Excellent family background
Cai Wenji, whose real name is Cai Yan and also known as Zhaoji, is a rare talented woman in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. She is proficient in poetry, poetry, music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Of course, this is not a boast.
Because he has a great father, Cai Yong is proficient in temperament, classics, history, poetry, and calligraphy. He can be said to be the last literary generalist in the Han Dynasty.
As the daughter of Cai Yong, Cai Wenji was born into a scholarly family. She was deeply influenced by her childhood. Her talent and intelligence fully demonstrated her literary and artistic talents, even surpassing her father's in some aspects.
It is said that when she was six years old, her father Cai Yong was practicing in the living room. Outside the hall, Xiao Wenji heard her father playing the piano, and the first string broke. When her father deliberately broke the first string, Xiao Wenjie could immediately tell that the fourth string was broken.
However, after a happy childhood, such a talented and talented woman survived the suffering and humiliation like most people at that time.
The Cai family has a daughter who has just grown up. After leaving the cabinet, Cai Wenji married the Hedongwei family for the first time. Her husband Wei Zhongdao was her father's student and an accomplished scholar. The couple has similar interests and lives in love.
Unfortunately, within a year, her husband died of hemoptysis. Cai Wenji was driven back to her parents' home for killing her husband.
At this time, it was the Yellow Turban Army who was in local turmoil, the princes coexisted, Dong Zhuo usurped the power of the court, and the Xiliang Army burned, killed and looted the capital Luoyang.
However, the Cai family is not bad. Because Cai Yong was famous all over the world at that time, he was listed as a key target of Dong Zhuo's struggle. He tried his best to attract high-ranking officials and high salaries to decorate his appearance. His official title was General Zuo Zhonglang and he was granted the title of Marquis of Gaoyang.
Therefore, during this period, Cai Wenji lived a relatively stable life in her natal family.
A miserable life
The good days of reading poetry are always so short. Soon, Dong Zhuo was killed by Wang Yun. A high-ranking official under Dong Zhuo, Cai Yong was exonerated, arrested, and sent to prison. Soon after, he died in prison, and the Cai family's political status and living conditions plummeted.
Since then, the court has become more chaotic, warlords are fighting, people are displaced, and people's livelihood is in dire straits. The entire Eastern Han Dynasty was in turmoil. The Chinese people are very fragile, and their warriors are all Hu Qiang. They hunt around the city and die in the direction they face. The man's head is hung by the horse, and the woman is carried behind the horse. He drove the Shuo Desert for a long time. The circuit is dangerous and clogged. ?
The Central Plains was in chaos. The Southern Huns living in the north of Binzhou were preparing to migrate again and took the opportunity to plunder property. At this time, Cai Wenji and many abducted women became victims of the Southern Huns. When she was exiled to the North, the humiliation and whippings she suffered on her way there need not be described in detail.
King Zuo Xian of the southern Huns liked Cai Wenji's beauty and intelligence and took her as his concubine. Therefore, Cai Wenji, who was only 23 years old, lived in a foreign land for 12 years.
In these 12 years in a foreign country, Cai Wenji experienced the pain of being in a foreign country. During this period, King Zuoxian gave birth to two sons.