At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was a period full of changes and magic. Throughout history, this period was truly the period of the first iterative replacement of rights. Although Wang Mang usurped power in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, in any case, Wang Mang was still a royal family relative, which was equivalent to saying that the alternating transgression of this right was still circled in a circle. The foreign relatives of the royal family stole power through various means and launched a coup d'état with the crown prince to obtain the yellow power, which is a mold in the end.
The last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty were different, and it was really the forces under the whole world that launched a power war to the Han Dynasty, the first great unified feudal monarchical dynasty in history that had been unified for more than four hundred years and had great influence. Because it was the first time after four hundred years of indoctrination that a new unified dynasty was decided in such a form, many of the parties involved were the first to do without precedent, so many people and stories seemed fresh, and many behaviors and decisions made people feel that it was not mature enough. Therefore, in this era, the various dramas staged between men, in the comments of later generations, the standard is not to judge the hero as success or failure.
Animals are still male and female, and human beings are divided into two sexes, no matter what era, there are men and women. Cai Yan, the character Wen Ji, is a woman in the chaotic world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a beautiful and moving woman who is proficient in poetry and painting calligraphy and music. Cai Yan's father was Cai Yong, an outstanding writer and calligrapher at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was the revisionist of the official history book of the Han Dynasty, the "Records of the Eastern Han Dynasty", and the scholarly family was deeply respected and respected by Cao Cao and a large number of court ministers in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. When Cao Cao first visited Cai Yong's mansion, he was in his thirties, and he had met Cai Yan, who was more than ten years old, and remembered this lovely child since then, but because Cao Cao himself was also a cultural person and respected Cai Yong, he respected Cai Yan all his life.
Cai Wenji was sixteen years old, and Dong Zhuo tried to occupy cai yong because of the reason for using her. Cai Yong asked Cao Cao for help, and asked Cao Cao to come forward to marry his daughter to Wei Qing's descendant, Wei Zhongdao, a Confucian scholar in Hedong. After marriage, the two of them met each other in literature, and their love grew but they respected each other as guests, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and less than a year after marriage, Wei Zhongdao contracted lung disease and died. Cai Yan had no choice but to return to her mother's house, during which time Wen Ji's sister Ming Ji lost her son, so she wrote a letter to tell Wen Ji to accompany her through the difficult time. So Cai Yan embarked on a journey to his sister.
In the turbulent years of the family country, people can never predict what will happen in the next second, and a weak woman does not know what fate will be. The country was in civil strife, and the Xiongnu, who had coveted the Central Plains for a long time, finally waited for the opportunity to invade the Central Plains, and in this way, the iron hooves of the Huns took Wen Ji away from the journey and abducted them to the far north. Wen Ji was proficient in musical rhythms and good at playing the Jiaowei piano, and was able to protect herself by pleasing the Xiongnu soldiers with her music.
The news that there was such a woman in the slavery was learned by the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and when he asked Cai Wenji, a beautiful woman who learned that it was the Han Dynasty, he made some crossroads with Wen Ji, and then forcibly married Wen Ji Na as a princess. Even if she was bored and could not bear it, Cai Wenji, who was a slave in the enemy camp, confessed and confessed her fate. In this way, he lived in the Xiongnu for more than ten years, and also gave birth to two children, originally thought that he would be able to teach his children in this way and live a peaceful and quiet life. Women, no matter how magnificent life, in the final analysis of life itself is actually a stability, this peace without freedom after more than ten years, who knows will usher in a new turning point in life.
Cao Cao, the eldest brother of the Central Plains Han Dynasty, has been doing more and more prosperous work over the years, annihilating the separatist forces in the north of the Central Plains, unifying the north and becoming the male lord of the princes who have threatened the Heavenly Son, although he has lost his son and some old men who have done business together, but all this is not worth it for Cao Cao. In the years when Cai Wenji disappeared, Cao Cao kept thinking of her in his heart, and when he learned of Wenji's encounter with the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, he had the intention of taking Wenji back. According to the thoughts of the Anzhao men and the consensus of the Central Plains people, it was unfortunate to be abducted by the Xiongnu, and it must have been humiliated. The most important thing is that she was forcibly abducted by foreign tribes, and such a thing could not be covered by the face of the parties, not to mention that she was Cai Yong's daughter, the daughter of Master Zun, and Cao Cao's sister.
