"Red plum makeup" unexpectedly popular because of Shangguan Wan'er
In Shangguan Wan'er's lace news, her chaotic private life must be more famous than her talent.
Everyone knows that Datang has the habit of embellishing red makeup between the foreheads, but who knows that this makeup has been popular since Shangguan Wan'er.
To talk about the cause of this makeup, it is inseparable from her chaotic private life.
Shangguan Wan'er was originally proud, her grandfather was once the prime minister of the dprk, and later sentenced to death for committing a crime, and the Shangguan family gradually declined.
At that time, Shangguan Wan'er's mother was a slave in the court, but after all, she was once a nobleman's son, so her talented mother did not leave Shangguan Wan'er's education behind.
Shangguan Wan'er was familiar with reading poetry books since childhood, exporting chapters, proficient in official affairs, and famous. When she was 13 years old, Wu Zetian summoned her and personally considered the problem, but she did not expect that Shangguan Wan'er, who performed well, immediately entered Wu Zetian's eyes.
Wu Zetian was a very talented person, and immediately ordered her to be removed from her slave status, and let her take charge of the palace Zhao ming and began to stay by his side to work.
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er followed Wu Zetian day and night, although she was still young and slightly green, but her heart had reached the age of the first opening of the love sinus.
After following Wu Zetian for a long time, she naturally came into contact with Wu Zetian's sons, and her first boyfriend was Wu Zetian's second crown prince, Li Xian.
Shangguan Wan'er also invested in real feelings for Li Xian, after all, it was her first love, and she really wanted to help Li Xian sit on the throne and live a down-to-earth life in the future.
However, in the midst of the treacherous court, Li Xian, as the crown prince, was doomed to be unstable, because he was jealous of Wu Zetian, so he was later demoted to a commoner, and committed suicide a few years later.
After Li Xian's death, Shangguan Wan'er seemed to see the things in the court and gradually grew up, she understood that in this deep palace, saving her life was the first element, and the rest was not important.
So after that, Shangguan Wan'er began to work diligently, and she looked forward to climbing to the peak of strength, so that she could at least have one or two self-protection capabilities.
Although the words are said, but it is said that "love is like a tornado", this is not wrong at all, the Tang Dynasty originally paid great attention to looks, if you meet a beautiful man who is rare in the world, no one can resist it.
Zhang Changzong was presented to Wu Zetian by Princess Taiping, because Zhang Changzong's beauty was unparalleled in the world, so he had just been favored, and he was named "General of Yunli" by Wu Zetian.
One is a male favorite, one is a female official who follows the empress day and night, the two must have inevitable contact, the time Wu Zetian is already more than 70 years old, then in the face of the young and beautiful Shangguan Wan'er, Zhang Changzong must like the latter more.
So after a long time, the two began to frown.
After this matter was discovered by Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian was furious, and immediately stabbed Shangguan Wan'er's eyebrow with a knife and sent her to prison, and later Wu Zetian was not relieved enough, and even tortured her, that is, carved on her face.
Needless to say, although Shangguan Wan'er acted a little absurdly, she was indeed a talented person, and she had served around Wu Zetian for so long, and Wu Zetian was more or less inseparable from her.
So not long after, Shangguan Wan'er was re-picked up from the prison by Wu Zetian and reused again.
It was also because Shangguan Wan'er was appeased at this time, so in order to cover the scars on her face, she painted a plum blossom on her forehead to cover the scars.
Shangguan Wan'er because of her beautiful appearance, there are plum blossom embellishments between the foreheads even more set off her beautiful appearance, so this time made the noble girls compete to imitate, for a while, "red plum makeup" actually prevailed.
Dog blood court relationship
Of course, there is another version of the theory that Shangguan Wan'er was imprisoned, after all, everyone speculated that Wu Zetian had even killed his own son fiercely, and if Shangguan Wan'er really robbed her male pet, how could she be taken out of prison again.
It is rumored that at that time, in order to protect Wu Zetian, Shangguan Wan'er pretended to plot a rebellion with the rebel thieves, and later Wu Zetian knew her good intentions and personally took her out of prison.
But after all, as the emperor, Shangguan Wan'er was still subjected to appeasement, but only a plum blossom was lightly stabbed in the forehead.
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er was nearly 30 years old, to be honest, the age was not too old, plus she was not married and had children, so her face looked younger and more beautiful than that of ordinary women.
Soon after this, she met another person, this person was Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi, and her absurdity with Wu Sansi was almost well known.
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er was already extremely powerful, she was in charge of the Hundred Divisions, had the right to directly execute government affairs, and also helped Wu Zetian draft edicts, in other words, she already had some of the power of life and death.
In 705, after the Shenlong Coup, Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate, and at this time, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang included Shangguan Wan'er in the harem, and she became Zhaorong.
However, as a harem concubine, she differed from ordinary concubines in that she was not deposed from her power, but still did her old job and helped Li Xian draft edicts.
