Chapter 317: Difficult to convince the crowd, the queens standards
Sun Quan looked at the fragile Pan Shu in his arms and continued: "Shu'er doesn't have to worry. As long as I'm here, those women from aristocratic families have things that Shu'er doesn't have, and they won't cause trouble for the courtiers when Shu'er becomes queen next year.
Weak."
Pan Shu leaned against Sun Quan and said: "But I don't have the talents of playing chess, calligraphy and painting when I enter the palace like other ladies. Even if Your Majesty blocked the ministers' speech, I still feel guilty for this. I think I don't have it."
No matter how talented and virtuous you are, you may not be able to convince the public."
Sun Quan solemnly said: "Even if my Shu'er is not as talented as Cai Wenji and Mrs. Qi, I will fully support Shu'er to sit on the throne of the queen, and her mother will be respected in the world.
After all, Shu'er can cook dishes that satisfy me. This is better than many people. Not to mention other dishes, the Chai Sang Duck that Shu'er has cooked herself these past few days is very satisfying to me, let alone
Talk about delicious things like Panlong yellow croaker and seabass clams."
As the saying goes, education should start from an early age. In ancient times, in order for women to be obedient to men, women were strictly required to follow the three obediences and four virtues.
Of course, under the influence of such readings, not all women will become so obedient, and their thoughts cannot be imprisoned. Otherwise, how could there be such strange women as Li Qingzhao in history.
Of course, a woman spends such a long time in the boudoir every day, so it is natural that she cannot just study books. She also needs to learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and embroidery, which are also skills that ladies in the boudoir of aristocratic families need to learn.
Learning these skills can not only cultivate sentiments and enhance a woman's elegant temperament, but also help her gain a good reputation and marry a good husband in the future. Zhao's female workers are very good at embroidery.
Music, chess, calligraphy and painting are the most basic factors for measuring talent in ancient times. Qin, chess, go, calligraphy, and painting are talents that all children with a family background in ancient times must learn. In ancient times, a woman who excelled in any of these four talents would be
You will be appreciated and your reputation will spread.
Just like Cai Wenji, although she was captured by the Huns, it did not prevent her from becoming famous as a talented woman.
Under the influence of her erudite and talented father Cai Yong, Wenji read many books and received a good education since she was a child. In addition, she was very smart, so by the age of seven or eight, she was not only good at poetry and writing, but also good at painting and singing.
And like her father, You Xiqinse, of course, is not bad at calligraphy, which is inherited from her father.
Under the careful guidance of her father, Cai Wenji studied hard and practiced hard. In just a few years, her piano skills reached a level of proficiency, and her poetry, calligraphy, chess, and painting also made great progress. By the time she was thirteen, she had
It's very famous.
When Cai Wenji was sixteen years old, her father married her to Wei Zhongdao, a descendant of the Wei family of a wealthy family in Hedong.
In 192 AD, her father Cai Yong was arrested and imprisoned by Wang Yun, and died in prison soon after.
Later, her mother and husband also died one after another, and she returned to Chenliu alone.
In the second year of Xingping, the Huns took her away and married her to King Zuo Xian. She gave birth to two sons for King Zuo Xian.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, after Prime Minister Cao Cao learned of the misfortune of his mentor Cai Yong's daughter, he sent people to negotiate with the Huns many times, and finally used a thousand taels of gold and a pair of white jade to bring Cai Wenji back to her hometown after twelve years of absence.
Not only for this reason, maybe Cai Wenji is also Bai Yueguang in Cao Cao's heart.
It was on the way back to Han that Cai Wenji wrote the immortal work "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" based on her tragic experience of missing her motherland in a foreign land and being separated from her flesh and blood when she returned to her hometown. It has been passed down through the ages and made her reputation as a talented woman even more prosperous.
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The one who was favored for playing Go was Madam Qi. Yes, she was the Madam Qi who was finally made into a human pig by Empress Lu. Unexpectedly, someone famous for her beauty was also a talented woman.
Liu Bang's favorite concubine, Mrs. Qi, was very happy, and her son, King Zhao Liu Ruyi, was almost made the prince.
