Yang Guifei, along with Wu Zetian and known as the two most famous women of the Tang Dynasty, both had a major impact on the historical direction of the Tang Dynasty. Yang Guifei, courtesy name Yuhuan, was a native of Puzhou, Shanxi, born in 719 and died in 756. Yang Yuhuan was born into a family of official eunuchs and was a descendant of the "Hongnong Yang Clan", a large family of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Yang Guifei's great-grandfather Yang Wang was a famous courtier of the Sui Dynasty, and the official titles of Shangzhu Guo, Shangshu Of the Official, Shangshu Zuocheng, and Dali Siqing were known for their honesty and honesty, and their outspokenness. When Yang Wang was young, he was a "bad" teenager, "less fierce, good at fighting with the crowd, punching and beating, all upside down", like to be brave and fierce, and not do the right thing. When he became an adult, he suddenly turned back and "studied diligently" and became a generation of great Confucians with both moral integrity and ability.
When the Sui Emperor Yang Jian founded the Sui Dynasty, Yang Wang served a lot and was deeply favored by Emperor Wen of Sui. After the Sui Dynasty Emperor ascended the throne, he still relied heavily on Yang Wang, and once asked him to lead troops to attack the LiMi rebel army in Wagangzhai, "strangling the soldiers to resist and frequently thwarting their sharpness", and beating the famous Wagang army without temper. After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Wang became a subordinate of the Luoyang warlord Wang Shichong. In 621, Wang Shichong was eliminated by Li Shimin, and Yang Wang also died in the rebellion.
The Yang family, which was once xuanhe, was thus decayed in the chaotic world of the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. Yang Yuhuan's father, Yang Xuanyan, had been reduced to Shu Prefecture Sihu, an unpopular petty official. Yang Yuhuan's childhood was spent in Shuzhou. In the seventeenth year of the new century, Yang Xuanyan died of illness, and the 10-year-old Yang Yuhuan became an orphan and was adopted by the family of Yang Xuanxuan, the uncle of Luoyang.
In July of the 22nd year of the new century, Yang Yuhuan came to run, and was made a princess by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's crown prince Li Maona, and from then on he ascended to heaven. She and Li Mao are in love, and they are originally fairy couples. However, there were unexpected storms in the sky, and in the twenty-fifth year of the new century, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was attracted by Yang Yuhuan's beauty, and even violated the Avenue of Humanity and incorporated Yang Yuhuan into the harem, thus beginning this shocking and vulgar unrequited love.
"Spring cold bath Huaqing pool, hot spring water slippery wash gel", "Shu River water bishu mountains green, holy lord dynasty twilight", "spring supper bitter short day high, from now on the king does not early dynasty". This is a famous sentence in the famous work "Long Hate Song" by Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, which vividly portrays the eternal love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.
After spending seventeen years of happy times in the palace, in 755 AD, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. This incident became a turning point in the fate of thousands of Tang Dynasty people. The Tang Dynasty was defeated by the Anshi rebels, and even the capital chang'an was captured. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was forced to take Yang Guifei and Wenwu Hundred Officials with him, escorted by the ZuoLongwu general Chen Xuanli,and flee to Shu in a hurry.
When the party marched to Ma Songpo in Xingping, Shaanxi, the angry yulin army generals mutinied and demanded that Tang Xuanzong kill Yang Guozhong and Yang Guifei's brothers and sisters who had brought calamity to the country and the people. Although Tang Xuanzong had everything to give up, but the matter was over, he could only lose the car to protect the marshal, and the Zizhi Tongjian recorded that "Shang Nai Feng Lu Lu Lu Gui In the Buddhist Hall to hang her", let Gao Lishi personally execute Yang Guifei.
Yang Guifei was Tang Xuanzong's most beloved woman, but after Gao Lishi killed Yang Guifei, Tang Xuanzong was grateful to him for his life. Because Gao Lishi was not only an ordinary eunuch, but also a close confidant of Tang Xuanzong. Not only did he serve Tang Xuanzong in his daily life, but he was also his right-hand man in handling state affairs, "when the four parties enter the table, they must first present the lux, and then enter the imperial court, and the small things will be decided."
Tang Xuanzong once said many times: "When Lux is on the top, I sleep steadily", with Gao Lishi around, he can sleep peacefully. After the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong abdicated, Tang Suzong ascended the throne, and Li Fuguo ascended the throne. When Li Fuguo was not in the background, he "was not courtesy to the emperor", at this time, the villain was successful, bullying and blackmailing the Emperor Li Longji, Gao Lishi never abandoned, regardless of personal safety to protect Li Longji, many times to stop Li Fuguo's rude behavior, but also made Li Longji grateful to him.
However, Gao Lishi was incriminating Li Fuguo for this, and was sent to Langzhou and tortured through hardships. Later, when he heard the news of the death of Emperor Li Longji, Gao Lishi was in pain all day and vomited blood and died. Gao Lishi's loyalty to the Lord Tang Xuanzong won him the reputation of "Eunuch of the Ages".
References: Old Book of Tang, Zizhi Tongjian