Cai Wenji is a very famous talented woman. What has she experienced in her life?

When Cai Wenji is mentioned, people will first think that Cai Wenji is one of the talented women in ancient times, and then her representative works "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" and "Poems of Sorrow and Anger" will be handed down from generation to generation. Throughout the history of China, many women with names can be called "talented women", which often means that she has extraordinary talents in a certain aspect, just like Cai Wenji's "erudite and good at temperament", while Li Qingzhao, who is called "the best talented woman in the world", is "good at books and paintings, is familiar with epigraphy, and is especially good at poetry".

The description of talented women in later generations focuses on talent and emotion, and often ignores appearance and emotional experience. In fact, the fate of ancient talented women is mostly tragic. Cai Wenji is one of them. Cai Yan, Wen Xi, Evonne. The year of birth and death is unknown. Li was the daughter of Cai Yong, a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The official history "The Biography of Women in the Later Han Dynasty" records: "Chen's wife Dong Si, also the daughter of the same county, is named Wenxi. Knowledgeable, eloquent, and better than temperament. Shihe East Road, Zhong Wei Road. My husband died without children, so I'd rather stay at home. In Xingping, the world was in chaos, and Moon Hee was captured, not left in the southern Xiongnu. He was in the middle of the call for twelve years and gave birth to two sons. " Cao Cao's kindness made him childless, so he was redeemed by the messenger with a gold dagger and remarried to the company. "

From this official record, we can see that Cai Wenji married Wei Zhongdao for the first time, but Wei Zhongdao died early and no children were born during the marriage. Later, Cai Wenji returned to his home. During the war, Cai Wenji was captured by Dong Zhuo's former headquarters soldiers, forced to marry the Huns, and gave birth to two sons. Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north and read what his teacher Cai Yong taught him. Cao Cao redeemed Cai Wenji with a large sum of money. After Wen Xi returned to Han, he remembered his two sons who stayed in Xiongnu. He was heartbroken and wrote a touching poem "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" and a sorrowful poem. Later Cao Cao married her to Dong Si. Dong Si later committed a crime and was almost executed by Cao Cao.