Many people believe that a name can determine a person's fate, as Xu Shen wrote in the "Explanation of Words": "Name, fate also." ”
The name is not just a person's code name, it can even affect a person's marriage, in ancient China there was such a lucky name - Lihua, the three women who called this name, eventually married the emperor.
Marry a wife like Yin Lihua
Yin Lihua was the empress of Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and one of the most famous empresses in Chinese history.
In the fifth year of AD, Yin Lihua was born into a wealthy family in Xinye, Henan, and her ancestors were descendants of Guan Zhong, the "master of the saints", and was named the Doctor of Yindi, and since then she has taken the surname of "Yin".
At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Yin family moved to Xinye, and after moving to Xinye, the Yin family quickly accumulated a large amount of wealth, and the rich side was rich. Although the life is good, but Yin Lihua is not arrogant, when she was seven years old, her father Yin Lu unfortunately died, the burden of the family was borne by the eldest brother Yin Zhi, in order to help her brother relieve her worries, Yin Lihua was very kind and sensible since she was a child.
A few years later, Yin Lihua became a generous lady, and all the towns in ten miles had her good name.
Yin Lihua has a cousin named Deng Chen, who is the nephew of Yin Lihua's biological mother, Deng Shi, and when Deng Returns to her mother's home, she often takes her daughter Yin Lihua with her.
And Deng Chen's wife was named Liu Yuan, who was from the Liu clan of Nanyang, which was Also Liu Xiu's sister. Every time Liu Yuan returned to his hometown and relatives, he was escorted back to Xinye by Liu Xiu, so Liu Xiu was very familiar with Xinye, and he had also heard of Yin Lihua's good name, and his heart was very admired.
Later, when Liu Xiu went to study in Chang'an, the capital master, he saw the grand situation of Zhi Jinwu (the official who defended the capital in ancient times), and his heart longed for it, and he revealed his heart that "the eunuch is regarded as the zhi jinwu, and the wife should be Yin Lihua".
After the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu became famous and was given the title of Marquis of Wuxin. After returning to Wancheng, Liu Xiu asked Deng Chen to go to the Yin family to propose to Yin Lihua.
Although the Yin family is rich, but in the past hundred years there has not been a high-ranking official or celebrity, Yin Lihua's eldest brother Yin Zhi is very satisfied with Liu Xiu, who holds a lot of power, and Yin Lihua herself is also full of admiration for liu Xiu, the hero who "repelled millions of male soldiers", and the two sides hit it off.
In June of the first year (21), Liu Xiu finally got his wish and married Yin Lihua. Soon after the marriage, the New Mang Dynasty collapsed, but at that time there were many local regimes, and no one was attached to the original regime.
The first emperor Liu Xuan was very anxious, so he sent Liu Xiu to Zhao'an, Hebei, where the future was uncertain, in order not to implicate Yin Lihua, Liu Xiu arranged for his subordinates to send Yin Lihua back to his hometown of Xinye.
In the first three years (25 years), Liu Xiu declared himself emperor at qianqiu pavilion in Yancheng, continued to use the national name "Han", and established the Eastern Han Dynasty, at this time Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua had not seen each other for three years, although for political reasons, Liu Xiu married Guo Shengtong, the niece of Liu Yang the King of Zhending, as his wife, but Liu Xiu never forgot his wife Yin Lihua, and sent someone to take her into the palace and make her a nobleman.
Liu Xiu, who claimed to be empress dowager, did not immediately establish herself as empress, but chose to appoint an empress in the second year after he ascended the throne, and when she was established, Liu Xiu "strongly supported" Yin Lihua, believing that she was the perfect candidate for empress. However, Yin Lihua resolutely resigned, believing that Guo Shengtong was born noble and had a son, and she should be appointed empress, and she herself retired to the position of nobleman.
From the matter of "abdicating and giving way", it can be seen that Yin Lihua has a broad mind and a long-term vision, Liu Xiu has just ascended the throne, the regime is not yet stable, and the power of Guo Shengtong's family can help Liu Xiu stabilize people's hearts, and this decision will indeed help Liu Xiu's great cause of reunification.
Liu Xiu claimed that the empress dowager had conquered the west and quickly pocketed the Kwantung and Longxi regions, forming a situation of great unification.
At the same time, because of the matter of Li Hou, Liu Xiu felt guilty about Yin Lihua, so the grace became more and more abundant, and in the seventeenth year of Jianwu, Empress Guo was deposed for improperly governing the harem, and Liu Xiu ordered yin Lihua to be established.
Since then, there has been no good end after the abolition, but Guo Shengtong is an exception. Due to Yin Lihua's tolerance, Guo Shengtong was not beaten into the cold palace, but was sent to live next to his younger son, the King of Zhongshan, and renamed Empress Dowager Zhongshan, and the Guo family became the only family in history that not only did not suffer a tragic connection but flew yellow and tengda.
