Shuyu's Words

A thousand years ago, a woman looked back on the swing and saw the love of her life. That glance saw through the smoke and clouds of the Northern Song Dynasty, the flames of war in Jingkang, and the wandering life of half a lifetime. After that glance, she spent the rest of her life waiting, missing, and mourning the young man who stood in the shadow of the flowers and smiled at her. Her name is Li Qingzhao. This name, in our memory, is often associated with titles such as "the representative poet of the Graceful School" and "the most talented woman throughout the ages." The textbook tells us that she was good at poetry and prose, was good at epigraphy and stone, and was the best in poetry. People recite her "Do you know? Do you know? They should be green, fat, red and thin" and chant her "There is no way out of the soul, the west wind blows behind the curtain, and people are thinner than yellow flowers." However, few people ask: What kind of life did the woman who wrote these sentences live? Her words are so beautiful. It's so beautiful that people forget that those sentences are soaked in blood and tears.