In fact, there are many versions of the legend of the four beautiful men in ancient times, the most common saying is Song Yu, Pan An, Wei Jue, Lanling King Gao Changgong, in addition to this version there is also a more widely circulated version is Pan An, Ji Kang, Wei Jue, Lanling King Gao Changgong, in addition to Shen Yue, Zhou Yu, Cao Zhi, Zhuge Liang, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Han Zigao and other sayings. Let's talk about the endings of the four beautiful men in the most common statements.
Song Yu, who created the term Dengtuzi
Song Yu was a native of the Song Kingdom during the Warring States Period, born in a noble family, and was the son of the Song Kingdom, so he was called Song Yu. Because Song Yu's father was not tolerated by the family, so he left the Song State to live in the Chu State, Song Yu was actually born in the Chu State, because he lost his father since he was a child, so Song Yu was raised by his father's friend Qu Yuan, a famous scholar of the Chu State, and Song Yu followed Qu Yuan as a disciple to study literature.
That's right, Song Yu is the student of Qu Yuan who exchanged his life for a day of vacation for us modern people, almost at the same time as Song Yu, and a little earlier there was a famous beautiful man recorded in history, that is, Zou Ji of Qi State.
When I was in middle school, I learned an article "Zou Ji satirizes the King of Qi", this article is from the "Warring States Policy", Zou Ji is also a famous beautiful man who left a record in history, and there is also a version of Zou Ji as one of the four beautiful men in ancient times. However, Song Yu's reputation for being beautiful and handsome at that time was far better than Zou Ji's, which shows how handsome Song Yu is.
Song Yu is not only handsome but also very talented, and has won the true biography of his teacher Qu Yuan, who is the first famous writer after Qu Yuan, and he and his teacher Qu Yuan are called Qu Song in history. Song Yu is talented, and he writes a lot of resignations, but there are relatively few hand-me-down works, only four works, "Nine Arguments", "Feng Fu", "Gao Tang Fu", and "Deng's Disciple Lustful Fu", have been handed down.
Among Song Yu's four works, "Deng's Disciple's Lustful Fu" is the most widely circulated, and Deng's disciple has also become synonymous with describing men as lustful in later generations.
And this article "Deng's Disciple's Lustful Fu" also compares Song Yu's handsome and handsome image, Song Yu's writing of "Deng's Disciple's Lustful Fu" actually began with Deng's false accusation against Song Yu in front of King Chu Xiang.
Deng's disciple was originally an official of the Chu State, and he was jealous of Song Yu's handsomeness and talent, so he called Song Yu a little white face in front of King Chu Xiang, with his handsome appearance and ability to speak well, and he was lustful every day to deceive the little girl, so this kind of person should not be reused, and it was suggested that King Chu Xiang should not believe in Song Yu and not reuse him.
Song Yu was naturally very annoyed by the false accusations of Dengzi, so he ran to the king of Chu Xiang to ask him to comment, Song Yu said: There is no beauty in the world than the woman of Chu, and the beauty of Chu is no more than the woman of my hometown, and the beauty of my hometown is none other than the daughter of my neighbor Donglin. My neighbor's daughter is white and beautiful, with long legs, delicate skin, white teeth, and a slender waist like willows, such a stunning beauty has been lying on the wall every day for three years in order to see me, and every time she sees me go out, she is excited to scream at me, and I have no affection for her in the face of this stunning beauty, am I also a womanizer?
After Song Yu gave himself an example, he also said: On the contrary, it is not a good thing to be a disciple, he has an ugly wife, his wife has messy hair, deformed ears, turned lips, uneven teeth, is still a hunchback, walks high and low, and has scabies on her body. is such an ugly woman, but the disciple loves her so much that he has five children with her in a row. So the king, you see that this disciple even likes such an ugly woman so much, which can show that he belongs to a man who likes a woman, and he is much more lustful than me.
Song Yu justified himself, and sure enough, King Chu Xiang thought that Deng's disciple was a womanizer, so he belittled Deng's disciple, and paid more and more attention to Song Yu.
In fact, from a modern point of view, Deng's disciple still likes his ugly wife very much, and his character is no problem. However, Song Yu is eloquent and eloquent, Song Yu's rhetoric made King Chu Xiang confused, but he really thought that Deng's disciple was lustful, which also made Deng's disciple synonymous with lust in later generations.
Although Song Yu is handsome and talented, and his eloquence is still very good, he is not good at being an official, and later offended Chunshenjun Huang Xie, the son of Chu State. After King Chu Kaolie succeeded to the throne, Chun Shenjun was favored, Song Yu was suppressed in the officialdom, and later Chun Shenjun took in the government affairs of Chu State, Song Yu was completely dismissed at the age of 50, after which Song Yu returned to the countryside, until Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries and destroyed Chu State, Song Yu died of illness with nostalgia and regret for Chu State, at the age of 76. This belonged to Gao Shou at that time, so Song Yu belonged to Gao Shou and died.
