Red face disaster water is a very interesting topic in Chinese history, we carefully found that the proposition of red face disaster water must first be based on the failure of a man, Mei Xi because Xia Jie died in the Xia Dynasty, so she was known as "China's first disaster water"; Because of the collapse of King Zhou You's persona, she also landed on the list of red face disaster water... Who is the real scourge of the dazzling red face, and who is just splashed with dirty water by the world? Who actively wants to fish in muddy waters, and who is passively following the tide?
Jie was the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne, he lightly relinquished benevolence and martial arts, and ruled by tyranny, causing the whole land of China to be filled with smoke and smoke, and the people were not happy, and finally the country was destroyed. However, behind the discussion of history and people's fall of the country, there will always be an inevitable connection to the beautiful girl Xi, saying that she is a red face and a disaster!
So, is Mei Xi a red face or not? What kind of historical logic is behind the saying that the red face is a disaster?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="21" What kind of life did > Meixi go through? </h1>
Meixi's origin is not recorded in detail in history, and according to inference, it should be an ordinary woman with low social status. Because capital is often used to show off, if Meixi is really born rich, combined with the historical influence of Meixi, it is unlikely that the history books will have a brush stroke on her origin.
Therefore, let's take Meixi as an ordinary woman! When Mei Xi appeared on the stage of history, it was the Shi tribe who, in order to please Xia Jie, who did not like to be reasonable, gave her as a tribute to Xia Jie.
This raises the following questions:
1. Why does Meixi accept the fate arrangement as a commodity in her youth? Who does not want to decide their own destiny, but it is not up to others, and sister Xi embarks on this road, which is not what she wants, but more involuntarily.
2. Why can a sister of ordinary birth be offered as a tribute to Xia Jie? A person must be used must have the value of being used, and there is also a threshold for being used, if you want to be selected as a tribute by the princes of one side, you can't do it yourself. It is rumored that Mei Xi looks like a newborn hibiscus, natural beauty, bright eyes and bright teeth, fairy jade appearance, beautiful beyond measure, everywhere she goes, like a flock of chickens, this beauty is the capital of Mei Xi, and it is also the root of her future condemnation.
3. Why did Shi Shi dedicate such a beautiful and moving sister to Xia Jie? There is no unprovoked love in this world, no unprovoked hate, and no gratuitous tribute. The Xia Dynasty worked hard after the Tai Dynasty, and because of the invention of armor by its son, it became the strongest central dynasty worthy of the name. The stronger the power, the greater the desire, and the Xia Dynasty began to carry out a series of annexations and suppressions against the surrounding tribes to strengthen its central power and consolidate the rule of the central dynasty. The Shi tribe was once the target of the Xia Dynasty's conquests, and under the suppression of the Xia Dynasty's powerful military strength, the Shi tribe had to completely kneel down as a grandson for its own survival, trying to please the Xia Dynasty and promise to pay tribute every year. Good attitude and heavy gifts, this is the good recipe for the Shi tribe to be alone at that time. And the gift-giving, pay attention to a vote for its liking, when Xia Jie was in power, he had a great interest in beautiful women, and Shi Shi also took the opportunity to send this beautiful woman into the summer palace.
4. Xia Jie perished because he loved his sister Xi, is this a conspiracy that has been planned for a long time? Some people made a reverse inference based on the results of Xia Jie's fall, saying that shi shi sent Mei Xi to Xia Jie's side at that time, which was itself a conspiracy, that is, to use Mei Xi's beauty to confuse Xia Jie and add fuel to his fire. If Heaven wants to destroy it, it must first make it crazy, and Shi Shi just wants to use meixi to make Xia Jie even more crazy. Is there any truth to this statement? On the surface, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but it is a bit of an afterthought, after all, the Shi tribe does not have such a strong motivation, and it is not certain that Meixi has such a strong charm. Because the Xia Dynasty was originally a federal society, it was not an unacceptable thing for the Shi tribe to call the Xia Dynasty a tribute, you brought down the Xia Dynasty, with your strength at that time, you could not be a big brother, or you had to continue to call chennagong; secondly, Meixi was indeed beautiful, but the degree of Xia Jie's preference for Meixi was uncertain, and it was also uncertain whether Xia Jie loved Jiangshan more or loved beautiful women more. Therefore, it is biased to say that Mei Xi's entry into the palace is a long-planned conspiracy.
