In the Han Dynasty, it was quite common for emperors to have male favorites, and there are many records in history books. Among the 25 emperors surnamed Liu in the Han Dynasty, 10 emperors, accounting for 40%, had male favorites. As for the other 60% of Han emperors, they did not have male favorites at all, but their deeds were not so outstanding. Of course, there was more than one male favorite. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a wise emperor who "deposed hundreds of schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone" and was known in history as having grand plans, had as many as five male favorites.
The male sex favored by Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was Ji Ru.
The male favorite of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty was Hongru.
There were three main male favorites of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty: the eunuch Zhao Tong, Beigong Bozi, and the scholar Deng Tong.
Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty had only one male favorite, the doctor's order, Zhou Wenren.
The male favorites of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were Li Yannian and Han Yan.
The male favorite of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty was the Prince Consort Du Wei Jin Bo.
The male favorite of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was Zhang Pengzu, the general of the imperial court.
The male favorites of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty were the eunuchs Honggong and Shi Xian.
The favorite male favorites of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty were Zhang Fang and Chun Yuchang.
The male favorite of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty was Dong Xian.
This is the result of Baidu Encyclopedia. I don’t know if you have seen the Song of Desert and Yunzhongge. I was very excited when I saw this. The male favorite of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was actually Li Yannian, who was in the Song of Desert. According to "Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Biography of Officials", Mrs. Li (Li Yan in the Ballad of the Desert) is the brother of Mrs. Li. According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Biographies of Officials", "When the Han Dynasty flourished, they still followed the Qin system and placed the central ministers in charge. However, they also cited scholars to participate in their selection...so the Zhongxing Dynasty In the early days of the Han Dynasty, all eunuchs were eunuchs, and it was not difficult to transfer other officials." In other words, in the early Han Dynasty, there were still eunuchs who served as eunuchs. By the time of Zhongxing (Zhaoxuan), all eunuchs were eunuchs. Qian Zhongshu's "Guan Zhui Bian" also said, "Those who conquered the harem in the Western Han Dynasty and served as servants were often corrupted at first." Such a sycophant had both the status of a scholar and a eunuch. Among the eunuchs, the most worthy of mention is Li Yannian during the reign of Emperor Wu. Li Yannian was originally from Zhongshan, and came from a family of prostitutes. His father and brothers and sisters were mostly singing prostitutes. After being corrupted, Li Yannian entered the government and became an eunuch. Because of his fine music and good singing and dancing, he was deeply appreciated by Emperor Wu. In order to further win the favor of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Yannian wrote a poem to describe the beauty of his countrywoman and recommend it to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The lyrics are as follows: "There is a beautiful woman in the north, peerless and independent, looking at the Qingren city and then the Qingren country, I would rather not know the Qingcheng and Qingguo, beautiful women are hard to find again!" After listening to this, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sighed excitedly and said : "Good! Is there such a person in the world?" Princess Pingyang said at the side: "Li Yannian's sister is such a beauty!" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty decided to summon Li Yannian's sister immediately and saw that she was "beautiful and good at dancing", so Very doted on, this is the famous Mrs. Li. Due to Mrs. Li's exclusive favor and power in the harem, Li Yannian and his brother Li Guangli were greatly favored by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and were promoted one by one. But after Mrs. Li's death, Li Yannian's brothers were soon accused and executed. Judging from the records of "lying up with the upper body" and "immersing in trouble with others" recorded in "Historical Records", it seems that Li Yannian may be a true homosexual, or even a sexual homosexual. This may be related to the fact that he was born in a poor family and was subjected to castration. The Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty with whom he "sleeped up" should be bisexual, to be precise, because he was fond of women and was obsessed with men. According to official historical records, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had four male favorites. Judging from his homosexual relationship with Ni Xing, if Wei Qing was a close relative because of his "majestic appearance", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was probably a gay homosexual. Some viewers believe that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was an uncontroversial figure. Professor Huang Pumin disagreed with this statement. He said: "There were very different opinions on him in the Han Dynasty." There was sharp criticism of him in "Salt and Iron Theory", especially in Xia Dynasty. Intellectuals represented by Hou Sheng believed that Emperor Wu was so happy with his achievements that he "wasted money at home and his household registration was halved." The treasury accumulated during Wenjing's reign was emptied by war and thieves sprang up. He had no favors for the people and would only waste national wealth to build temples. We rarely know these objections because modern textbooks focus on his positive effects, such as attacking local forces, establishing centralization, and unifying China. His merits outweighed his faults.
