Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty: Marry Yin Lihua
In the long scroll of Chinese love, there is a loud inscription “Marry Yin Lihua when you marry a wife”. People say that a virtuous wife has no salt, that is, a virtuous wife is not beautiful, or even ugly. However, the love and marriage of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Yin Lihua, Empress Guanglie, completely broke this specious habit of thinking. Yin Lihua was the first empress with an official posthumous title in Chinese history, the beauty and virtuous queen of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The unusual course of the marriage between Yin Lihua and Emperor Guangwu demonstrates the steadfast love, the sacrifice of small love for great justice, and the writing of an eternal poem.
Liu Xiu fell in love with Yin Lihua when he first met her, when Liu Xiu was still a crofter. One day, he arrived in Chang’an, walking in the street coincided with the capital garrison commander “Dejingo” of the grand caravan passing, the heart can not help but rise in the young man’s career and marriage vision – career as Dejingo, marry Yin Lihua when married.
Love at first sight first meeting to complete the marriage
Yin Lihua was a native of Nanyang Xinye (Henan Xinye), a descendant of Guan Zhong, whose ancestral fiefdom was in Yin, and changed his surname from the name of the place to Yin. Yin Lihua grew up to be a very beautiful woman with a gentle and filial nature, and her reputation spread far and wide in her hometown of Nanyang Xinno. Her ancestors were known for their filial piety for several generations. Yin Lihua lost her father at the age of seven, and whenever she thought of him, she would shed tears and shed tears until decades later.
Liu Xiu was the ninth grandson of Han Gaozu, but when he passed to his father’s generation, he no longer had any official titles, only some land left, and was considered a large farming family. He was related to the Yin family by marriage, and his brother-in-law and confidant Deng Chen was a relative of Yin Lihua’s mother, Deng. When Liu Xiu was still farming and selling food in his hometown, he often went to Xinye to talk to this brother-in-law, and this layer of karma helped him to hold the red thread.
Liu Xi is ten years older than Yin Lihua, when we first met, Yin Lihua is still a naive little girl, not to talk about marriage age, while Liu Xi just early twenties, a glowing hero, a talent no less, there are records in history. Liu Xiu to Yin Lihua, a young girl at first sight, the young girl is also very good feelings for him.
The two people from the first acquaintance to marry each other not much, during Liu Xiu said goodbye to the crop Han career, and brother Liu Yan together towards the smoke and mirrors in the road of many difficulties to raise the state. After twelve years of warfare, Liu Xiu showed his military talent and his long ability to lead soldiers. He has overcome the enemy’s trap, and successively eliminated the secessionist forces in Guandong, Longyu, and Xishu, ending the warlord chaos and secession since the end of Xinmang for nearly 20 years.
In June of the first year of the Reformation (23 AD), Liu Xiu, who was nearly thirty years old, welcomed the nineteen-year-old Yin Lihua into the House of the Great General of the Warring States (appointed by Liu Xuan, the Reformation Emperor) in Wancheng as a lover.
Marrying the girl of his dreams is a long way to go
Liu Xi had just gone through a big change before he got married. In February of that year (the fourth year of Emperor Di, 23 A.D.), Liu Xiu led the Green Forest Army to fight a big victory in Kunyang, with a brigade of 10,000 men to destroy Wang Mang’s army of 420,000, killing the enemy commander Wang Xun, known as the Battle of Kunyang.
Liu Xiu and his elder brother Liu Yan rose to fame, but Liu Xuan, the emperor of the more advanced, was suspicious of Liu Yan and used a plan to frame him to death. Liu Xiu’s heart is very sad but does not reveal it. When Liu Yan was killed, many people were still standing on their own hills. Originally, Liu Yunchang expected Liu Xiu to get married only after achieving great success, Liu Xiu rushed to get married after the death of his elder brother is an intention, he wanted to create a fog to confuse the camp of the new generation, loosening the guard on their own. This move did play an effect.
Newlyweds get together and leave a lot
Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua several years of love, a lover finally become a couple. However, from the time they met to a period of time after the marriage are less and less separated. The marriage of two lovers is a sail for Liu Xiu to go further; for Yin Lihua, it is a series of life and death torment and the test of the threat of parting, and she did not complain, no fear. The successive tests from the third party show Yin Lihua’s altruism and kindness for him, which is so different and valuable.