Yin Lihua not only treats people tolerantly, but also does not have the petulant atmosphere of a rich and noble woman in her daily life, she does not like Aya Luo brocade, only wears some ordinary cloth clothes in the palace, travels without paying attention to pomp, and always maintains a diligent and simple style.
On the twentieth day of the first month of the seventh year of Yongping (64), Yin Lihua, who was 60 years old at the time, died of illness and was buried with Liu Xiu in the original mausoleum.
Historically, the empress's marriage was mostly unfortunate, but Yin Lihua and Liu Xiuluanfeng and Ming, it can be seen that her wisdom and open-mindedness played a role that could not be ignored for her happy and successful marriage.
"Disaster water misguided the country" Zhang Lihua
Unlike Yin Lihua, whose family was well off, Zhang Lihua grew up poor, her father and brother had woven straw mats for a living, but their appearance was extremely good, and when they were ten years old, they were sent to the palace by their families as a maid. After entering the palace, Zhang Lihua became a personal maid of Concubine Kong, the favorite concubine of Empress Chen, and because she was still young, she was not very conspicuous.
After a few years, Zhang Lihua gradually came out of the world, and once she was accidentally bumped into by Lord Chen Hou, and when Lord Chen Hou saw Zhang Lihua, she was attracted by her beauty, so she ran to Concubine Kong and asked: "Princess Ai, you have such a beauty around you?" Why hide her? Concubine Kong hastened to explain that although Zhang Lihua was large, she was actually still young and not suitable for inclusion in the harem.
After hearing this, Chen Hou decided to wait for the beauty to grow up silently, and at the same time, he also made a small poem for Zhang Lihua. The talented Zhang Lihua of course understood the meaning of Lord Chen Hou, so she also wrote a poem back to Lord Hou.
Zhang Lihua's literary attainments are quite high, and the words she wrote were deeply appreciated by Chen Hou, who loved poetry, thinking that she had found a soul mate.
After becoming an adult, Zhang Lihua crowned the harem, the eyebrows were picturesque, and the dark hair was even more discerning, and after the lord took the throne, Zhang Lihua was a noble lady, and the two had a strong relationship, and soon Zhang Lihua gave birth to a son Chen Shen, which stabilized her position in the harem.
Unlike the women in the harem who only compete for the wind and jealousy, Zhang Lihua is knowledgeable, can speak eloquently, and is even more good at handling government affairs.
When he found that his concubine had great talent in handling government affairs, he was overjoyed, and threw the ancestral admonition that "the harem must not interfere in government affairs" behind his head, and simply let Zhang Lihua accompany him to handle government affairs.
Having power is the beginning of corruption, and after Zhang Lihua came to power, the ministers colluded with her through eunuchs to engage in the trade of officials and the creation of unjust cases.
The imperial court was corrupt, the emperor fainted, the harem was in power, and the political situation of the Chen Dynasty was chaotic, and the Sui Dynasty, which coexisted with it, was looking at the tiger and preparing to send troops to destroy the Chen Dynasty.
In the fourteenth year of Taijian (582 AD), Emperor Wen of Sui gathered 500,000 soldiers to attack the capital of the Chen Dynasty, Jiankang, and the People of the Chen Dynasty were scattered, and the Sui army quickly reached Jiankang as if it had entered no man's land.
At this time, Lord Chen Hou was still playing with his concubines in the harem, and after hearing the news that the Sui army was approaching the city, he panicked and quickly took Zhang Lihua and Concubine Kong into a dry well in the palace.
After the Sui army entered the palace, it found that the palace was empty and not a single figure could be seen, so they looked around for the traces of Lord Chen Hou, and finally everyone locked their eyes on the dry well in the back garden. A group of soldiers were lying at the mouth of the well and shouting desperately, but there was no reaction from the well, was it true that Lord Chen Hou was not here? Just as the crowd was about to leave, a soldier made a suggestion—to throw a large stone down the well.
Not long after the stone was smashed, there was a cry for help from under the well, so Sui Jun tied a basket with a thick rope and fell into the well, and when everyone pulled it up, they only felt that the basket was extremely heavy, and after pulling it up, they found that not only Chen Hou was sitting in the basket, but also Zhang Lihua and Concubine Kong.
Yang Guang, the King of Jin, had long heard of Zhang Lihua's good name, and before the army left, he specifically told the general Gao Cheek that he must find Zhang Lihua and not harm her life.
After Gao Jie attacked Jiankang, he remembered Yang Guang's instructions, so he summoned Zhang Lihua, and when he saw it, he was indeed worthy of the name and his beauty was unmatched.
However, Gao Cheek was not as as Yang Guang, and he thought that Zhang Lihua was a disaster for the country and could not stay, so he took up the knife and killed Zhang Lihua. Pity this stunning beauty, who died at the age of thirty.
