Lady Feng, her real name is Concubine. Around the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (101 BC), he accompanied Princess Xieyou, the granddaughter of King Wu of The Western Han Dynasty, to Wusun as a waiter. JieYou married Kun Mo (king, later known as Kun Mi) Junsu Jing as his wife, and Feng Yan was the wife of the right general. At that time, Princess Jieyou and Feng Yan were both about sixteen or seventeen years old. Feng Yan was learned and knowledgeable in history books, "internal study of Han affairs, external study of the affairs of the western regions", often holding the Han Festival, for the princess envoys, visiting the countries of the western regions, giving gifts to the people of all countries. The officials and people of the western regions respected her and honored Feng Yan as "Lady Feng".
Wusun is a predominantly nomadic people, originally living between Dunhuang and Qilian, and is adjacent to the Dayue clan. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, it was broken by the Great Moon Clan and moved to the Ili River Valley in the west to establish a state. By this time, the population had multiplied, with about 100,000 households and a population of more than 600,000, and was a large country in the western region, Duchigu (present-day Ishtik, Central Asia). Due to its proximity to the Xiongnu, in the early Western Han Dynasty, it was controlled by the Xiongnu for a long time. In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (119 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to Wusun to fight ally with Wusun to fight the Xiongnu, and invited Wusun to return to the old land of Hexi after defeating the Xiongnu. However, King Wusun was afraid of the Xiongnu, and because he was too far away from Han and did not know the size, strength or weakness of Han, he did not agree to Zhang Qian's request. However, in order to understand the Great Han and show friendship, Wusun sent dozens of emissaries to accompany Zhang Qian back to Chang'an, and gave dozens of horses to Emperor Wu of Han. After Zhang Qian returned to China from Wusun, he was ranked as the ninth secretary of state with meritorious service and command of ethnic minorities and foreign affairs. He died a year later.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, King Wusun proposed marriage to the Han Dynasty with a thousand horses as a dowry. In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (105 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, with the daughter of King Jian of Jiangdu, as a princess, married Wusun Kunmijun Xujing, and "gave them royal relics to prepare officials, eunuchs, and attendants for hundreds of people." About five years later, Xiaojun died, and relieved his worries and remarried to Wusun. Jieyou had three sons and two daughters, the eldest son Yuan Guijing was the Crown Prince of Wusun, the second son Wannian was the King of Shache, the third son Da Le was the general of Wusun Zuo, the eldest daughter was the Princess Of guizi, and the younger daughter Su Guang was the Marquis of Wusun Ruohu. The waiter Feng Yansheng is intelligent, knowledgeable, good at writing lishu, mutual comfort and encouragement with relief, determined to live in Wusun, and fulfilled his mission. Feng Yan often rode to the horse pasture, went in and out of the felt tent, and in only a few years, she was already familiar with the language, writing and customs of the Western Regions.
When Lady Feng arrived in Wusun, Emperor Wu of Han had just won the battle against Dawan the previous year, and in the same year, he placed emissaries in Tuntian in Luntai and Quli (present-day Luntai, Korla, and Weili in Xinjiang) to protect him, and began to run the western region, but the Han had only a few hundred Soldiers in Luntai and Quli, and their troops were weak and had little impact. Almost all of the more than thirty countries in the Western Regions, except for Wusun, were controlled by the Xiongnu, large or small. From Wusun as a base, Madame Feng made friendly visits to various countries in the name of a princess emissary and won trust. This played a huge role in weakening the influence of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions and promoting the relations between the Han and the countries of the Western Regions.
In the later period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the reign of Emperor Zhao, the Xiongnu migrated westward, approached the Western Regions, and used knights to tighten their control and exploitation of the Western Regions by using knights to serve in the Cheshi Kingdom of Tuntian and set up servants and lieutenants. He also sent envoys to Wusun, asking Wusun to sacrifice the princess of relief, and also usurped Wusun's Cheyan and evil master land. At this time, He wrote to Emperor Zhao and asked for help, but when the secretary of state was undecided, Emperor Zhao died. When Emperor Xuan ascended the throne, XieYou and Kun Mi sent envoys to write a letter saying: "The Xiongnu sent a series of large soldiers to invade Wusun, take Cheyan and evil divisions, and take the people; Kunmi was willing to send half a soldier to give 50,000 horses to attack the Xiongnu. Only Tianzi sent troops to save the princess and Kunmi. "Emperor Xuan, with five generals, sent 150,000 horses, divided into five roads, and Wusun also sent 50,000 horses from west to east to attack the Xiongnu with The Han soldiers. The Han soldiers gained nothing, the Wusun soldiers won a great victory, and they captured a large number of people and livestock, and Wusun's prestige in the western region was greatly shaken. The relationship between the Han and Wusun has become closer, and the relations with the countries of the Western Regions have also developed smoothly. These circumstances are inseparable from Madame Feng's activities.