But no matter what, the beautiful and flower-like meixi was still sent to Xia Jie's side by the arrangement of fate, and Xia Jie, who had lived in the beauty circle since childhood, was also shocked to see meixi. Beautiful or not, I was afraid of comparing, and my sister's radiant appearance made Xia Jie feel that his original concubines were simply unworthy of being called beauties.
Since then, Meixi has soon succeeded in ascending to the throne with her beauty. Because beautiful women are matched with heroes, and Xia Jie has always felt that he is the only hero in the world, and he must have a beauty like Mei Xi to match him. In this way, the different vanities between people reached a perfect fit between Meixi and Xia Jie, and slowly derived irrepressible evil consequences.
Xia Jie's love of beauty is based on a male desire to conquer and arrogant vanity, and he uses beauty more as a symbol of power and vanity satisfaction. Sister Xi is charming, is a weak woman born in the chaotic world of helplessness and unwillingness, she is more of her own beauty as a kind of trading goods and profit points.
The two hit it off, and Xia Jie gave all his grace and tenderness to Meixi, who could make him feel comfortable, and Meixi also completed the fox fake tiger and became an arrogant and extravagant woman.
In the harem, the two of them swore an oath to each other, as if there were only two of them left in the whole world, and the whole world belonged to the two of them, and they did everything they could to please each other, and a deformed relationship of lips and teeth was formed.
The appearance of Mei Xi made Xia Jie feel that after getting his wife like this, his husband gradually lost his enterprising heart, and he felt that Mei Xi was the greatest meaning of his life, and he felt particularly satisfied. How strong a person's enterprising spirit often depends on how much satisfaction he has with his living environment, if a person feels that he is particularly satisfied and superior in life, it is difficult to have passion to struggle and struggle.
Sister Xi who climbed xia jie also opened a new picture of life since then, she was born at the bottom, she did not think that a woman could have so much with her own beauty, she could be so willful. She became a little unsure of herself, the original feeling of desire and desire was so good, the original stimulus of response was so cool, the original unreasonable waywardness was so beautiful.
Xia Jie and meixi indulged in singing, dancing and wine all day long, releasing the desires in their hearts and leaving the important affairs of the government behind. However, after all, Xia Jie and Mei Xi are not ordinary couples, but the kings of a country, you can not only enjoy power and glory, but also shoulder responsibilities and missions, and it is obviously inappropriate for you to turn your life into playing games and living behind closed doors. Seeing this, the courtiers of the Xia Dynasty either became discouraged and disappointed and fled away; they either turned against each other and prepared for an uprising; or they followed Jie and Meixi to spend the day together. In short, the hearts of the people in the court were scattered, and the destruction of the country was already doomed.
Later stories, everyone is familiar with. The more powerful a person does, the more rapidly he collapses. The ruling foundation of the Xia Dynasty was not solid, because you, the Son of Heaven, were actually just a big brother, not a parent. With the thickness of your fists, you have forced some princes to change from younger brothers to children and grandchildren, which is already a public outrage. This kind of anger and dissatisfaction can only be silent in the face of strong strength, but you must not make any stubble in the center of the Summer Dynasty, otherwise everyone will take advantage of your illness to kill you.
Now that Xia Jie has made the central part of the Xia Dynasty a miasma, when the moon is dark and the wind is high, when the people kill and set fires, those princely tribes that have always been disobedient and everyone is in danger will not tell you anything polite. Under the wise leadership of Shang Tang and under the careful planning of Yi Yin, the powerful Shang State killed the Xia Dynasty in one fell swoop.
The defeated Xia Jie escaped from the siege with his beloved sister Xi, crossed the mountains and rivers, and came to the South Nest Mountain, where he reached the end of his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="46" What kind of person is > Meixi? </h1>
Historical legends about Meixi are rarely recorded in the main history, and most of its events are found in books such as "The Biography of the Daughters of Lie" and "The Century of Emperors". Therefore, the history of Meixi that people see today may be somewhat biased and not completely objective. However, for a woman who enjoys herself with the king of the fallen country all day, history is not willing to forgive her, nor is it completely unreasonable.
It is precisely because of the lack of historical records that the story about Meixi has a variety of secondary creations, circulating many different versions, and among various versions, people's evaluations of the purpose of xia jie's side and the conclusion of her coffin are different.
