In the history books, we can see many prophecies, such as the famous "Hu Ye the Dead Qin" in the "History", "When there is a Li clan should be the son of heaven" in the Book of Sui, these prophecies are either inexplicably transmitted by the people, or the words of the alchemists, and the emperor of the dynasty also tried his best to prevent it, but in the end he did not directly see the prophecy come true.
But history is so interesting, there is really a person in history, not only said a prophecy, but also saw his own prophecy come true, presumably the literary friends who read the title will also know, this person is the last empress of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's daughter Cao Jie.
Although she is the daughter of the Cao family, she is also the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, she entered the palace at a young age, and soon became an empress, on the one hand, the husband's family, on the other hand, the father's family, how should she choose? When she saw her prophecy come true, she didn't know what kind of state of mind it would be.
The Cao family has a female name Cao Jie
Cao Jie's name is very strange, because she has the same name as her ancestors, Cao Cao's patriarchal grandfather is called Cao Teng, there are records that Cao Teng's father is called Cao Jie, not to mention ancient, even modern, and the same name as the direct ancestors within five generations is also very rude, Cao Cao can not not know,
Therefore, Sima Biao's "Book of Continuation of the Han Dynasty" records that Cao Teng's father's name Cao Meng should be more reliable.
Since Cao Teng is mentioned, it is also necessary to say here that there are wild rumors that Cao Cao's father Cao Song was originally surnamed Xiahou, and later recognized Cao Teng as his father before changing his surname, in fact, this can not be resisted at all, according to the mutual confirmation of many historical materials and existing archaeological findings, as well as genetic research results, it has been confirmed that Cao Song was originally surnamed Cao.
The author has quoted many historical materials (including the "Notes on the Water Classics" that record the historical sites of Cao Cao's hometown Pei County and cao's ancient tombstone inscription) to clarify this matter, and interested literary friends can take a look.
Xiao Cao Festival in film and television dramas
Empress Dowager Cao of Wei was also a daughter of Cao Cao. In the eighteenth year of Jian'an, he was appointed to the three female xian, Jie, and Huawei's wives, and hired 50,000 horses with bundles of xuan, and the younger ones stayed in the country. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Chronicle of the Empress
In the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213), Cao Cao sent his three daughters Cao Xian, Cao Jie, and Cao Hua to Emperor Liu Xie as concubines, and all three were made nobles, of which the younger ones stayed in Yecheng for their elders to enter the palace.
According to the marriage age of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the oldest of the three Cao women should be at least 15 years old.
and Guangwu Zhongxing, the carving is Park, the title of the Six Palaces, only the empress and the noble. The noble man's golden seal is purple, but he can't offer dozens of millets. He also placed the beauty, the palace people, the three women, etc., and did not have a knighthood rank, and the reward was only given when he was old. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Chronicle of the Empress
The rank of the concubines of the Eastern Han Dynasty was relatively simple, after emperor Guangwu took the throne, the Western Han Dynasty's Zhaoyi, Jieyu and other titles were abolished, at the beginning of the palace there were two ranks, empress and noble, and later added beauty, palace people and women, Liu Xie's birth mother Wang Shi was only a beauty when she gave birth, and the three Cao women were nobles as soon as they entered the palace, which was not low.
Cao Cao in the film and television drama
Many people are very curious, why did Cao Cao sacrifice three daughters to the emperor at one time, and one is not enough? The author has an idea here, welcome to discuss.
The author feels that at that time, Cao Cao did not want to usurp Han, or did not intend to usurp Liu Xie when he was alive, he hoped that after the three daughters entered the palace, they would give him a grandson with Cao blood as soon as possible, and if he could achieve reunification, he would change the dynasty, if he could not, there was a prince of Cao blood as emperor, and the descendants of Cao clan could also slowly figure it out.
