What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The four great beauties of ancient China, Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Mink Cicada, and Yang Guifei, are known as "sinking fish", "falling geese", "closed moon", "shy flowers", although several sisters have long been gone in the jianghu, but there are still legends of sisters on the rivers and lakes, and various stories related to their prosperous beauty are in the folk car.
However, one of the four is a fictional character, and there is no one in history, so let's take a look at them one by one.
Xi Shi was a Yue chinese from the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the "History of the Yue Wang Sentence Practice Family" mentions that "the son taught the widow to cut down the Wu Seven Techniques", one of the "Seven Arts" is to sacrifice beautiful women, and the "Wu Yue Chunqiu" is the "Nine Arts", which explicitly mentions Xi Shiqi. In addition, historical books such as "Yue Zhi Shu" and "Mencius Leaving Lou Xia" also prove the existence of Xi Shi.
Wang Zhaojun was a man of the Han Yuan Emperor period, and it is recorded in the Book of Han that Emperor Han Yuan, in order to cope with the evil Shan Yu of Han, chose Wang Zhaojun from the harem to marry him. In addition, the Book of later Han also records the historical materials of Wang Zhaojun. Wang Zhaojun also left poems to pass on to the world. In history, Wang Zhaojun did have his own people.
Yang Guifei was a concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and her deeds were clearly recorded in the Book of Later Tang, and even great poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi wrote poems for him. There is no doubt in history that there is a person like Yang Guifei, who is ironclad.
The remaining mink cicada is the only fictional character among the four beauties. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty and other letters are not seen, and the Song and Yuan Dynasties only appeared in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms before. The zhengshi mentions that Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo's maids are connected, and there is nothing else to say about this sentence. Luo Guanzhong thus opened his mind and created the character of the mink cicada, describing the plots of the mink cicada", "worshiping the moon", "serial counting" and "Fengyi Pavilion". Luo Laoxian lives in today's life, must be a master screenwriter, know how to arrange the private affairs of men and women to spice up the plot.
