However, in the true sense, my sister E Huang Nvying is an out-and-out princess. (Just like the children around us, they can also be called princesses, so don't spray me with common sense, hehe) They are Yi's daughters: E Huang Yi. They have a common husband, Shun Di Yao Zhonghua.
However, why do two noble princesses marry the same man at the same time?
In the marriage custom of clan society, a man who marries a wife has the right to choose whether to marry his widowed sister or unmarried sister with the consent of his in-laws.
This system, in the Zhou Dynasty, officially became a unique ritual system of the nobility and was written into the ritual law, which was called "ritual system". It is clearly written in "Etiquette Wedding": "If you marry a girl, you must follow her nephew. This is called love". Women who act as "wives" are basically sisters or cousins of men's formal wives. "Ai" is much higher than a concubine, but also lower than her husband's wife, and is subordinate to her wife.
According to this, later generations speculated that this system was used by Emperor Yao when he married his daughter. It is generally believed that elder sister E Huang and younger sister Nv Ying should get married formally.
Wife or quit, in short, E Huang, Nvying and I have a common husband, namely Yao Zhonghua in Shun Di.
Shun Di Yao Zhonghua should have fallen in love with the sisters, because Shun's father didn't agree to marry an Iraqi tribe. In this case, Shun adopted the way of "cheating on marriage", which should be a manifestation of his love.
Both Emperor Yao and Shun Di were wise rulers in the ancient history of China and were regarded as models by later generations. Because of the fame of her father and husband, E Huang Nv Ying became the earliest example of ancient women in China.
After decades of caring for each other and educating their children, they embarked on the journey of "southern tour" with their husbands (in fact, they may have been exiled by Yu ...).
When we arrived at Cangwu Mountain in Hunan, Shun Di, who was already very old, fell ill and died.
In the face of the rushing Xiangjiang River, E Huang Nv Ying, who lost her husband, cried bitterly.
Running water is gone, just like their husbands are gone and can't be resurrected. The vastness of Artemisia selengensis and the vastness of the river fog add to the sadness.
Unable to return to the north, the pain is hard to stop. After crying, E Huang Nv Ying jumped into the Xiangjiang River.
It is said that their tears dripped on the bamboo beside the Xiangjiang River, and the tears did not fade and became spots.
After their death, people regarded them as the goddess of Xiangjiang River. According to their living conditions, they are called "Xiang Jun" and "Mrs. Xiang". The bamboo with tears on the Xiangjiang River is called "Xiangfei Bamboo".
In history, they left no more deeds, only poets and poets kept mourning and remembering their figures in their poems and songs; Only a little mottled bamboo has been shaken by the wind so far.