Legends about love range from Lianlizhi to a butterfly in Qinglingtai, Fengqiu, Xinxiang.

In the history of China, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was an era of great social change, during which hundred schools of thought contended and a hundred schools of thought contended. It occupies a very important position in the development history of China Thought. This period has also become an important period in China's history, in which the stars are shining and the political and academic thoughts are blending.

Next, we switch the time to the late Warring States period more than two thousand years ago.

Mencius, the successor of Confucianism who firmly followed the footsteps of Confucius, returned to his hometown to call his disciples to give lectures after traveling in various vassal countries, and together with the students, he "wrote a book with preface poems, describing Zhong Ni as the meaning of the seven chapters of Mencius".

Zhuangzi, the successor of Laozi's thought, chose the carefree life of harmony between man and nature, purity and inaction, and conforming to nature because of advocating freedom. "Work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and enjoy yourself between heaven and earth."

Qu Yuan, the greatest romantic poet in China, was exiled for the second time. He started from Du Ying (jiangling county, Hubei Province), went downstream to the southeast, passed through Xiashou (Chu of the Warring States, now southeast of Jingsha City, Hubei Province), looked at Longmen (east gate of Du Ying City), entered the Yangtze River through Dongting Lake, then went out to Xiapu (Hankou, Hubei Province), and finally reached Lingyang (according to legend, now south of Qingyang County, Anhui Province). During the long 16 years, Qu Yuan wrote a lot of excellent literary works.

The vassal States are busy with reform and hegemony.

It is in this historical period and under this background that one day, let's pull the camera to Liu Guang Township, fengqiu county, Xinxiang, Henan Province.

A beautiful woman, named Miss Gong, is picking mulberry trees with her neighbors.

She must have been very happy that day. At the time of harvest, the young mind must be full of expectations and plans for the future.

But on that day, Xi's fate began to change.

At that time, King Kang of Song had a Qingdui Palace in Liu Guang Township, Fengqiu, Xinxiang. On that day, King Kang of Song came to the palace with a group of people. On the way, Kang Wangyan saw the rest of the mulberry picking crowd. From then on, Song Kang Wang Yan lost his mind and never forgot. In order to see the Xi family often, King Kang of Song had an earthen platform built in Qingdui East Village near Sanglin, namely Qingling Terrace.

I don't know how beautiful Xi's is. I checked a lot of information and didn't describe it in detail. However, from the perspective of Kang Wang's "lost heart" to build the Green Mausoleum and hope Xi, and from the various decisions made by Xi later to defend his love, she must be beautiful, a beautiful woman.

I don't know how long Kang Wang watched in Qingling Taiwan. After a few days or months, Kang Wang ordered his men to rob the stone and put her under house arrest in Qingling Taiwan. When he discovered that Shi's husband was his "Sheren" (equivalent to a secretary), he demoted Shi's husband Han Ping to "Cheng Dan" and asked him to build a wall under the Qingling mausoleum to feed the horses.

According to historical records, Song Kang and Wang Yan are "good-looking, with divine light on their faces, able to bend and stretch their hooks." This should be the standard "Gao Fushuai" at that time.

On one side is the wife of Cheng Dan, and on the other side is the throne of the princess. However, none of these touched on Xi's. She missed the time when she was poor but loving her husband, and made a song "Black Magpie Song" in response to Kang Wang:

There are birds in Nanshan and birds in Beishan. Birds fly high, but what can we do?

Birds fly in pairs, but the phoenix is not. My concubine is Shu Ren, and I don't like King Song.

What an upright woman!

When this honest beauty felt doomed in this life at Qinglingtai, and there was no hope of seeing her husband again, she resolutely decided to double suicide with death. She tore off the "three-inch silk" from her skirt with a book, wrote a "secret letter" in blood, and shot an arrow at her husband Han Ping, who was repairing the wall under the tomb of Qing Dynasty: "The rain is lewd, the river is deep, and the sunrise is careful." Rain is lewd, indicating that the sadness and thoughts in my heart are endless like continuous heavy rain; The deep river means that the husband and wife are separated and cannot meet each other; Be careful at sunrise.

Xi and her husband agreed to die-a helpless and tragic decision to defend their love.

Han Ping committed suicide immediately after receiving his wife's "secret letter". Han Ping should be a person with considerable courage and responsibility. In order to accompany his wife, he is willing to build a wall under the Qingling stage to feed the horses. When he received a secret letter from his wife and learned that she was dead, he ended his life without hesitation-defending his dignity and love with death! Such a man is worthy of Xi's life and death!

