That being said, if we mention Princess Wencheng, I believe that no one does not know. Because, he is a well-known historical figure, a queen of the Tibetan kingdom. However, as a Tang Dynasty person, how could she become the queen of the Tubo kingdom? Let's go and investigate together.
First, let's take a look at the basic profile of Princess Wencheng. She was born in 625 AD, the daughter of a Tang dynasty royal family, of Han ethnicity, and was personally named Princess Wencheng by Tang Taizong Li Shimin in the fourteenth year of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan. Then, in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, in order to appease the mood of the Tubo Kingdom, the Tang Emperor Li Shimin asked Princess Wencheng to marry Tubo, and from then on, she became the queen of Tubo Zampu Songzan Gampo.
Of course, it is a pity for us that after she married, she only lived with King Songtsen Gampo of the Tibetan kingdom for nine years, and King Songtsen Gampo died. Then she lived alone for thirty-one years. In addition, Princess Wencheng and Songzan Gampo do not have children of their own, so in fact, for Princess Wencheng, it is also a tragedy of life.
Of course, although Songtsen Gampo and she did not have a common child, during the period when the two of them lived together, the relationship was very harmonious, so it brought prosperity and stability to the frontier to the Tang Dynasty at that time. According to relevant historical records, Songtsen Gampo married a total of eight beautiful girls in his lifetime. Among them, the famous one is "five", but Princess Wencheng is the favorite of Songtsen Gampo. Maybe everyone likes cultural people, princess Wencheng's advantage is that she has more culture than Other wives in Songtsen Gampo.
Moreover, during the period when Princess Wencheng was sitting in the Tubo Kingdom, she helped the scribes of the Tubo Kingdom to sort out a large number of documents and record many important conversations between Songzan Gampo and the ministers, so that the Tubo Kingdom, a primitive tribal kingdom, realized the "carp jumping dragon gate" in a time, walked out of the primitiveness, and went towards regularization.
At the same time, because Songzan Gampo, after marrying Princess Wencheng, under the influence of the princess, he also particularly liked Chinese culture, so he also sent many sons of tubo nobles to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an to study, and asked the Tang Dynasty to give silkworm seeds, as well as craftsmen who made wine, mills, paper and ink. Since then, in the long history of about 200 years, the two countries have not had any war and have maintained brotherly friendship.
However, such a strange woman, in the absence of a husband and no children, god did not have more care, when the light reached her fifty-five years old, she died early. It was in the winter of her 55-year-old year that she suddenly fell ill with "smallpox" and then died in grief. After her death, the Tubo Dynasty held a solemn funeral for her, and the Tang Emperor also sent envoys to Tubo to attend her funeral.
In short, why did Princess Wencheng marry Tubo? Originally, it was to maintain the peaceful relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetan state. (Lv Haifeng)