There have been many infatuated emperors in the history of our country, and Tang Xuanzong is one of them. But the emperor's "infatuation" does not mean "special affection", in fact, most of the infatuated emperors are also amorous, and they love more than one woman in their lives. There were many favored concubines in Tang Xuanzong's harem, in addition to Yang Guifei, who was shy of flowers in the closed moon, and Wu Huifei, who died early with a red face, and Concubine Mei, who had unique talent, was also favored for 19 years.
Princess May stills
The real mei concubine in history, named Jiang Caiping, was known as "one of the eight talented women of the imperial concubines". She was very intelligent from an early age, and was loved and appreciated by her father, so she learned to read and read with her father at an early age. When she was 9 years old, she could recite the "Book of Poetry", and at the age of 14, she could do her own gifts, and she was very proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and even the song and dance posture was incomparable to ordinary people.
During the kaiyuan year, the eunuch Gao Lishi, who was by the emperor's side, was doing things for the emperor in her hometown, and when she heard that there was a brilliant and talented woman in the local area, she went to check it out, and when she saw it, it was extraordinary, so the young girl who had just passed the time was brought back to Chang'an, and then she was dedicated to the emperor.
She was born extremely beautiful, a typical southern woman, with a quiet personality, born to love plums, the emperor saw her and liked her, so he named her "Mei Concubine", and planted plum blossoms around her bedchamber. When the plum blossoms were in full bloom in the palace, she held a book scroll, and in the plum tree, she liked to read books or chant poems, or lingered in the plum blossoms, and the emperor sighed that she was like a fairy and personally wrote an inscription for her. She had written 8 exquisite gifts at that time, but they can only be lost now.
The Qing Palace version of the Amazing Dance
She is intelligent and agile, and her achievements in musical instruments, songs and dances are also very high. She used to take pleasure in fighting grass with the emperor, and there were kings around her to watch the battle, but every time she fought grass, she was the victorious party. The emperor was very happy, and praised the princes: "This little girl is really unusual, she should be called "Mei Jing", she can play the white jade flute, she can make a dance of surprise, and now the grass has won again and again." ”
Yes, the real original work of "The Dance of Surprise", which was fired because of a Qing Palace drama a few years ago, is Princess Mei, but this dance has long been lost, and now no matter how later generations imitate it, it is difficult to reproduce the one or two at that time.
She has been in the palace for decades and has always been the only favorite, but the emperor is always fond of the new and tired of the old, although she is fresh and vulgar, she gradually can not arouse the interest of the emperor, so the amorous emperor began to look for new goals. At this time, Gao Lishi appeared again and recommended yang Yuhuan, the imperial concubine of the eighteenth prince, to the emperor. After the emperor heard that the beauty was extraordinary, he did not care that the other party was already his daughter-in-law, and immediately found a reason to let the beauty enter the palace.
Yang Yuhuan stills
When Yang Shi stood in front of the emperor, the emperor's soul seemed to be taken away, only to see that this woman's skin was gelatinous, her waist was soft, and her smile was particularly delicate, and the emperor was eager to immediately incorporate her into the harem. However, after all, the Yang family was the daughter-in-law of the emperor, so the emperor had to let the beauty pretend to be a monk first, and then arrange a new imperial concubine for his son, and then the emperor took the Yang family back to the palace.
It is said that after Yang Entered the Palace, the other women in the six palaces seemed to have lost their color, which was a woman with a graceful temperament and a delicate posture, and the other women were not as good as her one-in-ten thousand style. Moreover, she married the eighteenth prince at the age of 13, and after 5 years of imperial concubine kung fu, only 18 years old, the emperor indulged in her gentle hometown every day. In addition, Yang's musical talent is far beyond ordinary people, which makes the emperor who already loves music obsessed with her.
The arrival of Yang Yuhuan made Princess Mei receive unprecedented cold treatment, in the past, Princess Mei used her own cold spirit to touch the emperor's mind, while Yang Guifei's sexy charm hooked the emperor away. In the emperor's heart, these two beauties he could not give up, whether it was a fat ring or a thin plum, they were rare beauty in the world. But no beauty can be willing to share her husband with others, especially the more delicate Yang family.
Once, when the emperor saw that the plum blossoms in the palace were in full bloom, he remembered The Concubine Mei, who had been snubbed by him for a long time, so he secretly met with Concubine Mei. However, he did not expect that this matter was known to Yang Yuhuan, and the emperor, in a hurry, actually let Concubine Mei hide behind the wall. Subsequently, the Yang clan broke in, and they did not hesitate to find Concubine Mei to "settle the account". This angered the emperor, who ordered the Yang clan to be sent back to her mother's house. However, after only half a day, the emperor was deeply worried about the Yang family, and first sent the little eunuch around him to return the things that Concubine Mei had left behind to Concubine Mei, and then asked Gao Lishi to take the Yang family back to the palace. This brief separation made the yang family and the emperor's relationship more intimate, while Princess Mei's heart was full of desolation.
Soon the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the emperor quietly fled with Yang, unaware of this. Later, in the process of fleeing, the emperor had to give The Yang clan to death. When the emperor returned to the palace again, he remembered the former Concubine Mei. Only then did it become known that when the rebels invaded the palace, Princess Mei did not want to be humiliated, and was hacked to death by the rebels wrapped in a brocade mattress.
After all, Princess Mei's unique talent is still inferior to Yang Guifei's bed kung fu, and perhaps for Princess Mei, losing to the Yang family of the second marriage is not the saddest thing for her. What she was most sad about was the despair and sadness of her husband, who had loved her all her life, to abandon her in times of danger.
Reference: The Biography of Princess Mei