In Chinese history, if the princess and relatives were betrayed in exchange for a period of peace, it was still relatively easy to be accepted in this matter, but if the emperor was marrying a proper wife or a foreign princess, this matter would be a very humiliating thing, and it would simply become the laughing stock of a thousand years. In the impression of Chinese, a man's wife must not be a foreigner, this kind of unspoken rule is not common in the folk, and it is even more rare in the royal family.
Many years ago, the Central Plains culture has always been the most powerful culture in the land of China, the Central Plains also has a very strong strength, so in China and East Asia to dominate, so the long-term acceptance of this sense of superiority Chinese began to give other countries nicknames, this nickname is also racial discrimination, like now as long as it is said that a place is barren, it is called the land of barbarians is a truth.
This kind of thinking was even more serious in the Qing Dynasty, and the Yongzheng Emperor wrote in his writings: The Qing Dynasty was originally a team from the barbarian land of Houhou Jin, and later accepted the advanced culture of the Central Plains, and now it has become a family. Before the Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains people had such a sense of superiority mainly because they thought that their blood was pure and noble, and their culture and science and technology were very developed.
Historical records record that the earliest person in China to marry a foreign woman as his wife was the emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the person he wanted to marry at that time was Princess Rongdi, and the princess at that time did not seem to have anything else, a bit like a matter of your love and my wishes, but when this matter was not put on the agenda, it was rejected by a scholar in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the reason given suddenly made Zhou Tianzi cut off his thoughts. You know, marrying a foreign princess is a slap in the face.
But it should be known that the emperor of the Central Plains does not marry the princess of the surrounding countries as a wife, but the princess is very willing to marry over, knowing that the means of this marriage, for the neighboring countries, is simply a big bargain, not only can give the country a backer, but also can enhance the strength of their own country, at least for the time being there will be no danger of war, can develop the domestic economy in a stable manner.
Everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty is a prosperous world, when the Eastern Turk Khan wrote to the imperial court, hoping to marry his daughter to the Tang Dynasty, at that time the Focus of the Tang Dynasty was all on the Khitan quelling of chaos, in order to stabilize the Turks, Wu Zetian agreed to let his nephew The King of Huaiyang marry a Turkic princess, at that time the holy will was not issued, it was stopped by Lord Zhongshu, and the marriage was broken.