A woman in a troubled world is wandering and helpless. Faced with the chaos of mountains and rivers, it is difficult to find a stable life.
If you are a talented and beautiful woman, you will be destined to be even more difficult and difficult, and you don’t know how to protect yourself.
Folk legend, the talented lady Huarui, , has a poor beauty, and was eventually shot to death by Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Kuangyi, .
What kind of image does the real lady Huarui have in history?
Distinguish the truth from unofficial history
In unofficial history, many people always like to shift the responsibility of the king of a deceased country to the so-called "beauty is in trouble".
A woman was dominated by her father, brother and family in the first half of her life, and was imprisoned by her husband in the backyard in the second half of her life. She had no right to decide her life, but she was punished with many false charges.
Lady Huarui was originally a concubine of the Later Shu Kingdom. After the King of Shu surrendered, he was displaced to Song Dynasty , but he was treated with a strange look and made up many stories.
There is a saying, Zhao Kuangyi repeatedly advised Zhao Kuangyin to beware of Mrs. Huarui, but Zhao Kuangyin couldn't listen at all.
Once, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi brothers drank and shot arrows in the backyard. Zhao Kuangyin personally poured wine and persuaded Zhao Guangyi to drink.
Zhao Guangyi pointed to a flower not far away and asked Mrs. Huarui to pick the flower to him before she could drink.
Zhao Guangyin ordered Mrs. Huarui to pick flowers. When Mrs. Huarui just walked to the flower, she was shot to death by Zhao Guangyi.
Zhao Guangyi advised Zhao Kuangyin not to be addicted to women. Zhao Kuangyin cumed as usual, as if nothing had happened.
There is also unofficial history that the woman shot by Zhao Kuangyin was the concubine of the latter leader of Southern Tang Li Yu .
If the woman shot by Zhao Guangyi is not Mrs. Huarui, then who is this Mrs. Huarui?
Mrs. Huarui's surname is Xu. At the age of fifteen, she was selected into the palace for her outstanding talent and was deeply loved by Emperor Meng Chang .
Meng Chang was the second emperor of Hou Shu . His father Meng Zhixiang was the founding king of Houshu, but he died of illness for more than half a year after he became emperor.
Meng Chang was only sixteen years old when he ascended the throne, and many ministers did not take the young emperor seriously at all.
Meng Chang quickly dismissed a group of greedy illegal bureaucrats and finally took the regime firmly in his own hands.
Meng Chang also took some measures that are beneficial to people's livelihood, such as reducing taxes, encouraging people to produce, developing the economy, and striving to promote the development of cultural and educational undertakings.
This makes Houshu considered the country with the highest cultural level among the ten countries of at that time, , and the Xu family entered the harem of Shu under such a background.
Xu was deeply favored by Emperor Meng Chang. She first named her the Imperial Concubine and called her Lady Huarui, which means she was more beautiful than the flowers.
Later, she was named Concubine Hui to commend her virtue.
Mrs. Huarui is not only beautiful and virtuous, but also quick-witted. She has created nearly a hundred unique palace poems.
The so-called palace lyrics refer to poems with the theme of imperial court life, which often expresses some depression and hatred of palace maids, which are generally seven-character quatrain .
Tang Dynasty poet Wang Jian was the pioneer of palace poetry. During the Five Dynasties period, such works gradually increased. Later, poets created palace lyrics in every dynasty and dynasty.
Lady Huarui is the first author to "write palace affairs with people in the palace", and is even called the first female poet in Chinese history.
Later generations of literati have a high evaluation of his poems and said that based on his works, you can feel the beauty and elegance of the author.
Where does the concubine of the fallen country go?
But The Later Shu Emperor Meng Chang became arrogant and extravagant shortly after his status was consolidated. He liked the beautiful scenery in the garden and pond, and expressed his luxury.
In spring, he sent people to plant various precious peonies in the royal garden. Whenever the flowers bloom, he would come to play with his ministers with his wives, concubines, and girls.
In summer, he built many pavilions and water pavilions on both sides of the Jinjiang River in Chengdu. He rode dragon boat to play on the river.
In autumn, the hibiscus in the whole city is in full bloom, very beautiful. He didn't think it was enough and sent someone to plant hibiscus on the city wall.
In the cold winter, all flowers wither, and some people will pay tribute to strange flowers and trees for him to appreciate.
Meng Chang not only likes beautiful scenery, but also fascinates women. He once ordered unmarried beauties aged thirteen to twenty across the country to enter the palace for selection.
The beauty selected was left behind by Meng Chang himself, and the others were given to the royal family.
This move caused a big commotion. Many people were afraid that their daughter would be selected, so they hurriedly asked someone to match the situation and get married to their daughter.
Not only that, Meng Chang's life is also very luxurious.
For example, the drowning device must be decorated with seven treasures, which are precious treasures such as gold, silver, pearls, and amber.
As the favorite concubine, Mrs. Huarui uses a spittoon not only made of gold, but also decorated with crystal.
has something to do, but it must be more important than the lower ones.
Meng Chang's style of work has gradually become more luxurious.
How can a group of people like this rule in Shu Kingdom not perish?
in the first month of the third year of Qiande, Zhao Kuangyin issued an order, Wang Quanbin, the governor of the Zhongwu Army, led his troops to attack Shu, and Meng Chang ordered the prince to lead his troops to fight.
Unexpectedly, the prince fled without fighting before he even went to the battlefield.
Meng Chang did not have the courage to force Zhao Kuangyin's army, and soon afterwards he ordered his ministers to draft a memorial to surrender.
