"The night is as cool as water, sit and watch the morning glory Vega." This is a legendary sentence created by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu, describing the lonely and sad scene of the palace ladies sitting on the cold steps in the middle of the night when they are quiet, watching the stars in the sky to pass the time.
In the ancient feudal society, the polygamy of men was the norm in society, and the emperors in the ruling class were even more beautiful in the three palaces and six courtyards. Such a general environment not only gave rise to many fierce social contradictions, but also many poetry works with this theme.
However, there are always exceptions to everything. According to historical records, there were a total of 421 emperors in ancient feudal society, and 73 emperors who were posthumously honored. Among these 494 emperors, there are three emperors with single-minded feelings. So, who are these three emperors?
Short-lived Emperor Yuan Qin
Yuan Qin, born in 525 AD in Luoyang, Henan, was a member of the Xianbei clan, the father was Emperor Wen of Western Wei, Yuan Baoju, and his biological mother was Empress Wenjing of the Yifu clan, and the eldest of the nine sons. He was made crown prince at the age of ten, and at the age of twenty-six he became emperor, the second emperor of Western Wei. However, after only four years on the throne, he was deposed and killed by the powerful minister Yuwen Tai, and was known as the deposed emperor.
According to the Northern History of Wei Benji, when Yuan Qin was made crown prince, he married Yuwen Tai's eldest daughter Yuwen Shi. But this political marriage, which seemed to have been arranged by the powerful, did not develop according to people's expectations.
From an early age, Yuwen Clan was intelligent, astute and knowledgeable, and often took the exemplary women in history as a model to learn from, cultivate morality, and observe discipline. In addition, Yuan Qin grew up in Yuwen Tai Mansion since childhood, and Yuwen Clan is also regarded as a green plum bamboo horse, and the two have a strong relationship after marriage, and their lives are happy and happy.
After Yuan Qin ascended the throne, he did not want to be a pawn at the mercy of others, so he secretly accumulated strength and plotted with several close confidants to eliminate Yuwen Tai and seize imperial power. During this period, Yuwen not only did not inform his father, but also helped to cover up, secretly encouraging her husband and participating in the plot.
For this sensible and sensible lady, Yuan Qin is naturally very gracious. According to the "Northern History of Liechuan I", during the reign of Yuan Qin, he was very fond of the Yuwen clan, "exclusively favoring the harem and not placing concubines." ”
However, even the most careful planning will inevitably lead to flaws in the implementation process. After yuan qin and his confidants had planned for many years, they were immediately deposed by Yuwen Tai and soon killed by Dove. After Yuan Qin's death, yuwen clan was devastated and killed himself in the footsteps of her husband.
In fact, the Western Wei regime was originally a puppet supported by Yuwen Tai, and the Father and Son of the Yuan Family were just pawns in the transition from Western Wei to Northern Zhou, which also determined the tragic fate of Yuan Qin's early death. The deposed emperor Yuan Qin was also the first emperor in the historical record to marry only one wife.
Emperor Yang Jian of the Prosperous Age
Yang Jian, born in 541 in Huayin, Shaanxi, after the Guanzhong magnate Hongnong Yang clan, was a northern Zhou chancellor, the father-in-law of Emperor Xuan Yuwen Yun, and the grandfather of Emperor Jing Yuwen. Although he held a high position of power in the current dynasty, he was also persecuted by the imperial court and almost suffered the scourge of raiding his family and destroying the door.
In 581, the forty-one-year-old Yang Jian followed the example of Emperor Wen tai, deposed his grandson Yuwen Yan, overthrew northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, known as Emperor Wen of Sui. After he took the throne, he put an end to civil strife, unified the north and the south, and exerted great efforts to govern and reform the maladministration, which not only ended the division and division that lasted for more than three hundred years, and once again formed a great unified dynasty, but also created a prosperous situation in which the country was rich and the people were prosperous, and the borders were stable.
According to the Book of Sui, Yang Jian and his wife Dugu Jialuo were a couple of troubled couples.
Dugu Jialuo was the daughter of the Northern Zhou Dynasty's Dugu Xin, who had been influenced by her family since childhood, and had both the fiery and unbridled enthusiasm of the steppe people and the dignified and gentle and elegant Han women, and married Yang Jian as a wife at the age of fourteen under the mediation of her father.
Shortly after Yang Jian married Dugu Jialuo, the Dugu family was persecuted by the imperial court, and the entire clan was exiled to the Bashu region, and Dugu Jialuo was spared under the protection of the Yang family. Later, the Yang family also lost power in the imperial court, and there was a danger of being raided at any time. The husband and wife support each other in a turbulent environment, face the unknown danger together, and jointly make a promise of "swearing no son of alien birth".
