The play is adapted from Wen's original martial arts novel The Moon at Qin Dynasty, which tells a beautiful and touching love story with Ying Zheng and Jing Ke, so it is also called legend.
So, is there really such a person as Li Ji in history? Don't tell me, there is, but she is not your mother, but your stepmother, one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. Without her, Zhong Er would not have ascended the throne!
According to Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, it was originally the daughter of Li Rong, the leader. In 672 BC, Jin attacked Li Rong, who was defeated and married Jin Xiangong. Jin Xiangong loved her very much.
Later, Jin Xiangong's health deteriorated day by day, and Li Ji wanted her son to inherit the throne after a hundred years in Jin Xiangong. But now the monarch of the State of Jin is Shen Sheng, and he must be removed first.
Because Shen Sheng was born to Jin Xiangong and his stepmother Qi Jiang, Jin Xiangong was very concerned about it, and Li Ji wanted to frame Shen Sheng.
One day, she deliberately put honey on her body, and then attracted many bees, and then asked Shen Sheng to help her drive away the bees while running. When Jin Xiangong saw them chasing from a distance, he was furious.
In the evening, Li Ji secretly cried to Jin Xiangong, and Prince Shen Sheng molested himself. Jin Xiangong remembered how he hooked up with his stepmother when he was young, and he made up his mind to abolish Prince Shen Sheng.
Later, after the sacrifice, Shen Sheng handed the bacon for the sacrifice to his father as usual. When we were sent to the palace, Li Ji saw it, and she quietly smeared it with poison.
Because Jin Xiangong suspected the prince, he gave dog meat, and the dog was poisoned. It was given to officials and small officials, and the small officials were all dead. Li Ji cried and said, "It is the prince who wants to kill you." Jin Xiangong was furious and ordered the arrest of the prince.
The prince fled to the new town, and Jin Xiangong killed Du Yuankuan, the master of the prince. Someone advised the prince to complain. Shen Sheng was worried that her father would be upset and unhappy without Li Ji. So he hanged himself.
Li Ji framed Zhong Er and Yiwu's two sons and said, "They all know Shen Sheng's plot." So, Zhong Er fled to Di State, and Yiwu went to Liang State.
Shen Sheng's tragedy shows that if he is too kind and pure, he will often become the victim of a world full of evil. When evil strikes, he must never give in and compromise. If he can't beat it, he must also find a chance to run away before he can make a comeback. Shen Sheng's two brothers, Zhong Er and Yiwu, did just that.
Li Ji wheedled the prince to death and drove away his two sons. It was a sensation at that time, and later people called it the Li Ji Rebellion. Therefore, Li Ji and her sisters Xi, da ji and Zan are called the Four Demons.