That's it. After , Shu Kingdom was destroyed, and Mrs. Huarui and her emperor husband became prisoners of the Song army.
Mrs. Huarui passed Jiameng Post Station on the way to the Song Dynasty and suddenly felt desolate. She wrote the second half of the essay " Caisangzi ", which was written on the wall of the post Station.
The second half of the essay that has been passed down from later generations was continued by later generations.
Therefore, Yang Shen , one of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty, commented that the second half of the poem was completely fabricated out of thin air, with vulgar words, and was purely a dog-tail continuation.
Some scholars have also raised questions about whether Caisangzi's first half was written by Mrs. Huarui.
The reason for questioners is that the route between Mrs. Huarui and Meng Chang from Shu to Song is not to go north to walk through Jiameng Station on the mountain road, but to take the boat to the head of Three Gorges .
Since Mrs. Huarui is walking on the water road, it is impossible to write the first half of "Caisangzi" on the wall of Jiameng Station.
Therefore, some people believe that neither the first half or the second half of this poem is the work of Mrs. Huarui.
So how could Mrs. Huarui have the title of the first female poet in China? This has to start with Mrs. Huarui meeting Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.
Zhao Kuangyin heard that Mrs. Huarui was good at poetry, so he asked to see if her name was true.
After a little thought, Mrs. Huarui chanted the famous "Poem on the Death of the Country" in a low voice.
This poem uses the tone of a woman in the palace after the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. On the surface, she praises the winner, but in fact she angrily denounces the incompetence of the court where men rule.
especially "No one is a man" . One sentence is the most exciting. After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin said proudly that there were 140,000 soldiers in Shu, and only tens of thousands of soldiers in the royal army.
The real lady Huarui
During the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anguo was ordered to identify the books contributed by the three families of Shu, Chu and Qin, and ordered a man named Li Xiyan to handle the specific procedures.
When Li Xiyan was sorting out the books, she found that a stack of poems by Mrs. Huarui was written on the paper, all of which were written by Mrs. Huarui.
These poems and lyrics are very gorgeous, comparable to those of Wang Jian, the founder of , the Tang Dynasty palace poems.
Wang Jian's palace poems have been praised by people from the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, but Mrs. Huarui's palace poems have been abandoned here and left unattended. This is a pity.
so Li Xiyan asked someone to copy Mrs. Huarui's poems in "Preface Ci" and collect them.
Wang Anguo also liked Mrs. Huarui's "Preface Ci" very much and told his brother Wang Anshi .
Under Wang Anshi's praise, Mrs. Huarui's "Penin Ci" gradually spread.
Until modern times, Mr. Pu saw in Mrs. Huarui's "Preface Ci" that describes the birthday of the official family on July 15th Zhongyuan Festival .
If the author in this palace temple is Mrs. Huarui, then the official family she mentioned should be Meng Chang.
However, according to Mr. Pu's research, Meng Chang's birthday is November 14th, not July 15th.
Then the author of "Preface Ci" is not Meng Chang's concubine, but someone else.
Front Shu Emperor Wang Jian had a concubine called Xiao Xu. When Qian Shu was destroyed, Xiao Xu went north to Luoyang and was killed halfway.
Both the two ladies Huarui happen to be surnamed Xu. In fact, the eldest and older Concubine Xu is the dear aunt of Lady Huarui in Houshu.
So, which lady Huarui is the first female poet in China?
According to Mr. Pu's research, the birthday of the former emperor Wang Jian was July 15th, so the official in "Preface Ci" was Wang Jian.
Therefore, Mr. Pu concluded that Mrs. Huarui, who created "Preface Ci", was the little concubine Xu of the former Shu emperor Wang Jian, rather than Hui concubine Meng Chang, the emperor of Later Shu emperor.
Li Xiyan of the Northern Song Dynasty believed that Mrs. Huarui, who created "Preface Ci", was the concubine of Meng Chang, the lord of Later Shu. It was obvious that she missed her and had been spreading rumors.
This error occurred entirely because the two ladies Huarui had almost the same fate and both became concubines of the deceased country.
Although they are all concubines of the fallen country, compared with the murder of the former Shu Huarui on the way to escort, Mrs. Huarui in the Houshu is much lucky.
Meng Chang was named Duke of Qin by Zhao Kuangyin after he arrived at Kaifeng . Although Meng Chang died in less than ten days, Mrs. Huarui died.
There are unofficial historical records that Zhao Kuangyin took Lady Huarui from Later Shu as his concubine, and he favored her for more than ten years, so this is unlikely.
One, When Mrs. Shu Huarui entered the Song Dynasty, she was nearly forty years old.
Second, Lady Huarui was finally buried with her husband Meng Chang and was buried back to her hometown. It is now in Guanghan, Sichuan. The stele is titled "The Tomb of the former King of Shu Meng Chang and Lady Huarui."
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The different endings of the two ladies of Huarui show that Zhao Kuangyin was relatively enlightened, tolerant and kind to the rulers of the separatist regime in the surrounding areas.
is like he treated the former monarch and ministers with tolerance after replacing , the latter week through peaceful abdication.
Women in the world finally feel anxious and worried without hearing the cuckoo cry.
This is one of the important reasons why the Song Dynasty finally ended the war and turmoil during the Five Dynasties period.
The tone of the early Song Dynasty was rationality and peace, and the improvement of the national system. This is the foundation for the people to live and work in peace and prosperity in culture and economy.
