The top ten beauties of ancient China have a legendary life with a bumpy life
Everyone has a love for beauty. There are two versions of the top ten beauties of ancient China: Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan, Yang Guifei, Feng Xiaolian, Su Daji, Zhao Feiyan, Zheng Dan, Bao Xi, and Zhen Mi. That is, Daji, Xi Shi, Zhao Ji, Feng Xiaolian, Diao Chan, Zhao Feiyan, Empress Xiao, Yang Yuhuan, Wang Zhaojun and Li Shishi. Let's take a brief look at these beauties.
Xi Shi: The first of the four beauties of ancient China.
Xi Shi, whose name is Yiguang, was born in Zhuji Ramie Village, Yue Kingdom in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Shih Tzu is naturally beautiful and graceful, and when she picks up the yarn, the fish will forget to swim when they see her beauty, and gradually sink to the bottom, so Shih Tzu is called"Sinking fish"Beauty. Because she has the reputation of the first beauty in ancient and modern times, the word Xi Shi has become synonymous with beauty.
At that time, the Yue Kingdom was subordinate to the Wu State, and Goujian, the king of Yue, tried his best to restore the Yue Kingdom. King Wu likes sound and sensuality, so he used Fan Li's strategy to visit beauties all over the world"As Luo Nu, teach her steps, learn from Tucheng, and enter Jing Street", to Shih Tzu. Three years later, Goujian, the king of Yue, together with Zheng Dan, dedicated her to the husband of Wu Wangfu and became the most favored woman of King Wu. After Wu Wangfu got Xi Shi, he abandoned his official position and left, emphasizing morality and ignoring morality, resulting in the ruin of the country and the death of the family.
After the fall of the state of Wu, Goujian, the king of Yue, returned to China with Xi Shi. Since Xi Shi is a special life of the dead country, Goujian, the king of Yue, took a big stone and threw it into the river. Mozi said:"Wu Qi's dismemberment is his merit, and Xi Shi's submersion is her beauty"。From ancient times to the present, women are like the nature of the country, and all the criminals in the world are women, but Xi Shi is an exception, no one can compare to his sister Xia Xi, Daji, and Bo Ya Biluo, is it Xi Shi's luck or the misfortune of these three women?
Wang Zhaojun is one of the four beauties.
Wang Zhaojun, alias Zhaojun, nicknamed Haoyue, was born in Zigui (now Xingshan County, Hubei Province) in Nanjun in the second year of Ganlu in the Western Han Dynasty (52 years ago), and is known as the four great beauties in distress in ancient China.
In the first year of Jianzhao (38 BC), he was elected as a court maid, but because he did not bribe the court painter Mao Yanshou, the portrait was not beautiful, and he was not selected into the harem of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty. In the first month of the first year of Jingning (33 BC), Han Xishan of the Southern Xiongnu entered the palace and asked for an extra horse on the side of the train, and Emperor Yuan of Han gave him five women. When Huan Xie was about to resign, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty summoned the five daughters and announced that Zhaojun made a stunning appearance. Zhaojun regretted it, but he was afraid of losing the trust of Huan Xie, so he gave the five daughters to Huan Xie, who was overjoyed and wrote to express his willingness to guard the outer border pass forever.
After Wang Zhaojun came to the Xiongnu, he was known as the Ninghu Xiongnu (yān) clan (zhī), lived with Hu Hanxie for three years, and gave birth to a son, Yitu Zhisai, who later became the Youxian King of Li Xiongnu. After Hu Hanjie's death, Wang Zhaojun wrote a letter requesting to return to the palace, and Emperor Han Cheng ordered"From the vulgar", so Zhaojun followed"Father dies and wife follows mother"traditionally, married to Hu Hanjie's eldest son Fusu Lei Shan Yu, that is, the sculptor Tao Ma Gao. They lived together for eleven years and had two daughters, the eldest daughter named Shufei and the second daughter named Danyu. In the first year of Hongjia (20 BC), Fusulei died, and Miyue was succeeded by Suwu Diao Gao. Less than two years later, Wang Zhaojun died at the age of 33.
