Cai Wenji, the most talented woman in ancient and modern times who was trained by fate

Writing about Cai Wenji may lead to abuse.

I try to write as lightly as possible.

She is not a noble person, nor is she a model of morality. She is just an ordinary woman who wants to live a peaceful life, but disasters happen one after another.

The ups and downs of Cai Wenji, a peerless talented woman, include a little bit of luck, but mostly, she is a woman who cannot help herself in a troubled world, and her unyielding vitality confronts fate.

There were four talented women in ancient China, Cai Wenji, Li Qingzhao, Zhuo Wenjun, and Shangguan Wan'er (also said to be Ban Zhao), with Cai Wenji ranking first. She is the author of "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" and the originator of five-character long narrative poems.

What the history books have left for her is just a few labels, but these few labels are enough for eternal glory.

However, what I want to talk about is not this glory, at least it is more than that.

No one can leave his name in history easily.

Then let us uncover the layers of fog hidden under the historical labels, uncover the scars of the most talented woman in ancient and modern times, and see how she rose to become a woman step by step in a war-torn era. Complete a gorgeous counterattack in life.

Cai Wenji’s father is Cai Yong.

Cai Yong, a great writer, historian, painter, calligrapher and musician of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Not only that, Cai Yong was also Cao Cao’s teacher. Yes, that's Cao Cao.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of imperial scholars. Cai Yong, as a great Confucian of his generation, lectured in Taixue and was the teacher of many famous people.

Intellectuals tend to be pretentious and feel that they are right and the whole world is wrong. Cai Yong is no exception. Cai Yong felt that there were many fallacies in the Six Classics of Confucianism, so he petitioned the emperor for corrections. After the corrections were made, he wrote them on the tablet himself, had them carved, and erected them outside the gate of Taixue. There were 46 stone tablets.

Just for these forty-six stone tablets, there are more than a thousand cars of people who come to view and copy them every day, which often creates huge traffic jams.

It can be said that Cai Yong was not only a great Confucian, but also a great Confucian respected by the world. If you want to put it in the modern era, it would be another Nobel Prize winner.

When writing about characters, I always like to start with their parents. Because people do not exist in isolation, parents often determine a person's first half of his life.

Cai Wenji is really good at reincarnation.

Cai Wenji, who was born in the Hongru family, has been immersed in music, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, and there is some artistic flavor in every capillary. But she is not very talented.

Legend has it that when she was 9 years old, Cai Yong broke a string while playing the piano at night. Cai Wenji could tell which string was broken by listening to the music. Cai Yong tried to break another one, and she immediately told the correct number.

Looks awesome?

That's because there is no frame of reference. Let's find one nearby.

Su Hui (also named Ruolan), who is also a fellow Cai Wenji, was born in Chenliu, but a hundred years later than Cai Wenji. Although she also came from a scholarly family, her father was far less impressive than Cai Wenji. As the originator of palindrome poetry and the founder of "Xuanji Pictures", Su Hui could write at the age of three, learn poetry at the age of five, paint at the age of seven, learn embroidery at the age of nine, and learn brocade weaving at the age of twelve.

But the proud daughter of Heaven, who had been immersed in the ancient Confucianism since she was a child, the only allusion she could come up with in the same year was that she could tell which string was broken. It's a bit overwhelming.

Cai Wenji’s childhood should have been very happy. Born into a respected celebrity family, she grew up with her sisters. She is talented and her father dotes on her. She just needs to spend her teenage years without any worries.

Cai Yong had countless students, but only two daughters.

Prime Minister Cao, who later became famous, was just one of many students at this time. We have no way of knowing whether he had a crush on Cai Wenji. But maybe, at a certain moment when Han Chuang was studying hard, a little girl in fragrant clothes and a bun looked at him curiously under his window. He raised his head and looked at the cute little girl in front of him.

The little girl was disdainful: What are you looking at? Have you never seen a beautiful woman?

Or maybe he just heard that the teacher had a daughter who was famous in the capital. Although he slandered her, no matter what kind of daughter Cai Yong gave birth to, she would be famous in the capital. However, he still fantasized about marrying Cai Yong's daughter.

If only I could marry Cai Wenji. . . . Forget it, stop dreaming and keep reading, you damn poor thing. Cao Cao gave up his thoughts when it was slightly cold.

But this idea is enough to change the life trajectory of a weak woman who was exiled in troubled times many years later.

