Recently, with the discovery of the Tomb of Emperor Wen of Han, a mistake that has been circulating for nearly a thousand years has been corrected.
The imperial tomb, which is only buried with clay utensils, is really emotional, and even because it is too simple, it has been misunderstood for nearly a thousand years.
However, not far from the Baling Tomb, the Nanling Tomb has unearthed hundreds of gold and silver jewelry with exotic styles, as well as funerary items such as red-crowned cranes, roe deer, golden snub-nosed monkeys, etc. A large number of rare birds and animals make this mausoleum look like a royal garden, and its exquisite luxury completely covers the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han.
Such a huge contrast has attracted much attention from Empress Bo, the owner of Nanling.
As the birth mother of Emperor Wen of Han, what kind of legendary and colorful life did Empress Bo have?
Before Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne, Empress Bo was known as Bo Ji.
Her life was bumpy and lucky.
The "History of foreign relatives" records that Bo Ji was an illegitimate daughter, her father's surname was Bo, and she had an affair with Wei Guozong's chambermaid Wei Mi and gave birth to her.
After Qin destroyed the State of Wei, Wei Mi's life as the emperor of the State of Wei fell to the bottom, but at the time of the great chaos at the end of Qin, Wei Mi found a glimmer of hope.
She took a fancy to the anti-Qin forces among the descendants of the Six Kingdoms, and the prince Wei Bao became the king of Wei in this great chaos, and Wei Mi did not hesitate to send Miao Ling's daughter to Wei Bao's palace, hoping to make a comeback.
To this end, Wei Mi also specially found Xu Negative, a famous face-to-face master at that time, to calculate the fate of her daughter.
Xu Negative looked at Bo Ji's face and said, "When you are born into a son of heaven."
This sentence not only greatly invigorated Wei Mi's spirits, but also gave Wei Bao great encouragement.
At that time, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, everyone felt that their destiny belonged, if the woman in their harem was born of the Heavenly Son, wouldn't she also be the Destiny of the Heavenly Son?
Therefore, Wei Bao did not stop and defected from Liu Bang, first on his own, and then in turn to Xiang Yu, who was more powerful at that time.
In a duel between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, Wei Bao was captured by Liu Bang's army and turned to Liu Bang, and later Liu Bang's men were not accustomed to Wei Bao's capriciousness and killed him.
After Wei Bao was captured, Bo Ji was sent to the palace as a trophy for weaving.
Once, Liu Bang was occasionally interested, inspected the weaving workshop, and accidentally found Bo Ji, who was a bit colorful, so he ordered Bo Ji to be sent to his harem.
However, after being sent to the harem, Liu Bang immediately forgot about the matter and did not summon Bo Ji for more than a year.
I thought that there was a day to emerge, but I didn't expect that the hand of fate turned the clouds and rained, and once again made a joke with Bo Ji.
The prophecy of "being born the Son of Heaven" became a great irony and was rumored to be a joke.
By chance, Bo Ji's fate changed.
When Bo Ji was a child, she had two girlfriends, one was Lady Guan and the other was Zhao Zi'er, and the three of them had met "first and did not forget each other", and later, these two girlfriends were favored by Liu Bang.
Once, the two of them chatted together, talked about Bo Ji, and both laughed at Bo Ji's life.
Coincidentally, these private words were all inadvertently heard by Liu Bang, who inquired about Bo Ji's situation, and immediately felt compassion, and summoned Bo Ji that night.
Bo Ji, who had been snubbed for a long time, said to Liu Bang, who had summoned him for the first time, that last night I dreamed of a dragon coiled on my stomach.
Liu Bang said happily, This is a symbol of wealth, and I will fulfill you tonight.
Whether the story of "The Dragon Is Cross-legged" is true or false, outsiders do not know, but it is certain that as smart as Bo Ji, he will never miss any opportunity in his life.
Once pampered, Bo Ji became pregnant with a child and gave birth to Liu Heng, but she did not have a mother and a son, and since then, Liu Bang has never summoned her again.
In Liu Bang's later years, Lü Hou and Lady Qi fought extremely fiercely.
Their struggle went far beyond the scope of the harem's struggle for favors, involving the issue of imperial succession, and when the struggle was at its most intense, Lü Hou, who had always been tough and iron-fisted, was also afraid, and even knelt down to thank the minister to save her son.
In the end, Lü Hou invited Shangshan Sihao to win a great victory, and retained the position of crown prince of his son Liu Ying.
When Lü Hou and Lady Qi were in full swing, Bo Ji lowered herself to the dust and lived as a transparent person, she neither competed for favors nor stood in line, and lived in peace with her son.
After Liu Bang's death, all the women he favored during his lifetime, Lü Hou imprisoned them in Yongxiang and were not allowed to go out, and Lady Qi was made into a "human figure".
Only the unloved Bo Ji, Lü Hou even developed a feeling of pity for the disease, allowing her to follow her son to Daidi.
