Face value is getting more and more attention in today's society. Good looks, both emotionally and careerally, have become an important plus. Eating by the face has become a reality in some people.
In ancient China, there was a strange man who not only ate by his face, but also recovered a life by his appearance. What is even more surprising is that this death row prisoner later became a minister, married more than a hundred wives and concubines, and lived for one hundred and four years.
Zhang Cang was born in Yangwu County, Henan during the Warring States period. Zhang Cang is a big talent with a small white face, handsome appearance, white skin, and erudite talent. He was a student of Xun Zi and was in the same door as Han Feizi and Li Sishi.
Zhang Cang loved books, music laws and calendars, and after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms and established the Qin Dynasty, he served as the imperial history of the Qin Dynasty, in charge of various documents and archives of the Qin Dynasty, and was considered a high-level civil servant with professional skills. Later, Zhang Cang fled for his crimes and followed Liu Bang when he led the rebel army through Yangwu County.
However, after defecting to Liu Bang, the Duke of Pei, Zhang Cang broke the law again, this time as a capital offense. At the time of execution, Zhang Cang was stripped of his clothes, lying on the torture device, waiting to be beheaded, and the appearance of a person changed Zhang Cang's fate.
Liu Bang's big man Wang Ling just happened to pass by, and when he saw the naked Zhang Cang's tall figure and white and delicate skin, he was very amazed that there were such beautiful people in the world. So Wang Ling interceded with Liu Bang and pardoned Zhang Cang's crimes.
Good looks have always been an advantage. Ancient people did not have any beauty products, and because of the influence of living conditions, the skin was generally dark, and the skin of men grew very little white. Zhang Cang grew tall, strong and white, which was indeed rare, and made him reborn from a death row prisoner.
After Liu Bang became emperor, Zhang Cang was rewarded for his military merits and talents, and he served as an official until the Han Dynasty.
Most of the people who followEd Liu Bang to fight the world were big bosses. Even Xiao He was originally just a county official. Zhang Cang had been a historian of the Qin Dynasty, and his academic vision was incomparable to that of Xiao He. The western Han dynasty calendar and weights and measures were formulated by him, and Zhang Cang also corrected the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic, which predates the European equivalent algorithm by fifteen hundred years.
It can be seen that Zhang Cang is not only handsome, but also a real talent.
In ancient times, due to living conditions and medical standards, the average life expectancy of people was generally low. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the average life expectancy of Chinese was only twenty-two years old, and the average life expectancy of men in the Tang Dynasty was only twenty-seven years old. Zhang Cang, the big handsome man, lived for one hundred and four years. Even in today's highly developed science and technology, there are very few people who can live so long.
What is even more amazing is that Zhang Cang has married more than a hundred wives and concubines, more than his big boss Liu Bang. Zhang Cang married so many wives and concubines, not only to meet the needs of men, but also for longevity, in order to drink human milk.
Especially in his old age, due to the loss of teeth, he could not eat meat and gnaw bones, and drinking human milk became Zhang Cang's biggest hobby. Zhang Cang's requirements for human milk are still particularly high, it must be fresh, it must be the milk of a young woman, it must be the breast milk of the first pregnancy and childbirth, and the second child will not drink it.
In order to ensure the supply of fresh human milk, Zhang Cang constantly took concubines and fed herself with their milk. Although Zhang Cang is old, his body has always been very tough and his spirit is strong. Some people also imitate Zhang Cang's longevity secret to drink human milk, but it has no effect. It can be seen that relying on drinking human milk to live a long life is not very reliable.
Although Zhang Cang was accomplished in calendar, law, musical law, arithmetic, etc., and made great contributions to the governance of the Western Han Dynasty, but because of his special hobby of drinking human milk, there are not many records of him in the history books. Compared with Xiao He, who was also a famous minister, Zhang Cang seemed a little obscure.
However, as a learned and talented scholar-type founding hero, why did Zhang Cang do such a disgraceful thing as marrying more than a hundred wives and concubines in order to drink human milk?
Some people believe that Zhang Cang's approach is actually the same as Zhang Liang's, all for self-preservation. Zhang Liang retreated bravely, and Zhang Cang used this self-defilement method to dispel Liu Bang's suspicion of the founding heroes, so that the emperor was no longer jealous of him.
In any case, Zhang Cang's life is to make a lot of money. He was born in the Warring States and lived through the Qin Dynasty, Han Gaozu, Han Huidi, Han Shaodi, and Han Wendi, until the time of The Han Jing Emperor. In his lifetime, he had a large number of wives and concubines, high-ranking officials, and a long life, how many people in history could do it?