The poet Bai Juyi told a big lie - on the love tragedy of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei

Or ask: Is the story of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei a love tragedy?

Maybe you will say, does this still need to be asked?

This is, of course, a question to be asked, and it is also worth asking.

I admit,

The story of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi in "Peacock Flying Southeast" is a love tragedy;

The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a love tragedy;

The story of the cowherd weaver girl is a tragedy of love,

The love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu is a tragedy.

I also admit that Romeo and Juliet is a love tragedy.

I am the only one who is unwilling to admit that the relationship between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei is a love tragedy.

This is because,

The so-called tragedy of love,

Three basic principles must be in place at the same time:

One, impeccable legitimacy;

Second, the direct destruction of external forces;

Third, the encounters of the hero and heroine are equivalent.

Although Bai Juyi tried his best to hide the fact that Yang Guifei was once Princess Shou (that is, the daughter-in-law of Tang Xuanzong), and used "the Yang family had a daughter who had just grown up and was raised in a deep boudoir" to cover up the unethical violation of ethics and morality between the father-in-law and his daughter-in-law; nor did he clearly say what the real purpose of "Yuyang Wei came agitated"; how could he not hide the fact that in the Ma Songpo incident, one xiang disappeared and the other was more iron than steel unharmed.

At this point, I ask again: Is the story of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei a love tragedy?

You're still saying, "Does it still have to be asked?" "?

So the conclusion comes that the story of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei is not a love tragedy at all, and the reason why Bai Juyi tried to package it as a love tragedy (in fact, his purpose was achieved) is completely a big lie.

A big lie that hasn't been debunked for more than a thousand years.