"Lady Yu Guo's Tour of Spring"
The idiom "plain face to the sky" means that a woman does not apply powder and goes out with a plain face.
The classic is from the Northern Song Dynasty writer and geographer Le Shi's "Yang Taizhen Outer Biography": "The kingdom of Yu does not apply fat powder, it is dazzling and beautiful, and it is often facing the sky." ”
The "Yu Guo" here refers to Lady Yu Guo, the third sister of Yang Guifei.
After Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's beloved concubine Wu Huifei died of illness, he was born loveless and was sullen all day.
Portrait of Tang Xuanzong
One day, li longji was in the crowd, and he took one more look at the princess Yang of his son Li Mao, the king of Shou, and the Yang clan looked at the city of people and then the country, and her extraordinary beauty made her father-in-law Li Longji's blood boil.
Li Longji forcibly occupied his daughter-in-law Yang Shi, and in order to hide his eyes and ears, he sent Yang Shi to the Taoist Temple, changed his name to Yang Yuhuan after his comeback, and incorporated him into the harem and was crowned as a noble concubine.
At the same time, The three equally beautiful sisters of Concubine Feng Guifei were given the mansion by Lady Han, Lady Guoguo, and Lady Qin Guo.
Lady Yang of the State of Yu was born in an unknown year, a native of Yongle, Puzhou (present-day Ruicheng, Shanxi), and the third sister of Yang Guifei.
He moved to Shudi with his father at an early age, and when he became an adult, he married a man surnamed Pei, who died at a young age, and the Yang clan has been widowed.
The younger sister Yang Yuhuan was favored and missed her three living sisters, so the three Yang sisters were summoned to the palace.
Li Longji privately referred to Lady Yu Guo as the third aunt, and the two often had sexual affairs.
Lady Guoguo liked luxury, because her sister was favored and indulged herself more and more.
Lady Guoguo built a new mansion, and it cost two million dollars to recruit masons, and the masons knew that she was not bad for money, so they asked for a price in the sky, in addition to the normal payment for the masons, they also rewarded each person with five hundred horses.
Lady Yu Guo's splurge is like dirt, which can be seen from this.
Every time Mrs. Yu Guo traveled, she would leave some gold and silver jewelry, jade antiques and the like along the way, perhaps deliberately doing so to show off her wealth.
Lady Yu Guo was sexually promiscuous, and she often entered the palace to secretly send Qiu Bo to her brother-in-law Li Longji, privately doing things that were meticulous, and traveling in the same car with her brother Yang Guozhong, never knowing to avoid suspicion.
Lady Guoguo also became more and more blind.
In the first month of the tenth year of Tianbao (751 AD), the clans of the yang family's five major mansions traveled at night, and on the way they met with the car of Princess Guangning (daughter of Tang Xuanzong), and the two groups had a dispute in order to compete for the Xishi Gate.
Lady Yu Guo's house slave whipped the person, and the whip fell on the princess, and the princess fell off her horse in fright, and the horse Cheng Chang came forward to help the princess, and was beaten several times by the Yang family's house slaves.
Princess Quang Ninh complained to her father, and as a result, Li Longji beat fifty boards each, the Yang family's household slaves were killed, and the horse Cheng Chang was dismissed from his official post.
By virtue of their power, the Yang sisters established the Yang Marriage Agency, and the marriage of the crown prince and grandson who lived in the Ten Kings' Residence and the Hundred Sun Courtyard had to go through the Yang Marriage Agency, and each time the marriage fee was as high as 1,000 yuan.
An Lushan launched a rebellion, and the good days of the Yang clan finally came to an end, Yang Guifei was given death, and Yang Guozhong was killed.
When Lady Yu Guo heard the news, she led Yang Guozhong's wife Pei Rou and her children to flee to Chen Cang, where they were hunted down by xue Jingxian and beheaded Pei Hui, the son of Lady Guo.
Lady Yu Guo fled into the bamboo forest in a panic, was injured after killing herself, was arrested and imprisoned, and died of suffocation due to blood clotting in her throat.