Author: Guan Ruyi
There are only two kinds of women who can leave their names in the annals of history. One is the fragrance that flows through the ages after death, and the other is the smell of ten thousand years after death.
Most of the women who can leave their names in the annals of history are related to Jiangshan. Either a dynasty was propped up or a dynasty was overthrown.
Among the "Qin Huai Eight Yan", there is a prostitute, Chen Yuanyuan. A woman, in her lifetime, passed through four dynasties, and finally stayed in the forest, returning to seclusion and old age.
Chen Yuanyuan was not surnamed Chen, but was originally surnamed Xing. When she was young, Chen Yuanyuan's life was desolate, and after her mother's death, she was taken over by her aunt to raise her and changed her name to Chen Yuanyuan, which was her uncle's surname, not her father's surname.
My uncle was just a street vendor who sold the beautiful Chen Yuanyuan to Suzhou Pear Garden during a very difficult new year.
Chen Yuanyuan initially performed as a play, and because of the gentle tune, he gradually broke through the fame in Suzhou. It became a popular role at that time, and even Chen Yuanyuan's opera was hard to find.
However, in that era of strict hierarchy, the drama was the lowest status, in the eyes of the magnate, it was just a plaything that could be sold for a price, and as the most expensive plaything, Chen Yuanyuan came to redeem himself after becoming more and more famous.
Chen Yuanyuan's first appearance was a rich second generation. The second generation of the rich used a large amount of silver money to redeem Chen Yuanyuan, and even wanted to marry Chen Yuanyuan as a wife, refusing to wrongfully make Chen Yuanyuan a concubine.
However, in the world of feudal etiquette, it was simply impossible to marry a drama, and the second generation of the rich had no choice but to send Chen Yuanyuan back to the house.
Chen Yuanyuan, who returned to Suzhou again, returned to The Pear Garden to sing songs in order to make a living.
If the first time was involuntarily, then the second time was to send yourself into the fire pit.
Chen Yuanyuan began to succumb to Qian Quan until he encountered the Major General who ventured to break through the frontier. He once again redeemed chen Yuanyuan and agreed to wait until he went to the battlefield to save his father successfully, and then returned to Jiangnan to become a relative.
Chen Yuanyuan, who had once again left the fire pit, had been waiting to break through the frontier, but there was no news. Until he was taken captive because of his beauty.
The person who stole Chen Yuanyuan was surnamed Tian, and his daughter was a concubine of the Chongzhen Emperor who died early at that time, and he was still a state abbot. When he abducted Chen Yuanyuan, he valued Chen Yuanyuan's beauty and wanted to send Chen Yuanyuan to the harem. Seek profit.
From Jiangnan to the capital, Chongzhen saw Chen Yuanyuan, and although he felt Chen Yuanyuan's beauty, he did not leave Chen Yuanyuan by his side, but returned it to Tian Guozhang.
Chen Yuanyuan once again returned to Jiangnan from the capital, and Tian Guozhang always wanted to make good use of Chen Yuanyuan's beauty until the appearance of Wu Sangui.
Tian Guozhang invited Wu Sangui to the house to drink, and during the banquet Chen Yuanyuan sang a song to help him, and Wu Sangui fell in love with Chen Yuanyuan at first sight. Tian Guozhang pushed the boat along the water and gave Chen Yuanyuan to Wu Sangui.
Chen Yuanyuan has been in the dust for many years, and has always wanted to find someone who can be entrusted for life, so that she can no longer be torn between men. And Wu Sangui held a heavy army, and fell in love with Chen Yuanyuan at first sight, he could have aged forever, but he didn't want to, this was the beginning of Chen Yuanyuan's upheaval and displacement.
After Chen Yuanyuan followed Wu Sangui back to the palace, Wu Sangui led the army for many years, and Chen Yuanyuan stayed in the palace. Until Chongzhen hanged himself, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, brought troops into the capital and ascended the throne as the Emperor of Dashun.
Li Zifu wanted to use Wu Sangui's family to blackmail Wu Sangui into submission, but he took a look at Chen Yuanyuan, who was staying at home, and forcibly included Chen Yuanyuan in the harem.
Wu Sangui had originally decided to submit to Li Zicheng, but after knowing that Chen Yuanyuan had been forcibly occupied, he was furious and opened the Shanhaiguan pass and released the Qing soldiers into the customs.
Saying that it is a traitor to the country and seeking glory is actually only because of saving Chen Yuanyuan.
At this time, Wu Sangui rescued Chen Yuanyuan and returned to Yunnan with Chen Yuanyuan. The anti-Qing plot began. This tug-of-war lasted for five years. In five years, the kings of various domains surrendered to the Qing court, and only Wu Sangui was still insisting. And ascended the throne in Hengzhou as emperor, the national name of the great Zhou.
After that, Wu Sangui began to linger on the sickbed, and died of illness shortly after.
After Wu Sangui's death, the Qing army went south to prepare to destroy Wu Sangui's comrades, at this time Chen Yuanyuan, under the leadership of his courtiers, took some of Wu Sangui's descendants away to avoid disaster. He hid in a geographically isolated forest until thousands of years later.
The ultimate destination of this superb beauty is not Wu Sangui, who bore the jiangshan for him, but the remote forest of Guizhou.
Chen Yuanyuan lived her life, experienced four dynastic changes, and the three emperors all had pillows and intimate with her, but in the end, it was still Chen Yuanyuan who grew old alone.
Perhaps, from returning to the pear garden again to sell art and sell himself, Chen Yuanyuan began to be involuntary for the rest of his life. Mixed with pain and helplessness.
It is said that it is because of Chen Yuanyuan that the Han Dynasty will collapse, but why is Chen Yuanyuan not a victim?
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