During the Three Kingdoms period, the society was in turmoil, and the princes of all walks of life occupied one side with the intention of competing for hegemony in the world. It was in such a three-legged period that Zhou Yu assisted Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong and laid the foundation of Eastern Wu, and later defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, and his reputation for being resourceful and good at fighting spread all over the world.
As the saying goes, heroes are sad to pass the beauty pass, and Zhou Yu has not escaped Xiao Qiao's finger twisting, and the love story of the two is still being sung today. However, the troubled times are already very cruel, and the battlefield is full of dangers, even famous generals like Zhou Yu cannot avoid pain and torture.
At the age of 36, at the age of prime, Zhou Yu unfortunately passed away, so what kind of ending does the beautiful little Qiao have? Today we will talk about the story of Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao.
Zhou Yu was not "angry to death", but died of illness
Before formally discussing the story of Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao, let's talk about how Zhou Yu died.
In the description of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang is the image of the lupine scarf, but in fact, Zhou Yu, who served as the commander in the Battle of Chibi, is the image of the lupine scarf.
Su Shi also described the image of Zhou Yu in his "Nian Nujiao Chibi Nostalgia", and a poem could not write the chic style of "Mei Zhou Lang":
Thinking about Gongjin back then, Xiao Qiao got married for the first time, and he was heroic. Lupine scarf, talking and laughing, the canopy is gone.
Zhou Yu in history is a famous young talent in Jiangdong, not only burly, handsome, but also proficient in music theory, listening to the tune can find out which tone the piano player played wrong, so there is an idiom of "the song is wrong, Zhou Langgu".
What's even more amazing is that Zhou Yu is also a resourceful military genius, and it was Zhou Yu's strategy to join Liu to resist Cao, burn Chibi, and defeat Cao Ren.
is such a talent, but in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he was portrayed as a narrow-minded and jealous image, and even because he was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent, Zhuge Liang was angry and died, and issued a ridiculous regret of "both Shengyu and He Shengliang".
The statement that Zhou Yu was angry with Zhuge Liang is not credible at all, everyone just treats it as a joke, just Tu Yile. At Zhou Yu's level, who would believe that he didn't have any strength at all? And in the official historical records, Zhou Yu died of illness.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhou Yu" records Zhou Yu's death as follows:
Return to Jiangling, for the outfit, and the road to Baqiu died of illness, when Chinese New Year's Eve six.
When Zhou Yu died of illness, it was less than two years after the end of the Battle of Chibi, and he had a pivotal position in Eastern Wu, so his death had a huge impact on the distribution of the Three Kingdoms forces at that time.
Sun Ce: Zhou Yu, Xiao Qiao has rewarded you
As mentioned above, Zhou Yu is a handsome guy, and Xiao Qiao naturally doesn't need to say much, he is a beautiful woman with a beautiful country, the two are a match made in heaven, and the love story between them has been talked about by future generations for thousands of years.
In fact, Xiao Qiao should be called Xiao Qiao, and her father, Qiao Gong, is very famous in the Koto area. Qiao Gong's two daughters are both beauties of the country, namely Daqiao and Xiaoqiao, and it is because of hearing about their good names, so Sun Ce and Zhou Yu took the two into their pockets after breaking through Anhui City, among which Sun Ce asked for the bridge, and Zhou Yu accepted the small bridge.
"Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Zhou Yu" has a record of this incident:
From attacking Anhui, pull it out. The two daughters of the bridge are both national colors. Tsezi Na Bridge, Yuna Small Bridge.
"Bridge" is the same as "Joe", so it is also called Big and Small Bridge. Of course, through some sporadic records in history books, it is not difficult to find that Zhou Yuna Xiao Qiao is not because the two have a relationship foundation, let alone love, but because Xiao Qiao is good-looking.
To put it more bluntly, Xiao Qiao is nothing more than Sun Ce's "trophy" to capture Wancheng.
Otherwise, Sun Ce would not have said such a sentence to Zhou Yu:
Although the two daughters of Qiao Gong are displaced, it is enough to be happy to have the two of us as sons-in-law.
snatched someone else's daughter, and was so eloquent, Sun Ce couldn't help but be a little self-righteous, but what about the facts? Da Qiao did become Sun Ce's concubine, and Xiao Qiao was given to Zhou Yu, and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu became brothers-in-law and had a closer relationship.
Xiao Qiao became the object of envy of women at that time, after all, it is rare to find a handsome, talented, and powerful man like Zhou Yu. The two should have cultivated a deep relationship after marriage, otherwise Xiao Qiao would not have given birth to two sons and a daughter for Zhou Yu in the next ten years, but love in troubled times is destined to have no happy ending.
A large number of Little Joe's tombs
In 210 AD, Zhou Yu died of illness on his way back to Gangneung at the age of 36, and Xiao Qiao became a widow. However, Xiao Qiao is lucky enough compared to her sister, after all, Zhou Yu has been with her for more than ten years, while Da Qiao lost her husband after only four months of marrying Sun Ce.
In the social environment at that time, it was very common for widows to remarry, so that they could have something to rely on in the second half of their lives. Many people speculated that after Zhou Yu's death, Xiao Qiao would choose which man to marry, but to everyone's surprise, Xiao Qiao never remarried, but took the child to Zhou Yu's tomb until the moment of death.
It can be seen from this that Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao do have a deep relationship, otherwise Xiao Qiao would have given up the three "drag oil bottles" and looked for another reliance, instead of choosing to guard the tomb of her deceased husband. Of course, the idea that no one dared to fight Xiao Qiao also benefited from Sun Quan's protection, after all, Xiao Qiao's daughter married Sun Quan's son Sun Deng, but Sun Deng also died young, only 33 years old.
So where was Xiao Qiao buried after his death? There is no record of the exact location of Xiao Qiao's tomb in relevant historical books, so there are about three mainstream recognized addresses of Xiao Qiao's tomb today, two of which are in Lujiang County and Nanling County, Anhui Province, and the other is in Yueyang, Hunan.
Strictly speaking, the tomb of Xiao Qiao in Nanling should not be the real tomb of Xiao Qiao, because it was built by a county commander in the Qing Dynasty because he had a dream. According to the records of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", although Zhou Yu died in Baqiu (now Yueyang City), the coffin was transported back to Wu County for burial:
Quan Sufu mourned and was moved. The funeral should be returned to Wu, and Wuhu should be welcomed, and all things will be expensed, one is for supply.
In other words, the authenticity of the Xiao Qiao tomb in Lujiang County is higher.
Conclusion
Xiao Qiao in the Three Kingdoms period is undoubtedly a world-famous beauty, even Cao Cao coveted her, but in troubled times, the prince and general are still unable to control their own destiny, not to mention a woman? Xiao Qiao is both lucky and unlucky, fortunately met Zhou Yu, a husband who dotes on her and loves her, unfortunately Zhou Yu died young, leaving her alone to live in the world.
Since Xiao Qiao's willingness to guard Zhou Yu's tomb without remarrying, it is enough to see how deep the relationship between her and Zhou Yu is, which is also the reason why the love between the two has been praised to this day. In fact, there are very few records about the married life of Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao in the historical books, and from the sporadic records, people are also willing to maintain the best imagination in the world about this love.