"The clouds want to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze blows Revlon." If it were not for the jade mountain head, it would be to the Yaotai Moon" from the Tang Dynasty great poet Li Bai's "Qingping Tune · One", which describes the unique appearance of a woman. Who is the woman? It was surprising that the great talent Li Bai could give a poem for it. This woman is no one else, she is the protagonist we are going to describe today - Yang Guifei, one of the four beauties of ancient China.
Costumed beauties
Yang Guifei, whose real name was Yang Yuhuan, was born in the seventh year of the New Century (719), a native of Rongzhou, Guangxi (present-day Rong County, Guangxi), and her father Yang Xuanyan served as the Sihu of Shuzhou; Yang Yuhuan was born beautiful, plus he had a certain cultural accomplishment, proficient in musical rhythm, good at playing pipa, and able to sing and dance. Therefore, at a wedding in the twenty-second year of the New Century, he was favored by Li Xuan of Shou (the eighteenth son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, li Longji, and his mother was Concubine Wu), and after the marriage, Li Zhen and Yang Yuhuan were very affectionate. In the twenty-fifth year of the new century (737), King Shou's biological mother, Concubine Wu Huifei, who was Emperor Xuanzong's favorite concubine, died. Emperor Xuanzong began to become depressed all the time, when there were thousands of harem beauties, but Tang Xuanzong was stunned that he did not look at it. Seeing that the emperor was becoming increasingly haggard and ignoring state affairs, someone said: "Yang Yuhuan is plump, his skin is like gelatin, he is born beautiful, and he is suitable for placing in the harem", so Tang Xuanzong recruited Yang Yuhuan into the harem, and in October of the twenty-eighth year of the new century (740), Yang Yuhuan was appointed as a noble concubine. From this point of view, Tang Xuanzong married his own daughter-in-law.
Classical beauty
Tang Xuanzong was extremely fond of Yang Guifei. There is a poem as evidence: "Chang'an looked back at the embroidery piles, and a thousand doors on the top of the mountain were opened for the first time." A red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee coming" This poem comes from the famous Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Passing Huaqing Palace", and the concubine in the poem is Yang Guifei. In order to let Yang Guifei eat fresh lychees, Tang Xuanzong did not know how many fast horses were tired. Huaqing Pond, a famous attraction in Xi'an now, is the bathing pool that Tang Xuanzong built for Yang Guifei. So did Yang Guifei just go through her life happily? Unfortunately, things are not as we think, and Yang Guifei in her later years did not have a very good life, so that how she died has become a mystery for eternity.
So how did Yang Guifei die? Did you die in that place again? There are currently two mainstream narratives. The first was in 755, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled from Chang'an after the Anshi Rebellion broke out. The following year, when the procession was passing through Ma Songyi, the army mutinied and forced Tang Xuanzong to kill Yang Yuhuan, but Xuanzong was helpless and ordered Gao Lishi to hang Yang Guifei under the pear tree in front of the Buddhist hall, which is mentioned in the Old Book of Tang, the New Book of Tang, and the Zizhi Tongjian. The second theory is that Yang Guifei died in the rebellion, and the main evidence of this theory comes from some Tang poems, such as Du Fu's "Lamenting River Head", which has the sentence "Where are the bright eyes and teeth now, and the blood-stained wandering soul cannot return"; Wen Tingjun's "Ma Songyi" has "returning to the soul without testing the table and disappearing, burying blood and living in the air". These descriptions undoubtedly show that Yang Guifei died in the rebellion of Ma Songyi's soldiers, after all, being hanged would not meet with blood.
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