But among the pro-princesses, there are also those who marry the western regions instead of the Huns. This person is the first princess Sara who left her name in history.
Sara is the daughter of Liu Jian, the king of Jiangdu. She was originally a princess with precious jade leaves. It stands to reason that it is not her turn to become a pro-candidate. Unfortunately, in the second year of Yuanshou, his father Liu Jian committed suicide after trying to rebel, and his mother was beheaded for complicity. Only Liu Xijun survived because he was young. But after losing her parents, she became the daughter of an imperial clan with no background at all. Therefore, in the third year of Yuanfeng, King Kunmo of Wusunguo decided to submit to the Han Dynasty. When the above table proposed marriage, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose Liu Xijun as his wife.
Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave Liu Xijun vessels, chariots and horses for the royal family, and prepared hundreds of officials, official palaces, maids and servants, Wusun married the Han Dynasty in the hope of deterring the Huns, but the Huns learned that Wusun married the Han Dynasty and married a princess. Wusun is a small country, so King Kunmo of Wusun did not dare to offend the Han Dynasty and Xiongnu, and took Princess Xijun as his right wife and Xiongnu as his left wife.
Princess Xijun is in a foreign land, and her husband, Kunmo, is arrogant and old and doesn't understand Chinese. She is full of bitterness and homesickness, which can only be expressed by music and poetry. According to legend, Princess Xijun was proficient in melody, and it was she who invented the pipa.
In the second year after Princess Xijun married Wusun, her husband Kun Mo died of arrogance, and her grandson Cenweijun had to inherit the throne. According to the custom of the western regions, the new king will inherit all the wives and concubines of the old king. Princess Xijun couldn't accept it and asked Emperor Wudi to return to China, saying that she didn't want to marry anyone else. However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered her to "destroy Hu from its national customs with Wu Sun", so Princess Xijun had to remarry.
From beginning to end, the pro-princess is a political pawn at the mercy of others. Princess Xijun lived in a foreign land for five years and died of sadness and homesickness. She had no chance to return to the Han Dynasty.
After the death of Princess Xijun, another princess of the Han Dynasty, Liu, married Wusun, continuing the mission of goodwill between the two countries. Princess You Jie lived in Wusun for half a century, and * * * married two generations and three kings, until Wusun was in civil strife, the country split and became a small country. Princess You Jie wrote, "I would like to return to my bones and be buried in the Han Dynasty", which she brought back to the Han Dynasty at the age of seventy.
Princess You Jie died two years after he returned to the Han Dynasty. 18 years later, the Han Dynasty sent a pro-candidate, known as Zhaojun. Wang Zhaojun's story has been told through the ages, but how many people still remember that there was once a Princess Xijun who was good at playing pipa. She also left her hometown, homesick to death in a foreign country?