After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, dugu Jia Luo was inseparable from Yang Jian, and the two of them shared the same car and flew together, and were called "two saints" by the people of the time. Yang Jian's harem also had only one lone empress, and she had not been a concubine in her lifetime. This is not to say that Yang Jian does not want to stand up, but because the lone garo is an iron door bolt and looks too tightly.
In the Book of Sui, there are several interesting little stories. Yang Jian once took advantage of the drunkenness to be fortunate for a palace maid, and after hearing the news, Dugu Jia Luo was furious and ordered someone to beat the palace girl to death. Yang Jian felt that his face could not be hung up, and in a rage, he rode out of the imperial city, and was persuaded by the ministers who caught up with him for a while before returning to the palace in ashes.
The Sui Dynasty chancellor Gao Xi was a very talented man who won Yang Jian's respect and trust. However, his behavior of spoiling the concubine alone in the family made Dugu Garo very dissatisfied. Dugu Jia Luo was afraid that Gao Xi's style problems would affect Yang Jian, so he often blew the pillow side wind to alienate the monarch until Gao Xi was expelled from the court.
The sui dynasty vassal states paid tribute to Yang Jian with several beautiful women, which caused a big disturbance in the court, reprimanded the officials of the vassal state in person, and finally forced Yang Jian to personally order that there must be no beautiful women in the future tributes. In addition, Dugu Jia Luo did not tolerate his son, and the crown prince Yang Yong was eventually deposed as the crown prince because he often snubbed the crown princess.
Therefore, Dugu Jia Luo also left the title of "the first strange jealousy in the ages" in later generations, and Yang Jian was also known as "the most afraid of his wife in history".
Model Emperor Zhu Youfan
Zhu Youfan, born in Beijing in 1470 AD, the father is Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, the birth mother of the Ji clan, the third son in the family, at the age of six was crown prince, eighteen years old that is, the emperor throne, is the ninth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, known as Ming Xiaozong.
During his reign, he practiced frugality, was diligent in government affairs, opened up the way of speech, and reused the virtuous courtiers, saving the Ming Dynasty, which was already full of holes and withering national strength, and creating a prosperous situation of "Hongzhi Zhongxing". He was not only a ruler of the world, but also a model of monogamy in feudal society.
According to the records in the "History of Ming", it was a miracle that the young Zhu Youfan was able to survive.
Zhu Youfan's birth mother, Ji Shi, was originally a criminal slave who was punished and sent to the palace, only because of her beautiful appearance, she was accidentally blessed by Emperor Mingxianzong and became pregnant with a dragon vein. In feudal society, there was a rule of "mother depending on the son", especially in the royal harem, being able to conceive a dragon vein was a great joy to change the fate of the world, but all this did not happen to Ji Shi.
During the ming dynasty, Wan Guifei, who dominated the harem, was vicious and jealous. She acted recklessly under the emperor's favor, not only poisoning the favored concubines and concubines, but also sparing the dragon vein. The first two sons of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming were tragically poisoned by Wan Guifei and died in infancy. Therefore, from the moment Ji Shi was fortunate, he was always faced with the worry of life.
Fortunately, Ji Shi had a pure temperament and was very popular in the palace, and eventually escaped the poisonous hands of Wan Guifei again and again with the help of palace women, eunuchs, concubines, and even empresses. From birth, Zhu Youfan was taken care of and hidden by everyone in turn, and grew up to six years old in the dark harem.
Later, by chance, Zhu Youfan met his father, and from then on, he had to see the light of day, and under the protection of his grandmother Empress Zhou, he survived Wan Guifei. However, his mother Ji Shi was not so lucky, and soon after being crowned as a lady concubine by Emperor Mingxian, she died violently in the palace.
Perhaps it was the memory of his childhood that left a shadow on Zhu Youfan, so since he ascended the throne, he advocated and practiced monogamy, there were no concubines in the harem, and he slept with Empress Xiaokangjing Zhang and flew with wings, creating a good story.
brief summary
Under the mainstream fashion of feudal society with a large number of wives and concubines, emperors like Yuan Qin, Yang Jian, and Zhu Youfan, who were in the ruling class position but only married one wife, really belonged to the impressive alternative at that time. Whatever their reasons or their aims, one thing is certain: there is indeed a very strong emotional foundation between them. What do you think about that?
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