Author: Liu Hongyu
(Dai Ji and the King)
Red face disaster water, love beauty does not love the country, chong guan angry for the red face...
These words, there is no need for any culture, as long as you have heard a few traditional commentaries, you are probably familiar with them.
There are also slightly niche ones - dirty Tang stinky men, Tang female disasters, a laugh lost country, and so on, a little traditional education, it is certainly not strange.
All of this conveys a meaning that seems to be very similar to "truth" - women are wrong about the country, and beautiful women are often the poison of the family and the world!
Gently extending this meaning, from the perspective of psychological implication, it is easy to think that the reason why there have been so many chaotic decays and dynasties in ancient times is that there are too many women who have harmed the country and the people.
So, the question arises – how can there be so many women who have harmed the country and the people?
(i) The doubts raised by two very different lists
Xia has a sister, Shang has a concubine, Zhou has a praise... These are the three "daughters of the fallen country" of the so-called "three generations" in our history.
Eastern Zhou because there are too many countries, the list is also very long, pick the most eye-catching sunburn - Xia Ji.
The great Han Dynasty - before there was the dictatorship of Lü Yan, there was Fu Zhaoyi, "Er Zhao", and later, there was also a He Empress.
The greater Tang Dynasty - Princess Gaoyang, Empress Wu, Princess Taiping, Princess Yang Guifei... It is very outrageous that after that Wu Hou, he actually became an emperor for more than ten years, which was simply subverted!
The prosperous Song Dynasty, Liu Fei, who exchanged tanuki cats for princes, and Li Shishi, the flower queen of qinglou, were really false and did not dare to be conclusive, but it was indeed an indisputable fact that the rumors were boiling.
There are also Empress Haima Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty, Empress Li of the Ming Dynasty (the biological mother of the Wanli Emperor), Chen Yuanyuan, Concubine Dong of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi, and even ..." Even " Say more trouble."
This is just a random list of "great dynasties" and "or considerable" principles. Seriously, this list will be very long, all of which will be covered up, and it will be equivalent to the scale of the roll call of the Girl Scout Army.
Another list, which corresponds to the entire West corresponding to us, is "comparable" to the above-mentioned bits and is more well known to the Chinese people, the most important of which may be two - the "Queen" of ancient Egypt and the "Helen" of ancient Greece. They are all legendary characters. "Yan Hou" later committed suicide; and Helen lived well, no one held her any responsibility, and she became the idol of love in the dreams of later romantic literati, and it seems that it is rare to see "dirty" and "smelly" descriptions and arrangements.
The difference in the "length" of the two lists, as well as the difference in the "conclusions" of the women on the list, caused the author to question it very early.
There are three questions:
Are we women here too bad, or are our men here too easily seduced by women?
How can we make some women play so badly with so much emphasis on male power?
There are so few women like this in the West, am I too lonely and unheard, or do they deliberately cover up the ugly and don't tell?
(2) The two paths of beauty to the country and the people
In the end, the situation in the West is not too clear, so let's mainly talk about ourselves.
So many women and beautiful women in ancient times actually gave "disasters" to the country that is quite big and tall, and the scourge is so bad that it is difficult to return and change dynasties.
In general, two forms can be seen, or "paths"—
One is the real "mistake because of love." The three most famous "examples": Yang Guifei vs Tang Minghuang, Xiao ZhouHou vs Li Hou lord, Shunzhi vs Dong Efei.
Looking at these two "examples", someone will definitely add: Chu Ji and Zhou Youwang should also be counted! There are also the "Second Zhao" of the Western Han Dynasty and the Emperor Cheng of Han. There are also the earliest sisters and Natsuki. And also......
Without!
Not so much!
Mei Xi and Xia Jie are too early, whether there is a sister Xi or not, it is difficult to say.
The "Second Zhao" of the Western Han Dynasty (Zhao Feiyan, Zhao Hede sisters) and the Han Cheng Emperor did not seem to talk about "love", but were simply "desire".
Zhao Ji and King Zhou You, I'm afraid there really is something else hidden. Specific, enough to separate the number of details.
Even Xiao Zhou Hou and Li Hou Lord, Shunzhi Ye and Dong Efei, were... What to say? Love, in my opinion, must be love; but it seems to be reluctant to put the responsibility of the destruction of the country on them and their love--The country of Lord Li Hou, when he arrives, will exert great efforts to govern, and I am afraid that he will not be able to return to heaven. No matter how "absurd" Shunzhi Ye is, the rising "Great Qing" and "Why Not Land"!
Therefore, the author thinks that saying that women have misled the country is really caused by the "true love" of men and women, and from ancient times to the present, I am afraid that it is also the case of Yang Guifei and Tang Minghuang! In fact, the love between these two people was not completely denied; otherwise, the Hall of Eternal Life would not have been passed down.
