Xi Shi, whose real name is Shi Yiguang, is a beautiful woman from the Yue Kingdom. She is generally called Xi Shi, and later generations respectfully call her "Xizi". She was born in Zhuluo Village, Yue State (today's Zhuluo Village, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province)[1] at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. She followed her mother by the Huansha River since she was a child, so she was also called "Huansha Girl". She is naturally beautiful and outstandingly charming, and is the embodiment and synonym of beauty.
The "Sinking Fish" in "The appearance of the moon that shys the flowers, the appearance of the sinking fish and the falling geese" tells the classic legend of "Xishi Wansha". Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan, and Yang Yuhuan are known as the "Four Beauties in Ancient China", among which Xi Shi ranks first. The four beauties enjoy the reputation of "looking like a flower when the moon is closed, and a fish that sinks into the sky".
Xi Shi was born in Zhuluo Village, Zhuji, Yue State, on the 24th day of the sixth lunar month (July 19th in the Gregorian calendar) at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Zhuluo had two villages, the East and the West, and Yi Guang lived in the West Village, hence the name Xi Shi. Descendants of the surname Shi live by the Huansha River. His father sells firewood and his mother washes yarn. Xishi often washes yarn in the stream, so it is also called Huansha River. [2]?
In Zhuji, where Xishi Huansha was built, there was a large ashlar stone, simple and pale brown, with the word "Huansha" engraved on it. It was written by Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. "Kuiji Ji" written by Kong Lingfu of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties says: There is a Xihuan Sha Stone in Zhuji Zhuluo Mountain.
"Yu Di Zhi", "Ten Dao Zhi", and "Jiatai Kuaiji Zhi" also record: "Gou Jian asked for beautiful women to offer to the King of Wu, and got a salary-selling girl from Zhuji Luoluo Mountain, named Xi Shi. At the foot of the mountain there is Xishi Huansha Stone".
Literature scholars in the past dynasties like to sing and sing. Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in his poem "Wish You Ba Zhi Jiangdong to Wansha Stone": "The girl crossing the stream in Xishi, the sea of ??bright light and clouds... has not yet entered the palace of King Wu. At that time, the ancient stone of Huansha is still there today.”