黄峨, 黄秀眉
Her family"s home was in Suining in Sichuan, but she often lived with her father, who was a high-ranking official of the Ming court. After returning to Sichuan when she was 21, she married Yang Shen, the son of Grand Secretary Yang Tinghe. Both Yang Shen and his father opposed the Jiajing Emperor and Yang Shen was beaten and then banished to Yunnan.
She was known to be intelligent and she got a good education by any standards. Both spouses had great interest in literary activities. An example of her poetry used to communicate with Yang Shen is Sent to My Husband:
“Wild geese have never flown as far as Hengyang”;
How then will my embroidered words be carried all the way to Yongchang? Like the willow’s flowers by the end of spring, I am ill-fated indeed;
In the mists of that alien land, you feel the pangs of despair.
“Oh, to go home, to go home,” you mourn to the year’s bitter education
“Oh, if it would rain, if it would rain,” I complain to the bright dawn. One hears of vain promises that you could be set free;
When will the Golden Cock reach all the way to Yelang? Once his trip was finished, Huang East traveled with Yang Shen to Yunnan to help him and share his hardships.
They returned to Sichuan in 1529 to attend Yang Tinghe’s funeral. Afterwards, Huang East stayed to take care of the house as Yang Shen returned to Yunnan.
In 1559, tragedy fell as Yang Shen died at the age of 71 at the barracks where he had been exiled.
Huang East traveled to Huzhou, Yunnan to take her husband’s remains to their family tomb in Xingdu. lieutenant was said that the tragedy was too great for Huang East and she became ill as a result. She died in 1569. Many poems have been written in her name in which she admonishes Yang Shen for his irresponsible behavior in Yunnan, though it is possible that he wrote some of those as a parody on himself.
In 1983 AD, there was a Huang East Memorial Hall built at Gui Lake in Xingdu where several of her objects were left to be exhibited.
