As we all know, Zhuge Liang, the Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, was a mythical figure in Mr. Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", who was not out of the woods and first decided to divide the world, he was resourceful, not chaotic, astronomical geography, five elements of gossip, and was also proficient, and was a rare military genius.
Today we will talk about whether Zhuge Liang's "ugly wife" Huang Yueying is really ugly?
There are not many records about Huang Yueying's history, and the "Xiangyang Chronicle" quoted in the biography of Zhuge Liang in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has this description:
Xiangyang Ji Yue: Huang Chengyan, Gao Shuangkai, for the Southern Mingshi, called Zhuge Kong Ming yue: "Wen Jun chooses a woman, with an ugly woman, a yellow head and a black head, and it is a match." "Kong Mingxu, that is, to carry it." When people thought it was laughter, the township said: "Don't be a woman chosen by Kong Ming, just get an ugly woman." "
"Yellow head black" is the basis for the world to think that Huang Yueying is an "ugly woman", so is Huang Yueying really ugly? Not necessarily.
Yellow hair and black skin are not the standards for modern people to judge beauty and ugliness, ugly is not ugly, mainly look at the facial features.
Huang Chengyan's call his daughter an "ugly girl" may be a modest name, since ancient times Chinese has paid attention to modesty, such as "humble Jing", "mean nei", "dog" and so on.
It is also possible that this is Huang Laozi's test for Zhuge Liang, why Huang Laozi emphasized that "and talent is matched", this is the test of Zhuge Liang.
Folklore, Huang Yueying is not ugly, but a very smart and beautiful girl, Huang Laozi is afraid that promising young people have eyes that do not know Jingshan jade, only value appearance, so they call their thousand gold "ugly women".
Let's look at Huang Yueying's family background, Huang Chengyan is a famous scholar in Xiangyang, and his wife, Huang Yueying's mother' identity is not simple.
Huang Yueying's mother was the daughter of Cai Xie, a great scholar of Nan County, who was also the sister of the famous general Cai Mao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
As we all know, Cai Mao has a sister married to Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Huang Yueying's mother and Liu Biao's wife Cai Shi are sisters, Cai Shi is beautiful and moving, deeply favored by Liu Biao, and Huang Yueying's mother as her Cai family appearance should not be much different.
Huang Chengyan can be ridiculed by the Nanjun Master Cai, it is one thing to have talent and learning, of course, his appearance is naturally not an ugly person.
From a genetic point of view, the probability that Huang Yueying is an "ugly woman" is not large.
And in Huang Yueying's hometown of Xiangfan, Hubei Province, there are statues built for her by posterity, and she is not ugly at all.
The woman behind Zhuge Liang, Huang Yueying, although there are not many words given to her in the history books, it is said that her talent helped Zhuge Liang a lot, and according to legend, Zhuge Liang's "wooden cow and flowing horse" was inspired and helped by Huang Yueying.
It cannot be said that Huang Yueying has made Zhuge Liang, but this woman is definitely the most important woman who has influenced Zhuge Liang's life.