Transcendental yang lihua
Born in 561 AD, Yang Lihua was the eldest daughter of Emperor Yang Jian of Sui and Empress Dugu of the Sui Dynasty, and her status was precious. Both the Yang family and the Dugu family were core representative members of the Guanlong nobility, and in order to consolidate the family's power, Emperor Wu of Zhou chose Yang Lihua as the crown princess of his son Yuwen Yun very early.
In the second year of Northern Zhou Jiande, the Northern Zhou crown prince Yuwen Yun and Yang Lihua held a grand and grand wedding, and soon after the marriage, Emperor Wu of Zhou died of an acute illness, and Yuwen Yun took the throne and made Yang Lihua empress.
Yuwen Yun was a famous absurd emperor in history, acting obediently and without rules, after establishing Yang Lihua as empress, he successively crowned four empresses, becoming the only emperor in history to have five empresses.
Logically, Yuwen Yun has established the last five, Yang Lihua should be very angry, but in fact, Yang Lihua not only accepted calmly, but also cared for the other four empresses, and the history books record that Yang Lihua's personality is very gentle and delicate, rarely angry, and very calm and comfortable in case of trouble.
Once, Yuwen Yun and Yang Lihua quarreled, Yuwen Yun was furious, but Yang Lihua was a look of immobility, no matter what Yuwen Yun said, Yang Lihua was not soft, and in the end, Yuwen Yun actually ordered Empress Yang to commit suicide immediately.
When this news reached the Yang mansion, the Yang family was in a panic, and Yang Lihua's mother, Du Gushi, heard the news and entered the palace overnight, kneeling in front of her son-in-law's palace and constantly prostrating her head until her forehead was bleeding, Yuwen Yun was slightly angry and ordered Yang Lihua's life. And Yang Lihua, who heard this news, was still unfazed, as if this matter had nothing to do with her.
Not long after becoming emperor, Yuwen Yun once again had a sudden idea, and he decided to make his son Yuwen Yan emperor, while he himself was "promoted" to emperor and continued to control the government. At this time, Yuwen Yun did not know that this might be the only correct decision he had made in his life, because not long after he established Yuwen Yan as emperor, he died of an acute illness.
This year, Yuwen Yun was only 22 years old, and on the way out of the palace on his way out of the palace, he suddenly fell ill, and the accompanying doctors were all helpless and sent him back to the palace with all hands and feet. At this time, Yuwen Yun was dying, and the official in charge of the early edict hurriedly summoned the chancellor Yang Jian to join the imperial government.
Although Yuwen Yun had already made his son Yuwen Yan emperor, the emperor was still young and could not preside over the overall situation of the imperial government, and the five empresses divided their powers and balances, and out of their own interests, Yang Lihua was also very satisfied with her father's appointment as an auxiliary chancellor.
Yang Lihua originally thought that her father could help her defend the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but instead of thinking, Yang Jian soon had the idea of becoming emperor himself. When Yang Lihua learned of her father's true intentions, she was very angry, believing that her father's move was "seeking power and usurping the throne", which caused Yang Jian to always feel guilty about his daughter.
But this little bit of guilt could not rival Yang Jian's ambitions to claim the emperor, and in 581 AD, Yang Jian proclaimed himself emperor in Daxingcheng, with the name of the country "Sui" and The title of Yang Lihua as "Princess Leping". Yang Lihua has no son, only one daughter under her knees, called Yuwen Eying, yang Lihua is very fond of her.
When Yuwen Eying was talking about marriage, Yang Lihua summoned the noble princes of the capital to the palace where she lived to personally examine the talents of these people, but she was not satisfied with watching hundreds of them. Just when Yang Lihua was disappointed, a person appeared just right, and this person was Yuwen Eying's future husband-in-law Li Min.
Li Min's grandfather and father were killed in battle, so Li Min was adopted by Yang Jian in the palace since he was a child, he was not only handsome, but also good at riding and shooting, with extraordinary skills, Yang Lihua was very satisfied with this son-in-law.
Subsequently, Yang Lihua took advantage of her father's guilt towards her to obtain the important official position of Zhu Guo for her son-in-law Li Min, who had never been a job.
In the summer of the fifth year of Daye (609), the Sui Emperor personally led hundreds of officials and concubines to tour the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Hexi Corridor area, and Yang Lihua also accompanied him.
This journey was very difficult, due to altitude sickness, a large number of officers and soldiers were buried on the plateau, Yang Lihua also died, before her death, she asked the Sui Emperor to be orphaned, asking him to take care of her daughter and son-in-law. After the Sui Emperor agreed, Yang Lihua closed her eyes at the age of 49.
Conclusion
The same are all called Lihua, the same are living in the harem, some people can be the mother of the world, while some are killed in Huangquan, what does the name "Lihua" bring to them? Is it a supreme position, or a helpless situation, is it lucky, or is it unfortunate?