Mei Xi, along with Dai Ji, Bao Ji and Li Ji, is called the "Four Great Demons of Ancient China", the reason is not only that they are born special, but also because in Chinese history, they have always liked to let beautiful women act as the culprits of the collapse of the dynasty, which is the so-called "red face disaster water".
Sister Xi was very unfortunate, let her catch up, unfortunately she looked beautiful, and unfortunately became the favorite concubine of Xia Jie, and the Xia Dynasty ended very unfortunately at the time of Xia Jie, so it also confirmed her reputation as the "first fox spirit in eternity".
In ancient times, clothes and etiquette were closely related, and different people wore different costumes, which were strictly required. As a woman, Meixi is still the emperor's favorite concubine, not only wearing men's clothes, but also wearing the hat of a government official, of course, she will be scolded by everyone.
After Meixi came to the Summer Palace, she missed her hometown and relatives and did not smile all day. In order to make her laugh, Xia Jie ordered the palace people to bring the exquisitely woven silk and tear them apart one by one in front of her to win her sister's smile. In the early days when agriculture was just developing, silk products were very rare and precious, and destroying such rare and expensive items was tantamount to violent and natural objects, which caused public outrage.
This matter is not all the fault of Mei Xi. It is said that the sister is petite, and Xia Jie can carry her to her knees to play and drink day and night. In order to please his sister, Xia Jie used jade to build a magnificent Yaotai as a palace, drank and feasted all day, ignored political affairs, and ordered the execution of Guan Longfeng, a loyal courtier who prevented him from building a wine pond, and then ordered three thousand drinking masters to drink in the wine pool to the sound of drumming, and some of them drowned due to drunkenness.
Later, there was a poem cloud: "Where is the sound of cracking, the wine pool drinks and laughs at the side of the meat forest" satirizes the absurdity and shamelessness of Xia Jie and Mei Xi.
Xia Shang Wednesday Dynasty is the beginning of the Chinese civilization period, ancient Chinese canonical system, social customs can be traced back to that time, so when future generations talk about the glory of the ancient period, it can be said that "words must reach three generations", Xia Shang Zhou's pioneering spirit is enough to make today's people proud and glorious.
The Xia Dynasty was the first dynasty, and after Da Yu ruled the water, Xia Qi changed the custom of "Zen Ren" to "Family World", and established the first state in Chinese history.
All kinds of things in the Xia Dynasty are the first time in history, and among these many firsts, Meixi has come out on top and achieved many firsts: "the first queen of the fallen country", "the first fox spirit in the ages", "the first female spy", "the first sacrifice", "the first adulteress" and so on.
Mei Xi, also pronounced as The Last Joy and the Last Joy, is the beauty of the Shi clan in the Xia Dynasty FangGuo, and there are poems praising the beauty of the Sister Xi: "There is Shi Mei Xi, and the eyebrows are clear." Makeup and colored clothes, Yuanna feixi. Crystal rain and dew, human pity". There is Shi's original surname "Xi", "female" next to the word indicates that the surname is in a matrilineal clan tribe, the end of the shi probably means that she is the last famous beauty of the Shi clan, was dedicated to the King of Xia, became the favorite concubine of Xia Jie.
Xia Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty, was a well-known tyrant in Chinese history, and Mei Xi was obtained during his conquest of the Shi clan in a small country located in the east of the Xia Dynasty. Before getting meixi, Xia Jie was very cruel, liked to kill and conquer, did not sympathize with the people, and was absurd, causing many clans on all sides to resist.
The Chronicle of Natsumoto says:
"If you do not do your duty and hurt the people by force, the people will be able to do so."
This means that Xia Jie does not pay attention to recuperation and recuperation, and likes to go around fighting and fighting wars and toiling and hurting the people' wealth, and the people really can't stand it.
In order to stabilize his own country and curb the signs of rebellion in the four directions, Xia Jie decided to conquer the Youshi clan by force and "kill the chicken to show the monkeys".
