The ugly story in Qi Wu Yan

The earliest deeds of Zhong Lichun, an ugly woman in Qi State, can be found in Liu Xiang's Biography of Lienv in the Western Han Dynasty. She is from Qi County, and her surname is Zhong, so she is also called Zhong. She has both ability and political integrity, but she is ugly. She is forty years old and not married. In many ancient books, she always said that "appearance is better than no salt", which echoed "appearance is like a western child"

Ugly to the book, her forehead and eyes are sunken, the proportion of up and down is out of balance, her stomach grows up, her nostrils turn up, her neck has an Adam's apple bigger than a man's, her head is huge, her hair is sparse, and her skin is black as paint. Such a strange appearance even led some people to guess that Zhong Lichun's ancestors were probably Malays or Daropitu blacks who came to do business from Nanyang or India.

Although Zhong Lichun looks charming, she is ambitious. Qi Xuanwang, who was in power at that time, was politically corrupt, had a bad temper and liked to kiss up. Risking his life to see Qi Xuanwang, he stated the four dangers of Qi, and pointed out that if he didn't pull back from the brink, the city would be ruined and the country would perish.

Qi Xuanwang was deeply moved and regarded Zhong Lichun as his mirror. His suggestion was adopted by Wang Xuan, and he was made queen, from then on he ruled the country. China also left two idioms: "Ugliness is better than salt" and "self-recommendation pillow mat".

Zhong Lichun (Warring States), the daughter and queen of Qi Wuyan City (now Wuyan County, Shandong Province), was one of the famous "four ugliness" in China and the first famous female politician in China history. Zhong Lichun is ugly, but talented and ambitious. She volunteered to enter the palace and became a princess, which contributed to the rectification of Qi.

Li Zhong Yanwu, also known as Zhong Lichun, is one of the four famous ugly women and talented women in history.

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Four Ugly Women in Ancient China

Momu

Is the first of the four ugly women, there are only eight words about him, like a witch, ugly! Just as her ugly name is her virtue, it is also because her virtue was accepted by the Yellow Emperor as a concubine and managed the harem. Mo Mu lived up to the love of the Yellow Emperor and educated women as much as possible. She is the first model of a good wife for women in China. It is said that she was the first person to use a mirror.

Mo Mu is not only ugly, but also very strong. According to legend, she and Tong Yu went up the mountain to collect more than 20 pieces, which took less than half a day. At this moment, she suddenly found a shiny stone in a crack. He looked at the stone in his hand and was immediately startled. There is such an ugly man on this stone.

Later, Mo Mu secretly took the stone back and polished it flat, which became the earliest mirror in human history. Although Mo Mu was ugly, the Yellow Emperor trusted her. Ironically, she was also awarded an official position called "Fang Shixiang" by the Yellow Emperor, who used her appearance to exorcise evil spirits. Although she is ugly, she has always been loved by people, and her good reputation has been passed down to this day. It can be seen that the value of people has nothing to do with looks.

Zhong Lichun

Zhong Lichun also has a name called "Zhong Wuyan". The ancients used "seemingly salt-free" to describe ugly girls, hence the name Zhong Wuyan, also known as "Zhong Wuyan".

The book describes that she is unmarried in her forties, extremely ugly, with a fat top and little hair, so I won't list more details here. In short, she is extremely ugly. However, it is such a person. She has read a lot of poems and books, and she is ambitious and always wants to save the nation. She is simply a generation of patriotic talented women.

At that time, Qi Xuanwang was fatuous, drinking and having fun all day, and the country was in danger. Zhong Wuyan protested at the risk of being beheaded, listing various signs that the country was about to die. Qi Xuanwang, like an awakened one, made up his mind to repent. He felt that Zhong Wuyan was like a mirror to him, and finally he married Zhong Wuyan as the queen.

Guang Meng

When it comes to Meng Guang, we have to say the idiom "Take Qi Mei as an example".

Hongliang was a great celebrity at that time. He was a handsome man. On one occasion, the matchmaker tried to match up with Meng Guang, but he flatly refused. Meng Guang said, "I won't marry unless I am Hongliang!" Everyone who heard it laughed at her lack of self-knowledge, but Hongliang took a fancy to Meng Guang's virtue and married her without hesitation.

After marriage, whenever Hongliang came home from a busy journey, Meng Guang would put the food on the chopping board with great respect and then hold it in front of Qi Mei, afraid to look up at her husband.

Meng Guang's behavior is purely out of respect, and there is no other reason. Later, Hong Liang was hunted down for his poems, and Meng Guang fled with him, but he never changed his "Qi Mei case". Although the young couple live in poverty, they are full of love, and it is this poverty that brings happiness that is the most real and envied by others.

Ruan Shi

Ruan is the only one of the four ugly women who lost her husband, and her husband Xu Yun is the leader of Cao Wei.

Xu Yun and Ruan had never seen each other's faces before they got married. When they learned about the bridal chamber, they found that the daughter-in-law they married was extremely ugly. They were so scared that they ran out of the bridal chamber and were afraid to go in for a while, until Xu Yun's good friend said to him, "It must make sense for Ruan's family to marry her to you. You might as well have a try. "

Xu Yunfeng then stepped into the new house and wanted to escape when he saw the bride's appearance, but he was caught by Ruan Shi. Xu Yun asked, "How many kinds of women's four virtues do you have?" Ruan Shi replied: "Only one beauty doesn't take it!"

Then he asked the other party, "How many scholars have you met?" Xu Yun proudly said, "I know them all!" Ruan smiled and said, "Scholars put virtue first, but you are lewd and immoral. How can it be said that it is all occupied? " Xu Yun was speechless at once. After Wang Yun was killed in trouble, Ruan Jinyong died peacefully with her two sons.

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