In the prosperous times, she was the glory of Tang Dynasty , and the embellishment on the cake; in the troubled times, she was the decay of the Tang Dynasty and the demon concubine who harmed the country and the people.
Yang Xihuan is known as the four beauties of ancient China, along with Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun and Diao Chan. People use the idiom " to sink fish and goose , to close the sky and shy flowers" to describe four people. "日本日本 " refers to Yang Guifei Yang Yuhuan.
Yang Yuhuan was born in the seventh year of Kaiyuan (719) in the family of officials. Her grandfather Yang Wang was the Shangzhu Kingdom and the Minister of Personnel of the Sui Dynasty; her father Yang Xuanyan , who served as the Sihu of Shuzhou; her uncle Yang Xuanhu was once a scholar in Henan Prefecture. Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood with his parents in Shuzhou.
Lin Fangbing plays Yang Yuhuan TV series "Tang Minghuang"
In the 17th year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, who was about 10 years old, was fostered at the house of Yang Xuanzu, the third uncle of Luoyang , because his father died. Yang Xuanzui is very good to Yang Yuhuan. She has been trained according to the standards of a lady from a family since she was a child, and her poems and songs are not lost. Yuhuan is born with beautiful temperament, and with such a superior educational environment, she has a gentle personality, proficient in music, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing pipa .
When she grew up, Yang Yuhuan not only had the appearance of falling fish and falling geese, but also proficient in various musical instruments and extraordinary dancing skills. As Bai Juyi said in " Everlasting Sorrow ", "The Yang family has a daughter who has just grown up and is raised in the deep boudoir and is not known to the people." But soon, Yang Yuhuan's reputation became a household name.
In 734 AD, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang , Princess Xianyi , held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend. At the wedding, Yang Yuhuan was gentle and dignified, with bright colors. Princess Xianyi's younger brother, , Shouwang (the 18th son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty) Li Mao fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. desperately begs his mother to ask his concubine Wu Huifei to marry Yang Yuhuan for him.
Concubine Wu Hui also liked this girl with excellent sex at the wedding. Moreover, her son, King Shou, was upright and beautiful since childhood, and was precocious and sensible. She was deeply loved by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. She was named king with her brothers at the age of 7. Now it is time to choose a concubine to get married. The two of them are a perfect match. So, at the request of Concubine Wu Hui, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang issued an edict to appoint Yang Yuhuan as Princess Shou.
Yin Tao plays Yang Yuhuan TV series "The Secret History of Yang Guifei"
After marriage, Yang Yuhuan, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, sang with Li Mao, and was very loving. Although the couple has not had a child between them for three years, which is fatal to a princess, Li Mao does love Yang Yuhuan deeply and does not mind the invisible Yang Yuhuan. He did not take a concubine to marry someone else, which hurts Yang Yuhuan's heart.
In the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737), Wu Huifei, who was 38 years old at the time, died. Wu Huifei was the most favored concubine of Xuanzong at that time, and her courtesy in the palace was equivalent to that of the queen. The death of his beloved concubine made Xuanzong, who was already 52 years old, very sad. He cried and was depressed every day. Seeing this situation, someone suggested finding some beautiful beauties to fill the harem, which might be able to reverse the situation of Li Longji .
Unfortunately, there are 3,000 beauties in the harem, but none of them can make Emperor Xuanzong of Tang "love". Someone said: Princess Yang Yuhuan, "is handsome and upright, and should be filled with the court." So Emperor Xuanzong of Tang summoned Yang's into the harem to offer dance entertainment.
Fan Bingbing plays Yang Guifei "Women of the Dynasty - Yang Guifei"
Yang Yuhuan is not only beautiful, but how beautiful is it? Li Bai once wrote: " Clouds think about clothes, flowers think about beauty , the spring breeze blows through the threshold and the dew is thick..." A beautiful poem shows Yang Yuhuan's beauty to the extreme, and she is also good at singing and dancing. A Hu Xuan dance makes Emperor Xuanzong of Tang throw away the death of Concubine Wu Hui to her mind, and is completely immersed in her appearance. The atmosphere of in the Tang Dynasty was very open, and perhaps because the Li Tang royal family had some Xianbei blood, they were more open on emotional issues.
Based on this, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang wanted to take Yang Yuhuan for himself, and then he did two things.First, he first made Yang Yuhuan become a monk in the name of "praying for the Empress Dowager"; second, Li Longji looked for a concubine for his son Li Mao.
