In October 265 BC, Empress Dowager Xuan died and was buried in Lishan in Zhiyang (now Lishan, Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi).

Anecdotal allusions

Originally called the Queen Mother

The title of Queen Mother was first seen in her. Gao Cheng of the Song Dynasty "The Origin of Things, Volume 1" cloud: ""Historical Records of Qin Benji" said: Zhao Wang's mother Mi's family, called the Empress Dowager. The Queen Mother began to think so. Therefore, Fan Sui said that the King of Qin had heard the words of the Queen Mother. Later, Zhao Xiaocheng became Wang Xinli, and there was also a saying that the Queen Mother was doing things. It is the name of the Queen Mother, since the beginning of King Qin Zhao. The Han Dynasty attacked Qin, and the emperor also respected his mother and called the Queen Mother. ”

The authoritarian power of the Queen Mother also began with her. Chen Shidao of the Song Dynasty "Houshan Collection, Volume 22" cloud: "The queen mother is in power, since the Empress Dowager Qin Xuan. She ruled the Qin State as the empress dowager for thirty-six years, and greatly developed the national strength, "the east is good, the weak princes, taste the emperor in the world, and the world is the head of the west" ("Historical Records: The Biography of the Marquis").

The concubine is in charge

It can be seen from the process of seizing the throne for her son that Empress Dowager Xuan is not a "weak female streamer", and anyone who looks at her with a contemptuous view of women will definitely taste the bitter fruit. Further, this mature beauty woman in her thirties has become the originator of the concubine in feudal society. The Qin State was still martial, and one of the most prosperous periods of martial arts was the thirty-six years (some say forty-one years) when the Empress Dowager Xuan was in power.

At the age of thirty, she became the empress dowager of Qin and was called "Empress Dowager Xuan". In order to consolidate the throne of her youngest son, she used the most direct method in the world: marriage - that is, marrying the princess of Chu as the queen for her son, and also marrying the Qin daughter to Chu.

At the same time, Empress Dowager Xuan, who had taken power, began to appoint her cronies.

Needless to say, the cronies are all the mother's family of the Empress Dowager Xuan. On the recommendation of King Huai of Chu, Empress Dowager Xuan made her mother's clansman Xiang Shou the prime minister of Qin. (Judging from this recommendation, Mi Bazi's mother should be surnamed Xiang). At the same time, for the control of military power, there is also Wei Ran, who is the great nephew of Wang Jugong, he was named the marquis, the fief is Sui (now Dengzhou City, Henan), and later added Taoyi (Shandong Dingtao) - this is the half-brother of the Empress Dowager Xuan. There is also a half-brother of the Empress Dowager Xuan, Qi Rong, who was named Huayang Jun, and the fief was first Gaoling, Shaanxi, and then changed to Xinchengjun, and the fief also became Henan Mi County (now Xinmi City, Henan).

As for the other two sons of the Empress Dowager Xuan, of course, they must be sealed. Gongzi Fu was named Jingyang Jun, the fief was in Jingyang, Shaanxi, and later changed to a fief is Wan (Nanyang, Henan); Gongzi Kui was named Gaoling Jun, and his fief was in Gaoling, Xi'an, and later he changed his fief to Deng. [1]

The owner of the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses is the Empress Dowager Xuan, and it is said that it is a rumor

This view was put forward by scholar Chen Jingyuan, but there is no evidence to support this view. The archaeological community disagrees.

The Terracotta Warriors and Horses have unearthed terracotta warriors engraved with bizarre characters, which archaeologists at the time defined as "spleen". However, scholar Chen Jingyuan questioned that the character "Yue" on the left was easily recognizable, and when he flipped through the "Jin Wen Bian" and Xu Wenjing's "Gu Ji Compilation", he found that the word "bei" on the right was written in many forms. However, among the many glyphs, none of them are written in a way that matches the bizarre script found in the terracotta pit. By chance, Chen Jingyuan got acquainted with Professor Duan Xizhong, an expert in ancient characters, who believed that these should be two separate characters, the one on the side of the moon should be "Mi", and the "Yue" engraved on the Terracotta Warriors and Horses should be the same thing as the "Miyue" engraved on the cylinder tile of the Afang Palace ruins.

