Netizens: Yang Yuhuan is 163cm tall and weighs 138 pounds; there is another saying that he is 158cm tall and weighs 120 pounds. It also claims that this is an archaeological speculation.
It's true? Of course not! We have almost gone through the records of Yang Yuhuan in the historical materials, but we have not seen this set of numbers, nor can we calculate them or have no reckoning at all. As for archaeology, it is just a pretense, because until now we do not know where Yang Yuhuan's tomb is. Later, we found that there were many historical lies in Yang Yuhuan's body, even related to the Japanese.
Yang Yuhuan went to Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan, and became the "son-sending Guanyin" of the people there is even more of an entertainment, the Japanese may have the same mentality as Bai Juyi and do not want Yang Yuhuan to die, plus they are good at learning Chinese culture, so they make all this look decent. There is a Japanese writer named Watanabe Ryuji, who specially wrote a book "The Secret History of Yang Yuhuan's Resurrection", which "introduced" Yang Yuhuan's escape and settlement in detail. The book has also been published in China, and the publishing unit is Hebei People's Publishing House, and the publication date is 1987. But what is certain is that this is a "fictional body" of the novel, and there is no historical basis.
However, the reality of society is that lies become true after they have been told thousands of times or circulated for a long, long time. Yang Yuhuan is called "Erzun-in Temple" in Japan, where in addition to the Japanese "Yang Yuhuan Guanyin" and Yang Yuhuan Tomb. The five-wheel pagoda is the tombstone of the ancient Japanese people, generally paying attention to the south, but Yang Yuhuan's "tombstone" is placed towards the west, because this is in the direction of China, which means that after the death of Yang Feifei, she can also "look" at her hometown.
The Japanese made all this very "magical", in order to make everything more convincing, and even exposed the news that Yamaguchi Baihui was a descendant of Yang Yuhuan, which simply played a "big change of life". Yang Yuhuan did not have children in China, and when he died less than 40 years old, it was possible to go to Japan to have a child, but the odds of this possibility were very small. Li Longji was born in 685, Yang Yuhuan was born in 719, and Li Longji was 34 years older than Yang Yuhuan. Before marrying Li Longji, Yang Yuhuan also had a 5-year marriage history with Li Mao. These two men are people with a large number of children, especially Li Longji has a total of 23 sons (excluding 7 who died prematurely), a total of 29 daughters, and a total of 52 children. If It is said that Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji cannot have children together because Li Longji is older, then it should be natural to have children with Li Mao. In 734, Yang Yuhuan and Li Mao married, and after marriage, the two were very affectionate, and there was no reason not to have children, but Yang Yuhuan did not give birth, so some experts estimated that she may suffer from reproductive diseases. And this can not fundamentally stop the rumors, the bottom problem is that Yang Yuhuan is dead.
The Old Book of Tang and the Biography of Yang Guifei records that after killing Yang Guozhong's father and son, the forbidden general Chen Xuanli and others believed that "the thief was still there" and requested that Yang Yuhuan be killed again to avoid future troubles. Tang Xuanzong was helpless, and said goodbye to the noble concubine, "Sui Han died in the Buddhist room". The Zizhi Tongjian Tang Ji records that Tang Xuanzong ordered the eunuch Gao Lishi to take Yang Yuhuan to the Buddhist hall and hang him. The "Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty" also said that Chen Xuanli and the generals of the Janissaries watched the process and confirmed that Yang Yuhuan was dead, and then came out to explain to the Janissaries soldiers that it took a long time for the soldiers to disperse and return to the team. In any case, these historical works invariably tell us that Yang Yuhuan is dead, how can a deceased person have children and descendants? Why don't we believe in our own historical writings and believe that the Japanese have piled up "historical material" with lies?
There are two "ancient books" preserved in the Erzun Temple, compiled by the 55th abbot of the Erzun Yuan, the Huixue monk, one called the "Book of the Origin of the Erzun Yuan" and the other called "The Biography of Yang Yuhuan", but these two so-called ancient books are only 200 years old. Every year for 10 years, the Second Ancestral Temple holds a ritual called the "Flame Festival" in order to pray that Yang Yuhuan can be safe and sound. But the result fell on these two things: in addition, the Erzunyuan sold a specialty, called Yang Yuhuan bread, which could be eaten to become beautiful, and sold a kind of rice, called Yang Yuhuan's Dream, which said that eating can also become beautiful.
