Throughout the ages, it seems that many people have praised Wang Zhaojun, because she married the Xiongnu and contributed to world peace, and her approach seems to be in the interests of the majority.
She thought that the special form, which had made a great contribution to the Chinese, should certainly be praised, but praise alone seemed to be far from enough.
Just imagine, Wang Zhaojun is a peerless beauty, and Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty is a lustful king, how could he bear the pain of marrying Wang Zhaojun to the Huns?Because it's not that simple.
The great poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty seemed to understand Wang Zhaojun's grief, and he wrote poems to praise:
The water flows in front of the green mound, the twilight clouds and autumn on the Yanzhi Mountain, the moth eyebrows fall into the poor spring road, and the lonely soul is sad under the moon every night.
Wang Zhaojun was born in a small village on the south bank of the Yangtze River, with bluestone slabs and oil-paper umbrellas in her hometown, and she was found to be less than 15 years old when she decided to go to Chang'an.
The girl is like a flower, why was she taken away?To put it simply, it was found that he was good-looking, and he wanted to take him to Chang'an Chifeng Emperor Han Yuan and be a palace maid.
At a young age, he was chosen to serve the Son of Heaven, which caused a sensation on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and then everyone cast envious eyes, envious that Wang Zhaojun relied on his beauty to change his fate, of course, some people sighed that Wang Zhaojun was really unlucky.
As the saying goes, the bystanders are clear, and the authorities are confused. The young and ignorant Wang Zhaojun entered Chang'an with ignorant thoughts.
The prosperity and glamour of Chang'an City made Wang Zhaojun feel surging, not only that, but after she was taken to the palace, she met all kinds of sisters.
Not only that, she also has her own house to live in, and the eunuchs have to give them makeup, curved eyebrows, and good-looking hairstyles every day, what they have to wait for is the "favor" of Emperor Han Yuan.
Although she has no experience as a palace maid, the talented and intelligent Wang Zhaojun quickly understood what she was going to face when she came here, and from the mouths of the sisters and the little eunuch, she had already guessed that she was not far from ten.
In ancient times, it was normal for an emperor to have three thousand beauties, which seemed to be an attribute of China's feudal dynasty, but how many emperors in ancient times ruined the country because they were obsessed with women?
There are three thousand beauties in the harem, thousands of purples and thousands of reds, and Wang Zhaojun is just a little. Although this point is in full bloom, after all, there are too many people in the harem, and it is not easy to be favored by the emperor.
Around Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, there were thousands of women for his use, and according to the layout of the ancient feudal dynasty, there was at least one queen, and then there were many concubines below, and there were dozens of titles alone.
For example, Zhaoyi, lover, concubine, Chongyi and so on.
But more women are not pampered, just like Wang Zhaojun, she eats and wears in the harem every day, goes out with her sisters, sits on the roof at night and looks at the stars, and misses everything at home.
The sisters all discussed: "When can I see the emperor?"”
As we all know, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty is lustful, he also has requirements in choosing his own imperial concubine, it is said that when he was the crown prince, there was a woman named Sima Liangdi, who fascinated him deeply, and when Sima Liangdi fell ill, he actually went to take care of her, and died together.
Emperor Xuan of Han gritted his teeth and selected 5 women from the palace maids to give them to him, but Emperor Yuan of Han did not seem to be satisfied. He was still willing to choose a woman in the palace himself, but this also brought him a disadvantage.
The harem beauties are like clouds, how can Emperor Han Yuan be busy?So before the age of 40, the body is no longer good, and even malaise every day, the heart is more than enough but the strength is insufficient, and the treatment of beauties is much the same.
When Wang Zhaojun entered Chang'an, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty was 36 years old, so it was not that Wang Zhaojun's beauty was not good, but that it was her bad luck to catch up with Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty.
There are too many beauties, how to choose?The eunuchs who served Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty thought of a good way, that is, to ask the portrait master to paint a portrait of each palace maid, so that Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty could choose the palace maid at home.
If Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty takes a fancy to someone, he will let whoever serve, which is efficient and convenient. With the approval of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the portrait artist officially took up his post with a certificate.
But having said that, there is a disadvantage of portraits, that is, they block people's intuitive feelings, not to mention that there was no high technology at that time, and portraitists generally distinguish with the naked eye, and it is easy to paint the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful.
Therefore, whoever the emperor wants to favor, the portrait artist is the most deadly level, which leads to another phenomenon, ** someone secretly stuffs money into the portrait artist, and naturally will do something.
But Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty is not a fool, ugliness and beauty can naturally be distinguished, so the portraitist will be slightly inferior on the basis of beauty, and slightly embellish on the basis of ugliness.
When the portraitist saw Wang Zhaojun, his eyes widened, and he felt that the woman in front of him, whether it was her appearance or complexion, was absolutely first-class, and she was even said to be the stamen of flowers, a peerless beauty.
Therefore, the portraitist opened his mouth to Wang Zhaojun and decided to make a lot of money. But Wang Zhaojun is fresh and refined, and she thinks that beauty cannot be measured by money, so she annoys the portraitist.
According to historical records, when Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty saw the portrait of Wang Zhaojun, he was depressed and had no interest, so he threw the portrait directly in the trash, so Wang Zhaojun missed another opportunity.
In the next few years, Wang Zhaojun suffered a great deal in the palace, on the one hand, the harem struggled fiercely, and those concubines did whatever it took to get the emperor's favor, even to the stage of killing people and setting fires. On the other hand, Wang Zhaojun's lonely life in the palace was extremely torturous.
Her torment is not only not to get the emperor's favor, but also a kind of torment as a woman, she can't see the love of men and women for a long time, just like not seeing the sun, in the long run, Wang Zhaojun had a serious illness.
She felt that she couldn't go on like this, and she couldn't die of old age in the palace, so she looked for an opportunity to leave the palace, no matter what she wanted.
About a few years later, there was news from the palace that if someone was willing to marry Han Xie Shan Yu and marry the Huns, His Majesty would make her a princess.
This matter spread ten times and hundreds, and in the end, many palace maids were frightened, Wang Zhaojun felt that this was an opportunity, and after full thinking, Wang Zhaojun made a bold decision.
But is that really the case?
In fact, since the Qin Dynasty, harmony has become an important means of dealing with ethnic relations, and the Qin Dynasty also had the exchange of protons, to put it bluntly, it was all to maintain the stability of the country, which played a pivotal role in consolidating the stability of the country.
And the policy of harmony has a long history in China, such as Liu Xijun in 121 BC, that is, Princess Xijun, who married far away in the Western Regions. and the well-known Princess Wencheng, who left a generation of good stories in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Zhaojun, like them, is also very famous, since then, after the re-creation of later generations of literati, the historical event of Zhaojun's exit from the fortress has been endowed with richer literary connotations, and the story of Zhaojun and his relatives frequently appears in **, poetry, opera and other literary works.
The word Xiongnu was first seen in the "Warring States Policy" and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", they were originally nomads, but they were brave and good at war, and were well known by all countries.
At the end of the fourth century B.C., the Xiongnu took advantage of the seven kingdoms to compete for hegemony, rapidly developed their own power, and by the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Xiongnu already had a strong territory, especially in 209 B.C., after Mao Dun killed his father and established it, it became increasingly powerful.
During the Gaozu period of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu had begun to attack on a large scale, until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to strengthen the imperial power, Emperor Wu Liu Che adopted the suggestion of the lord father Yan and implemented the "Tui En Order" internally to further weaken the power of the princes and kings.
Ideologically, Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" was adopted to consolidate the centralization of power. Militarily, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty actively developed his military strength, strengthened his army, and prepared to completely solve the threat from the Xiongnu in the north by military conquest.
The strength of the Han Dynasty frightened the Xiongnu, especially under the crusade of Wei Qing and Huo Quai, the Xiongnu were even more compromised, so in this case, the Xiongnu began to negotiate with the Han Dynasty, marry a woman from the Han Dynasty, and establish diplomatic relations by marriage.
In order to prevent future troubles, after the death of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty launched an attack on the Xiongnu again, according to the "Book of Han".
"Captain Chang Hui and Wusun Bing went to the right valley of the stupid court, and received more than 39,000 levels of horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys and mules. ”The defeat of the Xiongnu divided its interior, and five Shan Yu appeared, who fought each other, and the people were struggling to survive.
As a last resort, they began to sue for peace with the Han Dynasty again, and solved the problem of the war situation by marriage, especially after the death of Qiu Zhidan, which made Hu Han Evil Shan Yu happy and afraid, happy that he had no opposition in the Xiongnu, and afraid that the Han army would be able to concentrate forces to attack him.
Hu Han Yeshan thought of an excellent way, which was to go to the Han Dynasty to meet Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, hoping to get along with each other amicably, and was willing to marry a princess of the Han Dynasty and become a relative.
In fact, if the army continued to be dispatched, the combat power of the Han Dynasty was far above that of the Xiongnu, but in order to calm the war and let the common people live and work in peace and contentment, they agreed to this matter.