Chen Jingyuan said that some of the characteristics of the Qin figurines are actually the embodiment of Chu Feng. For example, the colorful clothes with red and purple as the main colors on the Qin figurines are actually the habits of the Chu people. He also analyzed the terracotta warriors and horses from the perspective of military affairs and transportation, and pointed out that if the owner of the terracotta warriors and horses was Qin Shi Huang, some characteristics of the terracotta warriors and horses became difficult to solve. He concluded that the owner of the terracotta warriors was not Qin Shi Huang, but most likely Qin Shi Huang's great-grandmother, Empress Dowager Qin Xuan.

In fact, there is no doubt that the terracotta warriors and horses have a lot of evidence that the owner of the terracotta warriors and horses was Qin Shi Huang. The weapons unearthed from the terracotta warriors and horses are engraved with inscriptions on both sides, and the obverse: "Five years, Xiangbang Lu Buwei made." Edict map, Cheng Ying, Gong Yin. Back: "Edict." Dependent states. [2] It shows that the terracotta warriors and horses were made by Lü Buwei, and the weapons made by Lü Buwei could never have appeared in the era of Empress Dowager Xuan.

The terracotta warriors and horses with red and purple as the main color of the colorful clothes can not be used as evidence that the terracotta warriors and horses are the Empress Dowager Xuan, the Qin State is still black, but it is impossible for everyone to wear black, not to mention that the Qin royal family is from the Chu descendant, such as the grandmother of Qin Shi Huang, the Empress Dowager Huayang.

Empress Dowager Xuan was buried in Lishan, Zhiyang, and the address of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses was not in Zhiyang.

In the background story of Miyue in the King Continent:

Mi Yue will never forget that her humble girlhood ended with King Qin's admiring and stunning eyes. With the weapon of beauty and her insight into intrigues, she has been the victor of the long years. not only survived from the dumping of the harem, but even became the queen mother of the Qin State. But time will show no mercy to anyone. The youthful face passes through the fingers like fine sand, and the young emperor gradually grows up, and the power and dignity are like candles in the wind, which may be extinguished in an instant. She realized this and began to fall into fear day by day.

At this time, the man who called himself Xu Fu trembled and fell at her feet, urgently and frightened to ask her for shelter. The tribute offered is the elixir of eternal youth.

She took the elixir and had wonderful dreams. In her dreams, she returns to the prime of her life, overlooking the enemies of the past. When she woke up, she knew it wasn't a hallucination. When you look in the mirror, you look like you were 20 years ago. As Xu Fu said, the vanished youth and beauty are back.

Xu Fu got his wish and got the shelter he longed for. The Queen Mother gave him a special medicine room to refine that rare elixir.

Xu Fu asked for the materials of the elixir. Death row prisoners and prisoners of war became the first victims, and even began to breed demons for this purpose.

However, the elixir's effect lasts for less and less time. Faced with the Queen Mother's impatient questioning, Xu Fu once again offered a new secret recipe - the elixir of immortality. Miyue learned for the first time that there was a glorious era in the past. At that time, people had a longer life and a longer youth through the Demon Path.

Soon, Xu Fu began a new experiment: he soaked a lowly son in a medicine pool and performed a magic surgery, transforming him into a powerful warrior with a lifespan far beyond that of a human.

Miyue was ecstatic to witness this miracle, and she wanted to become beautiful and powerful. But at this time, a mysterious person invaded the palace, and after a bloody night, Xu Fu disappeared.

Miyue couldn't bear the shattering of the dream that was close at hand.

"Hungry for youthful beauty and willing to pay for anything."

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