Although the three Cao daughters had their backs to their fathers, after all, they were only concubines, and Empress Fu was still in good hands. However, with the revelation of Empress Fu's secret father's murder of Cao Cao, Cao Cao could not tolerate Empress Fu.
This queen is not good
In November, Cao Cao killed Empress Fu and exterminated her clan and the second prince.
In the spring of the twentieth year, on the first moon of the first month, the noble cao clan was made empress. Give the world a male knight, a human first-class, filial piety, and a second-level litian. The princes and princes have their own differences in the valleys below. —Book of the Later Han Dynasty
The Volta in the film and television drama
A year after Cao's three daughters entered the palace, Cao Cao killed Empress Fu and killed her two concubines as well, and in turn made her daughter Cao Jie empress. In fact, history can be deeply sought, why did Cao Cao sacrifice three daughters, but chose Cao Jie as empress? Compared to the other two sisters, what are the advantages of Cao Jie?
This is actually a more difficult problem, because the history books are not contained, and future generations can only speculate based on the clues in the history books, and may not be accurate, the author is not deeply educated, and has not found a record that Cao Jie was particularly loved by his father, but the author believes that Cao Jie was made empress by the following possibilities.
First, Cao Jie is a "middle girl".
Wen you who are familiar with ancient Chinese may have thought that "middle daughter" actually means "second daughter", and Cao Cao's eldest daughter married Xiahou Shu, the son of Xiahou Huan.
Even so, Cao Jie is the longest of Cao Cao's remaining daughters, so when it is established, it is natural to establish Cao Festival in the order of the eldest and youngest;
Second, Cao Jie is a "concubine".
It should be noted that "Cao Jie is the second daughter" is clearly recorded, but Cao Jie is a concubine is the author's speculation, because Lady Ding has no children, And Lady Bian only has a record of a son, and there is no record of having a daughter, but no record does not mean that Lady Bian really did not have a daughter. For example, the history books do not record that Emperor Zong of the Tang Dynasty originally had a daughter with Concubine Cui, but the epitaph of Princess Shengping clearly records that her mother was Concubine Cui.
If Cao Jie is a concubine, even if Cao Xian and Cao Hua are also concubines, don't forget that Cao Jie is Cao Cao's second daughter, the eldest sister is Shu Chu, and Cao Jie is the eldest daughter, which is even more time to establish Cao Jie.
However, before there are clear historical materials or archaeological findings to prove that Cao Jie was more favored by his father or a concubine,
The author believes that Cao Jiejie's canonization as empress is most likely because of the second order of the three sisters.
Although Cao Jie was crowned empress, the situation can be imagined, how did Liu Xie feel about the daughter of an enemy who killed his wife and concubine (Dong Guiren) and the crown prince?
It was also difficult to think that when Cao Jie first became empress, her husband did not love her, and even resented her, but from the perspective of later history, she still slowly approached her husband, perhaps because of Liu Xie's personal charm, Cao Jie was also very disgusted with his father's usurpation of Han.
Although she is a daughter of the Cao clan, she already regards herself as a member of the Liu family.
Wei was sent to ask for the seal, but he was angry. For generations like this, the messenger was called in, and the number of them was let go, and the seal was reached under xuan, and because of the weeping, he said: "Heaven is not Zuo'er!" "Neither left nor right can look up. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Chronicle of the Empress
In the film and television drama, Empress Cao angrily rebuked the messenger
After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi, the throne of Wei, soon began to change the dynasty of Zhang Luo, and before receiving Zen, Cao Pi ordered people to go to Liu Xie to ask for the jade seal of the country, cao Jie was very angry, and took her husband's jade seal, but did not give it to anyone. Cao Pi sent several people to ask for it, but cao jie rebuked him, and finally, Cao Jie knew that he could not stop his brother, and summoned the emissary to imitate the western Han dynasty empress dowager to throw the jade seal on the ground.
Weeping and saying, "Heaven will never let you last long,"
The emissary did not dare to raise his head and look directly at Empress Cao.
