Friends who like ancient paintings must be familiar with the "Female Shi Zhentu", which is an illustration of the "Female Shi Zhen" painted by the Eastern Jin Dynasty painter Gu Kaizhi for the sage Zhang Hua at that time, and this work uses some historical stories to advise the women in the palace to establish a noble moral character and cultivate morality.
The extant "Female History Proverbs" is no longer Gu Kaizhi's original work, but a copy of posterity, one is a Tang facsimile, which is now in the British Museum, and the other Song Dynasty facsimile is hidden in the Forbidden City, which is naturally more precious than the Tang facsimile.
For more than a thousand years, this Tang facsimile was collected in the court and folk collection, until the late Qing Dynasty was brought to the Summer Palace by Empress Dowager Cixi, and finally fell into the hands of the Eight-Nation Alliance together with a large number of national treasures, and was only publicly exhibited twice in the British Museum, which is a rare and unique treasure.
Zhang Hua's original work has twelve chapters, and the illustrations painted by Gu Kaizhi are also divided into twelve paragraphs, and the heroine who appears in the first paragraph is Feng Jieyu, and her appearance is very shocking.
That day, Emperor HanYuan took a large number of concubines to watch the beast performance, only to hear a wild roar, the tiger opened its teeth and danced its claws to the black bear, knowing that the black bear in a disadvantage was scared to flee, but the Colosseum was fighting you to the death, there was no hiding place, the helpless black bear suddenly jumped over the fence with full strength, directly rushed to the front of the Han Yuan Emperor, the concubines who were originally surrounding the Han Yuan Emperor were shocked, screaming while running around, completely causing the emperor's safety to be disregarded, only Feng Jieyu had no fear, Desperately blocked in front of the emperor. At this time, the left and right guards woke up and killed the black bear, and the emperor finally turned the situation around.
The story about Feng Jieyu is recorded in the Book of Han, Feng Jieyu's real name is Feng Yuan, is also the daughter of the official eunuch, when the Han Yuan Emperor was elected to the harem, first named as a long envoy, because of the outstanding performance soon after was named a beauty, and for the Han Yuan Emperor gave birth to a son named Liu Xing, so he was also named Jie Yu, even Feng Jie Yu's father was also named the Right General, and then Feng Jie Yu continued to be crowned Zhaoyi, this Zhaoyi in the palace status is second only to the empress, Feng Jieyu is to give birth to a son to the emperor, and to the emperor to block the bear, until this time, This Feng Yuan's promotion road is naturally smooth.
However, once you enter the palace, it is as deep as the sea, and it is so easy to start and end well. After the death of Emperor Yuan of Han, Feng Yuan went to the fiefdom with her son Liu Xing, and Liu Xing was made the King of Zhongshan, Feng Yuan was naturally also crowned Empress Zhongshan, originally thinking that Empress Feng could spend her old age here, but Liu Xing died suddenly, and Liu Xing's son, who was less than one year old, succeeded him as the King of Zhongshan, and Empress Feng lost her dependence, and Empress Fu, who had a gap with Empress Feng, took the opportunity to falsely accuse Emperor Wu of Han Ai, saying that Empress Feng had cursed Emperor Han and the empress, and Emperor Han sent Yu Shi to investigate, and Yu Shi was instructed by Empress Fu to fabricate the facts, and Empress Feng had a hard time arguing. He eventually died of poison.
The life of Feng Jieyu, who shielded the emperor from the bear in "Female Shi Zhentu", ended in tragedy. Even if you are a virtuous concubine with both moral integrity and ability, you can't escape the calculations of the villain.