Historical allusions of four beautiful women in ancient China

It is said that Shi was the champion of Vietnam beauty pageant that year. On the way to Beijing, pedestrians rushed to watch, causing traffic jams and difficulties. The prime minister who escorted the stone saw this grand occasion and had a plan. He simply asked Shi to live in a gorgeous building in a roadside hotel, and then posted a list everywhere: people who want to see beautiful women pay 1 text.

The notice was posted and caused a sensation everywhere. Stone climbed up the Zhu Lou and stood on the railing, floating like a fairy. The audience lined up in a long line, giving generously, just to see the elegant demeanor of the stone, and some even paid two or three times the money, which was really a never-ending experience. In the past three days, Fan has received countless money. After entering Beijing, he turned over all his money to the state treasury. Therefore, because of their admirable intelligence and morality, the two became friends of life and death. Fan Li's move really set a precedent for the "beauty economy" of later generations. Pearl has been used by human beings for thousands of years. It is said that she is the embodiment of stone.

Xi is the apple of Chang 'e's eye in the moon palace. She was ordered by the Jade Emperor to save the people of wuyue from years of war, and pearls are her embodiment.

It turns out that the fairy Chang 'e has a sparkling pearl, which is very lovely. She often holds it in her palm to play with. At ordinary times, she ordered colorful golden roosters to guard day and night for fear of losing them. And the golden rooster has long had the desire to play with pearls. When Chang 'e was unprepared, she secretly put pearls in her mouth, hid behind the moon palace to enjoy them, and threw them intermittently. It was really fun. But accidentally, the pearl rolled down from the moon palace and flew directly to the world. The golden rooster was frightened to disgrace, and in order to escape punishment, it was still in hot pursuit.

After learning the news, Chang 'e ordered the Jade Rabbit to catch up with the Golden Rooster. The Jade Rabbit traveled through the clouds for nine days, catching up with puyang river in Zhuji, Zhejiang. On this day, at the foot of a mountain by the Puyang River, the wife of a farmer surnamed Shi was washing gauze by the Puyang River. Suddenly, she saw a bright pearl in the water and reached for it. However, the pearl flew directly into her mouth like a wing and got into her abdomen. Shi's wife seems to have been pregnant since then.

16 months later, the woman only felt unbearable abdominal pain, but could not give birth. She was so anxious that her husband knelt down and prayed to God. Suddenly one day, I saw colorful golden cocks falling from the sky and stopping on the roof. Suddenly, the house was full of pearls. Just then, I heard a cry, Wow, Shi's wife gave birth to a beautiful girl named Shi. Therefore, there is a saying that "the mother is bathed in the stream and the pearl bud is pregnant." Said.

When Shi grew up, he dissolved the hatred between wuyue and China, and then he became a pearl and stayed in the world, continuing to contribute to the health and longevity of the Li people. Since then, Zhuji has become the hometown of pearl culture in past dynasties, which is famous at home and abroad. This legend has a history of more than 2500 years. one

The story of Diusim is the most dazzling female image among the few women in the Three Kingdoms, in which the male is the protagonist. It can be said that it is precisely because of the emergence of the story of Diusim that Wang Situcai skillfully used a series of tricks, which made Lv Fengxian cause a storm in Fengyige. The run-out Dong Zhuo Palace was slaughtered in front of it, and the military commander Lu Bu was killed on the White Gate Tower. The significance of the story of diusim's image is that it successfully shows the courage and wisdom of a stunning woman in a world where all men compete for hegemony. It was this extraordinary courage and high wisdom that accelerated the end of the era of warlord melee at the end of the Han Dynasty and contributed to the rise of heroes such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, thus enabling the already stormy Han Dynasty to continue.

However, since the death of Lu Bu's White Gate Tower, this brave strange girl has disappeared. Did you go to Jiuquan with the failed Lu Bu? Or was it brought back to Xuchang by the victorious Cao Cao? This problem has not been solved from the beginning of hegemony to the unification of gold. Is it because the author inadvertently ignored such an important person, or because of some consideration, he consciously avoided talking about it? We have no way to prove it. The author doesn't want to let an admirable strange girl never be heard from again, so he refers to a large number of official novels and unofficial history comments circulating in the society, and finally finds some story clues about the life and ending of Diesim, and records them here as an explanation of his curiosity.

