Speaking of Xi Shi, I think of a passage. Some people joke that Xi Shi can sink fish, is it because Xi Shi's feet stink and smoke the fish to death? The person next to him said angrily: "Will your fish sink when it dies?" Are they all floating up?
The sinking fish in the sinking fish and the falling geese is to describe the time when Xi Shi was in the stream, the fish saw Xi Shi, that guy, looked so beautiful, so they all looked stupidly, even forgot to swim, and sank to the bottom one by one.
The fish seem to float in the water by the swim bladder.
Stop, here is the history of the pit, not we love science.
Sinking fish and falling geese closed the moon and shy flowers, because they look too beautiful, so Xi Shi has always occupied the top spot of the four great beauties of ancient China.
Wrong, the four beauties are sorted by time.
Because of beauty, until now, people still compare beautiful women to Xi Shi. Tofu XiShi, Cake Xishi, Milk Tea Xishi... Why is it all eaten? Probably because Xi Shi was born poor, people like to compare the beauty of the city to Xi Shi.
How beautiful is Xi Shi?
It is said that Vietnam has held a beauty contest, and Xi Shi ranked first. On the way to Beijing, pedestrians rushed to watch, resulting in traffic jams and difficulties in walking. Fan Li, who escorted Xi Shi, suddenly discovered the business opportunity. Let Xi Shi live in a gorgeous small building, and then put up a list everywhere: those who want to see beautiful women, pay 1 gold coin.
The notice was posted, and there was a sensation. The spectators lined up in long queues, generously donating money to see Xi Shifang's appearance, and some even paid two or three times, which was really tireless. In just three days, Fan Li harvested countless sums of money, and Xi Shi also became the founder of the "beauty economy".
Such a beautiful woman should be loved by everyone, and it is wrong, especially men, who should be loved by everyone. But no, Xi Shi's experience begins with a man's love for people, but ends with people seeing people hating.
Because of her beauty, Xi Shi became a tool and gave it to Wu WangFuchai. The role is to be a spy, to charm King Wu with beauty, to make him not to do the right thing, and to make the Kingdom of Wu decline.
This matter did not succeed, and Wu Guo was incomparably powerful during his time as a spy in Xi Shi. But because the State of Wu was too powerful, it became a public enemy of the Spring and Autumn Period. As a result, when Wu Wangfu sent him north to challenge the Jin state, he was taken back by the Yue state. From then on, Wu Guo collapsed until Fu Chaguo was broken and died.
From this point of view, Xi Shi is the most failed spy. She did not complete the task of letting the enemy country fall, did not let the king of the state of Wu never go to the dynasty, and during her spying, the state of Wu became more and more powerful.
But conversely, Xi Shi was the most successful spy. The enemy country that wants to destroy it has destroyed itself because of its blindness.
The State of Wu was destroyed, and it is reasonable to say that Xi Shi was a hero, not to say that high-ranking officials had to do it, a large amount of bonuses could be taken, and it was always appropriate to issue a medal. None.
In the legend or wild history, Xi Shi has many endings, and none of them are good.
1. Guilt and self-hanging
After Xi Shi helped yue guo destroy the state of Wu, his heart was old. A day husband and wife hundred days of grace, living together for so many years, the days are long, the grace is also more and more. Coupled with the fact that Wu Wangfu was good to her, but he killed him completely, quite guilty, felt sorry for Wu Wangfuchai, and finally depressed himself and committed suicide.
2, by Fan Li Shenhu said
This is a completely opposite story to the love legend of Fan Li and Xi Shi.
After the fall of the Kingdom of Wu, King Gou of Yue fell in love with Xi Shi and wanted to keep her by his side. However, Fan Li was firmly opposed, and he wanted King Yue to learn the lessons of King Wu and not be seduced by beauty. Gou Jian, like his name, is lowly enough, dead or alive to be with Xi Shi. Fan Li sent someone to use the Yue King's car to trick Xi Shi into Taihu Lake, and then tricked her into the boat, and when she reached the center of the lake, he took advantage of Xi Shi's lack of attention and kicked Xi Shi into the water. The peerless beauty Xi Shi left us like this...
3, by the Wu people Shen Jiang said
After the fall of the State of Wu, the Wu people especially hated Xi Shi, wrapped her in layers of brocade, and sank into the heart of Yangzi River. Xi Shi is not an ordinary person, he has become a fish, this is the Xi Shi fish.
