Regarding Chen Yuanyuan's ending, there are actually different statements in history:
Version 1: Chen Yuanyuan followed Wu Sangui to Yunnan and lived a happy life for a while. He was not favored after old age, so he prayed to the Buddha for many years until his death.
Version 2: Before Li Zicheng left the capital, he killed Wu Sangui's entire family, including Chen Yuanyuan.
Version 3: After the Qing army entered the customs, the capital was in chaos, and Chen Yuanyuan died in the rebellion.
Of the three versions, the first version is certainly the best. Anyway, Chen Yuanyuan saved his life in the first version. As for the later disapproval, that is also foreseeable. After all, Wu Sangui's favorite is Chen Yuanyuan's appearance, and after Chen Yuanyuan is older, Wu Sangui naturally does not like her very much.
First, Chen Yuanyuan himself did not love Wu Sangui.
Why? It turned out that Chen Yuanyuan had already belonged to Wu Sangui before he knew him. At that time, Chen Yuanyuan was already one of the eight Yans of Qin Huai, good looking, singing and good,000, so he was famous.
First relationship: with Zou Shu.
At that time, Chen Yuanyuan had to engage in special careers while selling songs, which could be described as involuntary and unreliable. So she was desperate to find a big backer.
Therefore, she took a fancy to Wu Jiang's Zou Shu at a glance, and Zou Shu's family background is now untestable. However, judging from the "Ten Beautiful Words" he later wrote, it must be a bookish person who has read poetry books.
Moreover, the Zou Shu family can often invite Chen Yuanyuan to perform opera at home, which shows that this is also a large family. Unfortunately, the last relationship did not end well.
Second relationship: with Gong Ruofu.
After that, Gong Ruofu, a local tycoon in Jiangyin, took another look at Chen Yuanyuan, and Chen Yuanyuan felt that this was also a good backer, so he got close to him. Gong Ruofu was also very generous, and with a big wave of his hand, he spent money to redeem Chen Yuanyuan and took him home as a concubine.
Unfortunately, Gong Ruofu had a powerful wife in his family, and Chen Yuanyuan came to his house and suffered a lot of grievances. Just when Gong Ruofu's father Gong Xiuling saw Chen Yuanyuan and was shocked, he actually let Chen Yuanyuan go, and did not need her to repay the ransom.
The third relationship: with the adventurous frontier.
Everyone is too familiar with the invasion of Xinjiang, and several of qin huai bayan have a good relationship. Among them, the feelings between them and Chen Yuanyuan are quite deep.
Chen Yuanyuan had no food to eat, so she had to go back to her old business, and at this time she encountered the adventurous frontier. Not only did he have money in his family, but he was also full of poetry and books, and Chen Yuanyuan fell in love with him at first sight.
Since then, the two have known and fallen in love. Mao Pujiang promised many times to marry Chen Yuanyuan, but unfortunately, due to the continuous war and chaos at that time, Mao Pujiang also had the ambition to serve the country, so he was out of the country for many years.
And Chen Yuanyuan couldn't wait so long, she couldn't wait to wait for The Adventure Frontier, so she simply ran to the home of the Risky Frontier, and also visited the mother of the Risky Frontier, and told the mother of the two of them all the feelings.
Here we don't quite know what kind of attitude the mother of the adventurous frontier had towards Chen Yuanyuan. However, Chen Yuanyuan's courage to chase for love is worthy of praise.
It was a pity that in the end, he broke the contract many times, which made Chen Yuanyuan discouraged. At that time, it was in the midst of war, and Chen Yuanyuan was accidentally snatched away by others.
The fourth relationship: with Wu Sangui.
Tian Hongyu was the biological father of Tian Guifei, the Chongzhen Emperor, and was considered to be the head of the country. But Tian Guifei's life was not good, she died early, and coupled with the continuous war, Tian Hongyu had to think of other ways if he wanted to maintain his status.
