There Was a Daughter in Qinhuai Named Liu Rushi

This is a chapter-style novel based on the life of Liu Rushi, a strange woman in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It has a total of 200 chapters and is divided into six volumes, integrating history, poetry, love, family and country. The novel takes the misty and rainy boat on the Qinhuai River as the starting point and depicts the rise of the talented Yang Ai from the dust, who changed her name to Liu Rushi and shocked the Jiangnan literary world with her poetic talent. She traveled to the West Lake, sang with the literati under the moonlight under the broken bridge; visited friends in the lonely mountains, and displayed her talents and character in the orchid painting. His poems are "soft yet strong, gorgeous but not vulgar". Every word is true to his heart, and his character is evident in every sentence. The core of the novel focuses on her legendary marriage with Donglin leader Qian Qianyi. From Gengchen's visit to Banye Hall in winter to the time we met in my listening room, the two of them sang poems and sang poems in harmony with each other, and together they composed the deep feeling of "Red blushes, green eyes and endless tears". However, sudden changes occurred in the country, the Qing army went south, Qian Qianyi surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Liu Rushi wanted to drown himself in the country. The fierce collision between his "family and country's righteousness" and his "children's personal love" was disappointing. The novel also uses "swordsmanship" as a metaphor, describing how she hides her chivalrous character, secretly communicates with the righteous men who restored the Ming Dynasty, and carries the weight of mountains and rivers with her weak body. The whole book uses Liu Rushi's poems as its thread and the turmoil of the late Ming Dynasty as its weft, recreating the elegance of "peach blossoms in beauty" and also describing the tragedy of rise and fall of "spring turning into autumn rain". She was not only a talented woman and a lover, but also a lone brave man who used poetry as his sword and life as his ink in troubled times, leaving behind an independent, boundless and awe-inspiring "Hedong Jun" figure in the long history.