Answered by Bruce from China | Jun. 02, 2011 21:31
In the Han Dynasty, there was a beauty named Wang Zhaojun who was endowed with both beauty and brains. At the age of 17, she was selected into the palace to serve the emperor who was very dissipated. There were tens of thousands of beautify girls in his back court who were waiting for the emperor's audience. Zhao Jun refused to oil the painter, so her image was vilified by the painter who added a mole on her face. As a result, Zhao Jun was blocked in the back ourt for a long time. Later, Khan of the Hun offered to salute the Western Han Emperor through marriage to end the wars at the border between them. Zhao Jun, a great woman of justice, decided to exchange people's happiness with her own suffering, so she asked for the connections with Huns resolutely. On the farwell dinner, Zhao Jun's beauty brought all the ministers and generals in the imperial court to her feet. The emperor felt very regretful, but he could do nothing at that time but let Zhao Jun go. Ledond has it that, Zhao Jun as full of sadness on her way to the Huns, so she played pipa to relieve her home-sickness. The geese flying to the south were so overwhelmed by her beauty and sad music that they stopped and surrounded Zhaojun to see her off, hence 'making wide geese fall'.