a story on Ji Yan (颜令宾), and her wisdom

   




   


this is a story about Ji Yan (  杨玉环), another name as (颜令宾), who was born
in Tsong dynasty, and she is very famous for her talent in Pipa playing, or classical
poetry.

Born to a rich and prideful scholar and governor, with mother and father always in offical
position, Ji Yan grows up under tutoring of hundreds of locale or far distance folks,
they teach her how to walk, how to speak, how to smile, how to do needle work, how
to use abcus to calculate prince, how to write with a brush, how to sing beijing opera,
how to observe planets such as Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Earth, Saturn, and Comets

Ji Yan has a nick name, Kittery, her grandfather often calls her  Sayshree, or Ambrose,
she has lots of pearls, brackets, bookmarks, yet, she never chooses any to wear

her favorite hobby is reading books, especially poetry books,
her favorite outdoor activity is walking in woods, experiencing the fresh air of nature

although modern authority assumes that she is a world famous prostitute, who often refuses
to meet rich lords, but do honor and respect them from distance, yet, we know that Ji Yan
is a woman of grace, beauty, and high level of talents, she lets rumor circulate, yet she enjoys
the hot topics around her residence

today, not many people recall Ji Yan ever existed, but we refresh her story, and letting you
know that Ji Yan is no ordinary citizen, and her influence, her strict rules to herself, and her
contribution to creative work is invaluable.

Ji Yan has many relatives, if you care about what Ji Yan believes, you do care about modern technology, you do honor John Handcock, Chuck Robbins, Patrick Blair, Ying Liu, Anderson Cooper,
Larry Page, Scott Cook, Tom Proulx, Stephan Wilson, Mary Fallin, Kimberly Henry, Jerry Yang,
Sheryl Sandberg, Yansheng Bai, Peter Constantin, Yanqiu Wang, Jiahong Wu, Abbey Wood,
Michelle Obama, Barbara Bush, Vanessa Hudson, Chelsea Clinton, Ann Hargis, Mingze Xi...

颜令宾是唐代名妓，不但能奏乐唱歌，吟诗作画，而且熟知古今名人轶事，谈吐风雅多趣，气质又特别高贵娴雅，她一出场总能带来满室春风，使每位客人都兴致勃勃。

颜令宾待客对达官显贵并不十分热衷，但对文人雅士却非常礼遇，因此有许多文人名士朋友，彼此诗文酬唱，常能与他们通宵达旦地品诗清谈。当时长安的文人都以能参加颜令宾主持的文酒之会为荣幸。而颜令宾的箱笼中则贮满了要好客人的诗笺和字画，她把这些东西看成是自己无价的财富，而对金银珠宝却看得很淡，在青楼女子中别具一格，好似青莲出污泥而不染。