One of the most widely circulated and talked about is the idea that Meixi was portrayed as a patriotic female spy. Proponents of this argue that Meixi's appearance was itself a political conspiracy and a crucial step in the foreign plan to overthrow the tyrant. The evidence support for their opinion is that there is such a sentence in the "Chinese'Jin Yu I": "Xixia has a shi, there are people who give people to sisters to like women, and sisters to like to have favors, so Hu and Yi Yinbi died in Xia." ”
This sentence was also added by them as a detailed story, saying that when Yi Yin saw that Xia's qi had been exhausted, he offered a plan to Tang, pretended to be a traitor to Xia, and quickly wooed meixi, who was already extremely favored, and reached a consensus with her that should be combined inside and outside. As a result, Mei Xi did her best every day to encourage Xia Jie to have fun in time and deliver favorable information to the Shang Kingdom, while Yi Yin returned to the Shang Kingdom to help Shang Tang plan carefully and prepare carefully. In the end, the inside should be combined with the outside, and the two-pronged overthrow of the center of the Xia Dynasty.
But this version of the story is actually not credible, because Sister Xi Dan who has a normal IQ can understand that it is not good for her to go bankrupt, and Xia Jie has always loved her, and there is no deep hatred, Shang Tang and she have never known each other, and she has no reason to overthrow a gold lord who can give her glory and wealth for an unrelated person.
The biggest basis for those who insist on this statement is actually the sentence "So Izumi and Yi Yinbi died of Xia", and "Than died of Xia" is said as if Meixi and Yiyin cooperated to destroy Xia. But in fact, this "than" is more of a juxtaposition, simultaneous meaning, that is to say, the fall of the Xia Dynasty has the Factor of Yi Yin, and there is also the Factor of Sister Xi in it, but it does not mean that the two are cooperative, or it may be just a coincidence.
In history and life, we need to get rid of a far-fetched understanding, and we can't say that she was a hero in the destruction of Xia because there was a sister-in-law factor in the fall of the Xia Dynasty. If so, then the Sui Emperor was still a hero of the Tang Dynasty, and Dong Zhuo was still a hero of the Three Kingdoms...
It is precisely because the previous statement cannot withstand careful scrutiny, so there is another version of the persona about Meixi, which provides emotional support for Meixi to be a spy, saying that Meixi is angry because of the harem's competition for favors, so she wants to take revenge on Xia Jie and destroys Xia Jie with Shang Tang and Yi Yinli.
The evidence of this statement is that there is a record in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" that when Xia Jie attacked Mount Hao, the lord of the mountain also sacrificed two beautiful people in order to protect himself, Wan and Yan. It is said that these two people are also able to sing and dance, flattering and charming, and they are fascinated. In order to show his love for them, Jie specially carved two names on moss jade and Hua jade. The new people were favored, the old people were frustrated, and the sister Xi was left out in the Luoshui area from then on. This made Mei Xi feel uneasy, so she went to an emotional extreme, jealousy burned, and what she couldn't get was something that others couldn't think of, so she made up her mind to destroy the Xia Dynasty.
This version is more rigorous than the previous version in terms of reason, after all, since ancient times, women's hearts have been needles, and it is common for people to compete for favors in the harem, and it is not impossible for the favored to call the wind and rain, and the out-of-favored people are jealous and burn their hearts, and they can't ask for it and have the intention of destroying it.
However, everyone seriously thinks about it, in fact, this version is not rigorous, because at this time, Meixi has fallen out of favor, and her role has actually been diluted, at most it is to reveal some gossip to Yi Yin, and the gold content will not be too high. If this statement is true, then the meritorious woman of the dead Summer is actually not Meixi, but more should be Wan and Yan, after all, Xia Jie's last favor is the two of them.
In short, the claim that Meixi is a spy has a board and an eye in history, and there is also a theory that after Meixi and Yiyin reached a consensus, they revealed the military information to Yiyin on the one hand to help the Shang Tang army find out Xia's weaknesses; on the other hand, they trumpeted it in China, saying that Xia Jie had a dream, dreaming that there was a sun in the west and a sun in the east, and the two suns fought with each other, and finally the sun in the west won, and the sun in the east fell. At that time, Shang was in the west, Xia was in the east, and Xi ri won, indicating that the Chamber of Commerce would replace Xia's position. After such remarks came out, the people firmly believed that the end of Xia was just around the corner, and Tang became the new leader. The people's desire, coupled with the guidance of public opinion, Shang Tang soon obtained the legitimate reason to send troops, and died.
It is as if Meixi is a trained spy, and she still knows how to inquire about military information? In addition, it is also unscientific to simplify the essential contradiction between Xia and Shang to public opinion propaganda. Shang Tang anti-Xia really needs to be famous, but it is by no means that Mei Xi can achieve the effect by making Xia Jie's dream of "two suns" public.
