曹操的妻妾及其女婚事之论析

On Cao Cao's Wife and Concubines and their Daughters' Marriage

自古英雄难过美人关,一代枭雄曹操妻妾15人,曹操礼法观念淡薄,视男女间事为正常的生理需求,好美色,不论贵贱、婚否,只要有姿色,就设法甚至以战争掠之,表现出治国平天下与儿女情长的两面性。他为了巩固曹氏政权实施政治联姻,不惜以牺牲女儿的幸福为代价,将三个女儿同嫁于献帝以掌控之,或嫁于官属之子,换取支持。

Heroes are said to be subject to beauties. Cao Cao as such a kind of hero had a wife but 14 concubines. He was indifferent to conventional rites and took sexual activities as something normal for physiological needs. So as long as those women were pretty, he would try to snatch them no matter whether they were noble or humble, married or not, which manifests his complexity of both ambition and immersion in love. In order to guatantee his regime, he sacrificed his daughters for political marriage, three of them married to Emperor Xian of Han so as to control him and others married to other high officials＇ sons to win support.