothers. " Emperor Wu said, "Madam is in critical condition and there is no medicine to cure. Why not let me see you again? " Li Furen refused, saying, "I dare not see your majesty because I haven't seen your father." Emperor Wu said, "Madam, please see me. I will give you more money to make your brother an official. " Li Furen said: "It is not a sight to see if it is sealed with the emperor." Emperor Wu also said that he must see her and lift the quilt with his hand. Li Furen turned around and hid her tears. Despite repeated appeals from Emperor Wu, Li Furen just sobbed alone. Emperor Wu was unhappy and left in a rage.

At this time, Li Furen's sisters also went to the palace to be ill. They were all surprised to see this situation. After Emperor Wu left, they blamed Li Furen and said, "It is easy for you to entrust your brother to see your majesty. Why bother to violate this? " Li Furen sighed and said, "You don't know, I didn't see the emperor because I deeply trusted my brothers. I come from a humble background, and he is attached to me only because of his usual appearance. Generally speaking, sex matters to people, sex declines and love relaxation, and love relaxation is absolutely graceful. Today, I am sick and dying. If he sees that my color is very different from before, he will be disgusted and afraid to abandon it. How will he take care of my brother after I die? "

A few days later, Li Furen died. The end of the matter is just as Li Furen expected. Li Furen refused to see Emperor Wu, instead of angering him, it aroused his infinite pain. He held the Queen's funeral for Li Furen and ordered a painter to paint her portrait before her death and hang it in Ganquan Palace. Emperor Wu misses Li Furen day by day.

One day, Emperor Wu went to Kunming Pool. Kunming Pool is located in Shanglinyuan, with Yuzhangtai, Lingbo Hall and a stone whale. This stone whale is three feet long. Every time it rains, the stone whale moves from beginning to end. There is a stone man standing in the east and west of Kunming Pool: one is Petunia and the other is Weaver Girl, making it look like Tianhe. It was autumn, and Emperor Wu was sitting on the boat, only to see the sun setting, the cool wind stirring the water, and the scenery was bleak. I can't help but think of all the benefits of Li Furen's life, so I wrote a new poem called "Leaves Mourning for Cicada", which said: "Luo Mei is silent, and jade falls into the dust. The empty room was deserted and the leaves were heavy. Looking at my beautiful daughter, I am not practical? "

Emperor Wu came out to visit Kunming Pool for fun, but added many new worries, so he went back to the cold room to have a rest. He felt very tired. When he was asleep, he suddenly saw a man crouching in. It was Li Furen. She handed something to Emperor Wu with her hand and said, "This is incense." Emperor Wu suddenly realized that he remembered the dream just now, as if it were just around the corner. I smelled another fragrance, which lasted for a long time. He remembered the fragrance given by Li Furen in his dream and groped around, but he couldn't find it. However, the skirt of the pillow mat somehow got scented, so the cool room was changed into a "dream room". Emperor Wu turned to thinking, called an alchemist, and asked him to set up an altar in the palace to evoke spirits, so that he could once again Li See Fu Ren. So in the evening, I lit a candle and let Liang Wudi look around in the curtain. In the shadow of the candle, the vague figure came lightly, but slowly left. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty looked at the man who looked like Li Furen and wrote sadly, "Is it evil? If it is not evil, why is it late? " It turns out that there is a diving stone in the deep sea, which is blue in color and as light as a feather. This kind of stone is warm in cold weather, but it gets cold in hot summer. Carve this stone into a portrait and you can speak. The alchemist put the stone in the gauze tent, just like when Li Fu was alive. However, because the stone is highly toxic, it is inaccessible and can only be seen from a distance. He thought of Li Furen's entrustment in his illness, so he appointed Li Yannian as a captain. Li Furen also had a younger brother, Li Guangli, who was short of size, so Emperor Wu Can could not seal it for no reason.

But the opportunity finally came. Emperor Wu heard that there were blood horses in Dawan. He sent messengers to Dawan with his daughter and Golden Horse in exchange for a good horse. This matter was rejected by King Dawan. The emissary worked hard for nothing and was very angry. He scolded the ministers of all countries and hammered the golden horse into pieces. The kingdom of Dawan killed the emissary and robbed the property, but only a few escaped. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took the opportunity to send Li Guangli to lead 60,000 cavalry and 70,000 soldiers to levy Dawan. Four years later, slate returned to Yumenguan, leaving only over 10,000 people. Emperor Wu was not harsh, and named Li Guangli Hou Haixi, a food city with 8,000 households. How many bones were left in the desert, only for a last word, and Emperor Wu was also infatuated.

"Madam" is the title of concubines. Li Furen didn't leave her name. It's hard to say whether it's bad luck or bad luck, but it's really rare for Li Furen to linger after the death of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty for many years. Her beginning and end are equally incredible. Emperor Wu's endless thoughts are almost all in her plan. Her beautiful face is the reason why she is favored, but more importantly, she is very measured and has not been carried away by the favor of Emperor Wu. The phrase "leaving the world to be independent" sets off her essence, and there is a kind of distance beauty that can be met but not sought. Li Bai's sentence "How long will it take to convince people with color?" Perhaps this is what Li Furen called the best footnote.

Guo Xian in the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in "The Ghost Story of Emperor Wudi's Cave" that Emperor Wudi missed Li Furen deeply, so Dong Fangshuo presented a dream grass so that Emperor Wudi could see Li Furen in his dream. Both Historical Records and Hanshu recorded in detail the event that alchemist Li Shaoweng evokes the soul of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. According to Wang Jia's Collection Notes in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when evoking souls, Li Furen's portrait was embedded in a gauze curtain and projected on a "curtain" under a candle. This is the origin of shadow play in later generations. Bai Juyi's poem "Li Furen" said: "Sadness is not unique to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but has always been the case. Did you notice that Mu Wang cried for three days and hurt Shengji in front of the heavy wall? Tailing didn't see a tear, and Ma Yipo missed the imperial concubine. Even if Yan Zi's beautification is flattened, this hatred will last for a long time. " But the sadness of "death and independence" is only Li Furen, far from Yang Guifei's gaudiness.