Wo Longsheng's martial arts novel "The Biography of Yuan Ziyan"
Yuan Ziyan is a character in "The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties". Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty gathered all the beauties from all over the world in his harem. Because there were so many beauties, he ordered people to divide the beauties into three grades, upper, middle and lower, so that he could choose from them. One of them, Mrs. Hou, relied on her talent and beauty and refused to bribe the beauty contestants, so she was sent to the cold palace. After Mrs. Hou committed suicide due to depression, Emperor Sui Yang felt very remorseful and killed the person in charge of the beauty pageant. At Empress Xiao's suggestion, he issued an imperial edict: all women in the harem can offer themselves as long as they have a skill. So many women came to the emperor and performed singing, dancing, calligraphy, painting and other skills, which dazzled Emperor Yang. Among them was a beautiful woman who neither composed poetry nor wrote, nor sang nor danced. She stood on one side. That beauty has "a graceful appearance and unique taste, a pure and handsome spirit but a strange bone. She disdains the makeup and powder in the world, and is graceful and graceful in her own way."
When Emperor Yang asked, he found out that this beauty was called Yuan Ziyan, a native of Guixi, Jiangxi. "Since childhood, I have been fond of looking at mysterious statues, so I have given up all female workers. Now I have no other skills. I can only watch the stars, look at the aura, recognize the news of the five elements, and observe the destiny of the country." Emperor Yang was shocked and said: "This is the knowledge of a sage, and you are a Zhu. How can a beautiful girl be able to understand clearly?" Yuan Ziyan said: "When I was a child, I once met an old nun who said that I was born with a strange light and could see the sky, so he taught me the knowledge of Xuanji Yuheng's five latitudes and seven political affairs.
