The ancients left us a lot of meaningful old sayings, we call these "common sayings" full of educational significance as colloquialisms, many sayings appear in all aspects of our lives, many scenes are the older generation of persuasion and education of the younger generation, this is the wisdom of history handed down in the folk, many familiar sayings have historical evidence, proving countless truths, such as this sentence we all know "there is no bell, nothing summer welcomes spring.".
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In this saying, Zhong Wuyan and Xia Yingchun are the wives of King Xuan of Qi during the Warring States period, Zhong Wuyan has a strange and ugly face, but his ability is outstanding, he can help King Qi Xuan to govern the country, and often stages the feat of not letting Shu Mei go out, which is valued by King Xuan of Qi, Xia Yingchun and Zhong Wuyan are completely opposite, they are a beautiful person with a good face and a good dance posture, who can sing and dance every day with King Xuan of Qi to find fun, so that the two people Qi Xuan Wang naturally loves Xia Yingchun and Summer to welcome spring a little more, but every time they encounter dynastic dangers, the vase around them is completely useless , can only invite their own unsightly wife Zhong Wuyan to help put things in order, and then snubbed the hero Zhong Wuyan, continue to spoil their beauty Xia Yingchun, such behavior makes people ashamed, so orchestrate such a saying to warn future generations.
In history, Xia Yingchun is just a vase created by people to contrast with Zhong Wuyan, a fictional historical figure, and the reason why there is such a saying is to expose the nature of men. Zhong Wuyan is a real figure in history, he is the empress of King Qi Xuan, and he is also one of the famous ugly women in history, why King Qi Xuan would marry such an ugly empress, it is not that King Qi Xuan has a unique aesthetic, but that Zhong Wuyan is too capable.
In the early days of King Qi Xuan's reign, day by day singing and dancing, night and night singing songs are not happy, if the State of Qi continues to develop in this way, it will lead to a crisis of national subjugation, at this time Zhong Wuyan entered the court, to the King of Qi Xuan, saying that the ancestors opened up the territory and expanded the territory endlessly, it has been the tireless efforts of the emperors of all dynasties to have such a powerful State of Qi, if King Qi Xuan continues to faint, it is his fault, such blunt persuasion coupled with Zhong Wuyan's unsightly appearance, successfully made King Qi Xuan repent, in order to prove his determination, King Qi Xuan dismissed the harem, and set up Zhong Wuyan as the queen Let Zhong Wuyan be his own mirror and help him build a strong country. Such a historical record is very touching, but our descendants still let Xia Yingchun become the contrast of Zhong Wuyan, in order to make men lustful and covetous of the nature exposed, the later Tang Xuanzong Li Longji is so, because his lustful favor Yang Guifei, but in the Anshi chaos, he pushed all the faults to Yang Yuhuan, so that she was saddled with the crime of the decline of the dynasty, Tang Xuanzong did not have Zhong Wuyan, but there was a Xia Yingchun who carried the pot for him, which is the clumsy nature of historical men.