So, having said all this, what kind of person is Meixi? In addition to the overview of her life introduced in the first part, there are several specific things that are worth referring to.
Legend has it that Mei Xi has several special habits: listening to the sound of silk tearing, watching people have fun in the wine pool, and wearing men's official hats. These few habits are not a good thing at first glance, and they are briefly introduced below.
The Century of Kings records: "Wipe like to hear the sound of cracks and laugh, and increase the cracks for the sake of hair, so as to conform to their intentions." It is said that Mei Xi once heard the sound of the silk drapery tearing and became addicted to it. In order to make Bomei smile, Jie took out a large amount of silk from the treasury and ordered the palace maid to tear it up for her sister. The treasury was not enough silk, so it levied tyrannical taxes and levies, and increased the people's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, causing the people to complain. This is a typical loser's behavior, similar to today's money-burning behavior, because the Mian Shuai itself was a symbol of wealth in that era, and this behavior was tantamount to bloodletting Xia Jie.
Secondly, because Mei Xi liked to watch people crowding into the wine pool to drink, Xia Jie ordered a large pool to be dug in the palace, filled with fine wine, continuously, and would not dry up, for the wine pool. Usually, Xia Jie and his sister Xi would sit on the dragon boat, drive in the wine pool, and order three thousand palace girls to dance together, and the two of them would enjoy the song and dance while drinking. However, Mei Xi felt that this was not exciting enough, and she asked Xia Jie to find three thousand servants and indulge in drinking in the wine pool. The servants were drunk and ugly, and even many people died drunk by the side of the wine pool, and the sister smiled. This is the same nature as the drama people, and the Princes of the Beacon Theater of King Zhou You, which makes Xia Jie and the courtiers deviate from morality.
Finally, there is the problem of Meixi wearing a man's official hat, some people say that this is the exposure of Meixi's political ambitions, saying that she does not let her eyebrows and domineering side leaks, in fact, I still prefer to think that this is still the embodiment of the mind of a small woman in Meixi, and after a woman gets the favor of a man, she will always inadvertently test its bottom line to meet her deformed sense of superiority. At that time, women were strictly forbidden to participate in politics, and Meixi was not unaware, so she wanted to use the official hat to see how far Xia Jie's tolerance for her had reached. If other women are not allowed to do things, I can do them, and I will be overjoyed; if other women can't do things, I can't do them, which shows that you love me not completely.
In the end, Meixi actually came to Xia Jie as a spy or not (this is not very likely), she is essentially a poor woman without freedom.
A woman's beautiful appearance is indeed an advantage, but this advantage has become someone else's tool or pawn, which is an unfortunate in itself, and when Meixi is used as a chip by the Shi tribe to please Xia Jie, her fate has actually been doomed. In fact, if she can be at ease with the encounter and cherish Xia Jie's love for her, her life may not be able to become a beautiful legend. However, some women are easily lost after entering a more palatial environment with their looks, and she will feel that she has taken it for granted and easily, and she will feel that her appearance can make her invincible and give. She can conquer not only a man, but also the world of this man. Or rather, she was all there was to this man.
Meixi is such a small woman, because the starting point is too low, she wants to get too much, and then the more she loses!
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="69" > who is saying that Meixi is a red face? </h1>
When people say that Mei xi is a red face disaster water, its main logical sequence is like this, because Xia Jie likes mei xi, so he ignores the government for the sake of sister xi, and finally leads to the demise of the Xia Dynasty, so mei xi is the red face disaster water that plagues the country and the people. But is this logic correct?
First of all, let's see, if there is no meixi person, will the Xia Dynasty perish? In fact, the fundamental contradiction between Xia Shang is the power struggle between the central government and the local government, the big brother is not willing to be just a big brother, he wants to be the father and mother of the world, the little brother in these places in the Shang country originally felt very depressed when he was a little brother, but history has been done according to this rule, so you can only endure silently, but your big brother now wants to go further to be the master, that is also a thing that has no door.
This contradiction itself is an irreconcilable contradiction between life and death, and unless the central government of the Xia Dynasty has always maintained an overwhelming superiority over the local power or it can encroach on the local power step by step and absorb the local power step by step, war similar to that between the Xia and Shang is inevitable.
According to Xia Jie's style at that time, this lord was a simple and rude lord, who dared to disobey me and kill whom, this was actually very crotch-pulling for the xia dynasty center at that time, you were the eldest brother for a few years, you were anxious to turn face with the little brother below? It's a bit unreasonable that you won't be brought together by everyone.
