The romantic history of Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Yin Lihua's ancestor was Guan Zhong, why her surname was Yin

The romantic history of Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Yin Lihua's ancestor was Guan Zhong, why her surname was Yin

Yin Lihua was born noble, she is not only beautiful in appearance, but also has both moral integrity and talent, and has become a generation of virtuous queens

In the Book of later Han, "A eunuch should be a jinwu and a wife should be yin lihua", which means "to be an official is to be an official to be an official (an official defending the capital), and to marry a wife is to marry yin lihua." ”

Who is Yin Lihua? Wife of Emperor Liu Xiu. Yin Lihua's ancestor was Guan Zhong, the first overlord of the Duke Huan of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, and Guan Xiu, a descendant of the seventh generation, was named "Yin Dafu" because of his superb medical skills, and later took "Yin" as his surname. Yin Lihua is not only talented and virtuous, but also a wonderful person.

In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, and the soldiers were in chaos. Liu Xiu (January 15 BC – March 29, 57 CE) was born in Jiyang County,Chenliu County (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). There was a peasant rebel army in The Green Forest Mountain in Hubei Province, and Liu Xiu joined the Green Forest Army with the ambition to serve the country and wanted to eliminate Wang Mang and restore the Han Dynasty.

In 7 AD, the Green Forest Army grew and grew against the imperial court.

Liu Xiu, who is also a green forest army, is Liu Xiu's older brother, Liu Xiu's lieutenant "Yin Zhi", is Yin Lihua's brother, through the Yin Zhi Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua acquaintance, it is considered love at first sight, through the matchmaking between Liu Xiu and Yin Zhi, the marriage between the two was fixed.

In Nanyang, Liu Xiubing was widowed and uninformed, Liu Xiu rode an ox to kill the enemy, liu Xiu won a complete victory; Wang Mang wanted to suppress Liu Xiu's rebel army, and Liu Xiu united with the three green forest armies of Xinshi, Pinglin, and Xiajiang to break Wang Mang's army.

In September of the first year (23 AD), the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an, Wang Mang died in the melee, and the new dynasty collapsed. In the same year, Liu Xuan of the Green Forest Army proclaimed himself emperor at Qingyang (present-day Qinghe County, Hebei).

Liu Xuan was killed instead of the new emperor Liu Xuan, but instead his brother Liu Xiu returned to Wancheng and was given the title of Marquis of Wuxin, and soon formally married Yin Lihua.

Three months after their new marriage, Liu Xiu led an army to march out, and with his outstanding personal ability, he took several counties in Hebei and defeated Wang Lang's army in Shandong. In order to gain a firm foothold in Hebei, he co-opted Liu Yang, the former King of Zhending, and married Liu Yang's niece Guo Shengtong, who bore Liu Xiu a son, Liu Jiang, less than a year after marrying Yin Lihua in Wancheng.

In 25 AD (3rd year of the first year), Liu Xiu, with the support of the generals, took the throne as emperor at Qianqiu Pavilion (present-day northern Baixiang County, Hebei), with the era name "Han", known in history as the Western Han or Later Han, and Liu Xiu as the Guangwu Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Guangwu made Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong nobles, and a year later Liu Xiu wanted to make Yin Lihua empress, and she humbly gave in: "Guo Shengtong has a son, and she should be made empress." Thereafter, Guo Shengtong was made empress, and her son Liu Jiang was made crown prince.

20 years later, Liu Xiu unified Jiangshan, Guo Shengtong had no virtue, the harem was in turmoil, the empress was deposed, and Liu Jiang was deposed as the crown prince. Yin Lihua was crowned empress, and Yin Lihua was 42 years old that year.

Yin Lihua was diligent and frugal, kind and kind, and was respected and favored by Liu Xiu, becoming one of the famous empresses in history.

The history is long, and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, please forgive me.