Cinderella in the fairy tale, with her kind, industrious and simple qualities, deeply touched the heart of the prince, and finally lived a happy life in the company of the prince.
In the history of China, there is also a "Cinderella", she was born in poverty, and later became a country, enjoying the admiration of the people of the world. This "Cinderella" with a legendary story is none other than Empress Dou of the Western Han Dynasty.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, natural disasters continued, and the common people had just come out of the war between Chu and Han, so life was extremely miserable, and the dou yifang (later empress dowager Dou) in Qinghe County often ate and did not eat. Dou Yifang has a brother and a brother, as well as an elderly father and a mother who has been bedridden for many years, and the family of five depends on each other for their lives and has a hard time. At that time, Dou Yifang, who was only 15 years old, had to go out to do odd jobs every day, just to earn some loose silver to improve the family's life.
When Dou Yifang was 16 years old, her father went up the mountain to collect firewood, accidentally fell into the abyss, and finally did not even find the body. When Dou's mother learned of her husband's death, she was seriously ill and could not accept this reality, and she went with him two months later. In this way, the Dou family was left with only Dou Yifang and his brother and brother to rely on each other. Although Dou Yifang, who lost her parents, was sad and sad, she knew that she must live well, because her brother and brother needed her care. But not long after, Dou Yifang was selected to be a palace maid in the palace, and in this way, she lost contact with her brother and brother. And Dou Yifang's life also began to change from this moment.
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Yan was worried that other princes would take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, so he selected a group of clever and well-behaved palace women in the palace and gave them to the princes as concubines to achieve the purpose of appeasing people's hearts. Dou Yifang was also chosen, and she and four other palace ladies were sent to daikoku.
Liu Heng, the Acting King, was not interested in hearing that Lü Yan had sent five palace maidens, but his mother, Bo Ji, said, "Since Lü Yan meant it, how could he ignore it?" Lu Lu is not easy to mess with. At the suggestion of his mother, Liu Heng received these five palace women, and he wanted to go through the formalities, but he did not expect to be attracted by a gaunt and plain face facing Dou Yifang. In order to attract Liu Heng's attention, the other four palace ladies all wore heavy makeup and dressed up in a fancy way, trying to capture Liu Heng's heart by virtue of beauty. By coincidence, this Liu Heng did not like women dressed up in flowers, but liked women like Dou Yifang, full of simplicity and indisputable from the world.
Perhaps this is called unintentional willow shading, Liu Heng gave the other four palace ladies to the noble Gongsun of the Daiguo, leaving only the simple Dou Yi room. In fact, Dou Yifang met Liu Heng, which was really a great blessing in life. Although Liu Heng did not have much courage, as a prince, he was very kind and did not behave like other princes. More importantly, Liu Heng is still a lover, since the first time he saw Dou Yifang, he was deeply attracted to her, and then couldn't help but fall in love with her.
Later, Dou Yifang became the princess of daiguo, but she did not forget her origins, let alone her brothers and brothers. She sent people to inquire about their whereabouts many times, but in the end there was no result, which became the biggest regret in Dou Yifang's life.
After becoming a princess, Dou Yifang always adhered to the principle of kindness, simplicity, virtuousness and prudence, and sincerely treated everyone, even if they were slaves, and she also took good care of them. All this has won Dou Yifang a good reputation, and Bo Ji is very appreciative of her.
It is reasonable to say that Dou Yifang's life at that time should have been very happy - status, wealth, reputation, she had it. But it seems that God thinks that all this is not enough as a reward for the kind Dou Yifang, she should have a more brilliant life.
In 180 BC, the flying Lü Yan died, when the Han Shao Emperor had just been deposed, and the throne of the Western Han Dynasty was vacant, waiting for a Ming Emperor to ascend the throne. The high-powered Chancellor Zhou Ping, together with a number of ministers, decided to support Liu Heng as emperor, the acting king, for the simple reason that Liu Heng was born with good nature, and her mother Bo Ji was also a person with a gentle temperament, plus Dou Yifang's reputation was well-known throughout the country, and such a family must be the country's good fortune to be the master of the Western Han Dynasty. When we look back at this period of history, we find that Zhou Pingren's choice was correct, and after Liu Heng took the throne, he indeed brought decades of peace and prosperity to the Western Han Dynasty.
With Liu Heng's ascension to the throne, Dou Yifang's life underwent another dramatic change, and after she jumped from princess of Daiguo to a country, her son Liu Qi was crowned crown prince. Liu Heng was emperor Wen of Han, and Liu Qi was the later Emperor Jing of Han, and during the reign of these two emperors, the national strength of the Western Han Dynasty was already quite strong, known as the "rule of Wenjing". The emergence of the "Rule of Wenjing", in fact, Dou Yifang contributed to it, and after she became empress (and later the empress dowager), she has been doing her best to assist Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han, and dedicate her life to the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty. Dou Yifang, on the other hand, not only became a famous empress in the history of the Western Han Dynasty, but also one of the most talked about empresses in Chinese history. It can be seen that the evaluation of her by posterity is extremely high.
This is the legendary life of "Cinderella" Dou Yifang, a kind person who will always get the favor of heaven, isn't it?