In the long history of China for thousands of years, many heroes have emerged, and many famous women have also been created. However, under the influence of the mainstream concept of "male superiority and female inferiority" in feudal society, women enjoyed many unbalanced powers, and once they grasped a large amount of social wealth and supreme power, they either became women who ran parallel to talent and virtue, or became "great evil" flaunt women.
Looking at Chinese history, such "great evil" women are not few, they rely on their unique qualifications, tenaciously fight against the mainstream of society, looking at the historical data of these women, they believe that these three are the most representative "brutal" women who have left their names in the annals of history.
1. Sister Hi - The First Demon Queen of The Ages
Mei Xi (妹喜), the daughter of the Shi clan, was the favorite concubine of the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty of China.
Mei Xi, who grew up in a tribe called "Youshi", is a baby girl retrieved by the wife of the Chieftain of the Youshi tribe, and has always longed for the chief and his wife to have a daughter, to give her the best house, to wear the best clothes, and the clan is also very good to this girl. In an instant, Mei Xi came out very bright and moving, and Xia Jie's sudden attack made the Shi clan who paid tribute to the Xia Dynasty every year powerless to resist, knowing that Xia Jie was a good woman, and in all helplessness, the Shi clan offered Mei Xi as a bribe to Xia Jie.
MeiXi was unwilling, she felt great shame, and she planted a deep seed of revenge in her heart. She took advantage of Xia Jie's favor for her and asked her to build the most beautiful palace for her, persuading Xia Jie to arrest the Shi people to build a palace as a strong man, she wanted to make the Shi people's life worse than death, dying and struggling in the cages she woven and nightmares, she let them work day and night, and personally supervised the work, tried every means to embarrass the laborers, and beat them with leather whips, and the corpses of the tired and killed laborers were rotten and the blood soaked the earth.
In addition, she often changed tricks, such as asking the soldiers guarding the tigers to open the cages and put them on the street, and she and Xia Jie sat on the city tower, watching the tigers frighten the fleeing people in the street, resulting in countless people being trampled to death and bitten to death.
Mei Xi let Xia Jie be fascinated by her, and buried her innocent girlhood with the pleasure brought by cruelty, she let Xia Jie indulge in lust, covet pleasure, and conquest, eventually leading to the displacement of the people and the collapse of the Xia Dynasty. Some say she is a spy, and her only political goal is to subvert the Xia Dynasty. But whether or not she carries the pot for others, the adverse consequences she caused cannot change the fact that she became the first woman in Chinese history to be called a demon queen.
2. Dai Ji - the first snake and scorpion beauty in ancient times
Dai Ji (妲己), the daughter of Marquis Su of Jizhou, was the favorite concubine of the last monarch of the Shang Dynasty of China.
For her, everyone is not unfamiliar, she is charming, charming monarch, abusive image often appears in the theme of major TV series, when it comes to sadomasochism, it is natural to think of a criminal law, that is, "cannon burning punishment", it can be said that Daji is the ancestor of this criminal law. It is reported that Dai Ji was pleased with the "punishment of cannon burning", and the copper pillar was oiled, and the charcoal was burned below, so that the prisoner could walk on it, and the prisoner's foot board was burned and fell into the charcoal, and Daji listened to the screams of the prisoners in a group until the prisoner was burned alive.
Mentally, she was extremely absurd, she was the daughter of a minister but did not have the dignity and insight of a minister, she was accustomed to framing Zhongliang, and she was driven to kill the most dissatisfied people, such as planting bribes to frame the king of Qi, who originally accompanied Queen Jiang to rebel, and in order to force him to confess and shave his eyes and burn his hands, causing him to die of eventual pain; such as seducing Bo Yikao, the son of Xi Bohou, and making it into a meat pie for his father Ji Chang to eat; such as cutting off the king's uncle Bigan's heart to show his loyalty, and finally dying because of his inability to bear the pain of the heart.
