The bold women of the Tang Dynasty: The female Taoist priest told dirty jokes at the banquet

Core tip: Once, she even told dirty jokes at a banquet. She and other celebrities were gathering at Kaiyuan Temple. Liu Changqing who was present had a serious illness, so Li Ye made fun of him wantonly.

Data map of Taoist nuns in the Tang Dynasty This article: Dahe.com, author: Anonymous, originally titled "Female Taoist Priests Told Jokes at the Banquet"

The female Taoist nun is also a Taoist nun. In the Tang Dynasty, Taoism was respected, and a large number of women became monks. There were even a bunch of princesses who followed the fashion and became nuns. Coupled with the openness of the Tang Dynasty, the phenomenon of female crowns unique to the Tang Dynasty was formed. It can be said that female crowns are also crazy.

Li Ye, also known as Ji Lan, is undoubtedly a romantic figure among women. This girl matured precociously. It is said that she composed this poem about roses when she was five or six years old: "The passage of time has not yet settled, and my mind is in chaos. I have seen the clouds and temples disappear, and I miss the dead wood." Li Ye's father was shocked and asserted : "This woman will be rich in articles in the future, but she will definitely become a delinquent woman." So she was sent to Yuzhen Temple to practice. Although this father was domineering, he did not misjudge his daughter. Li Ye was a romantic by nature. Even after entering a Taoist temple and becoming a nun, he did not change his romantic nature and still went his own way.

"Beautiful appearance, with a relaxed expression. She concentrates on calligraphy, is good at playing the piano, and is especially good at rhythm" ("The Biography of Talented Scholars of the Tang Dynasty"). Li Ye is not only beautiful, but also talented. In addition, the Taoist temple was open and free at that time. He made friends with many social talents and literati, and had close contacts with famous people such as Zhu Fang, monk Jiao Ran, tea sage Lu Yu and others. Her female identity, her beauty, and her intelligence made her a bright rose in gatherings of various literati. Like the indispensable central woman admired by men in fashionable literary salons in foreign countries, she is like a star holding the moon. Li Yehao's unrestrained personality also made him feel free to interact with literati and celebrities without any shyness or restraint. She even has ambiguous love relationships with Zhu Fang, Jiao Ran, and Lu Yu.

Gao Zhongwu of the Tang Dynasty commented in "Zhongxing Jianqi Collection": "A scholar has a hundred virtues, but a woman only has four virtues, but Ji Lan is not the same. The shape and spirit are both majestic and poetic, and they are naturally There are few others like her below Bao Zhao." This can be seen from the poem about roses she wrote when she was five or six years old. As an adult, Li Ye became even more unbridled, both in his life and in his poetry. Although she is a female crown prince, she has quite an insight into the relationship between men and women. In the famous song "Eight Arrivals", she wrote: "From near to far from east to west, from deep to shallow clear streams. High to the bright sun and moon, "Couples who are close and distant." Now it seems that this poem is similar to Gu Cheng's "Far and Near", "You look at me for a while, and look at the clouds for a while. I feel that you are far away when you look at me." You look at the clouds very close”. Li Ye has both sensitivity and profound insight into human affairs. This woman is really wise and sophisticated.

There are many poems by Li Ye that boldly express the pain of lovesickness. The most passionate one is "Lovesickness and Resentment": The sea of ????humanity is deep, and it is not even half as long as lovesickness. The seawater still has an end, and lovesickness is infinite. Carrying the harp up to a high building, the building is full of moonlight, and playing a lovesickness song, the strings suddenly break. A female crowned woman does not hide her personal emotions, which shows her magnanimity and the debauchery of her poetry.

Once, she even told dirty jokes at a banquet. She and other celebrities were gathering at Kaiyuan Temple. Liu Changqing, who was present at the meeting, had a serious Yin disease (called "hernia" in Chinese medicine, which is characterized by sagging intestines and enlarged kidney sacs). Li Ye made fun of him without restraint. I recited a poem by Tao Yuanming: The mountain air is getting better day by day (a homonym for hernia). Liu Changqing replied: "All the birds are happy to have their support." Everyone laughed. Li Ye's boldness and debauchery are no less than those of today's bold women. Obviously, the men at the table were already very familiar with her uninhibited personality and her way of talking and joking, so they didn't notice anything rude at all, and Li Ye himself didn't feel shy at all about it. It's really crazy for a female crown prince to be so bold as to tell dirty jokes to all the men.

There is no lack of love, no lack of opposite sex, and no lack of excitement. Although she is a female crown prince, Li Ye's secular life is colorful. Going his own way, socializing freely, talking and laughing freely, and creating freely, Li Ye's indulgent and unbridled single life is also enviable. Gender grudges and moral constraints have no effect on her, which is quite feminist.

This reminds me of another stylish female crown - Yu Xuanji. If Li Ye did not change his romantic nature after becoming a female crown prince, Yu Xuanji, who had become a monk halfway through, started to play with the world and intensified his behavior after becoming a female crown prince. From this point of view, in the Tang Dynasty, women's crowns were indeed quite free. After getting rid of the constraints of their parents, husbands, and families, they were even more free and independent than ordinary women.

Some people say that Li Ye is half a prostitute and half a Taoist. I think the person who said this is too unkind. Although Li Ye is indulgent and unrestrained, he is very different from a prostitute. Prostitutes either sell sex or perform arts, but Li Ye does not do business. She just uses her true temperament to make friends with the opposite sex, to love the opposite sex, and to live her life. And her bold behavior that was contrary to her status as a female champion was also inseparable from the open atmosphere at the time.