"Beauty of the Heart" allows us to see the love between Liu Heng, the Emperor of HanWen, and Dou Yifang, the empress dowager of the Dou Dynasty, and the two are stronger than Jin, and they have worked together to overcome difficulties. Liu Heng also had complete trust in Dou Yifang from the initial suspicion to the later, and did not change his heart to Dou Yifang because he later became emperor.
The appearance of Shen'er in the play has become the biggest stumbling block for Liu Heng and Dou Yifang to be able to live with Hemeimei, and even killed the snow kite. The same character also makes people have a little pity, her original life can not be like this, her parents saved Dou Yifang's mother and daughter, but died because of it, Dou Yifang's uncle threw Shen'er on the street, she was taken away by a "mother" and entered the Qinglou.
In the past, I grew up in the environment of the Qinglou, and saw that the good sisters of the past were now rich and prosperous, status, and pampered, but they were still like Drifting Ping, and Shen'er's blackening was certain.
In this drama, Shen Er's viciousness has penetrated the hearts of the people, and the true love between Liu Heng and Dou Yifang has also penetrated the hearts of the people, but is history really like this?
In "Beauty and the Heart", Shen'er took advantage of the contradiction between Dou Yifang and Liu Heng after Dou Yifang was crowned empress to make herself Liu Heng's Lady Shen. She provoked dissension and framed, making the misunderstanding between Dou Yifang and Liu Heng deeper and deeper.
The time when Lady Shen gained favor in history was indeed the time when Empress Dou fell out of favor, when Liu Heng favored Lady Shen and Yin Ji and other beauties, of which Lady Shen was the most popular, and she could sit on an equal footing with Empress Dou in the palace.
The history books describe Mrs. Shen like this: she has beauty, can sing and dance, and is good at drumming.
Lady Shen was a native of Handan and was good at singing and dancing, and from the Warring States period in Handan, there were more beautiful dancers, who "drumming, stomping, wandering and rich, entering the harem, and wandering the princes". That is to say, most of these beautiful people who can sing and dance carefully cultivated since childhood will mostly wander around the powerful people of various countries when they grow up, or enter the palaces of the princes, or enter the harem of the Son of Heaven, be singers and dancers, and if they are fortunate enough to be favored by the Son of Heaven or the princes, they can get a position.
Lady Shen is such a woman, we do not know when she entered Liu Heng's harem, but her favor began with Empress Dou's fall of favor, and Empress Dou's fall of favor had nothing to do with Lady Shen, and there was not so much stolen frame-up.
It is not so much that Empress Dou fell out of favor, but rather that Empress Dou has never received special favors, and the kind of love in "Beauty and The Heart" is fake. The reason why Empress Dou made a mistake in the Daiguo is the same as in the play, but there is no difference in her life and status in the Daiguo, except that she has two more children than other beauties.
In the daiguo, if you have to say that you are favored, you should be favored by the dai princess Lü Shi, the relatives of Lü Yan. Dai Wang knew very well in his heart that these women were all eyeliner arranged by Lü Yan, so he was both wet and careful. For the Acting Princess Lü, it is held in the palm of her hand. No matter how much truth there is in it, as long as he thinks of Lü Hou, Liu Heng has to make a look that he has to make a very fond of Princess Lü.
Unfortunately, I don't know if it is really Lü Shifu Bo, liu Heng ascended the throne in the early days, the dai princess and the four little princes she gave birth to died one after another, and the eldest son became Liu Qi, who was born to Dou Yifang. After Liu Heng ascended the throne, he first made Liu Qi the crown prince, but he did not mention the matter of making Dou Yifang empress. In the end, Empress Bo appeared and said that the crown prince's mother should be made empress, and Liu Heng made Dou Yifang empress.
It can be seen that from the very beginning, Liu Heng's feelings for Empress Dou were weak, and later, Empress Dou was old and blind.
In this way, Liu Heng's thin affection for Empress Dou was only left with three children and one empress.
It was at this time that Mrs. Shen, who was younger and more beautiful and could sing and dance, appeared.
Even at this time, Liu Heng was not the only favorite Lady Shen, several beauties in the harem were favored, and Liu Heng also had a male favorite named Deng Tong, who was favored to give Deng Tong two copper mines, so that Deng Tong could freely mint coins.
It's just that for the women in the harem, Liu Heng is more favored by Lady Shen.
We all know that Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty was famous for his filial piety, Empress Bo was ill, Liu Heng did not understand the clothes, personally tasted the soup medicine, and served his mother until he got better. Moreover, during the succession period of Emperor Wen of Han, it was the time when the country was recuperating, and Emperor Wen of Han took the lead in practicing simplicity.
Lady Shen's cleverness lies in the fact that she is very filial to Empress Bo, so Empress Bo also likes her. On the other hand, he was also very obedient to Empress Dou. The three highest-ranking people in the palace could not find anything wrong in Lady Shen's behavior, not to mention that Liu Heng and Empress Bo still liked Lady Shen quite much.
Liu Heng took the lead in frugality, and Lady Shen never wore luxurious clothes and jewelry, "Fortunately, Mrs. Shen, so that the clothes must not be dragged to the ground, and the drapery must not be embroidered, so as to show the simplicity and be the first in the world."
However, the people in the palace have always been very good at watching people cook dishes. The palace people saw that Empress Dou had fallen out of favor, and Lady Shen was favored, and they all begged Lady Shen, and at every banquet in the palace, the seats of the two were arranged at the same height, so that Lady Shen and Empress Dou sat on an equal footing. And this move is still tacitly approved by Liu Heng.
Since Liu Heng acquiesced, Empress Bo was naturally not able to say anything, Empress Dou was already blind and out of favor at this time, and the opportunity to attend was not necessarily several times, and naturally did not dare to say anything more about this situation.
It was not until one time that Liu Heng took the palace concubines to the Forest Garden and held a banquet with some ministers, and the palace people once again placed the seats of Empress Dou and Lady Shen on the same level according to the custom.
At this time, a Zhonglang named Yuan Ang would see it and ask the palace people to place Lady Shen's seat in the lower seat. Lady Shen was furious on the spot, refused to enter the table, and left with her sleeves folded. Liu Heng was also furious and returned to the palace with Lady Shen, and the banquet was over.
It can be seen that Empress Dou's position was already very embarrassing, and Liu Heng openly disregarded the empress's face and left with his favorite concubine, leaving a blind empress in place. What kind of fear and humiliation Empress Dou had to bear at that time, as well as sympathy from others.
Fortunately, Lady Shen was still smart, and Yuan Ang immediately went into the palace to give Liu Heng the example of Lady Qi, and Lady Shen was also alert after hearing it, and also gave Yuan Ang fifty pounds of gold.
Lady Qi had a son, and her son was deeply loved by Liu Bang, and he still fell to the end of becoming an adult. Lady Shen had no heirs, and the crown prince was already full of wings, and was the next son of heaven in the hearts of the courtiers. Lady Shen was disrespectful to Empress Dou and would certainly not receive benefits in the future.
Lady Shen was able to gain the favor of emperor Wen of Han for so many years, not by beauty, but by wisdom and self-knowledge. She understood what was good for her, who could not afford to offend, and what she had to do in what position. Modesty and deference, and beauty and intelligence, is the reason why Emperor Wen of Han favored her.