Recently, the Korean drama "Sleeve Red Trim" has set a new high in the ratings of MBC TV in the past three years, and the drama focuses on the love story between the king Li Qi (played by Li Junhao), who attaches more importance to the country than love, and the palace girl Cheng Deren (played by Li Shirong) who wants to protect his life, and there are really people in history, it is the Joseon Dynasty Ancestor Li Zhi and Cheng Deren, according to historical records, Cheng Deren has known Li Deren since childhood, Li Zhi is even more rejected by Cheng Deren twice, and the love story is often discussed by posterity.
Born in 1752, Lee Woo was named Shisun at birth and ascended the throne at the age of 24; Sung Deok-jin was born in 1753 and stayed with Hyeyeonggung's (Li Qi's mother) at the age of 10, so he and Li Gyeong were considered green plum bamboo horses, and when Li He was 14 years old and Deren was 13 years old, Li Zhi first pursued Deren, but at that time, Deren refused because his grandson concubine was not yet pregnant.
Later, 15 years later, even though Li Qi already had other harems at that time, he still had a long mind for De Ren, so he gave De Ren another will to accept the favor, but was also rejected by De Ren, this time Li Qi was quite angry, and ordered the punishment of the people around De Ren, De Ren because he could not bear to be bullied by the people next to him, so he agreed to Li Zhi, and finally became Li Qi's harem with Yi Concubine Chengshi.
After becoming a harem, Yi Concubine became pregnant 5 times and miscarried 2 times during the period, and after the third pregnancy, she gave birth to Xiao Shizi in 1782, and gave birth to Weng Lord in 1784 two years later, but Weng Lord died 2 months after birth; Wen XiaoShizi died of measles in 1786 two years later, and Yi Concubine, who could not stand the death of two children one after another, fell ill and fell ill, and died in the same year, when she was only 33 years old, Li Zhi was quite sad.
After The death of Yi Concubine, Li Qi personally helped Yi Concubine write the epitaph "Imperial Yi Concubine Epitaph", in which he described the process of his and Yi Concubine's acquaintance and getting along, and posterity was able to learn about the love story of the two from it, from which it can be felt that although Zhengzu had a lot of harems, he still loved Yi Concubine quite much, and constantly praised Yi Concubine in the epitaph, praising her frugality and treatment of others.
As for whether Concubine Yi had loved Li Qi in the end, there is no information in history to spy on, because the status of women at that time was quite low, and the palace women could not leave any records about the emperor, but from the records left by Li Qi, posterity speculated that he really had a deep affection for Concubine Yi. Later, some people speculated that there were several reasons why Concubine Yi was slow to accept Zhengzu, including poor health and quite satisfactory with the life of the palace girl.
"Sleeve Red Trim" to Li Qi and Cheng Deren's historical story as the basis, the palace and the emperor's state of mind is described quite delicately, in the history has revealed the tragic situation of the two people, the drama adaptation is quite successful, after the drama was broadcast, the "Joseon Dynasty Record" search list that records the Joseon Dynasty, Li Qi, Cheng Deren and other keywords have become hot searches, and the well-known drama works describing Li Qi's story "Li Qi" and "Reverse Lun Dynasty" have also been re-paid attention to by everyone.