On a crisp autumn day, Zhaojun bid farewell to the homeland where he was born and raised, and embarked on a journey north. On horseback, he plucked the strings and played a sad farewell song. The geese flying south heard the melodious sound of the law, saw the beauty on horseback, forgot to flap their wings, and fell to the ground one by one. Since then, Zhaojun has been"Falling geese"Another name for it.
Diao Chan, one of the four beauties.
Diao Chan is actually a fictional character in Guan Hanqing's play, named Ren Hongchang, who is the singer of Situ Wang Yun in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and is a beautiful woman who captivates the country and the city.
During Dong Zhuo's manipulation of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Yun devised a series of schemes to secretly marry Diao Chan to Lu Bu, and Diao Chan publicly proposed to Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo accepted Lu Bu as his adopted son, and Diao Chan was also among them, sending a beautiful autumn wave to Lu Bu and a charming smile to Dong Zhuo, both of them were stunned.
Lu Bu was very dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo for bringing Diao Chan to his house. Wang Yun suggested that Lu Bu get rid of Dong Zhuo, so there was"Lu Bu stabbed Dong Zhuo"story. Diao Chan followed Lu Bu. In"Cao Cao went down to Picheng, and Lu Bu died in the White Gate Tower"In the story, Lu Bu was surrounded by Cao's army, and Diao Chan refused to let her husband escape alone, saying that she wanted to"Life is with the husband, death with the husband"。Lu Bu was greatly moved after hearing this, and gave up Chen Gong's clever plan, and went to Diao Chan every day to have fun, completely ignoring the war on the front line. In the end, Diao Chan was captured and killed, and his whereabouts are unknown.
According to legend, Diao Chan was worshipping the moon in the courtyard, when suddenly a light wind blew, and a floating cloud covered the bright moon. Wang Yun saw this scene. Everyone says that the moon is more beautiful than my daughter, so the sable cicada is also called"Occult the moon"。
Yang Guifei, one of the four beauties.
Yang Yuhuan is one of the four beauties of ancient China, and her talent is rare among women in all dynasties.
In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan (734), Li Mao, the king of Shou, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight and was accepted by Yang Yuhuan as the princess of Shou. In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan (737), Tang Xuanzong was depressed because of the death of his favorite concubine Wu Huifei, and there was no one in the harem, and some people suggested that Yang Yuhuan"Tianzi and the country, it is suitable to fill the palace room", so Tang Xuanzong summoned Yang Yuhuan into the harem, and he himself became a monk and was known as a nobleman.
After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, Tang Xuanzong, whom she loved, was very fond of her, and her father and brother were able to dominate the world. After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong fled Chang'an with Yang Guifei and others in the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756). When the team reached the mountainside of the maoguan mountain, six people refused to continue advancing, and Tong Hu said that An Lushan led the troops to rebel because of Yang Guozhong (the cousin of the concubine), and Tang Xuanzong wanted to kill Yang Guozhong to appease the army. The Sixth Army refused to continue, saying that Yang Guozhong was the cousin of the concubine, and since the cousin was guilty, the cousin could not be saved, so he hanged the concubine in the ancestral hall on the side of the road.
Legend has it that Yang Yuhuan once went to the castle garden with the palace maids to enjoy the flowers, and accidentally touched the mimosa, and the blades of grass were immediately entangled. The palace maids said that Yang Yuhuan's beauty made them feel ashamed of the flowers and plants, and they were so ashamed that they couldn't raise their heads. Since then,"Shame flowers"It became Yang Guifei's nickname.
Feng Xiaolun: Thousand Jade Guanyin.
Feng Xiaolian was originally an entourage of Mu Xili, the empress of Gao Wei, the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Feng Xiaoren is smart and clever, blows a good pipe, and can sing and dance. Cushman liked him very much and sat at the same table with him.
In November of the seventh year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty (576 AD), Gao Wei accompanied Feng Xiaoren to continue hunting, regardless of the danger of Jinzhou, and built a bridge for Feng Xiaoren to watch the battle, so he was very sympathetic to Feng Xiaoren. Later, Cushman and Wakefield canonized Feng Xiaoren as Empress Zuo. After the fall of the Northern Qi in the following year, the Zhou army came to Chang'an with Feng Xiaoren and Gao Wei. In the sixth year of the opening of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (577), Gao Wei was killed, and Feng Xiaoren was handed over to the popular King Yuwenda by Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong. Yuwenda's concubine Li competed with Feng Xiaolian for favor, and Feng Xiaolian slandered Li and was almost killed.
