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Xu Niang is not old: legendary woman in her early 40s

If you try to feel her, she is not like Zhao Feiyan, Yang Yuhuan and Wang Zhaojun. She seems to have a fixed image. After watching someone play, she will feel like it or not for the first time. Chen Yuanyuan, she is impossible to capture, all the actors are very gentle, very beautiful, but it always makes people feel that it is not the same thing.

Xia Ji

On the Internet, there are people who often bask in beautiful men and women in ancient clothes. My friends strongly recommend "Luoshen" starring Tsai Shaofen, lamenting that Zhen Mi's life is full of ups and downs, and the peach blossoms are flowing in troubled times. I think that although Mrs. Zhen lived in troubled times, she only married twice. After she married Cao Pi, although she came to a miserable end, she also lived a relatively peaceful and stable life for a long time. She was not a peach blossom in troubled times.

If you want to be a peach blossom in troubled times, you need to be gorgeous, and you need to go through many twists and turns. The most important thing is that in troubled times, you can also bloom without any loss of color. If so, I'm afraid Chen Yuanyuan of Qinhuai Bayan will be on the list.

Wu Meicun's "red crown" makes the story of Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui a household name. In countless movies and TV plays, this beautiful woman is mysterious and charming - she is gorgeous in the golden Qinhuai, and has been around the aristocratic family for several times. Let the talented man venture to open up the frontier, and think about this, and make the brave general Wu Sangui surrender to the Qing army. He entered Chongzhen emperor's back palace, passed Li Chuang King's Dashun, and settled in Pingxi King's other courtyard. It seems that the late Ming Dynasty did not let Chen Yuanyuan touch a little bloody gas. When you think of her, there will be the colorful lights along the Qinhuai River and the orchestras of the pavilions.

If you try to feel her, she is not like Zhao Feiyan, Yang Yuhuan and Wang Zhaojun. She seems to have a fixed image. After watching someone play, she will feel like it or not for the first time. Chen Yuanyuan, she is impossible to capture, all the actors are very gentle, very beautiful, but it always makes people feel that it is not the same thing. Perhaps only Mao Bijiang's description of her can make people feel her mood a little: "women's posture is the most important, followed by color, and it's hard to choose between them because they are full of temples. They are smart, elegant, natural, and have only round ears."

Xia Ji, another peach blossom in troubled times, is recorded only in one historical event after another, accompanied by the death of one man after another and the decline of one country or family after another. In those ancient books, her face is vague, and there is almost no description of her appearance and temperament, but what comes to her is a strong and intense lust for flesh. If Chen Yuanyuan is Suzhou Jasmine in May and June, then she is an immortal poppy.

Xia Ji, Princess of Zheng State in the spring and Autumn period. He married Ziman first, and Ziman died, and then he married Xia Yushu, a doctor of the state of Chen. He gave birth to Xia Zhengshu, who died early. Xia Ji, a widowed woman, had an intimate relationship with Chen linggong, Minister Kong Ning and Yi Xingfu. His son Zhengshu angrily shot linggong to death and made himself king. Kong Ning and Yi Xingfu fled to Chu. The state of Chu sent troops to beg Chen, and Xia Zhengshu captured Xia Ji. The king of Chu Zhuang, his minister Zifan and his sorcerer were all attracted by them. The sorcerer used his tricks to stop their desire. Finally, she was given to old Lian Yinxiang. The next year, old Lian Yinxiang died in battle, and her son Hei wanted to take over Xia Ji. However, Wuchen did not forget her. First, he designed to let Xiaji return to Zheng's mother's home. Seven years later, Wuchen sent an envoy to Qi to Zheng and fled to Jin with Xiaji. The sorcerer paid a heavy price for this - his rival Zifan killed the whole sorcerer family. When the witch minister was in pain, he vowed to let the state of Chu be "exhausted". So he helped Wu become strong and harassed the state of Chu. From then on, the state of Chu was declining. And Xia Ji, finally, will die together with Wu Chen.

Xia Ji's beauty lasts for a long time. It seems that every man who sees her is infatuated with her. It has nothing to do with her age. When the king of Chu Zhuang saw her, she was already in her early 40s, and when the witch minister married her, she should have been about 50. It has nothing to do with the virtuous and stupid. Her courtiers are not only the shameless three kings of Chen, but also the virtuous king of Chu Zhuang Deep and affectionate. This can not help but cause countless conjectures and reveries of later generations, "beauty is like flowers separated from the clouds", about her demeanor, not a word, do romantic. As a result, in Zhulin unofficial history, Xia Ji met a stranger when she was a child and taught fangzhongshu, which made her face prosperous and charming. People try to give the story of Xia Ji rationality.

Even so, Xia Ji doesn't seem to be a real person. In this series of events, she never mentioned her joys and sorrows. Even when her son Xia Zhengshu was cracked by a car, there was no mention of her reaction in history books.

Compared with the above two, the experience of Xiao, the empress of Sui Yang emperor, is not inferior. She has been the empress of Sui Dynasty for more than 20 years. After the fall of the country, she was occupied by yuwenhuaji, Dou Jiande, Turk chuluo Khan and Jieli Khan, and finally died in Li Shimin's Tang Palace.

Empress Xiao is gentle, charming and intelligent, while Yang Guang is wild and indulgent. Instead of being jealous, she enjoys with many beauties. Dou Jiande's wife, Cao Shi, is jealous and humiliates her, so she makes a humble response. In the Tang Palace, she has a banquet with Li Shimin, which shows her calm response. At the banquet, Li Shimin asked Xiao how the scene was better than that of the Sui palace? The lights and candles in the Tang Palace can't be compared with that of the Sui Yang emperor, who used the big pearl to light the scene. However, Xiao replied calmly, "Your Majesty is the king who has established a foundation. Why should you compare with the king who has perished?" In a word, it not only takes Li Shimin's dignity into consideration, but also indirectly flatters Li Shimin. How can people not be upset?

At the time of Xiao's birth, Yuan Tiangang's hexagrams gave her the best annotation of her life: "mother is in the world, life brings peach blossom."

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