Li Yannian was a famous musician in the Western Han Dynasty. Her Song of Beauty was widely circulated, so that Liu Che, Emperor Gaozu, listened to it and everyone was fascinated by it. It can be said that Song of Beauty is a stepping stone for Li Furen to enter the palace and gain the exclusive favor of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty.
There is a saying in Song of Beauty:
There are beautiful women in the north, and they are peerless and independent.
Take care of the city first, then the country.
It's best not to know the whole city and country? Beauty is hard to get again.
Therefore, Li Furen may be really beautiful, but it is not necessarily really beautiful. Under the introduction of my brother Li Yannian's Song of Beauty and Princess Pingyang, the sister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Li Furen's mastery of rhythmic dance, he successfully knocked on the door of Emperor Wu's heart and won his favor.
Then why isn't Li Furen among the four beauties? First of all, there are many versions of the four ancient beauties. The version we are most familiar with now is the biography of Xi Shi Di Xin Wang Zhaojun and Yang Guifei.
The four beauties are only elected by the people, and never only refer to beauties. They all participated in the politics of their time to varying degrees, and were inseparable from the rise and fall of the country and imperial politics. Xi Shi rebelled against the Wu Palace to help Gou Jian, the King of Yue, and lost a series of plots to betray Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. Zhao Jun left China for Hungary to make friends with the two countries for half a century, and Yang Guifei was a witness to the decline of the Tang Dynasty.
By contrast, Li Furen has little to do with politics. If we only rely on beauty, there are too many really beautiful women in history. Therefore, it is natural that Li Furen was not chosen as one of the four beauties.