Xi Shi, known as Yiguang, was born in an ordinary family in the Yue Kingdom (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang)! Because her family lives in the west end of the village, the neighbors call her Xi Shi. Although Xi Shi was born in the cold gate, because of the beautiful mountains and clear waters of yueguo, he still came out of the pavilion, like a hibiscus posture, and was amazed by the appearance of the heavenly immortals!
Xi Shi is not only beautiful, but also the earliest "female spy" in Chinese history. In 494 BC, the State of Wu defeated the State of Yue, and the King of Yue surrendered to the King of Wu! Fan Li, the Grand Master of the State of Yue, and Gou Jian, the King of Yue, went to the State of Wu as hostages! I know wu Wangfuchai's fatal weakness, that is, lust! Therefore, Fan Li and Gou Jian planned and implemented the plan to sacrifice beautiful women to Wu Wangfu!
Fan Li is looking for beautiful women in the folk! When I first saw Xi Shi, I was impressed by her beauty and innocence! Xi Shi also fell in love with this extraordinary teenager at first sight! The two fell in love! But when Fan Li explained the reason for the beauty pageant, Xi Shi showed that he was willing to sacrifice himself to take on this heavy responsibility!
Wu Wangfu saw Xi Shi and was very happy! Doctor Wu Zixu thinks that this is a "beauty plan"! Painstaking advice! Fu Cha turned a deaf ear and immediately incorporated Xi Shi into the harem! Since then, Wu Wang Fuchai has become more and more fond of Xi Shi! Indulge in wine every day! It has ignored the government!
At this time, under the rectification and governance of the Yue King, the national strength was increasing day by day, and the army was well trained! In 473 BC, the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, and Wu Wangfu was cornered and wielded his sword to kill himself!
In history, the Yue king was praised for his cheating and humiliation! In the authoritative work of "History", the record of Fan Li is also quite detailed! However, there is no word left for Xi Shi's whereabouts! So what was the end of Xi Shi? So far historians have not reached a unified conclusion!
Regarding the ending of Xi Shi, there are different folk sayings, what are they?
One theory is that she disappeared into the jianghu with Fan Li! Made a pair of fairy lovers! In the "Record of Wu Di", the beautiful legend about Fan Li and Xi Shi breaking the mirror after breaking wu in yueguo broke the mirror and went away across the lake! According to legend, they once lived in Yixing, and some places in Jiangsu today still have names such as "Xi Shi Dang"!
Another theory is that Xi Shi was killed by the Yue King! So the question is, why did Gou Jian kill Xi Shi? This theory is out of the idea of "cunning rabbit death, lackey cooking", Gou Jian feels that Xi Shi's implementation of the beauty plan is somewhat victorious, so he kills Xi Shi to keep it a secret! Another saying is that Yue Wang Gou Jian believes that although Xi Shi has made meritorious achievements, he is ultimately a disaster for the water! It can wreak havoc on the Wu Kingdom, and it can also wreak havoc on the Yue Kingdom! So kill it! But no matter which way it is said, it shows the vileness and cruelty of the Yue King's treachery! Later, Mozi said, "Xi Shi Zhi Shen, its beauty is also" means that Xi Shi Cheng is also beautiful, and destruction is also its beauty! But what is the sin of beauty?
Another way of saying it is shen jiang said! This theory is based on the Tang Dynasty poet Song Zhi's "Huan Sha" poem: "Once the old capital is still in the past, the beautiful costume is looking for Ruoye; the bird is amazingly pine dreaming, and the fish is afraid of the lotus flower"! It is believed that Xi Shi returned to his hometown after destroying Wu, and accidentally fell into the water and died while Huan Sha! In the poet Li Shangyin's "Jingyang Well", it is also written that "the Jingyang Palace Well is sad, and the dragon luan swears to die; the intestines are cut off from the water outside the Wu King's Palace, and the mud is worried about burying Xi Shi".
Although these claims are divergent, the theory of seclusion is the most widely circulated and the most credible! This may also be that everyone does not want Xi Shi, an innocent woman, to have a tragic ending! The so-called "red face and thin life since ancient times", Xi Shiben was a peasant woman, but because of her natural beauty, she was a victim of the yue king's struggle for power! It's a shame indeed! Today, although the cause of her death is uncertain, her contribution to the salvation of the Vietnamese country is beyond doubt! Let this great and beautiful woman carry her mystery into the legend forever!