This historical mystery has long puzzled scholars. A generation of stunning Diao Chan was once caught in the whirlpool of troubled times and strife because of her alluring appearance, and finally committed suicide, what caused her tragic ending? Did Guan Yu do something excessive to her, or did he have something else hidden? Is she a pitiful victim, or is she the culprit of the disaster for the country and the people? Let's go back in time and find out the truth.
Diao Chan elegance peerless background origin
Spring and white snow, it rains this peerless beauty between heaven and earth. Ren's Diao Chan is unusual, born in a poor peasant family, and when she was young, her family was poor and had to be forced to become a singer. However, fate played a cruel joke, and her peerless appearance became her only reliance and her biggest bane.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo coerced Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to control the government, which led to chaos in the government and the opposition. Situ Wang Yun, who was loyal to the Eastern Han royal family, had to resort to intrigue in order to get rid of Dong Zhuo, an enemy. One day, he happened to pass by the garden and saw that Diao Chan had made dark clouds cover the bright moon when he was worshipping the moon, and he couldn't help but have a plan. He immediately accepted Diao Chan as a righteous daughter, fabricated rumors of "Closed Moon Shame Flowers", and hyped up the beauty of Diao Chan's national color and fragrance.
Sure enough, the plan was a great success. Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, who are not as good as pigs and dogs, as soon as they heard Diao Chan's peerless face, they were all ape-like, and they were almost in a state of mind. Wang Yun took the opportunity to pretend to be Diao Chan and let her perform the famous "beauty trick" to induce a rift between Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, thus dividing their relationship, and finally provoked Lu Bu's crime of assassinating Dong Zhuo.
In this way, Diao Chan, a village girl from a poor peasant family, was swept into the whirlpool of troubled times overnight. Her stunning face became her biggest bane, but it also became her only reliance. She had to be forced to become a pawn in the hands of politicians and do dirty things that had nothing to do with her. For this innocent village girl, she is destined to become a victim.
The cause of the dispute is divisive
Wang Yun's strategy achieved the desired results. Under his vigorous publicity, Diao Chan's peerless appearance of "national color and heavenly fragrance" spread all over Beijing. Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, the two mediocre magnates, were all fascinated by it, almost crazy.
Dong Zhuo, as the prime minister of the dynasty, took the first step and forced Wang Yun to marry Diao Chan to himself. Wang Yun had no choice but to send Diao Chan to the palace to serve Dong Zhuo. Although Diao Chan is pure and virtuous by nature, he is also assimilated by this absurd and lascivious environment, and unconsciously immersed in the atmosphere of the palace.
Although Lu Bu is only a powerful minister, he is more rampant and domineering than Dong Zhuo. When he saw that Dong Zhuo had obtained this stunning beauty, he was very jealous, so he gathered his cronies and planned to seize Diao Chan. As a result, the two sides had a contradiction over Diao Chan, and the war was about to break out.
Wang Yun saw this, so he asked Diao Chan to deliberately wander between Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, making their contradictions more and more intense. Sure enough, under Diao Chan's divisive plan and Wang Yun's instigation, the contradiction between Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu finally became white-hot, and the two sides fought each other, and you lived and died.
The civil strife lasted for several months, and the Kyoshi was nearly paralyzed. Finally, in a fierce battle, Lu Bu personally went out and killed Dong Zhuo, captured Diao Chan and took her as a concubine. Although Diao Chan is pure by nature, he has also been assimilated by this power struggle, from being just a pawn of Wang Yun at the beginning, and gradually learning how to use his beauty to manipulate men's minds.
The White Gate Tower Lu Bu fell
After Lu Bu won, he was able to accept Diao Chan as a concubine. However, the good times were short-lived, and Cao Cao, the emerging overlord, soon swung eastward and smashed Lü Bu's lair to Xiapi.
The two armies fought in Xiapi, and the other lost their strengths, and the battle was stalemate. Finally, Cao Cao set up a plan to discord, sowing discord among the important ministers in Lu Bu's army, Zhang Miao, Chen Cheng and others, so that they would surrender to Cao Cao. Lü Bu's army gradually collapsed, and was finally captured by Cao Cao on top of the White Gate Tower.
