Cao Cao "Good Wife" is recorded.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Chapter 17, Cao Cao killed the warehouse official Wang Wu and said, "I will raise your wife, don't worry!"
" Three Kingdoms ·Biography of He Yan": He (He) Yan's mother and adopted Yan.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Biography of Zhang Xiu": Taizu admitted his wife and Xiu hated her.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Biography of Guan Yu": Cao Gong and Liu Bei surrounded Lu Bu in Xia Pi. Guan Yu Qi Gong sent Qin Yilu to ask for help, begging his wife, and the Duke agreed to him. Before his defeat, he repeatedly announced to the public. The public suspected that he had a strange look and sent him to see him first, so he kept it himself.
In " New Three Kingdoms " directed by Gao Xixi , Zhuge Liang, played by Lu Yi , said silly: Give Erqiao to Cao Cao, and there will be no war in Jiangdong. Lu Su hurriedly said: Don’t talk nonsense, Erqiao has already married Sun Ce and Governor Zhou. Lu Yi said again: That's all, Cao Cao loves his wife the most.
Even if " Cao Wei Good Wife" has some basis, the last two sentences "Dongwu Loli is controlled, Shu Han is all basic" are completely imaginary and fictional "two-dimensional" culture.
The so-called two-dimensional element is a special term in the subculture circle of ACGN (Animation animation, Comic comics, Game games, Novel novels), which comes from the Japanese "two-dimensional element (にじげん)" and means "two-dimensional". "Two-dimensional" has the meaning of "infrared", "imaginary", "fantasy" and "fiction".
According to the records of the Eastern Wu leader Sun Ce and Zhou Yu , the young and beautiful "Er Qiao", so there is a saying that "Er Wu Loliguan".
The three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang from Shu Han drank together all day and slept in the same bed. Liu Bei even said "Brothers are brothers and feet, and their wives are like clothes." Another tiger general, Zhao Yun, also knocked Zhao Fan down with one punch and left with a blink of an eye when the prefect of Guiyang, Zhao Fan was asked to remarry him. This is completely like the later "Liangshan hero", not close to women, and only has "brother." So netizens have a lot of imagination and summarized that "Shu Han is all the basics."
OK, let's go back to our topic, the custom of marrying a widow during the Three Kingdoms period.
Widow: The wife left by the husband after his death has a meaning of added praise. The most famous widow of the Three Kingdoms period is Cai Wenji .
Cai Yan , whose courtesy name is Wenji, her father was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a great scholar named Cai Yong (yong pronunciation is the same as Yong). Cai Yong simplified the small seal script of Prime Minister Qin Li Si . As the official font of the Han Dynasty at that time, it was called regular script at that time, also called real script . (The Song Dynasty characters that are popular now are rumored to be created by Qin Fu, the treacherous minister of the Song Dynasty. Please comment and inform friends who know it.)
Cai Yong's calligraphy
Cai Wenji is knowledgeable and talented, and is good at literature, music, and calligraphy. He once wrote two poems " Sorrow and Anger Poetry ". Zhang Yugu, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, believed that Cao Zhi and Du Fu , in later generations, were greatly influenced by Cai Wenji; in terms of music, he created " Hu Zuo Eighteen Beats " (and it is also recorded that Cai Wenji could break the strings when listening to others playing the piano, and he could accurately say which string was broken. There were only 5 strings of the guqin. When King Wen Ji Chang was detained in the vine, Missing his son Boyikao , Boyikao was also a music expert, so he added a string. Later, King Wu defeated Zhou and added another martial string, which is known in history as Wenwu Seven-stringed Piano . Cai Wenji was able to tell which of the broken zither was, and he is worthy of being a music master); Han Yu once said: "Zhonglang (Cai Yong) has a daughter who can pass on his career." It is rumored that Cai Yong has many ancient books hidden in his family, but many were lost due to the war. Cao Cao asked Cai Wenji how much could he remember? Cai Wenji said: My father had more than 4,000 volumes of books in his collection, but now I can only remember three or four hundred, and I can write them in both "real script" and "cursive script".