Only three months after Liu Xiu’s marriage, a change occurred when the emperor ordered him to Luoyang. Losing his mutually supportive brother, Liu Xiu alone on the road westward to meet the new war, he chose to let his new wife return to his mother’s home in Xinye to settle down. Later, the war situation changed again, and Yin Lihua moved around with the family of his maternal brother, Yin Zhi. Three years later the couple could see each other again, and the world experienced some changes in the sky. Her husband, Liu Xiu, became Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but her marriage came to a big test.
The dilemma test
Liu Xiu, who left Wancheng and his new wife to go to Luoyang, was faced with a bitter battle of uncertainty. In the chaotic world, many people have risen up, each with their own troops and land as king, coveting the throne. Although Liu Xiu had the bloodline of the royal family of Western Han Dynasty and his conduct and behavior won high popularity in the world, his brother died and his camp was still very thin in terms of soldiers.
At that time, Liu Yang, the king of Zhending, had 100,000 soldiers and horses and had the role of swaying the situation, so Liu Xiu sent someone to convince him. Liu Yang agreed to go to Liu Xiu’s camp, but he proposed a condition that made Liu Xiu in a dilemma, he wanted Liu Xiu to marry his niece Guo Shengtong as the main wife, his niece Guo Shengtong is also a famous family, after the official, beautiful and knowledgeable. This joint marriage plan is a barrier to protect the back bureau, if Liu Xiu really achieved the empire, Liu Yang can be involved in relatives to wear titles. Liu Yang also has a daughter, but he does not take the risk, the speculator’s city is very deep.
Liu Yang’s proposal put Liu Xiu into a bitter battle in his heart: he had to agree for the future cause, because there were millions of enemy troops under Kunyang, and if Liu Yang turned against him, the soldiers who followed him would be sacrificed in vain, and his brother was killed, and he still had to bear the burden of humiliation to kill out of the siege; however, the thought of agreeing to marry and disappointing his beloved wife made his chest stabbing pain, how could he disappoint Yin Lihua’s true love and generosity?
In the overall situation and between the love of husband and wife, the immediate go to the fork in the road, into a dilemma of choice. Liu Xiu made the choice with difficulty. He married Guo Shengtong to eliminate a bad war in the invisible. Liu Yang’s Zhending army turned around and followed Liu Xiu, hitting the enemy army hard and adding help. This side is all happy, but is there tears on the other side?
A virtuous wife who is modest and can wind up
Yin Lihua turned from a wife to a concubine, her modesty and self-control, tolerance and tolerance of a million times more than ordinary people.
Liu Xiu, the Guangwu emperor, was the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and when the royal family was first established, no queen was set up in the harem, and Guo Shengtong and Yin Lihua were both named noblewomen, revealing Liu Xiu’s dilemma of love and righteousness. From the knowledge that Liu Xiu remarried Guo Shengtong to the next ten years or so, Yin Lihua’s modesty exceeds the ordinary people millions of times.
The two noblemen, Guo Shengtong is the main wife of the family, the companion in the conquest, the mother of the eldest son Liu Jiang, the in-laws of Liu Xiu’s merits to the establishment of the Eastern Han; Yin Lihua is with the “beauty of motherhood”, Liu Xiu’s real first wife, dream girl, the two in the war years far apart. Liu Xiu wanted to establish the empress is Yin Lihua, and Yin Lihua’s reaction surprised many people. She firmly resigned, “since Chen is not enough to be the great position”, so Guo Shengtong was named empress without any resistance at all.
After Yin Lihua’s resignation, Liu Xi wanted to make all of her brothers marquises, but Yin Lihua still politely declined, reasoning that she herself was not the queen, so how could her brothers be made marquises, which would exceed the state’s etiquette. So, Liu Xiu rewarded Yin Lihua with jewels, but she did not accept them either, because the country had just been stabilized and was in need of prosperity, so how could she enjoy the treasures and take up resources?
A virtuous queen
Yin Lihua was selfless and humble, and did not accept the title and wealth, which made Liu Xiu love her more. But in the eyes of Empress Guo, it aroused all kinds of uneasiness, speculation and resentment. Guo Shengtong thus repeatedly followed the private agenda and slandered Yin in the harem. Seventeen years after the establishment of the queen, Emperor Guangwu made an edict to the three princes to abolish Guo Shengtong’s throne, saying: “the empress harbors resentment, several violations of the teachings, can not follow the other sons, the training of different rooms”, “not only not Ju’s virtue, but also Lv, Huo’s style”. In the same edict, the reappointment of Yin Guijin Lihua as Empress, and said that this is “an unusual event, non-state rest and blessing, not on the life of the celebration. That is to say, the abolition of the new queen is not a national blessing, but an abnormal thing, so do not make the domestic celebration, it can be seen that Liu Xiu abolished the queen out of a sorrowful decision, from another point of view, Yin Lihua’s deep love, is what he has been thinking about. The imperial edict mentions that he had not seen her for three years, which shows the tolerance and tolerance of Yin Lihua.
