Although the story of "lying down and tasting courage" is not a household name, it is indeed widely circulated, and the aura of seducing himself is too powerful, so that the people around him are eclipsed, including his wife, including his heirs, of course, Fan Li and Xi Shi are the exceptions. The story of the restoration of the country is indeed exciting and very educational, but in the context of the entire Spring and Autumn Warring States, it is actually not very brilliant, and the founders of the "Blue Wisps of the Road" in that era were more than one example of the "hidden and forbearing restoration", but the reason why Gou Jian was so famous was probably due to his later hegemony and the things he did in the process of becoming a vassal of Wu.
But speaking of which, what the Vietnamese with broken hair tattoos did in this story of the restoration of the country was actually to continuously absorb the culture of the Central Plains to develop and grow themselves, so as to defeat the State of Wu on the tail of the Spring and Autumn Period and become the hegemon of the south. In the process, Yue Wang Gou Jian showed amazing willpower, exerting his ninja skills to the extreme, and as the wife of such a monarch, his wife could not stay out of this protracted restoration movement. Husbands sing women along, he endures, she also endures; what kind of life he lives, she will follow what kind of life, and even, she still has to be his strongest backing, always support him, always stand by his side, never abandon.
Gou Jian wants to kill his wife and children to show his determination to resist Wu, which is a kind of determination to break the net of fish, and as his wife, she can only support her husband, passive or active, anyway, she wants to give up her life. However, later Fan Li and Wen Zhong suggested that they join Wu And look for opportunities to return to China in the future.
Under the operation of Fan Li and Wen Zhong, Wu Wang Fuchai finally accepted Gou Jian's request for peace, so Gou Jian took his wife and Fan Li and others to the Wu Kingdom to serve Fu Cha. Fan Li was enslaved, and Gou Jian and his wife were arranged in front of the tomb of the former Wu king Yan Lu, first to guard the tomb (it was in the process of attacking the Yue Kingdom that He was injured and killed by the death squad of Gou Lu), and second, to raise horses for her husband. The husband and wife actually began the life of ordinary people, but they were trapped in a fixed place, cutting grass, feeding horses, and the lady removed the dung and swept the sprinkling, which was the most ordinary farmer and peasant woman, but this was also a shame for the couple, after all, in the past, you were the monarch and the lady, and now you are only the servants of the husband. Gou Jian even tasted poop to identify diseases when his husband was sick, and it can be said that in order to restore the country, he can really endure the intolerability of ordinary people.
Two years later, Gou Jian and the others were released back to Vietnam by Fu Cha. Gou Jian began the road to restoration, he adopted the seven techniques of cutting Wu offered by the chinese language, and began a series of reforms and strategies for Wu, while Gou Jian put on coarse cloth clothes, ate coarse tea and light rice, and worked hard with the Chinese people, while his wife personally learned from the women of the Central Plains, raised silkworms and textiles, and led the women of the Vietnamese country to work hard and get rich.
In 494 BC, Fu Cha besieged Gou Jian in Huiji, and Gou Jian entered Wu as a vassal, and by 482 BC, the State of Yue had become strong under the administration of Gou Jian, and Gou Jian began to attack the State of Wu, and from then on several times to cut down Wu, until 473 BC, the State of Yue destroyed the State of Wu, and Fu Cha committed suicide.
From beginning to end, Gou Jian's wife has accompanied Gou Jian and done her due responsibility to help Gou Jian complete the dream of restoring the country and strengthening the country. But the role of a woman is limited in the end, and what she does is within the scope of the matter, and has not become an important help for Gou Jian, so in the history books, there is little mention of Gou Jian's wife, her origin, her surname, and her life, but it is mentioned that she accompanied Gou Jian into Wu, accompanied Gou Jian back to the powerful Yue country, and there was no other trace.
This was actually a very normal thing in that era, many of the princes and ladies did not leave records, and the women who could be recorded in history had made special contributions or done extraordinary things, said special golden sentences, and had special talents. For example, Qi Bazi, Wen Jiang, Xuan Jiang, Xi Fei, Zhao Ji and so on.
However, later generations always felt that such a monarch must have a special lady, so there was a fictional Yayu in the TV series "Lying Down and Tasting Courage". Yayu married Gou Jian to become a princess when Gou Jian was still a prince, and later became the queen of Gou Jian, and this queen has all the characteristics of a beautiful woman.
Soon after Gou Jian became the monarch, he was defeated by Wu WangFuchai, and the Yue kingdom was destroyed, and Gou Jian chose to be a slave in the Wu kingdom, and Yayu did not abandon and followed him to the Wu kingdom, which was the beginning of Yayu's nightmare. Because Wu Zixu felt that Gou Jian's heart was not sincere, in order to test it, he came up with a plan to let Yayu sleep with the envoys of the Jin State for one night. This was a strategy of killing two birds with one stone, and the next day, Wu Zixu forced the envoys of the Jin state to sign a contract that was beneficial to the Yue state. After YayuGui became a country, she had to commit herself to others, and should have committed suicide to Mingzhi afterwards, but she thought of Yue Wang Gou Jian and the people of Yue Guo, she resolutely chose to live, accompanied Gou Jian to endure humiliation and burden, she wanted to live to see the demise of Wu Guo.
Later, Gou Jian really defeated the State of Wu, yue guo became a powerful country, and even became the hegemon of the south, Yayu saw the victory, and then committed suicide, Gou Jian guarded Yayu's body for three days and three nights, and then ordered her to be buried.
In this way, is Yayu a great woman? Yes, of course, but this is by no means the real Lady of Gouge in history. The Spring and Autumn Warring States Period was a relatively open era, there was no so-called three from four virtues, there was no chastity, even if insulted, there was no need to choose suicide Mingzhi. Moreover, Wu Zixu could not have made such a request and let the wife of Gou Jian go to sleep with him. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, although the etiquette collapsed, but the princely states still had a certain etiquette, Gou Jian took the initiative to go to the State of Wu to claim the subject this is his choice, but Wu Zixu let Yayu sleep with this is forced, which was a big taboo in the environment at that time, which was not conducive to the prestige of the State of Wu.
Wu Zixu's own voice in the State of Wu has declined a lot, he can not influence the fate of Lady Gou, Wu Zixu raised objections when Gou entered Wu, but the King of Wu did not listen to Wu Zixu's suggestion to destroy Yue, and later Fu Cha decided to let Goo go back to China, Wu Zixu again proposed that he could not be released, and Fu Cha again refused.
In the final analysis, Wu Zixu, a courtier, helped Wu Wang Lu achieve hegemony and became a lonely person in Lu Lu, but the successor Fu Cha obviously did not trust Wu Zixu very much. He trusted Bo Zhe more, this person had defected to Wu Zixu when he first came to wu guo, and under the strong recommendation of Wu Zixu, Bo Yao became the doctor of Wu guo, and by the time Wu Wangfu had succeeded to the throne, Bo Yao's power was already above Wu Zixu, and Bo Zhao had always been greedy too deeply.
Fan Li and Wen Zhong had bribed Bo Zhao to let Gou Jian smoothly enter Wu's title, and when Gou Jian and his party were in the State of Wu, they naturally also received the protection of Bo Yao, at this time, Wu Zixu could not influence the fate of Lady Gou Jian. However, Bo Yao played a considerable role in the great cause of restoring the country. However, after the King of Yue destroyed the State of Wu, he killed Bo Yao at the first time.
References: "History of the Yue King's Gou Jian ShiJia";
The Book of The More Desperate;
"Wu Yue Chunqiu";
"History of Wu Zixu".