In addition to that love, almost all the "stories" of women who have lost their country are actually the second of the above two forms or "paths" - shirking responsibility.
That's right! Shirk your responsibilities!
The author believes that the "lesson" of so many women in our history who have brought calamity to the country and the people, in their bones, are men, and later men, who have shifted the responsibility for losing the country and losing their families to women.
For example, Chen Yuanyuan said that Liu Zongmin (also known as Li Zigui) and Wu Sangui were fighting for this woman, and Wu Sangui was angry, opened Shanhaiguan, and put in the Qing army, resulting in Li Zicheng's "Dashun" regime dying before the "full moon".
As if to say, if they did not argue for Chen Yuanyuan, or even simply did not have Chen Yuanyuan as a person, Wu Sangui would not have opened the mountain customs, the Qing soldiers would not have been able to enter, and Dashun would not have died...
Is it possible?
Wu Sangui did not open shanhaiguan, and Dashun might not be threatened by qing soldiers for the time being; but was it also not threatened by Wu Sangui's "eighty thousand Guandong iron horse"? Wu Sangui is the "chief soldier" appointed by "Daming"!
Da Shun destroyed Daming and forced the emperor to move up, and as an official of Daming's imperial court, Wu Sangui had a large sharp army in his hand...
The Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners totaled about 140,000 troops, Wu Sangui had 80,000 troops, and Dashun had hundreds of thousands of troops...
Is this a game of three military forces at a turning point in history? There is Something about Chen Yuanyuan!
But future generations will blame the result chosen by history on a woman who probably doesn't know anything!
After boiling a woman in soup, everyone drank it separately, and they were all at ease.
A little historical and political common sense will simply show that this is really a joke that makes people laugh out loud.
Today, we will see this joke; are they, and the wise people who learned the lessons later, so much worse than us that they can't taste the joke?
Probably not!
So why not summarize, pick, record, and circulate well and realistically?
(3) Shamelessness and indifference fermented by the belief in male rights
It seems that the use of "shameless" and "indifferent" to describe the sages who painstakingly left the historical lesson of "women's disaster to the country and the people" for future generations is inappropriate, at least "slightly disrespectful". But if we carefully taste those stories, the stories that the sages left for us to prove and manifest their "female calamity" doctrine, at least, on the basis of the author's limited language, we really can't find a slightly polite and polite statement for a while.
Of course, it is not right to be "shameless" or "indifferent" to be placed only on the "individuals" of the sages. At least it's unfair. Changing me to their time, position and mission, it will be about the same. If you don't get it right, it will be more "shameless" and more "indifferent".
Some people say that there are two people in this world, one is called "man" and the other is called "woman".
According to this logic, throughout our thousands of years of history, this statement can be revised to read that the only people in this world who are called "people" are men; and women, to be precise, are "humanized female animals."
That's not good, isn't it? But that's exactly what happened!
Vivid examples of young women, especially those who are still "cute", have a name that is often seen in ancient texts - female.
Is it good that people talk about "male and female" rather than "male and female"?
The girl is called "female", why is the boy not called "male"?
If nothing else, this "female" can explain how we did not treat women as "people" in our long past!
Why is that?
Male power?
It can be said. But not comprehensive enough.
In fact, the vast majority of the world's peoples, in the long river of history that is almost synchronized with ours, are patriarchal. The difference is that in our country where morality is secularized "faith", male power, as an important basis for giving "morality" strong execution, is "faith-based". This kind of belief raises the "difference between men and women" from physiological differences and the "natural division of labor" of production and life based on this difference to the relationship of "master-subordinate" and "master-servant" at the "social" and "institutional" levels.
This ascent, in our country where there is no or serious lack of religious "abstract deification worship", almost loses the "high limit" and easily reaches the "highest".
Because it is "the highest", it is inviolable and non-criticizable.
Thus, there is such a thing - the gambling husband loses the red eye, goes home to loot the items that can be sold for "flipping", and after finding nothing, he will call his wife "the losers" without thinking.
This kind of logic, magnified and elevated to the level of "home country and the world", there are so many women who have harmed the country and the people.
There are boys and girls in a family, and if anything goes wrong, most of them are girls, whether she is a sister or a sister.
Even the wife's biological parents will first instruct their daughter to reflect and improve; moreover, this kind of responsibility, in most cases, is not "investigated" - because you are a woman, a wife, you will have to suffer, even if you are wronged, you have to suffer; if you do not obey, pray that the next life will be a man.
So many wives who have been accused of reflecting and improving, and women who have produced hundreds of disasters to the country and the people for thousands of years, the probability is really not very high.
【About the author】Liu Hongyu, commonly used pen names Mao Ying, Jing Hong. He is a powerful novelist, a senior screenwriter, a member of the Beijing Writers Association, and the winner of the "Xia Yan Cup Excellent Film Script".
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