"Mourning the six armies, rushing to the crown and anger is beautiful"; "? The wife should be a big deal, but the hero is helpless and affectionate. The bones of the whole family turned to ashes, and a generation of red makeup shone in history. These poems describe the tragic situation of Wu Sangui: he can't stand the shame that his beloved person is occupied by others.
Background story:
Chen Yuanyuan, one of the world-renowned "Eight Beauties of Qinhuai" in the late Ming Dynasty, was eagerly sought after by celebrities as soon as she debuted, and her fame overshadowed the gentle and lovely Dong Xiaowan. Beautiful women are unlucky. She was first plundered by Tian Hong and presented to Emperor Chongzhen. Unexpectedly, she didn't get the favor of Chongzhen, and was later accepted as a concubine by Wu Sangui.
1644, in the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the king of Zhuang, formally established the Dashun regime in Chang 'an, with the title of Yongchang. Later, he led a great army to cross the river and crusade eastward, killing Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning of March, Li Zicheng arrived at the gates of Fu Xuan, and the capital was in danger. In desperation, Chongzhen named Wu Sangui Pingxibo and ordered him to give up the checkpoint and enter the customs. At this time, Wu Sangui was the company commander of Liaodong, stationed in Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui received an order from him to enter the customs. When he arrived in Hebei, not far from Shanhaiguan, he heard bad news. The capital fell and Chongzhen hanged himself, so he led his troops back to Shanhaiguan.
In early April, Wu Sangui personally led his men to meet the new emperor Li Zicheng. But on the way, I heard that Dashun army arrested a large number of senior officials in Beijing, and their father Wu Xiang was among them. What excites him even more is that his beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan has also been robbed. According to legend, Wu Sangui flew into a rage at that time and snapped, "A gentleman doesn't care about women, so how can he meet people?" Then he returned to Shanhaiguan for the second time, surrendered and rebelled, and staged a unique scene of "rushing to the crown and being angry as a beauty", which made great contributions to the Qing court's determination of the Central Plains.