Cai Wenji first married Wei Zhongdao. After her husband died, the young widowed Cai Wenji returned to her home. Dong Zhuo rebelled against the capital, the Southern Xiongnu invaded, was captured by the Zuoxian King of the Huns, and gave birth to two children.After Cao Cao unified the north, he knew that his former teacher Cai Yong had no children, and that his daughter was captured by the Huns, and he spent a thousand taels of gold, and a pair of white jades redeemed Cai Wenji and married Dong Si.
So we can see that Cai Wenji, the "first talented woman" of the Three Kingdoms period, also had a remarriage experience, and no one said that this was "lost his ritual".
Cao Cao of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period married the mother of He Yan, the metaphysicist "Fu Fan He Lang". "Sikong Cao Cao took his mother Yin as his concubine" to accept He Yan as his adopted son.
Lu Bu's old general Qin Yilu's wife, Qin Lang's mother Du was also taken as a concubine by Cao Cao.
When Cao Cao was in Wancheng, he wanted to marry the "Northern Gun King" Zou, but it aroused Zhang Xiu's dissatisfaction. In the end, the commander of the Tiger Guard and eldest son Cao Ang were both killed in battle.
Cao Cao's son Cao Pi also married Yuan Shao second son Yuan Xi widow Zhen Ji , and Cao Cao's other son Cao Zhi also wanted to marry Zhen Ji, but because his brother took the lead, Cao Zhi wrote " Luo God Fu " when he missed Zhen Ji.
When Liu Bei was in charge of the governor of Yizhou, he took Liu Yan 's daughter-in-law, Liu Zhang 's third sister-in-law, and Liu Mao's widow Wu. The brother of Wu's brother is the general of Shu Han Wu Yi and Wu Ban .
Unofficial history records that Guan Yu wanted to marry Diao Chan, but some people say that Diao Chan is a fictional historical figure. However, Guan Yu wanted to marry Qin Yilu's widow Du was recorded in "The Three Kingdoms", but Cao Cao took the lead.
and Dongwu's Sun Quan also had the experience of marrying a widow. Sun Jian 's sister Sun Ru married Xu Zhen, and Xu Zhen's son Xu Kun 's daughter first married Lu Shang, a member of the clan of Lu Xun , and later remarried Sun Quan, who was Sun Quan's favored Mrs. Xu .
During the Three Kingdoms period, it was not a shame to remarry a widow, and there was no saying "lost your fortune". The real requirement for the widow to keep the rituals and to seal the "monstration archway" and call on the people of the whole country to learn. This was after the large-scale promotion of the " Chengzhu Neo-Confucianism " in the Song Dynasty.
"The Complete Book of Second Cheng" records: Another question: "Whether there is a widow who is poor and has no trust, can you remarry? ’ said: ‘It’s just that later generations are afraid of cold and starving to death, so there is this saying. However, starvation is extremely small, and loss of integrity is extremely large! ’
This is to use the "Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons" of " The king is the main body of the minister , the father is the main body of the son, and the husband is the main body of the wife" to restrain the people and meet the needs of the feudal monarch.
Does marrying a widow have a specific social background during the Three Kingdoms period?
1: The Three Kingdoms period was an era of war, with the princes separatist wars constantly, and as the main source of troops, many of the young and middle-aged men died in battle. There were many widows in the war era, so it was also unrestricted that widows remarrying were unrestricted;
Second: After a man gained power, he must have wanted to find a virtuous and beautiful woman to be his wife, but beauties and talented women are not everywhere, so widows with talent, virtue and beauty will naturally be pursued by them. Moreover, the society was not bound by "Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism" at that time;
Third: In the patriarchal society in China for thousands of years, many women were regarded as "political tools" for men. During the Three Kingdoms period, wars were frequent, and when the enemy's chief general died in battle or had died, marrying his widow was the best way to win over his subordinates and civil and military officials around him. For example, after Liu Bei married Wu, it had something to do with Wu Yi and his family and Liu Zhang's former official, so people's hearts were gathered and Liu Bei's Yizhou governor was able to sit firmly.
What do you think about this when so many capable people marry widows during the Three Kingdoms period?
