Later, Tang Bohu, a great genius in Ming Dynasty, wrote a peach blossom poem: "The Peach Blossom Temple is in Taohuawu, and the Peach Blossom Fairy is under the Peach Blossom Temple. Peach Fairy cultivates peach trees, picks them and drinks them. When you wake up, you just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep under the flowers. Half-drunk and half-awake day after day, flowers bloom every year, I wish I died of old age rather than bow to horses and chariots ... ",and even later, even a man turned into a woman was called" Peach Blossom Luck ".
Scholars always like to compare beautiful women to peach blossoms, because the image of beautiful women precipitated in their hearts is the same as peach blossoms: simple and beautiful, elegant and delicate, fresh and refined, which makes people linger. In fact, there really was a peach blossom lady in the history of our country. She is Gui, one of the four beauties in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Gui was the princess of Chen in the Spring and Autumn Period (now Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province). Her original surname was Gui. Because her father Chen Zhuanggong betrothed her to the monarch of a small country at that time, people called her "Xi Gui" or "Mrs. Xi". According to the history books, peach blossoms are as beautiful as those in spring. As the saying goes, "Peach blossoms wither and burn their brilliance".
Later generations praised her: "Mrs. Peach Blossom is so beautiful that she flies out of the clouds in the middle of the month. The new gratitude is still rewarding, and the whole city has returned to China. " Why is Gui called "Lady Peach Blossom"? Legend has it that she was born in late autumn, but it attracted peach blossoms all over the garden. Then a hundred birds flew towards the phoenix, and she had a peach blossom birthmark on her forehead, just like the reincarnation of the peach blossom goddess; In addition, after her death, peach blossoms were everywhere, so she was called "Mrs. Peach Blossom".
However, Chen's wise man predicted that her arrival would make the peach blossom bloom in autumn, confuse the time sequence and disturb the sky, which is really ominous and will lead to endless pain. Therefore, although she is a princess as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, she was forced to stay away from the palace and was brought up by a wet nurse. Although she became an adult with "eyes like autumn water, face like peach blossom, moderate pruning and ecological behavior", her later life twists and turns and fate seem to confirm that this prediction is not completely false and superstitious.
In 684 BC, Guiren, with a face like a peach blossom and a peerless appearance, was betrothed to the marquis of the country by his father. Because of the long distance of marriage and the deep affection of sisters, Gui naturally passed by to visit her sister Cai Gui (Mrs. Cai) on her way to get married. Cai Aihou, who is up to no good, said, "menstruation is here. Can we meet?" So my brother-in-law Cai Aihou received this beautiful sister-in-law with excessive enthusiasm.
About this reception, Zuo Zhuan, with a slightly blunt wording, only used six words to describe it, "Wait and see, Fu Bin". In other words, Cai Aihou is dishonest. Seeing Mrs. Xi as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, she was in cahoots with her sister-in-law in front of Mrs. Cai Guifu, coquetry and coquetry, and was rejected. This is, of course, a frivolous and immoral act of the Zhou Emperor in the Spring and Autumn Period who ruled the world by courtesy.
Hou, who wore a green hat, was filled with indignation, but because the country of interest was relatively weak, the timid Hou dared not compete with Cai PK. He remembered that his strong neighbor Chu had always been arrogant and savage, and decided to insult his wife with a fake hand. "Chop me, I will ask Cai to help me chop it", which means "Please send troops to our country first and pretend to attack our country. Because of Cai He 'an, I want to ask Cai for help. Once Cai Guo sends troops, you can help me teach Cai Aihou a lesson! "
This is a move to get chestnuts from the fire. Since ancient times, small countries have tried to provoke and mobilize big countries. In the end, they are basically shooting themselves in the foot. This was the case in the interest countries of that era, and it is also the case in Singapore today. At that time, King Xiong of Chu, who was in power at that time, wept with self-satisfaction, took the opportunity to show off the princes, so he acted as planned, but pretended to attack Xi's country with heavy troops to deal with stupidity and saved Xi's country. He defeated Cai's army in the divine land (now runan county, Henan) and captured it alive.