About the origin of diusim's story, unofficial history confessed that his real name was Huo, unknown, a native of Shanxi, and he was a fellow countryman with the famous Guan Yu. She was outstanding and intelligent since she was a child, so she was elected to the Han Palace as the female official in charge of headdress and crown in the palace, so she was called the' Story of Diusim' official. Because of the rebellion of ten regular attendants, he took refuge in the palace and was adopted as his adopted daughter by Stuart Wang Yun, which is the merit of alienating Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. As for the ending of the story of Diusim, some critics believe that after the death of Lu Bu, the story of Diusim was brought back to Xuchang by Cao Cao and stayed as a maid in the Prime Minister's office. After Guan Yu resigned from Tu Shan temporarily, Cao Cao gave ten beautiful women to please Guan Yu, and the story of Diusim was one of them. Guan Yu heard the story of losing Sim's name, felt his courage, said "yes", then closed his eyes and waved.

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As one of the four beauties in ancient China, the story of Diusim is not recorded in ancient books, but there are many descriptions in literary works. In other respects, the story of Dixin is named Du, who is the original wife of Lu Bu of Qin Department. They also have a son named Qin Lang, whose character is Ming, who appeared in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is also recorded as one of the important figures in the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty. Because Lyu3 bu4 misbehaves and loves to steal other people's wives, Diusim was forced to marry Lyu3 bu4, and his son Qin Lang followed Lyu3 bu4.

Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms further describes and depicts the story of Diesim, which has great influence and the legend is particularly touching. Become a well-known "outstanding woman" and "female Chinese and English". According to the textual research of scholar Mr. Meng Fanren, the character in the novel: the story of Diesim, surnamed Ren, was born in Muer Village, Jiuyuan County, Hezhou City. At the age of 65,438+05, he was elected to the palace to take charge of the crown of Diusim story worn by courtiers (the hat of Han Dynasty attendants) and changed his name to Diusim story. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the court storm suddenly broke out, and the story of Diusim went out of the palace and was adopted by Stuart Wang Yun. Soon Dong Zhuo was authoritarian. Wang Yun took advantage of Dong and Lu's lewdness, so he let Diusim's story play a "serial trick", which eventually prompted Lu Bu to kill Dong Zhuo and made a great contribution. Later, diusim became the story of Lu Bu's concubine. After Lu Bu died in the White Gate Tower, Cao Cao repeated the "serial stratagem" to the Taoyuan brothers and gave it to Guan Yu. In order not to hurt the Taoyuan brothers, Diusim's story was protected by Guan Yu and escaped as a nun. When Cao Cao learned about it, he arrested the story of Diusim, and the story of Diusim fell to his sword and died.

Diusim's hometown is Mu Zhi Village, three kilometers southeast of Xinzhou City, on the way from Taiyuan or Xinzhou to Wang Yudong. Mu Zhi Village was originally rich in Auricularia auricula, hence the name Auricularia auricula village. Later, a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum was found under the locust tree in the village, so it was renamed Mu Zhi Village. It is widely rumored in the village that peaches and apricots in the village had stopped flowering three years before the birth of the story of Diusim, and it is still difficult for peach trees and apricot trees to survive, which means that the story of Diusim is ashamed of flowers.

There are archway, front hall, back hall, Wang Yun Street, Dixin Stage and Diaochan Tomb in the village. Over time, these buildings became ruins, and the tombs were razed to the ground in the catastrophe. Ancient bricks, stone components, copper coins and ceramic fragments are often unearthed in the ruins, which are said to be related to the story of Diusim. The tourist attraction is called the story of Diousim Cemetery, which was restored and built by villagers on the original site of the cemetery. The cemetery is located in the southwest of the village, covering an area of more than 4,000 square meters, surrounded by wavy dragon-shaped walls with red background and yellow tiles, shining in the vast sea of wheat. On the eaves of the door, there is a horizontal plaque of "The Story of Diesim Cemetery", and on both sides, there are "It is the pride of China people to be ashamed of closing flowers on the moon"; That humiliation and danger really stopped my eyebrows. "There are moon-worshipping pavilions and Fengyi pavilions in the north courtyard of Ling District, and there is a bluestone tomb behind it. There is a statue of "The Story of Diesim" in front of the platform. Under the dynamic streamer, Diusim's story walks quietly and elegantly, and still has the appearance of "closing the moon and feeling ashamed of flowers". There are 20 antique buildings in the South Campus, which is called "The Story of Diesim Painted Plastic Museum", which reflects the earth-shattering life story of Diesim who is willing to spend thousands of dollars, why not be afraid of danger.

