In Shaanxi Lantian County, Sanli Town, 100 meters northwest of Cai Wangzhuang Village, there is a tomb called Cai Wenji, about 8 meters high, lush forests, in the 1990s, Lantian County built a Wenji exhibition hall here, the anecdotes of Cai Wenji's life and the customs and customs of the society at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty are included here.
Open the historical picture, let us travel through the millennium time, and go to see the life of cai Wenji, a talented woman.
Wen Ji was born into a family, nine-year-old discerning, erudite and talented, able to write, good at calligraphy, good words, and tonal rhythm is the veritable Bai Fumei of the Shuxiang Gate, and is also the most painful little daughter under the knee of the great talent Cai Yong;
Such a talented, good-looking, and temperamental Eastern Han woman should have lived a happy life under the knees of Chenghuan's father, a proud person, and a husband and son. However, because of a war, he mistakenly took the script of the modern strong woman; embarked on the road of going through hardships and struggling with fate in the dark and desperate chaotic world, and finally cultivating a generation of talented women.
Cai Wenji was originally named Cai Zhaoji, but in the Jin Dynasty, he changed his name to Wen ji to avoid Sima Zhao's secrets. As a generation of talented women, Cai Wenji's birth also has its own aura.
Xiao Wenji perfectly inherited Cai Yong's talent, was born with excellent memory, and achieved high achievements in the fields of music, calligraphy and literature at a young age, becoming a well-known talented woman. She also regarded the female historian Ban Zhao as her idol, determined to compile books and leave a name in history in the future.
As she grew older, Xiao Wenji gradually came out of the beautiful and beautiful, and the infiltration of the long-term Han Mo piano tone made her temperament more beautiful and timeless than ordinary women. Born with a golden spoon, his talent is complete, and he is a proper official eunuch family bridesmaid. The princes and grandsons who went to the Cai family to ask for relatives were endless, and Cai Wenji was definitely a hot figure in the marriage market at that time.
As the baby daughter of the family who was spoiled from childhood to adulthood, her father Cai Yong would never wronged her. Left to choose right, and finally selected Wei Zhongdao, the talented son of the Wei family of the Famous Gate Clan of Hedong. At the age of 16, Cai Wenji, who was in the flower season, put on a wedding dress.
This was a rare warm time in her life: Wei Zhong's Taoist school was profound, his calligraphy was outstanding, the young couple had a good relationship, they were like-minded, and their husbands sang with women; plus cai Yong, his father Cai Yong, who had a previous career ups and downs and experienced several twists and turns, was entrusted with heavy responsibilities by the imperial court, which was the spring breeze.
Who knew that Tiantian was jealous of the marriage, and less than a year after the new marriage, her husband Wei Zhongdao fell ill and died. Should have raised eyebrows, the happy life of white head to old age came to an abrupt end, because there was no child, cai Wenji, who became a widow, with the reputation of "Kefu", returned to her parents, became a widow at a young age, still unfortunate, who knows, the doom of her life has actually just begun.
At that time, all kinds of heroes were competing for deer, Dong Zhuo, who originally appreciated Cai Yong, was killed by Wang Yun by Lü Bu's hand, and his father, who was once proud of the spring breeze, interceded for Dong Zhuo in front of Situ Wang Yun because of Dong Zhuo's kindness, but was unexpectedly executed in prison at the age of 60.
What a creation! In just a few years, her husband died early, her father died tragically, and her mother died soon after, and the newly widowed Cai Wenji suddenly lost her home and became a duckweed who had no one to rely on in the chaotic world.
Cai Wenji, who was in the trough of her life, did not expect that the greatest suffering was still to come.
In 195 AD, Dong Zhuo's old army and the Southern Xiongnu fought a scuffle. The war spread all the way to Wen Ji's hometown, and as a result, she suffered one of the most cruel disasters in her life, and together with many women, she was taken to the Southern Xiongnu by Hu Qiang Iron Horse.
The Huns killed people like a hemp, and if they did not obey, they were widely insulted, or the sticks and whips were ruthlessly waved, and even threatened to slaughter with swords. The collapse of order and the twilight of life and death have greatly released the bestiality of men, not to mention the Xiongnu, whose customs are even more vulgar. Cai Wenji only used a sentence of "borderlands and Hua aliens, people are less righteous" to summarize the experience of being ravaged, one by one, how much embarrassment that cannot bear to look back, the strange shame and humiliation that cannot be said in detail, are all rubbed into these ten words with blood and tears.
This year, she was only 23 years old.
These plundered people became slaves of the Xiongnu, and Cai Wenji, because of her talent and beauty, was recognized by the Xiongnu and subsequently sacrificed to the Zuoxian King of the Southern Xiongnu. However, if you think that Cai Wenji has since become Princess Zuoxian and lived a rich life of gold and jade food, then you are very wrong. Even if the woman who became the King of ZuoXian gave birth to two children in a row, she was not even a concubine. It's just a sex slave that the Xiongnu leader recruits to come and go in order to reproduce! It is hard to imagine what kind of inhumane life she lived after 12 years of captivity.
