When it comes to the Xiangshi in ancient Chinese history, everyone will sigh that their face-to-face skills are incomparably accurate. Although the author does not believe that a person's appearance can predict his future, there are many examples recorded in the history, in the Western Han Dynasty there were Xu Negative face Deng Tong and Zhou Yafu, the Tang Dynasty had Yuan Tiangang face The Wu brothers and sisters, and the Southern Song Dynasty had emperor Fu Tan face Li Fengniang.
The author will start with Li Fengniang, who is the emperor's face. According to the "History of Song", Li Fengniang was the daughter of Li Dao, Li Dao was the emissary of the Qingyuan Army, at that time Li Dao was in Hubei, and he heard that this Daoist Emperor Futan was very good at meeting, so he asked Emperor Futan to meet his daughters, and when Emperor Futan saw Li Fengniang, he exclaimed: "This woman is the mother of the world"! Emperor Futan told Emperor Gaozong of Song about this, so he hired Li Fengniang as Princess Gong.
King Gong refers to Zhao Huan, later Song Guangzong, who was the biological son of Song Xiaozong Zhao Xuan, who was the adopted son of Song Gaozong Zhao And was a descendant of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, so the feng shui took turns, and Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi could not have dreamed that the throne would eventually return to the hands of his brother's descendants. It is explained here that because Zhao Huan was made King Gong after Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne, when Zhao Huan married Li Fengniang, Emperor Gaozong of Song was Emperor Taishang and Emperor Xiaozong of Song was emperor. Later, Li Fengniang gave birth to Zhao Kuo, later Song Ningzong. Three years after Zhao Kuo's birth, Zhao Huan was made crown prince by Emperor Xiaozong of Song, and Li Fengniang naturally became the crown princess.
[Song Guangzong Zhao Chun was a relatively mediocre emperor.] He ascended the throne by his father, Emperor Xiaozong of Song. He did not have the talent to govern the country, listened to the rumors of the traitorous ministers, deposed Xin Shuyi and other ministers of the main war faction, and let the famous jealous woman and fierce empress Li Fengniang of the time intervene in politics. 】
The author believes that it is very likely that Emperor Futan told Song Gaozong the prophecy of Li Fengniang's motherhood at the behest of Li Dao, and Li Dao wanted his father to rely on his daughter and wanted to add color to his family. But no matter how Huang Futan's words still pit the old Zhao family. The old Zhao family should be beyond remorse.
According to the "History of Song", "(Li Fengniang) was jealous, and tried to sue the prince around Gao and Xiao'ergong, and Emperor Gaozong was not shy, saying that Wu Hou said: "It is a woman who will be planted, and I am mistaken by Emperor Futan." Emperor Xiaozong also repeatedly admonished: "It is advisable to take the empress dowager as the law, otherwise, the industry should be abolished." "Later, I suspected that it was because of the empress dowager."
It can be seen from this that when Li Fengniang was still the crown princess, Song Gaozong and Song Xiaozong had already realized that they were pit by the emperor, because Li Fengniang was too good at chewing her tongue, and she did not have the temperament of motherhood, and she even lacked the most basic feminine virtues.
After the death of Emperor Gaozong of Song, Emperor Xiaozong of Song gave the throne to his son Zhao Huan, and Li Fengniang was made empress. Once Song Guangzong Zhao Was sick, Li Fengniang listened to the eunuch's words and asked Emperor Taishang, that is, Song Xiaozong, to appoint his son King Jia as crown prince at an internal banquet, and King Jia was zhao kuo mentioned above, but Emperor Xiaozong was furious and disagreed, and Li Fengniang took King Jia to cry in front of Song Guangzong after she returned, and separated the father-son relationship between Emperor Xiaozong and Emperor Guangzong, saying that Emperor Xiaozong had the intention of abolishing it, plus Emperor Xiaozong liked Emperor Guangzong's nephew Zhao Yu and wanted him to become the successor, so Zhao Huan and his father had a grudge, so he did not go to Emperor Taishang. We generally think that Song Guangzong is mentally ill, otherwise he would not have gotten into trouble with his father because of a woman's words.
Li Fengniang, who became empress, was no longer just chewing on the root of her tongue, but also began to do evil. According to the "History of Song", once when Song Guangzong washed his hands, he saw a palace maid's hands as white as snow, so his face was happy, Li Fengniang was jealous after seeing it, and a few days later she sent someone to cut off a pair of the palace girl's large white hands, and put them in a food box and sent them to Song Guangzong, and Song Guangzong was frightened.