When she grew up, she married Wei Zhongdao, a descendant of the Hedong family.

This family is the descendant of the famous Han Emperor Wu, Queen Wei Zifu and General Wei Qing.

The man is talented and the woman is beautiful, and the piano and the harp are harmonious.

This is how we imagine Cai Wenji’s first marriage.

We have no way of knowing the truth. We only know that one year after their marriage, Wei Zhongdao coughed up blood and died.

Cai Wenji became a widow before she left the wedding ceremony.

She had just woken up from the joy of marriage and saw her husband who was coughing up blood and bedridden. She thought that there was still a lot of time to spend, but her husband passed away. The mourning hall was left with flickering lights, the coffin was dark, and her wedding clothes suddenly turned into mourning clothes.

We have no way of knowing how Wei Zhongdao died, or what kind of secrets the family members have, enough to write a million-word masterpiece.

Cai Wenji, a teenager, had no time to guess. Because her first nightmare had begun.

My mother-in-law said that she suppressed her husband and killed her husband.

A newlywed and a widower have fallen from heaven to hell, but they still have to be slandered like this? !

Zhuo Wenjun looked at the woman in front of him in disbelief. She was the mother of the husband with whom she had a romantic relationship.

She didn't know how to argue.

The arrogant Cai Wenji ordered her maid to pack a few simple home clothes and walked out of the gorgeous Wei Mansion.

She also has a father, and her father is Cai Yong, a great scholar of the time. She still has a family to run to.

From an ethical point of view, Cai Wenji should remain a widow in her husband's family for the rest of her life. Cai Yong was unwilling to see Cai Wenji return home. However, this was his daughter after all, and he couldn't bear to see her suffer in her parents' home, so he took her in.

We can imagine the life of a widowed woman living in her parents' house. All the loneliness is like a devil that can't get rid of her. The Confucian family with strict ethics does not allow her to make the choice of getting married for the second time. She was so bored that she couldn't even perform the drama of a normal woman fighting a concubine on her.

The days are as light as boiled water.

She had no choice but to look through her father's bookshelf out of boredom. One, two, three, a hundred, two hundred. . . . She read volume after volume.

The days of clear water flowed by my hands. This time, there was a little flavor in the clear water. Although it was only a little bit, it was all her sustenance for the rest of her life.

In this way, Cai Wenji was forced into a blind corner by fate, and she could only study.

There are only books to read.

If things go well, Cai Wenjun will remain a widow in the Cai family for the rest of his life.

However, God does not follow human resentment.

Not long after, Cai Yong was thrown into prison and sentenced to death. ,

And the reason why he sentenced him to death was just because he sighed.

Cai Yong is considered the first person in ancient and modern times to be sentenced to death with a sigh.

This matter must start with Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo came to power, and Situ Wangyun used the singer Diao Chan to drive a wedge between Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu. Lü Bu played with Diao Chan and killed Dong Zhuo. This drama must be familiar to everyone. Originally, there was nothing wrong with Cai Yong here.

However, Cai Yong was demoted in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Not long after returning to Kyoto, Dong Zhuo gained power. In order to win people's hearts, Dong Zhuo promoted Cai Yong several levels of officials. Cai Yong was somewhat grateful to Dong Zhuo. This is human nature.

In 192, after Dong Zhuo's death, when Situ Wang Yun gained power and detailed Dong Zhuo's crimes, Cai Yong sighed.

With this breath, Situ Wang Yun said that Cai Yong was an accomplice of Dong Zhuo, and sentenced Cai Yong to death.

After her father passed away and the Cai family collapsed, 16-year-old Cai Wenji fled with the family's servants.

Cai Wenji, how could you escape?

The disaster is just ahead, waiting for Cai Wenji to throw herself into the trap.

Cai Wenji, this time, you are homeless.

Before this escape, Cai Wenji’s people lived a life without any technology.

We can imagine that any girl who is reincarnated into such a family may not live a much worse life.

Even if disaster strikes, Cai Wenji is still like a mediocre woman. She has no ability to control the storm and bravely save her father.

As a mediocre girl should do, she chose to run away.

That day, the sky was dark, and there were a group of crows hovering in the sky. Cai Wenji hid among the refugees, walking along the road with the purpose of fleeing. No matter where you go, as long as it is out of reach of the imperial court's hands, you can stop and live a good life.

