Wang Zhaojun is one of the four beauties of ancient times, and some of the stories she is talked about are true and false.
The most outrageous thing is that she was as beautiful as a flower and was painted ugly by the painter Mao Yanshou, so she lost the opportunity to tie the knot with Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, because she did not honor Mao Yanshou's money.
But a little reasoning will reveal that the logic does not make sense and goes against historical facts.
This story portrays Emperor Yuan as a lascivious emperor.
Let's not care whether Mao Yanshou exists or not, and don't say whether the maid of the Western Han Dynasty palace enters the palace through the portrait of a painter, but only explores whether Emperor Yuan is a lustful emperor.
Emperor Liu Zheng of the Han Yuan Dynasty was the son of Emperor Xuan. Emperor Xuan was really not very satisfied with him, thinking that he was weak, and almost wanted to exchange his position as crown prince to another son.
But in the end, because he loved his original wife Xu Pingjun too much, and regretted that Xu Pingjun was killed by the Huo family, he was reluctant to seize Liu Zheng's crown prince.
Emperor Xuan was dissatisfied with the later Emperor Yuan, not because he was greedy for beauty, but because he lacked the temperament and ability to be an emperor.
The real Liu Zheng doesn't have much interest in beauty. When he was still the crown prince, the crown princess was Sima Liangdi, the relationship between the husband and wife was good, and he didn't even glance at other women.
Later, Sima Liangdi suddenly fell ill and died, and when he died, he said that it was caused by the jealousy of other concubine women, which made Liu Zheng lose interest in women from then on.
Emperor Xuan was worried that his son would be depressed, and thought that the bell must be tied to the bell, and selected a few women from the harem for Liu Zheng.
The disheartened Liu Zheng didn't dare to disobey his father's kindness, so he had to identify the woman closest to him, which means that whoever loves is the same, this is Wang Zhengjun.
Liu Zheng and Wang Zhengjun are also husband and wife, and they also gave birth to their son Liu Biao, that is, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty.
But he has always been cold and respectful of Wang Zhengjun, and he has no interest in other harem women.
With such an Emperor Yuan, how could he be disappointed that he had missed Wang Zhaojun, and how could he regret Wang Zhaojun when he was about to go to the Xiongnu?
Folklore such a story, is a simple love for Wang Zhaojun's mentality, in order to set off her stunning beauty, she is not just a country girl from Zigui, Hubei, but a beauty who has three palaces and six courtyards, countless beauties of the emperor are tempted, such a woman is eligible to be selected as one of the four beauties.
In order to achieve this goal, he did not hesitate to damage the image of Emperor Yuan, and Emperor Yuan was indeed a watershed in the Western Han Dynasty from the rise of Zhaoxuan to decline, and he was indeed not an emperor who was too accomplished, so it didn't matter if he was on his back.
According to historical records and archaeological discoveries, some archaeologists have restored the image of Zhaojun, an ordinary woman with a square head, a big face and small eyes, which is far from a stunning beauty. Even if Emperor Yuan is lustful, he will not feel a little upset when he sees her.
Wang Zhaojun's marriage to the Xiongnu Huhan Evil Shan Yu is fundamentally different from the harmony in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, that is, this is a marriage given by the central court to local officials, rather than a diplomatic marriage between the two regimes in the early years.
After decades of crushing blows by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, coupled with internal divisions, the strength of the Xiongnu to the Yuan Emperor has not been what it used to be, and the Hu Han evil single belongs to the Southern Xiongnu under the command of the commander, they have moved south and are attached to the Han court, and some places and subordinates have been managed according to the county system of the Han people.
Therefore, Hu Han Evil Shan Yu is completely different from Mao Dun Shan Yu and the Han Dynasty.
As for whether Zhaojun was forcibly assigned or took the initiative to ask for help, it is impossible to verify now, and both possibilities exist.
She took the initiative to become a friendly woman, the main reason is that she has no bright future in the palace, because there are too many women in the harem, and she is not particularly outstanding, plus she has a not very romantic Emperor Yuan, she may die in obscurity in the palace.
Of course, her contribution objectively eased the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu and promoted national integration, which can be written into history textbooks.
Zhaojun left the mainland and Chang'an and went to the grassland desert, and under normal circumstances, there was no chance to return. She is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she can't help but feel sad and play sad songs as she goes farther and farther along the way.
The story that circulates from this is that when the wild geese heard the song, they also mourned and fell to the ground, so Zhaojun had the reputation of "falling geese". However, there is a high probability that such a story is apocryphal.
When Zhaojun arrived in the Xiongnu, he first married Han Xie Shan Yu and gave birth to a son, not wanting to die two years later. At this time, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was already Emperor Cheng, and Zhaojun reported to Emperor Cheng and asked to return to the Central Plains, but received Emperor Cheng's cold reply "from Hu Customs", which also accepted the Xiongnu's "succession marriage system", and continued to marry Shan Yu, the successor of Hu Hanxi, that is, his son.
This was unacceptable as a Han Zhaojun, but it was difficult to disobey the king's order, and she married two successive Shan Yu, who were brothers and her stepsons, which was incestuous in the Han ritual system, even though they were not related by blood.
Throughout his life, Zhaojun married the Xiongnu for two generations and three Shan Yu.
Zhaojun and the first successor Shan Yu gave birth to two more daughters, Shan Yu married the second successor Shan Yu after his death, no heirs, Shan Yu died, and Zhaojun also died in a foreign country far from home at the age of 33.
Her son was killed by her successor Shan Yu, and one of her daughters continued to work to maintain peaceful and friendly relations between Han and Hungary, one of whom also entered Chang'an to serve the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun.
When Wang Mang usurped the government, the rebel army invaded Chang'an, and Zhaojun's daughter and family also died in the chaos. Since then, there has been no record of Zhaojun in history.
Zhaojun is the number of this strange woman, her original name is Wang Yan, which is very rare, there are few names for women in ancient times, even if there are many queens.
From the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhaojun's name was once changed to "Ming Jun" and "Ming Concubine", and even in the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu also wrote in the poem that "there is still a village for Ming Concubine to grow". This is because Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan, wants to avoid his father Sima Zhao.
No matter how evasive it is, the Jin Dynasty of the Sima clan is also short-lived and weak, and it is too low to fail, while the name and story of Wang Zhaojun have been praised for more than 2,000 years until today.
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