Who would have thought that Empress Cao's prediction would really come true, cao Pi died only seven years after becoming emperor, from Cao Pi's usurpation of the throne to gaopingling coup d'état Sima clan dictatorship,
The entire Cao family has only been in power for 29 years.
Some people questioned that Empress Cao's move was a performance, in fact, she was eager for her brother to usurp power, and the author really did not dare to agree.
Empress Dowager Wang and Empress Wang of the Western Han Dynasty were Wang Mang's aunt and daughter, respectively, and Empress Yang of Northern Zhou was Yang Jian's daughter, and without exception, like Empress Cao, they were all in the same heart as her husband's family, and it was unacceptable for her mother's family to usurp her husband's jiangshan.
Cao Pi in the film and television drama is zen
The old saying: "The daughter who marries out spills out the water", in ancient times, after the daughter got married, it was the husband's family, the so-called family from the father, the marriage from the husband, the husband died from the son, this is the truth, these women have been educated since childhood, of course, they will choose to support the husband's family.
Maybe it's also a relief
After the Han Wei Zen Dynasty, Cao Pi made his brother-in-law the Duke of Shanyang, and Cao Jie naturally became the Duke of Shanyang, and realistically speaking, Cao Pi was still very interesting to Liu Xie, not only did not kill him, but also gave him a high courtesy, without him being a vassal, he could serve Han Zhengshuo in the fiefdom and hold a sacrifice with the etiquette of the Son of Heaven.
Liu Xie, who had suffered from chaos since childhood, was now relieved and could return to the fiefdom to enjoy peace and live a free and free life, and Cao Jie naturally ended his seven-year career as empress and accompanied her husband to the Principality of Shanyang.
The Principality of Shanyang in Hanoi County, present-day Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, here both mountains and rivers, can be regarded as a good place to raise the heavens, legend has it that Liu Xie and Cao Jie treated the people well in Shanyang, and in the capital city of Hulu Hung Pot Jishi, free medical treatment for the people, got the love of the people.
The husband and wife of Shanyang Gong in the film and television drama
The people of Shanyang changed their name to Liu Xie as "adult", changed their name to Cao Jie as "beauty", respected them as parents, and simply called them "big" and "beautiful", it is said that many people in Jiaozuo now still call their parents "big" and "beautiful", the author is not Jiaozuo, if there are Jiaozuo literary friends, I don't know if I can confirm it.
14 years after the two arrived in Shanyang, Liu Xie died in the local area at the age of 54, and Cao Rui held a great funeral for his uncle with the etiquette of the Son of Heaven, posthumously as the Emperor Of Sacrifice, this "dedication" belongs to the beautiful in the title, but the meaning of wisdom and wisdom, and is buried in Chanling with Han ceremonies.
Cao Jie was also widowed as a result, and assisted his grandson Liu Kang in governing the Shanyang Kingdom. Liu Xie had seven sons, of whom two concubines born to Empress Fu were killed by Cao Cao, the eldest son Liu Feng died in the fifth year of Jian'an (200), and the remaining four sons were demoted to marquises after Liu Xie's ascension to the throne and moved to Shanyang.
The crown prince died early, Sun Kangli was fifty-one years old, and Jin Taikang was six years old. Zi Jin Li for four years, Tai Kang for ten years. Twenty years after Zi Qiuli, Yong Jiazhong was killed by Hu Thief and the country was eliminated. —Book of the Later Han Dynasty
According to the etiquette of the Han Dynasty, it is generally the father who dies and the son succeeds, but when Liu Xie died, it was the grandson who took the throne, which is very unusual, due to the lack of historical records, it is still impossible to know whether Liu Xie's sons died earlier than him, and had to establish grandchildren.
