Information and pictures of the ten most beautiful women of antiquity. And stories.

The Ten Great Beauties, including the four great beauties of ancient China, Xi Shi of the Sinking Fish, Diao Cicada of the Closed Moon, Wang Zhaojun of the Falling Wild Goose, and Yang Guifei of the Shy Flower. The other six are Feng Xiaorian, a collection of three thousand favorites, a generation of sirens Su Daji, the tragic fate of Zhao Feiyan, and Xi Shi than the beauty of Zheng Dan, a thousand gold smile Bergsi, because of the "Luoshen Fu" was rumored to be the "God of Luoshen" Zhen's (Zhen Mi).

Xi Shi

Xi Shi, named Yiguang, was born in Zhuji Ramie Village, Zhejiang Province, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. She was born with beautiful features and a peach blossom face. At that time, the state of Yue was subject to the state of Wu, and King Goujian of Yue was seeking to restore his state. At the time of the national crisis, Xi Shi was so burdened and humiliated that she sacrificed her life for her country, and together with Zheng Dan, she was offered by King Goujian of Yue to King Fu-chai of Wu, and became the king's favorite consort. The king of Wu was so bewildered that he was distracted from the affairs of the country, which served as a cover for Goujian's resurgence. She showed the noble ideology of a patriotic woman. Later, Wu was finally destroyed by Goujian. After the destruction of Wu, King Goujian returned to the country and took Xishi with him. The wife of King Goujian of the Yue Dynasty led her out and sank her in the river with a big stone, saying, "What is the use of keeping this thing of the dead country?" Later people did not know what happened, and rumored that they were boating with Fan Li on the five lakes and did not know where they ended up. The story goes, "Is it not my intention to carry away Xi Shi? I am afraid that I will leave the country to mislead the king". It is also said that Fan Li was afraid that the king of Vietnam would be obsessed with her color again, so he sank her in the river with a plan, which is a wrong statement.

Xi Shi was a woman who coated yarn. When she coated yarn by the river, the clear water of the river reflected her handsome figure, which made her even more beautiful, and when the fish saw her reflection, they forgot to swim and gradually sank to the bottom of the river. From then on, the name "Sinking Fish" of Xi Shi spread. In Chinese history, Xi Shi is the embodiment of beauty and a synonym, so there is no doubt that she ranks first.

Diaochan

Diaochan, recorded in Guan Hanqing's play, this woman is named Ren Hongchang, Shanxi Hezhou (now Xinzhou) people. Is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty Stuart Wang Yun's songstress, the national color, has the appearance of the country and the city. Seeing that the Eastern Han Dynasty was being manipulated by the traitor Dong Zhuo, he burned incense and prayed to heaven under the moon, wishing to worry about his master. Seeing that Dong Zhuo was going to usurp the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Yun set up a chain plan. Wang Yun first promised Diaochan to Lu Bu secretly, and then offered Diaochan to Dong Zhuo openly. Lv Bu was a young hero, but Dong Zhuo was a cunning and cunning man. In order to attract Lv Bu, Dong Zhuo took Lv Bu as his son. Both of them were lustful men. From then on, Diao Chan circled between them, sending Lü Bu a fall wave, and rewarding Dong Zhuo with a flirtatious smile, which turned them on their heads. Lv Bu was dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo after he took Diao Chan as his concubine. Wang Yun persuaded Lu Bu to eliminate Dong Zhuo, and Diao Chan followed Lu Bu. After Lu Bu's death, Diao Cicada was nowhere to be found. Luo Guanzhong had only two characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms that he didn't record the whereabouts of, and one of them was Diao Cicada. And based on my research on the Three Kingdoms, I think Diaochan ended up following Cao Cao, and the reason why Guan Yu later rebelled against Cao Cao and defected to Liu Bei has something to do with Diaochan.

Legend has it that when Diaochan was worshipping the moon in the back garden, a light wind blew and a floating cloud covered the bright moon. It was then that Wang Yun saw it. Wang Yun for the proclamation of his daughter looks how beautiful, people say, my daughter and the moon than the beauty of the moon than the moon, hurry to hide behind the clouds, therefore, Diaochan is also known as the "closed moon". History has a lot of legends about Diaochan, and I have read no less than a dozen versions, which is the legend of Cao Cao, Zhu Geliang and Guan Yu and other people are attracted to it, can be seen its beauty. The second place is well deserved.

