"Love is not who sacrifices for whom, who does what for whom, and once love becomes like this, it is not love". - Merler? Thain
Poignant love is often tragic, and the mutilated beauty seen by the onlooker may be a devastating painful experience for the person concerned.
As Sain says, when love is full of self-sacrifice, such feelings are bound to be painful.
In the southwest of our country, there is such a country, they believe in Islam, they have many buildings related to religion, and this country is India.
In ancient times, clever Indians combined geometry and religion perfectly, and the most famous building was the Taj Mahal.
A palace made of white marble can reflect different colors with different positions of the sun at different times.
And it is such a holy palace, behind which there is a poignant love story, a young girl for nineteen years of love to give birth to fourteen children, and finally was squeezed to death.
The beginning of a beautiful love
Four hundred years ago, a war caused an empire to fall completely, and the descendants of the royal family wandered to India in order to survive, preparing to re-establish a new empire in India, and the future can make a comeback.
The third prince of the empire, named Shah Jahan, not only inherited the good appearance of the royal family, but also had a tall and strong figure, which was particularly outstanding among the princes.
When Shah Jahan was fifteen years old, he was going to the market to experience the folk customs, but he was inadvertently attracted by the crowd.
There was a woman dancing in the crowd, and Shah Jahan was so impressed that when the woman's dance was over, Shah Jahan stayed where he was.
As soon as Shah Jahan returned to the palace, he begged his father to give the girl to him.
The woman was a Persian named Ajman Banu.
Because the two were still young at the time, they could only hold an engagement ceremony first, and when Shah Jahan was twenty years old, the two held a grand wedding.
Because of shah Jahan's wife's beauty and skin color as white as a white veil, she was given the name Taj Mahal, which means the most beautiful woman.
The young Shah Jahan, like other princes, was young and vigorous and wanted to become the heir to the throne, so the princes in the palace were openly respectful and secretly contradictory.
Finally, Shah Jahan could not bear it, intending to rebel and force his father to give way to himself, only to be brutally suppressed and even exiled to live in a remote area.
Taj Mahal, however, has always been inseparable from her husband, and has always supported Shah Jahan when she started the army, and after being exiled, Taj Mahal has always accompanied her husband Shah Jahan and lived a life of displacement in remote areas.
Taj Mahal's inseparability also made Shah Jahan very moved, and the relationship between the two became more stable and strong.
Although Shah Jahan was in a remote area, he always remembered the throne.
So after his father died of illness, Shah Jahan used his father-in-law's strength to overthrow the government and regain the throne.
In order to stabilize the regime, Shah Jahan killed his own brothers one by one, and finally Shah Jahan established a new empire.
After Shah Jahan ascended the throne, he began to expand his army, making the empire more and more powerful, and in order to expand the territory of the empire, Shah Jahan even personally led troops to go out and plunder the territory of other countries.
For a time, Shah Jahan's empire became the strongest of the nearby countries.
Died for love
Because of his previous encounters in remote areas, Shah Jahan was very fond of Taj Mahal during his reign, and even before Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan had two princesses.
But it was precisely because of this that Taj Mahal became pregnant fourteen times in nineteen years.
This was a good thing, but the medical technology at that time was not very developed, and such an ordinary pregnancy that Taj Mahal did not even have time to recover after childbirth, even if she used the most expensive supplements in the palace, it did not help.
Taj Mahal, who was getting weaker and weaker, thought she would not get pregnant again, but at the age of thirty-eight, Taj became pregnant with the child again.
That year coincided with Shah Jahan's expedition to the south, and it was time for Taj to rest and recuperate, but Shah Jahan still brought Taj with him in the name of love.
The long period of running made Taj's already weak body even worse.
As a result, when it came to the time of the basin, Taj spent the last bit of effort, and after giving birth to the fourteenth prince for Shah Jahan, she died on the journey.
Shah Jahan, who had lost his beloved wife, had a hard time accepting this fact for a while, believing that his wife's death was all his fault.
He locked himself in the house and did not eat or drink until a week later, when Taj's funeral took place, that he appeared in the eyes of the public.
After the funeral, Shah Jahan was heartbroken, and when he remembered that he had promised his wife to build a beautiful palace, Shah Jahan reluctantly lifted his spirits and prepared to build a magnificent palace for his beloved wife.
Construction of the Taj Mahal
In order to build this huge palace, Shah Jahan found the best designers and craftsmen in the whole country.
But since the death of his wife, Shah Jahan's temperament has become cloudy.
Even in order to let the designer of the palace feel the pain of his own widowhood, he ordered the execution of the designer's wife, just so that the designer could empathize with the design of the world's unparalleled Taj Mahal.
After the palace was designed, Shah Jahan recruited 20,000 workers to work day and night, and if anyone dared to resist, he would be directly executed, and his head would be hung above the city wall to warn everyone.
In order to build the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan used the wealth of the entire country to buy precious materials for the palace, and after the treasury was empty, he began to increase taxes, and the people did not want to live, but did not dare to resist.
When the palace was built, Shah Jahan cut off the hands of all the workers, just to make the Taj Mahal the only palace in the world that belonged to his beloved wife, Taj.
Subsequently, Shah Jahan placed the body of his wife in the Taj Mahal and spent the whole day in the Taj Mahal with tears.
In the end, the construction of the Taj Mahal made the entire country unhappy, so his son also took advantage of this uprising to push his father from the throne.
The imprisoned Shah Jahan could only look in the direction of the Taj Mahal every day and miss his beloved wife.
epilogue
The love between Shah Jahan and his wife Taj will be moved by anyone who hears it, and the Taj Mahal has also been given a more special meaning besides beauty because of this poignant love.
But if it were not for Shah Jahan's excessive pampering of his wife, Taj would not have been allowed to become pregnant fourteen times in that era of poor medical treatment, and finally empty her body and die early.
From another point of view, such a lifelong love, although enviable, but in order to build his wife's mausoleum, he poured out the financial resources of the whole country, let himself lose the trust of the people in him, and finally was imprisoned by his son, and could no longer go to the Taj Mahal to visit his wife for life.
When you are alive, you don't know how to cherish your wife, and what use can you make up for it after you die.
Only by cherishing the people in front of you, taking good care of the people you love, and supporting each other together can you go through this beautiful life together for a long time.