WASHINGTON client Beijing August 15 electrical title: [ancient] three most addictive Tough woman, why the final outcome a mystery?
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"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has been circulating for hundreds of years, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu have always been a pair of highly popular "CPs".
In their contests, Zhou Yu was always at a disadvantage. The story of "Zhuge Liang's Three Qis and Zhou Yu" is well known to women and children.
The worst time Zhou Yu was ridiculed was to persuade Sun Quan to deceive Liu Bei into Soochow under the pretext of marriage, and design to retrieve Jingzhou. Unexpectedly, Zhuge Liang saw the plot through. Liu Bei not only succeeded in marrying his wife, but also returned to Jingzhou safely. Zhou Yu led his troops to intercept and kill, but was beaten into a mess.
This resulted in a well-known ridicule: "Zhou Lang planned to settle the world, he lost his wife and broke down."
Zhou Yu is really "so miserable."
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However, if you think about it more carefully, actually Zhou Yu is not the worst in this story. Shouldn't the worst be the "madam" in "Losing Madam and Breaking Soldiers"?
She is Sun Quan's younger sister, Sun Shangxiang.
Nameless pawn
In the Three Kingdoms era, Sun Shangxiang was a humble supporting role. Even in historical records, she doesn't even have her own name.
Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" only refers to her as Mrs. Sun, and her life story is not specifically recorded, only scattered descriptions in other chapters.
There are three sisters recorded by Sun Quan, one married to Qu'a Ren Hongzi, and one married to Pan Mi, the son of Pan Jun, a great minister of Dongwu. The other was born to Mrs. Wu. It is recorded in the "Three Kingdoms: Book of Wu" that Mrs. Wu and Sun Jian had four sons and one daughter after their marriage. The four sons were Ce, Quan, Yi, and Kuang. And this daughter is generally considered to be Sun Shangxiang.
As for Sun Shangxiang's appearance, personality, and deeds, there is no trace in official history.
However, as a distinguished Soochow princess, Sun Shangxiang's life should be better than most people. If it hadn't been for the famous "Chibi Battle", she might have married a well-known husband like other sisters, hiding In the dust of history.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (AD 208), Cao Cao abolished the three men as prime minister, and after calming down the north, he made a major southern campaign. In order to keep Jiangdong, Sun Quan and Liu Bei formed a coalition to resist Cao Cao. In the end, the Lianjun Sun and Liu won a big victory, and Cao Cao lost to Huarong Road.
During the fight against Cao Cao, the Alliance of Sun and Liu, who reported to the group for warmth, was in the honeymoon period. However, with the death of Liu Qi's son, Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was elected as Jingzhou Mu (the highest official in Jingzhou), Liu Bei began to occupy a strong strategic position. Sun Quan was afraid that Liu Bei would come to attack Soochow, so he wanted to use the method of marriage to consolidate the alliance between the two sides and temporarily hold Liu Bei.
The candidate for the marriage is Sun Shangxiang. "Three Kingdoms·Shu Shu·Xianzhu Biography" contains: "Qi died of illness, and the group pushed the first master to be Jingzhou Mu to govern the public security. The power is a little scared, and the younger sister is good."
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Sun Shangxiang
In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", although Sun Shangxiang did not marry Liu Bei voluntarily, she had a very good relationship with Liu Bei after marriage. She is wise and courageous, and she is a hero of the female middle school.
However, in real history, various evidences show that Sun Shangxiang and Liu Bei's married life is not happy, but full of guard and suspicion.
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First of all, the age of the two is too different. Liu Qi died in 209 AD. Liu Bei was 48 years old, and Sun Quan was only 27 years old at this time. From this calculation, Liu Bei is at least 21 years older than Sun Shangxiang.
Although young, Sun Shangxiang is not a weak personality as the Soochow princess. In "Three Kingdoms", it is described that Sun Shangxiang is agile, strong and brave, and has the style of brothers. When married to Liu Beihou, there are more than 100 servants and maidservants, all standing on both sides with knives. Every time Liu Bei entered Sun Shangxiang's room, his heart was up and down, with fear.
"In the beginning, Sun Quan used his younger sister's wife as the first master, and her younger sister was agile and fierce. There were more than a hundred brothers and servants, and all of them held knives. Every time the ancestor entered, he was sincere and dignified.
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It's hard to say that the two of them have a real relationship with this kind of relationship. In the "Three Kingdoms", the Southern Song Dynasty Pei Songzhi also quoted "The Legend of Yun Bie", saying that Sun Shangxiang was arrogant and indulgent, often conniving the soldiers he brought from the Wu state to "vertically and wrongly." Liu Bei could not control it, so he had to ask Zhao Yun to take charge of the internal affairs.
From this point of view, Sun Shangxiang was afraid that he did not intentionally add chaos to Liu Bei.
And from historical data, the estrangement between Sun Shangxiang and Liu Bei has reached the point where they live separately. In Tang Dynasty Li Jifu's "Pictures of Yuanhe Prefectures and Counties", it was recorded that "Mrs. Sun City is five miles east of Yanling City. Mrs. Han Zhaolie, sister Quan, doubts Zhaolie, don't build this city. ."
This marriage mixed with political factors has left a psychological shadow on many people. After entering Shu, Zhuge Liang recalled Liu Bei's days in Jingzhou: "The lord is in the public security, the north is afraid of the power of Cao, the east is the force of Sun Quan, and when he is close, he is afraid that Mrs. Sun will be born under the elbows. ."
This also gave rise to an idiom, "the trouble of the elbow and axilla", which means the trouble that arises from around.
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Cruel marriage different from novels
In folk tales, the ending of Sun Shangxiang makes people sigh. She is loyal to Liu Bei, and she always ends up in love. When she heard that Liu Bei was killed in the army, she looked to the west and cried and died in the river.
However, in fact, Sun Shangxiang is not as "fu sings and women follow" as in the novel. Between Sun Quan and Liu Bei, her choice has always been Sun Quan. As for the image of the "loyal woman", it is more like the imagination of future generations based on feudal ethics.
It is recorded in "The Legend of Yun Bie" that after Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei was marching west, he sent a boat to welcome his sister back. Sun Shangxiang not only returned to Soochow by himself, but also wanted to secretly take away Liu Bei's only son, Liu Chan. It was not until Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei led their troops to intercept the river that she failed to achieve her wish.
Later generations deduced many wonderful stories from this segment, such as "Zhao Yun cut the river to save Adou" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the short part of Jingyun drum "Zhao Yun cut the river" and so on.
At this point, the nominal marriage between Sun Shangxiang and Liu Bei officially ended. There is no tenderness, but some are more like swords and shadows, threats and temptations. Although Sun Shangxiang and Liu Bei are labeled as love tragedies in their literary and artistic works, from the historical data, they are more like the scripts of plots.
Sun Quan wanted to win over Liu Bei, and Liu Bei needed Soochow's help temporarily, so he used Sun Shangxiang as an adhesive. And when the fragile Sun Liu alliance was about to break, Sun Shangxiang no longer had any effect.
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Sun Shangxiang, as a "tool man," was fulfilled, and there was no news after that, and the ending became a mystery. There are no more records in history books, only various legends written for her by later generations. (Finish)