Cai Wenji glanced at her ragged clothes. The shoes under her feet had long been worn out, and the blisters on her feet had grown and burst. She no longer felt the pain.

At this moment, fate opened its sleeping eyes and sneered frivolously: "Cai Wenji, where are you running away from?"

A mule carrying a package among the refugees The horse suddenly let out a mournful cry, its hooves clattered on the ground, and it retreated in terror, unable to hold its owner back. Everyone was astonished and saw dust rising from a distance.

A group of ferocious-looking barbarians rode up on horseback.

Cai Wenji looked at everything in front of her in disbelief. Before she could recover, the horsewhip whipped out.

All those who resisted were killed. After using riding whips to confirm that the remaining people would not resist again, the women were tied with a rope and taken to the barbarian camp.

In the midst of the fierce military strength, there was endless abuse and whipping.

We believe that our lady Cai Wenji has fallen into a purgatory that she could not imagine. Unspeakable humiliation and suffering are not nightmares, but a reality that is scarier than nightmares.

The nightmare continues day after day. There seems to be no end. One day, two days, one year.

It is impossible to know how Cai Wenji survived that kind of despair. However, she did not commit suicide, she survived.

But there must have been a day when she woke up from the simple couch in the camp, and the man next to her smelled of alcohol and snored like thunder. She thought of her beautiful and carefree girlhood. A ray of light came from the tent door, like the brilliance of life.

She touched her face. She must be ugly now, right?

She walked out of the tent and asked for some water. She did not drink it, but washed her face with care. Use your fingers to comb through long, messy hair.

The Hu people in the camp were a little surprised and a little amazed when they saw the scene in front of them. After all, abducted women rarely have such an appearance. If there is, it is hidden beneath dirt and tears and cries.

In that era, there were Diao Chan and Xiao Qiao. If Cai Wenji had been very good-looking, she would have been famous in the capital as a girl.

However, during the loneliest years of her widowhood, she devoured the collection of books by the great scholar Cai Yong.

Cai Wenji, who calmed down in the disaster, washed away the dust, was enveloped in a kind of poetry and calligraphy.

Cai Wenji stood up, with a heart that had been trampled but not dead.

No hardship can defeat her.

This is fate. Once everything is exhausted and there is nothing more to add, it is time for it to take a turn for the better.

Because of her beauty, she was eventually sacrificed to King Zuoxian of the Huns.

For this Zuoxian King, history describes him as a tiger with a strong back and a strong back.

Well, he should be what we imagine the king of the Huns should be like.

Psychologically speaking, the rude and bellicose Xiongnu King Zuo Xian was really not what a proud and talented woman like Cai Wenji liked. But she had just escaped from the misery, and behind her were the greedy eyes of the more rude soldiers. This was the best place she could find under the circumstances.

So she lived with King Zuo Xian.

She was careful not to offend him even if she was not trying to please him.

Homeless Cai Wenji, together with several princesses, serve a man who can never understand her.

She felt that maybe this was her destiny in life.

Cai Wenji is a happy-go-lucky woman without too many delusions.

Sometimes, she looked at the vast grassland and thought that this seemed good.

Let’s do this for the rest of our lives.

Anyway, I am homeless.

She learned the Hu people’s musical instrument: Hu Jia. Able to converse with the rude King Zuo Xian in gibberish.

We can even guess that King Zuoxian dotes on her very much.

She even gave birth to two sons for King Zuoxian.

Unfortunately, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop.

In troubled times, a woman’s life, death, honor and disgrace are never decided by herself. While she was fleeing, humiliated, and struggling in despair, China's political landscape was changing rapidly.

You want to become an extremely talented woman, Cai Wenji. Destiny said. Maybe the suffering I inflicted on you was in the wrong direction?

Then, let’s do it again.

A historic turning point appeared before her eyes again.

In 196, Cao Cao used the emperor to control the princes and gradually gained real power.

After more than ten years of fighting in the north and south, he has become a very popular minister and has a stable position in the country.

Cao Cao, who was successful and famous, was over fifty years old. The glory among thousands of people brought him the satisfaction of power, but also brought him the loneliness of being in the cold at the top.

When people get older, it is easier to recall old things.

He remembered that he was young and humble at that time, and he was a disciple of Cai Yong. Cai Yong had a little daughter named Cai Yan (Zi Wenji), who was quite cute and not afraid of him at all. Unlike now, he is aloof, hated, jealous, and afraid.

