What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Women have existed as appendages of men in Chinese history, and even some women who are famous in history are mostly famous because of the men around them.
Although there have been a generation of empresses in history, Empress Dowager Cixi, and female ministers and gentlemen, most women can hardly escape the fate of appendages after all.
In the history of our country, there was a female champion, her name was Fu Shanxiang, a Nanjing woman, a female champion during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, also known as the only female champion in Chinese history.
In today's Ancestral Hall with the surname Fu, there is a joint "Bachelor's Examination Ranked First, and The First Rank of the Dingjia". The "first place in the Dingjia" refers to the female champion Fu Shanxiang.
Why did she go about being the only female champion in history? Because in a society where men are inferior to women, women have no chance to conduct scientific research. So, how did Fu Shanxiang become a "champion"?
Element and the first
In the spring of 1853, after the Taiping Army conquered Nanjing, a series of systems were promulgated. Among them, there is the implementation of the male camp and women's camp system, called the men's and women's pavilion. Hong Xiuquan, in order to show enlightenment, issued edicts, opened the armor to take soldiers, and at the same time broke the convention, increased the "female subject", and required all literate women in the women's museum to take the exam. This can be said to have been groundbreaking in Chinese history.
At that time, the main examination of the female official was Hong Xiuquan's sister Hong Xuanjiao. Fu Shanxiang was intelligent and studious from an early age, and after layers of selection, he won the first place in the examination and became the first female champion in Chinese history.
Subsequently, because of his talent, Fu Shanxiang was recruited into the Eastern King's Mansion, reused it, and appointed as the "Female Attendant History", responsible for the drafting of the Eastern King's edict and the collation of documents. Later, he was promoted to "Bookkeeper" to help the Eastern King approve the documents and books that came and went.
Reform is beloved
As a woman, she is well aware of the disadvantages of some systems, so she suggests that some unreasonable systems be abolished.
At that time, the Taiping Army's men's and women's pavilion system required that "men and women should not be intimate", even husband and wife had to live separately, and if they came and went, they were punished with heavy punishments. Because this provision is extremely unkind, there are always people who risk killing heads, and gradually become a great factor of instability. She called for the abolition of women's houses, the restoration of the family and the allowing of young women to marry. Thanks to her efforts, the provision was finally lifted.
She also focuses on the protection of cultural relics. The peasant rebel army was illiterate, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the golden stone calligraphy and paintings were basically burned. Fu Shanxiang persuaded the Eastern King to order that the destruction of cultural relics was strictly prohibited, and a large-scale museum was built in Zixiawu, the Eastern King's Mansion.
Fu Shanxiang was unanimously praised by the military and the people, and at that time there was a saying that "Wu has Hong Xuanjiao, and Wen has Fu Shanxiang".
It is difficult to escape being played with fate and eventually becoming a victim
As we all know, in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the limitations of the peasant revolt became increasingly apparent. They are short-sighted, they are cruel, they are extravagant. The life of The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan is extremely luxurious, even the toilet is made of gold, hundreds of attendants, constantly searching for beautiful women in the world, enriching the harem, and there are 88 people with titles of "Wang Niang".
Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, was not to be outdone. Because Fu Shanxiang was particularly beautiful and talented, he became Yang Xiuqing's prey. Subsequently, she became Yang's toy.
At the same time, the power struggle within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom intensified, and Yang Xiuqing's personal ambitions also swelled rapidly, forcing Hong Xiuquan to seal him as "Long live, make enemies everywhere." Fu Shanxiang reminded Yang Xiuqing many times that he was restrained, and once wrote a poem to him: "The wind pours down the willows in the East Garden, and the flowers fly red; Mo Yan orange pears are good, and autumn is full of forest space." But Yang Xiuqing was indifferent and eventually caused a tragedy.
Since then, there has been an infighting within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the "Tianjing Incident". Hong Xiuquan's secret order was that Wei Changhui, the King of the North, lead 3,000 soldiers back to Tianjing overnight, killing the men, women, and children of the Eastern Palace without leaving a chicken dog, and more than 20,000 people were in different places.
There were no eggs under the nest, and in the chaotic army, Fu Shanxiang, who was in the Eastern Palace, was also killed and threw away the body of QinHuaiHe.