The existence of men and women makes the world richer in diversity and life. It is precisely the hazy mist relationship between men and women that makes many experiences and developments more dramatic and romantic.
As the saying goes, a beautiful lady and a gentleman are good friends, which means the pursuit and love of a man for a woman under a handsome man. There is another old saying in China that says heroes are sad to pass the beauty. In the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, there are many classic examples made by heroes for their beloved women.
Both Lu Bu was coveting Diao Chan’s beautiful colors and defeating Dong Zhuo, while Wu Sangui was angry and fought for Chen Yuanyuan for her beauty. To be fair, it is the existence of these women that burst out the spiritual motivation of men to a certain extent.
In Chinese history, the four beauties in ancient my country were selected, with fish falling and geese falling and geese falling and the moon shy with flowers. All of these four groups of words indicate the beauty of Diao Chan, Wang Zhaojun, Xi Shi, and Yang Yuhuan from the inside out. They have indeed taken on the titles of the four beauties.
However, since ancient times, the beauty has been so poor, but the experience and ending of these four beauties are extremely tragic. In comparison, although the four ugly women in my country's history are not outstanding, their fate is extremely favored, which is really strange.
The tragic fate of the four beauties
Speaking of the four beauties in history, although they have outstanding appearances, they have brought them more troubles because of their beauty over the decades of life, which has led to their unhappy life.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, the treacherous minister, was domineering, especially after controlling the position of the court, he also accepted Dong Zhuo as his godson. Everyone in the court was angry but everyone was in danger. Although Wang Yun had a patriotic heart, he just bet on the life of Diao Chan, the young woman.
Under Wang Yun's arrangement, Diao Chan used her natural beauty to capture Dong Zhuo first, and then seduced Lu Bu. Although the plan was successful, Diao Chan also became accused of being a beauty, and finally refused to be humiliated and committed suicide.
has the same fate as Diao Chan. Xi Shi was originally just an ordinary peasant woman in a farmer family. But because she had a good face, she was given to King Fuchai of the defeated King of Yue Goujian as a gift to King Fuchai of Wu.
Fuchai is also a lustful person, not to mention facing a beauties like Xi Shi. Although in history, it has been said that King Goujian of Yue slept on firewood and endured humiliation and endured the heavy burden, and finally made a comeback to take revenge on a gentleman. But in fact, without Xi Shi's dedication, there would be no Fuchai's ambition to lose his ambition, so how could Goujian take the opportunity to turn the tables?
It’s a pity that Goujian did not give Xi Shi an explanation after taking revenge. Instead, he couldn’t wait to eradicate the stain on the road to success. After all, Xi Shi was just a pawn on his road to success.
This year, An Lushan raised an army to rebel, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Li Longji fled in a hurry, and the troops mutinyed when passing through Mawei Slope, demanding that the emperor execute Yang Yuhuan. Most people believe that Yang Yuhuan bewitched the emperor and harmed the country and the people. A beauty who is not killed is not enough to quell the public's anger. In the end, Yang Yuhuan also took a false charge.
What's wrong with her? A woman just wants to stay with her beloved man for life, but the bad thing is that the man is a king. How can she control the king's ideas? She is nothing more than acting as a scapegoat to vent her anger.
Compared with the first three, Wang Zhaojun's fate is even more tragic. As a marriage envoy, she was a weak woman, but she had to bear the burden of defending the motherland and establishing a bridge of friendship between the Huns and the Han Dynasty. Emperor Yuan of Han was cowardly and incompetent. Faced with the unreasonable demands of the Xiongnu Shanyu to seek beauty in the Central Plains, she sent five women as marriage partners.
sacrificed the lives and dignity of the country's women on the grounds of peace, and recalled the helplessness and sadness that Wang Zhaojun showed when he was on his mission to the Western Regions. This included both the cowardly and incompetent hatred of the Han rulers, the hypocritical mockery of the Han men retreating, and the unwillingness to the women's misfortune.
The beautiful life of an ugly girl
The first ugly girl to be mentioned is Momo. Among these four ugly girls, of course, the one who looks the ugliest is Momo, but she is the one who has the highest status. According to legend, she looks like a mother yaksha, and ordinary people will feel uncomfortable all over when they see her.
But such an ugly woman is virtuous. Not only did Huangdi marry her, but she couldn't do without the strong help of Momo in the battle to defeat Yan Emperor and defeat Chiyou. She can be said to be a competent virtuous supporter.
This second ugly woman is Zhonglichun during the Warring States Period. It is rumored that her eyes and chin are sunken downwards, her nose bones are protruding, and her Adam's apple is even thicker than ordinary men. Such a woman has a lofty ambitions that are different from ordinary people.
Because he was dissatisfied with the arrogant and extravagant life of King Xuan of Qi, Zhongli Chun put life and death behind his mind and accused King Xuan of Qi in person for his shameless behavior. Unexpectedly, King Xuan of Qi was not angry after hearing this, but instead thought about what Zhongli Chun said, and later he even named Zhongli Chun as the queen. This is also a classic case of the black chicken turning into a phoenix.
Although Meng Guang of the Eastern Han Dynasty was dark, fat, ugly and crude, no one was willing to match the match until he was in his 30s. It was just because of his unbearable face. At that time, he could be regarded as an unmarried older woman, but in the end he married Liang Hong, a famous wise man in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The two were extremely loving after marriage, and Meng Guang often went to the fields to farm with her husband. The men and women weave the piano and zither harmoniously, which was simply a happy life that we envied and respected each other.
This fourth ugly woman, Ruan, is more famous just like Meng Guang, because she married a good husband. It is said that Xu Yun had never seen Ruan's appearance before the wedding night, but when he saw that his wife was born so ugly, Xu Yun, a literati, couldn't help but retreat.
But who expected that Ruan said to Xu Yun, who was handsome, "You only pay attention to color but not virtue, how dare you say that you have both character?" After a long time of getting along, Xu Yun felt that Ruan's personality was gentle and parallel and upright, and she was a model of a good wife and mother. The two also fell in love with each other until their whole lives.
The root cause of the difference in fate
Many people may have doubts about the completely different experiences of the four ugly women and the four beauties. Why do women who are as beautiful as immortals experience so sad and infuriating, but most women with ugly faces start and end well.
In fact, a very fundamental reason is the system and problems in the feudal period. At that time, women's social status was generally not high under the feudal system, otherwise there would be no brothel and polygamy system. The existence of women is more like to meet the living needs of some royal children.
In their eyes, their career is the first priority. The women around them are the stepping stones on their journey of success. They are afraid of the improvement of their status of women. They are as anxious as the failed rulers to suppress and belittle their status. In their eyes, good-looking women are beautiful, and bad-looking women are ugly.
Or it can be said that women who contribute to the patriarchal society are beauty, while women who have unique opinions on the same level as men are ugly women. This subjective definition also creates a difference in fate.