The Book of Later Han records that Empress Yin Lihua was simple, dignified, benevolent and filial: “The Empress was frugal in her reign, less fond of playing, not fond of laughing and joking. The nature of benevolence and filial piety, more reserved mercy.” The abolished queen Guo Shengtong was not sent to the cold palace, and her firstborn son Liu Jiang still retained the status of crown prince, adding fiefdoms and titles to relieve his mind. The compassionate and humble nature of Yin Lihua influenced Liu Xiu, and the high spirit of the emperor’s abolition can be said to be unique among other examples of imperial dynasties.
Teach your husband and children to be the mother of the world
The Empress Yin Lihua was very kind to Guo Shengtong, the Queen of Guanglie, and pleaded on her behalf. She took great care of her children and grandchildren, often urging her children and grandchildren to treat Guo Shengtong as their mother and grandmother, and to treat her descendants well. Yin Lihua’s son, Han Mingdi Liu Zhuang, and grandson, Han Zhangdi Liu Tsuyin, were both deeply impressed by Yin Lihua’s teachings and took them to heart, practicing them to the letter.
Yin Lihua married Liu Xiu at the age of nineteen, and was made empress at the age of forty. She taught her children and mothered the world, and her virtue was humble and open-minded. Her virtues did deeply influence Liu Xiu’s handling of the harem, and also stabilized the succession of the imperial family of Eastern Han, without killing the abolished prince and the non-self-born prince. She not only did not interfere with the imperial government, but also restrained the foreign relatives from interfering with the imperial government, “The Book of the Later Han – Empress Ji” recorded that Empress Guanglie Yin “reign, dignified and virtuous, with the beauty of the mother. The Empress was a virtuous queen of her generation as she was frugal and restrained her clan from outside.”
Heart to heart, not for me
Liu Xiu is not only the emperor who fought the most in the battlefield, but also ruled the government and the poor scriptures more conscientiously, day and night. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty – Emperor Guangwu’s Chronicle” records: “Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty every day to see the court, the day is narrow to strike. The Emperor would not stop until the day was over, and he would not sleep until the night was over.” The emperor would not rest until sunset. Not only that, he also often summoned the public ministers and generals to talk about the scriptures and the way to govern the country and the world, and did not go to bed until late at night.
The prince saw his father, Liu Xiu, working hard day and night, and once when Liu Xiu was free, he advised him to take a leisurely trip to maintain his health: “Your Majesty has the brightness of Yu Tang, but lost the blessing of Huang Lao to maintain his nature, I would like to nurture my spirit and enjoy myself. Liu Xiu smiled and replied that he was happy with his life: “I am happy with this, I am not tired.” The joy of his life. The music of the life of Liu Xiu, the Guangwu emperor, cut the rest note while reviewing documents at the South Palace in Luoyang, and finished the last beat of his life as he wished.
The reign of Liu Xiu, Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty for thirty-two years, the great promotion of Confucianism, the promotion of moral integrity, the Eastern Han Dynasty is also respected by future generations of historians as the “most beautiful, Confucianism,” the era of Chinese history, which is closely related to the opening of the Eastern Han Dynasty of Liu Xiu to set an example, set an example. And the foundation of this model, Yin Lihua is indispensable.
Wang Fuzhi “read the general theory” praise Liu Xiu divine warfare: “Guangwu of the world, more than the high emperor and especially difficult to carry on. Guangwu’s divine warfare is also unpredictable! Three generations and the next, to take the world, only Guangwu alone!” The Ming Taizu Shilu records, the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sacrifice to the Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu’s benediction is: “But the Han Guangwu Emperor extended heroes, encourage the essence of governance, carry the rise of the Yan Yun, the four seas salty peace. The one who has the virtue of ruling the world and the success of securing the world is also. ……”
The world’s chaotic changes, not in Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua two love garden planted in the magic change, what is solid they know each other love and cherish each other Pan Shi? From the story outline, more or less can taste, like Yin Lihua, Liu Xiu such put aside selfishness, shining virtues of friendship, burning their love, such as the stars of the ages, put out the immortal light!
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