In 573, Shen Wuhua, who had just become empress, had a father who died of illness. In order to guard the funeral for her father, Shen Wuhua lived in the other hall with sorrow, becoming haggard due to excessive sadness, and the mourning period exceeded the rules. This made Lord Chen Hou very dissatisfied, and he took the opportunity to spoil the noble concubine Zhang Lihua and ordered her to take charge of the harem.
Shen Wuhua, Wuxing Wukang people. His father, Shen Junli, was a heavy minister of the Southern Dynasty, and his mother was Princess Huijimu, the daughter of Emperor Chen Baxian of Chen Wu, but unfortunately died early. The young Shen Wuhua was devastated by the death of her mother, so she was sad at a young age.
In 571, Shen Wuhua married the crown prince Chen Shubao and became a crown princess, and later Chen Shubao ascended the throne, and Shen Wuhua became empress.
Shen Wuhua has a gentle personality, dignified and calm, knowledgeable and knowledgeable, widely involved, and is a rare talented woman. Not only that, but life is also very frugal and simple. Lord Chen Hou, on the other hand, was absurd and lustful, extravagant and extravagant, and the two were completely people of two worlds.
The harem beauties gathered, and Chen Shubao's eyes naturally could not only stay on Empress Shen. Coupled with the disagreement with the empress's personality, Chen Hou gradually alienated Shen Wuhua, and began to spoil other concubines, and Zhang Lihua gradually became favored at this time.
Later, Empress Shen's father died of illness, and Zhang Lihua took the opportunity to ascend to the throne, although there was no name for empress, but she already had the status of an empress, and her status in the palace once surpassed that of Empress Shen.
Zhang Lihua is a woman who is completely different from Shen Wuhua. She came from a lowly background, entered the palace at the age of ten and became a palace maid, and was favored by Chen Shubao by chance, giving birth to a son, Chen Shen, and was later made crown prince.
But Zhang Lihua is not an empty vase of beauty, she is scheming, very good at looking at the face and acting, so she will be fascinated by Chen Hou Lord. Even when Lord Chen Hou was ill, zhang Lihua was only allowed to accompany him, and other concubines, including the empress, could not visit at will. This shows Zhang Lihua's position in Chen Shubao's heart.
In order to enjoy himself, Chen Shubao specially built three attics in the palace, took a group of concubines, and some literati and foxes opposed them to chanting poems every day and drinking freely. Most of the poems written in them are obscene songs, with low style and cannot be put on the table.
However, Lord Chen Hou greatly admired these inferior works, and ordered musicians to compose and choreograph for them, and summoned Ge Ji to sing. The famous "Yushu Backyard Flower" is derived from this:
Li Yu Fang Lin to the high pavilion, the new decoration of the beautiful essence of the city.
Yingto did not enter at first, and smiled at each other.
The face of the demon is like a flower with dew, and the jade tree shines in the backyard.
The flowers do not bloom and fall for a long time, and the fallen red is full of silence.
For all this, Shen Wuhua was not shocked, she was not greedy for power, and she was not interested in the competition between women. Therefore, when Lord Chen Hou and other concubines indulged in wine and indulged in pleasure every day, she just quietly read the history books.
It is said that during this period, one day Chen Shubao suddenly remembered the empress who had been snubbed by himself, and went to visit her. I thought that when the empress saw herself, her joy would not overflow into words, but unfortunately the empress was only indifferent to his arrival, and how could Chen Shubao, who was accustomed to being surrounded, endure, so she wrote a poem to the empress:
Leave people or not people? Leave no one behind to go.
There are no people left here, there is a place for people to stay.
Empress Shen listened and gave back a poem:
Who doesn't remember? Shame on you.
If you don't want to live, you will stay.
But unfortunately, Chen Shubao only saw the complaints in the poem.
Although the empress dowager was centrifugal, Shen Wuhua saw that Chen Shubao was indulging in wine every day, and was very worried about this, and wrote to advise him many times. However, Lord Chen Hou did not understand her bitterness at all, but was even more tired of her. He even had the idea of deposing the empress and setting up Zhang Lihua instead.
As empress, Shen Wuhua had always been very competent, and the matter of abolishing the queen was opposed by the court. Therefore, until the fall of the country, the abolition of the latter was not successful.
After gaining favor, Zhang Lihua gradually extended her hand to the government, and she joined forces with Kong Gui's concubines, colluded with and co-opted the powerful eunuchs, and took part of the power of the government in her hands, stirring up the miasma of the imperial hall. As a result, hundreds of officials are slack and people's hearts are deviated.
In 589, when Emperor Wen of Sui ordered Yang Guang to lead an army to attack Chen, and when the army attacked the capital of the Southern Dynasty, Lord Chen Hou took Zhang Lihua and Concubine Kong Gui to hide in a dry well in order to save his life. After being discovered by the Sui army and threatening to throw stones at them, Chen Hou was forced to climb out of the well.
It is said that when she climbed up, Zhang Lihua's rouge rubbed on the edge of the well, so this well was later also known as the rouge well.
After the Sui army pulled the three people in the well up, Zhang Lihua and Kong Gui's concubine were immediately executed, and Chen Hou, who was the king of the subjugated country, was taken to Luoyang and imprisoned.
Empress Shen Wuhua was also taken captive by the Sui army to Chang'an, and the Sui Emperor admired Shen Wuhua's talent and ordered her to accompany her every time he went out on a tour. Later, the Sui Emperor was killed, and Shen Wuhua returned to his hometown and became a nun at the Biling Tianjing Temple, with the title of Guanyin.
When Shen Wuhua was ordained, it coincided with the chaotic war at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when the war was fierce, the people were displaced, and many people were arrested to participate in the war, even the old and young women and children were not spared.
Once, the leader of a peasant uprising captured more than a thousand women, children, old and young, and prepared them to go to war. Some people couldn't bear it, so they ran to the Tianjing Temple and prayed to Guanyin to save them. Shen Wuhua sympathized with the people and could not bear to watch them lose their lives in vain. So the design saved them.
The rescued people are grateful to Shen Wuhua, and many people have enshrined her portrait, and she has truly become the "living Guanyin" in the hearts of many people!
@ Cheng Yujun
Among the many concubines of Lord Chen Hou, Shen Wuhua was absolutely a unique being. Although she was not favored, her talent was no less than that of anyone in the harem. Compared with Zhang Lihua's opportunistic cleverness, she is the true deep understanding of righteousness, and will benefit the world with a talent, and there are six words in "The Great Han Xian's Defender Zifu": "No dispute, no obviousness, no reveal", and its practical use to describe Shen Wuhua is most appropriate.
She never despised the means of harem women fighting for the wind and jealousy, and always faced her situation with an indifferent attitude. Unfortunately, Lord Chen Hou mistakenly regarded Pu Yu as a stubborn stone, and the Qi number of the Southern Dynasty also came to an end in his hand.
It is precisely because of the completely different handling styles of Shen and Zhang, so after the fall of the country, Shen Wuhua can win the admiration of tens of millions of people with the name of "Guanyin", but Zhang Lihua ended up with a "disaster water" and was killed!
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