Wang Zhaojun, formerly known as Wang Qiang. It is said that Wang Zhaojun was born in a place called Zigui in Sanxian Valley of the Yangtze River. At this time, Wang Qiang was only the daughter of a civilian family. Although Zigui is located in the Yangtze River valley, the Wangs have only a few acres of thin land to live in. As the daughter of the family, Wang Qiang works with her parents every day to make a living.
In the first year of Zhao Jian, Emperor Hanyuan issued a letter to select a large number of unmarried women of appropriate age from the people to fill the harem of the Han Dynasty. This time, Wang Qiang was very lucky to be chosen. However, to Wang Qiang's surprise, the idea of welcoming a new life as soon as he entered the palace was so naive.
The Weiyang Palace where Emperor Han Yuan lived was very large, so there were many women in Ye Ting. But there is only one emperor. At this time, the Han Dynasty experienced the development and construction of several generations of monarchs and had already become a powerful overlord. Even the former enemy Xiongnu, who was far away from the grassland, had already been driven to the depths of the grassland by the Han army.
In the environment of living and working in peace and contentment, the emperors of the Han Dynasty put all their thoughts into leisure and entertainment. Mao Yanshou, a famous painter in the Han Palace, became an important chess piece for Emperor Han Yuan to select beautiful women. Many women in Ye Ting bribed the most trusted painter of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty in order to show their faces in front of the king. It happened that Wang Zhaojun was a woman who didn't want to curry favor with others. Wang Zhaojun is not ashamed of Mao Yanshou's behavior. Her modesty angered Mao Yanshou, so a severely distorted portrait was marked with the name of Wang Zhaojun and sent to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Wang Zhaojun in the painting is plain, with a huge mole painted on his face. This appearance made Emperor Han Yuan regard Wang Zhaojun as the most unlovable woman in the court.
Wang Zhaojun spent eight years in the palace and five years in the Han Palace. Every day is as hard as a year. Finally, in 54 BC, due to internal disputes among Huns, Uhaanyehe on the grassland volunteered to marry the Han Dynasty in order to get help from the Han Dynasty.
This kind of political marriage made the maids of the Han dynasty uneasy, and no one wanted to marry in the depths of the grassland far away from their homeland. However, the formation of the pro-marriage team is in full swing. It is said that at that time, in order to appease the maids who married the Huns, it was stipulated that as long as they lived in the Huns for five years, maids who married relatives could go home and marry themselves.
Faced with such attractive conditions, Wang Zhaojun, who has already seen the warmth of the deep palace, took the initiative to sign up. However, no one expected that Wang Zhaojun finally stood out and became a bosom bride. Emperor Han Yuan named it Hu Ning.
Unfortunately, Hu died three years after Wang Zhaojun married to the grassland. In order to respect the customs of Huns, Wang Zhaojun refers to remarriage with Hu Zhangzi Tao Mogao. After Er Han's death, Wang Zhaojun, who had been married for more than ten years, had to remarry.
This is a cruel but helpless choice for women who have been influenced by Confucianism since childhood. Finally, at the age of 53, Wang Zhaojun finished her legendary life.