In the world, everyone wants to live a good life, but the definition of a good life is different. Some people love the prosperity of the traffic, while others like the tranquility of the mountains and forests; some are precious to the beautiful brocade, drinking jasmine and jade dew, while others love the ease of the short brown cloth and the sweetness of the coarse tea and light rice.
Liang Hong, a man from Fufeng at the beginning of Eastern Han Dynasty, was a noble and elegant man with the ambition of seclusion, and happily, God matched him with a wife who shared the same outlook on life and loved him very much.
A couple of seclusion, a match made in heaven
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty – Biographies – Yimin Biographies records this pair of Liang Hong and his wife Meng Guang as a “good couple for the ages”, which is unique in the vast annals of history, and it is a match made in heaven.
Liang Hong, called Bo Luan, was an erudite and talented man who attended the Imperial College in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. There was a Meng girl from the same township who was dark and ugly, thick and strong, and so strong that she could lift a heavy stone mortar. The Meng girl did not get married at the age of 30, but she was waiting for someone to whom she could admire and admire. Liang Hong, a virtuous man, became the benchmark of her ideal object.
These two seemingly unrelated people, what is the fate, what factors make them together to worship heaven and earth, and play the marriage music of “raising the case together”?
Liang Hong and Meng Guang were both from Pingling, Fufeng (northwest of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province), and this was the thread that God had drawn for them, so that two people whose outlooks on life were perfectly compatible could hear each other. Their mutual aspirations for marriage and life, which were in tune with each other, resonated strongly with each other and created a good couple for the ages. In fact, they are also very wise “set off” test the other party’s persistence and integrity, whether “words and actions”? The other party also passed the test, so that the two trust and rely on each other to form a firm foundation, rely on each other, mutual respect and love through life.
Liang Hong’s temperament
Liang Hong, word Bo Luan, was a native of Pingling County, Fufeng. His father, Liang Jian, worked as a city gate captain during Wang Mang’s reign and was named Xiu Yuan Bo, who lived and died in the Northlands as a descendant of the ancient Shaohao Emperor Jin Tian Clan. At that time, Liang Hong was still young, and in the chaotic times, his family was poor and could not afford to bury his father, so he had to roll up his mat and be buried.
Although his family was poor, he was not poor in nobility. After his father’s death, Liang Hong entered the Imperial College at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty to study for a period of time. After his studies in Taixue, he herded and raised pigs in the royal forest garden of Shanglingyuan. An unexpected incident of fire brought to light Liang Hong’s temperamental integrity. He took the initiative to ask his neighbors about the circumstances of the damage and compensated them with pigs. One of the neighboring families was not satisfied with the compensation, so Liang Hong went to his house as a long-time worker to make up for the shortage, working day and night without complaining, so that the family turned to respect him and took the initiative to return the pigs, but Liang Hong refused to accept.
The true wife
Liang Hong later left Kyoto and returned to his hometown. In his hometown, Pingling, Fufeng, the big families heard about Liang Hong’s character and talent, and admired his noble spirit, many families wanted to marry their daughters to him, but Liang Hong declined. Although he refused the marriage proposal of those big families, he did not refuse to marry. In fact, Liang Hong had very high standards for choosing a spouse, very different from the world’s values.
On this day, he heard that there was a family surnamed Meng in the same township, the family’s daughter was already thirty years old and still waiting for a girl. Although she was dark and ugly, unlike a delicate daughter, thick and strong, and so strong that she could lift a heavy stone mortar, she was so virtuous and cultivated that she had several offers of marriage, but she refused them all. She was described as “ugly in appearance, but very cultivated in virtue” in “The Wife of Liang Hong”. She was often refused by many people in the village.”
The Meng family girl had an ideal “condition for choosing a spouse”. It is said that the Meng girl answered her parents’ inquiry and wished to marry “a man of virtue like Liang Hong”. This “ideal” spread and spread, and when it reached Liang Hong’s ears, it touched him. When Liang Hong heard that the Meng girl wanted to marry someone as noble and virtuous as he was, he made a promise to marry her. (“Hearing the words of the Meng’s girl, he asked for her hand in marriage”. (The Legend of the Women – The Legend of the Sequential Women – Liang Hong’s Wife)
The Meng family girl finally got her wish. She was busy preparing cloth and hemp sandals and weaving straw baskets and other containers for the dowry, which outlined the vision of the future married life.