In October of the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), in the name of praying for blessings by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Yang ordered Yang to become a monk as a female Taoist priest, with the Taoist name "Taizhen". ordered Yang Yuhuan to move out of Shou Palace and move into Taizhen Palace, and lived there for four or five years.
In 745 AD, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang betrothed the daughter of Minister Wei Zhaoxun to King Shou Li Mao and made him a concubine to pacify King Shou. After the five-year period of Yang Yuhuan's precepts ended, he issued an edict to let Yang Yuhuan return to secular life and join the palace, and officially enthroned him as a concubine. From then on, Yang Yuhuan devoted himself to the harem, making "the pink and beautiful six palaces without color."
This incident naturally caused severe harm to King Shou Li Mao, but the one who snatched his beloved concubine was his father , and he could only dare not speak out. The death of Wu Huifei hit Li Mao and his forces. Not only did he lose hope of seizing the throne, but his mother's behavior of seizing the throne for him made him the target of public criticism. He was in a difficult situation and could only acquiesce to this situation.
In response to this, Tang Dynasty Poet Li Shangyin once wrote in the poem "Thoughts of Mount Li·Ode to Yang Fei": "The springs flying in the Li Cave are warm and fragrant, and the Nine Dragons protect the Jade Lotus Room. Pingming is always lucky to the Palace of Changsheng, and he does not follow the Golden Vessel but King Shou." This poem explains the depression of King Shou Li Mao and the embarrassment of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang after Emperor Xuanzong of Tang snatched his daughter-in-law at that time. However, Yang Yuhuan was so beautiful. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ignored all this, which also shows the charm of Yang Guifei.
Legend Yang Yuhuan was frowning all day long when she first entered the palace. Once, she and the palace maids went to the palace to enjoy the flowers. They accidentally met mimosa , and the leaves of the grass immediately rolled up. The palace maids all said that this was Yang Yuhuan's beauty, which made the flowers and plants feel ashamed and embarrassed. From then on, "Shame Flower" became the elegant name of Yang Guifei.
In order to please Yang Guifei, Xuanzong, who was over 50 years old, composed the song "The Song of the Rainbow Skirts and Feather Clothes". When he summoned Yang Guifei, he asked the musician to play this new music, gave Yang a golden hairpin and a pair of hairpins, and personally inserted it on Yang's hair. Xuanzong said to the harem: "I got Yang Guifei, it was like getting the most treasure" (Volume 3 of "Secret Records of Ancient and Modern Palaces"). He copied the new song "Get Baozi", which shows how glad he favored.
Slowly, the young and beautiful Yang Yuhuan developed more feelings for this emperor who was wise, decisive, versatile and . The two of them were in love and harmony in the next 10 years, and many love stories were born.
Since the Emperor of Xuanzong , the new queen has not been established in the palace. The palace people all called Yang the "wife" and actually held the position of the queen. There is also a story that after Yang Yuhuan became a concubine, a white parrot was tributed in Lingnan, which could imitate human words. Xuanzong and Yang Guifei liked it very much and called it "Snowflake Girl" and left and right in the palace called it "Snowflake Girl".
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered Cichen to teach poems. After several times, this white parrot could be chanted, which is cute. Whenever Xuanzong played chess with Yang Guifei, if the game was unfavorable to Xuanzong, the eunuch who was attending the attendant was afraid that Xuanzong would lose the chess, so he called " Snow-Ying Niang ". The parrot flew into the chessboard, flapped his wings, and disturbed the chess game. The winner and the outcome were naturally undecided. Later, this cute "Snow-clothed Girl" was pecked to death by an eagle. Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were very sad and buried it in the imperial garden, called the "Parrot Tomb". Xuanzong cherishes his pet white parrot so much, and it goes without saying that his favor for Yang Guifei.
Because Yang Guifei was highly favored, her brothers and sisters were all given high officials and generous salaries. Yang Guifei's eldest sister was named Korean Lady, the third sister was named Lady Guoguo , and the eighth sister was named Qin Lady Lady , and each month was given 100,000 yuan in powder fee. Even the distant brother, Yang Zhao, was originally a rogue in the market. Because of his good plans, Emperor Xuanzong and the Yang sisters were gambling, and asked Yang Zhao to calculate the gambling accounts, and gave him the name Guozhong, and served as a branch doctor, and manipulated the government.