"Dongpo Foreign Object Chronicle" said: "There are mermaids in the Yangtze River, also known as Xishi fish, which change color in a day, the flesh is delicate and delicious, and the woman eats it, which can increase the flattery, according to the cloud system, it is transformed after the Xishi Shenjiang River." ”
Luo Yin's poem of the Tang Dynasty: "The rise and fall of the family country has been since sometimes, and the Wu people have complained bitterly about Xi Shi." If Xi Shi dissolved the State of Wu, who would be the one who would fall for the Fallen Kingdom of Yue. From this poem written by the Tang Dynasty, it can be seen that Xi Shi was "said by the Wu people Shen Jiang" and had a certain market.
At this time, the sinking fish had a new explanation, and Xi Shi was sunk into the river and became a new species, Xi Shi Fish.
4, was hooked Shen Jiang said
Gou Jian believes that the demise of the State of Wu stemmed from Fu Cha's indulgence in Xi Shi's beauty. Gou Jian has a number in mind, he is also a lustful person, and with Xi Shi, sooner or later he will become the next Wu WangFuchai. Give Xi Shi away, reluctantly. I am a king, and I can't enjoy good things that no one wants. So Xi Shi shen jiang and died.
5, by the Yue Hou Shen Jiang said
After the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, Gou Jian wanted to take Xi Shi into the harem. Echigo believed that Xi Shi was the "daughter of the evil country", and feared that she would dominate the harem, so he beat herself into the cold palace, ordering his men to wrap her in a cowhide bag and sink to the bottom of the river.
6, beautiful love said
This is the most beautiful ending about Xi Shi, and it is also a love story that has been passed down through the ages and looks beautiful.
The story looks like this. Fan Li was ordered by the King of Yue to search for beautiful women throughout the Country of Yue, so that he could give them to King Fuchai of Wu, so that Fu cha would indulge in female sex and not do his job.
At the edge of Huansha Creek, Fan Li saw Xi Shi, and the two Wang Ba looked at the mung beans and looked at each other. But no, Yue Wang Gou Jian also loves beauty, if Fan Li left Xi Shi behind, he would not be able to become a couple, but instead completed Gou Jian. Who let the power of Gou Jian be greater than Fan Li.
So Fan Li consulted with Xi Shi, you go to the State of Wu first, and when the State of Yue destroys the State of Wu, then bring you back.
So Xi Shi went to Wu Guo as a spy.
In order to make this love story more beautiful, there are good people, and the legend of the green plum bamboo horse is installed on the heads of Fan Li and Xi Shi.
Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Chang gan xing" that "Lang rode a bamboo horse and went around the bed to get green plums." Cohabitation in the long dry, two small guesses" verse, this is the origin of the green plum bamboo horse.
Some people know that "Qingmei Bamboo Horse" is a story of Fan Li and Xi Shi when they were young. Fan Li and Xi Shi are neighbors, and the size is played together.
One day, Fan Li's grandmother was sick and wanted to eat sour plums. Fan Li's grandfather went to beg the owner of the plum garden several times, but the family just wouldn't sell it. So, Fan Li and Xi Shi quietly sneaked into the plum garden, Fan Li picked from the tree, and Xi Shi picked from below. After a while, Xi Shi saw his master coming, hurriedly told Fan Li to come down, and carried the plum into his arms. Fan Li saw that her chest was bulging, afraid of being discovered, so he hurriedly picked up a thin bamboo pole and said, "Quick, you ride to the back." The two men rode on bamboo poles, that is, bamboo horses, and jumped and ran. Looking at the owner of the garden, he thought that the children were playing blindly, so he let them go.
Because of this matter, people associated "green plum" and "bamboo horse" together and formed the idiom green plum bamboo horse.
On the day of the fall of the State of Wu, Fan Li did two things, one was to persuade his good friend to share the hardships and leave the Gou Jian as soon as possible. Another thing is that he found his old lover Xi Shi under Gu Sutai, both of them drove a flat boat and disappeared into the vast Taihu Lake.
Su Dongpo once wrote: "The Five Lakes asked, and the flat boat returned, still carrying Xizi. ”
This should be a love story, but unfortunately it may not be beautiful.
You may not expect that when Xi Shi and Fan Li broke the mirror and reunited, Fan Li was already 68 years old. A tree of pear blossoms pressed begonias, as the scenery is good, but placed in love, is a huge dislocation.
Also, the story of the green plum bamboo horse cannot reach the heads of Fan Li and Xi Shi. The reason is quite simple, Fan Li is 33 years older than Xi Shi.
Therefore, among all the legends, the legend of Xi Shi's tongue may be unreliable at all, but it is most in line with Xi Shi's experience.
