After Wang Zhaojun's death, the Xiongnu did it for her, and the murals of the Mogao Grottoes revealed the truth
This is a poem in the famous poem "Make it to the Stopper" by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, which vividly describes the harsh natural environment of the desert, but Wang Zhaojun, one of the four beauties of ancient China, ignored this harsh environment, gave up comfort and went to the outside of the fortress, bringing decades of peace to the Han Dynasty in the Xiongnu.
Although Zhaojun's life was very ambitious and visionary for a woman, she introduced the Xiongnu to proper farming methods and taught them Han culture and customs. After Wang Zhaojun's unfortunate death, her portrait was engraved on the murals of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang by the locals, but the murals of the Huns commemorating Wang Zhaojun's deeds could not be seen by people up close.
In the first year of Emperor Jingning of the Han Yuan Dynasty, the Xiongnu ruler Hu Han Yeshan Yu changed his anti-Han ideology after witnessing the battle of the Great Wall of his brother and being overthrown by his brother, and led an envoy to the distant Han Dynasty for the third time, bringing tribute such as cattle, sheep and money to the Han Yuan Emperor. He seemed to be very sincere, saying that he would no longer harass the territory of the Han Dynasty, and was willing to submit to the Han Dynasty like a superfluous horse tied to the side of the carriage, and sued the imperial court for peace, hoping that Emperor Yuan of Han would grant his request.
Xiongnu peace was a clever gesture conceived by the Han Dynasty to end the war, solve internal and external troubles, and restore and maintain militarism. During the 170 years before and after the succession of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a series of peace alliances were signed with the Han Dynasty, and the relationship between the two countries was tense and sometimes loose.
However, at the time of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the court of the Han Dynasty had become corrupt and the country was gradually declining and declining, at this time Hu Han Xie Shan Yu sent an olive branch, and the Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty was of course very grateful until the border was no longer harassed by the Xiongnu and other tribes, because the original intention of the Han Dynasty royal family was to hope that the Han Dynasty royal family would be friendly with the alliance to show benevolence.
Although Emperor Yuan accepted Huhan's request for peace, his harem did not allow his only daughter to marry Shan Yu and suffer in the border land, which he himself refused.
They didn't have a spare daughter to marry Princess Taiping, and the royal relatives only knew how to enjoy the happiness of the nobles, and they didn't want to share this responsibility, so they sent their daughter to this Tiancao ghost domain. How to choose a suitable woman for Hu Han Xie Danyu became the most worrying and urgent problem for Emperor Han Yuan.
Someone suggested to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty that there were too many women in the palace, so it was better to choose one from the harem and marry the Xiongnu King in the name of the princess. Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty accepted this suggestion and sent a message to the harem that as long as she was willing to be a friendly girl, she could marry the Xiongnu King in the name of a princess and be the emperor's daughter.
A woman named Wang Yan, I heard that among the women who refused to marry in the harem of the desert, this fake princess endured endless pain and remembered her fake name, and now she has registered and is willing to sue for peace in the name of the palace.
Someone was willing to take the initiative to go, and Emperor Yuan of Han was naturally happy. Because the Xiongnu would soon make a comeback, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty thought that Wang Yan would marry away from home, although he already had the title of princess, but he still wanted to give him dignity and comfort, so he ordered someone to invite Wang Yan.
When Wang Sui knelt quietly in front of Emperor Yuan, with Tingting white and charming Binjiao on her body, with a fragrant breeze, a round and white face, and clear eyelashes under her clever eyes, when she looked at Emperor Yuan shyly and timidly, that look made Emperor Yuan look at his body, as if he had fallen into the water, he was surprised that there was such a handsome girl in the palace, he didn't know that she was in the courtyard of the Zang family.
In the harem of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, there were originally many alternative beauties that met the taste of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, because there were too many people selected, there was competition in the harem, so the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty first looked at the portraits painted by the painters, selected a woman, and gave her the best gift first.
Wang Qiang looked down on this painter who clinged to the powerful, and never gave him any reward, the painter was angry, first signaled the emperor to paint Wang Qiang's portrait, wanting to paint him ugly, but at the same time he had a small black mole on his forehead, so his appearance was difficult to enter the emperor's eyes, and the emperor was angry, so he secretly accused the election official of having no eyes.
This practice of the painter is a big crime of bullying the king, only the harem show girls and concubines are born and old at every turn, sick and die There are not a few people who have never seen the emperor in their lives, so the emperor will see it by chance, so the painters are also bold and reckless, so they dare to bully the king.
