The hottest costume drama in 2021 is undoubtedly "Zhou Sheng As Old" starring Ren Jialun Bailu, because of its restrained tear-inducing love and regrettable ending, which has attracted countless good men and women watching the drama to be sad and flowing into a river of sorrow, and the heart is extreme.
In addition to the ending of the male and female protagonists, one of the villains in the play, the empress dowager Qi Zhenzhen's interpretation, is also hateful and unbearable, and the end is also quite relieved.
Qi Zhenzhen, the former imperial concubine, was the biological mother of the little emperor Liu Hui. After becoming the empress dowager with the assistance of Zhou Shengchen, she bowed to the government and became powerful. But then, in addition to forcing Zhou Shengchen to make a vow not to marry a wife and concubine and not to keep heirs, as the empress dowager, she defiled the harem, strangled her parents, persecuted the emperor and grandson, and successively caused the death of three generations of the Liu family, and finally she also played a good card in her hand, played a mess, and was thrown into the lake by Jin Rong to feed the fish, thus giving away her debt-laden life.
It can be said that many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves.
Although the TV series is an alternate history, according to the plot development and character details, it can be inferred that the background of the era of this drama should be the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The empress dowager Qi Zhenzhen corresponded to the Northern Wei Xuanwu Ling Empress Hu Shi, known as the most absurd empress dowager in history, and the only empress dowager in history who was immersed in a pig cage.
Dare to have children
Empress Ling's "Ling" character is a courtesy name, her original surname is Hu, and it is rumored that her real name is Xian Zhen, also known as Hu Chonghua. She was the daughter of Northern Wei's Situ Hu Guozhen and was conscripted as a concubine by Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the concubines of the emperor were a high-risk industry. Why? It is a perverted system that causes the death of a noble mother. Beginning with Emperor Daowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he gradually became Sinicized, especially learning from the system set by Emperor Wu of Han. Whoever wants to make a prince a prince will kill his mother to prevent the harem from interfering in politics. Therefore, at that time, although Emperor Xuanwu Yuan Ke was sitting on the Six Palaces, he had few heirs. It is because no one in the harem dares to have a son (of course, it is best to have a daughter, both safe and rich), even if pregnant, it is secretly an abortion.
But Hu Chonghua was unusual, and soon after becoming a concubine, he found out that he was pregnant. She immediately disclosed the news of her pregnancy to the emperor, and then said awe-inspiringly: "According to the ancestral system, the son is the crown prince, and the mother should be given death, but the concubines would rather let the royal family have an heir than be greedy!"
This lovely woman's words greatly touched Emperor Yuan Ke, who was troubled and childless. After that, Yuan Xue was made crown prince, and his birth mother Hu Chonghua was also promoted to a noble concubine, and as for the ancestral system of the damned "death of the son and the noble mother", it had long been abolished by Emperor Xuanwu.
Let go of yourself
After the death of Emperor Xuanwu, Hu Chonghua's five-year-old son Yuan Xu ascended the throne as emperor, and was known as Emperor Xiaoming. Hu Chonghua began to bow to the government as the empress dowager. At this time, empress Dowager Hu began to release herself after she grasped absolute power.
The first is the Buddha, who devoted the country's efforts to build a wide range of monasteries, and its scale is the largest in all generations. The Luoyang Longmen Grottoes, a famous monument in Henan, were projects initiated when she was in power, and this alone cost more than 800,000 laborers. Empress Dowager Hu rewarded the monks with unbridled rewards, often tens of thousands, and tossed the treasury to the emptiness.
The second is extravagance. As the most prominent noblewoman in the country, Hu Chonghua was even more generous in eating, drinking and having fun, often ordering the opening of the national treasury when he had fun, so that the courtiers, concubines, and princesses could receive it at will.
The so-called full of warmth and lust, of course, the most heinous nature in the end is fornication. She was a young widow, and after ascending to the throne, she indulged her lusts unscrupulously. The first target is the little uncle Qinghe Wang Yuanyi (in fact, it can be regarded as the historical prototype of the birth anniversary of Xiao Nanchen Wang Zhou in the play).
Shi Zai: King Qinghe (元怿) "Young and sensitive, Wang Yirong is beautiful, dignified as a god, and at that time, Gao Zu (Emperor Xiaowen Yuanhong) loved him." He is involved in the history of the classics, and he is also a comprehensive group of people, has literary talent, is good at reasoning, is generous and tolerant, and is moody and angry." "Only when he is long in politics, he is clear in his decision-making, he judges public affairs, and he is very famous, and he strives to assist the emperor and take the world as his duty."
Such a Qinghe king naturally became Hu Chonghua's prey, and he was always summoned to the palace without incident. In the middle of coming and going, a righteous Yuan Yi finally threw himself under the pomegranate skirt, reveling day and night, wantonly flowing.
After Yuan Yi's death, Hu Chonghua fell in love with his father's subordinate Zheng Yu and his close friends Xu Qi and Li Shenlu. But the most favored was Yang Baihua (also known as Yang Hua), the widow of the famous Northern Wei general Yang Dayan. Forced to commit adultery, Yang fled south in fear of disaster. Empress Dowager Hu was incessantly remembered, and this half-old Empress Xu Niang's heart was bursting with emotion, and she wrote the ancient love poem "Yang Baihua Song" and let the palace ladies sing openly. The poem reads as follows:
In February and March, the willows are flowers. The spring breeze entered the boudoir overnight, and the Yang flowers drifted and fell to the South Home. Weak feet out of the house, yang hua tears were stained. Autumn to spring also double swallows, may the Yang flowers into the pot.
This is a hot girl shouting to the lover: Yang Lang, come back quickly, let's fly together, sing HIGH songs, and be happy partners!
The old mother shamelessly has no bottom line, and the son of the emperor can't stand it anymore and is determined to be pro-government. Hu Chonghua, who enjoyed the taste of power, refused to hand over power and took the opportunity to kill his son's close subjects.
When the mother and son struggle to the heat, Emperor Xiaoming's favorite concubine gave birth to a baby girl, but Hu Chonghua announced to the outside world that he had given birth to a prince, and thus granted amnesty to the world. Emperor Xiaoming could not bear it, and issued a secret edict ordering Erzhu Rong, the general who was guarding Jinyang, to lead an army south to Luoyang and coerce the empress dowager to hand over power, and the secret edict was reported before it was issued.
She soon designed to poison her 19-year-old son, and installed the 3-year-old Clan Shizi Yuanzhao as the new emperor, while she continued to listen to the government and enjoy extravagant pleasures.
At this time, the crowd was surging and the whole country was indignant, and Erzhu Rong took the opportunity to raise an army to rebel, threatening to investigate the cause of Emperor Xiaoming's death.
Buried in a pig cage
Hu Chonghua's heart was lost, and the front-line soldiers turned against each other, and seeing that the general situation had gone, they cut their hair and became nuns on their own, hoping to escape this disaster by relying on the protection of the Buddha. Erzhu Rong led an army into Luoyang, and used bamboo cages to dress Empress Hu and the three-year-old young lord Yuan Zhao and threw them into the Yellow River and drowned. Folk refer to this punishment as "soaking a pig cage".
After a generation of demons, they have gone through a life of debauchery and evil in a humiliating way.