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Story 55: The Legend of Wearing Earrings
The Legend of Wearing Earrings
Author: Anonymous
In ancient times, people paid attention to “ears as big as wheels and eyes as big as eyes”, and focused on judging people by their appearance. They believed that small earlobes were a symbol of bad luck. But when a person is born, he is born with small earlobes. Is there any way to make up for it? Legend has it that you can only wear earrings. Only then can the helix be lengthened. Therefore, women like to wear a pair of earrings.
When asked about the origin of this custom, legend has it that it was passed down from Diao Chan during the Three Kingdoms period.
Diao Chan was originally a singing prostitute of Situ Wang Yun at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. She was good at singing and dancing, and was good at sex and tricks. She was very favored by Wang Yun and treated as his own daughter.
At that time, Dong Zhuo had exclusive power and used the emperor to command the princes. The ministers hated him deeply, but they dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out. Wang Jiu was also depressed about this matter and did not think about food and tea all day long.
Although Diao Chan was a female, she could see Wang Yun’s thoughts and kept them in her heart. She is very good at observing faces and taking care of her master’s worries. On a bright moonlit night, Diao Chan set up an incense burner in the garden and prayed for her master.
She lit three pillars of incense devoutly, bowed to the sky and said: “Mingyue, Mingyue, although you are so bright and white, do you know that my master is troubled in his heart? Heaven, heaven! Even though I, Diao Chan, am a female generation, if you, master and maid, can do anything for me, I share my worries, I am willing to die.”
At this time, Wang Yun was worried about the country and could not sleep at night, so he came to the back garden to enjoy the moon and relax. He heard someone praying and quickly hid behind a rockery to listen quietly. After hearing Aunt Diao’s blessing, he felt extremely excited and grateful, and hurriedly came forward to help the singer up.
Wang Yun asked the Diao servant: “You pray to the sky and the bright moon to relieve me of my worries. Do you know where I am worried? What is the reason for my worries?”
Diao Chan said: “Of course I know.”
Wang Yun asked again: “Now that you know it, what’s the magic way to kill Dong Zhuo for me?”
The Diao servant said: “As long as the master can trust me, I am willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses, even if I have to go through fire and water, I am willing to do it.”
After Wang Yun heard this, he was immediately moved by the woman’s righteousness and courage, and immediately recognized Diao Chan as his daughter. Later, Wang Yun and Diao Chan came to a consensus: first offer Diao Chan to Dong Zhuo, and then secretly promise Lu Bu to alienate the two people, so that Dong and Lu would fight each other and kill each other.
Diao Chan has small earlobes, and she is afraid that she has a flaw in her ointment, which will make Dong and Lu look down on her, and her plot will fail. She thought about a way to make up for it. After thinking for a long time, she finally came up with a good way. She took some broken silver at home and asked a silversmith to make herself a pair of silver earrings and hung them on her earlobes. After a while, her earlobes became bigger, adding a lot of beauty to her beauty.
Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he saw Diao Chan! Lü Bu was fascinated by Diao Chan, causing Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu to fight fiercely over the beauty. Also, because of Lu Bu’s affair with Diao Chan, he was afraid that something would be discovered and he felt uneasy. Wang Yun designed Lu Bu to be an internal agent, and Dong Zhuo was killed.
Since then, wearing earrings has spread to the people.