Cai Aihou, who was captured, was furious when he learned that his capture was a plan of "killing people with a knife". He spat lotus flowers in front of King Wen of Chu, describing them as peerless beauty: a big talk about traveling to the west is like autumn water, lotus powder hangs down, apricot flowers contain smoke, and the country is beautiful and fragrant, which is unparalleled. King Wen of Chu, like Cai Aihou, is a hungry ghost with a beating heart.
In 680 BC, King Wen of Chu, as an "ally", led an army to form an alliance with the Angolan parliament and waited for a feast. King Wen asked Xi 'an to be his companion to save interest. Although it didn't conform to the etiquette system, he didn't refuse it later, so he shamefully invited Gui out to propose a toast. What Hou didn't expect was that his front foot was being pitted and his back foot did the same thing, encouraging the king of Chu to plunder his wife and land.
Gui appeared, holding a pot and offering wine, supercilious, like a calm black reef in the sea; On the other hand, King Wen of Chu was carrying a load when he shaved his head-he was so hot that he was stunned by her beauty. After offering wine, Xigui withdrew with a cold face.
With Chu's behavior of "I am a barbarian and don't care about the number of Chinese", the result behind it can be imagined. At the banquet the next day, King Wen of Chu deliberately found fault during the dinner, flew into a rage, won the interests at the scene, and simply erased the countries of interest from the map overnight.
Lady Peach Blossom heard in the Inner Palace that the King of Chu suddenly turned against her and forcibly detained the empress Hou, lamenting, "If you lead a tiger into the house, I will take it myself!" So he ran straight to the back garden and tried to jump into the well to kill himself, only to be stopped by the following Chu general Dou Dan, who grabbed her skirt and said, "Madam, don't you want to be killed by the holographic Hou?" What is it when both husband and wife are dead? "
There's nothing you can do about it. King Chu took the opportunity to comfort him with good words and promised that as long as Gui married him, he would not kill Hou or sacrifice his heirs, so King Chu forced Gui to be the wife of King Chu on the spot in the army. Since then, the name of Mrs. Peach Blossom has changed from Mrs. Peach Blossom to Mrs. Zhu or Mrs. Wen in history.
The seemingly weak girl's appearance and eyes determine the fate of her poor husband Guo. After being humiliated, he was demoted as the gatekeeper of the capital of Chu, and he barely survived. Xi Gui is very popular in Chu Palace. King Wen of Chu built a purple mountain and dug a peach blossom hole in Biedugeyi (now the southwest corner of dengzhou city, Henan Province). There are dense cypresses at the top of the mountain, pavilions and pavilions at the foot of the mountain, and spring water flows through green mountains and green waters. King Chu Wen created this fairyland on earth in order to please the rest of the people deliberately.
Although Mrs. Xi saved her husband's life and the people of her country from being painted with charcoal in times of crisis, she refused to serve others with color. Although Xi Gui lived in the Chu Palace for three years and gave birth to two sons for King Chu: Chu Duao (Xiong Nan) and King Chu Cheng (Yun Xiong), he always "looked at the flowers with tears in his eyes and didn't talk to King Chu".
King Wen of Chu was very puzzled and asked questions repeatedly. He was helpless and cried with tears all over his face: "I am a woman, but I am the second in charge." Even if the husband can die, how can it be ridiculous? " It is eloquent, sad and sorrowful, full of depression and forbearing hatred.
It seems to accuse: The initiator will die Cai Aihou and you, King Chu! You are the cause of all misfortune. King Wen of Chu has nothing to say, but he can do one thing, that is, avenge his wife, attack Cai again, and continue to be detained until he dies after 9 years of house arrest.
I am ashamed to marry King Wen of Chu, but I care about Hou and my old country. Although she is not hypocritical and lacks self-esteem, it does not prevent her from showing outstanding political vision and superb ability to govern the country while being amazing. The experience with Chu made Gui more diligent and became the wife of King Wen of Chu. Suggestions such as recuperation, keeping important officials, attaching importance to education and strict management of harem have been adopted by Wang Wen one after another.
