Historical Story
Wang Zhaojun, a female court lady, was originally a courtesan in the Han Palace. In 54 B.C., the Xiongnu Hohanxie monu was defeated by his brother, Zhi Zhi monu, and moved south to Guanglu Sei outside the Great Wall, where he made a pact with the Western Han Dynasty, agreeing that "the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu Dynasty would be one family, and would not be able to cheat each other and attack each other". She entered Chang'an three times and requested Emperor Yuan to make peace with Xiong Nu. When Wang Zhaojun heard about this, she requested to go out of the country to make peace with Xiong Nu. When she arrived at Xiongnu, she was named "Ninghu Xiongnu" (Xiongnu, meaning "Queen"), symbolizing that she would bring peace, tranquility and prosperity to Xiongnu. Later, with the support of the Western Han Dynasty, Hohanxie Shan Yu took control of the whole territory of Xiongnu, thus making peace between Xiongnu and Han Dynasty for half a century. The fact that Hohanxie Shan Yu killed his brother (attacked his brother, Zhi Zhi Shan Yu) shows that in those days, the power of a brother was irresistible. When the Western Han Dynasty reached the reign of Emperor Xuan Di, the Han Dynasty was again strong for a period of time. At that time, the Xiongnu in the north was declining due to internal struggles, and finally split into five lords. One of them, named Hohanxie, had always been on good terms with the Han Dynasty, and once brought his troops to meet Emperor Xuan of Han. After the death of Emperor Xuan, Emperor Yuan came to the throne. In 33 BC, Hohanxie came to Chang'an again in person and asked for peace with the Han Dynasty. Emperor Yuan agreed, and decided to choose a courtesan as a princess to marry Hohanxie.
There were many courtesans in the harem who had been chosen from the people and were locked up in the palace all day long, and were eager to get out of the palace, but were unwilling to marry into the Xiongnu. The minister in charge was very anxious. At this time, there was a court lady who resolutely expressed her willingness to go to Xiong Nu to make peace. Her name was Wang Qiang (qiáng), also known as Zhaojun (昭君), and she was very beautiful and insightful. When the minister in charge of the court heard that Wang Zhaojun was willing to go, he hurriedly reported it to Emperor Yuan. Emperor Yuan commanded his minister to choose an auspicious date for the marriage of Hohanxie and Zhaojun in Chang'an. Shan Yu was happy and excited to have such a young and beautiful wife. Before returning to Xiongnu, when Wang Zhaojun said goodbye to Emperor Yuan of Han, Emperor Yuan saw that she was beautiful, dignified and lovely, and wanted to keep her, but it was too late. It is said that after Emperor Yuan returned to his palace, the more he thought about it, the more chagrined he was, how could he have failed to realize that he had such a beautiful woman in his harem? He asked someone to take out Zhaojun's portrait again from the palace maid's portrait to look at it, only to realize that the Zhaojun on the portrait was far less lovely than in person. Why was she painted like this? It turns out that when the courtesans entered the palace, they were usually not directly selected by the emperor, but were painted by painters and sent to the emperor to decide whether they would be selected or not. Mao Yanshou, a painter at that time, painted portraits of palace maidens, who had to give him gifts so that he would paint people beautifully. Wang Zhaojun was not satisfied with this kind of corruption and extortion and did not want to give gifts, so Mao Yanshou did not paint Wang Zhaojun's beauty as it was. For this, Emperor Yuan was extremely annoyed and punished Mao Yanshou. Wang Zhaojun rode away from Chang'an, escorted by Han and Xiong Nu officials. She braved the biting cold winds outside the Seychelles and traveled a long way to the Xiongnu territory to become the wife of Hu Hanxie Shan Yu.
Zhaojun slowly got used to the life of the Xiongnu and got along well with them. She advised the monarch not to go to war, and she passed on the culture of China to the Xiongnu, so that the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty lived in harmony for 60 years. After her death, Zhaojun was buried in Daqing Mountain, which was under the control of the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu people built her tomb and worshiped her as a goddess. Zhaojun's tomb is known as the Green Mound.
Later, to avoid Sima Zhao's taboo, Zhaojun was renamed Wang Mingjun.
"Thousands of years of lute as a hu speech, clearly resentment in the song." In the poet's eyes, Wang Zhaojun may be sad, but no matter what, Wang Zhaojun she is strong. She married a Xiongnu for the sake of her motherland, and along the way she traveled over mountains and thousands of miles to Xiongnu. She had no complaints and brought peace to the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu for more than 60 years.