In addition, Li Fengniang also took advantage of her husband's absence from the palace to kill her husband's favorite concubine Huang Shi, and the original text of the "History of Song" wrote: "It is a masterpiece of rain and rain, and the yellow altar candles are extinguished, and it cannot be a ceremony." The ancients were superstitious, believing that Li Fengniang's killing of Huang Fei caused heavenly anger. After Huang Fei's death, Zhao Huan's condition worsened, and he could not even go to the court. The author believes that Song Guangzong is mainly aggravated by mental illness, of course, physical diseases should also be aggravated. Since then, according to the "History of Song", "political affairs are mostly decided by the future." Hou Yi was arrogant and luxurious, and the three generations were crowned kings, the family temple was over-regulated, and there were more guards than the Taimiao Temple. Later, after returning to the Gurudwara Temple, there were 26 relatives and 172 envoys, down to the Li family's disciples, who also played the role of supplementary officials. ZTE has not been since the beginning of the year also." Since then, Li Fengniang has become a political decision-maker and has greatly rewarded her own family, and even the family temple has exceeded the system, but Li Fengniang has not been able to cultivate a force similar to Lü Yanwu Zetian, and the author believes that in the final analysis, it is still a matter of ability.
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Later, When Emperor Xiaozong of Song died, Emperor Guangzong of Song was so ill that he could not personally mourn, and the courtiers had no choice but to make Zhao Kuo the Prince of Jia crown prince and take the throne as emperor, and Song Ningzong actually took the throne in this situation, which is also a strange event in Chinese history. After that, Song Guangzong became the Taishang Emperor, and Li Fengniang became the Taishang Empress. In the end, Li Fengniang lived to be 56 years old, and her nickname was Ciyi. Li Fengniang and her husband Song Guangzong Zhao Died in the same year, and she died three months before her husband. Zhao Was 54 years old when he died, so it is not common in Chinese history that Li Fengniang is 2 years older than Zhao Wei, and it is not common in Chinese history that empresses are older than emperors.
The aggravation of Song Guangzong's mental illness Li Fengniang is very responsible, if it were not for Li Fengniang's provocation of dissension and jealousy, Song Guangzong might not have been so sick! The author is thinking that if the empress of Song Guangzong was a sage empress similar to Empress Mingdema of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Empress Changsun of Tang Taizong, and Empress Ming Taizuma, then history may change.
Of course, we can't all blame Li Fengniang for a woman, such a result should be caused by many reasons, Song Xiaozong is also responsible, Song Guangzong will become such a manifestation of his goddaughter failure, Huang Futan, Song Gaozong, Li Dao are also responsible, because this marriage was promoted by them, in addition, Song Guangzong himself is also responsible, his own mental illness is the root cause of his becoming like this, he is too easy to listen to Li Fengniang's words and too distrustful of his father.
Text/Zheng Qinghui/Hui Ge 199503
Appendix: Xiangshi Huangfu Tan and Humble Woman Li Fengniang
According to historical records, Li Fengniang, the empress of the Southern Song Dynasty, was jealous by nature and liked to manipulate right and wrong, and although she was the head of the six palaces, she was not satisfied, and provoked dissension between Song Guangzong and her father Song Xiaozong, causing the Southern Song Dynasty to embark on the road of no return.
Li Fengniang, the daughter of Li Dao, the envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty Qingyuan Festival, is said to have a black phoenix resting idly on a large rock in front of the camp gate when she was born, and when Li Dao approached, this black phoenix flew high, hence the name Li Fengniang. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Song, Emperor Futan of Xiangshi was appreciated by Emperor Gaozong for curing Empress Wei's eye disease. When Huang Futan came to Li Dao's house, after seeing Li Fengniang, he was deliberately shocked, saying that she must be the mother of the world. Later, Emperor Fu Tanyun traveled to the capital and boasted about Li Fengniang in front of Emperor Gaozong, saying that she sat upright and had the appearance of a mother in the world. Emperor Gaozong, convinced of Emperor Futan, hired Li Fengniang as a concubine of Zhao Chun the Prince of Gong and made Lady Rongguo, and Li Fengniang gave birth to a son for Zhao Chun, Zhao Kuo.