Zhou Ehuang was born in 936, one year older than Li Yu. Her real name can't be verified. "E Huang" is actually just a word of hers. She was born in a family of Southern Tang Dynasty, and her father, Zhou Zong, had followed the future Southern Tang Liezu as early as the year when Xu Zhimo was appointed as the secretariat, and was an out-and-out founding hero. Zhou Ehuang married Li Yu when she was nineteen. This marriage was decided by Yuan Zong Li Jing of Nantang personally. According to records, Li Jing praised the pipa she played and specially gave her the "burning flute pipa" she used. This shows that Li Jing is very satisfied with this hand-picked daughter-in-law.
Zhou Ehuang is talented. "He is familiar with history, good at melody, and especially good at pipa", "He is not good at games and chess". All leisure and elegance are exquisite. He and Li Yu are husband and wife, playing and dancing together every day. It is said that after a snow banquet, Li Yu was invited to dance in a toast after drinking for half a week. Li Yu quipped, "If I want to dance, unless you can compose a new song for me." The following week, I sat on the bench, raised my pen, and soon composed music. It was really beautiful and moving. Li Yu kept her promise and danced for his wife's new song. Therefore, this piece was named "Inviting Drunk Dancing". Besides this song, I wrote a song "I hate being late" for Li Yu a week later. Li Yu also wrote many touching poems, such as Ah Huzhu, Huan Xi Sha, Yu Lou Chun, Midnight Song, etc., especially The Later Zhou. Both Zhou Zhou's songs and Li Yu's ci are full of beautiful scenery and show their love. What national events and dangers are forgotten in whispers.
Zhou Ehuang is not only a virtuous queen, but also a charming king. There is no trace that she once advised her husband to be diligent, but there are countless official anecdotes telling the world that her life is extremely luxurious. Legend has it that she likes to be in the fragrant wind and fog, so Li Yu set up a class for her. The incense burners she uses are all made of gold, silver and jade, including only dozens of famous utensils. How the people of Southern Tang lived outside the palace was beyond her concern. But strictly speaking, Zhou Ehuang's husband Li Yu is also more like a gifted scholar than a king. They are a perfect match for talented people and beautiful women. I'm afraid that's all I can think of when the scholar Li Jing tied the red line to the child. I never thought that fate would push this young couple who are only suitable for "money and leisure" to the position of emperor.
Almost all talented scholars in the world have a common problem. The talented women in their minds must be "gifted scholars and beautiful women". Of course, Li Yu is also inevitable. And Zhou Ehuang is not only a talented woman, but also an extremely beautiful woman. History books solemnly call her "national color", which is the level of peerless beauty. More importantly, this peerless beauty also knows how to maintain beauty and improve her appearance, and has created original makeup such as "high-bun slim skirt" and "upturned temples on her head", showing her peerless beauty and graceful figure. Everyone she meets thinks she is a fairy, and women inside and outside the palace are scrambling to follow suit. Li Yu is fascinated, of course, so Zhou Ehuang has a special room.
The direct effect of "Pets in Special Rooms" is that Zhou Ehuang has been constantly giving birth to Li Yu, and even gave birth to three sons. Seeing that her heirs are prosperous and her children are handsome and elegant, Li Yu's love for his wife is also growing steadily.
Among the three sons, Zhou Ehuang likes his youngest son Zhong Xuan best. Originally, as a queen, the work of raising children was undertaken by servants and maids, but Zhou Ehuang loved Zhong Xuan so much that she had to worry about the child's food, clothing, housing and transportation and raised him herself.
Like all the people in the world who are intoxicated with love and family, Li Yuhe Zhou Ehuang never thought that their marriage in the world was actually very short.
Legend has it that the end of this marriage is a sign.
There was a famous Daqu "Nishang Feather" in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Since the split of the Tang Dynasty, no one in the world has been able to restore its melodious voice. Knowing that his wife loves melody, Li Yu managed to get the score of this Daqu at last. However, there are many variations in the spread of this kind of Daqu, and the score itself is not complete enough, so professional musicians can't make a clue. After Zhou Ehuang knew about it, he studied it and made a series of additions, deletions and adjustments. Finally, this Daqu reappeared and won the praise. However, China calligrapher Xu Xuan was surprised. He had a private conversation with musician Cao Sheng and said, "Why do the echoes of French music end so quickly now?" I'm afraid it's not a good sign to change the old spectrum like this. "
Sure enough, it was not long before the news came from the palace that Queen Zhou was ill.
Sick Zhou Ehuang moved four-year-old Zhong Xuan from his own palace to another. It was originally a kindness made by a mother to prevent her children from being affected by the disease, but she never expected that Zhong Xuan had just moved out of the queen's palace and suddenly fell ill and died a few days later.
