Is Yang Guifei alive or dead, and has she fled to Japan?
Yang Guifei is a well-known beauty in China, and her legendary life has aroused the enthusiasm of countless poets and scholars, making them fall for it.
The final whereabouts of Yang Guifei are still a mystery. Yang Guifei was one of the four great beauties of China, named Yang Yuhuan, a native of Yongle, Huzhou, and the daughter of Yang Xuanyan of Shuzhou. Yang Yuhuan is proficient in song and dance, proficient in music, and has a beautiful appearance.
Legend has it that Yang Yuhuan admired peonies in the royal garden, and the hundred flowers were ashamed of the beauty of the jade ring, so they closed the petals, and the word "closed moon shy flower" was created for her.
In 734, the twenty-second year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's eighteenth son, Li Mao, married her. Yang Guifei and Li Mao were both sixteen years old.
In 737, after the death of Concubine Wu Huifei, thousands of harems could not meet Xuanzong's requirements. Gao Lishi introduced Yang Yuhuan to Tang Xuanzong to please Tang Xuanzong.
In 745, Yang Yuhuan was made a concubine by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and his father took his son's wife, which was also a very gossipy thing in the Tang Dynasty.
During the Anshi Rebellion of 755 years, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled Chang'an in a hurry. The next year, the army passed through Mawei Mountain and mutinied, Tang Xuanzong had to kill Yang Guozhong and Yang Yuhuan, and Tang Xuanzong rewarded Yang Guifei for committing suicide when Yang Yuhuan was thirty-eight years old.
Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" tells the tragic love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.
Some people think so. Yang Yuhuan died in the temple.
According to the Biography of Yang Guifei, after killing Yang Guozhong's father and son, the Jin general Chen Xuan strongly demanded the execution of Yang Yuhuan, and Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to give Yang Guifei death in the temple.
Some people also say that Yang Guifei died in battle in the chaotic world, which can be seen from Tang poems.
Some people think that there are other possibilities for Yang Guifei's death, for example, she actually died by swallowing gold, which is mentioned in Liu Yuxi's "Ma Weixing".
According to historical records, after Xuanzong returned to Chang'an, he secretly ordered the eunuchs to bring back Yang Guifei's body, but the eunuchs who returned told him that the body was gone, and only a sachet was brought back.
There are two theories in the old and new Tang Books, the Old Tang Books say that the body has rotted but the sachets are still there, while the New Book of Tang, only the sachets are there.
Why are the old and new Tang Books different? Whether it is possible that the body of the noble concubine was stolen by the tomb robbers is difficult to accept. At this critical juncture, the average person will not soon know the whereabouts of the noble concubine, not to mention that if it is a tomb robber, it will not leave a sachet.
New and old Books of Tang, which one is more convincing?
The Old Book of Tang is from the Tang Dynasty, and the New Book of Tang was written by the Song Dynasty according to the Old Book of Tang, so the authenticity of the Old Book of Tang is higher.
There are four reasons why Yang Guifei is still alive.
First, it is said that Yang Guifei is a very generous person.
Second, it was Yang Guifei's predecessor Li Mao who maneuvered between various armies during Tang Xuanzong's escape
The third reason is the help of Colliers. Needless to say, Gao Lishi's relationship with Yang Guifei was first a female Daoist and then married to Tang Xuanzong, all of which he planned.
In the end, Yang Guifei's nephew Yang Xuan assisted all the other nephews to be killed by the sergeant, but Yang Xuan did not die.
Yang Xuan was the husband of Ma Wanchun, the son of Yang Guozhong, and the foreign minister of data, and he had a good relationship with these envoys, including the envoys of data, and since his aunt had an accident, these envoys would naturally come to help him.
Another theory is that Yang Guifei fled to Japan.
Well-known Japanese film star Momoe Yamaguchi told the media in 2002 that she was a descendant of Yang Guifei.
The news spread quickly in China, and everyone was shocked, why did Yang Guifei's descendants come to Japan?
Did Yang Yuhuan really flee from Datang to Dongying?
In fact, looking at historical sources, the story of Yang Guifei's eastward crossing to Japan has a long history, and mr. Yu Pingbo, a famous red scholar in the early twentieth century, once objected to the "Long Hate Song", believing that Yang Guifei was likely not to die in battle at Ma Songpo, but to settle in Japan.
The life and death of Yang Guifei is not only a rough record of historical materials, but also a romantic description of the literati, leaving unlimited hope and reverie for future generations.
The name Yang Guifei, in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, was a symbolic name.