According to villagers' legend, after the three brothers in Taoyuan gained power, they sent the story of Diusim back to their hometown and buried him here when he was old. He also told the story of Diusim throwing himself at the sword, and Guan Yu escorted the body back to his hometown for burial. Therefore, there is a statue of Guan Yu in the back hall, and there is a stage in front of the hall to show the story of Diusim's acting, which is a reward for Guan Yu's refusal to kill and escort. In addition, Zhonghuo Village in the southeast of Dingxiang County is the hometown of Lu Bu, and there are folk legends such as "Huo Qingquan", "Catch the Red Rabbit" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", all of which are related to Lu Bu. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "there is no good girl in Xinzhou and no good man in Dingxiang", which means that because of the story of Diusim and Lu Bu, Xinzhou can no longer produce beautiful women and Dingxiang can no longer produce handsome men. There is a small and exquisite flower, whose compound leaves are like hibiscus branches, bit by bit symmetrical, like bird feathers.

This plant is decorated with several small red flowers and looks like bayberry. When people point with their hands, its pinnate leaflets will close quickly and its petiole will droop slowly, just like a girl who is so shy because of her purity and simplicity, so people call it "mimosa". Legend has it that when Yang Yuhuan first entered the palace, he was sad all day because he couldn't see the king. Once, she and the ladies-in-waiting went to the palace to enjoy flowers, and accidentally met the mimosa, and the leaves of the grass immediately rolled up. Ladies-in-waiting all say that this is the beauty of Yang Yuhuan, which makes the flowers and plants feel ashamed and ashamed. Tang Xuanzong heard that there was a "flower-bashing beauty" in the palace, and immediately summoned her and made her the imperial concubine. Since then, "shame on flowers" has become Yang Guifei's nickname. Mimosa is ashamed to see people because of plant electricity. At the base of the leaf habitat of mimosa, there is a layer of parenchyma called "leaf mattress", which is usually filled with enough water. When the leaves are stimulated, the water in parenchyma cells immediately flows to the upper and both sides under the instruction of plant electricity. With the increase of leaf weight, the phenomenon of leaf closure and petiole drooping appears. Mimosa plants are slender and delicate. In order to survive, it has formed this special ability to adapt to the environment through long-term natural selection. Yang Guifei, the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, has the beauty of the whole country, is born with beauty, is proficient in temperament, can sing and dance, and is good at playing pipa. So Tang Xuanzong loved her very much.

The imperial concubine smiled at the horse that raised the world of mortals.

In order to please Yang Guifei, every litchi season, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was over 10,000 people, always assigned a special person to transport fresh litchi with dew from Sichuan (some people say Guangdong and Fujian) through Wuli or Shili post stations. The enjoyment in the palace is extremely luxurious. The more rare and delicious it is, the more rare it is, and the more tribute it needs. In addition to litchi, there is also a kind of wine named court royal wine by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. The water used for brewing is the morning dew on the mountain. This wine has the unique geographical advantage of developing agriculture in Sichuan, and the brewed wine is mellow, clear but not light, strong but not bright!

"When riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knows that it is litchi." At that time, when Yang Guifei tasted litchi in Huaqing Palace, it was a touching scene. Tang Xuanzong often drank this wine. In Tang Xuanzong's mind, of course, Yang Guifei was "as long as she turned to smile, there would be a hundred spells, and the powder and paint in the sixth palace would go up in smoke". Since then, there has been this famous smile in this history. "Huaqing sings and dresses drunk, and the imperial concubine laughs and drinks dew"! The wine that entered the court as a tribute was also named: dew smile. She used "If she just turned her head and smiled, there would be a hundred spells, and what would the powder and paint in the sixth house fade into" and "But his favor was concentrated in one body", but she was also used to it.