Wang Zhaojun

Wang Qiang, Zhaojun, South County, Zigui (now Xingshan County, Hubei Province) people. When Emperor Yuan of Han Dynasty, she was selected as a "good girl" in the court. At that time, hu Hanzhi came to the court, the emperor edict to five women to give. Wang Zhaojun had been in the palace for several years, but she was not allowed to see the emperor, so she accumulated grief and resentment, and then she asked for the order of the court. When Hohan Xie was about to leave the assembly, the emperor called the five women to show her. Zhaojun "beautiful face, bright Han Palace, Gu Ying wandering, horrified left and right. The emperor was so shocked that he wanted to keep her, but he could not keep his word, so he went with the Xiong Nu. After Zhaojun's departure, the Han-Hungarian people were united and at peace with each other. In 31 B.C., Hohanxie Shan Yu died, leaving behind a son named Itu Zhi Saeki, who later became the right day-by-day king of Xiongnu. At that time, Wang Zhaojun, with the overall situation in mind, endured great grievances and married Hu Hanxie's eldest son, Fuzurei Shan Yu, who was a sculptor of Taomo Gao, in accordance with the custom of the Xiongnu that "when the father dies, the wife is followed by the mother". The historical merit of Wang Zhaojun is not only that she took the initiative to go out of the border to make peace with the Xiongnu, but more importantly, after she went out of the border, she made peace between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, and the fire beacon on the border was extinguished for 50 years, thus strengthening the national unity between the Han and Xiongnu, which is in the interests of both Han and Xiongnu people. She and her children and descendants as well as in-laws made great contributions to the rapprochement and unity between the people of the Han and the Xiongnu ethnic groups, and thus she was well received by history. The Yuan Dynasty poet Zhao Jie believed that Wang Zhaojun's merits were no less than those of the famous Han general Huo Zhaoyi. The story of Zhaojun has become a good story of national unity that has been passed down throughout the history of China. But she died at the young age of 33.

Zhaojun said goodbye to her homeland on a high autumn day and embarked on a journey to the north. Along the way, the horse neighs and the geese chirp, tearing her heart and liver; the feeling of sadness, so that her mind is difficult to calm. She was on top of her horse, plucking the strings of the zither, playing a sad parting song. The geese flying south heard the pleasant sound of the zither, and saw this beautiful woman on the horse, forgot to swing their wings and fell to the ground. From then on, Zhaojun got "falling geese" pronoun. With her beauty and contribution, the flower one is not her.

Yang Guifei

Yang Guifei, formerly known as Yang Yuhuan, was a native of Yongle, Puzhou in the Tang Dynasty. She knew music and rhythm, and could sing and dance well. Initially, she was the consort of King Shou, the 18th son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty saw Yang Yuhuan's beauty, he wanted to incorporate her into the palace as a female Taoist priestess, called Taizhen. Tianbao four years into the palace, won the Tang Xuanzong favor, named Guifei father and brother were thus able to power over the world. Concubine every ride on the horse, there is a big eunuch Gao Lishi personally whip, Concubine weaving and embroidery workers have seven hundred people, and even more competition for the offering of curiosities. Lingnan Secretary Zhang Jiuzhang, Guangling Secretary Wang Yi, because of the exquisite offerings, both were promoted. Thus, the hundred officials followed suit. Yang Guifei favorite Lingnan lychee, there are people try every possible way to transport fresh lychee to Chang'an. After the An Shi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong fled Chang'an, to Mawei Slope, six troops refused to go forward, said that because Yang Guozhong (cousin of Concubine Yang) through the Hu people, and lead to An Lushan's rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong in order to rest the army, is to kill Yang Guozhong. The six armies refused to go forward, saying that Yang Guozhong was the cousin of Yang Guifei, and that if the cousin was guilty, the cousin could not be spared, and Guifei was hanged to death at the Road Ancestral Shrine. The Anshi Rebellion has nothing to do with Yang Guifei, who became the scapegoat of Tang Xuanzong.

When Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, she missed her hometown. One day, she went to the garden to enjoy the flowers, saw the blooming peonies, moon season ...... thought she was locked up in the palace, wasting her youth, and couldn't help but sigh, said to the blooming flowers, "Flowers, flowers, ah! You still have the time to bloom year after year, when will I have the day to come out?" Tears came to her voice. As soon as she touched the flower, the petals immediately contracted and the green leaves curled up and lowered. What she touched was a mimosa. At that moment, a palace eunuch saw her. The eunuch went around saying that Yang Yuhuan and the flowers were more beautiful than the flowers, and the flowers were shy and lowered their heads. Thus the allusion to the shy flower. History records that Yang Guifei has a plump body, many people understand as fat. But how can a fat woman become the emperor's favorite? I guess because there was no word, so the literati do not know how to describe, the word is "sexy". The fact that she was named one of the four great beauties of ancient China alongside the first three means that she had enough capital to be ranked fourth.

