What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In ancient Chinese history, comments on the Sui Emperor were controversial. Was the Sui Emperor a Ming Emperor or a Emperor Of The Sui Dynasty? This can be a debating proposition.
But let's leave this aside for the time being, let's talk about the Sui Emperor's favorite eldest daughter, Princess Nanyang.
Princess Nanyang is known in the history books as a fierce woman with "beautiful style and zhijie". Unlike the other extravagant and absurd daughters of the Sui Emperor, Princess Nanyang had the discipline of a martyr. But historically, Princess Nanyang, like her father, the Sui Emperor, was a controversial figure.
When the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, Princess Nanyang gave her son to Dou Jiande, the leader of the peasant rebel army, and let him kill him.
In order to compete for the position of crown prince, Yang Guang, who was then crowned the King of Jin, went out of his way to curry favor with his mother, the LoneLy Empress. The Dugu Empress was very disgusted with men taking concubines, and Yang Guang seized her mother's preferences. Although there were many concubines in their own house, none of the children they gave birth to were raised, and only their wives, Xiao Shi, could have children.
Princess Nanyang was the eldest daughter of Empress Xiao, and it is worth mentioning that Princess Nanyang was the only princess of all the daughters of the Sui Emperor to be passed on separately in the history books, and the only princess with a title.
The Sui Emperor was extremely fond of this daughter, and she could even accompany her father on a tour every moment. Compared with those daughters who were left in the palace by their fathers for many years, being able to accompany their parents, for Princess Nanyang, this was the greatest favor.
When Princess Nanyang came of age, she married Yuwen Shi, the second son of Duke Yuwen Shu of Xuguo. Although you are a princess, Princess Nanyang is very virtuous, and her relationship with Yuwen Shiji is also very good. The husband and wife respected each other and gave birth to a son named Yuwen ZenShi.
Princess Nanyang was supposed to spend this life happily with her husband and children, but in 618 AD, Yu Wenhua launched a mutiny and even killed the Sui Emperor. This Yuwen culture and no one else, it is Princess Nanyang's husband Yu Wenshi and his brother.
What an extremely dramatic scene, but it happened to Princess Nanyang. Left and right are pro, how should Princess Nanyang make a choice?
In a fit of grief, she broke off her relationship with Yuwen Shihe and vowed that the two would never see each other, but fate played a joke on her.
At that time, an important figure appeared, Dou Jiande, the leader of the peasant revolt in Hebei at the end of the Sui Dynasty. In the second year of Wu De, Yu Wenhua and the title of emperor, Dou Jiande was not satisfied with his behavior, holding up the banner of avenging the Sui Emperor, so the two sides went to war.
Yu Wenhua was defeated and the three tribes were exterminated, but speaking of which, Princess Nanyang's ten-year-old son Zen Master was also a member of Yuwen's family, and Dou Jiande was not an unreasonable person.
So he sent Wu Benlang to ask Princess Nanyang about Shi Cheng, "Yu culture and rebellion, which are not tolerated by the gods and men, will now destroy the clan." The son of the princess, Fadang sits down, and if he can't cut love, he can also not kill. Princess Nanyang resolutely replied, "Since Wu Ben is a noble courtier of the Sui Dynasty, why should I ask about this?" ”
In this way, Dou Jiande executed Princess Nanyang's son, Yuwen Zenshi.
Later, Princess Nanyang became a nun, and after the failure of Dou Jiande's mutiny, Princess Nanyang and Yu Wenshi met in Luoyang, at this time Yu Wenshi had become an official of the Tang Dynasty, and he wanted to reconcile with Princess Nanyang.
But Princess Nanyang resolutely refused, and even put down the harsh words: "If you want to die, then come in!" In this way, the scribes eventually left. And this fragment is the last deeds left by Princess Nanyang in the history books, no one knows how her old age was, probably will be lonely for a lifetime.
In ancient China, the deeds of Princess Nanyang made people pity and even more admirable. The Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty once enfeoffed Princess Nanyang as a Bodhisattva of Ciyou, expressing his admiration for her. Although Princess Nanyang is a woman, she has a stronger integrity than a man, which is enough for us to admire.
But ask yourself, she sent her own son to the end of the road, no doubt unworthy of being a mother.
Princess Nanyang was the most honorable and noble princess of the Sui Dynasty in this life, but all this was established under the premise of her son's sacrifice. Although this practice was quite fierce in the eyes of the ancients, and even Wei Zheng praised it, in the eyes of our modern people, it was really cruel.
Later generations also built a temple for her, named "Nanyang Princess Ancestral Hall", located in Cangyan Mountain in Jingxing County, Hebei Province. Fuqing Temple in the mountains is said to be the place where Princess Nanyang became a monk.