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Fall out of favor for a while, drown my sorrows in wine. When I was drunk, I lost my mind and became depraved. [7]

The day before, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made an appointment with Yang Guifei and ordered him to hold a banquet in Baihua Pavilion to enjoy flowers and drink together. The next day, Yang Guifei first went to Baihua Pavilion and prepared a royal banquet for the coachman. It was getting late at that time, and Tang Xuanzong did not arrive. It's too late, too late. However, suddenly someone reported that the emperor had been lucky in Jiang Fei Palace, and Yang Guifei was bored to death when she heard the news. Yang Guifei is naturally narrow-minded, jealous and particularly flattering, and women are most likely to react when they are angry. Therefore, 10,000 kinds of feelings are hard to get rid of for a while, and they get drunk after three glasses of wine. Chun Qing was so excited that he couldn't help laughing. So he got carried away, became bohemian, got drunk frequently with eunuchs Gao Lishi and Peilishi, and made lewd courtship, which was the beginning of his return to the palace. One of the secrets: abandon heavy makeup, pay attention to light makeup and light scanning, and show the natural beauty of the human body. Cosmetics in the Tang Dynasty were mainly made of lead and mercury. If it is used for a long time, it will be chronically poisoned, leaving brown spots on the face and aging the skin. During her five or six years as a female Taoist, Yang Yuhuan stayed away from heavy makeup and was not harmed by lead and mercury. Later, she abandoned heavy makeup and pursued light makeup.

The second secret: the power of flapping wings in hot springs. The Tang Dynasty inherited the custom of the Northern Dynasty and established the Hot Spring Palace. Huaqingchi is the most famous. According to legend, hot springs have the effect of ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics. Today, the medical community has realized that minerals such as sulfur in hot springs and springs can treat skin diseases. The Song of Eternal Sorrow wrote: "It was early spring. They let her bathe in a pure pool to warm and smooth her creamy skin. Because she was tired, a maid lifted her up. When the first emperor noticed her, he chose her as his bride. " When Yang Guifei soaks in hot springs, she often soaks peony bark, mulberry leaves and nettles in water, which can calm nerves, promote skin regeneration and make skin smooth and delicate. In A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu wrote a poem saying that "bathing is too real to make a shadow". When taking a bath, Yang Guifei pats the whole body, especially the facial skin, stimulates the whole body acupuncture points and promotes blood circulation, thus achieving the beauty effect of strengthening skin function.

The third secret: Yang Taizhen's ruby green is a mixture of peony bark, almond, talc and calomel. It is said that applying it for ten days and looking like a ruby is one of the secret recipes of beauty in Sichuan, and even Empress Dowager Cixi uses it every day. The almonds in this recipe are rich in bitter almond oil, which has a special effect on moisturizing the skin. Calomel inhibits bacteria and smoothes the orifices. They "can benefit the know-how of furuncle and clear the know-how of drowning". The combination of the three drugs has the functions of decontamination, moistening skin and forcing hair to be clear, completely avoiding the harm of lead and mercury in traditional beauty products.

The fourth secret: eat litchi, eat ginseng, and ask your pet for health care and beauty. Everyone knows that Yang Guifei likes litchi. Du Muyou said in a poem: "Looking back at Chang 'an, there are piles of embroideries, and the top of the mountain opens a thousand times. "Riding the world of mortals and laughing, who knows that it is litchi." In order to vote for Yang Guifei, Xuanzong ordered the post stations to quickly transport litchi from Fujian and Guangdong to Chang 'an, which cost a lot of manpower and financial resources, just for Yang Guifei to have fun. Litchi, one of the tropical fruits in South China, is nutritious, sweet and nontoxic. Eating lychee for a long time will benefit the heart and spleen, nourish the liver and blood, and benefit the popularity. There is a problem that has been puzzling later scholars, that is, since the then Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was so infatuated with Yang Yuhuan, why did Yang Yuhuan always be an imperial concubine instead of a queen?

There is no clear record on this issue in the history books. We can only find and dig clues from relevant records, and carry out relevant argumentation and speculation. Judging from the clues in Historical Records, the reason why Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty didn't canonize Yang Yuhuan as the queen is probably related to his humble means of getting Yang Yuhuan.

According to historical records such as Old Tang Shu, New Tang Shu and Zi Tong Zhi Jian, Yang Yuhuan was originally the princess of Li Mao, the son of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Mao took it from her son by unfair means. In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan fell in love at first sight. At the repeated request of Wu Huifei (Li Mao's mother), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named Yang Yuhuan as an immortal. After marriage, they were so sweet that he didn't see Yang Yuhuan.