Feng Xiaorian

Feng Xiaorian is the most famous woman among the royal concubines of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and she is a famous beauty in the history of China, whose name follows the Four Beauties of Ancient China. Feng Xiaorian was the Shufei of Gao Wei, the later lord of Northern Qi in the era, and was originally a maid beside Empress Mu Huanghua, it was only later that she leapt onto the branch as a phoenix, and set three thousand favorites in one. Her delicate and absurd, so that the Northern Qi empire suffered the fate of the fall.

According to the "Northern History" records: Feng Xiaorian "witty, can play the piano, work song and dance". She was a smart, beautiful and talented woman.

According to some wild notes, Feng Xiaoren is a natural beauty, the skin can be broken, exhale like orchids. Jade body has reached the best golden ratio, delicate curves, concave and convex, increase one point is fat, reduce one point is thin. In the winter as soft as a piece of cotton, warm like a fire, embrace is to call people want to die in the tenderness of the immortal; and summer is as lubricated as jade, cool as ice. Inside the hostage sex skills, just like a virgin. With the handing over of the pleasure, all the way to the best. So that Gao Wei this long experience of the man of the month, but also felt a fresh and incomparable fun and happiness.

Su Daji

Daji, the last monarch of the Shang Dynasty in China, King Zhou's favorite concubine, known as: a generation of demon girl. Daji's family name is Su, but there are different stories about the origin of Su: one theory suggests that her father was the vassal Su Gu; another says that Daji came from a tribe called Su.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, Daji was the daughter of a vassal of the Su family, and was a beautiful woman who sang and danced beautifully, and had a beautiful country, and was captured by King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty when he was conquering the Su tribe, and was honored as a concubine, and she was extremely ravished, and the wine pool and meat forests and so on were created by King Zhou for his pleasure, and he invented the torture of cannon-branding in order to curry favor with her. She was later killed by King Wu of Zhou.

Zhao Feiyan

Zhao Feiyan, formerly known as Yizhu, a native of Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou), the daughter of Zhao Lin, the Empress of Emperor Liu Arnold of the Han Dynasty, was a good dancer and a good singer, with a slim and beautiful physique, as light as a swallow, which was rumored to be able to dance in the palm of the hand, and thus was called "Feiyan". When Emperor Cheng entered the palace, she was a handsome girl, and later became the Empress. After Emperor Ping's accession to the throne, she was abolished as a concubine and committed suicide. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, created "Three Chapters of Qing Ping Tune" to celebrate the beauty of Yang Guifei by Xuan Tuan's imperial decree, in which there is "Who can be similar to the Han Palace, the poor Flying Swallow leaning on the new make-up." The absolute line. It can be seen that her beauty, in Li Bai's heart, occupies an absolute seat. In China, she and the Jin Dynasty Green Pearl, Tang Dynasty Yang Guifei and known as "ancient China's three outstanding female dancers".

Zheng Dan

Zheng Dan is one of the most famous and patriotic women in history. Zheng Dan was a good swordsman and had a strong character. But over the years, Xi Shi is widely known as the "four great beauties of antiquity," while Zheng Dan, on the other hand, is obscure and unknown.

It is said that Zheng Dan and Xi Shi lived across the river from each other and seldom saw each other. Zheng Dan usually listen to the old people talk about how Xishi looks how beautiful, the heart is secretly thinking: they have grown very beautiful, this Xishi so praised, maybe even more beautiful than their own, why not take the time to go and see her, than to see who is beautiful in the end. After Zheng Dan and Xi Shi than the results of the beauty of people have no way of knowing, just the legend, that day, the two sisters hand in hand to the village outside the four wells in front of, sitting on the well platform while talking, while taking pictures of the shadow. See two pairs of bright eyes in the water, 4 phoenix eyes, smiling and looking forward, reflecting each other, the black hole in the bottom of the well are illuminated. From this story, we can see that Zheng Dan's beauty was on a par with Xi Shi.

