Brief introduction of four beauties in ancient China

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a woman named Shi in the State of Yue, who was now from Zhuji, Zhejiang. Her surname is Shi Yiguang, alias Xizi, and she is a twisting girl with regular facial features and pink face and peach blossom, and her appearance is extraordinary. When she was washing gauze by the river, the clear river reflected her delicate figure and made her look more beautiful. At this time, the fish saw her reflection, forgot to swim, and gradually sank to the bottom of the river. Since then, stone, the synonym of "sinking fish", has spread.

Before Tanabata, women in Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province used the custom of soaking Vitex negundo leaves in water to wash their hair, which is said to make their hair smooth and black. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu was defeated by the State of Yue, and Gou Jian, the King of Yue, was taken hostage. After he was pardoned and returned to China, he was chosen as the prime minister. After careful consideration, he planned to choose a woman with both talent and color to give to the king of Wu, so that he could indulge in ecstasy and disregard state affairs in order to avenge the crossing of the country. One day, I met a stone. Shi was smart and beautiful since he was a child. She usually likes to bathe Ye Jing in water. After her demise, she often sang to herself by the Huansha River: "Spring scenery comes year after year, but it is not seen year after year, and the water in Huansha is clear, and the hatred of national subjugation is hard to wash." When I saw it, history was not only beautiful, but also sad for my national subjugation. She is a rare good woman. After telling the story to Gou Jian, the King of Yue, he went to the State of Wu with a seal to escort the stone. On July 7th, Shi went to Wu, and after Wu perished, he took Shi and went boating in five lakes anonymously. In order to express his love for stone, people washed their hair with Jing Ye as a souvenir on July 7th. Xi Shi, together with the stories of Wang Zhaojun, Diophantine and Yang Yuhuan, is called the four beauties in ancient China, among which Shi is the first, which is the embodiment and synonym of beauty. The four beauties enjoy the appearance of "closing the moon and feeling ashamed of flowers, sinking fish and falling geese". It is a historical allusion composed of wonderful stories that "the moon is closed and the flowers are ashamed, and the fish sink and the geese fall". "Closed Moon" tells the story of Diusim and Yue Bai. Shame on Flowers is about Yang Guifei looking at flowers. "Sinking Fish" tells the story of washing sand with stones. The Wild Goose tells the story of Zhao Jun leaving the fortress.

"Sinking fish" is said to be a stone by the river. After seeing the beauty of the stone, the fish forgot to swim and sank.

In fact, none of us have seen the beauty. According to textual research, the four ancient beauties, Stone, Diophantine, Wang Zhaojun and Yang Guifei, are actually flawed.

The disadvantage of Xi is that his feet are bigger. Shi is a Bigfoot who invented the foot-binding skirt.

It should be obvious that the story of diusim has one big eye and one small eye. Although everyone's eyes are big and small, it's obvious that you can't tell them, but the story estimated by Diusim is quite obvious.

Wang Zhaojun is a smooth shoulder, so he invented shoulder pads.

Yang Guifei is fine. On the surface, she is quite normal and conforms to the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty. She is fat, and her height is only 1.5 meters. But what I don't think everyone knows is that Yang Guifei has body odor, so she especially likes taking a bath.

Wang Zhaojun (Dayan)

Wang Zhaojun was chosen as a "good family" in the Han and Yuan Dynasties. At that time, Xie Han was called to North Korea, and Emperor Han Yuan gave it to five women. Wang Zhaojun entered the palace for several years, but he didn't see the royal family, and he complained bitterly. He asked the court to order him to do it. The emperor told Xie Han to leave the meeting and called five women to perform. "Zhaojun" is richly decorated, with Ming and Han palaces, lingering in the shadows and moving around. "The emperor saw that he was frightened, wanted to keep it, and it was difficult to break his word, so he married the Huns. "("Were "Volume 89" The Biography of Southern Xiongnu ")

