Therefore, it is almost impossible for a woman who has been married for three generations and given birth to a child in history, except for one possibility. That is, this kind of thing did not happen in the Central Plains dynasty, but a woman married a minority. There are many daughters in history, and three of them really married their grandparents and grandchildren. She is Wang Zhaojun, one of the four most beautiful women in China.
Palace maid Wang zhaojun
Wang Zhaojun was born in the Han and Yuan Dynasties, when the national strength of the Western Han Dynasty was at its peak. First, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Huns were hunted down and almost killed. After that, the Xiongnu was no longer the foreigner who dared to bully the Queen Mother of the Western Han Dynasty in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. Later, with the revival of Emperor Gaozu Xuan Di, the Western Han Dynasty was stable and prosperous, and the internal and external environment was very good.
Wang Zhaojun lived in such a promising era as the Western Han Dynasty, and she was even luckier. She was born beautiful, and she was elected to the harem because of her beauty, and became the maid-in-waiting of Han Palace. Although she is still a humble servant, because she is in the harem, her intelligence and beauty will be discovered by the Han emperor sooner or later and become a dazzling concubine in the Han palace.
In this way, Wang Zhaojun waited in the harem day after day for the king to look at him differently, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty was like the sun that Wang Zhaojun could never reach. They live in the same court, but they have never met. Until one day, Emperor Han Yuan ordered court painters to paint portraits of ladies-in-waiting. Wang Zhaojun knew that his hope was coming, so he waited early and dressed up carefully, hoping that his portrait would attract Emperor Han Yuan.
Unfortunately, the harem is a place where the struggle is cruel. Even the smallest portrait has many doorways. The fate of all ladies-in-waiting depends on the pen in the painter's hand. As long as the painter pays a little attention, even a plain-looking maid-in-waiting can become extremely beautiful in the painter's pen. Of course, if the painter has ulterior motives, then the beautiful maid-in-waiting may also become mediocre.
So the ladies-in-waiting bribed the painters one after another for the sake of the future and the bright road that was not hindered, but only the upright Wang Zhaojun did not do so. She has confidence in her beauty, which is also her insidious underestimation of the harem. In the end, the portrait in the hands of Emperor Xiandi did not make her shine, but made Emperor Xiandi uninterested. In this way, Wang Zhaojun still had no romantic encounter because the painter passed by Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty.
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From Wang Zhaojun's attitude towards painters, we can see that Wang Zhaojun is a thoughtful woman, at least not a person who goes with the flow. Such a woman, with her unique beauty, will get ahead in the harem sooner or later. Unfortunately, Emperor Hanyuan was not an affectionate Emperor Wu, but more like his spoony father Han. If he likes any palace princess, he will never see other harem women again. So Wang Zhaojun wasted his time in the Han Palace, year after year.
Some people say that Wang Zhaojun is a thoughtful woman. Of course, she doesn't want to waste her youth in the harem. But Wang Zhaojun can't flatter palace officials like other harem women. She is too upright to follow the traditional way of promotion in the harem. It seems that her life has been condemned and she can only die of old age in the harem.
But no one expected that one day Xiongnu Khan would come to the Western Han Dynasty to seek relatives. At that time, Emperor Han Yuan planned to choose a imperial secretary from the harem to marry the Huns. Where can women in the Central Plains stand the sandstorm beyond the Great Wall? This became a chore in the palace, and every imperial secretary prayed that he would not be chosen by Emperor Han Yuan. Except for one person, she is Wang Zhaojun.
Wang Zhaojun has a lot of ideas, but he is still forced to do so. She knew that she had no future in Han Palace. Marrying the Huns may be a good future for a desperate person like her. So she boldly invited herself to marry the Huns. Emperor Han Yuan was very happy and met her specially. However, after seeing Wang Zhaojun, Emperor Han Yuan was attracted by Wang Zhaojun's beauty and regretted it. But it is a pity that Wang Zhaojun became a concubine, and it is imperative to marry the Huns.
Married Huns
Later, Wang Zhaojun married Hun Khan. Along the way, Wang Zhaojun missed the Western Han Dynasty infinitely, but she knew that she had no choice but to return to the Han Dynasty again. She married Khan and gave birth to a son. Three years later, old Khan died. Wang Zhaojun asked Han Chengdi to return to the Han Dynasty, but Han Chengdi refused Wang Zhaojun's request. Perhaps in the eyes of Emperor Han Cheng, a Wang Zhaojun is really insignificant, and it doesn't matter whether he can return to the Han Dynasty or not. However, E Shi, the Hun, was a princess in the Han Dynasty, which was extremely important to the Western Han Dynasty.
Because of his mission, Wang Zhaojun failed to return to the Han Dynasty after the death of Xiongnu Khan. According to the instructions of Emperor Han Chengdi, Wang Zhaojun followed the Xiongnu adoption marriage system and married the eldest son of the old Khan, that is, the new Khan. After that, she lived with the new Khan for more than ten years and gave birth to two daughters. Later, after the death of the new Khan, she married the grandson of the old Khan according to the Xiongnu adoption marriage system and became the Khan's E Shi again.
During his ten years in Xiongnu, Wang Zhaojun tried to maintain the close relationship between the Western Han Dynasty and Xiongnu. Therefore, the stability of the border is the result of Wang Zhaojun leaving Xiongnu for three times and marrying Xiongnu Khan. It is also the result of a woman's lifelong marriage in order to change her fate.