In the first year of Emperor Kaihuang (581), Emperor Wen of Sui succeeded Zhou and established Sui, and Emperor Wen of Sui sent Feng Xiaoren to prison and handed him over to Li Shimin's younger brother Li Xun. Li Xun's mother knew that Feng Xiaoren ** her own daughter took the opportunity to take revenge, causing Feng Xiaoren to commit suicide.
It is said that Feng Xiaolian's jade body is curved beautifully, soft as a cotton ball and warm as a fire in the cold winter; In the hot summer, it is as hard as carved jade, cold as frost, and it is a natural stunner. Gao Wei felt that it would be too wasteful for a beauty like Feng Xiaolian to be admired by him alone, so he let Feng Xiaolian lie naked on a table in the palace, and made various gestures from time to time to let onlookers line up to watch this beautiful scenery. Here it is"The jade body is horizontal"Allusions!
A generation of Kraken from the Sultan.
Daji, surnamed Da, is the daughter of the Chao family, known in history"Dajisu"。According to the Zuo Chuan, in 1047 BC, the king of Shang sent troops to attack the Youchao clan, and the Youchao clan was defeated, and the king of Shang surrendered, and offered cattle, sheep, horses, and the beautiful Daji.
In ancient and modern Chinese and foreign legends, Daji has always been portrayed as a femme fatale, the culprit of the fall of the Shang Dynasty. In order to win the favor of Daji, the king not only sent people to collect the world's rare treasures, rare birds and beasts, and ate and drank every day, but also did not ask about political affairs, and even insulted the government and China, which eventually led to the loss of the people's hearts, the destruction of the country, and the death of himself.
Zhao Feiyan: Dance in the palm of your hand.
In the third year of Hongjia (18 years ago), Emperor Yang Ya of the Han Dynasty went to the princess's mansion, and Zhao Feiyan's charming eyes, beautiful singing voice, and elegant and graceful dancing posture fascinated the emperor at once. After being brought into the palace, Zhao Feiyan wanted to capture the old man, refused to be the emperor in a row, and searched for three nights, haunting the emperor's heart, thinking about him day and night, and could no longer leave him. Zhao Feiyan was first known as Jieyu and later as the queen.
In the second year of Suihe (7 BC), Emperor Cheng of Han died, the crown prince Liu Xin ascended the throne, Emperor Ai of Han ascended the throne, and Zhao Feiyan was honored as the empress dowager on the recommendation of Qiao Xuan and others. Emperor Ai of Han died in the second year of his reign (1 BC), and Zhao Feiyan was immediately demoted to Empress Xiaocheng. A month later, she was demoted to a concubine and ordered to guard the mausoleum. On the same day, Zhao Feiyan committed suicide and was buried in Yanling.
Created by Zhao Feiyan"Palm Dance", the dance is light, as if it is in the palm of the hand. This dance has become a unique symbol of Zhao Feiyan and a metaphor for the lightness of female dance.
Zheng Dan: It is comparable to Xi Shi.
Zheng Dan was a beautiful woman in the late Spring and Autumn Period. She was born in the village of Lai Luo (now Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province), lived east of Huanhua Creek, and grew very beautifully. Zheng Dan is good at swordsmanship and has a strong personality. She is actually also a beauty, but because she was born at the same time as Shih Tzu, she is unknown.
In order to confuse the husband of the king of Wu, Goujian, the king of Yue, chose Zheng Dan and Xi Shi to learn etiquette, singing and dancing almost at the same time, and used them as the wives of the husband, destroying the relationship between the king of Wu and the ministers. In 473 BC, the Yue ** team broke through Gusu, the capital of Wu, and destroyed Wu. Maybe it's because Xi Shi's limelight completely overshadowed Fucha, Fucha's whereabouts have always been a secret, and she has not been found after the fall of the Wu Kingdom.
Bergsby: Lighthouse.
