The Tang Dynasty was the most glorious and prosperous period in Chinese history, with dazzling culture, prosperous martial arts, and healthy and vigorous social atmosphere, making future generations envious and admired.

The poetry, ancient prose, novels, and music of the Tang Dynasty have all illuminated the ages. Among them, Tang poetry is the most outstanding and proud of the world.

The poets of the Tang Dynasty are known as "Li Du". The most famous "Li Du" are Li Bai and Du Fu in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, followed by Li Shangyin and Du Mu in the late Tang Dynasty.

Du Mu, known as "Xiao Du" in the world, has a popular seven-character quatrain (Po Qinhuai):

Smoke cage, cold water, moon cage, sand

Parking in Qinhuai at night near a restaurant

A businesswoman doesn’t know how to hate the country’s subjugation

Across the river, I’m still singing after the flowers in the garden

In Du Mu's era, the Tang Dynasty had been declining from its peak of prosperity. However, people were accustomed to living a peaceful and happy life and were not alert to danger in times of peace.

On this dim night, Du Mu was taking a boat trip and accidentally parked on the bank of the Qinhuai River. He heard bursts of singing and dancing coming from a nearby bustling restaurant, and he couldn't help but think of the Southern Dynasty's subjugation in Pu (Tinghua Behind the Yushu).

The monarch Chen Houzhu immediately evoked the poet's sad feelings about the current situation, so he recited this song (Po Qinhuai) that has been sung for centuries.

The bank of the Qinhuai River is the ancient capital of the south. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, six dynasties including Soochow in the Three Kingdoms, the Eastern Jin, and the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen in the Southern Dynasties all built their capitals here. At that time, it was called Jianye, also known as Jianye.

Kang.

These six dynasties were all based on the left side of the Yangtze River, where discussing mysteries and Zen was fashionable, boasting about wealth and fighting for wealth as a matter of ability, being unrestrained and promiscuous as elegance, taking power and family status as high and high, and completely forgetting that there are still tombs of the motherland and ancestors in the north.

, half of the river and mountains.

Such intoxication, arrogance and extravagance, whitewashing the peace, later generations praised it as the "gold powder of the Six Dynasties".

Chen Shubao, the Empress of Chen who "sings the flowers in the backyard across the river", was the last emperor of the Southern Dynasty.

His great-uncle, Emperor Chen Wu, Chen Baxian usurped the Liang Dynasty and established the Chen Kingdom. It was originally a time of chaos and chaos. Not only was the country in ruins, the cultural relics were damaged, and the reserves were empty, but the local heroes were separatist and the country was extremely unstable.

Fortunately, at that time, there was the Northern Qi in the north and the Northern Zhou in the east. They were fighting with each other and had no time to take care of the south. Chen Guo was able to barely gain a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Chen Baxian, the throne of the Chen Kingdom passed through Chen Shubao's uncle and cousin to Chen Shubao's father, Emperor Chen Xuan, Chen Xu.

During the reign of Chen Xu, the Northern Zhou Dynasty conquered the Northern Qi Dynasty and unified the north.

Yang Jian, the powerful prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, immediately usurped the throne of Yuwen and established the Sui Dynasty, becoming Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

Yang Jian had always had the ambition to unify the world, so he entrusted the task of defeating Chen to the famous Sui generals Han Qinhu and He Ruobi.

Han Qinhu came out of Luzhou in the northwest of Jiankang, and He Ruobi came out of Guangling in the northeast of Jiankang. The two towns were across the river and faced the border of the Southern Dynasties. They were only a hundred miles away from the capital of the Chen Kingdom. They formed a giant crab's double claws and attacked Chen.

The country is watching with eager eyes.

After the death of Chen Xu, Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne. At this time, the power of Chen State was already precarious and in decline. Chen Shubao was good at poetry and prose, romantic and romantic. Since military and national affairs were difficult and difficult, he simply put the government affairs behind him and only interacted with six people on a daily basis.

Gong Fendai, the confidants visited the Forbidden Garden in the morning and drank wine in the evening.

Today, Chen Shubao is sitting in the golden Jiankang City of the Six Dynasties, in the Guangzhao Hall with jade steps and bead curtains, on a finely cut tortoise-shell mat. When he was in a hurry, he wrote a family genealogy (behind the Yushu "Tinghua"),

In order to remember the prosperity and beauty of "the moon is full every night, and the green trees are new every morning".

He immediately ordered the musicians to play the sheng, reed, harp, and harp in a loud and urgent manner; he also ordered the palace servants with jade-like faces, red lips, and brocade clothes and beaded sleeves to dance with the music.

He himself was leaning on the throne, with a beautiful woman's bare hands gently beating his back on his shoulders, and in his ears the flattering words and praises of his ministers.

