"Dinghu abandoned the human world that day, broke the enemy to take the capital and yuguan, wept that the six armies were full of susu, and Chong Guan was angry and became red-
In this famous sentence, the person who rushed to the crown was Wu Sangui, a general who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and the "red face" here is the beauty Chen Yuanyuan who directly caused Wu Sangui's anger.
However, the world only knows the first half of the geisha Chen Yuanyuan's life, but few people know about her situation after being recaptured by Wu Sangui from the general Liu Minzong who occupied her in the late Ming Dynasty.
It is really not so easy to find out Chen Yuanyuan's final ending and life situation in her later years, and the reason why it is not easy is naturally related to her anonymity in her later years.
The second half of Chen Yuanyuan's life was discovered after her grave was discovered, and in the 1980s, Chen Yuanyuan's grave was discovered in Majiazhai, Shuiwei Town, Cenggong County, Guizhou Province.
What is quite surprising is that the inscription on Chen Yuanyuan's tombstone is: "The tomb seat of the former daughter Bi Wumen Nie's clan." The question is, since it is Chen Yuanyuan's tomb, why not write "Wumen Chen" instead of "Wumen Nieshi"?
Originally, this "Nie" character was a hidden surname specially chosen by the descendants of the Wu family to avoid the discovery of Chen Yuanyuan's tomb. The reason for choosing "Nie" is because: Chen Yuanyuan's original surname is "Xing", named Xing Yuanyuan, and later because he was raised in his uncle's house, he followed the "Chen" of his uncle's family and changed his name to "Chen Yuanyuan". The characters "Chen" and "Xing" are both next to the "ear", and the two ears add up to the word "Nie". Therefore, the descendants simply changed her cemetery to "Nie Shi".
After this operation, Chen Yuanyuan's tomb was indeed stolen for hundreds of years.
With the excavation of Chen Yuanyuan's tomb, her descendants also made the story of the second half of her life public.
After Chen Yuanyuan re-followed Wu Sangui, she did not give birth to a daughter as recorded in the "Deer Ding", and she did not have any children in her lifetime. Chen Yuanyuan's life has nothing to do with it, probably because of her early years as a prostitute.
So, how did Chen Yuanyuan, who had no queen in his life, spend the rest of his life after Wu Sangui's death?
According to historical records, Wu Sangui had rebelled against the Qing Dynasty when he died, and at this time, that is, in 1678 AD, his favorite concubine Chen Yuanyuan was 55 years old. After his death, Chen Yuanyuan lived alone for another 17 years, not passing away until 1695 AD.
During this period, Chen Yuanyuan faced an unprecedented danger to the safety of His life because of Wu's rebellion against Qing, and in order to protect Chen Yuanyuan's safety, Wu Sangui's army division Ma Bao escorted Chen Yuanyuan all the way to the aforementioned Majiazhai.
After arriving at Majiazhai, Chen Yuanyuan and Ma Bao both became monks, Chen Yuanyuan went to the nunnery to assume the name of Silence, while Ma Bao's pseudonym was ominous. After that, until his death, Chen Yuanyuan and Ma Bao never left the Buddhist hall.
Chen Yuanyuan's ending is completely in line with the record in Li Jie's "Essays on Tianxiangge": "Cloth and vegetables, worship the Buddha to spend his life."
It is a pity that the second half of a generation of red makeup is a luxurious end, returning to loneliness.