Pan An, a peerless beautiful man who is infatuated and single-minded, was finally beheaded
Pan An is a person from the Western Jin Dynasty, his real name is Pan Yue, and his name is Anren. The origin of Pan An's name has to start from when he was the commander of Heyang County, Pan An liked peach blossoms all his life, and the reason was out of filial piety, it turned out that Pan An's mother liked peach blossoms, so Pan An often planted peach blossoms to enjoy peach blossoms, when he was the commander of Heyang County, because of the deep homesickness and missed his mother, so he planted peach blossoms in the whole county of Heyang County, so the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote the famous poem "I'm afraid it is Pan'an County" in the poem "Flower Bottom", because Du Fu's poems were handed down, so later generations called him Pan An.
According to the record of "The World Says New Words", Pan An was handsome and handsome when he was young, and he was very attractive to girls, every time he went shopping in the county, he would attract almost all women in the county to watch him, and some crazy female fans gave him flowers and fruits, so every time he went home after shopping, he returned with a full load, and later generations also had the idiom of throwing fruits.
Pan An is handsome, but he is not a vase, he is very talented, his literary achievements are very high, in the history of literature and Lu Ji are called "Pan Jiang Luhai", known as the leader of the Western Jin Dynasty literary circle, and Pan An is very famous in ancient times, and has always been respected by the ancients as the first beautiful man.
In fact, Pan An is not only handsome and talented, but also very infatuated and single-minded, his wife was the queen of Jiangmen at that time, and Yang Rongji, the daughter of Yang Zhao, the assassin of Jingzhou. Pan An and Yang Rongji were engaged at the age of 12, and officially married at the age of 24, after getting married, although Pan An was very handsome and attracted many women, but Pan An never looked at other women after getting married, and never took a concubine, he and Yang Rongji had a very deep relationship with the couple.
When Pan An was fifty years old, Yang Rongji died, Pan An actually kept filial piety for his wife for a year, and he did not remarry after being widowed, and Pan An also created a new genre in the history of poetry for his wife, that is, mourning poems, Pan An wrote a number of mourning poems with the theme of mourning his deceased wife after the death of his wife, which shows Pan An's infatuation and single-mindedness for his wife.
It can be said that Pan An's feelings for his wife Yang Rongji are not only extremely rare in the patriarchal feudal era, but almost rare even in modern times. Pan An is simply the best spouse in the minds of modern girls, not careful, handsome, talented and rich, Pan An is an almost perfect man.
However, it is not good for people to be too perfect, perfect people are not destined to have a perfect ending, Pan An is like this, not only does he have a miserable ending, but his entire life career is very bumpy.
Pan An was also envied by many people in his early years because of his handsome appearance and talent, in that era of attaching importance to family origin, Pan An's family background was not high, and he was also jealous, so he was excluded and discriminated against in the political arena.
In his later years, in order to show his ambitions, Pan An had to take refuge in the Jia group led by Jia Nanfeng, the empress of Emperor Sima Zhen of the Jin Hui Dynasty, and her nephew Jia Mi. Due to the intellectual disability of Emperor Sima Zhen of the Jin Dynasty, his power in the court has always been held by the queen Jia Nanfeng, and the Jia group can be described as calling for wind and rain in the political arena of the Western Jin Dynasty at that time.
Sima Zhen's crown prince Sima Shu is more talented, but he is not the son of Jia Nanfeng, so he is suspicious of Jia Nanfeng, and Jia Nanfeng wants to abolish him. Pan An was involved in the conspiracy arranged by Jia Nanfeng to depose the crown prince Sima Shu.
Once Sima Shu was drunk, Jia Mi asked Pan An to write a sacrificial article, and then asked Sima Shu to copy it, when the drunk Sima Shu copied it in a daze, Pan An got the article written by Sima Shu and modified the meaning of some of the contents, turning a sacrificial article into a rebellion article, Jia Nanfeng used this as an excuse to abolish and give Sima Shu to death.
Although Pan An was not the mastermind in the conspiracy of Sima Shu to be abolished and given death, he was just a tool man, but he was also involved in this matter. Therefore, in the Eight Kings Rebellion, Jia Nanfeng and Jia Mi's aunt and nephew were killed, the Jia group was destroyed, and Sima Yi's son Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, took power.
Sima Lun's important strategist Sun Xiu had been humiliated by Pan An many times, so he hated Pan An very much, so he asked Sima Lun to order the extermination of the three Pan An clans on the grounds that Pan An had participated in the Jia Group's plot to kill the crown prince Sima Shu.
