If a woman has a rank, Yu Xi can be called the first fox essence of the national costume.
Yu Xi was originally a slave of the tribute, but successfully captured the heart of Xia Jie, the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty, and together with Xia Jie, he was absurd and wanton, leading the Xia Dynasty to its demise.
However, as long as we peel off the layers of labels on Yuxi's body, we will find that she is just an ordinary and beautiful woman. Like most ordinary women, what she cares about is never a history, but a spoiled love, a man who can be entrusted for life.
First, spoiled and spoiled operations
As a tribute slave, Yu Xi was insecure.
Yukimoto is a beautiful woman of the Shi clan. During Xia Jie's reign, he launched a large army to attack the Shi clan, and the Shi clan soldiers were defeated and sought peace, sacrificing their cattle and sheep, horses, and beautiful women, including Yu Xi. There are historical records that Yu Xi was born lowly and was a commoner, and there are also historical records that she was a member of the royal family of the Shi clan. But regardless of her previous status, when she came to Xia, her identity was captive. Even if she were a member of the royal family of the Shi clan, in the final analysis, she was just a poor woman who could not live freely.
Therefore, YuXi "had to leave her hometown and leave her lover when she was in her youth, and was sacrificed like cattle and sheep to the hands of the enemy for the survival of the clan."
Luckily, YuXi has one of a woman's most powerful weapons, beauty. There is a poem praising the beauty of Yu Xi: "There is Shi Yu Xi, and the eyebrows are clear. Makeup and colored clothes, Yuanna feixi. Crystal rain and dew, human pity. ”
As soon as Yu Xi appeared, she let the three thousand pink daisy of Xia Jie's harem have no color, and naturally got Xia Jie's favor. Xia Jie often carried her to his knees and drank with her day and night.
However, a woman in love is incomprehensible.
Women think that if a man truly loves a woman, he should do anything impossible for her, even the stars in the sky to pluck her.
The way Yu Xi let Xia Jie prove that he loves her is to make fun of the wine pool, tear the silk and laugh, and cosplay.
According to historical records, when Xia Jie built a wine pond large enough to row a boat, he first ordered the execution of Guan Longkui, a loyal courtier who prevented him from building the wine pond, and then "invited" three thousand drinking masters to drink in the pool to the sound of drumming, and some of them drowned because they were drunk.
Because Yu Xi laughed when she heard the sound of tearing the ribbon, and Xia Ji liked to see Yu Xi laughing, so she ordered the palace people to bring in exquisitely woven silk and tear them apart in front of her one by one to win Yu Xi's favor. This is probably the same as the psychology of "when I have money, buy two cups of soy milk, drink a cup and pour a cup".
At the same time, Yuxi also created the earliest cosplay in history - wearing a man's official hat.
These quirks are all hysterical venting of insecurity.
Second, the riotous operation of falling out of favor and jealousy
If you get favored, you fall out of favor.
How arrogant and absurd a woman is when she is favored, and how jealous and resentful she is when she is out of favor.
According to the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", Xia Jie attacked Min Shan, and the Min Shan clan followed the example of the Shi clan and sacrificed two beautiful women, one named Huan and one named Yan. Xia Jie was very fond of the second daughter, and carved the word "琬" with the jade and the word "琰" in Huayu to show his cherishing. Yu Xi was then snubbed and placed in the Luoshui area.
Yu Xi saw that everything she had been taken away by other women, and jealousy gradually arose in her heart. Never underestimate a woman's jealousy, it will make women do crazy things. Therefore, "Yu Xi clan to make friends with Yi Yin".
A "crossover" word, people can't help but think of wrong. Some people think that the empty Yuxi developed a good feeling for yi yin, the minister of the Shang Dynasty, and helped Yi yin to destroy Xia; others believe that Yuxi was just jealous and thought that only by leaving Xia Ji with nothing, no one would compete with him.
In any case, YuXi embarked on the path of betraying her husband, secretly dealing with Yi Yin and revealing the secrets of the Xia Dynasty.
Not only that, Yu Xi also said that Xia Jie once had a strange dream of "two days to fight, and Xi Ri won". In the dream there were two suns in the sky, and finally the sun in the west triumphed over the sun in the east. At that time, Xia was in the east and Shang was in the west, indicating that Shang would replace Shangxia's position. Yi Yin was ecstatic when he heard of this dream, and told Cheng Tang that the time had come to conquer Xia Jie, so he swore to send troops. The Xia division collapsed without a fight, and the Xia Dynasty perished.
Yu Xi's jealousy destroyed a country. But this country is a home for Yuxi. A home occupied by Primary Three or Primary Four, don't do it!
This is the destructive power of jealous women.
Third, men have nothing, and still accompany them to death
In a sense, Yu Xi succeeded!
Xia Jie became the king of the fallen country, exiled to Alexandria, and the treasures of glory, wealth, and beauty have disappeared. There are no more women competing with Yu Xi for favors!
Once, he obeyed her and did whatever it took to make her laugh. Now, instead of letting him die alone, it is better to accompany him for a ride, after all, the warmth he gave, others have not given.
"Tang was defeated at Alexander, and he and Yu Xi were in the same boat on the floating river, running to the mountain of the South Nest and died." From then on, she was only willing to face hunger and cold with him and die together.
A woman who has entrusted her original intention to you, maybe she has made unreasonable demands on you, maybe she has done things that make you sad, or even betrayed you, but all she does is to accompany you to die.
As the first concubine recorded in Chinese history, Yu Xi is the first example of the red face and disaster in later generations.
Does her tragic experience, in addition to the significance of historical reference, also have a hint of enlightenment for us to look at our family and love?