In 196 AD, cai wenji, a talented woman, was abducted and forcibly occupied by the Xiongnu. After 12 years, Cao Cao wanted to spend a lot of money to redeem her. Although this had been something she had hoped for countless times, Cai Wenji said, "This news came too late! ”
Cai Wenji, a talented woman at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was good at calligraphy, music and literature. His father, Cai Yong, was a symbol of erudition and talent during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and their family had a collection of more than 4,000 volumes, like a library.
Cai Wenji grew up in such a scholarly door, from a young age, gradually grew into a gifted girl.
However, this talented girl's fate is ups and downs. She was married three times in her life, torturing her to the point of no return.
At the age of 16, under the arrangement of her father, she married Wei Zhongdao, who was a famous general, whose ancestor was Wei Qing, a great general who had made the Xiongnu feel frightened. This marriage is also reasonable, but fate likes to tease people.
Just one year after marriage, the husband died of illness. The in-laws said that she was very dissatisfied with her, and she could not stand the exclusion, so she had to return to her mother's house.
Soon after, Cai Wenji's father was wrongfully killed. At the age of 17, she lost both her husband and father, and was lonely.
In 196 AD, the world was in chaos, and the Xiongnu took the opportunity to go south to plunder. When they encounter food and belongings, they rob them, when they encounter men, they kill them, and when they encounter women, they snatch them back to be slaves and raise children.
Cai Wenji was also plundered in this chaotic battle. On horseback, she watched the scenery of the Central Plains gradually drift away in the field of vision, and the scenery in front of her was gradually replaced by reckless yellow sand, and her heart was like ashes.
When she arrived at the Xiongnu, she was sent to the big tent of King Zuoxian and forced to become a concubine of King Zuoxian.
The Xiongnu environment was harsh, and Miss Qianjin could not bear the hard life of the desolate desert.
She once described her life in the Xiongnu in the Poem of Sorrow and Indignation: "Sleeping in the dark cannot be safe, and hunger is not enough to eat." Dan wept, and the night sat in sorrow. If you want to die, you can't get it, and you can't live if you want to live. It is conceivable that Cai Wenji's life in the Xiongnu can be described as surviving and not seeking death.
When she missed her hometown, she stared blankly at the north. There is no end in sight to the yellow sand in the wilderness, and the hometown is still beyond the end.
The pain of homesickness finally eased with the arrival of her two sons, and she gradually adapted to life in the desert with no hope of returning to her hometown. Like all mothers, she poured all her love into her two children. I originally thought that I could spend the rest of my life in such a plain way.
However, a message from 207 AD once again shattered her peaceful life.
After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and other forces, he sat firmly in the position of the boss of the north and became the de facto controller of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to continue to expand and unify, it was necessary to engage in cultural undertakings, and Cai Yong was the vane of culture at that time.
The only descendant left after his death was Cai Wenji. Therefore, when he learned that Cai Wenji was still suffering from the Xiongnu, he sent emissaries to the Southern Xiongnu with a pair of gold and a pair of white bi to redeem Cai Wenji.
When she heard the news, Cai Wenji bowed her head and said nothing, and her mood was very complicated. The hometown she had been thinking about day and night finally had the hope of returning, but the news came too late.
For 12 years, she has made this place her home, and her closest relatives are only these two children, and once she returns, she will be separated from the children and never see each other again. But if you don't go back, the books left by your father are also no successors, so how should you make a choice?
She knelt down in front of King ZuoXian and pleaded bitterly, "Can you let me take the child?" Even one will do. Zuo Xianwang said coldly, "Absolutely impossible!" ”
Can she stay? It is absolutely impossible, because she is not only a mother, she is also a talented woman all over the world, a very symbolic symbol. Even if she refused to leave, the Huns did not dare to stay unless they had the ability to fight a war with Cao Cao.
And taking back her was the face of the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao had to snatch her back. Therefore, Cai Wenji can only go.
Hearing that her mother was leaving, the eldest son dragged his mother's clothes to death, and the child wrapped his arms around his mother's neck and did not let go, but she still gritted her teeth and left with tears on her face and heart-rending pain. Later, in order to express her longing for her two sons, she created "Eighteen Beats of Hu Di" to amaze the world.
After returning to the Central Plains, Cao Cao saw that she was alone and lonely, so he married her to Dong Qi, an honest and responsible Lieutenant of Tian School. Dong Qi, who was just in his early 20s, was dissatisfied when he saw Cai Wenji, who was already in his 30s and had suffered from wind and frost, but he had to accept it. This time the marriage is doomed to not be happy.
In the second year after marriage, Dong Qi committed a capital crime, and Cai Wenji was about to lose her husband, so she could only abandon everything to ask Cao Cao.
On that day, it was snowing heavily outside, and Cai Wenji was wearing a shawl, wearing a single dress, kneeling barefoot in the snow in front of Cao Cao's mansion, telling her tragic experiences over the years, expressing her desire for a peaceful life, and begging Cao Cao to help her so that her husband could return to her side.
Cao Cao and the officials who were deliberating were all impressed and pardoned Dong Qi for his capital crimes.
Cai Wenji was so clever, she not only maintained Cao Cao's law and order, but also won Cao Cao's mercy and saved her husband's life.
After that, Cao Cao mentioned to her father's collection of books, and she said to Cao Cao: "My father left me more than 4,000 books before he died, but all of them have been lost. However, I can recite more than 400 articles. Cao Cao was overjoyed and said busily, "I will send ten officials to write down the articles you have memorized." ”
Cai Wenji was hindered by the difference between men and women and asked her to write it herself. She silently wrote more than 400 articles and handed them to Cao Cao, who read them with great appreciation. These 400 articles have also made significant contributions to the spread of Chinese culture.
Since then, Dong Qi has looked at her, the couple has lived a reclusive life, and there is no record of Cai Wenji in the history books.
@Junhui chats about history
Cai Wenji's fate in life is sad and lamentable. Born in a chaotic world, even if you are only high, you have no right to determine your own happiness.
She married three times in her life, and none of them were her final say, including her own whereabouts and stays, she could only obey the arrangements of others, and no one cared about her feelings. She could only use words to pour out her helplessness and sorrow, and the poems she wrote wept blood.
But no matter how unfairly Heaven treated her, she was strong enough to deal with it.
Believe me, if you are strong, fate will reward you.
