Ma Xianglan, whose name is true, was originally from southern Hunan, and loved to draw Lanzhu, so he chose the word Xianglan. She is good at painting poems, and has written a collection of poems, A Collection of Xianglan. Ma Xianglan was born in an official's family. Since childhood, he has been reduced to a prostitute, and accumulated money to build a "Youlan Pavilion" on the Qinhuai River. Wang Zhideng, a talented scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, was fascinated by her extraordinary temperament, so they fell in love, but they didn't get married for various reasons. Until Wang Zhideng's seventieth birthday, dozens of Qinhuai geisha were admitted by Ma Xianglan, who went to Suzhou to celebrate his birthday and sang and danced for more than two months. After returning, she died of illness in her orchid pavilion at the age of 57.
Liu Rushi, whose real name is Yang, is from Jiaxing, Zhejiang. From childhood, he was plundered and sold to Wujiang as a maid, and the long one was forced to make a living by busking. He changed his name to Liu Yin, and then changed his name to Yes, so he was nicknamed Hedong Jun.. Once fell in love with Chen Zilong, a writer, but Chen Hou didn't marry her for some reason. It wasn't until she was in her twenties that she married Qian Qianyi, a wine-offering in the literary world at that time. When the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Fu Wang and Zhu Yousong established a small court in Nanming and Hong Guang, and Liu Rushi supported Qian Qianyi as the minister of does. Soon the Qing army went south, and the Hong Guang dynasty fell. Liu advised Qian Qianyi to join her in the water to be martyred, but Qian refused on the grounds that the water was too cold to get down. Instead, he took the lead in welcoming the Qing soldiers when they entered Nanjing, and became an assistant minister of the Qing court. Money was not satisfactory in Beijing, and he gradually regretted it, so he led his illness back. Encouraged by Liu Rushi, Fu embarked on the road of anti-Qing and regaining sight, and contacted Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan who insisted on anti-Qing in the southeast coast at that time to try to recover. Liu Rushi invested in comforting the Qing Rebels, taking Liang Hongyu, the wife of Han Shizhong in the Southern Song Dynasty, as an example. However, the anti-Qing struggle turned to a low ebb after the failure of the Zheng-Zhang allied attack on Jinling. Qian Qianyi died of illness in the fifth year of Kangxi, and the villagers bullied orphans and widows to seize their property. Liu Rushi hanged himself, and a generation of patriotic prostitutes died.
Dong Xiaowan's name is Bai, the word Xiaowan, and the name is violet female history. Nanjing people. At the age of fifteen, I was forced by life to fall into the dust. She is not only beautiful in appearance, but also versatile, and she is good at poetry, piano and calligraphy. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Rugao gifted scholar took the initiative to take an exam in Nanjing, admiring his visit, and they met each other from then on, and later married Maoxiang as his concubine. The Qing soldiers went south, taking risks to avoid war, and their families were scattered all over the country. Whenever Maoxiang gets sick, Dong Xiaowan takes good care of him day and night. After seven years of Shunzhi, he died of exhaustion at the age of 27. Later generations are far-fetched, saying that Dong Xiaowan was plundered into the Qing Palace, and Emperor Shunzhi was extremely fond of her and gave her the title of Dong E Fei. After his death, Emperor Shunzhi lost all hope and became a monk in Wutai Mountain, which spread widely.
Gu Hengbo, with a charming name and a beautiful eyebrow, was born in Shangyuan, Nanjing. Born with beautiful eyes and looking forward to brightness, he built an eyebrow building in Jinling. He became famous for his ability to write poems and draw pictures. At the age of twenty-two, she married Gong Dingzi, one of the three great poets in Jiangzuo, as a concubine. When the Qing soldiers went south, they advised their husbands to be loyal to the monarch and to die for their country, but Gong Dingzi could not bear to part with his beautiful wife and son, and finally became a minister of the Qing Dynasty. Gu Hengbo has used his special status for many times to help the anti-Qing people, and he has also cleverly covered the anti-Qing people's escape from the Qing soldiers by Yan Ermei, an eastern monk. In the autumn of the third year of Kangxi, Gu Hengbo died of illness. Gong Dingzi wrote a legendary collection of poems "White Gate Willow" for her.
Bian Yujing's real name race was named "A Taoist from Yujing", so people also called it Bian Yujing. She was born in the official family of Qinhuai, and was reduced to a geisha because of her father's early death. In the spring of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Weiye, a great poet, met Bian Sai in Nanjing and was deeply impressed by her literary talent and temperament. However, I later heard that my uncle Tian Wan had come to Jinling to choose a concubine and had taken a fancy to Bian Sai and others, so I didn't dare to confess. Bian Sai divorced from other people, and later became a monk because of his unhappy married life, while Wu Weiye made a toast to imperial academy in the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty, Wu was depressed, ashamed of his dishonour, and fell into deep remorse, and even more missed Bian Sai, who had loved each other. In the seventh year of Shunzhi, the two met in Taicang, and Bian Yujing played the piano to express his affection. Wu was deeply moved, and wrote "Listening to Bian Yujing, a female Taoist, playing the piano". Since then, Bian Yujing lived in seclusion in Huishan, Wuxi, and died more than ten years later. Wu Weiye heard of his death, and wrote a mourning poem "The Tomb of Taoist Yujing in Jin Shu Lin". Bian Yujing's negative feelings became his lifelong regret.