During the more than ten years that Lü Hou came to power, the kings surnamed Liu were mutilated, and Bo Ji and her son Liu Heng were willing to stay in the Qing Dynasty and avoid the shadow of the sword and light of the imperial court.
In the midst of the turbulent political struggle, Bo Ji can not be implicated and be alone, not so much that she is cautious and cautious, but that she can see the situation clearly and recognize her own situation.
Unlike Lady Qi, who is favored and does not have the merit and ability of Lü Hou, when there is no strength to compete with capital and others, it is the wisest choice to keep a low profile and be resourceful and retreat.
When she was discouraged, Empress Bo was pure in heart and had no quarrel with the world.
Standing at the peak of power, she will not hesitate to control the overall situation.
After Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne, Bo Ji was honored as the empress dowager and became the most powerful woman in the harem.
During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han, Zhou Bo was sent to prison because he was reported for rebellion, and he asked Emperor Wendi of Han's uncle Bo Zhao for help.
After Bo Zhao heard about it, he quickly entered the palace to intercede with Empress Bo, and Empress Bo also felt that Emperor Wen of Han had done this improperly.
The next day, when Emperor Wen of Han saw Empress Bo, Empress Bo angrily took off her turban and smashed it at Emperor Wen of Han.
And angrily rebuked him: "You don't want to think about it, Zhou Bo took the emperor's rune to the Northern Army camp to seize Lü Lu's military power, how much power did he have at that time, at that time he did not rebel, now he lives in a small county, but he wants to rebel, where in the world is there such a reason?" ”
Emperor Wen of Han was very angry when he saw his mother, and hurriedly explained that I had just read the interrogation record, knew that he was innocent, and was planning to release him.
Therefore, he quickly sent someone to release Zhou Bo in prison and restored his title and title.
Empress Bo's righteous rescue of Zhou Bo became a good story that was praised for a while.
Once, the crown prince Liu Qi and his younger brother Liu Wu the Prince of Liang rode into the court together and walked to Sima Men, but neither of them got out of the car.
The bus order guarding Sima Men resolutely prevented the two from entering the palace and wrote a letter impeaching them for committing great disrespect.
Sima Men is the outer gate to enter the imperial palace, and entering the Sima Gate is to enter the inner part of the imperial palace.
According to the etiquette system, hundreds of officials entering Sima Men had to get off their horses and get off the train and enter on foot.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zhi fell out of favor with Cao Cao because he broke into Sima Men without permission.
Liu Qi and his brother were turned away, and even Empress Bo, who lived in the inner palace, heard about it, and when she inquired about it, Emperor Wen of Han apologized to Empress Bo for taking off her hat and saying that she had no way to teach her son.
In the end, Empress Bo personally issued an edict to pardon the crown prince and the king of Liang, and the two were allowed to enter the palace.
It is not that they do not ask about the world, have no desires and no needs, but they can clear their own situation.
When there is no ability, know how to hide, and when the strength is strong, also shoot in time.
In her later years, Empress Bo, in order to consolidate the family's position of power.
A woman was selected from among the juniors of the same clan to marry the crown prince Liu Qi, but Liu Qi did not like this woman with the surname of Bo, and not long after Empress Bo's death, she was deposed as empress.
At this time, Empress Bo is no longer the Bo Ji who had no sense of existence at that time, and at the critical moment, she will also show the majesty of her own empress dowager.
Throughout her life, Empress Bo has always had a clear and rational understanding of her situation, and she should be patient when she is patient, and tough when she should be tough.
Only by recognizing the reality and setting the right position can we better control the direction of life.
Some people say that Empress Bo is an invisible hero of wenjing's rule.
This sentence is not exaggerated at all, Emperor Wen of Han is wise and benevolent, and becoming a generation of Ming emperors is inseparable from the teachings of Empress Bo, and even after Emperor Wen of Han became emperor, Empress Bo continued to maintain her influence.
Leaving aside the impact on the court, Empress Bo was also a successful mother.
Empress Bo was ill for three years, and Emperor Wen of Han did not pay attention to his eyes, serving day and night.
Emperor Wen of Han was frugal to himself, but he never treated Empress Bo badly, both before and after his death, the tombs of Baling were ordinary and unremarkable, while the tombs of Nanling were precious and luxurious.
Even, Emperor Wen of Han did not want to be wronged by Empress Bo to be buried in the ancestral tomb as a concubine, so he left the ancestral tomb area with Empress Bo and buried it elsewhere.
Later generations also highly respected Empress Bo, and after Liu Xiu succeeded to the throne, he was very disgusted with Empress Lü and felt that only Empress Bo was qualified to be with Liu Bang, so he drove Empress Lü out and honored Empress Bo as Empress Gao.
Fate had dealt a merciless blow to Empress Bo, but she finally relied on her clear wisdom to flow through the dangerous shoals and reefs in her life and laughed to the end.
For the rest of your life, may you judge the situation, maintain a clear understanding, and take your own life path.
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