How many versions of the "Four Beauties" in ancient China?

When it comes to the "Four Beauties" in Chinese history, we are all familiar with them. But from ancient times to the present people on the four great beauties of different say, but we are most familiar with, recognized a version should be: the Spring and Autumn period of Xi Shi, Western Han Wang Zhaojun, the Three Kingdoms period of Diaochan, the Tang Dynasty, Yang Yuhuan, but there are other versions of the saying, so the four great beauties of ancient times, which are a couple of versions of it?

In fact, in earlier times, there was such a version, this version is based on the excavated in the Xixia ruins of Heshui City's "Four Beauties" to come up with, the painting of the people at that time "selected" the four great beauties to do a vivid portrayal, so it is also believed that these four were also recognized as the four great beauties of the Han and Jin dynasties. The four beauties in the painting are The four beauties in the painting are: Ban Ji, Zhao Feiyan, Wang Zhaojun and Green Pearl.

In the flurry of discussion, there was also a version of this. They are Xishi, Zhao Feiyan, Diaochan, and Yang Yuhuan. There was no Wang Zhaojun in this version, and Zhao Feiyan replaced her. Among these four beauties, three of them have their own allusions. Among them, "Sinking Fish, Falling Wild Goose" describes Xi Shi. Xi Shi herself had the appearance of a "sinking fish" and was a woman who coated yarn. The allusion to Diaochan is "Diaochan Worships the Moon". She was the songstress of Wang Yun, a minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was also known as "The Closed Moon" because she had the appearance of a beautiful country and a beautiful city. The last is our Yang Yuhuan, Yang Guifei, is the Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's consort, posture quality, good singing and dancing, through the music.

The four great beauties of ancient China are recognized as Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Cicada, and Yang Yuhuan, of which Xi Shi is the embodiment of beauty and synonymous with beauty, and enjoys a certain reputation in the world as "the face of the sinking fish and falling geese and the appearance of the closed moon and shy flowers". For thousands of years, people have used the words "Sinking Fish, Falling Wild Goose, Closed Moon, Shy Flower" to describe the beauty of four women, namely, Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Cicada and Yang Guifei, which is both vivid and subtle, leaving room for people's full imagination. Just these eight words, but contains a romantic color of the four short stories, but also fully embodies the rich connotation of traditional Chinese culture.