{"id":3590,"date":"2019-03-15T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2023-08-18T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:47:52","slug":"a-glance-at-the-works-of-li-qingzhao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"A glance at  The Works of Li Qingzhao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Reading through the preview of the book and one of the poem &#8220;\u4e4c\u6c5f&#8221; , thus had this piece of words. <\/p><p><\/p><p>The book :<\/p><p><strong>The Works of Li Qingzha<\/strong>o<br \/><br \/> Translated by Ronald Egan<br \/> Volume edited by Anna M. Shields<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick review of the preview of the book , basically it is the background of Li Qingzhao, which is essential for classic literature per the classic Chinese literacy review method: \u77e5\u4eba\u8bba\u4e16, This is from \u5b5f\u5b50, which is still works today. \u94b1\u949f\u4e66has argued this by a joke: if you ate a delicious&nbsp;egg, no bother to know the hen. While I do not think that is the case, especially for classic literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Li was known by her delicacy and subtle , mainly on love and daily life. mostly happiness life in early days , followed 2nd half of life&nbsp; is more of bitterness. The turning point is \u6e21\u6c5f-crossing Yangtze river and her husband death. If that is conclusion, it is a bit too easy. The key to interpret the turning point is the poem \u590f\u65e5\u7edd\u53e5 or \u4e4c\u6c5f in the book. I had a video on this one as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u590f\u65e5\u7edd\u53e5sounds like an oath,&nbsp; or even a curse, with the most strong voice and masculine,&nbsp; not like other of Li Qingzhao ,not like of a female, not like a Chinese, as indirect&nbsp; expression is fundamental in Chinese classic literature, the more important , the more&nbsp;&nbsp;key issues, the more indirect the expression should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the part of \u77e5\u4eba\u8bba\u4e16, the Song GOV was&nbsp;retreating to south at the moment, the elite of Song dynasty like Mrs. Li&nbsp; and her family feels bitterness as well as patriotic. Her husband Mr. Zhao was governing \u5efa\u5eb7 city (Nangjing city today) to serve the gov. Anyhow, Mr.s Zhao fled&nbsp;upon a riot, without doing any of his duty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Li fled with her husband as well, with embarrassment, and more fury I think, wrote the masterpiece \u590f\u65e5\u7edd\u53e5, an utmost blaming to his beloved husband.A second review of the poem, it is like to saying: why not you go to death , like the great hero Xiang Yu. This kind of poem could&nbsp; never be wrote , it is by the heaven&#8217;\u662fwill and&nbsp;via Mrs. Li&#8217;s hand(<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick review of the preview of the book , basically it is the background of Li Qingzhao, which is essential for classic literature per the classic Chinese literacy review method: \u77e5\u4eba\u8bba\u4e16, This is from \u5b5f\u5b50, which is still works today. \u94b1\u949f\u4e66has argued this by a joke: if you ate a delicious&nbsp;egg, no bother to know the hen. While I do not think that is the case, especially for classic literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Li was known by her delicacy and subtle , mainly on love and daily life. mostly happiness life in early days , followed 2nd half of life&nbsp; is more of bitterness. The turning point is \u6e21\u6c5f-crossing Yangtze river and her husband death. If that is the conclusion, it is a bit too easy. The key to interpret the turning point is the poem \u590f\u65e5\u7edd\u53e5 or \u4e4c\u6c5f in the book. I had a video on this one as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u590f\u65e5\u7edd\u53e5sounds like an oath,&nbsp; or even a curse, with the most strong voice and masculine wording,&nbsp; not like other of Li Qingzhao ,not like of a female, not like a Chinese, as indirect&nbsp; expression is fundamental in Chinese classic literature, the more important , the most&nbsp;&nbsp;key issues, the more indirect the expression should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the part of \u77e5\u4eba\u8bba\u4e16, the Song GOV was&nbsp;retreating to south at the moment, the elite of Song dynasty like Mrs. Li&nbsp; and her family feels bitterness as well as patriotic. Her husband Mr. Zhao was governing \u5efa\u5eb7 city (Nangjing city today) to serve the gov. Anyhow, Mr.s Zhao fled&nbsp;upon a riot, without doing any of his duty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Li fled with her husband as well, with embarrassment, shame, and more of&nbsp; fury I think, wrote the masterpiece \u590f\u65e5\u7edd\u53e5, an utmost blaming to his beloved husband.A second review of the poem, it is like to saying: why not you go to death , like the great hero Xiang Yu. This kind of poem could&nbsp; never be wrote , it is by the heaven&#8217;s will and&nbsp;via Mrs. Li&#8217;s hand(\u5999\u7b14\u5929\u6210).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very obviously, Mrs. Li &#8216;s love to her husband&nbsp; changed significantly afterwards. Her second marriage could be the reflection of this change over. For an elite woman in Song dynasty,&nbsp;&nbsp;marriage again is &nbsp;far from normal, especially she is not for money, neither love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through the preview of the book and one of the poem &#8220;\u4e4c\u6c5f&#8221; , thus had this piece of words. The book : The Works of Li Qingzhao Translated by Ronald Egan<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/?p=3590\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,973],"tags":[1106,1105,1108,1109,1104,1107],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-705","category-973","tag-ronald-egan","tag-the-works-of-li-qingzhao","tag-1108","tag-1109","tag-1104","tag-1107"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4945,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choubb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}