In The West Chamber, it is said that Zhang Sheng and Yingying have experienced many hardships. Before they really broke through all obstacles, they had a firm determination to stay together until they die. In the fourth book of the play, The Dream of Yingying in Caoqiaodian, it is said in the "Order of Folding laurels" that: "You don't love heroes, you don't envy arrogance, you are born voluntarily, and you die in the same hole."
Two people have made such an oath for love. Finally, after settling one difficulty after another, they come together, and they can realize their oath that "life is the same, and death is the same".
Love has such magic that two people who have never met before meet and come together. Apart from fate, it is the determination of two people to maintain love. There are many such people, and there are also those who have made similar vows. We are familiar with the story of Zhao Meng, a great calligrapher and painter, and his wife Guan Daosheng, who lived five hundred years after Zhang Sheng.
In other words, this Zhao Meng is not a simple figure, but a real calligrapher. Moreover, he is the 11th grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu, and he doesn't have much backbone. Because of his talent, he was favored by Kublai Khan, and finally he became a doctor of Rong Lu. What makes people feel is that he not only has a good life, but also married a beautiful woman with amazing talents.
Finally, inspired by his wife's longing for his hometown and his indifferent fame and fortune, Zhao Meng and his wife returned to their hometown. This Zhao Meng is also talented and charming. Although his wife is eight years younger than him, it is inevitable that women in that era will have the appearance of beauty after middle age. The romantic feelings in Zhao Meng's bones flooded, and his mind became active. He hinted to his wife that he wanted to take a concubine.
Mrs. Zhao, Guan Daosheng, is a clever woman, but she doesn't know her husband's thoughts that she has lived with for more than ten years. She didn't make any noise or make any noise. After several brewing, she wrote a poem "I Nong Ci":
You Nong Nong, and you are very affectionate. There are many feelings, and it is like fire. Twist a piece of mud, make you, and make me. Break the two of us together and reconcile them with water. Twist another you, and mold another me. I have you in the mud and you have me in the mud. I was born with you and died with you.
When Zhao Meng, our master calligrapher and painter, saw this word, he remembered the past with his wife and the sweet bits and pieces with his wife. He couldn't help but feel guilty. Then he looked at the "same bed and the same bed" that vowed to live and die together. Where could he have the wretched mind of marrying a concubine? He finally stayed with his wife for more than ten years until her death, three years later.