Author: Ren Yifei
The rating of "Great Song Palace Words" has jumped off a cliff on Douban.
The name of the play hoisted the audience's appetite. I think that year, the "Daming Palace Words" led by Zhou Gongzi had a good reputation, but unfortunately, this audience is not easy to fool, and the bullet screen will not be merciless.
However, "The Words of the Great Song Palace" is one thing that is right, Liu E is really a big heroine with a koi physique!
In history, this woman who went down in history with the title of "Zhang Xianming Su Liu Hou" was the empress of Zhao Heng, the third emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Zhenzong, she served as empress dowager and assisted Emperor Renzong for eleven years, becoming the de facto supreme ruler of the Northern Song Dynasty during this period.
The Song Dynasty, the most prosperous era of Chinese literati and doctors, was also the era when the imperial court was the most unscrupulous.
According to the inherent impression of the Song Dynasty, how can a group of masters who have read Confucian classics let a woman "interfere in politics" for decades? This does not seem to be in line with the political philosophy of the Song Dynasty scholars.
▲ Liu E (played by Liu Tao) in the TV series "Great Song Palace Words"
In order to highlight Liu E's "big heroine" aura, in "Great Song Palace Words", he let her open the plug-in all the way. Although some plug-ins are similar to BUGs, for example, there is a scene in which Liu E snatches the emperor's grandson from the emperor's hands without the emperor's consent, making the emperor look confused! (Rob the emperor's grandson!) ）
Liu E in the TV series is a koi physique, what you want is what you want, you can't die if you drink poisonous wine, and the palace coup can be lucky to make a contribution... And liu e in history is not a koi!
Although she was a woman, in the Tianxi political dispute in Zhenzong's later years, she quietly overthrew the two major forces of Kou Zhun and Ding Zhi, and in one fell swoop influenced the historical trend of the Renzong Dynasty. During her reign, she not only revitalized the northern Song Dynasty, but also laid a good foundation for the "prosperous era" of Emperor Renzong's celebration calendar, but also actively cooperated by the scholar group, which played an indelible role in shaping the so-called "co-rule the world with the scholars" in later generations.
If you take into account her humble origins without any family background, it can be said that the legendary degree of Liu E's life is really no less than that of Tianwu Hou.
According to the "Biography of the Later Concubines of song", Liu E was born in Taiyuan, her grandfather Liu Yanqing was a general of the Right Xiao Wei during the Fifth Dynasty, and her father Liu Tong, after Song Taizu took power, served as the commander of Hujiedu and the assassin of Jiazhou, and died in the second year of Kaibao (969) during the conquest of Taiyuan.
Liu E was Liu Tong's second daughter, and in the year of her birth, her father died, and due to the family's fall, the widowed mother Pang sent her to foster her in her mother's house in Huayang, Yizhou (present-day Chengdu, Sichuan).
Even if you listen to these origin stories, the above information about Liu E's family background is not true.
Liu Ezushang was not a high-ranking general at all, she was a child of ordinary people, the only thing that was not in doubt was that she was indeed born in the second year of Kaibao, and she did not have a father when she was young, and her childhood was spent in Sichuan.
This Sichuan girl estimated that her family was really very poor, and she went to the streets to sell art at a very young age, and shi zai was "good at sowing moles", that is, she was very good at rattles. Not long after, Liu E and gong Mei, a silversmith, became married, and Gong Mei took her to Beijing to break out, and Liu E would not think that her life of "opening and hanging" was about to begin.
When Liu E arrived in the capital, Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng was still the crown prince Zhao Yuankan at this time, and had just been crowned the King of Xiang, but I don't know if it was because of the spring dream, or because he had the guidance of a high person, the King of Xiang said to the people below: "The Shu women are talented and wise, and I want it." ”
▲ Zhao Yuankan (Zhou Yumin) in the TV series "Great Song Palace Words")
It is inconceivable to think about how the King of Xiang had an iron heart to find a Sichuan girl.
He entrusted his subordinate Zhang Qi (张耆) to search for him.
Coincidentally, Gong Mei's life was still very poor after arriving in Beijing, and she was thinking of remarrying Liu E, and when she came and went, Liu E entered the palace and was favored by King Xiang. This is also a bit inexplicable, there are so many women in the world, Zhao Yuankan, who is the king of Xiang, actually married a divorced woman, or her ex-husband took the initiative to send it.
According to the "History of Song", Liu E "entered the Xiang Mansion in the fifteenth year", but Zhenzong was crowned King of Xiang in the first year of Duan gong (988), and it is conservatively estimated that she was twenty years old when she met King Xiang, and Zhenzong himself was born in December of the first year of Kaibao, which was not half a year older than Liu E.
Take the current heroic grudge dog blood drama, a dignified young rich second generation and an elderly and married fourth-line small artist played hot, it is inevitable to cause some turmoil in the deep mansion compound of the "giant".
Sure enough, King Xiang's grandmother, Lady Qin Guo, stabbed the matter to Emperor Taizong of Song, who was furious when he heard the news and wanted to "beat the Mandarin duck with a stick." King Xiang had no way, and in order to fool his father, he settled Liu E in the palace to give Zhang Qi's family in the matter.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Qi was very arrogant, and he continued to work the night shift in the Xiangwang Mansion every day, pretending to be a person who was fine. The woman who led the royal palace and raised the prince touched the fish under the eyes of the Heavenly Son!
▲ The Song edition of the "Continuation of the Zizhi TongjianChang" about Liu E's life record
The King of Xiang was so fearless, but it showed the tolerance of Song Dynasty society for remarried women. In King Xiang's mind, this was not a big deal at all.