Liu Xie and Empress Fu in the film and television drama
Judging from the historical records, Liu Kang should be the son of the prince, because the prince died early, so he inherited the title, Liu Xie's crown prince who the history book is not clear, but the Han Dynasty followed the system of primogeniture, and this prince should be the eldest of the two concubines born to Empress Fu.
That is to say, the prince was killed by Cao Cao.
In the autumn and July, Prince Feng was made the King of Nanyang. At noon, Feng Xue, the King of Nanyang. —Book of the Later Han Dynasty
Some platforms say that Liu Kang's father is Liu Feng, the eldest son of Liu Xie, and the author is really difficult to understand, first of all, Liu Feng is the eldest son of Shu, because the eldest son of Shu can only be made crown prince if the empress is childless.
But Empress Fu has a son, where is his turn to be the prince?
Moreover, the history books clearly record that Liu Feng was crowned the King of Nanyang in July of the fifth year of Jian'an (200), and then died, and it is not said that he was posthumously crowned as the crown prince, how did Liu Feng become Liu Kang's father?
Not only that, when Liu Feng died, Liu Xieke was only 19 years old, if Liu Kang was Liu Feng's son, even if he was a widow, Liu Kangsheng was born in Jian'an for six years, then how old was Liu Xie, and when Liu Kang's mother was pregnant with Liu Kang, how old was Liu Feng?
Could it be that Liu Xie and Liu Feng's father and son are both big cattle people, and they became fathers at the age of 10 or 9? The one in ten million chance may not be nothing, but it is too strange to do so for two consecutive generations.
Therefore, the author believes that Liu Kang's father, "Prince", should refer to the eldest son born to Empress Fu, not to Liu Feng, the Prince of Nanyang.
Logically, Liu Kang should have some estrangement from his stepmother Cao Jie, after all, Liu Kang's parents and grandmother both died at the hands of Cao Cao, but from the perspective of Liu Xie and Cao Jie's mutual support for each other in the second half of their lives, the mother-son relationship between Liu Kang and Cao Jie may not be really bad, after all, there is no historical basis, dare not speak falsely.
However, from the perspective of Cao's energy saving to the first year of Jingyuan (260), the second half of Cao's life is still very comfortable.
I don't know if she heard Sima Yi launch the Gaopingling coup d'état, Sima Shi deposed Cao Fang, and Jia Chong ordered Cheng Ji to kill Cao Xi, whether she also remembered the phrase "Heaven is not Zuo'er" that she said in the past, after all, she had personally experienced the Han Wei Zen Dynasty, and naturally knew that her nephew or nephew Cao Yu (Cao Yi was the son of Cao Yu, Cao Jie's brother Cao Yu, but had inherited Cao Jie's nephew Cao Rui, so he was both a nephew and a nephew) was about to embark on the old road of her husband Liu Xie, and people were old to this point, and I don't know what to think.
Wei Jingyuan YuanNian Xue, joint burial of the Zen Mausoleum, the etiquette of the car costume is according to the Han system. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Chronicle of the Empress
Cao Jie in film and television dramas
Shortly after Cao Huan was proclaimed emperor by Sima Zhao, Cao Jiexue died, and the Cao Wei court still performed funerals for her as empress of the Han Dynasty, posthumously honoring her as Empress Xianmu, and in the "Law of The Book of Rumors", it can also be seen that Sima Zhao and others who were in charge of the Wei court were quite favorable to Empress Cao's angry rebuke of Cao Pi.
In the end, Cao Jie was able to be buried with her husband, which was also considered to be a life and death dependency.
Wei Luan said:
Cao Jie is a pawn of her father Cao Cao, she married Liu Xie with her two sisters for Cao Cao's personal purposes, she became empress with the help of her father, but she was also forced to choose between her husband's family and her mother's family, all of which was not Cao Jie's wishes, but this was her fate.
Whether she resented her father was no longer known, but fortunately, fate still took care of her and made her live comfortably for the rest of her life, and what was even more rare was that she actually saw her prophecy come true.
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