According to folklore, Zhou Ehuang's illness worsened and suffered another heavy blow: she learned that her sister Zhou Xiao was having an affair with her husband. Zhou Xiao is fourteen years younger than his sister, while he is only fifteen. Li Yu always liked Zhou Ehuang, but all the concubines in the harem turned a blind eye. Somehow, she was moved by this sister-in-law and took Zhou Ehuang to the palace while she was ill. Everyone knows that Zhou Xiao is talented, but he is young and ignorant. He was not only discovered by Zhou Ehuang, but also told Zhou Ehuang that he had been in the palace for several days. Zhou Ehuang was greatly stimulated. A few days later, Aiko died again, both sides were attacked and finally passed away.
Compared with this romantic version of the story, another story is more practical: the reason why Zhou Xiao's family stayed in the palace for a few days when her sister was seriously ill was not Li Yu's work alone, but the masterpiece of the state government, which was intended to prevent other "blanks" from appearing around her son-in-law during the illness of her eldest daughter, thus avoiding the "danger" of her eldest daughter calling a spade a spade and later changing her surname. Li Yu's biological mother, Queen Zhong, never wanted her son to fall in love with her daughter-in-law, and of course she was willing to contribute to it. Li Yu is romantic and affectionate, and some traces of women except Zhou Ehuang can be seen from time to time in his early ci poems. Zhou Ehuang is ignorant. The reason why she has the reaction of "evil" and "ignoring" at this time is not because of jealousy, but because she deeply feels that her parents and family have regarded herself as a dying person.
In a word, after learning of Zhong Xuan's death, Zhou Ehuang soon became critically ill.
However, Li Yu's concern can't be brought back to Zhou Ehuang's life after all. Zhou Ehuang knew that life was coming to an end, but she took it in stride. She kindly comforted her husband and said, "Your servant is so lucky. You trusted your family and took advantage of China for ten years. The glory of a woman is nothing more than this. Those are not enough, my son is dying, and there is nothing to repay. " She personally gave Li Jing the burnt pipa and the Yuhuan worn on her arm, and wrote a suicide note asking for a thin burial.
Three days later, Zhou Ehuang supported himself to take a bath, change clothes and make up, put Han Yu into his mouth (it should be Yuchan) by himself, and then died in the west room of Eta Ursae Majoris Hall. Stone "Zhao Hui", buried Yiling.
Zhou Ehuang, who studied Buddhism, ended his 29-year life in an almost detached and predictable way, and his death was unusually peaceful. However, the death of her and Zhong Xuan brought Li Yu great pain. The Buddhist scriptures read for many years and the Zen principles of ginseng can't resist the blow of losing his wife and children.
Zhou Ehuang died in December of the second year of Gander. Just one month later, Li Yu, who appeared at the funeral, has changed from a 28-year-old "handsome man" to a skeleton who can't stand up without crutches. Of course, there is another explanation: he deliberately came out to see everyone like this because he was afraid that others would laugh at him for cheating on his wife. I am puzzled by this statement. I've heard that the emperor was too kind to his wife and was ridiculed by the minister as an idle femme fatale, but I've never heard of asking the emperor to be loyal from that year on. Even if the minister wants to laugh, it is also a sneer at Li Yu, as an emperor, who made himself miserable for a woman-but the loss of his wife is more pitiful than the death of his old mother)
Crazy talk, when Zhou Ehuang was about to get married, he fell in love with Zhao Kuangyin who was wandering in the Jianghu at first sight, and decided that he would be a hero of chinese odyssey, thus forming a love affair. Who knows that Zhao Kuangyin came to get married before he became famous, and the special envoy for the royal wedding in Southern Tang Dynasty came to Zhou Fu. E Huang was forced to marry Li Yu reluctantly and eventually died of depression. Song Taizu can tolerate Li Yu's more than ten years in his "couch". For the sake of Zhou Ehuang, after knowing that Zhou Ehuang's death was due to Li Yu's infidelity, he immediately set out to make a conquest.
This story is quite legendary. But it's a bit untenable.
The detailed road map of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's Jianghu trip is now difficult to verify. No one knows whether he has really been to Jinling City and seen Zhou Ehuang. However, when Chao Po-tao went out, Zhou Ehuang, a big lady who grew up in Situfu of Southern Tang Dynasty, had just turned twelve. I really can't imagine how these two people met and fell in love, and how MISS ZHOU, who just met someone, had a deep affection for Lao Zhao. Besides, Lao Zhao was married at that time, and I didn't know what identity to take to talk about marriage with MISS ZHOU.