Cao Cao suddenly felt pity for Cai Wenji when he thought that she was still living in the southern Huns. So he sent people to gather gold, silver, cloth and silk to bring her back.

At this time, Cai Wenjun undoubtedly wanted to go back.

Having been pampered since she was young, she had already had enough of the wind and sand outside the Great Wall, the smell of mutton and cow and goat milk, and the sergeants and servants around her who didn't necessarily take a bath once a year.

This rude husband is not her best friend, not to mention that among his princesses, there are relatives who are the daughters of generals and leaders, and she is just a kidnapped Han woman.

But after the joy, she thought of the two sons she gave birth to King Zuo Xian and the relationship between herself and King Zuo Xian for many years.

She couldn't help but get entangled.

In fact, there is nothing to worry about. Cai Wenji, as an ancient woman, your stay, life and death are not yours to decide.

Even though King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu is unwilling to let you go, it is impossible for him to offend Prime Minister Cao, who is in the prime of his life, for your sake.

In this way, Cai Wenji got on the carriage back to Kyoto.

What you can't see ahead is Kyoto, which was once connected by your own blood, but now has little ties to it.

However, what she left behind were her own flesh and blood. They had been all the hope she had placed in her years of hard work.

The car rolled towards Kyoto, and her flesh and blood were separated. Cai Wenji cried in tears every day in the car.

This year, she is thirty-five years old.

When she left Kyoto, she was a beautiful widow.

Now that she is back, she is a damaged person both physically and mentally, a ruined flower in the eyes of the world.

We have reason to believe that Cao Cao put a lot of thought into the arrangements for Cai Wenji. He married Cai Wenjun to a military commander named Dong Si.

Who is Dong Si? There are not many records in history except that he was Cai Wenji's husband.

In this way, Cai Wenji married a passerby in history.

At that time, judging from the fact that Cai Wenji had been taken captive by the Huns and ravaged for many years, married King Zuoxian, and gave birth to two sons, it was difficult for celebrities to accept a woman like her.

So Cao Cao picked such a person. Captain Tuntian, the logistics department of the army. She is not old and her status is not too high. Due to her own intimidation, it is unlikely that she would dare to bully Cai Wenji. We can even guess that maybe he is talented at a young age and has good looks.

However, Cai Wenjun's early marriage was not happy.

Happiness is indeed unlikely.

Dong Si felt that he was a little unjust. He reluctantly married an older woman at a young age. Moreover, she had been married twice and had been forced to have relations with many Hun soldiers.

I feel aggrieved just thinking about it.

And Cai Wenji, who had just left King Zuoxian, often worried about the two children who stayed in the Huns. Even if she tried hard to adapt to the new marriage, she was a little unable to do so.

However, something happened soon that completely broke the deadlock. It was also this incident that allowed Cai Wenji to transform from an ordinary woman who resigned herself to fate to a butterfly.

Dong Si broke the law and Cao Cao sentenced him to death.

Cai Wenji was still in a daze at home when she suddenly heard the news that her husband Dong Si was about to be executed. She was shocked. He didn't have time to put on his shoes, so he ran all the way to Cao's mansion.

Cao Cao is a murderer who kills without blinking an eye. After issuing the order to kill Dong Si, the leader held a banquet for the guests when he came back.

At this moment, the servant reported: "Cai Wenji wants to see you."

After hearing this, Cao Cao calmly said to the guests: "Cai Wenji, the daughter of Master Cai Yong and Cai, is back. You want to see her?" Don’t you want to see her?”

Prime Minister Cao asked if he wanted to see her, but who dared to say no?

Cai Wenji is here. She is barefoot, and her hair is loose in a bun from running wildly. She knelt on the ground miserable and begged for mercy for her husband.

It must be said that this is a rare bravery in Cai Wenji's life.

When her father died, she had no ability to turn the tide and could only flee in a hurry; she was ravaged by the Xiongnu and then sacrificed to the left Xiongnu, but she chose to endure the humiliation; she was exchanged for some property and returned to the Eastern Han Dynasty, leaving her two sons behind. She just cried and walked on an unknown road.

This time, Cai Wenji finally did not choose to wait for her husband's body at home, but chose to snatch her husband's life back at the edge of a knife.

Cai Wenji’s pear blossoms brought rain, and everyone’s hearts softened as they cried.

Cao Cao said helplessly: "I have issued all the documents..."

