Wang Zhaojun is a woman very famous and is included in the "Four Beauties" of ancient China. The fate of the "four beauties" is not too good, and Wang Zhaojun is no exception. As a princess of the Western Han Dynasty, she left the bustling Chang'an and went to the lonely desert to become the wife of a strange man. According to the custom of the Xiongnu, Wang Zhaojun married her husband's son again.
Emperor Yuan of Han and Hu Han were friendly and friendly
Wang Zhaojun is recorded in the main history, and the record in the wild history is also quite rich. In the Official History, it is recorded that the Xiongnu's Hu Han Evil Shan Yu requested to see Emperor Yuan of Han and to be the son-in-law of the Western Han Dynasty, that is, to be friendly.
Harmony was not uncommon during the Western Han Dynasty, and it was also a relatively common political means throughout ancient times. Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was friendly with the Xiongnu, because he saw the strength of the Xiongnu in the "Siege of Baideng", and this kind of peace was humiliating.
During the Han yuan emperor period, the military strength of the Xiongnu and the Western Han had been reversed, and the Xiongnu wanted to see the face of the Western Han. Therefore, Hu Han evil shan took the initiative to ask for peace and kisses, and regarded himself as a son-in-law. At this time, the peace relatives did not have a humiliating meaning, but a means of restraint against Hu Han and the evil shan Yu. Wang Zhaojun undertook this task and became a princess of Peace. Of course, her own identity is not a princess, but a palace person of the Han Yuan Emperor.
The story of "Zhaojun out of the jam"
In the "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing", the story of "Zhaojun out of the jam" is recorded, and the plot is richer than that of the main history. There are many harems of the Han Yuan Emperor, and there is no way to check them one by one. His method of choosing the concubine was to let the painter paint the palace people, of course, who was better looking at who had more chances.
As a result, these palace people have bribed painters, more than 100,000 yuan, less than 50,000, very large. Only Wang Zhaojun refused to bribe the painter, so the painter painted Wang Zhaojun very ugly. When the Xiongnu came to ask for peace, the Han Yuan Emperor selected people from these paintings, and saw that Wang Zhaojun was not particularly good-looking, so he gave her to Hu Han evil Shan Yu.
Unexpectedly, after seeing Wang Zhaojun, I found her unusually beautiful, simply a harem with a beautiful crown. Not only is it good-looking, but it is also very elegant and decent. Emperor Yuan of Han was very sorry, but the list had been set, and he was not embarrassed to regret it again. As a result, Emperor Yuan of Han began to hold the painters accountable, and Mao Yanshou, Chen Chang, Liu Bai, Gong Kuan, Yang Wang, Fan Yu and other painters were all executed, so that there was a lack of good painters in Chang'an. In "Qin Cao", there is also a story of Wang Zhaojun being snubbed and resentful, voluntarily requesting and kissing. Although these historical materials are not canonical histories, they have a great impact on future generations.
Wang Zhaojun's situation
Although the peace between Emperor Yuan of Han and Hu Han and Shan Yu no longer carried humiliating connotations, but rather a means of enveloping Hu Han evil Shan Yu, this did not improve wang Zhaojun. Wang Zhaojun, as a princess of peace, still needs to leave his hometown and go to the desert. If that were all there was to it, Wang Zhaojun would have to accept the Xiongnu custom of accepting the marriage system.
The so-called adoptive marriage system, for example, shows that a woman marries someone, and after someone's death, the woman also marries his brother, or a son who is not related to himself. This custom existed in many nomadic or fishing and hunting peoples in ancient times, but it was not allowed in the culture of the Central Plains regime and was difficult to accept.
As a Western Han Chinese, Wang Zhaojun was of course influenced by the Culture of the Central Plains from an early age. After she married the Xiongnu, she also had to obey the system of succession. After the death of Hu Han Evil Shan Yu, Hu Han Evil Shan Yu's son Diao Tao Mogao was supported as the leader of the Xiongnu, that is, Fu Zhu Li Ruo Shan Yu. Wang Zhaojun married Fu Zhu Andi Ruo Shan Yu and gave birth to two daughters. This was probably the saddest thing for Wang Zhaojun.
References: Book of Han, Miscellaneous Records of Xijing