We all know that in ancient China, there were four beautiful women, Xi Shi of the spy, Zhaojun of heqin, mink cicada of the beauty plan, and Yang Yuhuan, who caused the anshi rebellion. People use the idiom "ring fat swallow thin" to juxtapose Zhao Feiyan and Yang Yuhuan, which shows that Zhao Feiyan's beauty is extraordinary.
According to the aesthetics of Chinese, there is no doubt that the bone beauty Zhao Feiyan is more in line with the aesthetics of the public. However, we can't help but wonder why the fat Yang Yuhuan is among the four beauties, while the bone beauty Zhao Feiyan has been removed?
She involves the deep confusion of our national cognition, so let's start with her life:
Emperor Wu of Han's third son was named Liu Dan (劉丹) and was given the title of King of Yan. Liu Dan gave birth to a son named Liu Jian, who was made the King of Guangyang. Liu Jian had a daughter who was made the lord of Gusu County. After becoming an adult, he married Zhao Man, a lieutenant in Jiangdu, and the couple had a good relationship and lived a happy life.
But after some time, the sheriff found that there was something missing from life.
The history books record that Zhao Man had a hidden disease. What is a hidden disease? It is a disease that cannot be told to others, and it is necessary to buy aphrodisiacs to eat now. The sheriff often felt aggrieved. Although Zhao Man has a hidden physical illness, he is still full of love for life, and he often lets a musician named Feng Wanjin come to the house to exchange music together. The lord of Gusu County was also proficient in music, and they got along privately. Soon, the sheriff found out that she was pregnant, and she panicked. The husband is not stupid, sooner or later he can't hide it. So he proposed to go back to his mother's house and gave birth to the child at his mother's house.
Finally gave birth to twins, girls. The Lord of Gusu County was worried, what should I do? I couldn't hold it back, I couldn't put it back to my mother's house, and finally I bit my teeth and threw it into the wilderness, and the child threw it away for a day and cried for a day, and no one picked it up for three days. So I hugged it back.
After going back, Zhao Man looked dumbfounded, left alone, and came back with two children after going back, Zhao Man pushed back and said that this child is not mine, I do not raise. The county lord was embarrassed, and finally thought of a way, who is this child? Feng Wanjin's, then he should raise it. So the county lord threw the child to Feng Wanjin, this child is yours, you raise it yourself. Feng Wanjin was shocked to see that two lovely daughters had fallen from the sky. Then raise it. After a few years, Feng Wanjin died of poverty.
A man named Zhao Lin adopted the twins and asked them to be their adopted daughters. In the end, she was accepted as a prostitute by Princess Ayang, and the Zhao sisters of royal blood were reduced to the lowest class of prostitutes.
One day, a young man suddenly came to Princess Yang'a's house, and he took a fancy to the Zhao sisters who were performing. He was emperor of Hancheng. He took the two into the palace, and from then on they became his concubines.
And what makes posterity most reverie is that Zhao Feiyan did the palm dance thing. Zhao Feiyan was petite, and Emperor Hancheng let a palace lady hold the crystal plate in her hand, and Zhao Feiyan danced in the crystal plate, and Emperor Hancheng was greatly amazed.
Zhao Feiyan's feather coat, as thin as a cicada's wing, fluttered in the wind, and Emperor Hancheng and everyone reveled in it. Suddenly, a strong wind blew through, and Zhao Feiyan's long sleeves flew over, and even people seemed to go with the wind, which greatly amazed everyone. Emperor Hancheng was worried that the wind would really blow Zhao Feiyan away, so he built a "Seven Treasure Shelter" and let Zhao Feiyan live in it.
After Emperor Hancheng got Zhao Feiyan, he had no intention of state affairs, so that the government became increasingly abandoned, which caused a lot of discussion among his courtiers. The fire virtue advocated by the Western Han Dynasty, and the evil water, is to extinguish the fire, that is to say, these are two women who will destroy the country.
In order to consolidate her position, Zhao Feiyan and her sister worked together to bring down Empress Xu and replace her.
When the enemies around her were eliminated one by one, Zhao Feiyan realized that her sister was probably her biggest enemy, and poisoned Zhao Hede's diet, leaving her and Emperor Hancheng immersed in carnal desire all day. In the end, Emperor Hancheng actually died in Zhao Hede's bed.
Emperor Hancheng died, Zhao Feiyan justifiably became the empress, although childless, but as long as the eastern Han dynasty nodded, she could choose the right person to take the throne among the royal family, so the Han Emperor took the throne, poisoned her sister, and Zhao Feiyan, who killed her husband, became the empress dowager.
Of course, Zhao Feiyan's end was not much better. Although emperor Ai of Han did not deal with Zhao Feiyan, when Emperor Ai of Han died and Wang Mang was in power, he deposed Empress Dowager Zhao Feiyan in the name of the chaotic court, and finally Zhao Feiyan died lonely in the cold palace.
Although Zhao Feiyan is a beautiful and moving woman with outstanding talents, she is doomed to be criticized in China, which has always paid attention to etiquette and morality. Therefore, when there is a suitable candidate, Zhao Feiyan is naturally excluded from the list of "four beautiful women".