Cai Wenji said: "You have so many sycophants in your stable and so many warriors under you. "Can't you spare a horse and a man to save my husband?"

Facing this woman with a rough life, Cao Cao also softened his heart, so he ordered people to rescue Dong Si.

Seeing that Cai Wenji was disheveled, he even asked someone to bring her clothes and shoes to change into, and let her stay in his home until Dong Si came back.

Cao Cao was very envious of Cai Yong's collection of books, so he asked Cai Wenji about it. Cai Wenji said: "Everything has been lost long ago, but I should be able to recite 400 articles from memory."

It was this incident that changed Cai Wenji's fate and added a new chapter in the history of Chinese literature. .

Cai Wenji wrote hundreds of volumes from memory. What is important is that the transcription of these hundreds of volumes awakened the memory and potential sleeping in her body.

All the old memories that had been stored in her heart for a long time came to mind. After years of sinking, finally at this moment, she shines with the brilliance that a peerless talented woman should have.

She gathered the outpouring past events and the endless sadness and nostalgia into the lines of poetry of Hujia eighteen beats.

?Heaven is unkind and brings chaos and separation,

?Earth is unkind and brings me to this time.

?The roads are dangerous every day when fighting,

?The people are in exile and it is sad.

?The smoke and dust cover the wilderness, and the barbarians are flourishing.

?It is not appropriate for me to treat the secular.

?Who should I sue if I am insulted?

(Selected from the first shot of Hu Jia’s Eighteenth Pattern)

The unkindness of heaven and earth made me, Cai Wenji, responsible for this disaster. I fled all the way and endured it, but I had no choice but to have an unspeakable fate. Humiliation, how much sorrow and resentment has accumulated in my heart. You blame me for losing my moral integrity. I have suffered so much, who should I blame?

After grief, it is difficult to express resentment, and the current literary style is not enough to express one's heart directly. Cai Wenji created a five-character narrative poem of her own, with five characters in one sentence, sonorously expressing resentment.

? The Han Dynasty lost power,

? Dong Zhuo was in chaos.

? He is determined to usurp and kill,

? He will harm all the virtuous people first.

?. . . . . .

? After being frustrated for a few moments,

? He often said bad things and surrendered to prisoner.

? You should use the pavilion blade,

? I will not kill you.

? How dare you cherish your life?

? I can’t bear the abuse.

Or just add a stick,

and poison and pain ginseng.

In the morning, we howl and weep.

At night, we sit in mourning.

If you want to die, you can’t get anything.

If you want to live, you can’t get anything.

? . . . . . .

? (Selected from poems of grief and indignation)

Until this moment, Cai Wenji finally completed her counterattack in life. She was no longer the ordinary woman. She was full of resentment, sorrow and pain. Humiliation turned into brilliant poetry.

From the perspective of an onlooker, it is really fate that Cai Wenji became the most talented woman in ancient and modern times.

If she had not been born into a family like Cai Yong, if her first husband had not died young, leaving her to study at home; if her father had not died in vain, she would not have Escape; if she had not been whipped, humiliated, and suffered all kinds of hardships, which had tempered her perseverance; if she had not given birth to a son, and had to endure the separation of her flesh and blood back to the Han Dynasty; if her third husband-in-law had not committed a capital crime, she had to bravely rescue him; If Cao Cao was not a book lover, let Cai Wenji pick up writing again. . . . .

So many accidents, if they had not happened, then Cai Wenji, she might just be a widow, a military prostitute in trouble, a Hun princess, or the wife of a field captain.

Far from being gifted, Cai Wenji does not have the personality that a legend should have. Instead, he was forced to climb up the mountain step by step by fate, and eventually became famous in history.

Fate gives you suffering, sometimes, because you can be better.

Thank you for all the fate, thank you for all the suffering, thank you for all the humiliation, and thank you even more for every turning point that gives people hope.

Without you, we would not have Cai Wenji, the most talented woman in ancient and modern times.

After being rescued, Dong Si felt grateful for Cai Wenji's risking his life to save him, and was amazed by Cai Wenji's amazing talent, and finally fell in love with this woman who had suffered so much.

Many years later, Dong Si and Cai Wenji lived in seclusion in Lantian and had a son and a daughter.

Cai Wenji, finally ended all her sufferings and can be a woman who cares for her husband and raises her children with peace of mind.

This is also very good.

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