The most important thing about this kind of power structure is to pay attention to a balance and tacit understanding, don't look at your highest position, the greatest power, but sometimes you really can't put the meat in the subordinate bowl into your own bowl, as long as you do this, people will treat you as a cell boss, who in prison will talk to you about what benevolence and morality, wait for you to be sick, wait for you not so good to fight, sorry, please give way, here I will decide later.
Therefore, even without the gentle township of Meixi, sooner or later the central xia dynasty would go to the hero's tomb. Because its ruling ideology was out of touch with the cultural environment of that era, if you wanted to eat alone, you had to withstand the joint challenge of others.
Secondly, we say that Meixi is a red face and a curse, and we must correctly look at the role played by Meixi in the process of the demise of the Xia Dynasty. In general, Meixi is actually the catalyst for the demise of the Xia Dynasty, of course, so to speak, Meixi may also feel very innocent, I am a weak woman who is greedy for enjoyment, love vanity, why has it become a catalyst for the demise of the Xia Dynasty?
As we have already said before, what my sister did after she entered the palace was actually on the surface some extravagant style of seeking pleasure, and according to the current parlance, it was basically a matter of some life style. However, this extravagant style of work was extremely harmful to the central government of the Xia Dynasty, first, you aggravated the financial corruption of the Xia Dynasty, second, you destroyed the people's livelihood projects of the Xia Dynasty government, and third, you smeared the political image of the Xia Dynasty government. Therefore, your sister xi should not feel innocent, the bad influence you have caused is just that you don't feel it yourself, just as many girls explain some of their absurd behaviors at the moment: "What happened to the money I spent on my family's men?" What's wrong with me enjoying life with my body and youth? "In fact, you are showing your personal logic and ignoring the destruction of the entire public environment, after all, no one is truly isolated from the world."
Therefore, Meixi did play a great destructive role in the demise of the Xia Dynasty, and people said that she was a red face and did not wrongfully accuse her to some extent!
Finally, what exactly are the people who say that Mei Xi is a red face and a bad water? Many people say that Meixi is a red face and a curse, so the main responsibility for the demise of the Xia Dynasty is pushed onto Meixi, and this kind of throwing pot is actually not objective!
Mei Xi was not deliberately trying to make Xia Jie's family ruined from the beginning, people just gave a little woman who was sunny, liked to do and did not know what was important, loved vanity and had no ability. She didn't take the initiative to commit the crime, but she overdoed it.
Speaking of such words as the red face and the disaster of water, there is also a sentence behind it called the fly does not sting seamless eggs, obviously Xia Jie loves beauty, so after getting the sister's joy, he salivated; obviously Xia Jie loved beauty more than he loved Jiangshan, and he did not have a little forced number and measure in his heart; obviously It was Xia Jie who was on the brain and lost his ancestral property and family property; obviously Xia Jie was not as skilled as a person, and he was killed by the little brother of Shang Tang... Why do you have to throw the pot to your sister in the end? From beginning to end, the initiative and decision-making power are in the hands of Xia Jie, if you are a little firmer, calmer, and more rational, it is difficult for Mei Xi to set off any storms no matter how charming.
However, China's feudal history is actually a patriarchal history, and the public opinion of the patriarchal society is still more or less biased towards men, so such a poor and hateful woman as Meixi has become synonymous with red face and disaster, and has become a back pot man who causes disaster.
When people talk about the topic of red face and bad water, they generally stand from the perspective of men, which has a certain warning significance, such as exhorting everyone not to lose their minds, not to be extravagant and corrupt, not to indulge in women's sex, to maintain fighting spirit and passion, to maintain reason and calmness, to do everything in a measured way, to distinguish between priority and order...
However, if we use the red face and the misfortune as a reason and excuse for the failure of male power, it is biased. Because successful men will never say anything about red faces, only say that the beauty is delicious; the determined man will never be confused by the beauty, and will only attract heroes and beautiful women to each other.
Finally, a sentence, red face disaster water, this sentence itself is not absolute, it also has her two sides, you feel that you can control, it does not matter, if you feel that you do not have the ability to match her, do not be angry. Beauty, in the strict sense, it is a commodity, if you do not consume it, its side effects are not worth your big talk.
Of course, a woman like Mei Xi, her ending is conceivable, some people say that she is ashamed of herself and accompanied Xia Jie to death; some people say that she was later given death by Shang Tang and became a complete political victim; but no matter how rumored, she did not get a good ending in the end, which is beyond doubt. This is also the main question worth pondering, what causes to plant, what to get, every road actually needs to pay the price behind it.