Xi Shi tongue, also known as car clams, earth spoons, sand clams, is a clam family, in the form of a thick triangular fan, small and delicate. Opening the shell, a small piece of white flesh spat out. Because when the shell is opened, the white flesh spit out is like a small tongue, which is inevitably reminiscent of a lot, so it is called "Xi Shi Tongue".
According to legend, after the Yue King destroyed Wu, the Yue Queen was anxious. As early as when he was choosing beauty for King Wu, King Yue coveted Xi Shi, but only in order to destroy the State of Wu, he endured the pain of cutting love. What he can't get is the best, and the Yue King has been practicing all these years of lying down and tasting guts, playing with his life, in addition to revenge, is to put Xi Shi into his bed.
The Queen of Yue was afraid, Xi Shi was not only beautiful, but also the palace fighting technique was pure. In the beautiful Wu Wang Palace, they can stand out like fish, stand out like Song Xiaobao, and achieve the great victory of three thousand people. If this Xi Shi returned to the Yue King's Palace, the Queen of Yue would be beaten into the Cold Palace, it might all be a happy thing, and it was more likely to be cut into a human body.
Ren Yan, Lü Yan cut off the limbs of Liu Bang's little wife Zhao Ji and put them in the pigsty, called Ren Yan.
So the Queen of Yue secretly tricked Xi Shi out, come, come and invite you to eat lollipops. Xi Shi had never seen such a novel food as lollipops, and was curious to kill the cat, and he was deceived. There was no lollipop seen in the Queen of Yue, and several large stones were found. Queen Yue had Xi Shi tied to a stone and sank into the sea.
In the process of sinking into the sea, Xi Shi did not struggle for his life, but just bit his tongue down hard. Xi Shi's tongue burrowed into the shell, and from then on there were shellfish with flesh like human tongues, which was Xi Shi tongue.
When Xi Shi was dying, she turned her tongue into Xi Shi tongue because she expected someone to find her, so she spit out a small lilac tongue and complained about her grievances.
Xi Shi was indeed more wronged than Dou E's goose.
As the greatest hero in the destruction of the Wu Kingdom, in the seven or eight endings, either he was drowned by a man or immersed in a pig cage by a woman. The best result is to be possessed by a sixty-eight-year-old man. And Xi Shi was treated so cruelly for only one reason, red face and bad water.
Xi Shi couldn't understand it, was it wrong to look pretty? Charm King Wu, it is the task you gave me, I completed it perfectly, how can it still be a sin?
Unfortunately, the harsh reality disappointed Xi Shi.
Although Xi Shi constantly complained about his grievances through Xi Shi's tongue, people only cared about enjoying its delicious taste. Especially when men eat Xi Shi tongue, they often act amorously, and they fantasize that they are entangled with Xi Shi's tongue. As for women, when they came out of the west to give their tongues, they were still thinking, let you look beautiful, and it has not become a delicacy in my mouth.
For a long time, when Xi Shi tongue was cooked, he did not complain about his grievances, but twisted his body to show the final and most powerless struggle against the injustice of fate.
Cruel? Reality is harsher than legend.
In 2004, in Hongshan Town, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, a Spring and Autumn tomb suspected of being Fan Li's tomb was found. It is said that the owner of this tomb is likely to be Fan Li, because the ancient tomb unearthed such a bamboo Jane: "Li and Shi Qiantong, three years to Wu, with the Yu'er Pavilion as the hostage, Shi had to be encouraged."
That is to say, Xi Shi and Fan Li are not the love of Zhengda Guangming, but the secret love. During the three years of training Xi Shi and other beautiful women, Fan Li seduced Xi Shi and had a son. Because Xi Shi fell in love with Fan Li, it was more likely that he was reluctant to have children, so Xi Shi refused to go to Wu Kingdom. Fan Li used the child to blackmail, to go or not to go, not to go? I slaughtered the child.
Under threat, Xi Shi had to go to the State of Wu to perform the beauty plan.
This is also proved by the record in the Book of WuDi: Xi Shi gave birth to a son for Fan Li, and when passing through the Yu'er Pavilion in Jiaxing County, the child just happened to be able to speak, so the child got the name Yu'er Pavilion.
After the two historical materials are merged, we will find that xi shi was not touched by the patriotism of his lover, but the lover threatened his own son's life with his own obedience, and let her go to the kingdom of Wu to perform a beauty plan.
Now understand the story of Cinderella, why is it a fairy tale. Because only in fairy tales, beautiful women can have the magnificent dream of perfect love, and can they achieve a flawless paradise with love all their lives...
I hope that Xi Shi is in heaven and can realize the ideal she loves...