Around the second year of Emperor Xuan's reign (60 BC), her husband Weng Guijing fell ill and died, and a struggle for the throne broke out within the Wusun nobility. Yuan Guijing, the son of Jie, failed to inherit the throne, and Ni Jing, the son of the Xiongnu lady of the former Kunmi army, seized the throne. Ni Jing also takes the relief of worries as his wife, and is at odds with the relief of worries, and he is violent and loses the public. JieYou and Han Ling stabbed Mud Jing, and Mud Jing escaped. Wu, the son of Weng Guijing's Xiongnu lady, slaughtered Nijing and established himself as Kunmi. Leading the crowd to the area around the North Mountain, he threatened "the Xiongnu soldiers of the mother's family to come", threatened JieYou and Yuan Guijing, and intimidated the people. When Emperor Xuan learned of this, he immediately sent the Jiuquan Taishou Qiang general Xin Xianwu to lead 15,000 troops to Dunhuang to prepare to attack Wusun. At this time, zheng ji, the first protector of the western regions, sent people to tell Lady Feng to try to solve it. Lady Feng's husband, the right general Wusun, was friendly with Wu Justu, and she used this relationship to persuade Wu Justu not to surrender to the Xiongnu, but still to return to Han. She said: "When the Han soldiers come out, they will be destroyed, so it is better to descend." Wu Justu was very frightened and expressed his willingness to return to Han, but hoped to get the title of "Little Kunmi".
In order to understand wusun's political situation, Emperor Xuan urgently summoned Lady Feng back to Chang'an. After meeting Emperor Xuan, Lady Feng was also instructed to serve as a regular envoy, together with the deputy envoys Zhu Ci and Zhimen Gan, to take a golden car, hold the Han Festival, and then return to Wusun to deal with the Wusun issue. Lady Feng's ability to return to Wusun as an envoy to deal with problems shows that Lady Feng showed good diplomatic skills and ability to deal with complex issues when she saw Emperor Xuan. At the same time, Emperor Xuan of Han sent more water conservancy experts such as lieutenants to dig wells and ditches in the Lop Nur area, build warehouses to transport grain, and form a long-term force deterrent. After Lady Feng arrived in Wusun, she ordered Wu to slaughter to Chigu with the edict of Emperor Xuan, and Liyuan Guijing as the Great Kunmi and Wu to the Little Kunmi, all of which were given to Yinshou. Later, the people and the land were divided, and more than 60,000 households were led by the Great Kunmi and more than 40,000 households in the Small Kunmi, and the internal disputes in Wusun were put to rest, and the friendly relations between Han and Wusun were also maintained and consolidated. Xin Xianwu's army did not return, and a great bloodshed involving the three major ethnic groups of Han, Wusun and Xiongnu was avoided.
In the third year of Ganlu (51 BC), Yuan Gui died. Princess Jieyou was nearly seventy years old, and she wrote to Emperor Xuan, and in her old age and illness, she asked to return to Han China for the rest of her life. Emperor Xuan sympathized with her and sent someone to welcome her back to Chang'an, where he gave her the tian mansion and the slave maid, Princess Yibi. She also came with her three grandchildren; Lady Feng also returned to Chang'an at this time.
After Yuan Guijing's death, his son Xingjing succeeded to the throne as Dakunmi. However, Xingjing was weak, and most of the Wusun people were annexed to Wu and slaughtered, and the political situation was turbulent. Lady Feng wrote to Emperor Xuan: "May Wusun and Zhenfu Xingjing be satisfied." Both the imperial court and the Western Regions also believed that the situation in Wusun was grim, so Emperor Xuan approved Lady Feng's request and sent hundreds of soldiers to escort Lady Feng. Lady Feng returned to Wusun again in her ancient years. Han Xuan, the capital of the Western Regions, also asked the Han court to give the Wusun Officials, Dalu, and Dajian the Golden Seal Purple Ribbons, and encouraged them to honor and assist the Great Kun Mi Xingjing. Under the efforts of Lady Feng and Han Ting, the political situation in Wusun was maintained.
The difficulties of the Han family's daughter's life in Wusun are evident from the fragment of The Chronicle of History that describes the life of Xiaojun in Wusun: "The princess went to her country... Kun Mo was old, did not understand the language, the princess was sad, and wrote a song for herself: "My family marries me to the heavens, and entrusts the foreign king wusun to the king." The vault is the wall of the chamber and the meat is the pulp. Ju Chang Tu Xi's heart is wounded, and he is willing to return to his hometown for Huang Huxi. 'The Son of Heaven heard of it and took pity on him, and sent an emissary to hold a drapery splendid embroidery to the widow. "For the sake of the great righteousness of the nation, Madame Feng abandoned her personal gains and losses and sorrows and returned to Wusun, which is admirable.
Since Han and Wusun were reconciled, Han sent envoys to the Western Regions every year, more than ten times, and five or six times. The number of people in each mission ranges from a few hundred to a hundred. The far ones return in eight or nine years, and the near ones return in two or three years. Died, carrying a large amount of silk fabrics and gold and silver treasures, and when he returned, he brought back some valuable or missing products in China. Personnel exchanges and material and cultural exchanges have promoted the friendly relations between Han and the countries of the Western Regions, and also created conditions for the further development of friendly relations with countries in West Asia, North Africa and Southern Europe for future generations.
Sixty-eight years before Wang Zhaojun left Wusun, Feng Yan devoted herself to the cause of national friendship in Wusun for more than fifty years, making important contributions to the establishment of friendly relations between the Han And various ethnic groups in the western region and laying the foundation of the western territory of the motherland. Mrs. Feng was a talented female politician and a messenger of national friendship, whose exploits were outstanding at home and abroad, and her reputation was in later generations.