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Ancient society is a veritable patriarchal society, women's status in both the family and society is very low, in the homes of ordinary people, the official aristocratic class is no exception, male superiority and female inferiority is the law of social operation. Girls born in the upper echelons of society, although they can live a superior material life, but most of their fate is also very miserable, especially in marriage, they have no autonomy, more often used as a chip for marriage, like a canary locked in a cage. Today we are going to talk about such a woman in the Northern Wei Dynasty, who was born noble, but the end was extremely miserable.
Her name was Erzhu Ying'e, and she was the daughter of Erzhu Rong, a powerful minister of northern Wei, and was born in such a family, and Erzhu Ying'e had a very happy and rich childhood. His father, Erzhu Rong, was a well-known courtier during the Northern Wei Dynasty, who fought in the southern conquests of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the chaotic times, and later continued to support the army and respect himself, and eventually fell in power in the Northern Wei court. Because the Erzhu family is a minority, Erzhu Ying'e grew up in Saiwai, with a lively and lovely personality, and lived a carefree life, until she became a girl who was very beautiful, and she began to talk about marriage. At that time, in order to win over the powerful minister Erzhu Rong, the Northern Wei imperial family proposed the idea of marrying the Erzhu family, and was able to climb the relationship with the imperial prince Guowei, and Erzhu Rong naturally could not ask for it, so when Erzhu Ying'e was a teenager, her father married her to emperor Ming Xiao of Northern Wei, and Erzhu Ying'e became a concubine of Emperor Ming Xiao.
However, if you want to divide Erzhu Ying'e's life into different stages, she has already overdrawn the happiest days of her life at that stage before marriage, and the second half of her life is full of suffering. Marrying the royal family is the beginning of Erzhu Ying'e's tragic life. Although her husband Emperor Mingxiao was emperor, everything was strictly monitored by her mother Empress Dowager Hu, even if she was in the same room with her concubine, so Erzhu Ying'e did not give birth to a man and a half-woman for five or six years after entering the palace, and lived in the repressed palace for a long time, and the once lively girl had gone away. Later, Emperor Mingxiao finally couldn't stand his mother's obscenity, and wrote a letter to his father-in-law Erzhu Rong, asking him to bring troops into the palace to annihilate Empress Hu's forces, but he didn't think it was too unlucky, the letter fell into the hands of Empress Hu before it was sent out, and the vicious woman actually ended her son's life with a cup of poisonous wine. After Emperor Ming's death, Empress Dowager Hu sent all his concubines to the temple, and Erzhu Ying'e was no exception.
At least in the monastery it was possible to live a life away from strife, but soon this calm became a luxury again. After his father Erzhu Rong learned of this incident, he led his soldiers into the imperial palace, directly threw the old empress into the river and drowned, and established Emperor Xiao's nephew Yuan Ziyou as the new emperor, that is, the historical Emperor Xiaozhuang. In order to further win over the new emperor, Erzhu Rong took her daughter back from the temple and married her to Emperor Xiaozhuang as empress, so Erzhu Ying'e had a second husband under her father's arrangement. However, the suffering was far from over, and later Emperor Xiaozhuang was very unwilling to be a puppet emperor under the power of the subordinates, and in the third year after marriage, he took advantage of his wife's birth opportunity to lead the army to kill his father-in-law Erzhu Rong. However, the power of the Erzhu family still existed, and less than three months later, Erzhu Rong's nephew Erzhu Zhao, with his troops, broke into the palace and killed Emperor Xiaozhuang, and threw the newborn baby to death, and Erzhu Ying'e was also imprisoned, and in a short period of time, the woman lost her father, husband and son at the same time.
Later, Gao Huan, a powerful vassal of the Erzhu family, defeated the Erzhu family and became the new emperor, and Erzhu Ying'e became Gao Huan's concubine, and later gave Gao Huan two sons. After Gao Huan's death, his son Gao Yang succeeded him as emperor, after a drunken, the Gao Yang tried to invade his stepmother, but was rejected by Erzhu Ying'e, and in a rage, Gao Yang beheaded him, so that the complex plot finally came to an end, Erzhu Ying'e's life of suffering was finally over, and her life was just a portrayal of the tragic fate of many noble women in ancient times.