Wang Yan finally stayed outside the palace, why not change her name to Princess Qinqin, win glory for the country in the big aspects, and don't have to stay in the palace until she is old in the small aspects. In order to reassure Zhaojun, Emperor Yuan personally summoned him, and the Son of Heaven quickly whipped up, saw the incomparably beautiful Zhaojun, regretted that he had not seen it clearly before, and then handed over the portrait to King Hu Han, everything was arranged by God.
Wang Qiang used the word Zhaojun, so Emperor Yuan named Zhaojun as the princess, and in accordance with the etiquette of the princess's big day, held a grand wedding for her.
Then, after several months of tossing and turning, in the capital of the Xiongnu, Hu Han rescued Shan Yu Feng Zhaojunwei"Ninghu Hou", living in the grassland of the Xiongnu, the life of the nomadic water, so that Zhaojun gradually developed a feeling of admiration, although the natural conditions of this place are difficult, but the character of the grassland people is ordinary and rough, and the compliments are few, Zhaojun also lived very happily, he and Hu Han Xie Shan Yu gave birth to a son, named it"Itu's Warrior", when he grew up, was canonized"King Iari"。Hu Han Xie Shan Yu has a son called"Itu's Warrior", and when he grew up, he was canonized"King of the Righteous Sun"。
I thought that the happy days would continue like this, but unexpectedly, there was a storm in the sky. In the second year of the founding of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty (31 BC), Hu Han Xie Shan Yu felt unwell due to wind disease, and he died soon after.
With a two-year-old child, Zhaojun had an uncertain and hopeless future, so after the tribal family elected a new one, he took care of the wife and children of the first one, and at the same time accepted the scepter, married her as his new wife, and served the king with his original wife.
Zhaojun's morality could not accept the loss of this chaotic ethical concept, so he wrote to the emperor to ask the emperor to help him return to the Central Plains, and the emperor who tasted the sweetness could not care about the pain of a woman, so he categorically refused his request, and stayed in the two countries to change the world and appease the Xiongnu tribe he was concerned about.
Zhaojun was helpless, although he didn't want to, he had to accept this"The so-called sanctuary of love", He had to accept this nasty habit, he was taken as his wife by the neurotic tired Jun and gave birth to two beautiful daughters, and I believe that the pain and pain in Zhaojun's heart were also soothed.
Zhaojun got along well with them and taught them the essence of Han culture. Zhaojun not only taught Han culture to the monarchs and ministers, but also taught the common people to grow rice and vegetables, taught the herdsmen to sew Hanfu and Han customs and etiquette, and taught the herdsmen to learn Chinese characters, so that they could be more adapted to the nomadic life. There is no war in the frontier, the people are rich and healthy, the male and Han people have been stable and harmonious for many years, cattle and sheep are everywhere, and chickens and dogs do not bark.
Peaceful life, but once again there has been a sudden change, since Zhaojun married the tired king Fusu, the emptiness in her heart gradually eliminated among her peers, they spent 11 years of ups and downs together, knowing that their fate was not good, Zhaojun's second husband unfortunately died.
It is better to say that Zhaojun's beauty is unparalleled in the world, but it is better to say that her life was very bumpy, and she died two husbands one after another, which made her life fall into despair again.
Her third husband was her husband's eldest son, which did not make her heart sad, but unfortunately, this did not last long either, and her third husband also died of illness.
The misery of fate left Zhaojun exhausted and depressed, and some shepherds said behind her back that she was destined to kill her husband. She did her best for the peace of the two countries, but she was barely recognized by the Han royal family, and her future was bleak, so she was disheartened and committed suicide by throwing herself into the river at the age of 33, ending her own life.
Because of the life of the court, because of the respect of the court, because of the gentleness of the court, many Huns hide their faces in grief, just crying and crying, the nine tribes ** and the people pierce the face of the court, or tear off the corners of the court's ears to express their thoughts on the court.
This way of carving commemoration is a kind of etiquette of the Huns, generally very prominent characters will be used, Dunhuang 158 cave murals still preserve this painting, although this behavior is a bit bloody, people dare not get close **, but the intention is very good, expressing the love of the Huns for Princess Zhaojun.
The wind of the long river of history is sleepless, Zhaojun with a weak female body, dedicated his 16 years of youth to peace, dedicated nearly 20 years of peaceful life to the Han and Hungarian people, although the end of his life is very tragic, but for his life is still as beautiful as his posture, such as a flock of big red geese in the sky. In a short life, strange flowers and plants, the long river of history and culture, it can be said that Wang Zhaojun's life is singing and crying!