Death of the Queen - The 39 Most Unfortunate Queens in History

Author: Bei Yang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: As a renowned writer of modern and contemporary China, Bei Yang had two main types of representative works: essays and historical works written in prison. Regarding The Death of Emperors and The Death of Queens, Bei Yang claimed they were "genuine" and "well-structured" historical notes. In reality, they combined the characteristics of both historical works and essays—reconstructing and disseminating historical knowledge while also employing the traits of satirical, humorous, and biting essays. In these two works by Bei Yang, you can see a completely different picture from the official history that has been followed for thousands of years. Bei Yang believed that from the Yellow Emperor (Xuan Yuan) to the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, China had produced 397 emperors and 162 kings. Among these 559 rulers who claimed imperial or royal titles, about one-third died unnatural deaths. Whether they died fortunate deaths due to "sleeping with countless palace beauties day and night" and "dying on the dragon's throne," or、、, it was all due to the self-inflicted disaster of the system's structure. In a world where men compete for power, political factors prevail above all. And the queens were often directly linked to "false accusations." "False accusations" seem to be part of traditional Chinese culture, and even noble queens were not immune. Behind every queen who died a tragic death, there was always a struggle for power. The essence of the struggle was nothing but power. It wasn't about whether they were beautiful or not, but about who was more beautiful. Every beautiful rival was another beautiful one. "These beauties were thrown into a court of snakes and scorpions, and in the end, they themselves became snakes and scorpions, only to be bitten to death by other snakes and scorpions." Whether they were killed, hanged, suffocated, drowned in rivers or wells, it was all a tragedy of the times, a of the times.