At this time, Tian Hongyu just happened to see the beautiful Chen Yuanyuan, so he simply arrested her and sent her to the capital. At that time, Chen Yuanyuan was still waiting for the risk to break the frontier, but unfortunately, he missed out with his lover in the end.
After arriving in the capital, Tian Hongyu invited Wu Sangui to a banquet, and Wu Sangui took a fancy to Chen Yuanyuan at a glance. Wu Sangui was a hot man of that era, with heavy troops in his hands, and Tian Hongyu naturally wanted to tie the knot, so he gave Chen Yuanyuan to Wu Sangui.
Since then, Wu Sangui has loved Chen Yuanyuan in every way, and other women can't get into Wu Sangui's eyes at all. The two lingered for a while.
Judging from the above four relationships, Chen Yuanyuan's favorite thing is still the ambition to serve the country, read poetry and books, and the family is rich. The other three were just the patrons that Chen Yuanyuan relied on, including Wu Sangui.
Second, Chen Yuanyuan's life is still relatively desolate.
The women who do their own work are more pitiful. I have never seen a rich family willing to send their daughter to Fireworks Alley. Therefore, most of them came from poor families, and Chen Yuanyuan was no exception.
However, they encountered a critical moment in the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the war was chaotic and precarious. Let alone find a good langjun, this year can find a patron, to save their own life, that is the blessing of several generations of cultivation.
Therefore, Chen Yuanyuan has been working hard to find his own backer in his career. Again and again full of hope, but again and again disappointed. You say she's miserable?
It was hard to lean on Wu Sangui, who held military power, and it was time to live a good life this time, right? As a result, Li Zicheng also entered the capital in advance, you say that trouble is not trouble?
Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin arrested all the Ming officials in the capital and imprisoned them, and raided their homes by the way. If you have money, you can redeem it, and if you don't have money, you will be severely punished, and Wu Sangui's family has not been spared.
Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, was arrested and beaten, and their home was raided. When raiding the house, Liu Zongmin noticed the beautiful Chen Yuanyuan, and without saying a word, he took Chen Yuanyuan home and took him home.
This incident completely angered Wu Sangui, whether it was the revenge of raiding the family or the hatred of taking concubines, Wu Sangui had to turn his face to Li Zicheng. But what about Chen Yuanyuan? She is an innocent victim, she just wants to find a patron in the chaotic world, but she has to bear this kind of innocence.
Ending: Chen Yuanyuan most likely died in the rebellion.
Although Zou Shu introduced Chen Yuanyuan in the "Ten Beautiful Words" that Chen Yuanyuan was recovered by Wu Sangui during the rebellion, he later followed Wu Sangui all the way south until he settled down in Yunnan.
But this statement is obviously an artistic rendering with legendary color. Chen Yuanyuan fell into the hands of Liu Zongmin, and there was no good end in itself. Coupled with the fact that Later Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui turned their faces and killed Wu Sangui's entire family, do you think that as Wu Sangui's concubine, Chen Yuanyuan could survive?
Even if Chen Yuanyuan survived under the protection of Liu Zongmin, what about later? After Li Zicheng's army left to flee west, could Chen Yuanyuan be lucky enough to escape from Liu Zongmin?
Even if Chen Yuanyuan escaped from Liu Zongmin, there were rebels everywhere at that time, do you think she could see Wu Sangui alive? Whether it was Li Zicheng's centaurs or Dolgun's centaurs, they would destroy Chen Yuanyuan.
Therefore, the chances of Chen Yuanyuan being able to see Wu Sangui alive are really too small. These coincidences must be satisfied:
Just when Li Zicheng was killing Wu Sangui's family, Chen Yuanyuan ran away.
It just so happened that Liu Zongmin was careless, so that Chen Yuanyuan successfully escaped.
It just so happened that Chen Yuanyuan had evaded all the rebels and happened to meet Wu Sangui.
With so many places just here, what do you think is the end of Chen Yuanyuan?
References: "Ten Beautiful Words", "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty"