Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Celebrity Secrets

Tao Yuanming, a great poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, advocated reading "without seeking deep understanding", but the author feels that history should not be studied carefully. If you look closely, you will find that the images of some historical celebrities have been greatly reduced, or even completely reversed. Hanwen Emperor Liu Heng used to be the emperor I admired and liked very much. He was diligent and thrifty, governed by doing nothing, loved the people like a son, served his mother very filially, was highly respected, and was almost perfect.But what the author never expected was that this benevolent and filial emperor also had a cruel and cold-blooded side.Emperor Wen's half-brother Huainan Wang Liu Chang was sentenced to be exiled in Shu after the case of treason, but Liu Chang died of gas and illness on the way before reaching his destination.In order to show his deep brotherhood, and to cover up his behavior of forcing his younger brother to death, Emperor Wen ordered the orders of the county magistrates along the way with an imperial decree. The poor county magistrates muddleheadedly became the emperor's scapegoats.

Qi Jiguang, a national hero and famous anti-Japanese general, has been deeply admired and loved by our Chinese people for hundreds of years. As he wrote in his poem, "Three hundred and sixty days a year are all on horseback." Made outstanding contributions to defending the country and resisting foreign aggression.But in order to win the favor of the powerful minister Zhang Juzheng, he once gave several beauties as gifts to this lustful prime minister known for his strong sexual ability. After all, it is not an honorable act. Li Qingzhao, an outstanding poet at the turn of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, is an unprecedented talented woman in the history of our country. She has profound attainments in poetry, words, prose, and gold and stone, which makes eight-foot men willingly bow down and feel ashamed.As everyone knows, our Lay Yi'an is absolutely unyielding in another point, that is: he likes to gamble.In "The Preface to the Classic of Playing Horses", Li Qingzhao narrated his obsession with gambling with eloquence: "I love gambling, and all so-called gambling people spend day and night, forgetting to sleep and eat every time. Why, it’s just fine. I’ve been wandering and migrating from the south, and I’ve lost all my treasures, so I rarely do it, but I really haven’t forgotten it in my heart.”

Although the above three ancients have shortcomings, they are not concealed. The following two will make you and me dumbfounded and unacceptable. We often praise a very good man with "looks better than Pan An, talent like Song Yu". Among them, Pan An is Pan Yue (word Anren), a famous writer in the Western Jin Dynasty.Pan Yue was born in a jade tree facing the wind, with bright eyes, handsome, unrestrained, and suave, and he has naturally become synonymous with handsome men.But such a beautiful person is so poor in character and virtue.He was mild-tempered, sycophant, flattering, and participated in the rebellion, but was eventually killed by the rebel leader Sima Lun and his accomplice Sun Xiu.

Coincidentally, Shen Kuo, the author of the important scientific and technological work "Mengxi Bi Tan" in the history of our country, is also a repeated villain.After Su Dongpo was imprisoned in the case of Wutai Poetry, Shen Kuo, as a friend, made trouble and framed Su Dongpo's poems and daily speeches out of nothing; It is really difficult for this great scientist to do this for the sake of being a man.