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Kneel for GL origin! ! !

GL refers to the basic feelings between women.

Since 600 BC. In the eastern Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, there is an island called Lesbos. At that time, a poetess was born on this island. Her name was Sappho (6 10 ~ 580 BC). Her short stature and black hair were far from the so-called "beauty" standard of tall blonde at that time, but as long as she played melodious piano music, she could arouse many people's deep romantic feelings. She was born in a wealthy family with social status and fled to Sicily because of civil strife when she was a child. Among the many men she pursued, she married a very suitable Kokulas and gave birth to a daughter Chrissy, whom she called "Golden Flower". After her husband died, she returned to her hometown of Lesburg. It is said that she and Akayev (Alcaeus, 620 ~? B.C.) Have a love affair. A good family, a leisurely life, and the prosperous economy and culture of Lesburg Island at that time, under the condition of women's relative freedom, Sappho wrote countless lyric poems, tuned the strings and sang intoxicating poems. Three lines, three lines, a lyric poem called "Sappho Style" by later generations, like a paragraph in "To the Lover", which reads: My heart beats at the sound of your laughter,/like a horror; I just need to look at you, and I immediately lose the ability to speak. Her poetic style soon became popular in the Greek peninsula. People miss her, and even put her image on the currency, so as to see her elegant demeanor at any time. Plato, a Greek philosopher who was 200 years behind her, cherished her talent and compared her with the nine literary goddesses on Mount Olympus, calling her the tenth muse. Sappho has many poems. One hundred years after her death, aristophanes and Alistair of Byzantium collected her works and edited and published nine volumes of Sappho's poems. The first volume contains 1320 lines, from which we can judge how many works there are. In Roman times, lyric poets Catullus and Horace both translated her poems. At that time, many poets wrote poems in imitation of her creative form. More than 700 lines of her works alone have been quoted by later generations. In the fifth century, scholars decided to turn papyrus into books, but they completely gave up Sappho's works, which led to a large loss of her works. Only one song is intact, and the rest are incomplete. Until the end of19th century, archaeologists discovered in the Nile valley of Egypt that a large number of papyrus used to wrap mummies, coffins and fill sacrificial animals were actually manuscripts of ancient literati. Archaeologists confirmed after textual research that some papyrus were written by Sappho's poems, and the number was quite large enough to outline the charm of this ancient talented woman, so the world's enthusiasm for Sappho warmed up again. 1925, Oxford University published the first modern poetry anthology of Sappho. Sappho lives in Mitlin, his hometown of Lesberg Island. She teaches girls manners, dancing, playing the piano, singing and writing poems. I also often compose my poems into songs. Besides expressing her love songs, she also wrote many poems, elegies and wedding songs that prayed to God of Love, all of which were written in her hometown's Aulishe language, which was straightforward, concise and practical. It is said that she has been in love with many of her students, including the most famous Alina. When the student was about to get married, she wrote love songs in agony: my lovely,/my elegant life,/my baby, my beautiful house,/my happy and bright veil,/my sister, the beautiful Miss Lesbo. /My lovely body,/Bear's flame, is surrounded inside. She has always been regarded as a lesbian, which can be said to be the earliest lesbian in the historical records, so that "Sappho-style love" or "lesbian" named after the island where she lived at that time and later became synonymous with lesbianism.