Since ancient times, people know that there are four beautiful women in ancient times, each of which has a variety of stories, as the first of the four beautiful women in China, Xi Shi can be said to be a household name, and often people will compare a person when he is beautiful.
Xi Shi
Xi Shi's original name is Shi Yiguang, is the Spring and Autumn Period yue country huan yarn woman, it is said that he was born of the beautiful, pouring the country into the city, but also legend that when he was in the river huan sand, the river reflected her moving appearance on the side of the water fish saw her actually forgot to swim, by her appearance to attract involuntarily sink to the bottom of the river to watch her, so there is a saying that posterity said that the sinking fish has been handed down.
Xi Shi sinks fish
In 494 BC, the State of Yue fought a great war with the State of Wu, and the State of Yue was greatly defeated, and the King of Yue had to ask for peace from the State of Wu, and Gou Jian was left in the State of Wu as a hostage after seeking peace, and every day he drove horses for the State of Wu, cleaned up, and did all kinds of rough work. In this way, he lived for three years in Wu Guoxun, and finally gained the trust of Wu Guo and returned to his country.
Yue Wang Gouge
The hatred in the heart of the Gou Jian who was released back to China vowed to avenge his suffering in the past few years. At that time, Fan Li, a minister of the State of Vietnam, put forward several suggestions, first of all, to recruit a large number of soldiers and horses, and stockpile enough grain, but to find a large number of beautiful women throughout the country, to carry out some professional training for these beautiful women and then give them to the State of Wu, so that the king of the State of Wu would indulge in wine, so that he could absurdly govern the government, so that he could break them one by one.
In this way, when looking for beautiful women all over the country, Xi Shi, who had the beauty of the sinking fish and falling geese, was selected to enter the palace for a series of trainings, and was presented to the State of Wu by the King of Yue, when the King of Wu was also very happy to see this beautiful woman who was born with a special gift sent by the Kingdom of Yue, which also achieved the hope of Gou Jian.
After this, King Wu also only favored Xi Shi alone, and the other concubines in the palace did not dare to speak, and after that, King Wu smiled for the beauty of Xi Shi, and also specially built some buildings such as the Spring Supper Palace for Xi Shi. After eight years, Xi Shi also made King Wu obedient, and any King Wu would satisfy her. In these eight years, Xi Shi also did not live up to the Yue kingdom, killing the wu state minister almost completely, and the Yue people were also rebellious and separated.
In 473 AD, the Yue king Gou Jian led a large army to attack the state of Wu, the state of Wu was defeated, and the king of the state of Wu also committed suicide in his palace at the time of the great defeat, and Gou Jian also found all the shame he had suffered in the state of Wu in those years. This is really a knife on the head of the color character, and the dynasty was brought down by a woman, which was also sought by the king of the Wu Kingdom, and ruined the entire dynasty for his own temporary love.
Battle of Wuyue
With the demise of the State of Wu, Xi Shi's task was also perfectly completed, and at the same time he got a fortune from the State of Yue, so he also lived in seclusion, originally Xi Shi could have lived this life without worry, but this life was broken after a few years, a large Wu Country could not kill all of them, there were always some people who escaped, and these people who escaped were also the ones who hated Xi Shi in these years, always thinking that if there was no woman, our big Wu Congress would be defeated by the State of Yue? They also tried their best to take revenge, looking for Xi Shi's whereabouts everywhere, and after several years of searching, they finally found her, and vented all their anger on Xi Shi's body in the past few years and wrapped her in brocade layer by layer and sank into the Yangtze River.
Later, it is also said that perhaps the kind people are very sympathetic to this innocent weak woman who does not want his ending to be too sad, so he used the verses in the early Tang Dynasty poet Song Zhiqing Huansha to look for the ruoye bird amazing Song Mengyu Chen Wei lotus to sing her praises, and rewritten his ending as Xi Shi returned to his hometown after the fall of the Wu kingdom, and accidentally fell into the water and died during a Huan sha, this statement seems to be the most ideal but the most lacking evidence, of course, no matter what kind of ending, for us today, it seems unnecessary to make a clear picture Throughout Xi Shi's life, it can be said that he is heroic and virtuous, for Yue Wang Gou Jian it is only an undercover political tool, for Wu Wang he is a plaything, you can imagine as a weak woman Xi Shi thousands of years ago how physically and mentally suffered how devastated the heart, how painful all this he can say to anyone, let us thousands of years later become the listeners of his soul.