In the face of Lu Bu, who was surrendered, Cao Cao originally wanted to accept her as a concubine in order to win the world, but Lu Bu was still arrogant and arrogant on his deathbed, and his mouth spoke wildly, which angered Cao Cao. Cao Cao had no choice but to behead Lu Bu on the White Gate Tower, ending the life of this faint king.
After this battle, none of Lu Bu's wives and concubines and children were spared, and all of them were captured, including Diao Chan. Diao Chan's slim and beautiful appearance once again caught the eyes of a new magnate - Cao Cao.
Seeing Diao Chan's complexion, Cao Cao was almost fascinated. It's still the familiar beauty, the skin is better than snow, and the eyebrows are picturesque. Even Cao Cao, a taciturn veteran, could barely hold it. However, just when he wanted to take Diao Chan as a concubine, he suddenly came up with a plan: Why not send her to Guan Yu, the general under my command, so as to win him over?
So, Cao Cao sent someone to send Diao Chan to Guan Yu's camp, wanting to use this beauty trick to win over this brave general. Who knows, how can Guan Yu be as vulgar as Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo? Although he saw Diao Chan's peerless face, he was not moved at all, but denounced her as a red-faced sinner who brought disaster to the country.
The mystery of Guan Yu
Although Guan Yu is brave and fearless, he also has an honest and kind heart. Seeing this red-faced sinner woman who brought disaster to the country and the people, he naturally reprimanded him. However, Cao Cao's conspiracy did not stop there.
Cao Cao sent his advisor Xun You to Guan Yu's camp and sent Diao Chan to Guan Yu again. Xun You even offered a plan to let Guan Yu have Diao Chan as a concubine, so as to separate the relationship between Guan Yu and Liu Bei. Although Guan Yu is brave, it is also human nature, and he can't help but be so stunning by his side, and finally his heart is moved.
It was on this night that a thrilling event happened. Guan Yu was fascinated by Diao Chan's delicate beauty, and the two stayed in the same room. However, on this night, Diao Chan accidentally committed suicide and hanged himself. As for why she behaved the way she did, there are two completely different theories that have been handed down.
One theory is that although Guan Yu was tempted for a while, he couldn't let go of his ethics as a general after all, and he didn't do anything out of the way to Diao Chan. But Diao Chan felt that he was deeply guilty, and he was not worthy of being with such a heroic Guan Yu, so he hanged himself in the middle of the night, but he was guilty of his life.
Another well-smelling theory is that Guan Yu actually insulted her after getting Diao Chan. He didn't stop until he was drunk late at night, and Diao Chan was discouraged and committed suicide under the moon in order to do so. Early the next morning, when Guan Yu woke up, he found that Diao Chan had hanged himself in the room, and he was so frightened that he didn't know what to do.
Lessons from history
Regardless of the reason for Diao Chan's suicide, her tragic ending has taught us a profound historical lesson.
Diao Chan was born in a poor peasant and was originally a pure and simple village girl. But the trick of fate swept her into that turbulent and chaotic world. She was forced to become a tool in the hands of the powerful to play with people's hearts and minds, to carry out the shameless "discordant scheme".
Although Diao Chan is not voluntary, she is almost immersed in this absurd environment, and has learned to use her appearance to deceive people. In the eyes of the mediocre ministers at the time, she was just a dispensable plaything for their entertainment.
Throughout Diao Chan's life, it is not difficult for us to find that this poor village girl is destined to become a victim. Her beauty gave her a chance, but it was also her bane. In the end, she was implicated in the intrigue of those power struggles, committed suicide with hatred, and suffered an extremely tragic end.
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The tragedy of Diao Chan has become an eternal lesson of the horror of power and the demagogic power of beauty on human nature. We need to be wary of those who are in power, and we must also guard against those who are blinded by beauty. Only by staying away from these can we be truly free and live a peaceful life.