History: Scholar of the Great Xia.

Summary

Ye Tian recounts the story of Wang Zhao Jun, a beautiful and talented woman from ancient China who was sent as a peace bride to the Xiongnu leader. Despite her extraordinary beauty and musical talent, she was initially overlooked due to a painter's deliberate blemish. Her journey beyond the frontier was marked by profound sadness, symbolized by her music causing geese to fall from the sky. Ye Tian sees her story as a tragic example of political sacrifice, reflecting on the humiliation of peace marriages and contrasting the Han Dynasty's approach with the Ming Dynasty's stronger stance of national sovereignty.

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