During the period of King Wen of Chu, Xiao, Deng, Jiao, Quan, Luo and Shen were destroyed, and Yue was destroyed 306 years before the Garden. Through the war, Chu annexed dozens of weaker vassal states, and gradually became one of the major powers in southern China in the Spring and Autumn Period, and King Wen of Chu also became a great monarch in the history of Chu.
According to legend, in a season of cool autumn wind and fragrant Gui Xiang, King Chu happily went hunting in Yunmeng osawa and expected to return to the palace in two or three days. Ji took this opportunity to secretly meet her late husband at the city gate. As soon as we met, we cried and complained that we were separated. Mrs. Xi cried and said, "My concubine is in the palace of Chu. At first, I wanted to save the king's life, but later I wanted to see him. Now that my wish has come true, I will die with my eyes closed. "
After grief-stricken, he comforted his wife and said, "Heaven sees pity for people, and there will be a reunion one day. I am willing to be a small official in guarding city. Isn't it just a chance to wait for reunion! " Mrs. Xi thought it was better to get rid of it generously than to drag out an ignoble existence with humiliation, so she struggled to hit the wall, but could not stop it and watched her wife die.
Hou was frightened, and suddenly he was desperate. In order to repay Mrs. Xi's affection, she was also killed at the gate. As the saying goes, "it's for spring, not for the king of Chu." The king of Chu has a good impression on Mo Sheng, and his feelings are deeper. " .
King Chu Wen came back from hunting and was very sad to hear about it. Feeling their pure feelings, they even buried Hou and his wife together in Taohua Mountain outside the city as a gift of bannermen. Later generations built a temple at the foot of the mountain to commemorate and worship at four o'clock, which was called "Lady Peach Blossom Temple" or "Peach Blossom Temple".
Du Mu, a romantic genius and great poet in Tang Dynasty, once visited Mulan Mountain in Huangzhou (then in charge of Huanggang, Macheng and Huangpi counties). When passing through the Lady of Peach Blossom Temple, I went to the temple to pay homage and wrote a poem entitled "Lady of Peach Blossom Temple": "There are new peaches in the slender waist palace, and the pulse is silent for several months; After all, it's a matter of life and death, poor god valley faller; When he died, he went into the home of the king of Chu and looked back at the spring breeze. When I feel old, I don't often hide my tears. I just hate glory. "
This poem is gentle and sincere, telling the eternal suffering and the only death. A delicate woman has to face the cruel reality with shame in order to save her husband's life. And three years of silence is a patient and brave challenge and struggle to everything in front of us.
Of course, the double suicide of Ji and Hou is just a legend derived from the emotional logic of her ex-husband. Real history is not like this. After the death of King Chu Wen, Mrs. Xi was still alive, so she could not have died before King Chu Wen. According to official records, after the death of King Wen of Chu, Gui also tried his best to assist Ao Xiongnan (King Shang of Chu) and Prince Yun Xiong (King Cheng of Chu). During the 12 years after the death of King Chu Wen, this plundered beauty, a woman pretending to be a widow, took good care of her two children Xiong Nan and Yun Xiong, resisted the temptation of King Chu Wen's younger brother Zi Yuan, and finally helped her son become a tyrant.
At that time, the civil strife in Chu was fierce, and the two sons ate each other; And Wang Shu let Yin Ziyuan control the imperial court. Ziyuan relied on being the younger brother of King Chu Wen, coveting the beauty of his widowed peach blossom and trying to usurp power and seize his wife. Arrogance, indulgence and lewdness.
Ziyuan couldn't resist the temptation, and built his own official residence next to the palace where his widowed sister-in-law lived, ringing bells and dancing in it. Mrs. Peach Blossom was disturbed by him, and she angrily accused Ziyuan: "Isn't it outrageous that the former king played with thousands of dances to refine his troops and expand his territory, so that Yin didn't think about making progress in the Central Plains, but he made a gesture in front of the survivors?" This word reached the ears of Zi Yuan. In order to please Mrs. Peach Blossom, he set out to crusade against Zheng, and the result was in vain.
