"Qing Ping Le" Zhang Guifei historical prototype: Song Renzong's favorite person in his life, in order to protect his children's identity
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Recently, "Qingping Le", starring Wang Kai, Jiang Shuying and others, was launched, which made the audience look forward to it for a long time, and did not disappoint everyone after broadcasting.
In the play, Wang Kai plays "Song Renzong Zhao Zhen", and Jiang Shuying plays "Empress Cao". Although these two characters are the male and female protagonists of the play, it is a pity that Empress Cao is not Zhao Zhen's favorite woman. That is to say, the male and female protagonists of this drama are only husband and wife, and they do not love each other. Zhao Zhen's favorite is Zhang Guifei (played by Wang Churan), so which is the prototype of This Zhang Guifei in the history of the Song Dynasty?
According to historical comparisons, the "Zhang Guifei" in the play is the "Wencheng Empress Zhang" of Song Renzong of the Song Dynasty, and is the favorite woman of Song Renzong. Zhang's being called "Empress Wencheng" by posterity is the honor given to her by Emperor Renzong of Song after Zhang's death. Zhang Shi was not an empress, she was a noble concubine before her death.
Emperor Renzong of Song had two empresses, one was his original wife Empress Guo and the other was Empress Cao. Empress Guo was deposed by Emperor Renzong after empress dowager Liu E's death as childless. Empress Cao was chosen by Empress Yang, The Adoptive Mother of Emperor Renzong of Song, and was crowned empress. However, Empress Cao did not emerge in her life, nor was she favored. However, she was a good empress who was admired by all the people, and the last winner among the concubines of Song Renzong's harem.
Empress Wencheng of the Zhang clan was a concubine of Emperor Renzong of Song. Although she received all the favors of Song Renzong, she died of a violent illness at the age of 31. So what kind of life did Zhang Guifei go through?
Zhang Guifei's father was a jinshi when he was young, but died very early. Her mother took her to her relatives to no avail, and later Zhang Mu worked as a singer and dancer in the Princess Mansion of the State of Qi because of her delicate appearance, and Zhang grew up in the Grand Princess Mansion. When Zhang Shi was 8 years old, she was taken into the palace by the eldest princess and raised by the palace maid.
At a palace banquet, Zhang Shi, who inherited his mother's good looks, was favored by Song Renzong, and was later named the Prince of Qinghe County, and soon he was named a talented person. Zhang Shi was quite favored, and the speed of JinFeng was also very fast. She was given the title of Xiuyuan (修媛) from Cairenren (陳人), and bore three daughters for Emperor Renzong of Song: Emperor Zhuangshun, Emperor Zhuangding, and Emperor Zhuangshen.
Emperor Renzong of Song favored the Zhang clan, and the Zhang clan gave birth to three more daughters, so she soon became a noble concubine, only one step away from the empress. But later, because of the early death of her second daughter, Zhang Guifei became seriously ill. She felt that she was blessed and should not be so favored, and wanted to be a beauty to save her other two children. Song Renzong was heartbroken after hearing this, and immediately listened to Zhang Guifei and demoted her to a beauty. But since then, Zhang has become more favored. And a few years later, Song Renzong resumed her position as a noble concubine.
Zhang Guifei was Song Renzong's favorite concubine, and her ambitions were also there. She was bent on the empress dowager, but she knew that Empress Cao's position could not be shaken at all. One is that Empress Yang has been helping the unfavored Empress Cao, and the other is that Empress Cao is from the Shogun, and her grandfather is the founding hero of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, even if Empress Cao was childless and unloved, Emperor Renzong of Song would not and did not dare to depose her and set her up as empress dowager.
Since you can't be an empress, let your mother's family be a good official. Zhang Guifei repeatedly asked Song Renzong to promote her uncle Zhang Yaozuo, and Song Renzong also agreed. However, when Song Renzong proposed it, many counselors stopped it. Song Renzong wanted to give up, but he couldn't pass the Beauty Pass. Zhang Guifei was not dead hearted, and she must make Song Renzong promote her uncle. When Song Renzong mentioned this matter again in the courtroom, he was interrupted by Bao Zheng and covered his face, and Bao Zheng's saliva sprayed on Song Renzong's face, and Song Renzong had to give up. Knowing that Song Renzong was angry about this incident, Zhang Guifei did not dare to mention it again.
But this incident did not affect Song Renzong's love for Zhang Guifei, but it was a pity that Zhang Guifei could not bear such a heavenly grace and died of a sudden illness at the age of 31.
After Zhang Guifei's death, Song Renzong was so grief-stricken that he quit the dynasty for seven days and banned music from playing in the capital for a month. The most exaggerated thing is that Song Renzong actually disregarded the objections of his ministers to mourn Zhang Guifei with the empress's gift, and completely disregarded Empress Cao, who was still alive and well. Not only that, Song Renzong also posthumously named Zhang Guifei as empress, and Quan Yu as Empress Wencheng. Song Renzong knew that Zhang Guifei wanted the empress dowager, but he could not give her. So she was buried in the clothes of the queen, which also fulfilled her wish that she had always wanted the prestige of the matriarch. He posthumously honored Zhang Guifei's father Zhang Yao as the Prince of Qinghe Commandery and his mother Cao Shi as Lady Qi of Qi.