Gu Mei

Gu Hengbo

Gu Hengbo (1619-1664) was originally named Gu Mei, also known as Mei. His name is Mei Sheng. His name is Hengbo. He was born in Shangyuan (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) of nanzhili. Together with Ma Xianglan, Bian Yujing, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan, Kou baimen, Liu Rushi and Chen Yuanyuan, they are called "Qinhuai eight beauties".

Gongshi is good at painting and rhythm. He is especially good at painting orchids. He can express his own ideas. His paintings are elegant and elegant. His poems include night sitting in haiyuelou, sitting in boudoir with deep flowers, answering Mrs. Yuanshan's dream with Yu Meiren, and sending Mrs. Yuanshan back to the south for thousands of years. He was granted the title of "Lady Yipin".

Life of the character

In 1619, Gu Hengbo was born in Shangyuan county (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province). In 1641, Gu Hengbo married Gong Dingzi and changed his name to Xu Shanzhi. In 1644, Li Zicheng conquered the capital. Dingzi and Gu Hengbo threw themselves into the well. They were not dead. They were captured and tortured. They accepted the post of direct envoy and inspected the north city. Gong Dingzi was a minister of the three dynasties and became a minister of the Ministry of rites. Gu Hengbo began to persuade his husband to be loyal to the emperor and die for the country. However, Gong Dingzi was reluctant to give up his future and happy family and became a minister of the three dynasties. Gong Dingzi's main family, Dong, was granted the title of Gu Hengbo because of the Ming Dynasty's imperial edict. Gu Hengbo also accepted the imperial edict and was granted the title of "Lady Yipin". In the winter of the third year of Emperor Kangxi's reign (1664), Gu Hengbo died of illness in Beijing's iron lion Hutong. Gong Dingzi built Miaoxiang Pavilion in Beijing's Changfeng temple to commemorate his death.

Main works

A collection of poems

poetry

night sitting in haiyuelou, deep flowers sitting in boudoir, Yu Meiren answering Mrs. Yuanshan's dream, qianqiusui sending Mrs. Yuanshan back to the south, liuhuage collection, etc

Paintings

Fan of orchid painting, volume of Jiudan painting, volume of Cong LAN he Juan (co authored with fan JUE), and orchid with ink brush

Anecdotes of characters

It is said that Huang Daozhou, a neo Confucianist at that time (later martyred in Jiangxi Province during the anti Qing period), boasted that "there are prostitutes in his eyes, but no prostitutes in his heart". When he was drunk, all the students in Donglin asked Hengbo to go to the bed to see if he really had the ability of Liu Xiahui. I'm afraid that her way of going her own way and not caring about the eyes of the world is an important reason why she and Gong Dingzi, a gifted scholar of Jiangzuo, decided to fly together. However, her controversial personality is also the evil result of this personality to some extent. Gu Hengbo has both talent and appearance. Known as the "No.1 Nanqu opera", it is naturally favored by celebrities. As a result, meilou is so popular that there are almost no empty days for banquets. It is often called "meilou guest" by those who invite meilou banquets, which seems to be a symbol of elegance. Many cultural banquets in Jiangnan are also regretful for Gu Meisheng's absence.

Character evaluation

Overall evaluation

Among the eight beauties of Qinhuai, Gu Hengbo is the most prominent one, who was granted the title of "Lady Yipin". According to Yu Huai's miscellaneous notes on Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty, Gu Hengbo's "Zhuang Yan is beautiful and elegant, and his demeanor is extraordinary.". He is good at poetry and painting, especially at painting orchids, and has a bold and uninhibited personality.

Comments on celebrities

Gong Dingzi wrote a poem: "the waist is jealous, the Yang's hair is jealous of the clouds, and the soul breaking warbler speaks at night; the Qin tower should be mistaken by the east wind, and Luo Fu was not sent to marry the envoy." The famous historian, Mr. Meng Sen, who tried to write a textual research on Madame Hengbo, greatly disagreed with Gong Gu's character. He thought that both the husband and wife were snobbish and selfish. Once known as "Li Xian, Ai Shi, Xia Nei Jun Yi", is Mrs. Hengbo really so unbearable?

Commemoration of later generations

The fan of the orchid painting painted by Gu Hengbo at the age of 17 is now hidden in the Palace Museum