Although the feudal dynasties of ancient China stood in the world for more than three thousand years, they were not always stronger than other surrounding countries, including xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties; Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Khitan during the Song Dynasty. When competing with other regimes for territory, it is inevitable that some women will be given as "gifts" to other countries.
Just as the history books of ancient China often mentioned that a small country offered several beautiful women to the emperor, when the women of ancient China carried political responsibilities and went abroad, the common people would give high hopes, but how they actually lived, the royal nobles knew it.
Therefore, generally the "princesses" of other countries are either commoners, at most only girls of the royal family, and the real princess is basically impossible to send and kiss, and Wang Zhaojun, who is one of the "four beautiful women" in ancient China, is the best example of a civilian princess.
Born on September 1, 54 BC, she was the youngest daughter of Wang Xiang's family in Nan county, Zigui County, and the elders of the family were very fond of her, and they also devoted themselves to cultivating their own clever and clever daughter. More than ten years have passed, Wang Zhaojun, who is still a young girl, is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her fame has spread throughout the whole South County.
In 38 BC, the Han Yuan Emperor recruited a talented woman, and Wang Zhaojun, who was 16 years old, came out on top. However, there are so many harem beauties, and the emperor is not good at looking at them one by one, so the Han royal family has a rule, and the emperor relies on portraits to choose the concubines. This led to a chain of interests between the painter and the concubine.
Wang Zhaojun is the most beautiful in the harem, but she refuses to bribe the painter Mao Yanshou, and Mao Yanshou paints her as an ugly palace girl. Wang Zhaojun stayed in the harem for several years, never saw the holy side, and felt sad. In 33 BC, the leader of the Xiongnu, Hu Hanxi, came to see the Heavenly Son of the Han Dynasty and strongly demanded to marry a Han princess to ensure the tranquility of the Han royal frontier.
Emperor Yuan of Han naturally could not marry his own daughter, so he thought of choosing the ugliest one from the harem to perfunctory Xiongnu Shan Yu. When looking through the portrait, Emperor Yuan of Han's eyes lit up, and he picked an ugly woman with a widow's tearful mole, and without even thinking about it, he ordered this matter.
On the day of the departure, the palace held a grand banquet, and Wang Zhaojun also went to the banquet according to the etiquette of the nobility to bid farewell to the Han dynasty. When she looked up, Emperor Han Yuan found that the ugly girl he had chosen was so beautiful that she could hardly control her expression. On the side, Hu Han Evil Shan Yu was also stunned, laughing at the Han Yuan Emperor enough to value himself.
Subsequently, Wang Zhaojun's performance at the banquet was also elegant and generous, and his conversation was not comparable to other palace women. Emperor Yuan of Han took the test of her, thinking that she was brilliant, and was the first person in the harem, he suppressed the anger in his heart at that time, and after the banquet, he killed the painter Mao Yanshou, who had committed the crime of deceiving the king.
Wang Zhaojun wrote poems such as "Grievances" and "Pipa Grievances" on the way to Saiwai with Han Xiandan, lamenting his desolate fate, and the big geese in the sky saw Wang Zhaojun who was chanting poems, and even indulged in her beauty and piano tone, forgot to fly, and fell from the sky, "Falling Geese" became Wang Zhaojun's elegant name.
According to the Book of Han, Wang Zhaojun and his husband Hu Han evil lived happily and gave birth to a son. However, only two years after the marriage, Hu Han evil died. The nomadic people are adopted into a succession marriage system, that is to say, Wang Zhaojun will also marry the eldest son of Hu Han evil, Fu Zhu Tired, which is contrary to human morality in the eyes of the Han people.
To this end, Wang Zhaojun wrote a "Letter to Emperor Yuan of Han" and asked to return to Han Province, and Emperor Yuan of Han asked her to "change from Hu customs", so Wang Zhaojun stayed in Biansai forever. She and her second husband, Fu Du Shan Yu, had two daughters, but unfortunately in 20 BC, Fu Zhu Li Shan Yu also died, at this time Zhaojun was 34 years old, but he wanted to marry the new Shan Yu again, and died of depression two years later.
And how beautiful Wang Zhaojun of "Falling Goose" is something that people have always fantasized about in their hearts, and modern people will always paint the "four beauties" as falling into mortal dust, beautiful as heavenly immortals, but when experts use modern technology - three-dimensional skull restoration technology to restore Wang Zhaojun's appearance, they find that Wang Zhaojun's beauty is not as beautiful as later generations fantasize.
In 2014, Wang Zhaojun's restoration map came out, seeing her willow eyebrows and single eyelids, netizens have already fried the pan, and the nose and mouth are only the level of ordinary people. But experts are very sure that Wang Zhaojun looks like this. After all, the pure Han Chinese blood of more than two thousand years ago was indeed small eyes and single eyelids, which can be understood. However, the other facial features are still unsatisfactory, and it can only be said that the gap between the aesthetics and modern times at that time was too large.