Golden Lotus Is Lonely and Cold

In the rain lane of Jinling during the Lantern Festival, the girl Yao Niang, half-covered by a plain umbrella, met Li Yu, a young man in white, by chance, which became the beginning of her lifelong obsession. A young man's joke that "a beautiful girl is hidden in a golden house" was regarded as her lifelong belief - from the village girl weaving brocades in the woodshed to the beautiful concubine who endured the humiliation and practiced dancing in the red building. In nine years, the three-inch golden lotus crushed the wind and dust, and the pomegranate red dress was soaked with tears. She just wanted to meet the king again. On the day she entered the palace to perform the dance, the six-foot-long golden lotus platform was filled with light. She stopped dancing "Remembering the Lights" and unfolded the plain umbrella with a painting of a woman in a phoenix crown, but she only waited for his promise to build a platform for the little Empress Zhou. The dream of the golden house was shattered, but she did not leave. When the Song army broke through Jinling, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty was reduced to a prisoner. She asked herself to accompany her in the name of a dancer. From the prosperous Jinling to the desolate Bianjing, the plain umbrella hid not only the memories of nine years, but also the lyrics of Li Yu's "The motherland cannot bear to look back" and the last soul of the Southern Tang Dynasty. When he was imprisoned in Qingleng Garden in Bianjing, she protected his poetry manuscripts and resisted the surveillance of the Song Dynasty. On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, she understood the determination to seek death in his poems - she poured poisonous wine mixed with anesthetics with her own hands, so that he could avoid the severe pain of the drug and leave with the dignity of "the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty" instead of the humiliating "disobedient prince". The plain umbrella finally became a coffin, hiding her unspoken past; the manuscript of her poems was handed down from generation to generation, continuing the last remaining warmth of her motherland. Yao Ji's life is a tragedy of love that cannot be achieved, and it is also a story of persistence for the motherland: she has not obtained the golden house and has not been remembered, but she has been accompanying and protecting her for half her life, so that Li Yu's words and the soul of the Southern Tang Dynasty will never disappear in the long history.