The Youshi tribe is located near today's Mengyin County in Shandong Province, occupying a favorable time and place, rich in products, and developed agriculture, and should be relatively powerful among many Fang states, but it is still unable to resist the collective attack of the Xia Dynasty and various Fang states, and after a few months of bloody resistance, it has to give up resistance. One of the conditions for peace is to sacrifice the most beautiful girl in the country, Meixi. In this way, Meixi had to leave her mother state and offered it to the King of Xia as a hostage symbol and gift of tribal submission.
It is said that after Xia Jie got her sister's joy, he pampered her very much, tolerated all her quirky habits, and satisfied all her unreasonable demands. In order to please her, he did not hesitate to spend the people's fat and people's anointing, built a Qionggong Yaotai for her, and built a wine pond for feasting and drinking, and also brought a good silk drapery to tear it to Bo Mei to smile.
Mei Xi did not go to the Xia King's Palace voluntarily, but was sacrificed as a prisoner during the life and death of the tribe. Meixi left her hometown and came to the strange summer capital, and meixi's depression can be imagined. Such a poor girl, who also wants to be given the title of "queen of the country", is indeed unfair to her.
Mei Xi was not always very favored, and later Xia Jie conquered Min Shan, and the Min Shan people also married two beautiful women to Xia Jie, one named Huan and the other called Yan. The King of Xia had a new love, so he forgot his old love, carved the names of the two new beauties on the jade, and had long forgotten his sister Xi, abandoning her in "Luo".
Sister Xi, who was hated by the country and lost the favor of the King of Xia, she joined forces with Yi Yin, the founding prime minister of the Shang Dynasty, who successfully broke into the enemy, and finally helped Shang Tang destroy Xia.
The "Chinese JinYu" says: "XiXia had a shi, and there were shi people who liked their sisters, and their sisters were favored, so hu and Yi Yinbi died in Xia." ”
This further shows the power of Meixi as the "first fox spirit in the ages" to plague the court. If it were not for Xia Jie's rampant conquests, which made the people of the country boil over and resist, and only by the collusion of Meixi and Yi Yin, the Xia Dynasty could be destroyed? In the end, it is still the number of Xia Dynasty that has been exhausted. But the blame is borne by a woman, and history will really throw the pot.
Therefore, Bai Yang introduced Mei Xi in "The Death of the Empress in Ancient Chinese Books" with the title of "A Poor Female Prisoner":
"Shi Meixi is a poor girl, her identity is a captive without human rights, and when she is in her youth, she has to leave her hometown and be sacrificed to the hands of the enemy like cattle and sheep for the survival of the clan."
Amber also said in the "Record of Chinese Women's Grievances": "Throughout the dynasties, starting from the Xia Dynasty, it seems that people have become accustomed to finding a scapegoat for the rise and fall of each dynasty, Xia has a sister, Shang has a concubine, Zhou has a praise, and so on, and so on..."
But in reality? People often ignore the truth behind it - if the emperors are not faint and lustful, and the generals are corrupt and incompetent, why is this poor girl saddled with the infamy of eternity?
It can be said that Meixi is the first red face in Chinese history to carry the largest "black cauldron".
Meixi has created countless "firsts" in Chinese history, but in the final analysis, she is just a poor and unfree beauty. Her husband was a famous emperor in history, and she was only one of his many hunting lists, at best the one who had been favored for a long time.
The earliest record of Meixi is the "Chinese Jin Language", which only says that "in the past, there were shi and shi, and there were people who gave people to sisters and sisters", and did not mention evil deeds such as libertation, confusion, splitting, and liking wine, but only after the Han Dynasty, there were various sayings such as indulgence, wanton enjoyment, and wine pond meat forest. Obviously, this is all the interpretation of posterity, not historical facts.
Xia Jie was able to shout, "There is a day in the heavens, and there is a people in Judah." The day is dead, and the day is dead and I am dead" (I have people, just as there is a sun in the sky, which is eternal.) Have you ever seen the sun die? If the sun does not die, I will not perish) the, so that the people have to say time is lost, I give Ru kai to die! Such a dimwit made the people prefer to die with him, which showed that they hated him to the bone. How much does this have to do with Mei Xi?
Therefore, the guilt of the fall of the Xia Empire should not be borne by a woman's weak shoulders.