Five years later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty met Yang Yuhuan and was fascinated by Yang Yuhuan's beauty at first sight. At this time, she has been married to Li Mao, the longevity king, for almost five years. However, Tang Xuanzong didn't care so much. He designed a superficial article. First, under the banner of filial piety, he said that he would recommend blessings to his mother Dou Taihou. Then Yang Yuhuan was ordered to become a monk, and given the word "too true", Yang Yuhuan was ordered to move out of Shouwangfu and live in Taizhen Palace. Then, he betrothed the daughter of minister Wei to Li Mao, the longevity king, and made her a princess to appease the longevity king. Five years later, after the expiration of Yang Yuhuan's legend, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty sent a letter to Yang Yuhuan to be secularized, and he was admitted to the palace, officially canonized as a imperial concubine and raised by himself.

This incident naturally caused profound harm to Li Mao, the longevity king, but it was his father who took away his beloved princess, and he could only dare to be angry and dare not speak. In this regard, Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in the poem "Singing Yang Fei on Mount Li": "The flying spring on Mount Li is warm and fragrant, and Gu Yulian House in Kowloon clearly States that whoever lives a happy life will follow the life of the king instead of the golden jade." This poem describes the frustration of Li Mao, the birthday girl, and the embarrassment after Emperor Xuanzong robbed his daughter-in-law. However, Yang Yuhuan was so beautiful that Emperor Xuanzong ignored all this and got her, which showed the charm of Yang Guifei. In addition, the Tang Dynasty was a rare open dynasty in the history of China. It adopted an inclusive cultural policy, and various foreign customs blossomed everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, weakening the feudal ethical hierarchy. So Xuanzong did not attract much opposition.

But after all, it is not a glorious thing to rob her son's princess. Although Li Mao, the longevity king, dare not say it on the surface, it must be bitter behind his back. Therefore, although Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty loved Yang Guifei very much and imposed all the benefits on her, even her relatives and friends were promoted to important officials, and even the people had the ethos that "she brought happiness to every father and every mother through the empire, not boys", but he refused to make her a queen. First of all, it is unethical to steal the imperial concubine from her son. Although the customs were civilized at that time, the subject of ethical affection still existed, and such a woman obviously could not become a queen. Secondly, if Yang Yuhuan is made queen, it will inevitably arouse the pent-up anger of Li Mao, the keeper of the king, and a coup is also very possible. Third, Yang Guifei's favorite immortals, chickens and dogs, her brothers and sisters, and relatives have all been reused by the imperial court and developed into a huge political force. If she is made queen again, it will definitely cause opposition from ministers and tilt of power, which is very unfavorable for maintaining stability. Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty refused to make Yang Guifei the queen.

There is another important reason why Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty could not make Yang Guifei the queen. This is that Yang Guifei has never given birth to a child since she followed Tang Xuanzong. As for why Yang Guifei was not born, we don't know, but not having a son is definitely a big obstacle for her to be a queen, because it was a very important event in ancient times, and it needed the participation of the monarch and ministers to show the world that the appointed queen must be a virtuous and graceful queen, which can set an example and inspire the world. The son she gave birth to will also be made a prince and will inherit the great system in the future. Therefore, the queen and the prince should generally be mothers with children or children with mothers, but at that time, the prince had been established for many years and grew normally, and Yang Guifei had no time to have a son, so there was no reason for her to be a queen. If the overlord tries to bow hard and let Yang Guifei be the queen, it is likely to arouse the opposition of the prince, Li Mao, the Long Life King and even the court ministers, and a palace coup will take place, so the loss outweighs the gain, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty will certainly not take the risk.

Although Yang Guifei did not become a queen, the treatment she enjoyed was already the standard of the queen. As soon as she entered the palace, she gathered "only his kindness to 3 thousand", and the legend of "riding a princess and laughing in the world of mortals, no one knew it was litchi" circulated among the people. It can be seen that Yang Guifei's high status and deep luck are all designed for her. Although Yang Guifei has no queen's name, she is a queen and is more respected than the average queen. Yang Guifei was also very clever, and did not repeatedly ask Tang Xuanzong to stand on his own feet as a queen. Now that you have reached the acme of a woman and won the favor of the son of heaven, why care about the name of the queen? She only needs to give full play to her beauty and versatility and serve Xuanzong comfortably, and she will always be the queen in the real sense.