At this time, the matter of dog blood came out, Li Xian was a typical wife Guan Yan, so he was very afraid of his wife Empress Wei, so in this environment, Shangguan Wan'er's life was not so good, and she did not have much love for this wife Guan Yan Emperor.
So she threw her body and mind into another embrace, that is, Wu Sansi.
Therefore, Li Xian was a strict wife, so at first the affairs of the court were decided by Empress Wei, and in such a situation, Shangguan Wan'er began to read wu Zetian's old things in Empress Wei's ear every day, intending to let Empress Wei follow the path of Wu Zetian.
Of course, there were many people who could control the government, but Wu Zetian had only one, and no matter how great Empress Wei's power was, she was doomed to become Wu Zetian, and later Shangguan Wan'er introduced her lover Wu Sansi to Empress Wei in order to win over power.
Therefore, between Shangguan Wan'er, Empress Wei, Li Xian, and Wu Sansi, there was a scene of dog blood, Wu Sansi, as the lover of two people in power, helped Li Xian handle state affairs, and Li Xian was also happy to call him a brother and a brother, this green hat was really worn by no ancients before, and there was no one to come after.
Because Shangguan Wan'er held the power of life and death, they secretly promoted the Wu clan in the court and suppressed the Li family royal family, which directly made the prince angry and vomited blood.
At this time, Shangguan Wan'er was almost half a hundred years old, but because the charm still existed, coupled with the huge influence in the DPRK, she did not lack male pets the most.
Among her male favorites, one person who has to be mentioned is Cui Xiang (shí).
Cui Xiang's writing was quite outstanding, so after he read Shangguan Wan'er's works, he was naturally attracted by his talent
Killed for standing in the wrong line
Cui Xiang was born into a famous family, his grandfather was Zhongshu Shilang, and his father was Hubu Shangshu, who later entered the imperial government as an official in the examination, and became popular in the dprk.
Cui Xiang is a famous beautiful man, who can rise step by step in the DPRK, and his beauty is inseparable.
So why?
Although Cui Xiang did not know Shangguan Wan'er when he entered the dynasty as an official, at that time he relied on Wu Sansi, because he was accustomed to meeting the wind and making the rudder, so he slowly mixed with the official position of Sipin.
But this is only the beginning of Cui Xiang's career path.
Cui Xiang was not satisfied with staying in the Sipin official position, and later he heard that Shangguan Wan'er often went out of the palace to live in his outer residence, so he inquired about the place and quietly went to visit.
What happened that night was not known to others, but the only thing that was certain was that after that, Shangguan Wan'er promoted him as quickly as possible, and Cui Xiang was only in his 30s.
Later, as Princess Taiping's power gradually became stronger, Shangguan Wan'er sided with Princess Taiping, and it was precisely because of this time that she bet on the wrong treasure that Shangguan Wan'er failed in a coup and was killed.
At that time, Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er secretly drafted an edict to make Li Chongmao crown prince and Empress Wei regent, but they did not fight Li Longji.
After Li Longji entered the palace gate, Shangguan Wan'er, in a panic, quickly took out the edict and showed it to Li Longji, which meant to prove that he had always stood on the side of the Li royal family, but Li Longji did not eat this set at all.
Shangguan Wan'er was beheaded by Li Longji, and Princess Taiping was very sad after learning of this, so she not only personally went to mourn, but also asked Li Longji to collect Shangguan Wan'er's poems and compile them into an anthology, which allowed Shangguan Wan'er's poems to be passed down
After talking about Shangguan Wan'er's "lace news", let's look at her talent and achievements in the DPRK objectively.
Shangguan Wan'er's poetic talent was inherited from her grandfather, and the woman's observation of things was more delicate, so this led to her poetry being extremely beautiful and exquisite.
Because Shangguan Wan'er's influence in the dynasty was very large, it can be said that she was on a par with Princess Taiping and Empress Wei, so her behavior once became a trend that others competed to imitate.
This is true of the "red plum makeup" between the foreheads, and the same is true of the poetic style.
Shangguan Wan'er once set up a XiuwenGuan, mainly to attract some well-known literati inkers to hold cultural activities, and if she met talented literati, she did not hesitate to promote them.
Although this recruited a group of civil servants, it also led to the extravagance and erosion of the government and the public, and many literati tried to squeeze into the court hall with flashy words.
Because of this, Shangguan Wan'er was often criticized by posterity, and even Li Longji once commented that Shangguan Wan'er's move was "a disaster for the palace.".
In many canonical histories, people's evaluation of Shangguan Wan'er is extremely negative, and even in the Old Book of Tang, it is not shy to say that Shangguan Wan'er's poetry for Tang Zhongzong, Empress Wei and others is naked flattery.
But to be fair, if this were replaced by a man, it would undoubtedly be normal to praise the person in power, just because Shangguan Wan'er is a woman, so this matter is particularly harsh.
Leaving aside whether Shangguan Wan'er really wreaked havoc on the palace, her talent was generally recognized by future generations, and she changed the literary style of a dynasty by her own strength, which can be said to be the leader of the literary world at that time.
So in your heart, what kind of person is Shangguan Wan'er?