Yang Guifei was known as one of the four beauties of ancient times, and the only one among the four to receive the grace of the emperor. According to the history books, Yang Guifei was a rich and beautiful posture, good at singing and dancing, and was a court musician and dancer of the Tang Dynasty, and her artistic talent was unattainable by ordinary people.
The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi profoundly expressed the touching love story of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan in "Long Hate Song". There is a sentence in the "Long Hate Song" that "in the mud under the slope of Ma Song, there is no place where Yu Yan died", so some people in later generations speculated that Yang Guifei did not die in Ma SongPo, and there were even rumors that Yang Guifei fled to Japan that year. Did Yang Guifei flee to Japan? It is clearly recorded in the history books that it turned out to be a hoax.
Regarding the death of Yang Guifei, there is a long-standing legend in the folklore, when Yang Guifei was forced by the situation of the Ma Songpo Mutiny, she arranged for a maid to die on her behalf, and after that, Yang Guifei left the Tang Dynasty by boat with the help of the envoys sent to Tang and went to the village of Kuzu in Yamaguchi County, Japan.
According to historical records, in 756 AD, Tang Xuanzong fled west with a crowd of people, including Yang Guifei, Lady Han, Lady Guoguo, Crown Prince Li Heng, Yang Guozhong and other important people. The day after fleeing Chang'an, Tang Xuanzong and his party came to Ma Songpo to rest, and under the elaborate design of the crown prince Li Heng, Yang Guozhong and Yang Yuhuan were burdened with the crime of deception, and Tang Xuanzong gave Death yang Guozhong and Yang Yuhuan for the sake of Jiangshan Sheji.
In Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, the situation after The Death of Yang Guifei is recorded in detail, and after Yang Guifei hanged herself, in order to reassure the army, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered chen Xuanli, the head of the rebel army, to conduct an autopsy. And Chen Xuanli and the crown prince Li Heng were in the same group, so it was absolutely impossible to let the imposter palace maid pass the pass, not to mention that in the chaotic world, it was difficult to find a person who resembled Yang Guifei. In addition, in the Old Book of Tang? It was mentioned in the biography of The Later Concubines that Yang Guifei did die in Ma Songpo, and after digging the grave, purple mattresses and sachets were found, which were all close to Yang Guifei's personal belongings during her lifetime, and such a valuable personal object Yang Guifei could not be kept by anyone.
In summary, Yang Guifei's escape to Japan is indeed a deception. I think that the reason why there are such rumors in the folk is that people are unwilling to accept the fact that Yang Guifei died, after all, Yang Guifei was a goddess-like existence in the eyes of people at that time. The world did not want a generation of beauties to die of this incense, so they compiled some wonderful legends to express their admiration for Yang Guifei.