Thinking of Lu You’s ex-wife Tang Wan before leaving the country

The connection between the first and second floors of the office building for the protection of the Dashanguan ruins hangs a poem by Lu You:

The building boat is crossing Guazhou in the snowy night, and the iron horse is scattered in the autumn wind. close.

On the top of Dashanguan Mountain, there is also a stone statue of Lu You, wearing a wide robe and big sleeves, holding his hands behind his back, holding his head high and looking at the high Qinling Mountains in the distance.

Lu You was born in the turbulent era between the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty and the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty. His mother Tang gave birth to Lu You on a boat. This is also the origin of Lu You's name.

Lu You has been extremely intelligent since he was a child, and he inherited a title equivalent to the ninth rank due to his ancestors.

At the age of 20, Lu You married 17-year-old Tang Wan.

Tang Wan was an only daughter. Her father was the magistrate of Zhengzhou at that time. Her family was well off and came from a scholarly family.

Tongpan is an official position established by Zhao Kuangyin in the Northern Song Dynasty since the founding of the country. Although the position is one level lower than the magistrate, he is an official appointed by the emperor, which has a special meaning.

On the surface, Tongpan can manage government affairs together with the magistrates, but the real purpose of Tongpan is to supervise and restrict each other with the magistrates to ensure that rights are not excessively spilled over.

The Tongpan can directly report various situations in the prefecture to the emperor, which is equivalent to the current top leader of the local discipline inspection and supervision department.

Tang Wan grew up with the love of his parents. He was also very intelligent, good at drinking, playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, writing poems and lyrics, and was proficient in everything, no worse than men.

After Lu You and Tang Wan got married, Qin Se was very affectionate with each other, especially Tang Wan who liked to go to a wine shop with Lu You to have a drink, and then became poetic and eloquent.

However, Lu You's mother did not like and could not understand her daughter-in-law Tang Wan. She believed that Tang Wan allowed her son to indulge in their love affairs, which affected Lu You's bright future. He also believed that it was a serious act of unruliness for a woman to go to a wine shop with her son.

As a result, the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law became increasingly prominent.

In the second year after Lu You and Tang Wan got married, Lu You's father died of illness.

Lu You's mother believed that it was because Tang Wan and Lu You had different horoscopes that she killed Lu You's father.

Especially since they had not given birth to a son or a daughter for three years after being married. In ancient times, when "there are three types of unfilial piety, the worst is not having children", women without children usually did not end up well.

So Lu You divorced Tang Wan under the pressure of his mother.

After the two separated, Lu You secretly purchased another courtyard to accommodate Tang Wan. Unexpectedly, Lu You's mother discovered it, so she forced Lu You to marry a virtuous and gentle woman named Wang.

After the marriage, Wang quickly gave birth to a child for Lu You, and Lu You also married a concubine with the help of his mother.

Although Lu You has always had an unforgettable relationship with Tang Wan, Tang Wan has since stopped thinking about Lu You.

A year later, under the auspices of his family, Tang Wan remarried Zhao Shicheng, who had a royal background, as his stepmother.

Zhao Shicheng was more than ten years older than Tang Wan. After Tang Wan got married, he gave birth to a son and a daughter to Zhao Shicheng, and Zhao Shicheng never married another concubine.

In the fifth year after Lu You divorced Tang Wan, he went to take the imperial examination. Although he got first place, he was jealous of Qin Hui because he took the exam with Qin Hui's grandson. Not only was he not admitted situation, and his official career was not smooth from then on.

Lu You, who was depressed after failing in the scientific examination, accidentally met Tang Wan and Zhao Shicheng, a couple who were close to each other while visiting Shen Garden. Tang Wan introduced her ex-husband Lu You to her husband Zhao Shicheng gracefully and invited him to have a drink.

This encounter made Lu You deeply moved. Without forgetting it, he raised his hand and wrote the famous "Hairheaded Phoenix·Red Hands" on a wall railing in Shen Garden.

Five years later, Tang Wan visited Shen Garden again and saw the poem inscribed by Lu You five years ago. She had mixed feelings, and it was the same as the next one, "The Hairpin-headed Phoenix: The Love of the World".

After returning home, Tang Wan fell deeply into missing Lu You, and died of depression a few months later.

Tang Wan was only 28 years old when he passed away, but Lu You, who had a bumpy career, lived to be 83 years old.

According to historical records and Lu You's poems, Tang Wan and Lu You's mothers are both surnamed Tang, and they are aunt-nephew. It is not known whether he is a biological aunt or nephew or a cousin.

In short, Tang Wan and Lu You have a very close biological relationship, which may be the main reason why Tang Wan was not pregnant three years after their marriage.

Especially after Tang Wan became Zhao Shicheng's stepmother, she gave birth to a son and a daughter one after another, which shows that Tang Wan has no fertility problems at all.

It is now speculated that Lu You divorced his wife at that time, perhaps due to the limitations of the times, and also because he wanted to save the country through a curve, which could not only appease his mother but also settle down with Tang Wan.

I never thought that Lu You’s life after marrying a new wife and concubine would be happy and lively. Only then did Tang Wan resolutely give up this relationship and choose to marry again.

If Lu You had not failed in his official career a few years later when he failed in the scientific examination, and could not suppress his old feelings when he met Tang Wan again, he wrote that "life-threatening poem", which aroused the feelings that Tang Wan had long buried in his heart. Logan would not die of depression so quickly.

After Lu You returned home, he could continue to live his life of fireworks, write poems and essays, and continue to seek career development.

However, Tang Wan was stuck in an old relationship and it was difficult to let go, and this relationship finally came to a sad end at the cost of her life.

Sure enough, a long-term man can also be passionate!