How did the Japanese borrow Yang Yuhuan's "source of living water"? There are two points: One is bai juyi's "long hate song" in the "poor and blue falling yellow spring, two places are gone", meaning that the people who looked for Yang Yuhuan ascended to heaven and earth to search for heaven and earth, but there was no result, that is, Yang Yuhuan's body was not found, which provided an opportunity for the resurrection of the dead. But people may forget that "The Long Hate Song" also has: the sky turns back to the dragon, and it is hesitant to go here. In the mud under the slope of Ma Song, there was no place for Yuyan to die. After the rebellion was quelled, the king returned to Chang'an, passed by Ma Songpo, saw things and thought of people, and wandered forward. Under the slope of the horse ridge, in the desolate yellow mound, the beauty of the face is no longer seen, only the grave lies in the mountain. At the same time, the "Old Book of Tang and the Biography of Yang Guifei" says that Li Longji had Yang Yuhuan secretly reburied, "When he first fell ill, he was wrapped in a purple mattress, and his skin was broken, but the sachet was still there." The internal officials offered sacrifices, and the emperor looked at the sorrow, but let the figure be in the other halls, and look at it day and night. ”
The second is that as early as the 1920s, mr. Yu Pingbo, a famous red scholar, pointed out in articles such as "Long Hate Song" and "Long Hate Song Biography" that Yang Yuhuan may not have died in Ma Songpo, but went to Japan to settle down. What we want to say is that Mr. Yu Pingbo's main energy is to study the Dream of the Red Chamber, that is to say, to study novels; at the same time, Mr. Yu only said that it was a possibility, and did not give a conclusion. But the Japanese "take advantage" of the situation rely on a possibility similar to this.
In Japan, the story of Yang Yuhuan is like this: Chen Xuanli saw that Yang Yuhuan was beautiful and charming, and could not bear to kill her, so he conspired with Gao Lishi to replace her with a maid. Colliers transported the fake corpse by car, and the autopsy was Chen Xuanli, and there was no one else to hide from everyone. Later, Yang Yuhuan was secretly escorted south by Chen Xuanli's cronies and eventually crossed east to Japan. After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Longji ordered the alchemist to go out to sea to search, and when he arrived in Kuzu, Japan, he met Yang Yuhuan and sent her two golden Buddha statues donated by Li Longji, and Yang Yuhuan returned the jade hairpin as an answer to Li Longji. However, Yang Yuhuan has never been able to return to the motherland and spend his life in Japan.
This is how the story was fabricated, and the ingredients may come from people's good wishes, or sympathy, for Yang Yuhuan's rebirth. Of course, it should also be noted that this is an era when everyone needs money, and the Japanese have told us with their own actions that history can be realized, although it is "false history", but it can still be.
Back to Yang Yuhuan's weight and height. The Tang Dynasty was fat and beautiful, especially the royal family with a humble bloodline of the matrilineal line was more popular sheep beauty, sheep will not grow to the size of camels, so the sheep is mainly fat. Yang Yuhuan can please the emperor, she must not be thin, but she must not be fat, because she is a dancer, too fat to jump. Hu Xuan Dance is a folk dance from the Western Regions, which was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and it is said in volume 146 of the General Dictionary that the national dance is called Hu Xuan because it turns sharply like the wind. Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan danced this kind of dance in the palace, and if they were too fat, they would not be able to turn up.
We believe that the study of Yang Yuhuan's height, weight and other issues does not have much significance for history, although there is only one truth, but some truths people can not figure out, and do not need to be clarified. Netizens said that Yang Yuhuan is 163cm tall and weighs 138 kilograms, or 158cm tall and weighs 120 kilograms, which may be just entertainment. History can be used for entertainment, but it is necessary to be able to distinguish what is entertainment. (Text/Lu Sheng)