In ancient times, women's status was low, they were suppressed and restricted everywhere, and they had to be at home from their fathers, out of the house from their husbands, and from their husbands to their sons. The empress is a woman with the highest status in the country, a princess, who is loved by thousands of people, and the empress dowager, is a woman who even the emperor has to fear for three points.
You must feel that if a woman has any title of queen, princess or empress, then she must be very happy to be windy and rainy. However, there is a woman who has successively held the titles of empress, empress, and princess, but has lived a very tragic life, and she is Yang Lihua.
Yang Lihua has a good origin, his father is the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty is Yang Jian, and his mother is a generation of sages and lonely Gala. She was born in Northern Zhou, when her father Yang Jian was still a powerful official in Northern Zhou, Yang Lihua was 13 years old, she was selected as a crown princess and married Yuwen Yun.
Later, Yuwen Yun became emperor, and his wife Yang Lihua naturally became empress. However, Yuwen Yun is not a qualified husband, he has a violent personality, indulges in wine all day, and is cold and ruthless to his wife Yang Lihua.
As an empress, Yuwen Yun's wife should have sat in the Eastern Palace, but Yuwen Yun made his four concubines empresses, and there were five empresses in a country, which was indeed an insult to Yang Lihua.
Not only that, he also ordered Yang Lihua's execution without any mistakes, and only after repeated pleading with Dugu Jia luo did he take back his life.
Yuwen Yun was dazed, but not only that, but not only that, he had only been emperor for a long time, and he was bored and announced that he would pass the throne to his eight-year-old son Yuwen Yan. Not long after, Yuwen Yun died, Yuwen Yan officially succeeded to the throne, and Yang Lihua's identity changed from empress to empress.
Yang Lihua, who became the empress, thought that she could finally live a comfortable life, but this was not the case.
Yuwen Yan was young, so Yang Lihua let her father Yang Jian to assist Yu WenXuan, but what he did not expect was that Yang Jian's ambition made him not satisfied with being a powerful vassal behind the emperor, he overthrew Northern Zhou, established the Sui Dynasty, and became the emperor himself.
His father Yang Jian became emperor, and Yang Lihua was forced to become a princess. In order to consolidate his great cause, Yang Jian executed all the male members of the Yuwen family, leaving only one daughter for Yang Lihua, and the daughter also became all the hope of Yang Lihua for the rest of her life.
Father Yang Jian, although politically cruel, but the treatment of his daughter Yang Lihua is full of love, he has always hoped to choose a good husband for Yang Lihua, so that Yang Lihua can remarry. But Yang Lihua firmly disagreed, and she insisted that a woman did not serve her second husband.
Yang Lihua's heart is like water, and she only wants to give her daughter a good future. She chose Li Min as her husband for her daughter, and Li Min is indeed a talent, and her family background is very good.
Before Yang Lihua died, she even begged her brother Yang Guang to take good care of her daughter.
However, after Yang Guang ascended the throne, he listened to the rumors of the traitors, and in order to stabilize the power, he killed Yang Lihua's son-in-law Li Min and his family, and gave Yang Lihua's daughter to death.
Yang Lihua's life is legendary, with the most noble identity of all the ancient women, first becoming the empress of Yuwen Yun, then the son succeeding to the throne as the empress, followed by the father becoming the emperor, And Yang Lihua became a princess.
I am afraid that in China's 5,000-year history, few women can hold the titles of empress, empress, and princess like Yang Lihua.
Yang Lihua's life was tragic, becoming an empress, should have been a noble status, enjoying all kinds of glory and wealth, but was humiliated by Yuwen Yun in various ways. Becoming the empress dowager, but also did not live a few days of comfortable life, she was changed by her father and forced to become a princess.
Yang Lihua chose to start the second half of her lonely life, taking her daughter as the only obstacle in the second half of her life, however, after Yang Lihua's death, her only daughter was also killed by her brother Yang Guang.
He has the most honorable status, but he lives the most miserable life. Yang Lihua did not take her fate into her own hands, nor did she have any way to grasp her own life, which is Yang Lihua's sorrow and the sorrow of ancient women.