On the wedding day, the joyful bride dressed up to marry into the Liang Hong family door. But after seven days, Liang Hong completely ignored the bride.
On the seventh day, the newlywed Meng knelt under the bed and apologized to her husband, saying, “I have heard privately that you are a man of high moral and righteous conduct who has refused several women who asked for marriage, and I have also refused several people who proposed marriage. Finally I met you, sir, but I don’t know what fault I have committed that you have ignored me since I married?”
Liang Hong said, “The ideal person in my mind is someone who wears coarse linen and kudzu clothes and can return to the mountains with me.
At this point, the bride revealed the answer to her “test”: “This dress is to test the true ambition of the husband. How could a concubine not have the clothes of a recluse?” After that, the bride tied her hair tightly into a bun on her head, put on her cloths and started to take care of the household.
When Liang Hong saw the “transformation” of his new wife, he was overjoyed and said, “This is really Liang Hong’s wife. She is now qualified to be my spouse!” Therefore, Liang Hong gave his new wife the word “De Yao” and named her Meng Guang. “De Yao”, De Guang Yao Huan Yu, is the touch of Liang Hong’s admiration for the inner beauty of his beloved wife.
The second trial of his beloved wife
After the marriage, the two of them had been living in their hometown for some time. One day, his wife Meng Guang said to her husband, “I often heard that Fu Zi wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains to avoid troubles, but now why is he silent and unmoving? Is it time to bow down and become a layman?” Liang Hong responded, “Yes.” So the two of them went into the mountains of Bailing together, where men farmed and women wove, and in their leisure time they recited poems and played the zither for their own amusement. Liang Hong, admiring the noblemen of his past life, was able to write an ode to the twenty-four people since the Four Hao’s in the mountain.
Raising the case to serve his husband
Once, when Liang Hong passed by the capital city of Luoyang, he saw the lofty palace of the imperial capital and sighed at the labor of the people in the countryside, so he composed the “Song of Five Wells”. When Su Zong (Emperor Zhang of Han Dynasty) found out about it, he had a problem with Liang Hong, so he changed his name to Yunqi (运期) and moved to the area between Qi and Lu with his wife. After a period of time, he heard that the south is still virtuous, and moved to the south of the Wu area around Huiji. He said, “Although I don’t notice the light and appearance, I’m glad that the gods and spirits are happy to rest”.
When he arrived in Wu, he first joined a local family, Gao Botong, and lived in a room under the porch of his house, pounding rice for people to make a living. It was God’s arrangement that Meng Guang was able to lift the stone mortar for pounding rice even before he married, and his family was all related to the stone mortar. When he returned home at sunset, his wife Meng Guang prepared food for her husband and placed it on the snack table, and then presented it to Liang Hong with her eyebrows lowered and her eyes bowed in respect, not daring to look up at her husband.
By chance, Gaobertong noticed this scene and found it unusual, thinking, “A servant rough worker can make his wife pay such respect, definitely not a generalist.” So, Gao Bo Tong invited Liang Hong’s family to live in his home and provided them with the necessities of life, so that Liang Hong could concentrate on writing books and making speeches. At this time, Liang Hong devoted himself to writing books and became the author of more than ten books. At this time, Liang Hong had symptoms of disease and his body was weak, so he discussed with Gaobertong that if he died, he should not let his son bury him back in his hometown.
When Liang Hong died, Gao Bo Tong and others asked for Liang Hong to be buried next to the mound of martyr Wu To Li. Everyone said that the martyr and the noble man could be close to each other: “To leave the martyr, and Bo Luan noble, can make close.” After the burial, his wife Meng Guang returned to his hometown in Fufeng.
Meng Guang’s life to Liang Hong’s words will be called “sir”, food “to raise the case together”; Liang Hong and her hand in hand, husband and wife follow, hidden in the mountains, hidden in the haunts, each other’s wish ensemble resonance. Liang Hong and Meng Guang, a pair of beautiful couple for thousands of years, have played a marital music in the earthly world, which is elegant and elegant and open to the world, ambiguous with light and virtuous to heaven and earth.
P.S. The Song of Five Wells
“To ascend to the north and to the north, yeah! I am looking at the imperial capital. The palace is so stark. The people’s labor is so great. The palace is so sturdy, the people are so laborious.
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