朱淑真的一生行迹（1135-1180）
朱淑真，号幽栖居士，钱塘（今杭州）人，南宋著名女词人。才情横溢，词风婉约哀怨，与李清照并称。因婚姻不幸，一生抑郁，其词多写闺怨伤春，情真意切。著有《断肠词》《断肠诗集》，后人誉为"断肠才女"。
杭州（1135） · 钱塘闺秀
宋高宗绍兴五年前后，朱淑真出生于钱塘（今杭州）官宦之家，其父曾为文官。朱淑真自幼聪慧，博通经史，工诗善词，尤善绘画，音律亦精。少女时代在西湖畔度过，诗酒风雅，才名远播。
杭州（1155） · 不幸婚姻
宋高宗绍兴二十五年前后，朱淑真奉父母之命嫁给一位俗吏，此人胸无点墨，不解风情，夫妻感情极为淡薄。这段不幸的婚姻成为朱淑真一生的痛，她将满腔愁苦倾注于诗词之中，词风从此由明丽转为哀怨。
杭州（1160） · 断肠词作
宋高宗绍兴三十年前后，朱淑真随夫远宦他乡，在旅途和异乡中写下了大量羁旅之作。她在词中反复抒发对故园的思念和对不幸婚姻的哀怨，词风愈发沉郁悲切。此间她创作了著名的《谒金门·春半》等词。
杭州（1165） · 幽栖独居
宋孝宗乾道元年前后，朱淑真终于回到杭州，与丈夫分居，自号"幽栖居士"，过着独居的生活。她在杭州的幽居中专心创作，词作数量大增，内容多写闺怨、伤春、离愁，情感真挚动人。
杭州（1170） · 幽栖独居
宋孝宗乾道六年前后，朱淑真在杭州创作了大量脍炙人口的词作，声名更盛。她的词多写离愁别恨，凄婉动人，被誉为"断肠词"。她常在西湖畔漫步，将湖光山色与内心愁苦融为一体，写出了许多情景交融的佳作。
杭州（1175） · 郁郁而终
宋孝宗淳熙二年前后，朱淑真晚年病弱，但仍坚持创作。她的词作愈发凄婉深沉，将毕生的悲苦浓缩于字里行间。她开始整理自己的诗词手稿，但许多早年作品已散失，令她深感惋惜。
杭州（1178） · 郁郁而终
宋孝宗淳熙五年前后，朱淑真在病中写下了最后的词作，词中充满了对人生的感悟和对命运的感叹。她回顾自己一生，虽有才华却为不幸婚姻所累，唯有诗词是她的知己和安慰。
杭州（1180） · 郁郁而终
宋孝宗淳熙七年前后，朱淑真郁郁而终于杭州，享年约四十五岁。她死后，父母将其手稿焚毁，幸有友人魏仲恭从传抄中收集其遗作，编成《断肠集》传世。她与李清照并称宋代两大女词人，其词之真挚动人，足以千古传诵。
The Life Journey of Zhu Shuzhen, the Heartbreak Poetess
Zhu Shuzhen (c. 1135-c. 1180), art name Youqi Jushi, was a native of Qiantang (Hangzhou) and one of the great woman poets of the Southern Song, ranked with Li Qingzhao. Brilliant across classics, poetry, painting and music, she was married by parental decree to a vulgar clerk who never understood her; her whole life's sorrow went into verse of grief for spring and loneliness of the boudoir. Her Broken-Heart Ci and Poems survive as works of piercing sincerity — she is remembered as 'the Broken-Heart Talent.'
Timeline of the Journey
- 1135 · 杭州 — Born to an official family in Qiantang; trained in classics, verse, painting and music, her girlhood by West Lake was all brilliance and promise.
- 1155 · 杭州 — Compelled by her parents to marry a philistine clerk — a union without one word in common, the wound of her life; her palette turned from bright to mournful.
- 1160 · 杭州 — Following her husband's posting away from home, she filled her travel poems with homesickness and the ache of her mismatched marriage — the 'Ye Jin Men: Mid-Spring' among them.
- 1165 · 杭州 — Back in Hangzhou and estranged, she took the name 'Youqi Jushi' ('Dweller in Seclusion') and lived alone with her art.
- 1170 · 杭州 — Through the 1170s her broken-heart ci won ever wider fame; walking the lake, she fused its light and water with her grief.
- 1175 · 杭州 — In failing health she wrote on, her late verse ever darker and truer; she began gathering her manuscripts, mourning the early ones already scattered.
- 1178 · 杭州 — On her sickbed she wrote her farewell poems — a life's reckoning, talent chained by marriage, with verse for sole confidant.
- 1180 · 杭州 — Died in Hangzhou around 1180, aged about forty-five; her parents burned her papers, but the friend Wei Zhonggong saved what circulated and printed the Broken-Heart Collection.
'I press the qin, the tune is grief itself; I lean on the railing, weary through and through.' Zhu Shuzhen turned a stifled life into some of the most affecting verse by any woman of the Song — the poetry survives the sorrow, and outlives it.
