Mo Mu was the most famous ugly woman in ancient times. Wang Ziyuan's "Four Gentlemen on Morality" said: "Mo Mu is a puppet with a good reputation, and he can't hide his ugliness. "But she is chaste. Qu yuan's nine chapters? Cherish the past: "I am jealous of the fragrance of smelting, and Mo Mu is good and complacent." Therefore, the Yellow Emperor married her. The Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of the Chinese nation. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor defeated Yandi and killed Chiyou because of Mo Mu's inside man.
2. Qi Xuanwang's wife Zhong Lichun in the Warring States Period.
Zhong Lichun, also known as Zhong Wuyan, is the ugly queen without salt. According to historical records, "Li Zhong, whose surname is Fu, has no salt from his name (once said that his name is Chun, and his word is salt-free). She is called salt-free because she is a salt-free (now Dongping, Shandong) person. The book says that she is unmarried in her forties, extremely ugly, with a sunken head and deep eyes, a big belly, a stiff nose and throat, a fat top and little hair, and a painted skin. However, she was concerned about state affairs and once went to see Qi Xuanwang personally and accused him of extravagance and corruption. Xuan Wang was very moved and made her queen. Yuan people also compiled her deeds into zaju, praising her spirit of taking the world as her responsibility. Zhong Lichun's story was first seen in Liu Xiang's Biography of Lienv in the Western Han Dynasty.
3. Meng Guang, wife of Hongliang in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liang Hongchuan: "As a renter, every time I come home, my wife has food, and I dare not look up and lead in front of Hong."
The idiom "Take Qi Mei as an example" tells the story of Meng Guang, the wife of Hongliang, a wise man in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to legend, Meng Guang is the helper of Hong Liang and Wu Di. When Hongliang came home, Meng Guang took Qi Mei as an example to show his respect for her husband. However, this virtuous woman's appearance is "extremely rough", "fat, ugly and black", and she can "lift a stone mortar". It is said that Hongliang was famous before he got married. Many people wanted to marry his daughter, but he refused. When Meng Guang was unmarried, someone found a matchmaker for her, saying that she would "marry Hongliang", and she refused to get married. The day after the couple got married, Meng Guang took off the bride's dress and put on coarse clothes to do housework. Later, Hongliang lived in seclusion in Baling Mountain area, where men plowed and women wove, recited poems and played the piano, and the couple sang together and lived a poor and harmonious life.
4. Ruan Shi, the wife of Xu Yun, a famous person in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xu Yun married Ruan Dewei's daughter. On the night of candlelight, she found Ruan's daughter ugly and rushed out of the new house and refused to enter again. Later, Huan Fan, a friend of Xu Yunfeng's, came to see him and said to Xu Yunfeng, "Since the Ruan family married an ugly woman to you, there must be a reason. You must check her. " After listening to Fan's words, Xu really stepped into a new home. But when he saw his wife and started to slip away, the bride caught him. While struggling, Xu Yun said to the bride: "Women have' four virtues' (four virtues required by feudal ethics, such as female virtue, female speech, female appearance and female merit). How many have you met? " The bride said, "All I lack is beauty. How many times have you met a scholar? " Xu Yun said, "I have everything." The bride said, "Virtue comes first. How can you say that you have everything? " Xu Yun was speechless. From then on, the husband and wife respected and loved each other, and their feelings were harmonious.
Zhuge Liang's wife, Zhuge Liang's wife, Huang Yueying, of course.
Ma Huanghou, the empress of Zhu Yuanzhang.