There are countless celebrities in Chinese history, and one of the more interesting phenomena is that at first glance, it seems that two people who are not related to each other turn out to be related by blood, and some are even very close. Today, I will briefly give you a few pairs of examples and talk about them briefly.
The Fallen King and the Founding Emperor
Friends who have listened to the commentary "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" will definitely remember Yang Guang, the king of the six short periods in the book, who killed his father, seized power, killed his brother, overlorded his sister-in-law, adulterer, and played his sister...... In short, in addition to good things, doing everything is simply not enough to reach the "one by one".
When he was the king of Jin, although Yang Guang tried his best to hide it, his greedy and lustful nature was actually unconsciously revealed. When the Southern Chen was extinguished, Yang Guangjiu, who commanded the army, heard that the two concubines of the queen Chen were beautiful and fragrant, and the country was overwhelmed, so he told the former leaders Gao Jiong and Li Yuan to capture the two concubines alive, of course, the reason was high-sounding. Gao Gong is an old fritter, in Shan Lao's words, Yang Guang knew what shit he was going to pull as soon as he pouted his buttocks, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to know. But Li Yuan had an upright temperament and insisted that the demon girl would bring disaster to the country, and it would definitely be a trouble to keep it, so he killed the two delicate beauties regardless of Yang Guang's order.
Yang Guangqi's seven tricks were smoky, but he couldn't say it on the bright side, so he used Yuwen's plan to create rumors and try to frame Li Yuan, but fortunately, Yang Jian put all his suspicions on Li Hun's head, but this also made everyone surnamed Li dangerous for himself, and Li Yuan invited himself out of the town of Taiyuan in order to protect himself.
Yang Guang saw that this plan could not be successful, and Li Yuan wanted to run again, so he simply "didn't do anything and didn't stop", and directly sent killers to intercept and kill Li Yuan's family, but Qin Qiong passed by here and saved Li Yuan's family, which allowed Li Yuan to get out.
Yang Guang's breath did not come out, and after more than ten years, he finally ushered in the opportunity to take revenge, and when he wanted to go down to the south of the Yangtze River to enjoy the Qionghua, he ordered Li Yuan to build Jinyang Palace within a month, and use this place as a temporary foothold when he went south. In fact, this is a clear conspiracy - if it can't be repaired, it is ineffective and disrespectful, and if it is completed, it is built in advance and has a bad intention. Because of a month, I can't finish vomiting blood.
However, with the help of the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Yuan felt that it was impossible to escape, but the second son Li Shimin thought of a way, which was to transform the largest temple outside the city into a palace and replace all the nails with new ones. According to what Li Yuan said, he ordered people to rush to work day and night, and sure enough, the work was completed within a month, and when Yang Guang came here to make trouble, there was a story of Li Shimin pulling nails to prove his father's innocence. "The Legend of Tang Quan" is even more evil here, but it is the direct approach of the two big men Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, who came to drive the gods and build a temple, which was built in only one night, and was so shocked that Li Yuan's tongue stuck out and the old man couldn't shrink back.
From this point of view, Yang Guang and Li Yuan are also enemies, and later the Tang Dynasty replaced the Great Sui and became the new master of the land of China. But these are all novels, but they are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have been taken as historical facts by many people. In fact, in real history, not only Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian liked Li Yuan very much, Li Yuan and Yang Guang had no personal enmity, and at the same time, regardless of seniority or age, it was impossible for Li Yuan to be on par with Gao Jiong when he destroyed Nan Chen.
The reason why Li Yuan, who was young and valued by Yang Jian, was not only because of his own talents, but also because the two families were real relatives, Li Yuan's mother and Yang Guang's mother, Yang Jian's wife, Queen Dugu, were sisters, and they were both daughters of Dugu Xin, one of the Eight Pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the past. In other words, Li Yuan and Yang Guang, the founding emperors of the Tang Dynasty and the monarchs of the fallen kingdom of the Great Sui, are real cousins!
Now that the Internet is developed, many people know the relationship between the two, but if you go back 30 years, I believe that there are not so many friends who know this relationship.
Big Du and Little Du
When it comes to the Tang Dynasty, it is natural to think of the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" that "tortured" many people's childhood, and when it comes to Tang poetry, it is natural to avoid the "Li Du" who is called the "Immortal Sage", that is, the poet Immortal Li Bai and the poet Sage Du Fu.
In the late Tang Dynasty, there was another "little Li Du" - Li Shangyin and Du Mu, their popularity may not be as good as Li Bai and Du Fu, or there would be no Wolong Phoenix Chick in the first two years to say that Li Shangyin copied the lyrics, and called him an "unpopular poet". Of course, this has nothing to do with our topic today, what we want to say is that Du Fu and Du Mu actually have a relatively thin blood relationship.
Friends who know something about the Three Kingdoms should know a person named Du Pre. The Three Kingdoms can be unified, Du Fu can be said to have made great contributions, and at the same time, he is also the only big man who entered the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Martial Arts at the same time, and Du Fu and Du Mu are both descendants of this Du Pre.
Du Fu is the thirteenth grandson of Du Pre after Du Tan, the fourth son of Du Pre;
Du Mu is the sixteenth grandson of Du Yin, the youngest son of Du Yu.
In other words, Du Fu and Du Mu are of the same ancestry, and their ancestors were brothers born from the same father hundreds of years ago. Some people say that according to this logic, not all the people with the surname Liu in the late Han Dynasty were of the same clan, so what's so strange? But don't forget that the theme we are talking about today is that on the surface it seems that the eight poles cannot be beaten, and the Han Dynasty was originally surnamed Liu, and most of the celebrities surnamed Liu in the late Han Dynasty were relatives of the Han family. Then someone said that Du Fu and Du Mu have the same surname, so you can know it at a glance. You are a bit of a raise, Du Zhongkai is also surnamed Du, why is he not Du Yu's descendant? You said that you have not heard of this? That's normal, because Du Zhongkai is our colleague, I just give an example, just a joke, to euphemistically express that I said it is very reasonable.
