Today let's take a look at the beauties of the Western Xia Dynasty.
Don't feel a sense of age and run! Western Xia, super mysterious!
It is a feudal dynasty of ethnic minorities established by the Dangxiang people in the northwest region in the ancient history of our country, enjoying a total of 189 years, but there is no independent history of the Western Xia.
Culture and stories have been excavated through archaeology almost all in modern times, and most of the materials are now in the Russian Museum.
Moreover, it developed in a very relaxed nomadic culture, and the Western Xia women lived completely differently from the noble ladies of the Song Dynasty in the same period.
They are all Mulan, who can go out to fight, even change their husbands freely, and are protected by law.
It can even be said that the history of Western Xia was controlled by half of the four empresses.
Western Xia historical drama "Helan Xue"
The costumes and clothing are also very distinctive, and are preserved in the Dunhuang murals (later).
Because it is integrated with Han culture, but it hopes to maintain its own cultural characteristics, it has also tossed out a lot of cultural interesting things.
Western Xia men: Mandatory mediterranean for all members
A dynasty dominated by female authorities
There are four well-known empresses in Western Xia, and each of their lives is Shuangwen, connecting the entire history of Western Xia.
The founding emperor Li Yuanhao, who fell in love with his wife's sister-in-law, won the first empress dowager, the Noye clan.
This Noye clan had a bizarre experience, and was originally the wife of Li Yuanhao's empress Dowager Ye Li's brother, who was equivalent to Nian Shilan who had mixed into the throne.
Queen Yeli in "Helan Xue"
She really had something, when she met Li Yuanhao, it was li Yuanhao who killed her husband YeLi beg because of the political struggle, and took her as a concubine.
The Nori clan forced the Nozo clan out of the house to become a nun, but the temple would only make the love fire burn more and more vigorously.
Teacher Li Jianqun played wuzang
Not long after, the Wuzang clan gave birth to a son, Li Yuzuo, in the temple, and fostered her brother, the Wuzang Pang family, who relied on her to become a master of the kingdom.
Just in time to catch up with Li Yuanhao, he began to engage in stallion and robbed his daughter-in-law on the wedding night of his own prince, and let the prince forcibly change his ex-wife into a stepmother.
"Helan Xue" did not move
Without hiding the Pang brothers and sisters, he threw up the prince's revenge, so that the prince killed his father passionately and killed two birds with one stone.
Then, after coming out of the nunnery, wuzang clan held Li Yuzuo, who was just 1 year old, and sat on the throne, the emperor was young, and Wuzang became the empress dowager in charge of the government.
However, she did not hide the glory and wealth of the empress dowager and did not enjoy it for several years, and she raised two lovers, a housekeeper and a chief bodyguard.
As a result, the butler was jealous and killed her and the head of the guard, and the death was caught off guard.
Isn't it enough to kill the chief of the guards, why did he rise to the rank of empress?
Then there is the story of Li Yuzuo and his wife Liang Shi.
When Li Yuzuo was 13 years old, he played in the Guoshi uncle's uncle Wuzang Pang's house, his DNA moved, he fell in love with his cousin Liang Shi, and secretly passed the song.
cousin:?
But it was actually good to be good with the Liang clan, and there was no hiding that Pang and his son wanted to usurp the throne, and the Liang clan decisively informed.
Li Yuzuo knew about the en Tu report, directly destroyed his uncle's family, and then made liang an empress, and then Li Yuzuo's life doubled the pace of a good man, and his father died at the age of 46, and he died at the age of 21.
Liang, who was only 6 years old, became the second empress dowager of Western Xia, ruling for 18 years.
She was very politically adept, and in order to win over the party nobility, she ordered the abolition of all Sinicization measures implemented by Li Yuzuo and the restoration of party etiquette.
There is no documentation in the liturgical records, talk about beautiful clothes. The first dress of the noble women of the Western Xia was mainly the crown, and the concubines and noblewomen of the Western Xia liked to wear the golden crown
Wear a lotus bud-shaped gold crown, comb a high bun, flower arrangement, earrings and earrings. He wears a narrow-sleeved slit with a cross-necked right, pleated skirt with a ribbon and pointed hook shoes on his feet.
In particular, he likes to use gold to make jewelry, and when decorating clothing, there are also gold decorations, embroidered gold threads and so on.
Moreover, they were influenced by the Central Plains, similar to the women of the Song Dynasty, and absorbed many elements of the costumes of the Han Song Dynasty.
Women in nomadic societies are really much happier than in farming cultures...
Everyone can also see that because of the small population in Western Xia, men and women are equal, they can all fight wars, and the military fortress has also unearthed makeup box makeup mirrors in Western Xia, and the girls must be beautiful when they fight.
Marriages stipulated by law are also very arbitrary, and the rights and interests of men and women are not double standards.
Men can marry wives in a disorderly manner, women can live unhappily and can also elope freely, and when they elope, they want to go home and be free, and the green hat husband can't help but say no.
Moreover, Western Xia did not put women in power as serious as Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, and Empress Liang also raised many lovers in the later period, and also helped her niece to be the next Empress Xiaoliang.
Empress Xiaoliang did not serve as empress for several years and was widowed as Empress Xiaoliang, and when she became empress, the emperor's son Li Qianshun was only three years old and successfully regent.
But Empress Xiaoliang has a great reputation in history: she is a war maniac.
Frequent wars, harassment everywhere, and personally led troops to fight to repel the Song Kingdom (beating Song Shenzong to death).
With it was still the women's unit: the Ma Kui unit
The personality is also a bit reckless, she hates her brother as a courtier to hinder her, did not wait for the Li Yuanhao family's tradition of killing uncles, and directly killed her brother's family.
But because she loved to fight too much, the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Yelü Hongji, was overwhelmed: he was bored to death, and found someone to go and medicate her.
As a result, the envoy really took a bottle of medicinal wine to Western Xia and poisoned Empress Xiaoliang to death.
The only one left to influence Western Xia was Empress Luo, a sad story of the emperor's failure.
Empress Xiaoliang's son Li Qianshun broke the curse of short-lived life in Western Xia and lived to be 55 years old, and his son Li Renxiao's wife was this Luo Shi.
Empress Luo was very good at Buddha, and once let the Western Xia people copy a large number of Buddhist scriptures and actively promote Buddhist culture, and there are also Buddhist scripture murals left by the Western Xia in the Mogao Grottoes.
But it was such a Buddhist empress dowager who, together with her nephew Li An'an, launched a coup d'état and imprisoned her own son, Li Chunyou
She liked that the Buddhist scriptures were true, and the inscriptions of the scriptures that she liked to print for Wu Zetian were also true.
She was particularly fond of promoting the Huayan Jing, which contains legends of women turning male bodies, and historians speculate that she may have found her son unwilling to be a puppet, so she wanted to emulate Wu Zetian's precedent of calling herself emperor.
The outcome of the incident is that Empress Luo is suspected of claiming that the emperor failed, and she disappeared, becoming a historical mystery.
Although it is not as cool as the Wuzang clan and the big and small Liang clans, she can also be regarded as working hard for her dreams (shaking her fist .jpg). It can be seen that the broader the social environment, the more it can nourish the "what can't be done" women.
Finally put an Easter egg:
The Western Xia Dangxiang clan loves white and is said to be rich in beauty, so there has always been a legend that the descendants of the Western Xia royal family were scattered in the Ganzi Beauty Valley in Sichuan.
The sheep searched casually, whether the Western Xia royal family was spread to the Valley of Beauty is no longer important, the Valley of Beauty is really a lot of beautiful women!