In ancient times, it was common for husbands to take concubines, but there were also couples with very good feelings, or the lady of the main house was too powerful, and if the husband wanted to take a concubine, he must consider the feelings of the lady of the house. Today we tell this story, that is, Mrs. Zhengfang is too powerful, the tigress type, knowing that her husband has an outer room, she directly carries a knife to the door, but what exactly did she see that made her change her mind immediately?
The husband in the story is named Huan Wen, a politician and military figure in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the early years, Huan Wen destroyed the Chenghan regime in one fell swoop because he went up the river, making him famous in one fell swoop, and was highly used by the Jin Ming Emperor, and then led the Northern Expedition three times, making great achievements, becoming a powerful minister in the middle of the dynasty, and being able to influence the emperor's last wishes. The reason why Huan Wen has so much power is that he has a lot to do with his wife.
After Huan Wen came to prominence, the emperor betrothed his daughter Sima Xingnan, the Princess of Nankang, to him, and Huan Wen was promoted from a military general to a pawn horse, which greatly helped him in his career. However, Sima Xingnan has been favored by his parents since he was a child, and like her name, he is not as gentle and virtuous as most women, but there are more boys, and his temper is very grumpy, huan Wen does not dare to easily anger his daughter-in-law, let alone take concubines, and must be approved by the princess.
However, Huan Wen had been fighting outside for many years, no one was staring at him, after once pacifying shu land, the Chenghan Emperor raised the white flag and surrendered, and when Huan Wen accepted the surrender, he glimpsed a girl with a good face, and when he inquired, he knew that the girl was the daughter of the Han Cheng Emperor, and Huan Wen, who was confused by the beauty, obviously forgot the lady of the family, and the daughter of the Nahan Cheng Emperor became a concubine. When Banshi returned to the dynasty, Huan Wen felt that his head was big, so he temporarily placed the concubine outside the city.
If people don't know, unless they don't do anything, Huan Wen hid a beautiful woman, and soon sima Xingnan knew about it. She had never been wronged, took a large knife, and took dozens of subordinates to the courtyard where the concubines lived outside the city. When Sima Xingnan pushed open the gate of the courtyard, it happened that the concubine was dressing up, the smooth black hair like a waterfall was hanging down, a pair of big eyes were miserable, such a beautiful girl, let Sima Xingnan immediately put down the knife.
And the concubine is not a simple character, she is originally a princess of the subjugated country, for her to live without dignity until now, it is already a humiliation, simply said to the grand lady: "If you kill me, it will make me free." Sima Xingnan looked at her tearful eyes and Chu Chu's pitiful eyes, and the anger she had just felt disappeared, so she hurriedly threw the knife in her hand on the ground, hugged the concubine, and said: "I see pity, not to mention the old slave." "That is to say, she is very sad when a woman looks at this girl, not to mention the boss of her own family."
I didn't expect that Sima Xingnan and this little concubine could get along peacefully, and the relationship between the two was also like a sister, which was probably what Huan Wen didn't expect.
Therefore, although Sima Xingnan looks fierce and does not have the gentle appearance that a woman should have, he is still a woman or a soft-hearted person. And such a poor woman as a concubine must have been more popular in ancient times, which could arouse men's desire to protect. I see that the idiom of yu pity is also derived from this allusion to Sima Xingnan and concubines, and now this word is mainly used to describe girls as beautiful and cute, which makes people fall in love at first sight.