2. Four Beauties

4. Diao Chan was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have been born in 161 or 169 or 176 AD, depending on the source. She was said to be born in Xinzhou, in today’s Shanxi province. However, unlike the other three beauties, she is not mentioned in any historical sources and may possibly be a fictional character.

5. People described Diao Chan‘ s beauty as "shaming the moon ".Because this is from a story: one night, she was enjoying the full moon in the backyard, suddenly a cloud covered the moon. It was just seen by Wang Yun, Since then, he claimed that Diao Chan was more beautiful than the moon.

6. Diao Chan’s Four Identities in record In the four beauties of ancient china, Diao Chan was certainly the most charming one. As she was so fascinating that she has made many outstanding heroes obsessed with her.And she was the most elusive woman in that fiction,so there are four identities of her in record.

7. The first kind of view is, Diao Chan was a singing girl of Wang Yun, Wang Yun asked Diao Chan for help to use a honey-trap to rooting out Dong Zhuo, and she finally became the foster daughter of Wang Yun, and she finished the mission successfully. The second kind of view is, Diao Chan was a servant girl of Dong Zhuo. Then came the story of Lv Bu flirts with Diao Chan in Feng Yi pavilion. The third kind of view is, Diao Chan was Lv Bu ‘s wife according to the record of the fight between Lv Bu and Cao Cao. The fourth kind of view is, Diao Chan was the wife of the military officers under Lv Bu’s command.

8. Diao Chan Praying For Moon （貂蝉拜月）

9. Diao Chan was Wang Yun’ s foster daughter. And she was famous for her filial piety.At that time, Wang Yun was worried about affairs of the court all day because he had dissatisfaction of Dong Zhuo’s ruling of court, So Diao Chan prayed for the moon.She hoped she could help solve her father’s worrying.

13. Lv Bu & Diao Chan

14. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diao Chan assisted the official Wang Yun in a plot to persuade the warrior Lü Bu to kill his adopted father, the tyrannical warlord Dong Zhuo. Wang presented her to Dong Zhuo as a concubine but at the same time, Wang also betrothed her to Lü Bu. Diao Chan used her beauty to turn Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu against each other by inciting jealousy between them. The father and the son were both obsessed with Diao Chan greatly. At last, they became enemies. Lv Bu finally killed Dong Zhuo with his sword.

16. Lv Bu flirts with Diao Chan in Feng Yi Pavilion Since Diao Chan was sent to Dong Zhuo, and Lv Bu went to the mansion to see Diao Chan for many times. But Dong Zhuo never permitted.He was so angry.So,one day,Lv Bu slide into the mansion to meet Diao Chan when Dong Zhuo was in the court,then Lv Bu want to leave, for afraid of Dong Zhuo coming back,but Diao Chan do not agree,and presented to jumping into the pool,and crying that:I can’t stand Dong Zhuo any more. Please don’t leave me alone.And Lv Bu feel so moved, he enhanced Diao Chan to stop her.At the meanwhile, Dong Zhuo was just at the gate of the pavilion looking at them angrily.Lv Bu fled away in a great rush.And since then,they became real enemies. 吕布戏貂蝉

18. Diao Chan washes body for Lv Bu ( 洗尸 )

19. There’s no formal historical record for Diao Chan’s ending exactly. But in other related fictions, Diao Chan was suspected to have many different endings. Some material says that, Diao Chan was sent to general Guan Yu after Lv Bu’s death in the fight, but Guan Yu refused to accept the stained beautiful woman, and killed Diao Chan in one night. It also has another version, that Diao Chan did many efforts to convinced Guan Yu that she did everything for the country, for the people. Then she suicided to show her determination.

20. Otherwise, according some other resources, Diao Chan was tonsured to be a nun under the protect of Guan Yu. And she wrote a book to claim to people that she was loyal to her country. The last version about her is, she was sent to the countryside by Guan Yu, and she never married to keep her reputation. She lived a lonely life till her death. But the local people built a temple to hold a memorial ceremony for her.

21. As the saying, beauties are often ill-fated, Diao Chan’s destiny was miserable.

22. 不负司徒托，锄奸救汉祚。 一出连环计，千秋美传说。 Literature about Diao Chan 一许董相国，再许吕温侯。 汉祚移难复，奈何寄女流。

23. Handicraft of Four Beauties

27. Stills （剧照）

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