Two powerful ministers from different periods
Speaking of the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, there are two emperors who have to be mentioned, one is the self-reliant "Great Zhou", the only female emperor in history Wu Zetian, and the other is Li Longji, the Tang Xuanzong who pushed the Tang Dynasty to the highest peak and fell into the abyss in an instant, almost leading to the collapse of the country.
Wu Zetian got two male favorites at the age of seventy-four, which are the two famous ones, namely Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Zongchang.
What is unbelievable is that when Li Longji was in power 45 years later, he actually rehabilitated Erzhang and was reinstated. You must know that Erzhang's original actions were witnessed by Li Longji, and the reason why he did this was directly related to Yang Guozhong, the powerful minister at that time.
So what is the relationship between Yang Guozhong and Erzhang? According to the records in the "Zizhi Tongjian" and the "Old Tang Book", Yang Guozhong is Zhang Yizhi's nephew, in other words, his mother is Zhang Yizhi's sister (or younger sister). However, the "New Tang Book" believes that Yang Guozhong is actually Zhang Yizhi's illegitimate son. No matter which one it is, in short, Yang Guozhong and Zhang Yizhi can be called flesh and blood, and there is no problem with this.
They were all in power, and they were famous ministers and ministers in the Tang Dynasty, but few people linked the two together.
Great writers and legendary immortals
I think everyone has heard the story of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", among which the eight immortals are also famous among the people, namely Tie Guan Li, Zhong Liquan, Lu Dongbin, Zhang Guolao, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi, He Xiangu, and Uncle Cao Guo.
In addition to "Li Du", I think you must have heard the name of "Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties", and the eight literary giants are Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Sansu, Zeng Gong, and Wang Anshi.
And today we are going to talk about this pair of relatives, one is from the Eight Immortals, and the other is from the Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties - Lu Dongbin and Liu Zongyuan.
One is an immortal, the other is a mortal, how can there be a blood relationship? In fact, many mythological characters are artificially made gods, take Lu Dongbin as an example, he was originally a real historical figure, and friends who have studied Taoism also know that he is the patriarch of the Quanzhen School. Lu Dongbin's grandmother Liu is the step-room of Lu Wei, the servant of the Tang Dynasty Rite Department, and is also Liu Zongyuan's aunt, in other words, Lu Dongbin's father and Liu Zongyuan are cousins who are very close by blood, so when you go to Lu Dongbin, if you see Liu Zongyuan, you must call "cousin". However, it seems that judging from their years of birth and death, the two should not have met.
The poisonous woman who brutalized the loyal woman and the female lyricist who did not let the eyebrows go
When Yue Fei is mentioned, it is natural to think of his tragic end, so those traitors who brutalized him can't help but mention it. According to the theory of the causal cycle in the novel "Saying Yue", Yue Fei was originally the golden-winged Dapeng of the Buddha's top protector of Lingshan Rulai, because when he was speaking the Dharma, the female earth bat let out a fart and was pecked to death by Dapeng, so Rulai degraded Dapeng and reincarnated to atone for his sins. When he didn't want to pass through the Yellow River, Dapeng pecked the monster Ironback King who was playing here into a "pirate captain", and killed the fish spirit under his command by the way.
After Dapeng was reincarnated as Yue Fei, the iron-backed king flooded Yuejia Village in order to avenge the loss of his eyes, causing the destruction of lives within a radius of dozens of miles, so he violated the rules of heaven and was escorted to the dragon platform to be killed. After his death, the unwilling Ironback King was reincarnated as Qin Hui, and the fish spirit under him became Wan Qiao, and the female earth bat we mentioned earlier became Qin Hui's wife Wang, and several people colluded to frame Yue Fei, causing the loyal ministers to suffer.
We are talking today about Qin Hui's wife Wang, although the mythological story in the novel is too mysterious, but Wang's plot to kill Yue Fei for her husband is a real event in history, otherwise the statues of these two people are still kneeling at the door of Yue Fei's temple. What is surprising is that she has a blood relationship with a much more positive image, and can be called a famous female lyricist who does not let women shave her eyebrows - Li Qingzhao, a Yi'an jushi.
I don't think I need to say much about Li Qingzhao's popularity, but anyone who has gone to school must have heard of her famous "three thin". And the sentence "I still think of Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong" is a poem rather than a word, but it can still become a good sentence for generations, and it can be said that when it comes to literary talent, even if a man can surpass Li Qingzhao, it is rare.
The relationship between Yi'an Jushi and the Wang family is like this: Li Qingzhao's mother was born in a family family, and his father was Wang Qi, the prime minister of the two dynasties of Ren and Zhezong! In addition to his daughter, Wang Jue also had a son named Wang Zhongshan, and Wang Zhongshan was precisely Wang's father, to put it simply, Li Qingzhao's mother and Wang's father were brothers and sisters, so Li Qingzhao and Wang were aunts and cousins, and their relationship was very close. In the past, if there were two families, a man and a woman, intermarriage was common.
However, there is no record of Li Qingzhao and Qin Hui in history, and even when Li Qingzhao and her second husband were in a divorce lawsuit to find foreign aid, they found Qi Chongli, a distant relative of their deceased husband Zhao Mingcheng, rather than their brother-in-law Qin Hui.
In fact, there are many similar situations in history, and these seemingly unpopular relatives are not necessarily unfamiliar to friends who are familiar with history. Anyway, when I first found out, I was quite surprised by these five pairs of relatives.