Youzi is a nephew, which means that Wang Junxi is Wang Fu's uncle and Leap is Wang Fu's cousin. "Money" is an earthenware pot for burning tea, and "Mo" is a bamboo basket for picking mulberry. Although these two words are modest, they properly show the identity of leap, a village girl who is good at cooking tea and picking mulberry.
It is worth noting that Wang Runzhi, who Su Shi married, is 21 years old. According to the etiquette of the Song Dynasty, "women aged 14 to 20" can get married if they don't mourn. Judging from the fact that Su Ba Niang married Cheng Zhicai at the age of 16, Wang Fu married Su Shi at the age of 16 and Shi married Su Zhe at the age of 15, the wedding date of Meishan women is mostly between the ages of 15 and 16. So, why is Leap 21 still in the world?
There can only be one reason, that is, when Wang Fu died of illness three years ago, Su and Wang had agreed to marry Leap Moon to Su Jia to replace her cousin and be Su Shi's second wife. This marriage is most likely arranged by Wang Fu at his deathbed. Otherwise, Su Shi, as an "emperor's disciple" of the two schools, and an official of the local history museum in Liu Pin, Ouyang Xiu has repeatedly declared that he will be a master of articles in the future, and it is impossible to marry a village girl whose youth has passed away.
This point is really ignored by scholars who study Su Shi and compose music for him.
In the eighth year of Yuan You, Leap died of illness in Bianjing. In Ode to the Dead Wife in Tongan County, Su Shi finally made it clear that the past is a righteous gentleman and does not need time. Heirs are brothers, and there is nothing like a virtuous man. Since the female post was repaired, the mother instrument has been embarrassed. Three sons are like one, and love falls from the sky. (Collected Works of Su Shi, Volume 63)
"Tong Yijun" was the memorial to Wang Fu by the imperial court, and "not many years" indicated that the marriage between Su Shi and Leap was decided less than one year after Wang Fu's death. The purpose of this is simple: only Leap can be used as the second room, and Mai Su, the child left by Wang Fu, will be taken good care of. Sure enough, Sister Leap's son and his later sons, Su Lang and Su Guo, all came out with themselves, and Su Shi soon had a harmonious and happy family.
According to her ranking in her family, the bride's original name was twenty-seven Niang, and the name "leap" was obviously named by Su Shi. She was born in the first month of the eighth year of the Qing Dynasty, and Leap was born in this leap month. The literal meaning of "leap" is unexpectedly "increase". For Su Shi, the loss of his wife in middle age and the helplessness of finding a stepmother for his children are also related to "leap"
Investigating the genealogy of the Su family, we found that the women in the Su family, like most women in the society at that time, had no formal names. Su Shi's grandmother's name is Shi, and her mother's name is only Mrs. Cheng, while Su Zhe's wife is satisfied with the name Shi all her life. Only Su Shi's two wives, like his concubine Chao Yun and men, had their own names and characters, which was rare at that time. From this point of view, they are lucky to marry a university student.
Not only that, Leap goes further than Wang Fu, and it has its own word: Zhang Ji. This shows that leap is the third child in the family.
Perhaps it was before and after Su Shi took Chaoyun as his concubine that he chose the word "Xia Zi" because Yue Yun followed Su Shi. If I have something to say, how can my wife not?
Zhong Laiyin said that "Su Shi's feelings for the first two ladies are indifferent, and the poet only has one or two works for them", which is really deceptive. As mentioned earlier, Su Shi's missing Wang Fu's works is by no means "one or two", but more is the leap mentioned in the poem, which reveals the truth and simplicity of emotion, even surpassing the fleeting glance.
Su Shi first mentioned leap to outsiders in his poems as a good wife. In the fourth year of Xining (107 1), on November 28th, Su Shi arrived in Hangzhou as a general. On the third day, that is, 1 February1Sunday, he went to the West Lake to visit friends introduced by his mentors Ouyang Xiu, Whist and Qin Hui, who are poets from Gushan. In the famous book "Visiting Two Monks in Qin Hui Gulangshan Temple in December", he wrote freely:
It will snow, the clouds will fill the lake, the towers will be bright, and the mountains will be gone.
There are many fish in the clear water stone, but no birds in the deep forest.
I really entertain myself by not returning to my wife in the twelfth lunar month.
In the Song Dynasty, the twelfth lunar month was a public holiday. On this day, the emperor gave medicine to officials, and the people also exchanged needed items. "Every household in the alley feeds each other." When he first arrived in Hangzhou, he needed to deal with his colleagues and neighbors. Su Shi gave up human relations and went to Gushan alone to find monk poems. He also proudly said that he would not be a wife on the twelfth day, indicating that his wife could cope with the "Lu Xiang" at home, and let him stay away from the noise of the world and go to the quiet and lonely mountains to watch the water, enjoy the fish and welcome the birds. At that time, Su Lang, the son of Kaifeng Leap, could not walk, and Su Shi's great uncle Su Lian's eldest grandson died in Beijing, so his nephew's widow and two grandnephews had to be raised by them. The old nurse is old, and the housework of a dozen people is completely left to the leap students. Su Shi's "free and easy" is really a kind of happiness
Later, in a poem written on the Double Ninth Festival, he called himself leap:
Poor crazy blow hat syma, empty to kiss old Meng Guang. -"Tomorrow's Double Ninth Festival, I will not go to the ancient meeting because of illness, and then use rhyme."