Wang Zhaojun was born in Baoping Village around 52 BC (now Zhaojun Village, Xingshan County, Yichang City, Hubei Province). In the third year of Yong 'an (AD 260), Jingdi was enfeoffed to Xingshan County in the north of Zigui, with Xiangxi as the city boundary and Qiang as the local people, so Yunzhaojun was the county. His father, the king and his eldest daughter are regarded as the apple of his eye, and his brother and sister-in-law also love him very much. Wang Zhaojun was born beautiful and intelligent. He was good at playing pipa, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was meticulous in everything. "There is nothing in Emei, which can make flowers ashamed of the forest." Zhaojun's peerless talents spread all over Nanjun and Beijing along Xiangxi River. In 36 BC, Emperor Hanyuan showed the world that all women in the world should choose. Wang Zhaojun is the first choice of Nanjun. Yuan Di wrote to order him to enter Beijing some other day. Her father, Mao Yunwang, said, "My daughter is too young to obey her orders." But it's hard to disobey the sacred command. In the mid-spring of 36 BC, Wang Zhaojun bid farewell to his parents and villagers, boarded the carved dragon and phoenix official ship Shunxiangxi, entered the Yangtze River and crossed the Qinshan River, which lasted for three months. In the early summer of the same year, he arrived in the capital Chang 'an for a banquet. Legend has it that after Wang Zhaojun entered the palace, he refused to bribe the painter Mao Yanshou because of his beauty, so Mao Yanshou drew a mole on her portrait. There is a poem that says, "I have seen it all my life when I come back to complain about Dan Qing's hand." I can't draw because of my intention. At that time, I killed Mao Yanshou for nothing. "Wang Anshi's Fei Ming Qu"). Zhaojun was banished to the cold palace for three years and had no chance to see him. In 33 BC, Uhaanyehe, the leader of the Northern Xiongnu, came to the Han Dynasty on his own initiative, surrendered to the Han Dynasty and asked for a kiss to form a friendship. Emperor Han Yuan summoned the concubines in the harem as much as possible, and Wang Zhaojun stepped forward and responded generously. Yuan Di heard that there was such a beautiful person in the harem who wanted to keep it, but it was hard to break his word. He gave her twenty-eight thousand brocade, sixteen thousand catties of cotton wool, jade and other valuables, and personally delivered them to Chang 'an for more than ten miles. Wang Zhaojun, surrounded by chariots and horses, shoulders the heavy responsibility of being pro-China. It took more than a year to leave Chang 'an, Tongguan, the Yellow River and Yanmen, and arrived in Mobei in the early summer of the following year. He was warmly welcomed by the Xiongnu people and was named "Wang", which meant that the Xiongnu had a China daughter "Wang's wife" and peace was guaranteed.

The story of diusim (the closed moon)

The story of Diusim, a character in China folklore, was the adopted daughter of Stuart Wang Yun's family at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to save the Han Dynasty, Wang Yun instigated Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu to turn against each other and finally got rid of the evil thief Dong Zhuo by Lu Bu's hand. Later, diusim became the story of Lu Bu's concubine. After Dong Zhuo defeated Lu Bu with Li Jue, she came to Xuzhou with Lu Bu. After the war of Xiapi, Lu Bu was killed by Cao Cao, and the story of Diusim followed Lu Bu's family to Xuchang, which was never found.

Some people say that the story of Diusim is the earliest spy in history. First, diusim's story is only embellished by novelists, and is not recorded in official history.

If the person who had such a great influence on the situation at that time really existed, wouldn't history be recorded? ); Secondly, the activities of the story of the novel character Diusim are not "national", but "spy" is a profession with strong "national". It is a spy who helps the enemy (or enemy country) collect national intelligence (the definition of "spy" in Xinhua Dictionary, 89th edition). Deusim's story can only be described as an "undercover", not a "spy". On this basis, it is very wrong to think that Deusim's story is a "spy".

Deusim was the adopted daughter of Stuart Wang Yun in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. She is very beautiful. She looks very beautiful. Seeing that the Eastern Han Dynasty was manipulated by treacherous court official Dong Zhuo, she burned incense and prayed under the moon, willing to worry about her son. Wang Yun saw that Dong Zhuo was going to usurp the Eastern Han Dynasty and set up a series of stratagems. Wang Yunxian secretly promised Lu Bu the story of Diusim, and then Ming dedicated the story of Diusim to Dong Zhuo. Lyu3 bu4 hero boy, Dong Zhuo cunning. In order to win over Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo accepted Lu Bu as his adopted son. From then on, the story of Diusim moved between them, winking at Lu Bu and rewarding Dong Zhuo's charm.

The story of Diusim is the most dazzling female image among the few women in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which the male is the protagonist. It can be said that it is precisely because of the emergence of the story of Diusim that Stuart Wangyun skillfully used a series of tricks, which led to the storm in Fengyige, Lv Fengxian, the slaughter in front of Dong Zhuo's Palace, fierce and unscrupulous, and the death of Lu Bu, a military commander in love. The significance of diusim's image story is that in this world where all men strive for hegemony, it successfully shows the courage and wisdom of a stunning woman. It was this extraordinary courage and high wisdom that accelerated the end of the era of warlord melee at the end of the Han Dynasty and contributed to the rise of heroes such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, thus enabling the already stormy Han Dynasty to continue.

