The term "red face in a troubled world" is very common, and from a literal point of view, it has the meaning of praising a woman's beauty, if a woman was born in peacetime, then beauty may bring her luck. But if she is in a chaotic world, beauty may become a "stumbling block", adding a lot of extraordinary things to her life, and then being called "red face disaster water" by later generations, which is what she wants to talk about today. She is Chen Yuanyuan, so Chen Yuanyuan, who is known as "Qin Huai Bayan", how many men have he turned in his life? Wu Sangui, who was angry with a red face, was only one of them.
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Chen Yuanyuan, a woman of the ming and early Qing dynasties, she was born in a family of cargo langs, her original surname was Xing, because she lost her mother at a young age, she was forced to send people to her uncle's house, so she followed his surname "Chen". Her uncle's family is well-off, so she has also been trained to be versatile, and she is very good at piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, playing and singing, especially good at singing. The little girl gradually grew up, and she became more and more beautiful, and she soon became famous in both color and art.
At this time, during the turbulent period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the uncle's family was also unfortunately lost, and the uncle who was heavy on profit and light on righteousness sold it to Suzhou Pear Garden. For the first time on stage, she overwhelmed the audience with the red bride of "West Chamber", and soon gained a foothold in Pear Garden. After that, whenever she performed, Pear Garden was always overcrowded until she was redeemed. The name of the person who redeemed her was Gong Ruofu, and he was also the first man in her life to follow. Gong Ruofu's father had passed the entrance examination and served in many places after entering the career, so Gong Ruofu was also rich and powerful.
After Gong Ruofu saw Chen Yuanyuan, he was addicted to her beauty and talent, and immediately willing to spend a lot of money to redeem herself, Chen Yuanyuan was free, but the wandering of his life also began. Although Gong Ruofu was addicted to her, because he already had a wife in the family, the wife could not tolerate a fireworks woman entering the house, and Chen Yuanyuan was also proud and arrogant, and did not like others to despise him, so he left Gong Ruofu.
In the 14th year of Chongzhen, she was introduced by a friend, met Mao Xiang, a talented and beautiful person, and was in love, and should have written a love story, but unfortunately the result did not go as they wished. Once when He xiang went to Suzhou to meet Chen Yuanyuan, he happened to encounter a rich man bullying Chen Yuanyuan, and after he rescued him, Chen Yuanyuan secretly promised Fangxin that he had the intention of marrying Xiang Xiang, and even she had gone to see Xiang Xiang's mother. After that, the two met several times, but they repeatedly broke the contract. After 15 years of Chongzhen, Chen Yuanyuan was unfortunately forcibly abducted to the capital by Tian Hongyu, Who was Chongzhen's father-in-law, and Chen Yuanyuan, who had no freedom, wrote several letters to Mao Xiang to urge him to go to the appointment, but unfortunately Mao Xiang had not heard from him.
In fact, for Mao Xiang, Chen Yuanyuan is just a beautiful woman, although it makes him move, but it is not enough to give up her future, poor Chen Yuanyuan, thus becoming a woman around Tian Hongyu. In fact, Tian Hongyu later wanted to dedicate her to Chongzhen, but fortunately, Chongzhen was busy turning the tide and had no intention of beauty, and Chen Yuanyuan was spared a disaster. When Tian Hongyu's noble concubine died, Tian Hongyu also lost power, and he prepared to defect to Wu Sangui.
When he feasted on Wu Sangui, he ordered Chen Yuanyuan to sing, Wu Sangui had long heard of Chen Yuanyuan's name, and now when he saw it, he was really attracted by the beauty, Tian Hongyu gave flowers to the Buddha, and Wu Sangui hugged the beauty and returned. After that, Wu Sangui was more fond of her, but after Li Zicheng led his troops to invade the capital, he captured Wu Sangui's family, and Chen Yuanyuan was naturally among them. According to records, after Li Zicheng's subordinate Liu Zongmin saw the mood and disregarded the general situation, he forcibly possessed Chen Yuanyuan, which made Wu Sangui, who had the intention of surrendering, completely angry, so he became angry and directly cooperated with the Qing soldiers to join forces to attack Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was defeated, and the emperor fled the capital in a hurry, and Chen Yuanyuan returned to Wu Sangui's side.
Since then, she has also followed Wu Sangui until after Wu Sangui stabilized in Yunnan, she also accompanied her to the Pingxi Palace, once favored the Sixth Palace, and thought that after suffering, her life would be stable. But unexpectedly, by this time, Wu Sangui was surrounded by beautiful people, and her beauty had long ceased to exist, and she had lost her pampering, coupled with the disharmonious relationship with the main room, she chose to leave and enter the Dao, that is, cloth and vegetables, and the Buddha spent his life, a generation of red makeup, and thus fell lonely.
In fact, looking back on her life, she was forced to go around 5 men in desperation, in fact, for her personally, what did she do wrong? A lifetime of loneliness and strife is only because of beauty. According to this day, she is most famous for the affairs between her and Wu Sangui, some people say that she is red in the water, after all, Wu Sangui turned around and turned to the Qing army to become a traitor because of her, if it were not for her, perhaps the Qing army would not have been stationed in the Central Plains so quickly, and the Ming Dynasty may still be able to survive for several years.
However, Chen Yuanyuan should not be said to be a sinner, her beauty, there is a fault, but more is helpless. There are many beautiful women who have promoted or changed since ancient times, such as Xi Shi, who seduced King Wu with her beauty and single-handedly turned King Yue over. Everything has a two-sided nature, and for Wu Sangui, he used Chen Yuanyuan as a spiritual pillar, prompting him to make great achievements for the Qing Dynasty.
Reference: The Biography of Chen Yuanyuan