Sima is a pronoun of children's sentences, and Meng Guang is Hong's wife. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty said that when Hongliang was an attendant in Jiangnan, his wife Hongliang personally cooked food to make a living. She and her husband take Qi Mei as an example and regard each other as guests. The metaphor of "Old Meng Guang" is enough to show that Leap is hardworking and capable, and his feelings for her husband are profound.
Su Shi later gave a higher evaluation to his beloved wife in a poem to his good friend Wang Gong:
The son can also blame the same Liang Yuan, but the wife is poor in virtue and respect. -"Six Princes with Two Rhymes" (5)
"Liang Yuan" is the word of Tao Yuanming, a reclusive poet. When he returned to the farm, he wrote a "poem of responsibility" and warned his son not to be lazy. Su Shi's two poems are embellished, and his wife is very virtuous, which he flaunts.
"Mastery" is the word of Yan Feng, a great man in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty said that Yan Feng was a child prodigy who could recite poems at the age of nine. The word "extensive reading" came from his evaluation. Yan Feng is knowledgeable, outstanding in character and pays more attention to honesty. Unfortunately, he married a particularly jealous wife, complained all his life, and even wrote to his brother-in-law asking for a divorce from his wife. Because of this, Liu Yiqing, the author of Shi Shuo Xin Yu, said wryly that compared with Yan Feng and Feng Jingtong, I have three things in common: first, I am bold and upright; Second, dare to speak, not for the world; The third is to have a strong husband's wife and a bumpy family. Su Shi also likes to laugh at himself for no reason. If his wife is a bit bossy, he will complain like Liu Yiqing. The phrase "Corporal Wife" shows that he is really impeccable, and his life is much happier than that of Yan Feng.
Interestingly, Su Shi also wrote this passage after the poem:
Although the servant's article failed to capture Yan Feng, his generosity is worthy of being an Weng. (Feng) Yan met the brave ancestor, but he was exiled, similar to a servant. However, Yan's wife is very jealous, and her servant is not as good as this, so there is a sentence of "winning the scenery".
Su Shi was born wild and uninhibited. Only a virtuous woman like Leap can give him more freedom and let Su Shi leave this fashionable woman who was born in a dance pavilion at a young age at Chaoyun's side and live in harmony with her for life. Perhaps Wang Fu knew that her cousin was open-minded and hard-working, so she specially arranged for her to take care of her husband and young and helpless son when she was in danger?
Virtue is by no means blind obedience, and it does not mean resignation. Leap followed Su Shi for sixteen years, and shared the responsibility of living in Huangzhou after working in Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. Later, she went from the imperial court to the county and returned to the imperial court from the county. She has experienced many ups and downs, but she is by no means a dispensable person in Su Shi's life. Please look at the following example:
When Su Shi first arrived in Mizhou as a satrap, it was a drought, locusts were everywhere, and the people were hungry, cold and miserable. At the beginning of his tenure, Su Shi devoted himself to exterminating locusts, then helped the poor, picked up abandoned babies along the city wall, and finally dug wild vegetables with the people to spend the famine, almost to the point of physical and mental exhaustion, occasionally losing his temper at home and talking loudly to the children. Is understandable. Su Shi has a poem "Children", which records a little thing that happened at home:
The child didn't know how to worry, so he sat up and grabbed my clothes. I want to be angry with the children, but my wife advised them to be stupid. Children are even more obsessed with you. What are you unhappy about?
I'm still ashamed of this statement. Wash your lamp in front of me. Beat Liu Ling's wife, just to drink.
This child should be Su Guo, born in Hangzhou. At that time, he was only four years old When he sees his father coming back from outside, he may want to eat something good. Su Shi is tired and hungry. Maybe he just dug up Qiju and abandoned the baby, so he lost his temper. The so-called "I am more infatuated with you, and I am not happy about it" is a description of leap. In the current words, it is "a child is not sensible, how can you be more willful than him?" Get angry when you get home. Why not have some fun? " There is both blame and pity, as well as dual care for her husband and son. Then she washed the teacup for her husband, put fresh tea on it, or served the "thin wine" of Mizhou that Su Shi liked, so that her husband could return to the warmth of his family with warmth.
At this time, Su Shi had nothing to say except regret.
"Beating Liu Ling's wife just to drink" is another story. Liu Ling, a celebrity in Jin Dynasty, was an alcoholic. As long as there is some money at home, he will take it out to buy wine. In order to help him get rid of his alcoholism, Mrs. Liu often hides the wine, and even "donates wine to destroy the device", spills the wine and smashes the wine device, which makes her have to lie at home all day to cheat on the wine. Su Shi thinks that Leap is better than Mrs. Liu Ling, loving without drowning, complaining without worrying. Isn't such a vivid poem and such a true feeling of life the best praise for leap?