Yang Yuhuan was one of the four beauties of ancient China, she was born very well, her ancestors were once the Shangzhu kingdom of the Sui Dynasty, and her father had served as a Shuzhou Sihu, but when Yang Yuhuan was 10 years old, her father went to prison for his crimes and died in prison. After that, she defected to the family of the third uncle Yang Xuancang, whose official position was very low, only a seven-pin, but at least he had no worries about food and clothing. Moreover, Yang Yuhuan lived a rich life before the age of 10 and had already received a good education.
Yang Yuhuan looks beautiful, this needless to say, when Yang Yuhuan was 15 years old, she went to attend the wedding of Princess Xianyi, at the wedding she met Princess Xianyi's younger brother, that is, Li Mao, Li Mao fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at a glance, and he asked his mother Wu Huifei to ask his father Li Longji to make Yang Yuhuan his concubine. This Concubine Wu was deeply loved by Li Longji, who once wanted to make her his empress, but considering that if she became an empress, her son would threaten the status of the crown prince, so he gave up under the advice of the ministers.
After The death of Concubine Wu Huifei, Li Longji's harem was empty, and someone told him that Yang Yuhuan was very good and could be summoned to the harem, but the problem was that Yang Yuhuan had already married his son, and Li Longji always needed to think of a name, so he prayed for a blessing and let Yang Yuhuan become a female Taoist. Li Mao was helpless, and Li Longji also crowned another princess of Shou, and then he took Yang Yuhuan out and married himself.
Later, some scholars defended this matter and said that Li Longji's behavior was actually OK, not so excessive, because although Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan became intimate, they did not have sex together, so Yang Yuhuan was still complete. But Mr. Chen Yinke did not think so, he carefully examined the etiquette system of the Tang Dynasty, and made a detailed explanation in his book, he believed that according to the custom of the Tang Dynasty, the husband and wife would have sex on the first day after becoming relatives, and when Considering Yang Yuhuan's posture, When Li Longji took Yang Yuhuan as a concubine, she was obviously already there.
Why did Mr. Chen Yinke make such a test? It was not because he was idle and bored or for curiosity, he wanted to show that China at that time was in an era of mixed Hu and Han, and the Li family had some humble people's blood, and they were Hu Han people, and their Confucian concepts and concepts of ethics were not so strong, so they would do such a "disgraceful" thing. Chen Yinke believes that the Tang Dynasty was a magical era, in which the cultures of various ethnic groups blended and collided together, which created a prosperous Tang Dynasty. There may be a deeper reason behind Chen Yinke's consideration of this question, that is, the background of the times he is in is also the season of the decline of Chinese civilization, and the decline does not matter, the Sheng Tang will eventually come.