I. History
History (year of birth and death unknown, died in the first 473 years). His real name is Shi Yiguang, a beautiful woman of Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period. People usually call him Shi. Later generations respectfully called him "Xi Zi", and he was born in Zhuluo Village (now Zhuluo Village, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province) at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Born in poverty, she played by the river with her mother since she was a child, so she was also called "the girl playing with yarn".
Born beautiful, charming and outstanding, she is the embodiment and synonym of beauty. After Gou Jian destroyed Wu, the teacher went away with the tour of the five lakes. You said you died in the river, and you said you would go back to Huanjiang and die in the mountains.
Final results
After the Battle of Wuyue, there are various legends about the ending of beautiful women, which can be summarized as follows:
1, guilty and hanged himself
In some scripts, such a plot is to help Yue destroy Wu, on the one hand, he feels gratified and completes his mission. On the other hand, I feel guilty and sad for Fu Cha, the king of Wu. In an extremely contradictory psychology, I couldn't get rid of it, and finally hanged myself in Guanwa Palace.
2. Being taken away by Fan Li, he said
This statement is very popular and recorded in ancient books. Yue Jue Shu, written by people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, said: "Shi returned after Wu's death and went to the five lakes with him. Most literary and dramatic works are described in this way. On the day of Wu's defeat, he did two things. One is to persuade his good friend Wen Zi to leave Gou Jian as soon as possible.
Another thing is that I found my old lover's stone deep in the shade of flowers under the stage of Gusu, and fled to Taihu Lake in a hurry. The two of them took the same boat and disappeared into the vast clouds. Su Dongpo once wrote: "When the five lakes ask, the boat will return, and it still carries Chinese characters." In Taoshan, Feicheng, Shandong Province, it is said that there is a tomb of Hehe.
3. Say Shen Lake
There is another saying about the fate after the destruction of Wu. It is said that after the death of Wu, the King of Yue wanted to keep her because of her beauty, but she was firmly opposed. He wanted the King of Yue to learn from the lessons of the King of Wu and not to be tempted by beauty. He made a plan to send someone to cheat the King of Yue's car to Taihu Lake, and then cheat her to the boat. When she reached the middle of the lake, Xi Shi was brutally pushed off the boat while she was not looking, and Xi Shi drowned in Taihu Lake.
4. Tell Jiang by Wu
According to folklore, after Wu's death, Wu people vented their anger on their bodies, wrapped her in brocade and sank into the heart of the Yangtze River. "Dongpo records foreign bodies" contains: "There are mermaids in the Yangtze River, also known as Xishi fish. Their number changes easily in a day, and the meat is delicious. If women eat it, it can increase their coquetry. According to the cloud system, Xi Shi sank into the river and became an illusion. "
There is a poem in Luo Yin in the Tang Dynasty: "Why do Wu people complain about the history of the rise and fall of the country?" . If the stone overthrew Wu, who would Yue die for? From this poem of the Tang Dynasty, we can see that the poem "Shen Jiang is said by Wu people" has a certain market.
5. From Gou Jian and Jiang Shen.
Gou Jian, the King of Yue, once said, "There is indeed Wu Zhigong." Legend has it that Gou Jian believed that the demise of Wu originated from Fu Cha's obsession with beauty. In order to prevent his beauty from hurting the country in turn, he turned and gave a gift and died. This statement is similar to "being drowned by Wu people" and "drowning", and both of them are regarded as "a femme fatale"
6. Being told to sink into the river.
According to legend, after the destruction of Wu by the State of Yue, Gou Jian wanted to bring the surname into the harem. Yue later thought it was "the daughter of the country" and worried that it would hurt Yue, so his men wrapped it in a cowhide bag and sank it into the river.
This statement is more popular because it is more in line with the lust of the king and the jealousy of the queen. This is the saying in the Chronicle of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Shen Jiang Shuo was recorded earlier in ancient books. Less than a hundred years before the demise of Wu (around 475 BC), Mozi said in Mozi Dear Scholars: "It is better to fight than to fight; Meng Ben's killing was brave; The beauty of beauty lies in the beauty of beauty. Wu Qi's split is also a matter. " It means that these people all "died of their own strengths"-they suffered the same damage because of their own strengths.
A stone that threw itself into the river because of its beauty. He made it clear that "the beauty of stone is also important" and clearly pointed out that he died by throwing himself into the river. Another classic book, Wu Yue Chun Qiu, also clearly records: "After the death of the king of Wu, the more he drifted to the west, the more he applied to the river, and the more he died with the barbarians." It was explained that "Li Yi" here refers to the fact that it was "changed to Li, with the same surname." (Historical Records and Biography of Huo Zhi).