Interestingly, Pan An's friend Shi Chong was also killed on the same day as him, and during the execution, Shi Chong was surprised to ask him how he was also arrested and wanted to be killed, Pan An replied, "Bai Shou is the same place", this is a poem he wrote to Shi Chong, which means that he hopes that the two of them can get together and talk about the world when they are old, but it is used in this case.
In 300 A.D., Pan An's handsome and handsome head fell to the ground at the age of 53. "Book of Jin" recorded Pan An as "irritable and inclined to the world", the evaluation is very accurate, because Pan An was from a humble background, so in order to seek promotion in the career, he has been tending to be inflammatory, and his mother has persuaded him not to be inflammatory, and it is good to keep a dull life, but he is bent on succeeding in his career, and finally buried his Qingqing's life.
Wei Jue, who was tired to death by female fans scrambling to watch
Wei Jue and Pan An are contemporaries, both of whom are from the Two Jin Dynasty, but Wei Jue is more than thirty years younger than Pan An, Wei Jue is a famous metaphysician in the Two Jin Dynasty and a Qing Talker, he is talented, eloquent, and very good at talking. His grandfather was the famous general Wei Qian in the late Three Kingdoms period and the early Western Jin Dynasty.
When Wei Qian was five years old, Wei Qian saw that he was different, thinking that he was eloquent and quick-witted, but it was a pity that Wei Qian was old at the time and could not see the day when he became a talent.
Although Wei Jue was very talented, handsome and handsome, he was frail and sickly since he was a child, and the doctor once warned his mother Wang not to overwork him. However, Wei Jue is talented, easy to make friends, and often likes to talk about metaphysics with friends, and discussing metaphysics is a matter of both tongue and energy, so Wei Jue's mother Wang often advised him not to talk too much with others, so as not to overwork.
Wei Ji's uncle Wang Ji was also a beautiful man at that time, heroic and handsome, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan, specially recruited Wang Ji as a concubine and married his daughter to him, which shows how handsome and handsome Wang Ji is.
Wang Ji once took Wei Jue as a teenager to go shopping, Wang Ji, who was the focus of handsomeness wherever he went, was all snatched away by his nephew Wei Jue, and women on the street, both young and old, rushed to see Wei Jue, because Wei Jue's complexion was as white and tender as warm jade, and there were many women on the street who wanted to rush to touch Wei Jue's face.
Later, Wang Ji sighed that taking his nephew Wei Jue by his side was like carrying a beautiful jade, he was originally conceited and handsome, but now compared with his nephew Wei Jue, he simply felt ugly.
Wei Jue is not only handsome and handsome, he is also very gentlemanly, he often thinks that no one is perfect, and people make mistakes, so they are always tolerant of anyone, so people who are familiar with Wei Jue know that there is no expression of joy and anger on his face, he is a person who is moody and invisible, and his handsome face is always an ancient well.
Later, the Western Jin Dynasty fell into the war of Wuhu Chaohua, the Western Jin Dynasty regime moved south to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the wealthy families of the Central Plains also moved south, Wei Jue came to Nanjing at the invitation of Wang Dun, the general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
At that time, the aristocratic women in Nanjing heard that Wei Jue, a peerless beautiful man after Pan An, was coming, so they rushed to visit Wei Jue's home to see his peerless beauty. There were too many people visiting Wei Jue, and Wei Jue was also very casual and approachable, he received guests every day despite his physical weakness, and finally let him die of exhaustion at the age of 27.
Wei Jue died of exhaustion from receiving admiring female fans, which is also the origin of the allusion to the killing of Wei Jue in later generations. In the Tang Dynasty, some people wrote poems to lament the killing of Wei Jue, saying: The ladies in the capital are unprovoked and stupid, and they don't know how to kill the jade.
is so handsome that he has to wear a mask on the battlefield, Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling
Lanling King Gao Changgong is the Northern Qi royal family during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, his grandfather is the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty Shenwu Emperor Gao Huan, his father is also the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty Emperor Gao Cheng, he is the fourth son of Gao Cheng, his real name is Gao Su, the word Changgong, famous for the word.
Since Gao Changgong's uncle Emperor Wenxuan Emperor Gao Yang founded the Northern Qi Dynasty, the emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty were basically fratricidal, very brutal and mediocre, so later generations believed that the Gao family may have a family history of hereditary mental illness.
However, Gao Changgong is the only normal person in the old Gao family of the Northern Qi royal family, he is not only handsome, but also generous, can be sympathetic to the soldiers, and can share weal and woe with the soldiers, so he won the hearts of the army during the period of unifying the army, and he can make his soldiers serve him to the death in every battle.
