Introduction to "Yose Chronicles"
Late Ming Dynasty, Jinling.
Chu Sheng was the daughter of a wealthy merchant on the Qinhuai River. She was good at playing the zither since she was a child, and became famous in Jinling at the age of thirteen. She was arrogant and unwilling to be bound to the inner house by a marriage contract and ruin her future as a piano player. The one who made an engagement with her was Jiang Mao, the Major General of the Zhenguo General's Mansion - the young man who reined in his horse under the ginkgo tree and looked back, while listening to her play "General's Order" under the moon with his sword sheathed in harmony.
They were childhood sweethearts and had a deep love. But she said that she would not discuss marriage until he retreated from the Tatars in the north.
In the first year of Hongguang, the Qing army moved south, and Jinling was in danger. Jiang Mao was ordered to lead his army on an expedition. On the night before he left, he said to her through a door: "If I don't come back tomorrow, you will be my widow." She answered with her kite, but did not open the door all night. The next morning, she left a note saying "to return" and took the zheng that had been with her for half her life and hid in a nunnery outside the city.
He rode his horse and chased him down the mountain. She lost her footing and fell from the cliff while trying to save her companions. When he arrived, there was only a bloody broken string left on the edge of the cliff.
He sewed the severed string inside his armor and held it close to his heart. He fought all the way from Jinling to Zhoushan and died in battle. Before he died, he asked someone to send a message: "Tell her that I can't catch up with her. Don't wait."
The severed string was enshrined under the Guanyin statue in Lingyin Temple. The incense in front of the Buddha was clearly extinguished. It lasted three hundred years.
For three hundred years, the strings have not rotted and the sound has not ceased. Just wait for the Wutong to be introduced again and play it again from the beginning.