Bao Xi, surnamed Bao, is a native of Baoguo (now south of Liuba County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province), and is in the Baoguo ritual system"Women take their names by identity and surname", the surname of the people of Bao Guo is 姒, so it is called Bao Xi.
In the third year of King You of Zhou (779 BC), King You of Zhou attacked Bao Xi, who was defeated and surrendered. After defeating Boqi, King Zhou You favored Boqi, and the next year Boqi gave birth to a son Bofu for King Zhou You. In the eighth year of King You of Zhou (774 BC), King You of Zhou abolished Empress Shen and the crown prince Yijiu, and named Boji as the wife of Hou and Bofu as the crown prince.
In the eleventh year of King You of Zhou (771 BCE), Empress Shen's father, Shen Hou, was angry that King You of Zhou had deposed his daughter and grandson, and formed an alliance with Zeng and Dog Rong Xiyi. Empress Shen's father, Shenhou, was annoyed and angry when his daughter and grandson were deposed by King You of Zhou, and formed an alliance with Zeng Guo and Dog Rong Xiyi, and attacked the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Haojing (present-day Xi'an), marched into Shaanxi, defeated the elite sect of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and killed the King of Zhou You at the foot of Lishan Mountain, leading to the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Bao Xi was captured by the Indians and her whereabouts are unknown.
Zhen Mi Jiangnan Xiaoqiao, Hebei Zhen Mi pretty beauty.
Zhen Mi, known as Mrs. Zhen in history, was born in the fifth year of Guanghe (183), a native of Wuji County, Zhongshan (now Wuji County, Hebei Province), and was a descendant of Zhen Han, the Taishou of the Han Dynasty.
Zhen lost his father at the age of three, and married Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi in the middle of Jian'an. In the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Yuan Xi served as the assassin of Youzhou, and Zhen stayed in Jizhou to serve Yuan Shao's wife, Liu. In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Cao's army captured Yecheng, and Zhen was taken in by Cao Pi, who gave birth to a son, Cao Rong, and a daughter, Princess Dongxiang.
In the first year of Jiankang (220), Cao Pi succeeded to the throne. In June, he led his army into Yecheng and left Zhen behind. In the first year of the early Huang dynasty (220), Cao Pi was proclaimed emperor, and Liu Xie, the Duke of Shanyang, dedicated his two daughters to Cao Pi as concubines. Empress Wende Guo, Li Guiren, Yin Guiren and others in the harem all expressed sympathy, but Zhen became increasingly disheartened and said a few indignant words.
Cao Zhi regarded Zhen Mi as the goddess of Luoshui and wrote "Luo Shen Fu" for her.
Zhao Ji: Qin Shi Huang's biological mother.
Name unknown, Qin Shi Huang's biological mother, wife of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, originally from Handan, Zhao State. During the reign of King Zhao of Qin, Qin defeated Zhao in the Xiongnu War and the Gui War, and An Guojun's son had to send a foreigner (i.e., Zichu) to Zhao as a hostage.
The cunning Lü Buwei felt that this stranger was a rare talent, so he swore with him as a brother. Later, Yiren met Zhao Ji at Lü Buwei's mansion and asked Zhao Ji to be his concubine. A year later, Zhao Ji gave birth to a son named Zheng, who later became Qin Shi Huang. Under Lü Buwei's persuasion, Yiren was able to return to his homeland and won the favor of An Guojun, while Yingzheng and Zhao Ji stayed in Zhao.
In the fifty-sixth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (251 BC), King Zhaoxiang of Qin died, and his cousin An Guojun succeeded him and became the crown prince. Relations between Qin and Zhao eased, and nine-year-old Ying Zheng was allowed to go home. Three days after An Guo's death, Zichu ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne as King Xiang of Qin Zhuang. Three years later, King Xiang of Qin Zhuang died and was succeeded by his 13-year-old son Yingzheng. Zhao Ji became the empress dowager, and Lü Buwei was appointed as the prime minister. The Empress Dowager and her ministers were in charge of the underage Qin Dynasty.
