From 220 to 280 AD, Cao Zhi, the son of the famous military, warrior, and literary scholar Cao Cao, wrote the world-famous "Luoshen Endowment", describing Luoshen in extremely flowery terms, "its shape is also like a frightening hong, and it is like a dragon,... Forced to look at it, scorching the green waves..." His literary style is ethereal, his imagination is rich, and the whole article shows Cao Zhi's sincere and warm love for the fantasy goddess Roselle, but this roselle goddess is not imagined out of thin air, her prototype in history is - Zhen Mi, the daughter of Zhen Yi of Shangcai Ling, known in history as Lady Zhen, is a famous goddess of the Three Kingdoms period.
Although Zhen Mi was outstanding in appearance, but her fate was very bumpy, when she was three years old, her father died, in the middle of the Jian'an Dynasty, the general Yuan Shaoxiang took her appearance and gave her to his second son Yuan Xina as a wife, later, Yuan Xi went to Youzhou to serve as an assassin, Zhen Mi stayed in Jizhou, in 204 AD, Cao Cao led an army of one million to capture Yicheng, and took a fancy to the beautiful Zhen Mi, and later Zhen Mi was taken as a concubine by Cao Pi and gave birth to a pair of children, the son was the later Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui, the daughter was the Princess of Dongxiang, but the good times were not long. Zhen soon fell out of favor for various reasons, and was finally killed by Cao Pi and buried in Yecheng.
Throughout Zhen Mi's life, success and failure are caused by her beauty, excellent appearance allows her to always be in the upper class, in the war and chaos of the war, food and clothing, to maintain a life of gold and jade food, whether it is Yuan Shao, or Cao Pi, are famous and powerful rulers in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, living with them will not be bad, but she is still like a bird imprisoned in the rich and noble royal power, what she does can not be controlled by herself. After the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was defeated, Cao Cao and Cao Pi broke into Yuan's mansion, and when they saw an old woman in her forties and a young and beautiful woman hugging and crying, Cao Pi was attracted by the woman's beautiful long hair and graceful posture and asked them who they were.
The old lady said that she was Yuan Shao's wife Liu Shi, the young woman's name was Zhen Mi, it was the inner chamber of the second prince Yuan Xi, Cao Pi let Zhen Mi raise her head, it was this eye, Cao Pi's heart beat faster, his heart was moved, Zhen Mi was really good-looking, and at that time Yuan Was in the midst of family destruction, Zhen Mi was dressed in white and pitiful, two bent willow leaf eyebrows gently rubbed, there was an indescribable coldness and sadness.
At this time, Cao Cao's younger son Cao Zhi also ran over to join in the fun, he was also attracted by this beautiful and poor woman, he felt pity, wanted to go forward to comfort, but saw that his brother Cao Pi had stepped forward to hug the trembling Zhen Mi, Zhen Mi seemed to be a little reluctant, but she had the right to choose, the women of that era were like duckweed, floating in the sea.
The fate of ancient women has never been decided by themselves, in this way, Zhen Mi changed from Yuan Xi's wife to Cao Pi's wife, it is reasonable to say that Zhen Mi is so beautiful, Cao Pi should cherish and spoil this beautiful, soft, virtuous and sensible wife, and Zhen Mi is indeed a model wife in Cao Pi's family, considerate of her in-laws, taking care of the concubines, not only giving birth to a pair of children for him, but also ruling the family well, after Cao Pi married Zhen, she drove away one of her former wives and concubines, Ren Shi, Zhen Mi felt that if ren drove away the other wives and concubines of the Ren clan, she might also blame her for being a pet, and she hoped that Cao Pi would consider this matter again. Cao Pi explained that it was not because of his exclusive favor, but because he and Ren shi had a disagreement and only resentment, although Cao Pi did not listen to Zhen Mi's advice in the end, but he began to appreciate this well-thought-out wife in his heart.
Speaking of Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi has also been secretly in love with Zhen Mi, he later married the niece of Cui Yan of Hebei under the auspices of Cao Cao, the two people have a good relationship and respect each other, but Zhen Mi is always the white moonlight in Cao Zhi's heart, Cao Zhi has always missed Zhen Mi in his heart, he often lies in bed and can't sleep, closes his eyes, and all in his mind is Zhen Mi's beautiful and moving figure. However, he also clearly knew that Zhen Mi was no longer the original Zhen Mi, she was not Yuan Xi's wife, but his sister-in-law, he could no longer possess Zhen Mi, he and Zhen Mi had no possibility, later, Cao Zhi missed Zhen very much in his heart, this depressed atmosphere had nowhere to go, he borrowed wine all day to pour sorrow, words and deeds were also unruly, often drunk and broke the rules, making Cao Cao very angry.
Time flies, the years pass, even if the beauty is still a beauty, but it is from the ancient emperor Bo affection, in Cao Pi called the empress, Guangna harem, all kinds of beauties compete for beauty, Cao Pi will give favor to other beauties, increasingly snubbed Zhen Mi, soon, Cao Pi's new pet concubine said that Zhen Mi buried puppets to curse Cao Pi, Zhen Mi is innocent, but Cao Pi did not have a trace of love for Zhen Mi at that time, he was very fond of the pet concubine who slandered Zhen Mi, and he pushed the boat along the water to kill the innocent and clean Zhen Mi, Zhen Mi ended her short and unselected life with a white silk, and did not cry before she died, but said her last words to Cao Pi lightly: If there is a next life, I do not want to meet you again. In the year of Zhen Mi's death, Cao Zhi went to see Cao Pi, at noon Cao Rui and Cao Zhi had lunch together, Cao Zhi looked at his nephew, his heart was even more painful, remembering the dead Zhen Mi, after eating, Cao Pi handed over a part of Zhen Mi's relics to Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi looked at Zhen Mi's relics, all kinds of thoughts in his heart, there were regrets and regrets and thoughts, if he had worked harder, would Zhen Mi not have died in the woman's trap? So when he went home and passed through Luoshui, he seemed to see Zhen Mi, who had passed away. After that, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi were not compatible, and snubbed Cao Zhi politically, he understood that his career path had no way out, so he immersed himself in writings and achieved quite high literary achievements, Xie Lingyun praised him, the talent of writing articles in the world has a stone weight, Cao Zijian can get eight buckets, Xie Lingyun himself occupies a bucket, from ancient times other people have a total of one fight, back to Yecheng, Cao Zhi is full of Zhen Mi, vigorous thoughts push him to write down a very literary, emotional "Sense zhen endowment", which was later changed by Cao Rui to "Sense Zhen Endowment". Roselle Endowment"
This is the origin of Cao Zhi's creation of "Roselle Endowment", we read this article at first, we will unconsciously think of a beauty in our minds, lamenting her outstanding appearance, but how many people understand her lonely and helpless life, in the ancient patriarchal society, outstanding beauty is not a kind of harm, if Zhen Mi is just an ordinary looking girl, maybe she died early in the war, but it is also possible to live the life of ordinary men and women weaving with wisdom, rather than wandering between various negative people, and finally dying with injustice.