In the Three Kingdoms era, the heroes are fighting to change their fate, becoming kings and defeating Kou, and beautiful women are duckweed in the chaotic world, going with the flow, their fate is not up to their own decisions, such as Zhen Ji, who is known as the "first beauty of the Three Kingdoms", first married yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi, if there is no chaotic world, Zhen Ji's fate is to teach her husband and son, a smooth and worry-free life, but unfortunately after Yuan Shao lost power, Zhen Ji was taken as a concubine by Cao Pi, and at first she was quite favored, but after she was old and faded, Zhen Ji could not avoid the fate of falling out of favor. Fortunately, after her son Cao Rui ascended the throne, he posthumously honored her as Empress Wenzhao. Zhen Mi's fate was tragic, and the "Spring and Autumn of the Han Dynasty" records that Zhen died because of Guo's favor, and after his death, he was overshadowed, so that her soul had nowhere to seek revenge.
Not only Zhen Ji was killed, but one of the four beauties, mink cicada, was used as a "beauty spy", and the beauty trick was used to alienate Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu, and the evil thief Dong Zhuo was eliminated by Lü Bu's hand, and then the mink cicada became Lü Bu's concubine, but unfortunately, after Lü Bu lost power, a generation of beauty mink cicada disappeared. "Erqiao" Big Qiao and Xiao Qiao are also famous beauties in history, namely Sun Ce, the overlord of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms, and the wife of the general Zhou Yu, respectively, but the two cannot escape the fate of the deeply resentful woman. If the beauty is like this, will the talented woman be better? In fact, the fate of talented women is often more tragic.
The woman to be talked about today is Cai Wenji in the Three Kingdoms period, compared with the above women who are famous for their peerless beauty, Cai Wenji is famous for her talent and learning that is not inferior to men, and is a generation of talented women in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty.
Cai Yan Zi Wen Ji, Alias Zhao Ji, Chen Liu County, Female Writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty, daughter of the literary scholar Cai Yong, Cai Yong and Cai Wen Ji father and daughter of the two names are mutually fulfilled, both of them are proficient in music, calligraphy, literature, talented, but unfortunately Cai Yong, who has achieved achievements in literature, is a little light-hearted in the official arena, and was imprisoned for lamenting dong Zhuo's murder on Wang Yunzao, and eventually died in prison. Fortunately, when his father was still alive, according to the words of his parents, Cai Wenji was already married to Wei Zhongdao in Hedong, wei Zhongdao was from the famous Wei family in history, and there were big figures such as Wei Qing and Wei Zifu, so cai Wenji could also be regarded as married to a good family. Unfortunately, in the second year of marriage, Wei Zhongdao died of illness, and Cai Yan, who had no heirs, returned home, and a few years later, his father suffered injustice and died.
Greater misfortune is still behind, the world is in chaos, the masses are divided, even the Xiongnu have entered the Central Plains to take advantage of the opportunity to plunder, Cai Yan was abducted by the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and has lived in the desolate north since then, this stay is twelve years, she also gave birth to two children, Cai Wenji, a talented woman who was once keen on playing the piano and writing, originally thought that her life was hopeless, and she lost her former glory.
Fortunately, there are still people in the Central Plains who remember her, in the eleventh year of Jian'an (207), Cao Cao already had a foothold in northern China, many people know that Cao Cao was an excellent politician and military expert, but few people know that he was also a literary scholar, good at poetry, prose, calligraphy, etc. He had literary and calligraphy exchanges with Cai Yong.
After Cao Cao knew that Cai Yong had no heirs, he found out that he had a daughter who had been abducted by the Xiongnu, so he ransomed Cai Wenji with heavy money, although Cai Wenji stayed in the north for twelve years and had two children, but if she could return to the Central Plains, she would naturally come back, and the Xiongnu did not want to offend Cao Cao, so Cai Wenji finally returned to her hometown that had been absent for a long time. Cao Cao remembered that she was a woman, alone, so he married her to one of his Tuntian du lieutenants Dong Qi, but unfortunately Dong Qi later committed a capital crime, originally Cao Cao wanted to execute him, but because of Cai Wenji's intercession, he pardoned Dong Qi.
At that time, Cai Yan was covered with loose hair and bare feet, prostrating his head to plead guilt, speaking clearly, feelings of bitterness and sorrow, and all the guests in the hall were moved, Cao Cao remembered that she was the daughter of the deceased, so he thought of letting Dong Qi go, but the document of surrender had already been sent, so Cai Yan said: 'There are thousands of good horses in your stables, and there are countless brave soldiers, and do you still spare a fast horse to save a dying life?' In the end, Cao Cao pardoned Dong Qi.
Cao Cao also asked Cai Wenji in passing if she could recall her father's past works, and Cai Wenji replied that she could silently write more than four hundred articles, so Cao Cao immediately asked people to prepare paper and pencils for her, and Cai Wenji spent two years to write the Book of Continuation. Since then, there have been few records of Cai Wenji in history, only the two "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation" written by her, mainly to express her sad feelings of leaving her hometown, so it seems that she also believes that the days in the Xiongnu were not good.
In later generations, there are many opinions about the relationship between Cai Wenji and Cao Cao. Some people think that Cao Cao likes people's wives, and there are countless concubines in the house, since he appreciates Cai Wenji's talent, why did Cao Cao not marry Cai Wenji? With his kindness to save Cai Wenji, marrying Cai Wenji is also a boat along the water.
Cao Cao and Cai Yan's father are good friends, then Cai Yan is a figure of the daughter generation to him, although Cao Cao will not be too concerned about the ethical guidelines, but if he marries Cai Yan, he is not very righteous. But the most important reason is that Cai Wenji is not beautiful enough, and the beautiful Cao Cao will let it go? Since she is not beautiful enough, she can only be a friend, and Cao Cao regards her as a confidant.
Although Cao Cao is known as a tyrant and is considered a traitor, it is undeniable that Cao Cao has a unique position in the literary world, and he probably does not want to see the rare talented women in the chaotic world disappear in the dust of history.