In Liu Xiang's "Biography of the Daughters of Lie", a particularly peculiar marriage is recorded. King Xuan of Qi married an ugly woman, Zhong Lichun. Zhong Lichun is one of the four ugly women in ancient China, so how ugly is she? The "Dialectical Biography" says: "He is extremely ugly, with a head, deep eyes, long and strong, large knots, a large nose, a throat, a fat neck, less hair, a bent waist, a chest, and a skin like lacquer." ”
It is said that ugly women cannot marry the king of a country, after all, the monarch has always expanded the harem through beauty pageants, so how did the ugly-looking Zhong Lichun marry King Qi Xuan?
Zhong Lichun
Although Zhong Lichun is a strange and ugly woman, she is confident (thick-skinned), and she does not feel inferior because of her ugliness. This has a big premise, because Zhong Lichun is a particularly talented and courageous ugly woman. (But this does not hide the image of her as an ugly woman, and no one married her until she was 40 years old.)
Zhong Lichun, who was in his 40s, couldn't bear the loneliness (I said nonsense), and one night he openly ran to the door of King Qi Xuan's palace and said directly to the doorman: "I want to see King Qi Xuan, and I want to marry King Qi Xuan." The original words: "Concubine Qi Zhi is not a daughter and a woman." Hearing of the king's holiness, may the harem be removed, and the king is fortunate to allow it outside the door of Sima Tou. King Xuan of Qi felt very ridiculous when he heard this, (he must have been wondering where this was the toad from) but still gave her a chance to receive Zhong Lichun.
Bell away from the glory image of the King of Spring
Zhong Lichun is also known as Zhong Wuyan (not the mangy man with the hammer in the glory of the king)! She pointed out to the crises facing the State of Qi at that time, such as "the way of the king"; for example, "the wrong country of the courtiers". Four points were spoken in a row, and the article pointed directly to the most headache and the most difficult thing for King Qi Xuan to deal with.
King Xuan of Qi was greatly moved, thinking about the concubines in his harem who would only "scratch their heads and make gestures" and "moth eyebrows" one by one, realizing that if he could have such a virtuous helper, then he would have a good assistant in governing the country and handling diplomatic relations, so he officially married the ugly girl Zhong Lichun and set her up as his queen.
Zhong Lichun helped King Xuan of Qi to do a lot of practical things, dismantling the gradual platform, dismissing women's music, retiring from ridicule, speaking bluntly, selecting soldiers and horses, and realizing the treasury of the state of Qi, so that the state of Qi was safe.
Later, there was a rumor that "there is no bell without beauty, and there is nothing to greet the spring in summer". In fact, this statement was made up by people later, Xia Yingchun this person was made up by people at that time, to ask what fictionalized this statement, I think one is because of the appearance of Zhong Lichun, breaking the appearance of their ideal life, the second is because Zhong Lichun's talent is far above them, jealous, and the third is to make up this statement disgusting Zhong Lichun. But they forgot what kind of person Zhong Lichun was (no face), so they didn't care at all.
In part, the story of Zhong Lichun can be widely circulated because "there is something about Zhong Wuyan." Nothing summer welcomes spring" this statement. But to a large extent, a generation of kings would marry a strange and ugly woman, and the king was blind? Or are they incompetent ministers? This remains to be examined, but this matter is enough to illustrate a truth.
Appearance value has been valued by people since ancient times. But all in all, the value of the face is unable to withstand the test of the years, and it will always lose. And a person's inner talent is eternal. Zhong Lichun relied on his own talent to let King Qi Xuan marry her as the queen, so although the appearance is important, it is always impossible to learn.
We modern people do all kinds of crazy things for the sake of appearance, and ignore their own inner development, which is precisely because of small mistakes and throwing away watermelons for sesame seeds. You know, no matter how fresh. The moment the precious fruit lands on the ground, it is doomed to rot, which is the law of nature, and no one is powerless.
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