《凤求凰》 / Feng Qiu Huang

Overview

《凤求凰》 / Feng Qiu Huang appears in Hanji 358-2 as the musical medium through which 司马相如 signals desire to 卓文君 at 卓王孙’s banquet.

Current Profile

The episode treats the work as an instrumental performance with a legible courtship meaning. 王吉 asks Sima to play, Zhuo Wenjun listens from behind a screen, and the music crosses a social boundary that direct conversation has not yet crossed.

Its role in the current wiki is therefore narrative and relational: it is the pivot between staged public prestige and private romantic response. This source alone does not establish the work’s authorship, original text, musical form, or transmission history.

Key Characteristics

• Courtship work associated in the episode with Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun.
• Performed at Zhuo Wangsun’s banquet after Wang Ji prompts Sima to play.
• Functions as indirect communication across a screened social setting.
• Survives in the episode as a symbol of intense love complicated by later betrayal.

Evidence

• Performance setting: Hanji 358-2 places the performance at Zhuo Wangsun’s banquet.
• Mediation: Hanji 358-2 says Wang Ji proposes the performance and places the instrument in Sima’s hands.
• Courtship meaning: Hanji 358-2 says Zhuo Wenjun hears the melody behind a screen and understands its emotional implication.

Qualifications

The page records the episode’s traditional narrative, not a critical edition or musicological history. Authorship, lyrics, melody, dating, and Zhuo Wenjun’s reported reaction remain unverified by this source alone.

What Changed

• Created a source-bounded work profile distinguishing narrative function from uncertain authorship and transmission.

Relationships

• 司马相如 - performer and traditionally associated creator in the episode’s account.
• 卓文君 - listener and intended recipient of the courtship signal.
• 临邛县令王吉 - banquet intermediary who prompts the performance.
• 卓王孙 - host whose banquet provides the social setting.