Therefore, Cao Cao was kind enough to plan and on the one hand prepared a generous gift of heavy gold to King Zuo Xian, and on the other hand, he threw out diplomatic public relations such as "Wen Ji's going north and returning to Han is a good thing to 'strengthen national unity' that is conducive to peaceful and friendly exchanges between the two sides." Cai Wenji was removed from the hands of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, nominally redeemed, but in fact tough to return.
Who could have imagined that this matter would rise to the level of interests between the nationalities, Zuo Xianwang was embarrassed to say yes or no on the surface, and the choice was left to Cai Wenji alone. For a moment, Wen Ji wanted to cry without tears, and she was helpless, knowing that Cao Cao's side was ironclad and important, so she had to choose to return to Han. After saying goodbye to her son in tears, after more than ten years, Cai Wenji was picked up from cao Cao's carriage and horse from the grassland to return to the Han homeland that had been separated for a long time. This time, what fate awaits Wen Ji?
Although Cai Wenji is content with her husband and son in the grassland, it is often difficult to calm the strong homesickness in her heart. The vast and boundless grassland, with the sharp weapon of time, has consumed many talents and poetry in Wen Ji's heart. But it can't dissipate the emotional entrustment of her love for music, a piano, a beard, are the most sincere and heartfelt partners when Wen Ji misses her hometown to the depths.
On the way south to Han, it was also these instruments that accompanied Wen Ji. On the way, Wen Ji's car is full of thoughts, and the pain of parting with the child, which side is home? The instrument in his hand is intermittently sounded long, gentle, like a crying music. The journey is getting farther and farther, the music is getting longer and longer, and gradually these music sounds are combined into a set of songs, as well as those complaints that are still chaotic, and they are gathered into words that are bloody words, which is the widely circulated famous song "Hu Di Eighteen Beats". This famous song is one of the important achievements of Cai Yan among the four talented women in ancient times.
Flowing around, he finally returned to Han China, buried half a life of infinite lamentations deep in his heart, erased all bad memories, returned to zero, and lived again, only in his thirties, and the years were just right. Is it really so good? Wen Ji still has one thing unknown, Cao Cao took her back, and designated the latter. What was Cao Cao's purpose in receiving Cai Wenji's return, and posterity commented that "Brother Cao of the Copper Bird Spring Deep Lock Erqiao" did not covet her and take her for himself?
This time, Cao Cao's move was confusing, and Cao Cao arranged a family affair for Wen Ji. Yes, just like when he presided over the arrangement of Wen Ji and Wei Zhongdao's affair, this time it was a Tuntian Du Wei named Dong Qi, a big and small guy of about twenty years. Regardless of whether the guy is willing or not, anyway, he will be married in the name of the prime minister and it will be over. Sure enough, the young man was not very interested in this third-married woman who was more than ten years older than himself, so he later had an affair outside and snubbed Cai Wenji. This situation was known to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was very unhappy again, so he found Dong Qi's stubble and ordered Dong Qi's head to be killed because of his other official mistakes.
The woman is over thirty years old, and she is already married three times, and if she can no longer live her life in harmony with the husband and wife, then there is really no hope in this life. Besides, Cai Yan is a person, a real, real person with autonomous consciousness, not an object that allows others to decide his own life. Cao Cao manipulated his life at will, so this time Wen Ji took the initiative to stand up.
As the snow flew over the sky, Cai Yan was alone, dressed in plain clothes, with long hair scattered and barefoot, kneeling on the snow in front of Cao Cheng's mansion, asking Cao Cao to take back his life and release Dong Qi. Just when Cao Cao was feasting on guests in the palace, he received a message from his subordinates and summoned Cai Wenji in. Wen Ji's weak body trembled in the cold wind, and she walked to the temple to prostrate her head and plead guilty, and then she spoke her heartfelt words, her speech was clear and sour and sad, and she was moved by the understanding of her feelings, and the guests in the hall were moved.
