Ajiao Chen: a Golden House Does Not Hide Beauty, but Hides the Emperor's Mind

The young man's words, "If you get Ajiao as a wife, keep her in a golden house", you deceived Chen Ajiao into half of her life's glory and half of her infatuation. She was the most noble queen of the Han Dynasty. She came from a top-notch relative and spent all her family money to help her ascend the throne. The Jiao Fang is the only one favored, and the Golden House is the promise. She believes that his love is as deep as the sea, and that he and his wife are of the same mind. Until bowls of Duanzi decoction enter the throat, Until Wei Zifu was pregnant with dragon descendants and was unparalleled in honor and favor. It wasn't until she spent three years searching for a son that she realized everything was a plot by the emperor. The so-called love is power; The so-called grace is checks and balances; The so-called golden house is nothing more than an exquisite prison. Later, she taught herself witchcraft and was willing to be deposed. She retreated to Changmen and never set foot in Weiyang Palace again. Everyone in the world laughed at her for being arrogant, jealous and crazy, but no one knew that she had already seen through it—— The golden house does not hide beauties, it only hides prisoners, and only hides the emperor's will. In this palace and thousands of miles away, in this world of great men, there has never been love, only winning and losing. Purpose: The full text is based on the classic allusion of "The Beauty Hidden in the Golden House", subverting the traditional love narrative, taking Chen Ajiao's half-life ups and downs as the main line, peeling back the essence of imperial marriage and harem favor: the so-called deep love between emperors and empresses, and the promise of the golden house, are never love, but outright power calculations and emperor's intentions. The article completely outlines Chen Ajiao's journey from infatuated faith in love, arrogance and nobility, to realizing that her favor is broken, her heirs are cut off, and she is brutally plotted, and then she actively arranges witchcraft, asks for her resignation, wakes up, and finally lives in Nagato and sees through her destiny. At the same time, using Wei Zifu, the Wei family, Huo Qubing, and Wei Qing as mirror images, it is pointed out that all the concubines, relatives, and heroes in the Han Palace are Liu Che's pawns to consolidate imperial power and check and balance the power. No one can escape the prison of power. The core theme is settled on: emperors have no true love, imperial power is the most ruthless, the golden house is a gorgeous cage, favor is a gentle trap, and a woman's sincerity and dignity are worthless in the face of power and desire; and Chen Ajiao's "deposition" is not a failure, but a self-salvation that breaks free from the shackles and awakens to death. In the end, she is sober and transcendent, surpassing everyone trapped in the palace wall, and narrating the tragedy of fate and awakening of women under feudal imperial power.