Baosi

Baosi was the favorite consort of King Yu of the Western Zhou Dynasty, whose birth and death dates are unknown. Baosi was originally an abandoned baby, was adopted by a couple of small business, grew up in the state of Baosi (northwest of Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province), 779 BC (King Yu three years), King Yu of Zhou conquered the state of Baosi, the Baosi people offered a beautiful woman Baosi begged for the surrender of King Yu, the king of Yu loved as a pearl in the palm of his hand, set up as a consort, the king of the Zhou Palace of Favored crown the next year, Baosi gave birth to a son of the Bo service (a as Bo as), the king of Yu to her even more favored, and even abolished the queen of the Shen's and the crown Prince of the Yisu, the appointment of Baosi as the king of the Zhou. In the following year, King You became even more fond of her and abolished Queen Shen and Crown Prince Yishu, installing Baosi as the queen and Bo Biao as the crown prince. Zhou Tai Shi Bo Yang sighed, "The royal family of the Zhou Dynasty has already faced a great disaster, and this is unavoidable."

As expected, the original Bergsby was not accustomed to life in the palace, coupled with her adoptive father was killed by Prince Yisu, the heart of the hate, usually rarely show a smile, occasional smiles, more colorful and charming, King Yu of the Zhou Dynasty issued a reward for anyone who can induce Bergsby to smile, the reward for the thousands of gold, the Guo Guo Shifu offered "Beacon Fire play the vassals" strange plan, King Yu of the Zhou Dynasty with the Bergsby, the King of the Zhou Dynasty, the King of the Zhou Dynasty and the Bergsby. The king of Zhou Yu and Berg queen and driving tour of Mount Li, lit a beacon, beat the drums to alarm the vassals a team of soldiers and horses heard the police to rescue, to the time found safe and sound, and retreat back to the army, Bergsby saw a team of soldiers and horses, like a walking lantern like the comings and goings, do not feel the lips and smiled, the king of the Yu rejoiced, and finally back to this loss of faith in the vassals, 777 BC year, the Injun soldiers to the king of the Yu and then lit a beacon, the vassals no longer come to the rescue, the king of the Yu was killed, Bergsby was captured, (said to be killed), the King of the Yu was killed. Captive, (a said to be killed), Sima Qian said: "praise Si is not good to laugh, King You want to laugh, ten thousand square so do not know," (the historical record - Zhou Ben Ji) means that praise Si is not happy to laugh, Zhou Yu Wang for her one person's laugh, the world's people can no longer laugh up. The Western Zhou then died.

The Historical Records of the Zhou (史记-周本纪)：Baosi was not good at laughing, and King You wanted to laugh at all the people, so he didn't laugh. King You for the beacon flint drums, there are invaders to lift the beacon. When all the vassals arrived, but there were no bandits, Baosi was laughing. The king of Yu said that he would raise the beacon fire for several times. The king said that he would raise the beacons for several times, but later he did not believe in them, and the vassals did not come.

Zhen Shi

Zhen Mi, a native of Wuji, Zhongshan, was a descendant of Zhen Han, a Han dynasty official, whose father was a magistrate in Shangcai. He lost his father when he was three years old, and at the age of nine, he could read and understand the past successes and failures. In the Jian'an year, Yuan Shao took her as his wife for his second son, Yuan Xi. When Cao Cao declared war on Yuan Shao, Yuan Xi was sent out to defend Youzhou, and Zhen stayed in Jizhou alone. When Yuan Shao was defeated and Cao Cao's army flattened Jizhou, Cao Pi took advantage of the chaos to take her as his wife and favored her, and she later gave birth to Emperor Mingdi of Wei and Princess Dongxiang. In the first month of the first year of Yankang (延康元年), Emperor Wen was proclaimed emperor and she was named Empress Wenzhao (文昭皇). Soon after the death of Han Dynasty, Cao Pi gained new favor with Empress Guo and Noble Lady Yin, and Zhen Mi was disillusioned and complained from then on. Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wen, was furious and in the sixth month of the second year, he sent an envoy to kill her and buried her in Yeh. Cao Zhi, in her honor, wrote the "Luoshen Fu", which will remain famous throughout the ages. Empress Zhen was not only virtuous, but also had outstanding literary talent. She left the Selected Poems of Empress Zhen, of which "Walking on the Pond" is a model of Lefu poetry, which is so popular that it has been handed down to this day. She created and invented the "twisted spiral" hairstyle is very beautiful. It is reported: she first entered the Wei Palace, there is a green snake in the palace, her daily combing, the snake is coiled into shape, she copied and combed into a hairstyle, every day with the same snake changes and combing hair differently, named "Snake Bun".

Cao Zhi "Luoshen Fu" that Zhen Mi is the God of Luo in the water, Cao Zijian's wisdom can be so appreciated, visible degree of its beauty is bound to enter the top ten.