Zhen Mi, whose name is unknown, is a famous beauty and talented woman in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty in China. She was born in a family of eunuchs in Wuji, Zhongshan (now Wuji County, Hebei Province), and was famous for her beauty and talent since she was a child.
Zhen Mi first married Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi as his wife, and her life was stable but not in troubled times. After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao broke through Yecheng, and his son Cao Pi fell in love with Zhen Mi at first sight and accepted him after the war. After becoming Mrs. Cao Pi, Zhen Mi won unanimous praise from the Cao family for her virtuous and virtuous, gentle and considerate manners, and gave birth to a son and a daughter for Cao Pi, that is, the later Emperor Cao Ei of Wei Ming and Princess Dongxiang.
However, Zhen Mi's fate did not settle down because of this. With the passage of time, there are countless beauties around Cao Pi, especially after the appearance of Queen Guo, Zhen Mi's status is gradually threatened. Coupled with gossip and some misunderstandings inside and outside the court, the relationship between Zhen Mi and Cao Pi has cracked. In the end, after Cao Pi became emperor, Zhen Mi was given to death on suspicion of witchcraft, and a generation of beauties died.
The theme of Zhen Mi's biography revolves around the tragic fate of "Troubled Times", depicting a female figure who combines beauty, wisdom and tragedy. Her story reveals the fragility of women's status in feudal society, and even those as talented and beautiful as Zhen Mi cannot escape the power struggle and male-dominated married life. At the same time, Zhen Mi's story has also become one of the most legendary figures in ancient Chinese culture because of its poignant love legend and literary rendering of Luo Shenfu, and is known as the incarnation of the "God of Luoshui".