Kou Baimen's name is Mei, and the word is Bai Men. Qing Yuhuai's Banqiao Miscellanies contains Bai Men's "Juanjuan is quiet and beautiful; The ups and downs, the ability to bend songs, the ability to paint orchids, the ability to know each other and rhyme, the ability to recite poems, but the slippery and easy to learn. " Kou Baimen was born in a family of prostitutes, and he married Zhu Guobi, the imperial clan of Ming Dynasty, as his concubine at the age of seventeen. When the Qing soldiers went south, Zhu Guobi went down, and soon his family went north with the army and was placed under house arrest in Beijing. In order to get away, Zhu had planned to sell Koubaimen and others for gold. Koubaimen begged, "If I bring my concubine back to the south, I can raise ten thousand yuan in January to repay her." Zhu Guobi promised her. Koubaimen went back to Jiangnan and ran around, raising enough 22 thousand silver to redeem Zhu Guobi. After Zhu Guobi came out, he wanted to renew the old friendship. Kou Baimen flatly refused: "At the beginning, you used silver to redeem me from my registration, and now I also use silver to redeem you. Now we are even, so we can end it." Kou Baimen returned to Qinhuai Opera House, where he became a singer and indulged in wine, and went back and forth with literati and poets every day, and finally died of desolation and illness.
Chen Yuanyuan, whose original surname is Xing Mingyuan, is round and graceful, and he is from Wujin, Changzhou. When I was a child, I adopted my foster mother Chen, so I changed my surname to Chen. She is good at singing and dancing, born with beauty and superb color art. In the last years of Chongzhen, it was earned by my uncle Tian Wan and returned to Wu Sangui, the company commander of Liaodong. Wu Sangui moved to Shanhaiguan, leaving her in Beijing. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Chen Yuanyuan was plundered by Li Zhi's department, Liu Zongmin. When Wu Sangui heard the news, he said, "Anger at the crown is a beauty", and led the Qing soldiers into the customs to attack the peasant army. Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing after the defeat. Wu Sangui regained his concubine, took Chen Yuanyuan to various places, and finally entered Yunnan. When Wu Sangui entered the rank of King of the Day, he tried to make Yuanyuan a princess, but Yuanyuan excused herself and dismissed her, so Wu Sui found another lover. When Wu Sangui captured Emperor Yongli in Nanming, Chen Yuanyuan urged Wu to take the opportunity to push him to fight against the Qing Dynasty and regain his sight. Wu Sangui did not listen, but hanged Emperor Yongli in Bizipo, Kunming. Disappointed, Chen Yuanyuan begged for a haircut. In the 12th year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui rose up against the Qing Dynasty, which was later flattened by Emperor Kangxi's troops. After Wu Sangui's death, Chen Yuanyuan also sank in the lotus pond of Huaguo Temple in Wuhua Mountain.
Li Xiangjun, also known as Li Xiang, is good at singing and dancing, and refined in music. Because of its petite and exquisite appearance, it is called "fragrant fan pendant". Hou Fangyu, one of the four sons of Fu She, came to Nanjing to take the exam. They fell in love at first sight and advised Hou Fangyu not to get close to Ruan Dacheng, the eunuch. When Hou Fangyu left Nanjing, he bought a wine to see him off, suggesting that he would love the festival of the same name. In the Southern Ming Dynasty, Governor Tian relied on the potential to hire her as his concubine. Li Xiangjun would rather die than follow, hitting his head on the ground and spilling blood on the inscribed poems sent by Hou Fangyu. The painter Yang Wencong arrived and sighed repeatedly, painting a peach blossom with his blood. After the Qing army went south and Nanjing fell, Xiangjun fled to Qixia Mountain to avoid chaos. At this time, Hou Fangyu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and made suggestions to the Qing Governor in an attempt to destroy the anti-Qing peasant army. When the two met again, Xiangjun knew what he had done and resolutely cut off his love roots and cut his hair for Nepal. Kong Shangren's Peach Blossom Fan in Qing Dynasty was based on their love.
Although the eight beauties in Qinhuai were a sensation, most of them were obsessed with love because of their humble position, which doomed their endings to be tragedies. Except Ma Xianglan, all the eight people were born in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, so they had a special social background. What is more valuable is that most of them hold the same mentality as patriotic husbands and insist on valuable national integrity when the Qing soldiers enter the south and the country breaks down and dies. In the end, it often ends badly. Such a fierce woman often meets a cheating husband and a weak husband. For example, Liu Rushi, Li Xiangjun and Bian Yujing, who adhered to national integrity, and Qian Qianyi, Hou Fangyu and Wu Weiye, who they loved and worshipped, were brazenly officials of the Qing Dynasty. These are left to men, which are meaningful ironies.