Zhuge Liang, also spelled Kong Ming, was a famous politician and military figure during the Three Kingdoms period. When he was young, "he had few talents and heroic weapons, eight feet in length, and a very great appearance", which can be described as a great time, so many people asked him for a son-in-law. However, Ah Ugly, the daughter of Huang Chengyan, a famous scholar in the local Southern Province, is "thin and short, with yellow hair", which is really ugly. But no one could have imagined that Zhuge Liang would abandon the crowd and marry Ah Ugly alone, giving the people of the time the laughing stock of "Mo Xue Kong Ming chooses a wife, stop ah Cheng's ugly woman", and also leaves a mystery for posterity.
Many people think that Zhuge Liang focuses on his career, and when choosing a lover, he is not accustomed to the vulgar style of only pursuing outward beauty, and he wants to find a simple and talented person who is helpful to his ideal career. Huang Chengyan's daughter is ugly but intelligent and virtuous, quite talented, and is his ideal lover.
So the eight-foot handsome guy with a talented but unassuming ugly, is it very ideal?
Contemporary mate selection advocates spiritual beauty and inner beauty, but was it vulgar to pursue outward beauty? This is obviously a "mystery" foggy. However, is it the three kingdoms war that lacks talent and beauty? Or is Zhuge Liang lonely and unheard of, with little reputation, and can't choose a ruyi lady?
In the same generation as the famous talented woman Cai Wenji, in Eastern Wu, there was a big and small Qiao Guo color Tianxiang, and married Sun Ce Zhou Yu, which was a good story for a while; In the Central Plains, there were mink cicadas, and the color trick was brilliant and courageous, helping Wang Yunshu to destroy the state of Dong Zhuo. Such a talented, colorful, and artistically talented daughter abounded at that time, so why would there be only one Kong Ming missing?
And Kong Ming, who takes "more seeing is wisdom and more smelling is God", his "Wolong" name has also been "heard by the princes" through various channels, so how can there be no "phoenix" to match? It seems that Kong Ming married Ah Ugly, not because there was no one in the Three Kingdoms, and Zhuge Liang's reputation was not great, but there was another reason.
It is not so much that Kong Ming's choice of wife is to value the "inner beauty" of people, but rather that political considerations play a greater role.
Zhuge Liang's family was poor and cold, he had no prominent doorway, he had lost his father since childhood, he had lived a life of displacement and migration in his youth, he had eaten enough of the hardships of all kinds of powerful and powerful people, and he was suppressed by the strong and powerful families. However, the young child is smart and studious, and has lofty ambitions, especially in the ten years of Longzhong, his studies are more advanced, he "compares himself to Guan Zhong and Le Yi", has the ambition to be a general, and with the ambition of taking the power of the hegemon, he wants to strive to step onto the political stage and "show his instrument to establish merit".
In order to achieve this goal, Zhuge Liang broke through many difficulties and actively carried out activities.
The first is to choose Jingzhou as a place to enter
At that time, the Central Plains was in turmoil and the Jiangdong strife, but Jingzhou could tend to be chaotic, so many celebrities in the Central Plains flowed here, which was very convenient for the young Zhuge Liang to make friends, exchange knowledge, and strengthen his ambition: Secondly, Nanyang County, where Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion, was the birthplace of the Xingxing Han Room of the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, and here there was a sense of thinking about the imperial business in the hometown of the emperor. Plus Jingzhou on the Tumba Shu, down to Jiangdong, political status. The strategic position is very important, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.
Therefore, zhuge Liang regarded it as a place to lie in seclusion and go out of the mountains.
The second is the choice of people.
Zhuge Liang was influenced by the feudal orthodoxy of eating Junlu and repaying the emperor's favor from a young age, coupled with his systematic study of scripture and history in the past ten years, he gradually formed a whole set of political propositions of loyalty to the king and the country, he regarded "Cao Cao as a national thief, Sun Quan as a stealer", unwilling to go out of the mountains, but did his best to develop relations with the Jingzhou landlord clique, waiting for the "heavenly time". Because of the young Zhuge Liang's respectful attitude and ability to know people, he was very appreciated by Pang Degong, Huang Chengyan and other people who were the leaders of the Jingzhou landlord group, and the eldest sister married the famous Jingzhou plastic clan Pu Qi, and the second sister married the son of Pang Degong, Shanmin, and Zhuge Liang gained a firm foothold in Jingzhou.
Therefore, the political purpose of choosing a wife is not only to be in Jingzhou, but also to make friends with the Wang clan, which is why Zhuge Liang chose a wife in Jingzhou and did not go elsewhere.
So why did Zhuge Liang choose Ah Ugly?
The reason why Kong Ming chose Ah Ugly is mainly due to these three considerations:
First: because Huang Chengyan is a famous scholar in The South, he has considerable prestige in the local area;
Second: Because Huang's wife Cai Shi and Liu Biao's step-wife were sisters, they became the son-in-law of the Huang family, so they climbed liu biao's imperial family. This two-tier relationship will not be ignored by the young Zhuge Liang, who is eager to make meritorious achievements, and the two sisters will be matched from it, which has contributed to this decision.
Third: People like Zhuge Liang, who have studied through ancient and modern times and are like ordinary people,...... How could he have spent too much time on the love of his children? In any case, he took the life of salvation and made the country his home. That way he doesn't think much about his appearance. Therefore, when Huang Chengyan asked in person in time, Zhuge Liang immediately "thanked Taishan" and married Ah Ugly, who had never met before.
Summary: Zhuge Liang's positive and enterprising political attitude towards marriage undoubtedly played a role in promoting his future political development. However, considering marriage events from a political perspective too "rationally" without regard to the obvious defects and deficiencies in some aspects will always leave people laughing stocks and leaving regrets for future generations in addition to sighing.