Today's film and television works are keen to adapt historical celebrities to attract the attention of the audience, and in recent years, various "big female protagonists" have also begun to emerge in an endless stream. Many women in history have been changed to TV drama heroines, and although they are thousands of faces, they are inseparable from the same essence: kindness, intelligence, and purity. Even for controversial figures in history, screenwriters like to write about them as the embodiment of truth, goodness, and beauty.
But are these right women really so kind and innocent? There are three historical women who have been most successfully whitewashed by the adaptation, and will use their personal experiences to tell the audience that when the power is in the hands, only the fierce heart can keep their position.
Mi Yue
Sun Li starred in the "Biography of Mi Yue", which was a big fire when it was broadcast, and mi yue in the play was kind and innocent, deeply righteous for sisterhood, sincere and persistent in love, attracting Chun Shenjun, Yiqu Wang, and Qin Huiwen Wang to be obsessed with her. The historical facts of the main line in the play are too clear, but the character image of Mi Yue is too clear, and everything she does in the plot is forced and forced by the situation.
But the historical Empress Xuan was indeed a fierce woman, and she was not called Mi Yue, but only called her Mi Bazi in history. "Eight Sons" is the fifth concubine title in the harem of the Qin Kingdom, and there are also wives, good people, beauties, etc., which is really not a high position. After supporting her son to the throne, her desire for power exceeded everything, making King Qin Zhao a puppet emperor and herself bowing to the government.
In addition, Empress Xuan's love life is also a point of criticism, after she became empress dowager, she had a private affair with the Yiqu King who came to the court, had a second son, and later lured the defenseless Yiqu King into Qin in 272 BC, and then ruthlessly destroyed him and captured the Yiqu State in one fell swoop.
Lu Zhen
"The Legend of Lu Zhen" tells the story of Lu Zhenyi, a female official of Northern Qi, who sat on a high position with a small palace girl, and its prototype is Lu Lingxuan. Lu Zhen in the play is smart and tenacious, pure in heart, and has touched the heart of The Crown Prince with his wisdom and noble character. The plot is beautiful and inspirational, but lu Lingxuan in history is a woman who is uncompromisingly smoked by lust.
Lu Lingxuan was a member of the Xianbei clan, and after her husband was killed for rebellion, she was enslaved in the court and later became the adoptive mother of the empress dowager Gao Wei. Gao Wei had a deep affection for Lu Lingxuan, surpassing his birth mother, Empress Hu, so Lu Lingxuan used the emperor's feelings to fight with Empress Hu, and finally let Empress Hu end up in a seclusion for life.
Gao Wei's blind obedience to Lu Lingxuan made the power fall into her hands, and all major state affairs were decided by Lu Lingxuan and her henchmen. However, in order to strengthen himself, Lu Lingxuan constantly mutilated Zhongliang, causing Northern Qi to decline rapidly and eventually crumbling. In 576, when Northern Zhou attacked Northern Qi and the state was about to die, Lu Lingxuan saw that he was powerless to return to heaven and had to be forced to kill himself.
Princess Taiping
Whether it is the pure and innocent Princess Taiping in the girlhood or the beautiful and sad Taiping Princess in the adulthood, it is an indelible classic image in people's hearts. The taiping image in the plot has flesh and blood, has her own ideas about power, but at the same time maintains the kindness of her heart, and she only seizes power because of a misunderstanding with her mother Wu Zetian.
But the princess Taiping in history is far from such a simple woman. She herself "liked power", much like Wu Zetian's personality, and after Li Xian's restoration, Princess Taiping actively participated in political affairs and initially revealed her ambitions. After the death of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, she even joined forces with Li Longji to launch a coup d'état, and her henchmen spread all over the court and fell in power for a while.
After being killed by Li Longji for rebellion in 713, the wealth found in his princess mansion was piled up, comparable to the treasure house of the imperial palace, which showed that the Princess Taiping had accumulated a lot of wealth.
These three women are not simple characters, and kindness, innocence, pure kindness is not related, as for these TV series, it is enough to casually look at it in their leisure time, to understand the real historical data, or need to check it from many parties.