Being too beautiful is also a crime.

　　There is a new platform and a beautiful river.

　　It is also a crime to be too beautiful.

　　The new platform has Ba (cǐ), and the river is quiet. Yan wan's request is not fresh (qú chú bù xiān).

　　The new platform has a shower (cuǐ) and the river is flowing (měi). Yan wan's request is not worth mentioning (qú chú bê ti m: n).

　　Set up a net to catch the fish, did not want to toad net midstream. Yan Wan's request was rewarded with this gift.

　　-"The Book of Songs (bèi) Wind and New Platform"

　　Translation ※

　　Bright and brilliant, the river flows eastward. I wanted to marry a wishful man, but I was as ugly as a toad. Tall and magnificent, the river flows to the east. I wanted to marry a wishful man, but I was ugly. Set a fishing net to catch the fish, not thinking about the middle reaches of the toad net. I wanted to marry a wishful man, but I got so ugly.

　　Creative background ※

　　If a woman is not beautiful, she will be rejected. If she is too beautiful, sometimes it is a crime. To give a very simple example, Yang Guifei, one of the four beauties in ancient China, was attracted by her father-in-law Tang Xuanzong because she was too beautiful. Although she was loved by thousands of people, she ended up with a tragic death.

　　Yang Guifei's example is given because "New Taiwan" is a folk song that satirizes her father-in-law for building a new platform and seizing her daughter-in-law. The "father-in-law" here is Wei Xuangong, the monarch of the country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the "daughter-in-law" is Qi Xuan Jiang, a famous beauty in the Spring and Autumn Period. Xuan Jiang's experience is similar to that of Yang Guifei, even more miserable.

　　Xuan Jiang was a princess of Qi. She was very beautiful and was a famous beauty at that time. Wei Guo sent messengers to ask their prince Ji Ji to marry the beautiful princess Xuan Jiang. Ji Ji is not much older than Xuan Jiang. He is elegant, handsome and talented. Xuan Jiang's father, Qi Xi Gong, agreed to this marriage without hesitation. A prince, a princess, a handsome boy and a beautiful woman should have been a match made in heaven. Xuan Jiang thought she was married to pursue Yan Wan's kindness and wanted to live a harmonious and happy life, but unexpectedly she became a plaything in the hands of a bad old man.

　　Wei Xuangong is a lecherous. Hearing of his beauty, he violated his family's wishes and built a "New Taiwan" on the edge of the Yellow River. He married his daughter-in-law and took it for himself. The beautiful girl was married to a bad old man, and she was also a hunchbacked chicken breast. She should have been her old man. This couple can't match each other in any way. As the saying goes, "A flower is inserted in cow dung".

　　The whole poem of "New Taiwan" repeatedly praises "New Taiwan has a whimper" and "New Taiwan has a spill". In fact, it is the beauty and grandeur of the new Taiwan to set off the scandal of Wei Xuan's official business, which shows that the people are also very dissatisfied with Wei Xuangong's seizure of his daughter-in-law. The poet is not angry in his heart, and he wants to express his grievances for Xuan Jiang and the young people in the world. It's a pity that a flower was destroyed because of the beautiful Xuan Jiang.