There are many women with both talent and beauty. Ban Jieyu in the Western Han Dynasty, Ban Zhao in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Su Xiaoxiao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yu Xuanji in the Tang Dynasty, Xue Tao, and Li Qingzhao in the Song Dynasty all combine beauty and talent. Get a woman.
Let’s talk about Ban Jieyu first. She is the woman who wrote the song of resentment. She was the concubine of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty and a daughter who fulfilled her wishes. After entering the harem, she was good-looking and very talented. Talented and favored, she gave birth to a son who died in infancy and had no children after that. Her descendant, Ban Zhao, was Ban Gu’s sister. Ban Gu’s most representative work is Han Shu. After Ban Gu’s death, he was partially disabled. The manuscript was compiled by Ban Zhao, and she also had her own representative works, Eastern Expedition Fu and Female Commandments. After her death, the Empress Dowager personally mourned her. She was the Empress Dowager's teacher and received high honors as a woman.
Let’s talk about Su Xiaoxiao. Su Xiaoxiao’s ancestor was an official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Later, he stopped serving as an official. His parents came to Qiantang and became businessmen. Su Xiaoxiao was elegant and elegant, liked poetry, and often interacted with literati. Later, her father was very angry when he found out, so he restrained her. Later, when her parents passed away when she was 15 years old, she sold her family property and lived by the Serang Bridge. At this time, no one restrained her, so she lived in a small building and relied on She saved her life, often communicated with literati, and made friends with poems, so she became a famous singer in Qiantang. Many writers in history have written about Su Xiaoxiao.
Yu Xuanji was a concubine in a family in Chang'an. She was not tolerated by her mistress, so she became a monk in a Taoist temple. She had been friends with the writer Wen Tingyun for many years. Later, she was executed by local officials for killing her maid. Some unofficial histories say that she often interacted with some poets and had a bad reputation. It is said that she killed her maid because she was secretly with her lover. Yu Xuanji discovered it and killed her maid.
Everyone is familiar with Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet. However, because he was born in the late Song Dynasty, during the war era, he had a bad fate and a rough life. He married twice. Except for Zhao Mingcheng, marrying again was an unkind person. Ah