"This year's laughter is repeated next year, autumn moon and spring breeze and other idleness."
The younger brother went to join the army aunt and died, and twilight went to the color of the past.
Kurama was snubbed in front of the door, and the boss was married as a merchant's wife. --Bai Juyi, "Pipa Line"
In ancient times, the Qinglou Geji dancers had a humble status, and the best ending was to redeem themselves and marry people. Most of them are unknown, have not left a trace in the history books, and only by being involved with male celebrities can future generations know that they existed. The pipa girl met Bai Juyi, while Chen Yuanyuan met Wu Sangui.
Chen Yuanyuan was born in 1623, 11 years younger than Wu Sangui, she was born poor, her original surname was Xing, when she was 6 years old, because of the death of her mother, she was fostered to her uncle's family, and changed her surname to "Chen" with her uncle's surname. After her uncle sold her to suzhou pear garden, she learned opera and dance with cleverness and dexterity, and because of her gentle temperament and outstanding beauty, she became famous in Wuzhong.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was not very peaceful, and it was very difficult for a beautiful woman like Chen Yuanyuan to attract attention and live a peaceful life. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Chen Yuanyuan was taken away by Tian Hongyu, the father of Concubine Tian in the palace, and Tian Hongyu wanted to befriend Wu Sangui, and Chen Yuanyuan was given away by him as a gift.
Since arriving at Wu Sangui's side, Chen Yuanyuancai's fame has soared, and various legends and stories related to her have appeared, because Wu Sangui changed history and opened the Mountain Customs to attract the Qing army in. In folklore, Wu Sangui abandoned Li Zicheng and chose Dolgun because Li Zicheng insulted his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and even the History of Ming said it in a similar way:
“...... Zi Cheng robbed his father Xiang, wrote a book to recruit him, Sangui wanted to surrender, to Luanzhou, Wen Aiji Chen Yuan (that is, Chen Yuanyuan) was plundered by Liu Zongmin, indignant, rushed back to the mountains and seas, attacked the thieves. Angered by himself, his relatives thief more than 100,000 people, wu xiang yu jun, attacked Shanhaiguan in the east, and did not cross the border from a piece of stone. Sangui was afraid and begged to surrender to me. ”
But the fight between men, where is Chen Yuanyuan this woman can sway, "rushing the crown angry for the red face" sounds very beautiful and romantic, but it is unbelievable. Later, because the Kangxi Emperor intended to weaken the king of the domain, Wu Sangui rebelled against the ascension to the throne as emperor, but he died of illness in the same year (1678), and the Wu Zhou he established was destroyed by the Qing army after barely maintaining for 3 years, and Chen Yuanyuan's whereabouts became a mystery.
There are three main theories about Chen Yuanyuan's ending: first, before Wu Sangui died, she was disgusted and chose to become a monk, and after Wu Sangui died, she also committed suicide; second, she was caught by the Qing army and was ordered to be executed by the Kangxi Emperor like other family members of the Wu family; third, she fled.
Chen Yuanyuan, which has always been widely accepted by the public, ended up as a "suicide version", but in 2010, Majiazhai in Shuiwei Town, Cengong County, Guizhou Province, surprised the "Tomb of Chen Yuanyuan", and Qing history experts such as Teng Shaozhen and Li Zhiting specifically went to investigate this matter, and the results confirmed that more than 1,000 Wu villagers from more than 240 households living in Majiazhai were descendants of Wu Sangui.
After Wu Sangui's death that year, his son Wu Yingqi retired to Kunming, and after the fall of Wu Zhou, the Qing History Manuscript and the DonghuaLu did not record where he went, let alone Wu Yingqi died, and his whereabouts were also a mystery. After this archaeological investigation of Majiazhai, experts concluded that Wu Yingqi escorted Chen Yuanyuan and other relatives to escape to the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou and live in seclusion in Cengong County.
The locally found tomb of Chen Yuanyuan has been guarded by Majiazhai people for generations, and the tombstone is engraved with 11 words: "The tomb seat of the Nie clan of wumen, the ancestor of the ancestors". This discovery is enough to solve the mystery of Chen Yuanyuan's ending, she did not become a monk or commit suicide, but escaped, and after her death was buried on the south bank of the Cenggong Long'ao River in Guizhou.
Why do these 11 words reveal that the tomb owner is Chen Yuanyuan? First of all, Majiazhai has called this tomb "tomb of the first ancestor Chen Old Lady"; secondly, taking these 11 words apart and interpreting them, you can find that every hidden message is related to Chen Yuanyuan.
"Xianfei" indicates that the tomb owner is a woman; "Wumen", referring to the Wu family and Suzhou, Chen Yuanyuan originally lived in Taohuawu, Suzhou, and later married Wu Sangui, counting the Wu family; the most important thing is that the tomb owner's surname "Nie" implies the meaning of binaurals, Chen Yuanyuan also has a name Xing Yuan, both of which have ear characters next to each other; as for binaurals, it alludes to yuanyuan, yuanyuan 2 names, or the name has 2 overlapping characters.
With such painstaking efforts to cover up the metaphor, it can be seen that Chen Yuanyuan's status after marrying Wu Sangui is not low, at least it is also an imperial concubine. Unfortunately, even if the prostitute from the pear garden flew up the branch to become a phoenix, Chen Yuanyuan's fate was still very tragic, Wu Sangui could not protect her at all, and let her bear the insult of a red face and bad water, which is an ancient historical law: "The prosperous world needs beauty to embellish, and the chaotic world needs beautiful people to bear the guilt." ”