One of the "Four Beauties" of ancient times, the mink cicada, appeared in the three kingdoms period of history, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms described her as being able to sing and dance, virtue and art. For her appearance and dance posture, she is more literate: "Red teeth destroy Yan Fei busy, a row of clouds to the painting hall." Mei Dai contributed to the hatred of the wanderer, and the face was first cut off from the intestines of the deceased. Yu Qian does not buy a thousand gold smile, willow belt why need a hundred treasure makeup. The curtain of the dance was secretly watched, and I did not know who was the King of Chuxiang. According to legend, the appearance of the mink cicada is known as the "closed moon"; her boldness, as contained in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is no less than that of Zhaojun and Xishi.
Is it just that the historical sable cicada is really as Mr. Luo Guanzhong described? The historical records do not clearly record that the true identity of the beauty who poured out many heroes and heroines is still inconclusive; but we can find out in scattered information why she can only be ranked third of the "four beauties".
Explanation 1: The mink cicada is a song in Wang Yun's family
Wang Yun was the situ of the Han Emperor Xian, and because he was dissatisfied with the Taishi Dong Zhuo's stubbornness, he wanted to get rid of it, but he had no good strategy and had no heart for tea and dinner all day. He regarded the prostitute cicada as his daughter peeping into the reason, saying that "if there is a useful concubine, it will not be resigned." Therefore, Wang Kang carefully designed a "serial beauty plan", first promising the mink cicada to Dong Zhuo's righteous son Lü Bu, and before he could marry, he offered it to the taishi Dong Zhuo, provoking a contradiction between Dong and Lü. The marten cicada understood Wang Yun's intentions, and for a moment in front of Lü Bu, he pretended to be an infatuated lover who had already promised his heart but was occupied by Dong Zhuo, and the next moment he pretended to be an innocent person who was flirted with by Lü Bu in front of Dong Zhuo, making Dong and Lü hate each other to the bone, and finally Lü Bu did Dong Zhuo and destroyed his three tribes. The excellent performance of the mink cicada made Wang Yun's plan implemented seamlessly, and smoothly eradicated a major scourge in the DPRK at that time, and posterity sighed: "Situ Miao calculated the red dress, not for Ge and not for soldiers." The three battles of the tiger prison are laborious, but the triumphant song plays the Fengyi Pavilion. ”
Theory 2: The mink cicada is "Dong Zhuo's maid"
According to the "Later Han Shu Lü Bu Biography", Dong Zhuo appointed Lü Bu as a knight lieutenant, and he loved Xinzhi very much, and the two swore an oath as father and son. Once, Lü Bu was not as good as Dong Zhuo's intentions because of small things, and Dong Zhuo threw a halberd at Lü Bu in anger, fortunately Lü Bu had to avoid it with his hands and feet, and from then on Lü Bu secretly resented Dong Zhuo. Later, Dong Zhuo sent Lü Bu to guard the middle (a small door in the palace), which was a trust in him, but Lü Bu took the opportunity to have an affair with the maid, and the two were in love, but they were afraid that Dong Zhuo would see through, which gave rise to many contradictions. Because this record coincides with the plot of the three kingdoms story in which the mink cicada Jo Lü Bu meets at the Fengyi Pavilion, Dong Zhuoming paints like a thorn Lü Bu, and it is believed that the mink cicada that makes Dong and Lü rebel is actually Dong Zhuo's maid.
Theory 3: Sable Cicada is the wife of Lü Bu's general Qin Yilu
(Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu Biography) Notes from the Book of Shu that Cao Cao and Liu Bei besieged Lü Bu in Xia Pi, and Guan Yu asked Cao Cao that Lü Bu sent his troops to ask Qin Yilu for help, and after the city was destroyed, please give Qin's wife to me. Cao Cao agreed. Later, Guan Yu mentioned this matter many times, which made Cao Cao curious: Was Qin Yilu's wife a beautiful person? Therefore, on the day of the city's destruction, he sent someone to send Qin's wife to his tent first, and then he "left himself behind", so Guan Yu was "uneasy". On this basis, the Yuan Dynasty miscellaneous drama will attach a story of "Guan Gongyue Under the Moon to Cut the Sable Cicada", saying that Cao Cao wants to confuse Guan Yu with beauty and make him work for himself, and sends the mink cicada to lure. The mink cicada used a thousand kinds of tenderness and teasing, guan Yu was unmoved, and finally killed the mink cicada to show his heart. Here, the mink cicada and Qin Yilu's wife became one.
In addition, Hui opera, Sichuan opera, Shao opera, and Peking opera all have "Chopping Sable" repertoire, writing that after Lü Bu died in the Baimen Building, his concubine Sable Cicada was captured by Zhang Fei and sent to Guan Yu. Guan Yu loves pity very much, but remembering that the ancient and modern hero Hao Jie is often discredited for his infatuation with women, he forces the mink cicada to kill himself. Therefore, there is also "the sable cicada is said to be Lü Bu's wife". If the marten cicada became Lü Bu's wife (or concubine) after Lü Bu killed Dong Zhuo, then this theory does not contradict the first and second theories, and some people believe that this theory cannot be self-contained.
In short, the story of the mink cicada is either out of the novel or out of the opera, and the rendering and interpretation of her by the literati makes it more and more difficult for her to examine. Although the mink cicada has the courage to eradicate Dong Zhuodang's meritorious service, but because of his scheming, he has been criticized for his disdain, and it is difficult to say whether it is for the country and the people or a trick to play with people's hearts, and various factors to reconcile the mink cicada can only be ranked third among the "four beautiful women". The story is always a story, more or less related to historical facts, true or false, more difficult to distinguish, so that what kind of a person the historical mink cicada is, and what her true purpose is, has finally become a difficult unsolvable case.