The shortcomings of Emperor Wu's personality caused his obvious faults. He was a person who went too far and could turn good things into bad things. For example, counterattacking the Huns and strengthening the dictatorship were both correct policies, but the attack on the Huns turned into militarism. He asked Li Guangli to go to Dawan to ask for blood and horses, and then he could fight a big war and suffer heavy losses. In order to consolidate his power, he deprived the prime minister of his rights and appointed cruel officials. During Emperor Wu's period, several nominal prime ministers, whether they were the greedy official Tian Bin or the upright Dou Ying, did not end well. Prince Ru and Queen Wei Zifu also died due to the witchcraft caused by the ruthless official Jiang Chong. Historians generally believe that they were unjustly accused.
But the reason why Emperor Wu was considered a hero was because he had an introspective mentality. He had "the achievement of destroying Qin, but he avoided the disaster of destroying Qin". He himself admitted that although the Han regime could not be strong without fighting the Xiongnu, if his successor continued his policy, he would end up like the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Wu was obsessed with the art of seeking immortality throughout his life, and was deceived by wizards many times. In his later years, he went to Shandong to seek immortality, but he finally came to his senses. On his way back, he saw farmers farming, and he went to work in the fields, and issued the "Edict of Sin". It is not easy to be a self-respecting monarch.
Due to the feud between Sima Qian and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, some people question whether Liu Che in "Historical Records" is objective. Huang Pumin believes that "Historical Records" is the best historical book. Sima Qian generally affirmed Emperor Wu and first positioned him as a bloody and accomplished monarch. Although most of Ban Gu's historical materials came from "Historical Records", the materials he relied on at that time There must be much more than now, and his criticism of Liu Che should also be relatively objective.
Liu Che’s duality
Liu Che has shown his duality in many things. Huang Pumin believes that this is because The emperor's way of thinking cannot be considered with the thoughts of ordinary people. For example, the disagreement with Empress Dowager Dou about respecting Huang Lao or Confucianism was entirely due to the need to strengthen centralization of power. In fact, he himself believed in Taoism, otherwise he would not have given the alchemist such treatment. The most famous one is Luan Da. He is beautiful and eloquent. He is very good at using small inventions to deceive people. He has also seen immortals since the clouds. Emperor Wu named him General of Five Benefits. This title was obtained by Wei Qing and others after many years of hard work. , and even married his daughter to him. However, once Emperor Wu was deceived, he immediately executed Luan Da and the officials who recommended him, completely ignoring his daughter who went crazy because of it.
In terms of his treatment of the crown prince, his execution of Madam Gou Yi was considered cruel and cold-blooded, but the emperor's heart cannot be guessed by ordinary people. When Emperor Wu was young, he had a deep understanding of Empress Dowager Dou's involvement in politics. Later, his mother, Wang Meiren, became powerful and wanted to control his activities. Coupled with Empress Lu's experience, "when a son is young and his mother is strong, he kills his mother" is the need of political struggle.
In fact, Emperor Wu's succession was the result of court struggle. It turned out that the prince was born to Li Ji, the favorite concubine of Emperor Jing, but because Li Ji didn't know how to behave, she rejected the eldest princess's marriage proposal. The eldest princess not only chose Liu Che because of his joke about "a beautiful girl hidden in a golden house", but also because of the scheming beauty Wang. Coupled with the eldest princess's instigation, Emperor Jing began to waver. Later, the hypocritical Wang Meiren used another trick to make Emperor Jing depose the prince. It can be said that Liu Che realized the dark side of court struggle from an early age.
Jiang Qitao said that "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" is actually a war film, and Emperor Wu's life is a history of war. At the beginning of the TV series, it is written that the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was due to the rule of Wuwei, which brought the princes to power, and was the cause of Emperor Wu's conquests; the rule of Wenjing was his capital for fighting; the exclusive respect for Confucianism was originally not conducive to TV performance because it was too esoteric, but Dong Zhongshu proposed "Reject the barbarians and respect the king" is the theoretical basis of Emperor Wu's war. The palace struggle that male audiences love to watch has always been the specialty of director Hu Mei. Jiang Qitao said that if the war is not filmed well, the palace struggle cannot be established, so they spent 4 million on the war scene. As for the emotional scenes that female audiences paid most attention to, they were downplayed.
Emperor Wu was bisexual, which can be found in "Historical Records. Biography of Ren Xing". He doted on Han Yan very much, and the two often slept together; the musician Li Yannian purified himself and entered the palace, and was also deeply loved by Emperor Wu. His sister, Mrs. Li, was Emperor Wu's favorite concubine. Even Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were the favorites of Emperor Wu, and they had inexplicable feelings, but these were rarely shown in TV dramas. Because Emperor Wu liked women more than his male favorites, he didn't care about the origin of his concubines, but preferred women of low origin. The noble Gillian fell out of favor, but Wei Zifu, a singer, became the queen, and Mrs. Li was also a prostitute. The reason is that Liu Che will not use deep emotions to affect his judgment on government affairs. When a conflict occurs, he will definitely sacrifice his lover to protect his foundation. This is also one of the conditions for becoming the British Lord.