"In the history of Han Jiaqing, the words are peace and relatives." Since Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, set a precedent for princesses to marry The Mongols, many emperors have adopted this policy toward ethnic minorities, using it to seek peace when the national strength is weak, and to use it to be gentle when the national strength is strong.
These princesses with political missions, after marrying into a foreign country, it is difficult to get a good ending. On the one hand, they have to endure the torment of homesickness, and on the other hand, they must strive to adapt to the living habits of other nationalities.
However, this is not the most pitiful, according to the historical records, most of the princesses who married the Mongols failed to have a son and a half daughter, which is very cruel for a woman who is in a foreign land and has no one to rely on. What is going on with this "strange" married life?
And the origin of the pro-princess
Speaking of the princess and princess, it is necessary to mention Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and Liu Jing, who proposed this idea. In that year, Liu Bang was besieged by the Xiongnu at Mount Baishan for seven days and seven nights, and later he paid a bribe to Dun Danyu's Fu clan (Mao Dun's wife) to get out of danger.
After the Siege of Baideng, Liu Bang realized that it was not advisable to settle the dispute with the Xiongnu only by force. At this time, Liu Jing made a bold proposal to marry the grand princess born to Mao Dun as a wife, and send him a rich gift, the rough foreigners must take the grand princess as the right wife, and the son born must be the prince, and it will be much easier for them to conquer the Xiongnu in the future.
However, after Lü Hou heard this proposal, he was very sad and cried day and night. Because she knew that after her daughter married to the Xiongnu, her life would certainly not be as smooth as she is now, and she could not bear her daughter to suffer.
In desperation, Liu Bang chose a clan maid to marry the Xiongnu as a princess in exchange for peace.
and pro princess status
Many people may think that the princess may be mentally homesick, but her status in a foreign country is certainly quite high, but in fact it is not.
Princess He kissed who married when the national strength was weak was naturally not ideal. Because the enemy is strong and we are weak, the princess comes to peace in exchange for peace, and the distant mother country cannot give them too much support, and the leader who marries them will not look up to them too much.
Princesses who can marry when the country is strong are not necessarily of a high status. For example, Princess Dunke of the Kangxi Emperor died of depression shortly after her marriage, at the age of nineteen.
The reason why the emperors of the Qing Dynasty let a large number of princesses marry the steppe was very simple, that is, they wanted to win over the Mongol nobles so that they could submit as soon as possible.
Therefore, when there was a conflict between the princess and the donkey, the emperors often favored the donkey. Therefore, the married life of the princesses of the Qing Dynasty was under the double oppression of the husband's family and the mother's family.
Reasons for inability to have children
After marrying into the steppe, many princesses were neither respected as Liu Jing expected, nor were they able to leave a son and a daughter to influence the bloodline of the Mongol nobility.
This is very problematic, because although the princesses who married in the past in various dynasties are true and false, most of them are good girls who have been selected from thousands of times, not to mention how beautiful they are, but at least they should be healthy, and it is absolutely impossible for most princesses to marry and have no offspring.
So this has become a mystery in history, which has made many people very curious. But the reason was very simple, because the Mongol nobles did not want them to give birth.
Most Mongols believed that the princess who married over was only a manifestation of submission by the Central Plains regime, and that women were only trophies. To take power through the offspring of women is all fantasy. Therefore, these people did not let the princesses get pregnant at all, but only regarded them as their own playthings.
In order not to let the princess get pregnant, the Mongols thought of various contraceptive methods, and even if the princess was lucky enough to be pregnant, they would try their best to let the child run away. "If you are not of my race, your heart will be different." This old saying mongolian nobles are also clear in their hearts.