Wang Zhaojun
Wang Qiang ( Chinese:王 墙or王 樯or王 嫱) was the historical figure to the figure legend, Wang Zhaojun (王昭君) or Wang Chao Chun, which can not be properly separated. The imperial consort was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China, who lived in the 1st century BC during the Western Han Dynasty.
Emperor Han Yuandi sent these members of his harem - he did not know personally - as a bride to the Chanyu the Xiongnu in order to keep the peace on the northwestern border of the Empire.
Life
Wang Qiang said to have been born in the village in the province of Baopin Zigui, in present-day Hubei. She was pretty, smart, and very talented in all four arts. When the emperor yuan in the year 36 BC, ascended the throne, he had to choose the most beautiful woman from every province of the empire and bring to the capital. Wang Qiang, although still a minor, sent as most beautiful of their province to the imperial court in Chang'an. Unlike the other ladies she refused to bribe the corrupt court painter Mao Yanshou. Mao made the portraits of the imperial concubines, after which the Emperor chose his visits. Due to the unfavorable Portraits by Mao Yuan Wang attended never.
In the year 33 BC visited Chanyu Huhanye of the Xiongu the imperial court to make a tribute to the emperor in a military defeat. In order to keep the peace with the barbarian princes sustainable, Yuan agreed to the request of Huhanye to give him an imperial daughter to wife. As such, "daughter" was an actual relative of the emperor out of the question, so a volunteer was sought among the concubines, which should be presented as Chanyu the emperor's daughter. Wang Zhaojun agreed to exchange their luxury life in the harem against the tent of a barbarous prince.
Emperor Yuan was submitted to the official, non-responsive Wang's portrait again, and he gave his consent. At the official presentation of the bride to her future husband Yuan Wang was the first time itself to face, but now it was too late to reverse his decision. The court painter Mao was beheaded because of his deception of the emperor. The Emperor corresponded several times with the beauty lost to him before he died in the same year.
At the court of the Huns Wang was the favorite companion of Chanyu and bore him at least two sons and one daughter, of whom the son Yituzhiyashi (伊 屠 智 牙 师) and the daughter Yun (云) survived; Yun was as Yimuo later became an important figure in the Xiongnu - Xin relationships. After the death of Huhanye in 31 BC, Wang Zhaojun asked for the return home, Emperor Han Chengdi refused the request. Thus Wang was after Xiongnu custom, the wife of the following Chanyu the Xiongnu (either the brother or an older son of her first husband ). In this marriage she gave birth to two daughters. In the years in which Wang was with the Xiongnu, there were no clashes with the Han empire, which is why they (about: peacekeeping / good Hu - wife ) as Ninghu Yanzhi was worshiped.
Legends
At the legendary Wang Zhaojun exist more than 700 poems and 40 folk tales. Among the more than 500 authors they sang, among the ancient poet Shi Chong, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin, Zhang Zhongsu, Cai Yong, Wang Anshi, Yelü Chucai and modern Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, Tian Han, Jian Bozan, Fei Xiaotong, Lao She, Chen Zhisui.
The best-known story, after Wang Zhaojun also received her nickname, is that the sad lament of the exiles on their journey to the camp of the Xiongnu a swarm attracted geese then at the sight of her beauty forgot to beat with their wings and to the ground rushed.
In Inner Mongolia, a grave mound with pagodas and statues, reminiscent of Wang Zhaojun exists. He was born long after her death; the actual resting place of the woman is unknown.