Many people are not familiar with Li Zhi and Queen Wang. Let’s follow the editor of the History Encyclopedia to appreciate them together.
When it comes to Queen Wang, most people understand her role. Empress Wang was the lover personally chosen by Emperor Taizong of Tang and Changsun Wuji for Li Zhi, and was the person that the elderly hoped to wait for Li Zhi to finish his life. In history, Queen Wang can also be considered a charming beauty. The person who can be chosen by Emperor Taizong of Tang to be his child’s daughter-in-law is undoubtedly a talented person, and being a good match for Li Zhi can be considered a man with both talent and beauty. However, this Queen Wang has just fallen out of favor and has been treated coldly by Li Zhi. On the contrary, Li Zhi doted on Xiao Shufei, who was upright, proud, and arrogant. Both of them had their own unique characteristics, and Xiao Shufei’s appearance was not much higher than that of Empress Wang. Why did someone who was slightly less talented than Queen Wang receive Li Zhi’s exclusive favor?
At first, we cannot say who lacks charm. Both women have their own beauty. As the saying goes, each woman has her own preferences. Although in the eyes of everyone, a dignified and virtuous woman like Queen Wang may be more beloved, little do we know that in the characteristics of that time and under the scrutiny of the current emperor, it is very likely that Li Zhi could do just that, preferring women who are cute and have a little bit of a temper. Due to being a gentle and refined daughter, Queen Wang has been well cultivated since childhood, so she is definitely not as good as Xiao Shufei in terms of cuteness. Therefore, in Li Zhi’s eyes, the comparison between Queen Wang and Xiao Shufei seems a bit rigid, which is the first reason why Li Zhi dislikes Queen Wang.
Like modern literary figures such as Lu Xun and Xu Zhimo, the main wife who was married by their parents also originated from the gentle and refined nature of a prestigious family. These women did not have any faults and spent their entire lives following the rules of the female family. However, in the eyes of Lu Xun and Xu Zhimo, their existence was the existence of feudal morality, and their feudal social atmosphere was the reason why Lu Xun and Xu Zhimo disliked them. As a woman, there is nothing wrong with oneself, what is wrong is just meeting the wrong person at the wrong time. From the moment Queen Wang was born, her entire life was manipulated by her parents, and her integration with Li Zhi was only a result of the influence between her parents. In her subconscious, she only had the virtues of “three obediences and four virtues” as a woman, without any self-awareness. Therefore, she may have never understood what love is and how she got married. In her heart, she only knew that everything was assigned by her parents and she had to obey orders.
Therefore
There is a reason why Li Zhi hates her. For a woman who doesn’t know what love is, she doesn’t understand how to make Li Zhi love her at all. The only thing she can do is listen to her husband’s words, and Li Zhi dislikes these boring people the most. Of course, no matter how Queen Wang followed Li Zhi’s words, she had no place in Li Zhi’s heart. Li Zhi had long taken the Queen’s kindness towards him for granted, and gradually what he saw in front of him was not a wife, but a servant who obeyed everything, let alone loved her. In the Tang Dynasty, fullness was considered beautiful. Empress Wang was thinner than Consort Xiao, who had a fuller body shape and skin as fresh and delicate as snow crystals. In terms of body shape, Consort Xiao was slightly inferior to Consort Xiao. Regarding the two types of beauties, Li Zhi would naturally choose the latter one, which was endangered by the characteristics of the era of obesity at that time.
During the Tang Dynasty, our country was strong and prosperous, and as a result, the people of heaven and earth enjoyed peace and prosperity. With the increase of social and economic development, the lives of the common people improved
At that time, the aesthetic standards of obesity emerged. Being overweight not only means an improvement in everyone’s economic development level
This also means the folk customs and traditions of the Tang Dynasty’s opening up to the outside world, where fat and plump women were called capable of having a prosperous husband and good fortune. Empress Wang has both historical talent and moral integrity, but in terms of body shape, she has a physical fitness that is not easy to gain weight, so she can only accept defeat. Xiao Shufei has a plump and cute figure, which of course captured Li Zhi’s heart and firmly tied all of his thoughts to herself.
