Historical figure The mystery of Yang Guifei's life and death

Yang Guifei is a household name in China. However, what is the fate of this beautiful woman of the heavenly fragrance of the country? The history books record that in June of the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756 AD), Luoyang fell, Tongguan was lost, Tang Xuanzong, the son of Tang Dynasty, fled with his courtiers, and his concubine Yang Guifei died at Ma Songyi. However, the difference between the literati and the historians' accounts is 108,000 miles, so yang Guifei's final destination still leaves many questions.

One view is that Yang Yuhuan may have died in the Buddhist hall. The Old Book of Tang and the Biography of Yang Guifei records that after the forbidden army general Chen Xuanli and others killed Yang Guozhong's father and son, on the grounds that "the troubles still exist", he strongly demanded that Yang Yuhuan die, and Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to give orders after saying goodbye to the concubines. Yang Guifei "died in the Buddhist chamber".

It is also believed that Yang Guifei may also have died in the rebellion, as can be seen in the descriptions of some Tang poems. Many poems such as Du Mu's "Shouting for Ma Song's Blood, Zero Falling Feather Forest Gun", Zhang You's "Blood Buried Concubine Ziyan", and Wen Tingjun's "Returning to the Soul without Examination and Smoke, Burying Blood empty and Living in The Green Grass Sorrows" all believe that Yang Guifei was killed by the rebel army in Ma Songyi, rather than being forced to hang herself. Some people say there are other possibilities for Yang Guifei's death, such as some people saying that she actually swallowed gold and died. This statement only appears in the poem "Ma Song Xing" written by Liu Yuxi. There is also a theory that Yang Guifei did not die in Ma Songyi, but was only reduced to a commoner and was sent to the people. Mr. Yu Pingbo examined Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" and Chen Hong's "Biography of Long Hate Song" in "On Poetry and Song Miscellaneous Works". He himself believes that the original meaning of Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" and Chen Hong's "Long Hate Song Biography" contains another meaning.

There is also a theory that Yang Guifei eventually fled to Japan. In the fifth issue of the "Cultural Translation Series" published in 1984, Zhang Lian translated from the Japanese article "Stories From China" that ma Songyi was hanged at that time, but it was a maid. The forbidden general Chen Xuanli was attracted by the beauty of the noble concubine, and could not bear to kill her, so he conspired with Gao Lishi to replace him with a maid. Yang Guifei was escorted south by Chen Xuanli's cronies, sailed out to sea around present-day Shanghai, drifted by sea, and traveled to Kutani Town, Japan, and finally spent her old age in Japan. But what the situation of its life and death is still difficult to understand.