Famous boudoir show
Cai Wenji, formerly known as Yan, was born into a famous family, and his father Cai Yong was a well-known writer and musician. At an early age, Cai Wenji showed extraordinary musical talent. Legend has it that when Cai Wenji was six years old, she once listened to Cai Yong play the piano, and the string suddenly broke, and the young Cai Wenji could hear that the string was broken.
In addition, Cai Wenji is also "leisurely and tolerant", "graceful lady", is a veritable talented and beautiful lady, or a well-known talented woman.
Cai Wenji in the film and television drama
Cai Wenji, who has gathered thousands of pampering, has always been under the protection of her father and grew up carefree. However, at the age of sixteen, Cai Wenji ushered in a turning point in her destiny.
Young and widowed
At the age of 16, Wen Ji married Wei Zhongdao. The Wei family is a large family in Hedong, Wei Zhongdao himself is also a talented son, this marriage was originally a door-to-door pair, but did not write a good story of a talented person. Less than a year after marriage, Wei Zhongdao died, and the Wei family believed that it was Cai Wenji Kefu. Because the two had no children, Wen Ji, who could not stand gossip, was fortunate to return to the Cai family, and this year Wen Ji was not yet 17 years old.
Captive Huns
Fate did not care for this talented woman. Dong Zhuo rebelled and controlled the government, and Later Cai Yong lamented that Dong Zhuo was imprisoned by Wang Yun and died tragically in prison, and his mother died soon after. What is even more tragic is that the Southern Xiongnu took advantage of the chaos to invade the Central Plains and burn and plunder. Wen Ji was unfortunately taken captive by the Xiongnu.
During wenji's time in the Xiongnu, she was humiliated, and the Huns often verbally abused and even whipped at will. Later, because of her beauty, Wen Ji was dedicated to the Xiongnu King Zuoxian and bore two children to the King Zuoxian. It is said that Cai Wenji was a concubine of King Zuoxian, but a search of historical data will reveal that there is no Cai Wenji among the concubines of King Zuoxian, that is to say, Cai Wenji's status in the Xiongnu is not even as good as that of a concubine, but only a tool for the Xiongnu leader to produce heirs.
For Cai Wenji, who came from a family of scholars and read poetry since childhood, it was nothing less than a great shame, and she was eager to return to her hometown all the time.
It will be the end of the day
During the Jian'an period, Cao Cao blackmailed tianzi to make the princes and have great power, and Cao Cao had always loved literature and was a confidant with Cai Yong, and when he heard that Cai Yong's beloved daughter had been exiled to the Xiongnu for more than ten years, he immediately sent someone to redeem the Xiongnu with gold and jade.
Portrait of Cai Wenji
The day of returning to Han was just around the corner, but Wen Ji had a little entanglement in her heart. Her two young children were still here, and if the mother suddenly left, who would take care of the children? Cai Wenji wrote in the Poem of Sorrow and Indignation:
He hugged me by the neck and asked my mother what she wanted. When the mother is gone, will there be a time for return. Amu is always merciful, and now he is even more unkind. I'm not an adult yet, so I don't care. Seeing this collapse within five, trance is crazy. The trumpet sobbed and caressed, when the question was repeated.
My young son, coming forward, holding my neck, carefully asked, "Mother, where are you going?"
Everyone else says you're leaving us, but when you're gone, will there still be a time to see each other?
Mother, you are gentle in your heart, why are you so unloving to us now?
We are not yet adults, Mother, why don't you miss us? ”
This scene really made my internal organs crack, and the whole person was in a trance, like crazy.
I cried and caressed the children with my hands. As I was about to leave, I became hesitant again and refused to go on the road.
Cai Wenji in the play
In the end, Cai Wenji still returned to Han, endured the pain of parting with her son, and turned the sorrow and indignation accumulated in her heart and her reluctance to her children into a song that has been sung for thousands of years - "Hu Di Eighteen Beats".
Remarry Dong Qi
After Wen Ji returned to Han, she was left unaccompanied, and Cao Cao took pity on her situation and gave her marriage to Dong Qi. Cao Cao's move was originally to find a home for Cai Wenji, who had been displaced for half a lifetime, and Dong Qi was still Cai Wenji's fellow countryman, if Wen Ji was the talented girl before she was taken captive to the Xiongnu, this time it was a happy marriage. However, at this time, Wen Ji was already in her thirties, had experienced twelve years of hardships in the Xiongnu, and had given birth to two children, and in the face of Dong Qi, who was in his early twenties, the two could only call a partner to live a life: Dong Qi could not disobey Cao Cao's orders, and Cai Wenji had a place to live.
Later, Dong Qi committed a capital crime, and Cai Wenji did not want to lose her husband again, so she left everyone's beautiful face and ran to the Xiangxiang Mansion to intercede on a snowy day, in exchange for silently writing her father's books. Cao Cao was eventually moved by Cai Wenji and pardoned Dong Qi. Cai Wenji's desperate intercession also touched Dong Qi, and the two finally knew each other.
Overall, Cai Wenji's life is a microcosm of countless tragic women in the turbulent years of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. From a famous lady, experiencing an unhappy marriage, the death of her parents, the captivity of the Xiongnu, and finally turning around and returning to her homeland, Cai Wenji suffered the trickery of fate. However, from another point of view, the misfortune of her life has cast a great fortune in her literature, "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation" and "Eighteen Beats of Hu Di" have been popular for hundreds of years, some poets have praised her as "only wanting to suppress Wenjun", and later Cao Zhi and Du Fu's five-word narrative poems have also been influenced by her.