Throughout the ages, prostitutes rarely get a happy ending, and Eight Swallows in Qinhuai has not escaped this unfortunate historical law. Of course, there are also many women who have strayed into this world in order to get rid of this historical law. Unfortunately, "colorful clouds are easy to disperse, but the bright moon is hard to meet." Even if it is over in a few days, they will either "return to the pot" or commit suicide in anger. The most famous is Du Shiniang, who is very angry with the treasure chest. Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, is one of the lucky ones. After being kind, she followed an affectionate and upright person. The couple loved each other and lived happily for nine years.
Dong Xiaowan, a native of Jinling, is clean in vain. When she was very young, she went to Qinhuai to be a geisha with "Nanjing Corner Qin Fang". At that time, the holder of this certificate was a "civil servant", and Dong Xiaowan was holding an "iron rice bowl" similar to what modern people call it. Dong Xiaowan's name and nickname are all because he worships Li Bai. She is smart, beautiful and elegant. She is a first-class figure in Qinhuai old house, also known as "Divine Comedy", and one of the top ten famous chefs in ancient China. She once swam from the West Lake to Huangshan Baiyue. Wu Meicun, a famous scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem about Dong Bai's portrait, describing her visit to Huangshan Mountain: "It is better to draw a skirt king than to roll the shutter door in spring." The white door moves willow, and the yellow sea returns step by step. "Sex is so quiet. Every time you go to distant Lin Yuan, you will feel nostalgic. Because you refused the noise and luxury, you lived alone in Suzhou Bantang for six years.
"When you are sick, you can sit alone and caress the seven treasures. Huang Wei seems to know people's wishes, and Liu Wei always speaks very well. " From Dong Xiaowan's poem Green Window, we can see that Dong Xiaowan is not only a colorful artistic beauty, but also an active and restless talented woman. So instead of sitting in a brothel to attract customers, she often goes out to play with customers. At that time, Dong Xiaowan was fascinated by mountains and rivers. Against the backdrop of beautiful scenery, she is also easy to be tender and give people a charming smile sincerely. So she was invited to visit Taihu Lake, climb Huangshan Mountain and row the West Lake for ten and a half days. Shortly after Dong Xiaowan left Qinhuai River, a son came to Qinhuai River to find her. This childe is a talented person in Jiangnan. General Mingxiang was born in Rugao, Jiangzuo. The literary talent is romantic and prosperous. However, he is also infected with the general rich children's habits. On the one hand, he is youthful, looking forward to being proud, presiding over talk, inspiring and anti-vulgar, loving to talk about what's going on in the world, and embracing the ambition of serving the country; On the other hand, I miss the victory of Qingxi Baishi, the famous horse trip and the life of a dude who attracted butterflies. Mao Biqiang heard Fang Yizhi say for the first time that Dong Xiaowan, one of the beauties of Qinhuai, has unique talents and colors. Wu, Wu and Wu also went to Bijiang to enjoy Xiaowan. Dong Xiaowan always holds banquets among celebrities. When people talk about using Xinjiang, they know that there is such a passive, upright and complacent senior talent floating around the world.
In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, he was admitted to a local official. It is said that Xiaowan lives in Bantang, but he has missed it many times. Finally, three years later, in the spring, Shuanjiang met Dong Xiaowan on his deathbed on his way back to Nanjing after passing the local examination. As a result, the two began a romantic relationship with talented people and beautiful women. However, in her love and marriage with Mao Bijiang, Dong Xiaowan took the initiative everywhere, showing her personality brilliance of yearning for freedom and pursuing truth. On the other hand, actively protecting Xinjiang shows a self-centered personality weakness. Shortly after the exam, he risked breaking the record again. By this time, he was over 30 years old. Because of career difficulties, he simply decided to go home and live in seclusion. Dong Xiaowan heartily agreed with his decision. She has been longing for a simple vegetarian life and getting along with each other day and night. In her view, everything has become the past. With the help of Qian and Liu, Dong Xiaowan embarked on the road of redemption and became a concubine who ventured into Xinjiang. It was the winter of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and Dong Xiaowan and I braved the heavy snow to reach Rugao. Along the way, they didn't want to give up the good opportunity of sightseeing and enjoying the scenery, and stopped to find a place to win. They didn't arrive at Rugao Maojia until the early spring of the following year.
Dong Xiaowan's success in collecting prostitutes makes sense. Because they believe in adventure. At this time, my father who ventured into Xinjiang had resigned from Xiangyang and went home. The whole family get together and share the family happiness. Dong Xiaowan took advantage of his wife Qin's infirmity, took on the responsibility of managing housework without complaint, respectfully waited on her mother-in-law, and took good care of Qin's two men and one woman. At this time, although Dong Xiaowan is a concubine with a house, she has a lifelong dependence. The means to find a husband are almost natural, especially to control a playboy like Mao Biqiang. As a concubine, I don't have much room to display, but Dong Xiaowan's unpaid housework skills are superb cooking skills. Eating and drinking well can naturally hook people's mouths, control people's stomachs and control people's hearts.