Xuanzong Youxing Huaqingchi , with the five Yang families as their entourages, each family has a team, wearing one colored clothes, and the five families join together, colorful. The jewelry fell everywhere along the way, shining brightly, and its luxury was endless. The Yang family married two princesses and two princesses. Xuanzong also personally wrote and compiled the monument of the Yang family temple for the imperial edict. Since then, "Sisters and brothers are all listed in the land, and they are pitiful and glorious. So the parents in the world will not be reborn as boys and daughters."
Yang Yuhuan also won the favor and tenderness of Xuanzong with his outstanding talent and gentle personality, and became the object of envy and sought after by many people.
During this period of favored, Yang Guifei was "out of the palace" twice, but without exception, they were finally found by Emperor Xuanzong. It was like a couple quarreling, and their daughter-in-law returned to their parents' home in anger. After the husband was angry, he found a way to take his wife home. This episode made Yang Guifei and Tang Xuanzong know the importance of each other in their hearts and were more loving.
" A ride on the world of the concubine laughs , no one knows that it is the lychee coming." What was the moving scene when Yang Guifei was tasting lychees in Huaqing Palace? Emperor Xuanzong of Tang always drank it with this fine wine. In the mind of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Yang Guifei was "looking back and smiling and charming, and the pink and beautiful palaces of the six palaces were not colored." From then on, this famous smile in history has been created. "Huaqing sings and drunken clothes, and the imperial concubine smiles with the wine." The wine that entered the palace as a tribute was also named: Lu Danxiao.
In 755 AD, the mighty " Anshi Rebellion " broke out. In the following year, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang took Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong to Shuzhong when he passed by Mawei Post , the imperial guards led by Chen Xuanli unanimously demanded the execution of Yang Guozhong and Yang Guifei, and then mutiny and killed Yang Guozhong.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang said that the country was loyal and chaotic in the dynasty should be punished, but the imperial concubine was not guilty and wanted to pardon him, but the soldiers of the imperial army all believed that the imperial concubine was a disaster for the country's beauty. The Anshi Rebellion was caused by the imperial concubine. It was difficult to comfort the morale of the army and revitalize morale without punishment, and continued to surround the emperor. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang accepted the persuasion of Gao Lishi . In order to protect himself, he had no choice but to kill Yang Guifei. In the end, Yang Guifei was given a white silk and hanged to death under the pear tree in the Buddhist temple. She was thirty-eight years old and then put her body in the courtyard, allowing the soldiers to witness that Yang Guifei was really dead, so that they could give up their grievances and continue to escort Emperor Xuanzong of Tang to flee west. This is the allusion of Bai Juyi's "The Six Arms are helpless and die in front of a horse" in "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow".
For the ending of the imperial concubine, I would rather believe another statement: Yang Guifei was not strangled to death.
said that the military commander Chen Xuanli loved Yang Guifei's beauty and could not bear to kill her, so he conspired with Gao Lishi, an important minister of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, to replace her with a maid. As a result, the body of the imperial concubine that Gao Lishi showed to the soldiers was actually the substitute of the maid, because the person who inspected the body was not someone else, but Chen Xuanli himself. Yang Guifei was escorted by Chen Xuanli's confidants to flee south, and finally sailed from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu to a place called Tang Ferry in Kuzu, Yuya Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Unfortunately, Yang Guifei died of illness shortly after landing due to discomfort and sadness. The locals buried her on a high slope where she could see the sea west and look at her homeland from afar.
Later, Yang Guifei asked a dream to tell Xuanzong that she had arrived in Japan and was no longer in the world. From then on, she was separated from life and death, and she had to see each other again in the next life. The extremely sad Emperor Xuanzong of Tang sent the White Horse General Chen An to pay tribute, but Chen An did not find the cemetery. He only placed the two Buddha statues and the thirteenth-story pagoda in Kyoto's Qingliang Temple and went back.
The poet Zhang Zhizhen also wrote in "Ode to Mawei Slope": "The heavenly figure caused the Anshi Rebellion, and the west wind cried white silk..." Unfortunately, the beauty of the country and the beauty of the city will never be seen again.
The love between Emperor Minghuang of Tang and Concubine Yang, Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is summarized just right. You can follow my homepage to view the article "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" - What is long is to keep going back and forth in memory, and hate is to never go back again."
