This article is originally created by: Upstairs Old Fan
Empress Eldest Sun, empress of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Li Shimin, she was recognized by later generations as a sage for thousands of years, and at the age of thirteen she married sixteen-year-old Li Shimin, a young couple, two small and unsuspecting, sincere feelings.
In those turbulent and change-changing years, the two were exemplary couples. Li Shimin fought in battle, and the eldest grandson took care of his children at home; When Li Shimin competed for the throne, the eldest grandson entered the palace to contact the concubines to solicit votes for her husband; Li Shimin coup d'état, the eldest grandson personally comforted the soldiers and cheered. What a competent helper.
After the eldest grandson became empress, she became more gentle and virtuous. The position is higher, the responsibility is greater, and the queen is not only a role model for the harem, but also a mother in the world and a role model for women in the world. Empress Eldest Sun kept her hands on the scroll all day, taking the Han Dynasty talented woman Ban Zhao as an example of writing the "Female Ring", and wrote the excellent deeds of ancient women and concubines plus her own commentary into a "Female Rule".
This book can not only remind yourself how to be a good empress from time to time, but also set an example for future generations and become a common code of conduct for harem concubines. Unfortunately, it was lost in the Ming Dynasty.
Empress Eldest Sun always demanded herself strictly with feudal ethics, and used the words Wen WanXian Shu, Lan Xin Hui, xiu wai Hui Zhong to describe her very appropriately, ancient women were humble and stable as virtues, empress Eldest Sun such an ancient sage will boast?
The answer is yes, and she exaggerates herself as a flower. There is a poem "Spring Journey" as evidenced by:
The peach blossoms in the Upper Garden are bright and the concubines of Lan Yuyan are in love with spring. Inoue Shin-momo steals her face, and the eaves are light. Flowers come to see dancing butterflies, and trees grow and listen to warblers. Why should Lin Xia borrow from afar, the outstanding style is famous in the past.
On the days when the peach blossoms in Shangyuan were in full bloom, the poet was very emotional, the peach blossoms were so beautiful that they seemed to steal her face, and the tender willows danced with the wind as if learning to dance with her. The poet looks at the disc in the flowers, listens to the warblers on the trees, why inquire about the "wind under the forest", the poet's wind has been famous for a long time!
The poet is Empress Changsun, and "The Wind Under the Forest" refers to Xie Daoyun, a talented woman of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Empress Changsun compares herself to Xie Daoyun and boasts of her outstanding talent. This poem was written for her husband Li Shimin to see, and Li Shimin felt very appropriate after reading it, constantly chanting, and praising beauty. Li Shimin has been fighting horses and horses all his life, fighting and conquest, will he like the wind under the forest?
Li Shimin prefers this tone, with a very heavy talented female plot. The concubines he valued were all talented women, such as Yan Defei, who could recite "Shanglin Fu" once when she was a child, and at the age of thirteen, she had excellent poetry and literature, and was famous in Chang'an, and was a famous lady with both moral integrity and ability; Another example is Xu Hui, who can recite the "Book of Poetry" and "Analects" at the age of four, and can write articles at the age of eight, and can also advise on the advice, and is Li Shimin's favorite concubine in his later years.
On the other hand, the talented Wu Meiniang, with an iron whip, an iron hammer and a dagger, will tame the fierce horse lion, although the spirit is commendable, but such a female man really does not invite Li Shimin to see. Wu Meiniang and Xu Hui entered the palace for a similar time, they are both talented, but it did not take long for Xu Dacai to be first a concubine, and then promoted to a full face, and the female Hanzi Wu Meiniang, in the end Li Shimin was still a talented person. It can be seen that Li Shimin's love for talented women.
However, whether it was Concubine Yan defei or Xu Hui, there was no empress dowager in Li Shimin's heart. In the tenth year of Zhenguan, empress dowager Died and was buried in Zhaoling, where she died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve six. Li Shimin was devastated, and although he knew that the Mandate of Heaven was like this, he still could not restrain his sorrow.
In order to understand the pain of the haunting lovesickness, Li Shimin built a tall building in the palace and looked in the direction of the Zhaoling Tomb, in order to remember his wife who had lived and died with him for a total of twenty-three years. And "Wende" as a nickname to highlight the lofty morality of the eldest grandson empress.