"Maybe every man has had two women like that, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red changed a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, the white is still 'the bright moonlight in front of the bed';married to the white rose, the white is a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, but the red is a cinnabar mole on the heart. "——? White Rose and Red Rose"
Although the love story of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji and the plump noble concubine Yang Yuhuan cannot be said to be well known, there should not be many people who do not know. Whether it is the poem "A red dust concubine laughs", the bluntness of "the king will not be early from now on", or the "Heavenly Wish to Be compared to a Bird in Heaven, and Wish to Be a LianLi Branch in the Heavenly Wish" in the "Hall of Eternal Life". The euphemisms all point out Li Longji's obsession with Yang Yuhuan, but why did Yang Yuhuan, who was once a woman, attract The Tang Ming Emperor who had read the spring colors of the world so much?
Natural beauty is hard to give up
Yang Guifei's ancestral home is Shanxi, is a famous beauty in history, and Shanxi has always had a tradition of producing beautiful women in history, in addition to the mink cicada who ranks among the four beauties like Yang Guifei, there is also a generation of empress Wu Zetian, talent and beauty coexisting Ban Jieyu and others. Yang Guifei followed her father who was an official in Sichuan when she was ten years old, because her father passed away, she turned to her uncle who was an official in Henan, her uncle was not a big official, but it was very helpful to Yang Guifei's future, he was responsible for assisting in the "Hundred Crafts" in the local area, and the reason why Yang Guifei could later have many artistic cells had a lot to do with the environment at this time.
Before Yang Guifei met Li Longji, she first met Li Mao, Li Longji's son, and the two of them met at the wedding of Li Mao's sister. Li Mao's original name was Li Qing, and her mother was Li Longji's favorite concubine, Concubine Wu Hui. As soon as he was born, he was sent by his father to his uncle's house to feed him, not because Li Longjibi liked him, but to protect him, because all the sons of Concubine Wu before him died prematurely. (The harem is always filled with swords and light sword shadows under the Yingge Yan dance) It was not until Li Mao grew up that he entered the palace and was crowned king of Shou. When he met Yang Guifei, who was very old, he was already a rich and handsome man (then Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division).
The happy life of Bai Fumei and Gao Fushuai lasted only about two years, and the first news that grieved the two was the death of Li Mao's mother, Yang Guifei's mother-in-law Wu Huifei. The second news that grieved the two was that Li Mao's father, Yang Guifei's father-in-law, was going to break up the two of them. In history, under the golden splendor of the royal inner courtyard, there is no shortage of rotten things about picking up ashes and overturning cages, but in the case that the parties are still alive, Li Longji's eating appearance is particularly unbearable, but this also indirectly reflects the status of Yang Guifei in Li Longji's heart.
Always wrong, always wrong, please don't be annoyed, please don't be annoyed
Li Longji and Yang Guifei's married life did not have Qinser and Ming. We can see in the historical data that in order to make the "concubines laugh", Li Longji did not hesitate to find hundreds of people to make clothes for Yang Guifei, and also spent a lot of money to repair thousands of miles of "lychee special line", for Yang Guifei's family, it was even more "love house and Wu", the three sisters all sealed the country's wife, and also spent millions of dollars to build a private house for them, and provided a monthly pocket money of 100,000 yuan, Yang Guifei's cousin Yang Guozhong was promoted to the prime minister, but how was Yang Guifei's performance?
According to the Old Book of Tang, "In the Ninth Year of Tianbao, the noble concubines returned to the outer region", and Yang Guifei twice angered Li Longji, and then was sent back to her mother's house. But then, Li Longji realized his "mistake" and took Yang Guifei back, and in Hong Sheng's "Hall of Eternal Life", there are also "how to say, how to say, plainly separated." Always wrong, always wrong, please don't be annoyed, please don't be annoyed. It can be seen from this that Yang Guifei's attitude towards Li Longji may not be so friendly, but Li Longji is absolutely obsessed, why is this so?
Let's first look at two examples, the first is the King of Zhou You and the King of Zhou You (姒 is the surname, praise is the name of the country), according to the record, after the King of Zhou You received the praise, deposed his original empress, and established the king of The Praise as the empress, but the King of Zhou You treated the King of Zhou You relatively coldly, almost did not smile at him, in order to make the King of Zhou You happy, actually played a "Beacon Theatre Princes" (this is recorded, there should be no record of things), "The Praise is not funny, the King of You wants to laugh at him... The King of You is a big drum for the Beacon... She laughed. The King of Shadows said, counting the flames. ”
The second example is the Qianlong Emperor and Concubine Xiang (RongFei), a Uyghur concubine of Qianlong, who was very fond of her, built a Baoyue Building for her, and loved her a lot in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, but Xiangfei was still a cold beauty. It can be seen from this that the mercurial emperor has a tolerance beyond the general tolerance for those who dare to rebel against them, and even some doting. However, the premise is that there is arrogant capital, Yang Guifei in addition to "natural beauty", but also proficient in music and dance, and Li Longji, the founder of Pear Garden, has a common hobby, replaced by ordinary people, it is estimated that there is no chance to flip the card.
brief summary
Therefore, we can infer that the reason why Li Longji is infatuated with Yang Guifei is that she has a good foundation (looks), the second is that she has a common language (music, dance) with Li Longji, and the third is that Yang Guifei's arrogance has aroused the desire to conquer a generation of emperors, after all, what is not obtained is good (here referring to the heart, not people), just like Zhang Ailing said in "White Roses and Red Roses", what is not obtained is "white moonlight" and "cinnabar mole".
References: Old Book of Tang, Zizhi Tongjian
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