Beautiful woman

Chen Yuanyuan was originally a Kunshan singing girl. Her original surname was Xing, her given name was Yuan, her courtesy name was Yuanyuan, and she was also given the courtesy name Wanfang. She adopted her adoptive mother Chen when she was young, so she changed her surname to Chen. She is extremely beautiful, with bright flowers and snow, she is good at singing and dancing, and her beauty and art are among the best.

In the last years of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant uprising army shocked the court, and Emperor Chongzhen was restless day and night. Zhou Kui, the uncle of Jiading, wanted to find a stunning beauty for the emperor to relieve the emperor's worries, so he sent Concubine Tian's brother Tian Wan to the south of the Yangtze River to look for her. After Tian Wan found Chen Yuanyuan, he was so fascinated by her beauty that he secretly took it as his own.

Soon Li Zicheng's team approached the capital, and Emperor Chongzhen urgently summoned Wu Sangui to guard Shanhaiguan. Tian Wan was worried about the peasant uprising all day long, so he held a grand banquet for Wu Sangui, and Yuanyuan led the singing group to perform in the hall. After Wu Sangui saw Yuanyuan, he was so fascinated that he was so happy that he hugged Yuanyuan and drank with her. After drinking for three rounds, the alarm suddenly sounded. Tian Wan stepped forward in fear and said to Wu: "What will happen to the invaders?" Wu Sangui said: "If you can see Yuanyuan as a gift, I will protect your family first." Before Tian Wan could answer, Wu Sangui That is, with a round greeting.

Wu Sangui was persuaded by his father, who was in charge of the imperial camp, to leave Yuanyuan in the capital to prevent his colleagues from causing trouble and letting the emperor know about it.

After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Wu Sangui's father surrendered to the rebel army, and Chen Yuanyuan was plundered by Li's men. When Wu Sangui agreed to surrender to Li Zicheng, he heard that Yuanyuan had been captured by Li's generals. He was furious and shouted, "What can a man do if he can't protect himself?" Then he surrendered to the Qing army and started a war with the peasant army. This is what Wu Meicun said in "Yuan Yuan Qu": "The six armies who mourn are all in plain clothes, and the crown and anger become beauty."

After Li Zicheng was defeated, he killed Wu's father and all 38 members of his family, and then abandoned Beijing and fled. Wu Sangui pursued the peasant army to Shanxi day and night with the revenge of killing his father and seizing his wife. At this time, Wu's troops searched for Chen Yuanyuan in the capital, teleported on flying cavalry, and led Wu Sangui to take Chen Yuanyuan from Qin to Shu, and then monopolized Yunnan.

During the Shunzhi period, the Wu family ascended the throne and became the king of Yunnan. He wanted to make Yuanyuan his concubine, but Yuanyuan resigned with excuses and Wu Sangui did not marry her. Not wanting the concubine she married to be jealous, she framed and unjustly killed Wu's concubine, so Yuanyuan lived alone in a separate courtyard. After Yuanyuan fell out of favor, she gradually became alienated from Wu. Wu once plotted to murder her. After Yuanyuan learned about it, she begged to become a nun, and from then on she embroidered Buddha images in Changzhai at Huaguo Temple in Mount Wuhua.

Later Wu Sangui declared independence in Yunnan, Emperor Kangxi sent troops to Yunnan, and the city of Kunming was destroyed in the winter of 1681. After Wu Sangui died, Chen Yuanyuan also sank in the lotus pond outside the temple and was buried beside the pond after his death.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were still two small frames of Chen Yuanyuan hidden in the temple, and there were poems carved on stone by the pool