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Story 53: Diao Chan Worships the Moon

Diao Chan Worships the Moon

Author: Anonymous

Diao Chan worships the moon

Diao Chan was the singer of Situ Wang Yun in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. She was beautiful and fragrant, and had the appearance of overwhelming the country and the city. Seeing that the Eastern Han Dynasty was controlled by the traitor Dong Zhuo, he burned incense under the moon and prayed to heaven, willing to worry about his master. Seeing that Dong Zhuo would usurp the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Yun set up a series of schemes.

Wang Yun first promised Diaochan to Lü Bu secretly and presented Diaochan to Dong Zhuo in the open. Lu Bu is a young hero, while Dong Zhuo is old and cunning. In order to win over Lü Bu, Dong Zhuo adopted Lü Bu as his adopted son. Both of them are lustful people. From then on, Diao Chan circulated between the two of them, sending Lu Bu with Qiubo and repaying Dong Zhuo with charm. It made the two of them fascinated.

Lu Bu became dissatisfied after Dong Zhuo accepted Diao Chan as his concubine. One day, Lü Bu took Dong Zhuo to court and went to Dong Zhuo’s house to visit Diao Chan and invited Feng Yiting to meet her. When Diao Chan saw Lv Bu, she pretended to cry and complained about the pain of being occupied by Dong Zhuo, which made Lv Bu angry.

At this time, Dong Zhuo encountered him when he returned home. He angrily grabbed Lv Bu’s Fang Tian Huaji and stabbed Lv Bu. Lv Bu flew away. From then on, the two were suspicious of each other. Wang Yun persuaded Lv Bu to eradicate Dong Zhuo.

The Peking Opera “Feng Yi Pavilion” narrates this story.

Diao Chan, Xi Shi, Yang Guifei, and Wang Zhaojun are the four beauties in ancient China.