Wang Zhaojun. The Ballad of the Auspicious Border--"Fragrant Not Fragrant". Historical Novel Series

Author: Tang Tianshu
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Publish Date: 1998-12-01
Features: Amid the lingering legacy of the Great Han Dynasty's prosperity and immersed in the spiritual charm of the Jingchu plains, two thousand years ago, there was a village girl named Wang Zhaojun. She shone with a natural, ethereal beauty akin to that of the Goddess of Mount Wu, walked out of the Xiang River, broke free from the imperial palace, and resolutely undertook the mission of marital alliance between Han and Xiong. With her entire life, she threw herself into the vast, desolate, and expansive grasslands. This celebrated woman, how was she forcibly selected by the licentious Han Emperor to enter the palace? How did she have her life changed by a greedy court painter? How did she actively face an entirely unfamiliar and perilous environment, while pursuing a woman's true love, not only fulfilling a life-altering mission of marital alliance but also injecting fresh vitality into the survival and revitalization of her brotherly ethnic groups, thereby achieving true self-worth for a woman? Two thousand years later, a talented woman deeply admiring and revering Wang Zhaojun, with her keen and delicate feminine sensibilities and magnificent, moving prose, retraces the majestic and magnificent yet melancholic history sealed in the depths of time. Against the backdrop of the magnificent and enchanting desert, in a crucial historical fragment of the formation of the Chinese nation, she delves into the inner world of this gentle Han daughter as she transitions from a youthful girl to an elderly mother-in-law. She praises her indomitable will to live, her tragic self-sacrifice, and her kind, innocent qualities, vividly portraying her experiences and achievements that transcend those of men yet are deeply rooted in her feminine character. The novel vividly portrays Wang Zhaojun's womanhood from a fresh perspective.
Amid the lingering legacy of the Great Han Dynasty's prosperity and immersed in the spiritual charm of the Jingchu plains, two thousand years ago, there was a village girl named Wang Zhaojun. She shone with a natural, ethereal beauty akin to that of the Goddess of Mount Wu, walked out of the Xiang River, broke free from the imperial palace, and resolutely undertook the mission of marital alliance between Han and Xiong. With her entire life, she threw herself into the vast, desolate, and expansive grasslands. This celebrated woman, how was she forcibly selected by the licentious Han Emperor to enter the palace? How did she have her life changed by a greedy court painter? How did she actively face an entirely unfamiliar and perilous environment, while pursuing a woman's true love, not only fulfilling a life-altering mission of marital alliance but also injecting fresh vitality into the survival and revitalization of her brotherly ethnic groups, thereby achieving true self-worth for a woman? Two thousand years later, a talented woman deeply admiring and revering Wang Zhaojun, with her keen and delicate feminine sensibilities and magnificent, moving prose, retraces the majestic and magnificent yet melancholic history sealed in the depths of time. Against the backdrop of the magnificent and enchanting desert, in a crucial historical fragment of the formation of the Chinese nation, she delves into the inner world of this gentle Han daughter as she transitions from a youthful girl to an elderly mother-in-law. She praises her indomitable will to live, her tragic self-sacrifice, and her kind, innocent qualities, vividly portraying her experiences and achievements that transcend those of men yet are deeply rooted in her feminine character. The novel vividly portrays Wang Zhaojun's womanhood from a fresh perspective.