After learning that her husband was double martyred, Xi, a clever man, steadied King Kang of Song with one or two tricks, paid homage to her husband calmly at Qingling Terrace and jumped off Qingling Terrace. King Kang of Song and other handmaids "hugged each other left and right", but they only grabbed Xi's skirt in a hurry, and Xi's clothes had tried to corrode him, and the clothes that the handmaid caught were instantly broken. Fragments of clothes floated in the wind and turned into a butterfly.

The wind must be blowing and blowing that day, and the birds must be singing and singing that day.

After Xi died, people found her last words on her belt: "The king wants me to live, but I want to die. I hope to bury me and my husband together. " Kang Wang was angry and ordered Han Pingxi to be buried separately, but deliberately separated the two graves. He said bitterly, "Since you and your wife loved each other before they died, you can become one after you die. In that case, I won't stop you. "

After Song Kangwang left, a catalpa tree grew in front of the newly buried graves of Xi and Han Ping. Both catalpa bungeana trees have grown to an average thickness and are very tall. The roots of the two trees are opposite, the branches on the ground are staggered, and the roots under the ground are connected. Another pair of mandarin ducks live between the lush branches and leaves of two trees. They don't go in the morning and evening, and their necks are sad and touching. People nearby call these two catalpa trees acacia trees.

Han Ping and Shi's life gained new life and eternity in another form.

That year, the story of "acacia tree" spread all over the country. ?

On the historical stage of more than 500 years in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the stories of war and peace and the romantic and persistent people constitute a colorful and hearty era.

The love story of Han Ping and Xi couples adds a touch of romance and compassion to this era and becomes a perfect footnote for this era.

"Acacia", "Lian Lizhi" and "become a butterfly" have also become symbols of romance and love;

Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "The Ballad of the White Head":

"The pride has not been lost since ancient times, and today there is only Qinglingtai."

Qing Lingtai by Li Shangyin, a poet in Tang Dynasty

The sun is slanting by the Qingling platform, and the soul of eternal chastity leans on the sunset.

Don't be surprised that Han is a butterfly and flew to other flowers.

The stubborn Wang Anshi said, "If I believe that Zhuang Zhou is not me, how can I die for Han Ping?"

Bai Juyi's eternal swan song "We hope that two birds will become one, fly in the sky, live and grow together on the earth, and have two branches in one tree." In the eternal song of sadness!

There is also a song by Nalan Xingde, "Minus Magnolia and Cold Eyes"

The flowers are cold-eyed, and I regret coming late to find spring.

Know this life, know this life, see you.

Born beautiful, don't believe in lovesickness.

Solved the pain of acacia, and Han Ping had a branch.

For that meeting of souls, for looking back at that dark place, all the waiting in this life is worthwhile! No matter in the street with lights on or in the abandoned building, as long as we can meet again!

It is this swan song of love that leads to the story of butterfly lovers: "The grass is green, the flowers are in full bloom, and the colorful butterflies are lingering for a long time", "Tears dye our wings and turn them into colorful butterflies, and bloom's flowers fall, which goes through all the hardships. The truth is there, we will never part! "

1930 Folklore Weekly contains the story narrated by Qian Nanyang, a famous Chinese opera expert, and clearly points out that the prototype of the story is the story of Han Pinghe's history.

On one occasion, my father and I drove to Qingdui Village, Liu Guang Town, Fengqiu, looking for the remains of Qinglingtai. After more than two thousand years, Qinglingtai has become the site of Qingdui Village, which is called "Qingdui Village Site". Next to the ruins, we saw the tomb of Xi family, and the words "Tomb of Xi family in Warring States" were still faintly visible.

The mottled traces seem to tell the story of a thousand years. A butterfly stopped on the tombstone for a while and then flew away!

In Qing Dynasty, Gao Xin wrote a poem "Yongqing Lingtai". Let's relive this story that has been circulating for thousands of years!

During the Warring States period, Han had a jade seal, so far the husband and wife have died as if they were their own lives.

However, I know that my kindness is heavy, regardless of Kang's honor.

Knot the rope to create harmony and righteousness, and the flying butterfly feathers show sincerity.

It's not as good as a tomb pit in Qingling to urge the west to return to Chu.

Han Ping had a good reputation during the Warring States Period.

To this day, the couple are still alive.

They know that their husbands and wives are deeply grateful,

I can't even think about the splendor of King Kang Song.

The lush foliage represents the couple's integrity and loyalty.

Flying butterflies show their loyalty to love,

After the destruction of the State of Wu by Yue.

The stone that followed the five lakes of Chu also existed in name only.

It's better to have pits in Qingling!

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