Dreaming back in the middle of the night, Wen Ji will still dream of Zhongyuan, dream of her parents, dream of reading and playing piano with her father in the study as a child, and dream of reciting poems against her husband in her new marriage.
However, such dreams are becoming less and less. . . . .
In the Han Dynasty, where transportation was poor and communication was inconvenient, she could only take root in the bitter cold north like the women who had been plundered for generations. Blow the flute night and soothe your battered heart.
Cai Wenji, who thought that he would eventually die of the Xiongnu in this life, finally looked forward to spring.
After many years of mixed wars, Cao Cao led a large army to pacify the north, and the political situation in the Central Plains gradually stabilized. When he learned that the daughter of Cai Yong, a former friend of the year, was in exile in the Southern Xiongnu, he felt deep pity and immediately sent emissaries to Hudi to exchange a thousand taels of gold and a pair of white bi for Wen Ji's freedom.
After waiting for twelve years and hearing that she could finally return to her hometown, Cai Wenji hesitated. Thinking of the imminent separation of flesh and bones, she cut off her liver and intestines, but it was impossible to take the child away. Return to the homeland or reunion of mother and child? The happiness that these ordinary people can have at will is a dilemma for Cai Wenji. In the end, the thought of going home overshadowed everything, and she finally chose to leave alone. Wen Ji used the rhythm of Hu Di to write that incomparable pain into "Eighteen Beats of Hu Di", which drew an end to her Xiongnu life.
Back in the familiar hometown, the home has been destroyed, both parents are dead, and Wen Ji, who has no relatives, does not know where to go. Cao Cao then gave her marriage to dong qi in his hometown.
However, the marriage was not complete at first. Not everyone has the stomach to accept the first half of her life. Moreover, Dong Qi was only in his early twenties, a table of talents, familiar with the rhythm of the history of the book, and should have been talented with a beautiful person, but he was pointed out to be a three-married daughter who was in her thirties and had two children. Who's going to do it? He was just unable to disobey Cao Cao's orders, so he had to marry Cai Wenji and give her a place to live, so what feelings did he have?
But even so, Cai Wenji almost became a widow again. In the second year after marriage, Dong Qi committed a crime and was beheaded.
After Cai Wenji heard that her husband was going to be killed, Dong Qi said that he was cold to himself, but treated each other with courtesy, and the two respected each other as guests. Do you want to become a widow again and live a lonely and helpless life?
Cai Yan went to Cao Cao to intercede with Dong Qi. At that time, Cao Cao was entertaining the Secretary of State and said to the guests in the hall: "Cai Yong's daughter is outside, let everyone meet today."
Cai Yan was covered with loose hair and bare feet, prostrating his head to plead guilty, speaking clearly, feeling sour and sad, and all the guests in the hall were moved. But Cao Cao said, "But the instrument of surrender has already been sent, what should I do?" Cai Yan said, "There are thousands of good horses in your stables, and there are countless brave soldiers, and do you still spare a fast horse to save a dying life?" Cao Cao was finally touched by Cai Wenji and pardoned Dong Qi. When Cai Yan interceded for her husband Dong Qi, the weather was very cold, and Cao Cao saw that Cai Yan was not wearing shoes and had his hair scattered, so he gave Cai Yan a turban, shoes and socks.
Cao Cao asked Cai Yan again, "I heard that your family originally had a lot of ancient books, can you still remember them now?" Cai Yan said: "At the beginning, my father left me more than 4,000 volumes of books, but because of the war and displacement, very few have been preserved, and now I can only write down more than 400." Cao Cao said, "I'll send ten people to accompany my wife to write it down, can I?" Cai Yan said: "Men and women can't stand each other, give me paper and pencil, I will write to you alone." So Cai Yan wrote down the contents of the ancient books he had written down and sent them to Cao Cao, without any mistakes.
After Cai Yan returned home, he composed two poems of "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation" after being sad and indignant.
Because of "Eighteen Beats of Hu Di" and "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation", Cai Wenji was crowned with the title of "the world's first complaining woman". In fact, it is not so much that Cai Wenji is a resentful woman, but rather that she is a strong woman.
Her life was soaked with the fate of the chaotic world at the end of the Han Dynasty, and she was tricked by fate and experienced the misfortune that others could only experience in several lifetimes. She has a weed-like vitality and a strength that ordinary women do not have, and it is this resilience that makes her live a miracle in the chaotic world.
Even if the war-torn life crushed the dignity and pride of a generation of talented women, she never really gave in;
The suffering inspired her literary and musical creation, left a rare cultural wealth in history, and blew a poignant and feminine wind into the "Jian'an Wind Bone".
Because of this, in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which only belonged to men and royal women, Cai Wenji's unique shadow was left!