Author: Zhao Xinfang
Emperor Ningzong of Song's second empress, Yang Shi, was given the courtesy name Gongsheng Renlie. History books such as "History of the Song Dynasty", "Examination of Women's Writings in Past Dynasties", "Chronicle of Shaoxing County", and "Chronicle of Shaoxing City" have highly evaluated it. Her experience as empress is amazing, and her talent and learning are at the top of the list of queens in the past.
(1) Little drama palace Tengda
Empress Yang's nickname is Guizhi. Her father was a grass farmer, and Masashi did not record anything about her and his wife Zhang's daughter Yang before they entered the palace. It is rumored that Zhang's mother (Yang's grandmother) was good at music and was favored by Empress Wu after being summoned to the palace that year. After Zhang's mother died of illness, Empress Wu never forgot it, and the internal attendant told her that Zhang had inherited the mantle of her mother and was also a woman who could sing and dance, so Zhang was summoned to Empress Wu's palace. The Yang clan, who came with his mother at a young age, was also good at singing and dancing, and became a miscellaneous drama girl in the palace, "unintentionally planting willows into the shade", and has since embarked on a road of soaring yellow and tengda.
The identity of the Ling people in the palace is low, and the Yang family learned to observe the color of speech and color at a very young age. Later, when his mother Zhang Shi fell ill and returned to her hometown, Yang Shi was sent to serve Empress Wu. Although she is young, she is clever and clever, knowledgeable, not only read through history books, but also good at poetry and painting, versatile. So she soon came to prominence, was noticed by Empress Wu, and received all kinds of pity. Legend has it that Empress Wu's favor for the Yang clan almost reached the point of indulgence.
Since ancient times, the gun shot the head bird Oh, Empress Wu's favor for yang caused many palace women to be dissatisfied and jealous, once Empress Wu showered, the palace women deliberately instigated Yang to try on Empress Wu's clothes, saying that after wearing it, it must be beautiful and beautiful. Although the favored Yang Clan was clever, after all, he was not deeply involved in the world, and suddenly lost his mind, so he put it on and put it on. The palace ladies then complained to Empress Wu, saying that the Yang clan had committed trespassing and wanted to plot against her. Unexpectedly, Empress Wu did not blame the Yang family, and also reprimanded the palace maid who teased the Yang family: maybe she will wear this dress in the future and have the same status as me.
(ii) Eye-to-eye with the future emperor
Empress Wu was originally the empress of Emperor Gaozong of Song, and although she did not have children in her lifetime, the emperor who was established later was not her own child, but because she could handle things for people, she always had a high prestige. The number of ceremonies in the palace was complicated, and Song Ningzong, who was still the King of Jia at that time, often had to go to Empress Wu's palace to say hello and ask for peace, and the opportunities for contact with the Yang clan naturally increased. The well-behaved, cute, and talented Yang Clan soon attracted the attention of Song Ningzong and became fond of him. Yang Clan knew it very well, and often communicated with Song Ningzong. So come and go, the two have a secret relationship. Although Yang Was six years older than Song Ningzong, he always had a whole set of ways to keep him infatuated. After Emperor Ningzong of Song ascended the throne, although Empress Wu had given him the granddaughter of Han Qi, the granddaughter of the famous Northern Song Dynasty minister Han Qi VI, as empress, he still worried about the Yang clan and often used the excuse to walk around the palace of Empress Wu in order to re-talk to the Yang clan about the old feelings. As the days passed, the Yang clan was fortunate.
Empress Wu was displeased after knowing that the two were unhappy afterwards, and according to the rules at that time, Yang Shi could be executed, because Empress Wu loved her and was reluctant to do so, and said that the matter was made public and had a dirty royal face. Empress Wu simply made a decree and gave the Yang clan to Song Ningzong, and also asked Song Ningzong to treat the Yang clan well in her own face. Since the two of them were righteous, they were even more entangled day and night, and they were in love, and Yang Shi was soon promoted to a noble concubine. Because of his humble origins, the Yang clan also pretended to recognize Yang Cishan, a major minister of the imperial court, as a brother.
