Cai Yan, whose courtesy name is Wenji, also known as Zhaoji. The birth and death year is unknown. Eastern Han Chenliu County (now Qi County, Kaifeng, Henan Province), the daughter of Cai Yong , a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, due to the invasion of the Huns, Cai Yan was kidnapped by the Zuoxian King of the Huns, married the Huns, and gave birth to two children. Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north and was redeemed.
Cai Yan is also good at literature, music and calligraphy. " Sui Shu·Jingji Zhi " records a volume of "Cai Wenji Collection", but it has been lost. The only works of Cai Wenji's that can be seen now are " Sorrow and Anger Poems " and " Hu Zi Eighteen Beats ".
Characters’ life
Cai Wenji is knowledgeable and talented and proficient in music.
In the second year of Xingping (195), there were Dong Zhuo , Li Jue , etc. in the Central Plains to rebel. The Huns took the opportunity to rob, and Cai Yan was kidnapped by the Zuo Xianwang of the Huns. Cai Yan lived in the north for twelve years and gave birth to two children.
11 of Jian'an (207), Cao Cao has always loved literature and calligraphy, and often has literary and calligraphy exchanges with Cai Yan's father Cai Yong. Seeing that Cai Yong had no children, Cao Cao used gold and jade to redeem Cai Yan from the Huns and married Cai Yan to Dong Si.
Cai Wenji's husband.
Cai Wenji married Wei Zhongdao when she was 16 years old. The Wei family was a Hedong clan at the time, and Wei Zhongdao was an outstanding college student. The couple was very affectionate, but unfortunately the good times did not last long. In less than a year, Wei Zhongdao died of hemoptysis. Cai Wenji never gave birth to a son and half of her daughter, and the people of the Wei family thought she had killed her husband. At that time, Cai Wenji, who was arrogant and arrogant, resolutely returned to her parents' home despite her father's opposition. Later, her father died in prison and Wen Ji was taken away by the Huns. She was only 23 years old that year and was adopted as a princess by Zuo Xianwang. She lived in the Southern Huns for 12 years and had two sons. During this period, she also learned to play " Hun " and some foreign languages.
In the 13th year of Jian'an (208), Cao Cao was grateful for the friendship between his good friend Cai Yong. When he learned that Wen Ji was in the Southern Xiongnu, he immediately sent Zhou Jin as an envoy, carrying a thousand taels of gold and a pair of white walls, and redeem her. She was 35 years old this year. Under the arrangement of Cao Cao, she married Dong Si, the commander of Tian Jiaowei. In this year, the famous "Battle of Red Cliffs broke out."
Cai Wenji married Dong Si. At first, her husband's life was not very harmonious. Cai Wenji was sad after being dispersed and chaotic, and often felt dazed; while Dong Si was in her prime, she was born with a talented person, was proficient in calligraphy and history, was familiar with music, and had a high opinion of herself. She naturally felt a little deficient in Cai Wenji. However, due to the Prime Minister's instruction, she had to accept her. In the second year after marriage, Dong Si was killed in a crime. She did not care about the rift and jumped to Cao Cao's Prime Minister's Mansion to plead with mercy. Cao Cao thought of his past friendship with Cai Yong, and thought of Cai Wenji's miserable life experience. If Dong Si was executed, Wen Ji would not be able to survive, so he forgives Dong Si.
From then on, Dong Si was grateful for his wife's kindness and re-evaluated Cai Wenji. Both of them also saw through the world, went up to Luoshui , and lived in the foothills with beautiful scenery and lush trees. Several years later, Cao Cao passed by here hunting and visited him. Cai Wenji and Dong Sisheng have a son and a daughter, and their daughter married Sima Yi's son, Sima Shi's wife.