The author thinks it is more reasonable to interpret the "clothes" here as "cowhide". It means that the stone is wrapped in cowhide and "floats on the water". In memory of his friend and rival Wu Zixu, he changed his name to "Li Pi". After Wu Zixu was given death by Fu Cha, he was also a corpse wrapped in cowhide. In the Tang Dynasty, Sima Zhen's Historical Records Index said: "Fan Li claimed to be. The beggar gang used the king of Wu to kill his son, but now he is guilty, so he is also named. "
There is another proof: a famous dish "Xi Shi Tongue" (a kind of clam meat) along the coast of Zhejiang Province is said to commemorate Xi Shi's sinking into the river, so-called beauty plus food.
In other words, your soul has returned to his hometown. As for where he was buried, whether it was a body or clothes, further research is needed.
Second, Zheng Dan.
Zheng Dan, the beauty of Yue in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Born in Zhuluo Village (now Zhuluo Village, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province), he lives in the east of Huansha River. It's beautiful. ?
Gou Jian, the king of Yue, returned to Yue from Wu, and he tried to destroy Wu. She is one of the "eight beauties of Wu". In Vietnam, they taught etiquette and puzzled Fu Cha, the king of Wu, with songs and dances. Excellent dancing skills, comparable appearance, and also known as "double girls."
The death of Zheng Dan.
Zheng Dan
There is also a pair of beauty stones given by Gou Jian, King of Yue, to Fu Cha, King of Wu. They come from the same village and have the same responsibility in Wu, but their fate is not as good as stone. Even her death is a mystery. Later generations have many literary associations with Zheng Dan's death.
According to historical records, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, was very happy to meet him, and met him in Gusutai and Wu Gong. Later, Zheng Dan "died of depression and was buried in Huangmaoshan". Historians say that his death is a "pet history".
Bai Yang of Taiwan Province Province wrote in the book Death of the Queen that these two beautiful women did not live up to their long-term strict training, and soon after entering the palace, they crowded out all other beautiful women favored by the Wu Palace; Eat Mr. Five Blessingg Tea to death. However, and have the same beauty, the same life background, the same educational background, so there is no difference.
However, in the eyes of Mr. Wu Fucha, there is a world of difference. Maybe the lady's tone is just right for his tone, and he especially likes stones. Zheng Dan, by contrast, feels lonely. The saddest thing for a beautiful girl is being left out in the cold. A year later, she died of depression. Mr. Five Blessingg Cha was sad for a while, so he buried her in Huangmaoshan and set up a temple for sacrifice.
Alas, the fate of Zheng Dan raises many questions. Maybe two beautiful women from Vietnam are fighting. However, in any case, its name has been passed down through the ages, but it is too old to be known ... However, it has been 2400 years since Ms. Zheng Dan died, which is the only sight that has not been widely spread. Alas.
Extended data
At that time, he was dedicated to the king of Wu, but he was introverted, weak and charming. Wu Wang prefers Xi's weakness, so he prefers Xi. The story of history and the king of Wu is recorded more, but it is less loved by the king of Wu because of his early death, so the story with the king of Wu is little known.
When she was not famous, it was Zheng Dan who praised her repeatedly that made her overcome her inferiority complex and become a famous beauty. The two became inseparable girlfriends. When the world remembers, no one can remember the contribution. Shihe was chosen by the King of Yue to avenge the King of Wu.
They were taught ethics and dance skills and received three years of training. Then he gave it to the king of Wu, won his favor, and turned him into an absurd, extravagant and drunken king. But women are jealous and narrow-minded, so it is inevitable that two people will have conflicts when they serve a man at the same time. Therefore, the relationship between the two people is no longer intimate, but has become intrigue and intrigue.
Later, Zheng Dan gave birth to a son for the King of Wu, but the child soon died of illness. This grief completely stimulated Zheng Dan, and then the contradiction between her and the prince of Wu became more and more serious, which finally ended in Zheng Dan's death.
In 473 BC, the State of Yue attacked Wu, and Wu perished. This is inseparable from the efforts of Harmony. For decades, they have endured humiliation and fulfilled their mission, and they have been called women's heroes by later generations.
The earliest book that recorded Zheng Dan was Wu Yue Chun Qiu. Although Zheng Dan's specific date of birth was not written in it, some people speculated about it. This book mentions that she was eighteen in 484 BC. She was sent to the State of Wu when she was eighteen. In 473 BC, the State of Yue destroyed the State of Wu. At this time, Zheng Dan has been dead for a year, and she was about 30 years old when she died.
Then she was born in 504 BC, which was the year of the dog. Therefore, Zheng Dan may belong to a dog, but these are only calculations and guesses, and there is no official history to prove this, which needs further research and textual research.
There are several theories about Zheng Dan's death:
The first is to die of jealousy and depression. Because the prince of Wu preferred stones, he was left out in the cold and depressed for a long time.
The second is to die of falling gold. When Zheng Dan lost the prince's favor, he had sex with the prince's son. Who knows that the prince is also fickle and was found flirting with the waiter. In desperation, he swallowed gold and committed suicide.
The third is to double suicide for the prince of Wu. Zheng Dan fell in love with the prince of Wu. Once, the king of Wu was sent to assassinate him and pretend to be killed. But Zheng Dan didn't know the truth, so he committed suicide.
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