Chen Shubao was having a five-course banquet. After three rounds of wine, he had seen all the charming colors, was tired of listening to Cheng Huan's words, and felt quite depressed in his heart. Suddenly, a chamberlain rushed in and knelt down in front of the banquet: "Princess Lechang, please see me now." Waiting for orders outside the palace."

Chen Shubao was overjoyed when he heard the news and immediately ordered it to be passed on.

It turned out that Princess Lechang was the younger sister of Chen Shubao. She was intelligent, beautiful and had the best character of her time. She had been in love with Chen Shubao since she was a child.

However, since Princess Lechang married the crown prince Xu Deyan and moved out of the palace, her brother and sister could not see each other every day as before.

It was rare for Princess Lechang to enter the palace today, and the brother and sister could talk happily. Chen Shubao was naturally overjoyed.

But when I saw Princess Lechang, she was dressed in a royal robe, with a gorgeous waistband, a golden jade ornament on her head, and pearls in her ears. She was really a glorious person with autumn chrysanthemums and gorgeous spring pines.

She walked into the Guangzhao Hall with slight steps and bowed upward in a graceful manner. It was as if the moon was covered by light clouds and the snow was fluttering like the flowing wind.

Chen Shubao quickly ordered the palace servants to help Princess Lechang and let her sit next to the throne.

Princess Lechang had finished greeting her, and the brother and sister exchanged a few words. Chen Shubao then asked, "My sister has a free day today. Do you have time to come over and visit me?"

Princess Lechang said: "My sister misses my brother, and there is not a day when I don't think of him."

Beside the throne, Concubine Zhang, who was wearing a purple ribbon, presented her with a bottle of wine. Chen Shubao took a sip from her hand and said with a slight smile: "My dear sister, don't make fun of me. No one inside or outside the palace knows about your love affair with your consort." Shen? When the imperial sister is doing her makeup and adding fragrance to the prince-in-law, while she and the prince-in-law are raising eyebrows, she occasionally thinks of her as a brother. After entering the palace to talk about it, she is already satisfied with her brother-in-law."

Princess Lechang felt a little shy when she heard it, and said with a smile: "How can we take the rumors of palace ban seriously? Brother Huang said seriously."

Konggui's concubine, who was wearing a green skirt, brought a piece of goose palm to the emperor's mouth, and Chen Shubao ate it with her hand: "As a brother, I am in prison and isolated from the outside world. What I heard and heard cannot be understood by others." Rumors, but how do you know?"

Princess Lechang said: "The rumors may be true or false, but the emperor must make wise choices to eliminate the bad and retain the good, which is the blessing of all people. My sister entered the palace today because of a rumor."

Then Xue Shuyuan, who was wearing a red hat, brought a spoonful of quail soup, and Chen Shubao also drank it: "Since my sister moved out of the palace, she has seen and heard a lot in the outside world, and she must have heard more interesting things than my brother. I have nothing to do in my free time." , just in time to relieve boredom."

Princess Lechang said: "Brother, this rumor about my sister is not an interesting thing. Nowadays, there is a lot of buzz outside. They all say, 'The yellow-spotted green horse comes from Shouyang River; when it comes, the winter weather ends, and when it goes, the spring breeze begins.'" .Brother Huang is so wise in heaven, this matter must have reached heaven to hear?"

Chen Shubao changed his sitting position and asked Jiang Xiurong, who was beating his back, to come and beat his legs: "Brother, this is the first time I have heard it. This ballad sounds interesting. Does Yumei know what it is about?"

Princess Lechang said seriously: "It is said outside that yellow spots are tigers. Now the Sui general Han Qinhu is stationed in Luzhou, and his mount is a green horse. If he comes to invade, he will cross the river from Shouyang. Brother Emperor, My sister is only afraid that Han Qinhu will be blamed for this rumor."

When Chen Shubao heard Princess Lechang talking about military and state affairs, he couldn't help but feel disturbed and unhappy in his heart. He frowned and said: "My dear sister, I'm afraid you are too worried. This rumor sounds like a ballad. , it refers to "the end of winter" and "the beginning of spring breeze", maybe it's just the weather terms, not necessarily Han Qinhu."

After hearing what the emperor said, the trusted ministers around Chen Shubao quickly followed the instructions and reported: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for talking too much. I have heard this song before, but it was just an ignorant child humming it casually, and it mentioned Han. Capture the tiger?"

Chen Shubao perked up after hearing this and sat upright: "Have you heard of it? Could you please tell me what the meaning of this song is?"

The courtier said: "I obey the order. Please see, Your Majesty, the yellow spots are tigers and the green horses are horses. This song should be said between the Year of the Tiger and the Year of the Horse. This year, Jianwushen, the zodiac sign is monkey. The year before last, it was Bingwu. The Year of the Horse, four years forward, is the Year of the Tiger in Renyin. In my humble opinion, the sentence "green horse with yellow spots" refers to the period between the Year of Renyin and the Year of Bingwu?"
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