Words about Beauty (2)

落雁 falling gander, it means her beauty attracted flying gander and it fall down. In some cases, it particularly means a unique girl named 王昭君

In many stories about Attila and Huns, we found it was a main reason of the fall of Rome. The same Huns had had a war with Han Dynasty (202BC－220AD) of China for a long period before Rome. In most time Han Dynasty send gifts and girls to Huns to exchange peace. But at the time of emperor汉武帝Han Wu Di he didn’t want do this anymore instead he fought with the Huns. The result was driven one of the two branch of Huns out of Asia.

Below was the tomb of the general that drove Huns out of Asia, with 50,000 cavalries killed 70,443 Huns, when he was 21 years of age. Two years later he died with disease when he was 23 years of age. His name is霍去病, it means Without-Disease:

How to deal with the other branch of Huns? The emperor’s successor still sending girls and money to them to exchange peace. All these girls were normal court maids, but when they were sending to Huns, the emperor would change their statue as his adopted daughters or princesses. Among them王昭君 was the most famous one.   

Below is the image of 王昭君, as the weather of north China was cold, she was dressed in fur-coat.