The Story of The Honest Government of the State of Qi Chapter 1: Honesty and Self-Cultivation

7. Zhaojun is out of the jam

The daughter of King Yong of Qi was called Wang Yan (王嫱), the character Zhaojun (昭君). Zhaojun looked like a sinking fish and a goose, and the appearance of a shy flower and a closed moon, and at the age of seventeen, he was elected into the palace and became the palace daughter of the Han Yuan Emperor. At that time, the number of palace women was very large, and the Han Yuan Emperor ordered the painter Mao Yanshou to be a portrait of the palace girl, and when needed, he would read the album and summon it according to his beauty. Therefore, the palace maid often bribed Mao To live in order to be painted beautifully and favored. But only Zhaojun was reluctant to give gifts, so she was painted as if it did not match the truth, and of course she could not be favored by Emperor Yuan.

In 33 BC, the Xiongnu called han evil Shan Yu back to Chang'an and asked for peace with the Han dynasty. Emperor Yuan decided to find a marriage mat from among the palace ladies. He sent a message to the harem: "Those who wish to go to the Huns, the emperor will regard her as a princess." Zhaojun felt that peace with the Xiongnu could improve the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, eliminate hostility, and no longer bring disasters to the people because of the continuous conquest of the two sides, so he resolutely decided to leave the motherland and his parents and sign up for the future.

Shan Yu got this beautiful wife, danced happily, and led his wife to thank him.

Emperor Yuan saw that Zhaojun was so beautiful and so gorgeous, and he regretted it endlessly. But a word is uttered, and the horse is difficult to chase, let alone the Son of Heaven!

Shan Yu took Zhaojun, crossed the Guanshan Mountains, crossed the desert, and traveled thousands of miles to reach the Xiongnu, and in front of him was the sky, the wild was vast, and the wind and grass were low to see cattle and sheep. At first, Zhaojun was very unaccustomed to the ethnic minorities wearing clothes made of animal skins and eating fishy beef and mutton for three meals; he was also very uncomfortable with the cold and harsh climate there. But as the days go on, it doesn't matter. Zhaojun spread the culture of the Central Plains to the Xiongnu, and advised him to rest and recuperate and not to do anything, so that the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty could live in harmony.

Zhaojun had a son named Shi Feng, who looked great and handsome. He practiced martial arts with his master every day and learned from his mother every day. The mighty Xiongnu have the handsomeness of the Han family.

After his death, he succeeded to the throne. The Huns had a rule that when a father died, his son was married to his mother if he was not yet married. The Ministers of Culture and Military Affairs all urged Shi Fei to complete the marriage as soon as possible, and Shi Fei felt that his father had died and his wife and mother were a little knotty in his heart, but since he was single,How could he break this custom? "Besides, my mother is so iconic, and her charm has not diminished?" Therefore, his mother asked him: "You are not young, you should have a wife, do you study the customs of the Han family, or do you follow the habits of the Hu people?" Shan Yu replied, "Since you are a Xiongnu and a human monarch, let yourself go to the countryside and follow the customs, but I don't know what your mother intended?" Zhaojun was stunned and silent. At night, Zhaojun wandered alone in the felt room, imagining and dancing, although the Xiongnu had been coming for many years, he always missed his hometown, thought of his parents, it was difficult to send homesickness, every time at this time, he could not avoid tears, it was yannan to send the side of the heart, the north of the goose thought of Hanyin, Longshui, the Great Wall is always in the heart. Now Wu'er does not follow the Han rules and wants to marry me, and if he refuses, he will corrupt Hu Feng, and it will be difficult for his son to give orders; if he is shunned, he is not in line with human morality, and he is not the true character of my Han family. Thinking about it, he still died but was as sad as a thousand, so he swallowed the medicine and died.

【Comments】

What a great woman! For the sake of the country and the people, she would rather stay away from her hometown and parents and sacrifice everything she had; for the sake of women's chastity, without damaging the marriage customs of the Hu people, so that her son sat firmly in the Xiongnu Mountains, so that the Central Plains and the Xiongnu generations of friendship, she resolutely died. Loyalty and chastity in Zhaojun could not have been more perfect.