Then again, how similar is this to some of the seemingly "detrimental" things done by the imperial family during the Tang Dynasty?
Emperor Gaozong of Tang married Wu Zetian, the wife of his father Li Shimin, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang married his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan as a noble concubine.
From the perspective of the Ming and Qing scholars, this is all a move that is contrary to human morality, great rebellion, and incorruptibility.
Thousands of years later, Mr. Chen Yinke solemnly examined whether Yang Guifei was a virgin when she entered the palace, in order to prove that Tang Xuanzong married his daughter-in-law "of bad nature", and indirectly deduced that the Tang Dynasty royal family was open-minded and open to social customs.
Judging from Liu E's story, didn't the Northern Song Dynasty society also retain the openness and inclusiveness of the Tang Empire?
The "Rules of Righteousness" formulated by the old scholar Fan Zhongyan stipulates: "Marry a woman to pay thirty consecutive dollars, and then marry twenty consecutive; marry a woman to pay twenty consecutive consecutive, and then marry a woman to pay twenty consecutive consecutive, and then marry no longer." "The support for remarried women is better than that of men to remarry, Fan Zhongyan is bent on setting an example for future generations, and has no discrimination against remarried women, which shows that not only the imperial family, but even the elite scholar family does not discriminate against remarried women."
Liu E meets the King of Xiang, just as Cinderella meets the Prince. Although the process is a bit tortuous, the ending is full of surprises.
I have to say that Liu E's koi physique glowed again.
Originally, King Xiang was only the third-ranked prince. Even if Song Taizong felt that it was a bit humiliating for his younger son to marry a second-married and elderly fourth-line female artist, it would not damage the national body and did not investigate deeply. It was just that King Xiang was too good to live, the eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo went crazy, and the second brother Zhao Yuanzuo was inexplicably poisoned by his favorite concubine, and the emperor's throne was sent to his ass.
In the third year of Dao (997), Emperor Taizong died and Zhenzong ascended the throne, becoming the third emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. After taking the throne, Zhenzong did not forget the Liu E who accompanied him for ten years to "share hardships", she was not only admitted to the palace, but also named a beauty, although according to the concubine rank of the Song Dynasty, the beauty was only four pins, away from the noble concubines of yipin, there were twenty-two levels in the middle, but with the emperor's favor, this is not a matter at all.
After that, Liu E's status in the palace soared like a rocket, first to the cultivation of Erpin, and then to the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1012) and then to the concubine of Yipin. At this time, Emperor Zhenzong's Empress Guo had already died in the third year of Jingde (1006), and Liu E naturally became the highest-ranking concubine in the harem.
However, Zhenzong was not satisfied, and he also wanted to make his old friend further - to be an empress.
Emperor Zhenzong's intention to appoint Liu E was immediately opposed by the courtiers. The so-called "door to door", Liu E's lowly origin has become the most important reason for opposition, Xiang Minzhong, Li Di, and Kou Zhun have repeatedly neglected, believing that Liu E "started from the cold and could not be the mother of the world".
Note that even in the great controversy against Liu E's post-establishment, not many people felt that Liu E was too much of a problem as a "second-married" woman, but only held on to her low birth, which showed that song dynasty society had no discrimination against remarried women.
Some masters of the Song Dynasty shouted "starvation is small, loss of control is big", but in actual life, not many people pay attention to this set of words, which is the openness and tolerance of Song Dynasty civilization.
In the face of the strong doubts of his courtiers, Zhenzong's attitude was always resolute, and his relationship with Liu E was rock solid, and on December 24 of the fifth year of the fifth year of the Great Zhongxiang Fu, Liu E was officially made empress.
It is said that the establishment of Liu E as the latter matter can be left behind, and it has a lot to do with The last moment of Zhenzong's "Heavy Minister" Wang Dan. Wang Dan succeeded Li Xun as chancellor in the Zhenzong Dynasty, and after doing so for twelve years, his opinion of Zhenzong was undoubtedly very important, and Liu E must have been very clear about this.
At the moment when the two sides of the monarch and the courtiers were fighting over the matter of the establishment of the post, Wang Dan suddenly took sick leave, and Liu E, worried that this was Wang Dan's protest against Zhenzong's obstinate behavior, advised Zhenzong that he should slow down the matter after the establishment.
▲ Liu E in the TV series "Great Song Palace Words"
Perhaps Liu E's words were told to Wang Dan by Emperor Zhenzong, and the old minister felt very useful in his heart, and then Shangshu said that he did not oppose Liu E's opposition to the latter matter, and even if this matter was "passed", we can also see Liu E's wisdom from it.
Time flies, Liu E became empress in this year, she is already forty-three years old, more than twenty years have passed since she stepped into the door of the Xiang King's Palace, as many Song historians have said, at such an old age can finally be the mother of the world, into the middle palace, Liu E's success can never be only because of her appearance, but also by her own ingenuity.
The history books record, "After the sex of the vigilant, know the history of the book, hear the affairs of the imperial court, and can remember its end." The emperor retreated from the dynasty, and read the world to play until midnight, and then all of them were foreheard. The palace asked about the matter, and quoted the truth as right."
Look, this is still a powerful koi.
Liu E can achieve a Cinderella-like counterattack, in addition to thanking her for meeting true love, but also thanks to the era she is in. Perhaps the Song Dynasty was not the best era in Chinese history, but it was a more enlightened era, and it was not an arrogant era that imprisoned women with "small starvation and great loss of control".
Chen Yinke's evaluation of Zhao Song is: "The culture of the Chinese nation has evolved over thousands of years, and it was created in the world of Zhao song..."
The people and things of this dynasty are worth savoring.