As the saying goes, if a woman can cook, she can tie a man's heart. Dong Xiaowan is a famous cook. It is said that she has a soft mouth and doesn't like greasy food and sweets. Then heat the rice with a small pot of mustard tea and chew it slowly with two small sauces. He happens to be a "big mouth" and likes sweets, seafood and smoked sausages best. What should I do? Clever Dong Xiaowan immediately turned sour, trying to ease her husband's appetite. She also carefully made flower dew, picked fresh stamens and soaked the flower juice into perfume. This kind of toilet water spray nozzle is rare in the world. After drinking, fill a white porcelain cup with dozens of flower dew and chat to quench your thirst. In addition, she also pickled pickles herself. Yellow is like gold and green is like green. Her cooked meat tastes like pine and cypress, wind fish tastes like muntjac, drunk clam tastes like peach blossom, pine shrimp tastes like dragon beard meat, pomfret fish tastes like sturgeon, and roast rabbit crispy chicken tastes like cake bait.
Dong Xiaowan is also obsessed with the study of recipes, just like Yuan Zicai, a famous scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, who compiled a delicious garden food from his careful thoughts. Dong Xiaowan is a caring person. He not only summed up the theory, but also played it seriously. He had to ask for advice when he heard a fresh smell. Now people often eat "tiger skin", which is also commonly known as "oily meat". This is her craft, and there is a little-known name called "Dongrou". Dong Xiaowan is also an expert in making candy. As early as Qinhuai River, she used sesame seeds, fried noodles, maltose, pine nuts, peach kernels and sesame oil as raw materials to make crisp cakes, and cut them into cubes with a length of 5 minutes, a width of 3 minutes and a thickness of 1 minute. This dessert is yellow outside and crisp inside, sweet but not greasy. People call it "Winter Tang". Nowadays, Yangzhou's famous scenic spots are full of delicious winter soup, crispy winter soup and Rugao Shuiminglou brand "winter soup", which is a local product for entertaining guests from all corners of the country.
Dong Xiaowan likes late chrysanthemums best. A friend sent several pots of chrysanthemums to brush the river and named them "Cut Peach Blossoms". Flowers are many and thick, leaves are dyed, and flowers are thick and elegant. Xiaowan watched Cut Peach and liked it very much. She put the flowers by the bed on purpose. Every night, use a high-fever green candle, surround three sides with a white screen, put a small chair in the greenhouse, adjust the chrysanthemum to make its shadow in a beautiful state, and then enter the greenhouse. People are in the chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum and people are in the shadow. At the last moment of Dong Xiaowan's life, she also asked Shuanjiang to move "Hong Jiantao" to the bed, so that she could see whether the branches and leaves were lush and whether there were any pests. Both Dong Xiaowan and Mao Bijiang like to sit quietly and smell the fragrance. Xiaowan treasures her daughter's fragrance, which Dongguan people regard as a masterpiece. She "burns incense through the gauze" and pays attention to taste and artistic conception. This is very similar to the current "petty bourgeoisie". When you drink a bowl of tofu, you should spread out your napkin and play wonderful classical music. The couple are very optimistic. They sat in a quiet room, put down their gauze and half-closed the door. In the bright moon and cool breeze, they like refreshing aloe vera. With such a happy life, Dong Xiaowan is naturally satisfied.
I don't want to get sick twice when they are immersed in a happy life. On one occasion, my stomach was bleeding, and neither water nor rice went in. Take care of medicine and soup for 60 days and 60 nights in hot summer in Dong Xiaowan; The second time was gangrene of the back, so I couldn't lie flat. Xiaowan holds her husband every night and lets him rest by himself. He slept for a whole hundred days. Mao Biqiang said that in the nine years with Xiaowan, he enjoyed the happiness of life.
In a hard life, food is hard to satisfy. Dong Xiaowan was weak and had to take care of Bi Qiang's serious illness several times, which made her body collapse instantly. Besides, she hasn't had a sip of water for more than 20 days. Due to the extreme lack of physique, it is difficult to use famous doctors in many aspects. In the eighth year of Shunzhi, that is, on the second day of the first month of A.D. 165 1, Dong Xiaowan died at the age of 28. Before she died, she clung to a pair of gold medals engraved with the words "fly with me" and "care for each other". Buried in Meiying Rugao, it was his family who died, and scholars of all dynasties paid tribute to him.