Later, King Chu became older and older, and Ziyuan's desire to usurp the throne became more and more urgent, forming a clique and taking control of the palace. In 664 years before the park, Zi Yuan took advantage of Lady Peach Blossom's illness and openly lived in the palace, flirting in every way. Old minister Dou Lian (word shooter) went into the palace to persuade, but he detained him.
Gui made a decisive decision, and Mi Zhao Dou (also known as Dou Gu) entered the palace. Dou Ban went out with his father and took the lead. He killed Ziyuan in the struggle, rescued archer Dou Lian and Lady Peach Blossom, smashed Ziyuan's plot to usurp the country and seize her sister-in-law, attacked from inside and outside, eradicated fierce stubbornness, stabilized the state affairs of Chu, and put down the eight-year "Ziyuan rebellion".
From then on, Yun Xiong, our youngest son, consolidated the throne and became the famous king of Chu. He is a brilliant king. Once with Huimeng Zhaoling, he met princes in Muqiu, defeated Zheng and defeated Song Yuhong. "Take Fangcheng as the city and Hanshui as the pool", dominating Nantian and being arrogant. However, Gui disappeared behind the smoke and became the echo of the first king in the Chu Palace, but watched his son embark on the road of a powerful Chu State.
In this process, we attach importance to diplomacy, select talents, forgive the world, persuade farmers and mulberry, boldly reform, and finally return politics to the monarch, laying the foundation for Chu Wang Cheng and later Chu Wang to dominate the Central Plains.
Gui's life is beautiful, and her fate is tragic and changeable. At least three monarchs who had close contact with her, Hou and the king of Chu (not including the younger brother of a monarch, Yin Ziyuan, the king of Chu), did not end well, so some people in history said that she was a "femme fatale", and the so-called beauty died in the Three Kingdoms. In fact, she not only does not confuse people with beauty, but also advocates women's self-reliance and self-improvement.
In the process of assisting the three generations of Chu kings, namely King Wen of Chu, King Shang of Chu and King Cheng of Chu, she promoted the exchange and integration of Central Plains culture and Chu culture. Her endless and unreasonable love affair with Cai Hou, Hou and Chu Wen Wang has made countless famous artists such as Song, Wang Wei, Du Mu and Liu Changqing. Move and live like a peach blossom.
Lady Peach Blossom has become a well-known unlucky beauty in history. Her four historical feats, namely, fighting disasters, persuading farmers to teach mulberry, advocating the New Deal, and helping the young to dominate, will go down in history forever.
The story of Lady Peach Blossom's resignation is recorded in Zuo Zhuan, Historical Records and other books. Many stories about her are still circulating among the people. On the land of Henan, Mrs. Xi built temples and monuments wherever she went, and was honored as the "God of Peace". Today, Lady Peach Blossom is still the regional image card of Xixian County, Xinyang City, Henan Province.
The remains of Lady Taohua were also found in the suburb of huangpi district, which is one of the core areas of the ancient Chu State. Beijing Publishing House 1957 Edition of Miao Yue's Selected Poems, Zhang Yi Du, Shaanxi Ancient Books Publishing House, and all the entries in the original note "Lady Xifu: There is a peach blossom temple in the east of Huangpi County, Hubei Province (now huangpi district, Wuhan)".
Huangpi County Records: In the third year of Tang Wuzong Huichang (that is, the second year of Du Mu's appointment as the secretariat of Huangzhou), Du Mu visited Mulan Mountain in Huangpi, wrote poems in front of Mulan Temple, and also visited Lady Taohua Temple. Deeply touched, he wrote the poem "Lady Taohua Temple" mentioned earlier.
The statue of the Jade Emperor is enshrined in the Jade Emperor Pavilion of Qianzu Peak in Mulan Mountain, huangpi district, and a maid-in-waiting next to it is the statue of Lady Peach Blossom. It is said that there is an ancient peach grove on the south slope of Qingliangzhai Mountain in Beicaidian Township, huangpi district, Wuhan, which stretches into pieces. It is suspected that the legendary Peach Blossom Lady and Xihou are both places of double martyrdom.
The so-called "life is just a mortal after all." Being born on the ground is like dying underground? "If you can't make a pair of birds alive, just make a branch underground!
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