Emperor Ningzong of Song's empress Dowager Han had a thin life, and after sitting on the throne for six years, she died of illness. At that time, the most competitive successors to the throne were Yang and Cao Meiren. Yang Shi was very good at scheming, she told Cao Meiren that when she heard that the emperor wanted to establish a middle palace, it seemed that it was between the two of us to choose, why not set up a banquet for each of us, and invite the emperor to be lucky and borrow the holy will. Cao Meiren, who was soft and simple-minded, agreed. In order to show his virtuousness, yang also asked Cao Meiren to set up a banquet first.
When the banquet set up by Cao Meiren was in progress, Yang Shi suddenly came and told Song Ningzong that the emperor should treat our two sisters equally, so did he also invite the emperor to the concubine palace for a few drinks? Of course, it is not good not to go, and it is not good to go right away, Song Ningzong was stunned. Yang Shi made a clever move and said to Cao Meiren, sister rest assured, I will return the emperor to you in a moment. Cao Meiren thought that Yang Shi was asking for favors from himself, and had to agree.
Although Yang Clan said so, as soon as he arrived at his palace, he displayed his whole body solution and completely drunk Song Ningzong. The emperor is also a man, Oh, The Song Ningzong of Mahaha twisted to the Yang clan to ask for pleasure, and the Yang clan pushed left and right, saying that the emperor wanted to make himself empress. The confused Song Ningzong then wrote the edict with a pen, and yang was not at ease, and asked Song Ningzong to write down the holy will before he undressed with Song Ningzong.
The next day, Yang Cishan, Yang's pretended brother, announced to everyone that Emperor Ning of Song had crowned Yang as empress.
After Yang ascended to the throne, he was bent on revenge on Han Nongxin, who had supported Cao Meiren as empress. Through the impersonation of his clan brother Yang Cishan, he took the initiative to show his kindness to Shi Miyuan, a servant of the Rebbe. Shi Miyuan, who had never been in harmony with Han Nongxin, was also looking for a palace response to seek greater power for himself, and the two immediately hit it off and soon colluded together.
The Yang clan borrowed Han Nongxin's defeat in the Battle of Jinguo and shi ji beat him to death inside the wall. After Han Nong's death, the ambitious Shi Miyuan gradually monopolized power in the middle of the dynasty, and later did not even pay attention to the Zhao royal family, and after the death of Song Ningzong, he first cut and then played, established a new monarch on his own, and then forced the Yang clan to recognize it. ay! The Yang clan raised tigers for trouble, and eventually let Shi Miyuan miss the Southern Song Dynasty, which is the last word. Due to the limited space, Shi Miyuan's matter will not be repeated here.
(3) Yang is good at poetry and ink
Yang's family is not only beautiful, but also versatile, and the history records her poetry, good calligraphy and painting, and there are thirty poems and some inscription calligraphy works that have been passed down to this day. Her calligraphy is "beautiful and beautiful, charming, and perfumed", and has been called "the most outstanding female calligrapher of the Song Dynasty".
Now enjoy two of his biographical poems.
One:
The little palace is close to the water, and the carved frieze embroidery reflects the clear canal.
Suddenly, with a low sill, it was like a double lotus out of the water.
Day by day looking for spring and not seeing spring, bow shoes step on the small except for the clouds.
The shed head was announced to join the red makeup team, and the spring was already ten in the golden bottle.
Second
It is like a cold butterfly flower room, hugging the altar and remembering the old incense.
It is especially cute to open to the cold, which must be Han Palace makeup.
(4) Review
Most of the emperors of the Song Dynasty had a literati temperament, and in addition to being very beautiful, the Yang clan also had this temperament, and the historical commentary was undoubtedly outstanding among the emperors and queens of the past, plus he was sophisticated, clever and alert, and it was not difficult to understand that he could rise from a small man to an empress.
Yang was a mysterious empress in the Song Dynasty, not knowing her father,not knowing her place of origin, or whether her brother Yang Cishan was true or false. However, she did not have the ambition of Wu Zetian, and she did not have any achievements in politics, it can be said that she only had the heart of a little woman. Why did the Southern Song Dynasty slowly weaken until it perished? Through reading this humble article, we can get some understanding from the side, Yang Shi killed Han Nongxin, and appointed the great traitor Shi Miyuan, which cannot but be said to be one of the reasons.
【About the author】Zhao Xinfang, pen name Zhao Shi, is a member of the Chongqing Nan'an District Writers Association and vice president of the Huangjue Literary Society.
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