In the "Book of Northern Qi", Gao Changgong was once evaluated as "soft and strong-looking, beautiful in voice and appearance"; In the "Old Tang Dynasty Book and Music Chronicle", he was called "talented and beautiful"; "Sui and Tang Jiahua" called him a "white beauty woman".
Many historical materials have recorded how handsome Gao Changgong was, and according to legend, Gao Changgong had to go to the battlefield all the year round, because he was too handsome, he always felt that he lacked killing spirit when he went into battle, and he deliberately wore a fierce and domineering mask to highlight his murderous aura.
Gao Changgong was born in the royal family and nobles, looks burly and handsome, is a typical rich and handsome, and is also very capable, good at using soldiers, is an important military general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, according to this setting, his life is simply too perfect, but always know that people who are too perfect will have disasters.
During the victory in Bishan, Gao Changgong led 500 cavalry to repel the Northern Zhou army, which made Gao Changgong famous and made the emperor suspicious of him.
After the war, Gao Changgong's uncle and younger brother, Gao Wei, the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, asked him: "The battle is too deep, and there is nothing to regret the defeat." ”
Gao Changgong replied: "The family matter is cordial, and I don't realize it." ”
This means that Gao Wei asked Gao Changgong with concern that he went so deep into the enemy formation, in case there was a mistake, it would be too late to regret it, but Gao Changgong replied that these are family matters, and there is no big deal.
Gao Changgong's sentence turned state affairs into family affairs caused Gao Wei's suspicions, Gao Wei thought that Gao Changgong was very talented in military affairs, and now because of the prestige of the great victory in Bishan, he also held military power, which was a great threat to his throne, plus Gao Changgong's father Gao Cheng could have become the founding emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but was assassinated on the eve of the founding of the country, Gao Cheng's sons were young, so the Northern Qi was founded by Gao Cheng's younger brother Gao Yang.
Therefore, Gao Wei began to be afraid of Gao Changgong, afraid that he would use his current military power and prestige plus his identity and bloodline as Gao Cheng's son to fight for the throne, and he no longer trusted him.
Gao Changgong sensed Gao Wei's suspicion of him, so he deliberately accepted bribes from others, pretending to be greedy for money and not power, and deliberately said that he was sick and no longer went to court.
However, it makes sense that the Northern Qi Dynasty is called the Dynasty of Beasts, Gao Wei did not give up his suspicion of him because Gao Changgong was so cautious, Gao Wei always felt that Gao Changgong was there, and it was a threat to his throne.
So one day in May 573 A.D., Cushman sent someone to visit his cousin Gao Changgong and brought a cup of poisoned wine along the way. Gao Changgong was very sad and indignant after receiving the poisoned wine, and he said to his wife Zheng: "I am loyal to the matter, why should I live up to the sky, and I will be punished!" ”
Zheng naively persuaded him to intercede with the emperor in person to get his life back. Gao Changgong understood that Gao Wei had to kill himself, it was useless for him to see Gao Wei, the veteran Hu Luguang, who had been on the battlefield with Gao Changgong the year before, had no guilt, and was summoned to the palace, and then was brutally strangled to death with a bowstring in the palace.
Gao Changgong understood that when the emperor began to suspect you, it would be impossible for you to live again, so Gao Changgong left the last sentence: "How can the face of heaven be seen!" He immediately drank all the poisonous wine, and before he died, Gao Changgong burned all the IOUs written by others who asked him to borrow money, and he died at the age of 32.
Poor Gao Changgong Jin Ge Iron Horse lived his life, but in the end he did not die on the battlefield, but died in his cousin Gao Wei's suspicion of him, and a cup of poisonous wine hastily ended his life.
However, Gao Wei's poisoning of Gao Changgong was tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall, because the generals of the Northern Qi who could fight well died at the hands of Gao Wei's suspicion, so the Northern Qi could not resist the attack of the Northern Zhou Dynasty at all later, and soon the Northern Qi regime was destroyed by the Northern Zhou.
Write at the end
This is the ending of the four beautiful men in ancient times, they all say that women are famous, in fact, the fate of these four peerless beautiful men is not very good, in addition to Song Yu's long life, Pan An was beheaded and exterminated, Wei Jue died young, Gao Changgong was given death, the ending is not very good, even Song Yu, who has a good life, is depressed in his career. Therefore, it is said that a woman who is beautiful is a beautiful woman, and the same is true for a man who is handsome.
Although the four beautiful men are all very handsome and handsome, they are not vases, each of them has outstanding talents, and they are strange men who cultivate both inside and outside. Perhaps they hope that future generations will not only remember their handsome faces, but the phrase "beauty is not in the bones" is also applicable to handsome men, and excellent souls are far more worthy of being remembered by future generations than the beauty of the prosperous age.