After Zhao Ji became the queen mother, she first rekindled her old relationship with Lu Buwei, and then gave birth to two sons with Chang Yu. After that, Chang Yu became more and more arrogant, taking advantage of Yingzheng's arrival in Yongcheng to hold the throne succession ceremony, stealing the seal of the king of Qin and the seal of the queen mother, and mobilizing foreign infantry and troops to attack the palace of the Dayue clan. Ying Zheng ordered the ministers Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun to lead the army from Xianyang to quell the rebellion. Hundreds of rebels were killed, and Chang Yu was defeated and fled with a group of men. Zhao Ji was then expelled from Xianyang and moved to the Ram Palace outside the city, while Lü Buwei was sent to Shu.
Empress Xiao: Empress Xiao of Emperor Yang of Sui.
Xiao Yan was born in the Xiao clan of Lanling in 567 AD, the son of Emperor Xiao Han and Empress Zhang Huang of Western Liang. Due to Jiangnan tradition that children born in February were unlucky, Xiao Yan was adopted by Xiao Yan, the sixth brother of Emperor Jing of Han. Less than a year after Empress Xiao was adopted, the couple died. Empress Xiao was adopted by her uncle Zhang Ke. Although Zhang Ke was a servant of Xiao Yan, the king of Anping, he was not a member of the Xiao family.
In the second year of the emperor's reign (582), Emperor Wen of Liang and his wife chose a concubine for their second son, King Jin. Since the fortune-telling results of all the imperial concubines of the Liang State were unlucky, they married the Xiao family of Zhang Ke's family, who had auspicious fortune-telling results, as the concubines of the King of Jin. In the first month of the fourth year of the emperor's reign (584), the concubine of the King of Jin gave birth to the eldest son, Yang Zhao (later Prince Yuande), and later the second son, Yang Hui and Princess Nanyang.
Empress Xiao made a great contribution to the success of Emperor Yang of Sui. When Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, although Empress Xiao was over forty years old, she still won the love and respect of Emperor Yang of Sui. After Emperor Yang of Sui succeeded to the throne, although Empress Xiao was over forty years old, she still won the favor and respect of Emperor Yang of Sui. After Emperor Yang of Sui was killed in the Jiangdu Rebellion, the rebels were exiled to Yu Wenhua with Xiao's little grandson in his fifties and all the women in the royal family as his righteous daughters, and welcomed the Yicheng princess Dou Jiande to the Eastern Turks, and Yang Zhengdao, who was exiled to the Turks in the Sui Dynasty, was the mother of the grandson of Emperor Yang of Sui, and Xiao and Dingxiang were his residences.
In the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan, Li Jing destroyed the Eastern Turks, and Empress Xiao returned to Chang'an and lived in Xingdaoli. In the twenty-first year of Tang Zhenguan, Empress Xiao died, and Tang Taizong buried her with Emperor Yang of Sui in Yangzhou, and changed her surname to Min after her death.
Li Shishi: A generation of famous prostitutes.
Master Li was born with a good voice, which makes her birth year a mystery. Coupled with the patient and meticulous guidance of the puppeteer, a child less than 15 years old has become a unique style and a banner flying high in a workshop in the capital. "The voices of the people are real, and the singing is loud"。
According to various sources, Li Shishi was related to the famous poets of the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Zhang Xian, Yan Jidao, Qin Guan, Zhou Bangyan, and Zhao Ji of Song Taizong. Master Li is the best at it"Singing"And singing"Long and short sentences"。Master Li is the best at it"Singing"with"Long and short sentences", i.e. singing modern lyrics. Li Shishi had a great reputation in Bianjing, and was the object of imitation by the brothel literati and the princes and grandsons. He is quite famous among the children of the official eunuch and the wife of the official eunuch, and his affair with Song Huizong has spread so much that even Song Huizong has heard of him and wants to kiss Fangze. Gao Lishi and Wang Xiu, of course, instigated Song Huizong and vowed not to leak the news.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Huizong of the Song Dynasty was captured, and the whereabouts of Master Li became a mystery for the ages. Some people say that in order to fund the Song army's resistance to Jin, he did not hesitate to destroy his family and become a monk in Ciyunguan; Some people say that he was robbed by the Jin army, miserable, refused to bathe, disguised himself to meet the Jin people, and then committed suicide by swallowing the golden hairpin in the surprised eyes of everyone; It is also said that he married a merchant as a concubine, and then committed suicide by throwing money into the Tangjiang River.