Yang Guifei and Wu Zetian, two favored concubines in the history of the Tang Dynasty, their stories are still talked about today. Yang Yuhuan was favored by Tang Xuanzong because of her beauty and talent, while Wu Zetian became Tang Taizong's favorite concubine because of her wisdom and courage.
Their success and glory make the world deeply feel the value of having daughters, because they may be like Yang Yuhuan and Wu Zetian, through their talents and beauty, they can change their destiny and even affect the historical process of the entire country.
This woman is undoubtedly unique in history, she not only won Li Shimin's love with her beauty, but also miraculously ascended the throne and became the only empress in history - Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian has successfully challenged the patriarchal society with his talents and opportunities, but not all women can have such a lucky life. In Li Shimin's harem, there is also a woman named Empress Xiao, who is also beautiful and intelligent, but her fate is diametrically opposite.
Beauty is not so much her blessing as her disaster.
So, let's get to know Empress Xiao, a woman who has been fought for her life by six emperors because of her beauty. When she was young, her fate had already begun to twist and turn.
She is not Li Shimin's queen, but why do we still call her "Queen Xiao"? This has to start with her life experience and experience. In February, the snow melts and the breath of spring quietly arrives.
However, in ancient times, it was generally believed that girls born in February had a bad fate, and it was also recorded in physiognomy books that girls born in February had a hard life and were in harmony with their parents.
The youngest daughter of the Xiao family was born in this special month, at midnight. She was born into a noble family, a descendant of the royal family of the Liang Dynasty, and was supposed to live a carefree life, but because her parents worried that she was unlucky, she was raised outside the palace since she was a child.
Despite her fate, Empress Xiao did not give up on herself because of this. On the contrary, her beauty and talent attracted the attention of one emperor after another. In this chaotic life, she became the object of competition for six emperors.
However, no matter where she is, her heart is always resilient and full of love and pursuit of life. This is Queen Xiao, a woman with a lot of fate, but always tenacity.
Her story teaches us that no matter what fate may be, we should not give up on ourselves, but should be brave enough to pursue our dreams and happiness.
Xiao Xiao grew up outside the palace, nine years old, and her parents were not around, so she began to know how to read words and emotions at a very young age, thinking more than others, so she was smarter.
Fortunately, her caregiver was very kind to her, allowing her to learn to read and write, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and be proficient in everything. As she grew older, her beauty gradually revealed, and anyone could tell that she was good-looking.
She is naturally beautiful, with bright eyes, red lips and white teeth, and she is so beautiful that she is picturesque. In order to be friendly with the Sui Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty married her youngest daughter to Yang Guang. In the difficult years, with her beauty and wisdom, she accompanied Yang Guang to become Emperor Yang of Sui and Empress Xiao.
However, when Emperor Yang of Sui ascended to the throne, he gradually snubbed her and pursued beauty and luxury life. His ** plunged the country into turmoil, which was eventually overthrown by a peasant uprising and lost his first husband.
Although she is as beautiful as a flower, she cannot stop the decay of the country and the trick of fate after all.
It turned out that the rebellious Yu Wenhua took a fancy to Queen Xiao's beauty, so he promised to bury Yang Guang well, as long as Queen Xiao followed him and became his Xiao Meiniang. It's a pity that Yu Wenhua sat on the throne not long before he was killed by Dou Jiande, who rebelled.
And Dou Jiande is a womanizer, he fell in love with Queen Xiao, so he took her away and included her in his harem.
Yang Guang's younger sister went to the border a few years ago in order to be close to her. She knew about the fall of her brother and what happened to her sister-in-law, and she became the woman who killed her husband twice. Therefore, she sent troops to pick up her sister-in-law to her side, hoping to end the twists and turns of her life.
However, the Turkic king of the frontier fell in love with her at first sight and completely ignored the princess's feelings and included her in the harem.
Xiao's fate was really powerful, and not long after marrying Empress Xiao, the Turkic king died. According to local custom, concubines could inherit the throne, so Xiao became the new Turkic princess.
At the height of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin led his troops to attack the Turks, and Empress Xiao became a trophy and was sent to Li Shimin. At the age of 48, she met Li Shimin, will her life be stable?
For more than 20 years, she has shared the bed with her husband's killer, and she has also had entanglements with her husband's son, and she has lost herself.
In order to pursue the love in her heart, Queen Xiao resolutely gave up her chastity and shame, and came to Li Shimin as an object and an ornament. At this time, she was forty-eight years old, but the traces of the years did not leave too many imprints on her, but made her more charming and more delicate than flowers.
Li Shimin was attracted by the beauty of Empress Xiao, and although he was only in his thirties, he was very fascinated by her and made her his concubine.
Li Shimin's benevolence is truly gratifying, and his strong army and the country of peace and security have provided the Shaw family with prosperity and stability. He kept her in the palace until she died at the age of 81, and then buried her in the underground palace of Emperor Yang of Sui, fulfilling their wish to die together.
In ancient society, women were only appendages of men, and if the husband could succeed in ascending to the throne, then everything would go well, but if the husband failed or did not want to make progress, he would be labeled as "red face and trouble".
Empress Xiao's bumpy experience reveals to us a cruel truth: no matter how beautiful and intelligent a person is, he cannot avoid the ups and downs of life. Empress Xiao is still like this, not to mention other women.
If you have something precious, you must have great strength to protect it. Xiao Meiren's beauty and talent are unmatched, but she lacks the ability to protect herself and can only obey the wishes of others again and again.
Although she eventually became Li Shimin's concubine and died a good death, the pain she endured did not disappear.