Who are the four great beauties of China?

Ancient China's "four great beauties": Xi Shi, Diaochan, Wang Zhaojun, Yang Yuhuan. The four great beauties enjoy the reputation of "the appearance of the closed moon and shy flowers, the face of the fish and wild goose".

Xi Shi:

By her real name, Shi Yiguang, a beauty of the Yue State, generally known as Xi Shi. She was born at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period in the village of Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. Born beautiful, is the embodiment of beauty and synonymous. The "Sinking Fish" in "The Face of the Closed Moon and Shy Flowers, The Face of the Sinking Fish and Falling Wild Goose" refers to the classic legend of Xi Shi coiling yarn". Xi Shi and Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan, Yang Yuhuan and known as the four great beauties of ancient China, of which Xi Shi is the first. The four beauties enjoy the reputation of "the face of the moon and flowers, the face of the fish and geese".

Diaochan:

It is one of the four great beauties of ancient China, and also the only one who has no historical record only exists in the novels and plays in the beauty, had appeared in the historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", folklore says that it is the people of Xinzhou in Shanxi Province, and the famous general Guan Yu for the same hometown. Some people really according to the physical and historical materials to make another deduction, Diaochan is very likely to be the Hebei Handan Yongnian. Xi Shi, Yang Yuhuan, Wang Zhaojun and known as the four great beauties of ancient China. In folklore, her original name was Ren Hongchang, a village girl from Shanxi, and it is also believed that Lu Bu's general Qin Yilu's ex-wife Du (Du Xiuniang) was Diaochan. The story of how she willingly sacrificed herself to complete the chain trick in order to repay her father, Wang Yun, for raising her is widely spread in folklore.

Wang Zhaojun:

Wang Zhaojun (about 52 years ago - about 15 years), the name of female court officials, the word Zhaojun, Han nationality, the southern county of Zigui (present-day Yichang City, Hubei Province, Xingshan County), the Western Han Dynasty Yuan Emperor and the peace of the courtesans, and Diaochan, Xi Shi, Yang Yuhuan, and is known as the four great beauties of ancient China.

In the first year of Jianzhao of Emperor Yuan of Han Dynasty (38 years ago), Wang Zhaojun was chosen to enter the palace and became a courtesan. In the first month of the first year of Jingning (33 years ago), Hohanxie, who was a monarch of the Xiong Nu, asked for a son-in-law for the third time, and Wang Zhaojun was instructed to marry him as his wife, called Ninghu Xiongnu. They lived together for three years and had a son, Itu Zhi Saeki, who later became the Right Riyu King of Xiongnu.

Jianshi two years (31 years ago), hu Hanxie monu died, Zhaojun to the Han court petition for return, the Han emperor edict "from the Hu custom", according to the nomadic people inheritance of the marriage system, re-married hu Hanxie monu eldest son of Fuju Lei monu, the two people *** with the same life for eleven years, and have two daughters. Wang Zhaojun died, buried in the southern suburbs of Hohhot City, the tomb according to the mountains, alongside the Yellow River; later called "green mound"; to the Jin Dynasty, to avoid the taboo of the Jin emperor Sima Zhao, renamed Mingjun, known as "Mingfei".

Yang Yuhuan:

Yang Yuhuan (719 AD - 756 AD): No. Taizhen. She was a court musician and dancer of the Tang Dynasty, with a rich and colorful posture, good at singing and dancing, and a good knowledge of music and rhythm. Her musical talent was rarely seen among the consorts of the past dynasties, and she was regarded as one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China by the later generations.

Her place of origin is controversial, there are five main sayings: Guozhou wenxiang (today's Henan Lingbao), Puzhou Yongle (today's Shanxi Yongji) said, Hongnong huayin (today's Shaanxi huayin) said, shuzhou (today's chengdu in sichuan province), rongzhou (today's guangxi rongxian) said. She was born into a family of eunuchs, and her father, Yang Xuan Yan, served as the Secretary of Shuzhou.

She was first the consort of Tang Xuanzong's son, Li Mao, the king of Shou, and after she was ordered to become a monk, she was ennobled as a noble consort by her father-in-law, Tang Xuanzong. Tianbao fifteen years (756 years), An Lushan revolt, with Li Longji exile in Sichuan, passing through Mawei stage, Yang Yuhuan in June 14th, died in the Mawei stage in the chaos of the army, the fragrance of death.