In addition, she saw someone walking barefoot on the ice in the harsh winter, thinking that its physiological institutions were special, so she asked the king to order people to cut off their feet and study the reasons why they were not afraid of cold.
Su Daji was indulgent and crazy, she served the king with Israel, and the king of Lu only mutilated innocent people because of her words. She charmed the country, abandoned her family affection and benevolence, and destroyed humanity, which eventually led to the deficit of the Shang Dynasty's national treasury, the boiling of people's resentment, and the destruction of the country. And she also did everything because of bad things, and finally led to the disaster of killing herself, leaving a body of infamy and a stink for thousands of years.
3. Lü Yan - the first poison queen in ancient times
Lü Yan (雉雉), a native of Shan County (present-day Shan County, Shandong Province) in the Qin Dynasty, was the empress dowager of Liu Bang of han Gaozu.
Unlike the previous two, this is the founding empress of the Han Dynasty, she and Liu Bang have experienced many difficult days, so that even if she became an empress, she remembered that unforgettable past countless times, immersed in pain, stimulated the brain with pain, made her more cautious and rational, perhaps that extraordinary experience made her cherish everything she now has, wealth, power and status, anyone who may threaten her, she will eradicate them one by one, so that she later planned a murder and imprisonment.
For example, she used a bamboo stick to kill Han Xin, the first general of the Han Room. In her opinion, Liu Shi Jiangshan was either Liu Bang or hers, and she was worried that Han Xin had the intention of rebellion and threatened Liu s Jiangshan, so she let Xiao He deceive Han Xin into going to the palace, even if Han Xin took out the death-free gold medal, Lü Hou still asked the soldiers to cover Han Xin's cloth bag, and let a group of soldiers use sharpened bamboo sticks to pierce the cloth bag, and the poor generation of famous generals Han Xin ended up with such a tragic death. In order to cut the grass and remove the roots, Lü Hou killed the three tribes of the Han family, which made the ministers and princes shudder.
For example, if Peng Yue was led to return to Chang'an, he was condemned for the crime of exterminating the Nine Tribes. Peng Yue, one of the founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty, together with Han Xin and Yingbu, was known as the three famous generals of the early Han Dynasty. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, under the instigation of Lü Hou's efforts, Liu Bang's attitude toward Peng Yue took a sharp turn for the worse, and without verification, he credulously believed the false accusations of Liu Taishi, the traitor of the Liang state, believing that Peng Yue had the intention of rebellion, so he stripped Peng Yue of the title of King of Liang and assigned it to Shudi to let himself perish, but on the way to escort him, he met Lü Hou, who was traveling, and Lü Hou thought that he was rehabilitated, led him back to the capital, and instructed Peng Yue's disciples to unjustly plot and rebel, and finally liu Bang exterminated the Nine Tribes, and after Peng Yue's death, Lü Hou chopped it into a meat sauce and gave it to the princes to taste, in order to make an example.
Such as the invention of the "human hand" punishment. During Liu Bang's lifetime, there was a concubine who often competed with Lü Hou for favor, who was extremely favored by Liu Bang, and made Liu Bang have the intention of changing to crown prince, although he did not succeed, he caused Lü Hou's jealousy and wanted to get rid of it quickly. After Liu Bang's death, Lü Hou had Concubine Qi imprisoned in Yongxiang, holding dozens of pounds of heavy wooden sticks and scooping rice every day, not giving a full meal, often being beaten and scolded, and summoning his son Liu Ruyi into the palace and killing her. Lü Hou's own son, the puppet emperor Liu Ying, fell ill when he saw "Ren Yan" and died before the age of twenty-five.
After that, Lü Hou's desire for power became more and more inflated, and he even vainly wanted to use Lü to replace Liu and seize the great jiangshan, and her dictatorship was also unpopular because it was too violent, which caused dissatisfaction among the courtiers, and the descendants of the Liu family and a group of elderly ministers launched a mutiny, and the Lü clan's party had heavy troops but was vulnerable, and Lü Hou, who was full of blood, died in fright.