Yang Yuhuan (ashamed of flowers)

During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, a beautiful daughter named Yang Yuhuan was elected to the palace. After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, he missed his hometown. One day, she went to the garden to enjoy flowers and saw peonies and roses in full bloom ... She wanted to be locked in a palace and waste her youth. She sighed and said to the blooming flowers, "flowers, flowers!" " When you are still in full bloom every year, when can I have a bright future? "She was in tears. She just touched the flowers. Petals contract immediately, and green leaves roll low. Unexpectedly, she touched the mimosa. At this moment, I was seen by a palace lady. Gong E said everywhere that Yang Yuhuan was more beautiful than flowers, and flowers bowed their heads shyly. The title of "shame on flowers" came from this. The story of "shame flower" reached the ears of Ming Chengzu, who was overjoyed. He immediately chose Yang Yuhuan to see the driver, while Yang Yuhuan dressed up and dressed up. When Ming Chengzu saw it, he was really beautiful, so he left Yang Yuhuan to wait on him. Because Yang was good at flattery and won the favor of Ming Chengzu, he was soon promoted to the imperial concubine. After Yang Guifei came to power, her younger brother Yang bullied others, played politics and framed Zhongliang. After the Anshi Rebellion, Ming Chengzu fled to the west with his imperial concubine and civil and military ministers, and An Lushan led his troops to pursue him, not only to the land of the Tang Dynasty. And beauty Yang Guifei. When passing Maweipo, the right-handed general Chen and other soldiers of the Sixth Army thought that the Yang family was a disaster to the country and the people, and refused to move forward, saying that Yang had contact with the Hu people, which led to the Anshi rebellion. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Yang was killed. Before opening the bow, the left and right leaders refused to move forward, saying that Yang was the cousin of your princess, and that her cousin was guilty, so she was forced to give Yuhuan a gift and died at the age of 38. Although it is a femme fatale, how can a woman's fate determine the decline of a country? Whether he committed suicide or was forced, he was just the scapegoat of Tang Xuanzong. When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty took a fancy to Yang Yuhuan, she had been married to Li Mao, the longevity king, for almost five years. In the Tang Dynasty, Hu Feng prevailed in the imperial court, and it seems not uncommon for Laozi to rob his son and daughter-in-law. "Everyone is equal before love", so there is no guardian crying to give the emperor the idea of "human relations". But after all,

This is not a glorious thing. In order to give the world an explanation, Tang Xuanzong did some work on the table. For example, at first, I listened to my sister Princess Yu Zhen's advice, and under the banner of filial piety, I ordered her to become a female Taoist priest, saying that I wanted to bless my mother Dou Taihou, and gave Yang Yuhuan the word "too true" to move out of Shouwangfu and live in Taizhen Palace. This is also to avoid people's eyes and ears and cheat. After five years' efforts, Xuanzong first solemnly fulfilled his "father's duty", betrothed Wei's daughter to the birthday girl Wang Li Mao as a princess, and then eagerly welcomed Yang back to the palace and officially conferred him as the imperial concubine. Yang Yuhuan is not only beautiful, good at singing and dancing, but also smart and considerate. He is simply the emperor's intimate "little cotton-padded jacket", and Xuanzong naturally likes it. Soon, Yang Yuhuan spoiled the harem, making it "six palaces of powder and makeup go up in smoke". At that time, the palace called her madam, and all the treatments (etiquette regulations) were also queen-level. In this regard, Tang Li Shangyin has something to say. He wrote in "Love of Mount Li: Ode to Fei Yang": "The flying spring of Mount Li is warm and fragrant, and Gu Yulian's family in Kowloon, and the Ming people are lucky to live in the Palace of Eternal Life, not because of the golden jade, but because of the longevity king." It seems that Shouwang is really depressed and embarrassed. However, Xuanzong, regardless of human feelings, still wanted to take away his son's love. He could only sigh that Yang Yuhuan's beauty was too tempting. But according to common sense, Tang Xuanzong, who has entered the old age, loves Yang Guifei not only because of his lust for beauty and bed, but also because he regards her as a spiritual companion who is considerate in life and can cater to his hobbies.