The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's selection of talented women in the imperial examination, Tang Xiaoshan, born of Baihua Fairy, and hundreds of talented women born of other flower fairies, who made a difference in the DPRK. His magical and humorous creative technique is a classic, and a colorful picture of the sky wheel is beautifully outlined. Jing Hua Yuan is also a novel about women's issues.
This book is divided into three parts:
The first part is the first to sixth chapters, which explain the origin of the story "Flowers in the Mirror" and pave the way for the myth of Chen Fan. leave out
According to legend, the star "Heart Moon Fox" descended on Wu Zetian. After he proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered "a hundred flowers blossom" in the cold winter. At that time, Baihua Fairy was playing chess with Magu, not in the abode of fairies and immortals. The flower gods under his jurisdiction did not dare to violate Wu Zetian's will and bloomed one after another, but the peony was later released and exiled to Luoyang (later became a burnt peony).
The Emperor of Heaven confused Yin and Yang with a hundred flowers fairy, saying, "When it is gorgeous, please flatter before the Lord", but both the hundred flowers fairy and the ninety-nine flowers fairy have descended to the world, so they need to travel overseas and meet with danger before they can be robbed.
The second part, from Chapter 7 to Chapter 50, describes the overseas travel of Tang Ao, a scholar, and Tang Xiaoshan's journey to find his father (root), which is the most striking part of The Mirror Flower Garden. Most of what I saw and heard during the trip came from ancient geographical natural history novels such as Shan Hai Jing and Natural History, and they were adapted to satirize current events, presenting a utopian ideal to some extent. Baihua Fairy gave birth to Tang Aojia, a Lingnan scholar, whose name is Tang Xiaoshan.
Tang Aoke's fame was so disappointing that he came up with the idea of being born. He went abroad for business with his wife, brother Lin Zhiyang and helmsman Duo Jiugong, and the three of them traveled overseas to see different scenery.
On the way, I passed through scholar countries, adult countries, Blackpool countries, fairy countries, colon countries, beak countries, Dragon People countries, Burong countries, Laos, Xuanyuan countries and other countries, and met Jiao Ren, Silkworm Girl and Dang Kang. Sure enough.
For example, in the girl country, "men wear dresses instead of managing internal affairs like women;" Women, like men, wear boots and hats and manage foreign affairs "; Scholar's country "is strictly ordered by the Lord, if the subjects offer treasures, they will burn them and ask for punishment", and the people will give them a gift. "Shu Ren and others, rich or poor, are respectful and polite."
During the trip, Tang Ao not only rescued the "Twelve Famous Flowers" who were living abroad for the second time, but also brought some foreign objects from the immortal family, such as Nie Kongcao and Zhu Cao, which made him carry a heavy load, leap high, and also strengthened his idea of being born and become immortal in Penglai.
In order to find his father, Tang Xiaoshan and his uncle Lin Zhiyang went out to sea again, and after all kinds of hardships, they arrived in Xiaopenglai. I received a letter from Tang Ao under the order of Beijing, ordering Xiaoshan to change its name to Tang Guichen, returning to China to take part in gynecology, and continuing the trailing edge.
In the third part, Wu Zetian began to try gynecology in the last 50 years and admitted talented women in the world. Hundreds of talented women, including Tang Guichen, tried to go to Beijing and hosted a banquet in Zongbo House. At the end of the novel, the descendants of the heroes of the Tang Dynasty rose up against the Zhou Dynasty, conquered the four customs of debauchery and wealth, and beheaded Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi brothers at the gate. The world belongs to Li Tang, and Zhongzong succeeded to the throne.
The name of "Jing Hua Yuan" is taken from "Jing Hua Yuan", which contains the fantasy of life and the consciousness of mourning the unfortunate fate of women. The author wrote all aspects of society and his ideal society with the style of cartoon.
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The Author and Creative Background of "The Flower in the Mirror"
This book was written by Li Ruzhen, a novelist in Qing Dynasty. He is from Yancheng, Jiangsu. This man is versatile, knowledgeable and proficient in phonology. When I was a teenager, there was a book called Li's.
Born to be honest and frank, he had his own ideas about the eight-part essay in the imperial examination, and he didn't want to go with the flow, so he didn't meet his talent and never got a decent office. After middle age, he began to devote himself to learning.
In ancient times, folk stories often became the background of novels. Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West is a ready-made example. Li Ruzhen was also inspired by a folklore.
Therefore, Li Ruzhen set the theme as the "Wu Zhou" period from 690 to 705. ? It took him nearly 20 years to finish the book.
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