Liu Bang favored her for many reasons, among which being able to understand his own thoughts was the most important.
Madam Qi was the first female chess player recorded in history. She was more than 600 years earlier than Lou Qiang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. However, Madam Qi's game of Go was an activity with witchcraft to pray for blessings and eliminate disasters.
Every year on August 4th, Mrs. Qi presides over a Go game in the palace and prays to heaven. The winner will be blessed all year round, and the loser will be sick all year round.
In this case, no one wants to get sick and can only work hard to improve their Go skills.
It was of great help in reducing the jealousy in the harem and increasing the time for entertainment activities. This reduced Liu Bang's many worries in dealing with harem affairs.
The queen system had a profound impact on the Han Dynasty and later generations. Ever since Liu Bang made Lu Pheasant his queen, it represented the establishment of the queen system. Every emperor in the Han Dynasty was canonized with a queen. From then on, it became a custom.
As the emperor's concubine, the empress, together with numerous concubines, concubines, and grandsons, as well as a large number of female officials, maids, eunuchs, and others who serve the emperor, empress, and concubines, together form the harem, which is the emperor's family.
The concubines and female officials in the harem were divided into more than a dozen levels, which were linked to the titles, grades, and salaries of the foreign bureaucracy, thus forming a political system of "family and country as one". The governance of the harem played an exemplary role in governing the world, and the harem was in order.
The emperor's governance became a matter of course.
Dong Zhongshu used the dualism of yin and yang to explain the relationship between husband and wife in his theory of interaction between heaven and man written hundreds of years ago. Just like yin and yang, both are indispensable, but they are definitely "the husband is the guide for the wife".
Dong Zhongshu further pointed out that the same was true for the relationship between the emperor and the empress.
First of all, the emperor and the empress are one and the same, just like ordinary couples;
Secondly, it is as indispensable as yin and yang;
Thirdly, between the emperor and the queen, the emperor is higher than the queen. The emperor and the queen are compared to heaven and earth, yang and yin, sun and moon, and the queen becomes the opposite existence to the emperor.
The emperor needed the assistance of the queen. Influenced by the concept of yin and yang and the concept of the queen, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reformed the suburban sacrificial system.
The emperor is the father of the world, and the queen is the mother of the world. The queen sets a role model for women in the world and shows motherhood to many families, thus "helping to promote the kingship" and establishing the image of the emperor as the king and father of the world.
Sun Quan continued to comfort him: "Shu'er can also plant mulberry and raise silkworms. This is also the virtue of a queen. Besides, Shu'er also gave birth to a prince for me, and she does not have a large family of relatives behind her. She can be regarded as meeting the standards of a queen.
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The criteria for selecting queens in the Han Dynasty emphasized "virtue". For example, Ma Guiren and Deng Guiren were established as queens because of their virtues in the harem.
When choosing a queen, special emphasis was placed on "virtue" because the queen wanted her mother to respect the world.
Many of the queen's responsibilities are coordinated with those of the emperor.
For example, the emperor had to participate in the field ceremony to show that the country attached great importance to agriculture, while the queen had to participate in the sericulture ceremony, which was to worship the god of sericulture in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people to plant mulberry and raise sericulture.
Continuing the Han Dynasty, emperors had many concubines and usually had multiple heirs, but the empress's son was the legitimate son and had the most honorable status. When selecting a prince, priority would be given to the empress's son. For the emperors of the Han Dynasty after Emperor Wu, as long as the empress gave birth to a prince, he would be chosen
Make the queen's son the prince.
During the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the wife of General Huo Guang colluded with a female doctor to poison Queen Xu to death in order to help her daughter ascend to the position of queen.
When the Han Dynasty became emperor, Zhao Feiyan falsely accused Empress Xu of "blessing and cursing the harem", which caused Empress Xu to be deposed and she ascended to the position of empress. Giving birth to children is the step for concubines to settle down and advance to the throne. If the empress does not have children, she is in danger of being deposed.
Therefore, there were various struggles between the queen and the concubines surrounding the heirs.
Judging from the political environment of the Han Dynasty, the political impact of the queen system is to encourage the heroine to come to the court and relatives to interfere in politics.