Although Cao Cao still had a score in mind, he still had to go through the formalities, and asked Cai Wenji: But the official document of surrendering the guilt has already been sent, and I am afraid that it has been executed at this time, right? Cai Yan said: There are thousands of good horses in your stables, and there are countless swift soldiers, so why do you still spare a fast horse to save a dying life? When Cao Cao saw the situation, he immediately sent someone to summon Dong Qi and pardon Dong Qi. Then Cao Cao also ordered his subordinates to bring winter clothes, turbans, shoes and socks to Cai Wenji. Brother is still concerned about the decency of his sister.
Why Cao Cao was so anxious to bring Cai Yan back from the Xiongnu was actually his deeper political plan. Cai Yong was a great writer of the late Han Dynasty, and his influence was very large in the court, and Cai Yan was deeply influenced by his father's indoctrination from an early age, and he read poetry with his father. Her insight and knowledge were deeply inherited by Cai Yong, so after Cai Yong's death, Cai Yan could be regarded as a first-class person in the academic community at that time, even if Wen Ji was a daughter.
Cao Cao was also a man of great literary quality, and the stakes in this were of course greater than the gap between the sexes. Moreover, at that time, the court was in chaos, and the group of civil officials responsible for the revision of history at the end of the Han Dynasty was also divided into several groups, and after a struggle, the forces of all sides consumed each other, and when Cao Cao wanted to reconnect the matter of repairing the book, the original insiders and documents had been lost. Cao Cao knew that Cai Wenji had been reading Cai Yong's collection of literature and books since she was a child, as well as a large number of precious works that Cai Yong herself had not made public, and the purpose of receiving Back Wen Ji was to let her leave the knowledge content she had memorized and memorized in the Central Plains Han Dynasty so that it would not be lost, so he took great pains to take Cai Wenji back.
As soon as Wen Ji returned to Han, Cao Cao added Wen Ji's official position and ordered her to participate in the work of state archives and books. Cao Cao had asked Cai Yan about the classics that his father had originally collected. Cai Wenji told Cao Cao that his father originally had more than 4,000 volumes of classics, but now in the past ten years, he can still record more than 400 volumes. Cao Cao then planned to arrange a group of scribes to assist Cai Wenji in sorting out these contents, Cai Wenji said that men and women are not intimate, Cao Cao provided her with materials and she wrote it down to Cao Cao herself. This is the merit that Wen Ji has created in literature.
Cai Yan also left behind a "Poem of Sorrow and Indignation", which is said to be a work she wrote during Dong Qi's affair, which is also a very important one in literature. Because this poem was well written and reached Cao Cao's ears, Cao Cao would feel that Dong Qi had done too much, and decided to find a reason to punish him for killing his head. There are also wild history records that after Cao Cao promised to release Dong Qi, he left Wen Ji and FuZhong for a few days, and what happened in this is not recorded in detail. Later, it became a folk tale of the wind and snow moon, and there were many legends.
Throughout Cai Wenji's life, this weak woman has been inseparable from changes, turmoil and wandering in her life, and there has not been a major change in her life, which she herself can influence and refuse. It was as if she had never really lived for herself in her life. From an early age, life was in the drift, Dong Zhuo did not use Cai Yong, Cai Yong was also in the Han Dynasty regime stagnation gap period, did not rely on the family to drift around. What accompanies Cai Yan is more Cai Yong's books, rather than the stability and warmth of home. After Cai Yong was used by Dong Zhuo, Cai Wenji began a life of at the mercy of others and a sad doom. It seems that only death is Cai Wenji, a famous place that can be grasped by herself.
The other shore flower, it has a flower language is to connect the yin and yang, to connect the messengers of the underworld, where the flowers on the other shore bloom, is the door of the human world. Through the flowers on the other side, you can communicate with the soul of the deceased, and you can convey the thoughts in your heart to each other. The other side of the flower can not see its leaves, just arrogant and cold bloom, static extremely beautiful. Cai Yan is also such a crazy flower, born and gorgeous, facing suffering, with her extraordinary talent, adding to the color range of her extraordinary life, making this red flower more and more colorful, more and more blooming dazzling brilliance.
Copywriter: Xi Yu
Edit: Zhu You
Proofreader: Zhu You