I believe many people know the story that King Gou Jian of Yue endured humiliation for many years and finally defeated King Wu Fu Cha. At that time, Gou Jian sent eight beauties to seduce King Wu Fu Chai. Among them was Ms. Xi Shi, who was rated as the first of the four beauties in ancient China. But among those eight beauties, there is another beauty named Zheng Dan. She is more beautiful than Xi Shi. Why is Xi Shi so famous but she is unknown?

Zheng Dan, who lived in the same village as Xishi, was also selected as a spy by Gou Jian. They were eight beauties who learned singing and dancing together, and then were sent by Gou Jian to please King Wu Fu Chai, so that King Wu Fu Chai would ignore the government affairs, or secretly Deliver the message. Zheng Dan's appearance is even more beautiful than that of Xi Shi, and people at that time also called Zheng Dan and Xi Shi the "Two Sisters of Wansha".

Zheng Dan has a cheerful personality and beautiful appearance. She is a staunch woman with patriotic feelings. Maybe it was because she was so beautiful that even Xi Shi felt deeply inferior after seeing her. She felt that her appearance was not as good as hers, so she did not dare to make friends with Zheng Dan. On the other hand, Zheng Dan finally found someone whose appearance was almost the same as hers, so she really wanted to be friends with Xi Shi. When she saw that Xi Shi was depressed all day long and wouldn't play with her, she took the initiative to play with Xi Shi, praising Xi Shi's beauty here and there at every turn.

For example, Xi Shi always thought that her feet were big, while Zheng Dan’s feet were small and beautiful, so Zheng Dan made Xi Shi a long skirt that could cover her feet when she walked;

Xi Shi felt that her face was bigger than Zheng Dan’s, so Zheng Dan took her to the lake and said that the fish ran away after seeing Xi Shi’s beauty and found that their own faces were too small;

Xi Shi thought Zheng Dan’s eyes were big and beautiful, but hers were a bit small and unsightly. Zheng Dan led Xi Shi to the well water. She pointed to their eyes in the well water and said, "Do you think our eyes look like four fishes? Longer fish may not be more beautiful, and bigger eyes do not mean they are more beautiful." ah!

With Zheng Dan’s encouragement and company, Xi Shi, who had low self-esteem, was finally willing to open her heart and become friends with Zheng Dan.

Let’s put it this way, Zheng Dan contributed a lot to the reason why Xi Shi’s reputation is so famous. Think about it, people at that time must have thought so. Zheng Dan was already so beautiful, and Xi Shi, who was praised by Zheng Dan for being "beautiful", must be even more beautiful! Moreover, Zheng Dan is beautiful, but Xi Shi is more attuned to King Wu Fu Cha, so Xi Shi is more favored and her reputation is even greater!

After the smoke of the Wu-Yue war cleared, there were many opinions on Xi Shi’s ending, but most of them believed that she died at that time. So what about Zheng Dan’s ending?

Historical records state that King Wu Fu Chai liked the two beauties Xi Shi and Zheng Dan very much, so he placed Xi Shi in Gusu Terrace and Zheng Dan in Wu Palace. He also said that Zheng Dan's death was due to "jealousy of Xi Shi's favor", and that Zheng Dan ended up "depressed and frustrated, and died after many years. Her husband mourned her and was buried in Huangmao Mountain." In other words, when Zheng Dan saw that Xi Shi was more favored than himself, he became depressed and eventually died of illness, before the war between Wu and Yue started. It is also said that Zheng Dan and Xi Shi turned against each other and died after failing in the palace fight.

In short, no matter how Zheng Dan died, the story of her equally famous Xi Shi has been passed down from generation to generation, but she has become an inconspicuous character, which is really sad!