But the problem is that none of the princesses of the Han Dynasty at that time were willing to marry the Xiongnu, and Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty actually didn't want to marry his daughter so far, so he had the idea of impostor.
Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty actually did not look at the first view, and did not treat the Xiongnu leaders sincerely. So in this case, Wang Zhaojun, who has been mentally suppressed for a long time, finally waited for the opportunity.
The eunuch reported that there was a palace maid named "Wang Zhaojun" who was willing to marry the Xiongnu, and Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty was very happy, he didn't know who Wang Zhaojun was, so he hastily dismissed the matter.
According to the history books, "I said that I would like my son-in-law Han to kiss himself." Emperor Yuan gave Shan Yu to the son of the Liang family in the harem, and changed the Yuan to Jingning. ”
Wang Zhaojun's real name is Wang Yan, and Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty named her Zhaojun. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhaojun's beauty illuminated the entire Xiongnu.
Shan Yu expressed his willingness to keep the border forever, and after Wang Zhaojun arrived at the Xiongnu, he was called Ninghu Yan.
On that day, the Han Dynasty held a grand farewell party for Wang Zhaojun, Wang Zhaojun was dressed in gorgeous clothes and showed her charm, and her beauty shocked Emperor Yuan of Han in his seat.
Wouldn't it be better for such a wonderful woman to stay by herself?But Emperor Han Yuan regretted it too late, so he could only endure the pain and cut his love. Wang Zhaojun's tragic fate lies precisely in this.
Subsequently, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty discovered the portraitist's grudge, ordered the investigation and punishment of the portraitist, arrested the portraitist, and beheaded the public. This can be regarded as an end to his own regrets.
A few months later, Emperor Yuan of Han died, and he and Zhengjun's child Liu Biao succeeded him as Emperor Cheng of Han.
Everyone in the Han Dynasty knew that Wang Zhaojun married the Xiongnu, but how did she live there?Little is known about all this.
According to historical records, Zhaojun and Huhan Yeshan lived together for more than two years, gave birth to a son, named Yitu Zhiyanshi, and was named the king of the right day.
After the death of Huhan Evil Shan Yu, according to the rules there, his son inherited the position and became the new Shan Yu, and succeeded Wang Zhaojun as his wife, which means that the son went to marry his mother as his wife.
Wang Zhaojun, who was born in the Han Dynasty, was unwilling and reported to the Han Dynasty that he wanted to return to Chang'an, but Emperor Han Cheng did not agree and asked her to do things according to other people's customs.
So after that, Wang Zhaojun and the new king gave birth to two daughters, Wang Zhaojun's fate in his life is embarrassing enough, and the pressure on her is extraordinary.
In fact, to put it bluntly, Wang Zhaojun is just a palace maid in the Han Dynasty, more like a chess piece, so it is reasonable that she is praised by later generations.
In 819 A.D., Bai Juyi stepped down as Sima of Jiangzhou and went to Zhongzhou to serve as the assassin of the history, passing by Wang Zhaojun's village, he was sentimental here, and he was full of emotion here, because many people in the village learned the lessons of Wang Zhaojun and seemed to be afraid of becoming a beauty.
Even Wang Anshi once wrote a poem lamenting Wang Zhaojun, he wrote:
Hann is shallow and deep, and the joy of life is in knowing each other.
The poor green mound is gone, and there are still mourning strings left to this day.
Regarding Wang Zhaojun's parents, there is a slight record in "Qin Cao": calling his father's name Wang Xiang is not enough evidence, but it is certain that Wang Zhaojun has a brother and two nephews, which is clearly recorded in the "Hanshu Xiongnu Biography".
It can be said that Wang Zhaojun's children also played an indelible role in the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu in the future, and contributed to the stability of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, as an ancient figure, how beautiful Wang Zhaojun is and what her appearance is, there is no detailed account in the "Book of Han". But later generations portrayed her as a beautiful woman who captivated the country and the city, coupled with her tragic fate, which is admirable enough.
As Du Fu wrote in the poem:
Draw a picture to understand the spring breeze surface, and return to the moonlit night soul around the sky.
For thousands of years, the pipa has been used as nonsense, and it is clear that the resentment is in the song.
Even the idioms "sinking fish and geese" and "painters abandoning the city" record her life allusions.
Today, Wang Zhaojun has become a well-known historical figure in thousands of households, women and children, and is also known as one of the "Four Great Beauties of Ancient China", so he is highly respected.