The name Yang Yuhuan is well known in Chinese history, she is one of the four great beauties of ancient China, and Zhao Feiyan in the "Four Beauties" is called "Huan Fei Yan Thin", and the "Shy Flower" in "Sinking Fish falling geese and closing the moon shy flowers" is her label. In short, Yang Yuhuan is a beautiful woman! And it's indisputably beautiful!
Beauty has always been the object of history lovers' talk, and it seems that Yang Yuhuan can make people widely circulate because of her appearance! But in fact, Yang Yuhuan is more widely known in history for the shocking but tortuous love affair between her and her father-in-law Li Longji.
"The six palaces have no color, and the king will not be early in the dynasty", and even many people attribute the prosperity and decline of the Tang Dynasty in the late Tang Xuanzong to Yang Yuhuan, Gentle Township, and Heroic Tomb, and this suspicion is not unreasonable.
However, if we have an authentic pursuit of history, we should first think about why Li Longji, who is the son of heaven, would rather risk the world's great disobedience and forcibly marry his daughter-in-law. Why would Yang Yuhuan, who knew Dali, willingly succumb to his half-cut father-in-law Li Longji?
This is definitely not simply because of love, nor is it definitely not because of the open atmosphere of Datang. If they were really true love, Li Longji would not have killed Yang Yuhuan in Ma Songpo; if it was really just because of the open atmosphere of Datang, then Datang's incest would never be just an occasional trace.
So, behind the combination between Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, what is the indescribable hidden feeling and logic? History is a collection of human nature, and perhaps, through the background of that particular era, through human nature, we can find a more reasonable answer!
The process by which Yang Yuhuan became Yang Guifei
First of all, in a feudal society like the Tang Dynasty, door-to-door pairs were always an important criterion in the marriage relationship, so it is conceivable that Yang Yuhuan is unlikely to be from an ordinary family. Her father Yang Xuanyan had served as a shu prefecture, and her uncle Yang Xuanxuan had served as a tucao in Henan Province, although neither was a high-ranking official, but the Yang family was also an official eunuch family.
Yang Yuhuan spent her childhood in Shuzhou with her father, but when she was 10 years old, her father left the people of The Tang Dynasty prematurely, and she had to rush to Luoyang to join her third uncle Yang Xuanxuan when she lost her dependence.
Luoyang was the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, where many imperial relatives and state relatives lived, and if you walked on the street, you could accidentally encounter several imperial relatives or high-ranking officials of the imperial court. The so-called near-water tower platform first got the moon, and Luoyang's resources were highly concentrated, creating conditions for Yang Yuhuan's later step up to the sky.
However, we should never think that living by the pond will have to eat fish! If you want to climb the high branches, in addition to the fact that you have a lot of high branches around you to climb, you must also have the minimum conditions and qualities for climbing the high branches.
Bai Juyi described Yang Yuhuan in "Long Hate Song" as "born beautiful and difficult to abandon", that is to say, Yang Yuhuan is a natural beauty embryo, in today's words, she was originally a person who could eat by appearance.
Yang Yuhuan is a good cabbage, but many good cabbages are finally arched by pigs. The Yang family of the official eunuch family would never allow such a thing to happen to Yang Yuhuan, so most of the time, Yang Yuhuan was not allowed to show her face, but let her stay in the deep boudoir and carry out various value-added training.
Over the past few years, Yang Yuhuan has gradually become a great beauty with great talent. Versatile and gentle temperament, coupled with that unsatisfactory good look, almost all normal men can lose their resistance in an instant.
However, the Creator created such a ingenious product as Yang Yuhuan, definitely not to let her hide at home and be self-congratulatory, but to hope that she would shine on the right occasion and be a blockbuster!
In July of the 22nd year of the new century, Tang Xuanzong's daughter Princess Xianyi held a wedding in Luoyang, and the Yang family felt that this was an opportunity not to be missed, so they took 15-year-old Yang Yuhuan with them.
A beautiful woman like Yang Yuhuan, as long as she stops in the crowd and does not say a word, is enough to become the focus of everyone's attention. Those princes and nobles' sons and brothers are all people who know the goods, and they know that such a beautiful person as Yang Yuhuan is unattainable.
As a result, Li Mao, the King of Shou, because he looked at Yang Yuhuan more in the crowd, could never forget her countenance and wanted Yang Yuhuan to be his princess.
However, even as the beloved son of Tang Xuanzong and the most favored Concubine Wu, Li Mao, the King of Shou, did not dare to make up his own mind on his own marriage affairs, and the rules of his parents' orders and the words of the matchmaker still had to be spoken of. If he dared to take an ordinary woman to the house at random, it was estimated that his father and mother would not only spank his ass, but even cancel his right to a lot of pocket money.
ShouWang Li Mao
Although Li Mao, the King of Shou, knew that he had to get the consent of his father and mother concubine to successfully embrace the beauty, he was not at all worried. Because his mother Concubine Wu Huifei was favored, if it were not for the fact that she was from the Wu clan, I am afraid that she would have been made empress long ago, and the father emperor even killed several princes for the sake of his mother concubine.
With his own favored mother concubine, although he did not dare to say that he had every request in front of his father and emperor, it was still very safe to let his father marry.
Sure enough, after Li Mao expressed his good wish to marry his father through his mother, soon after, a holy decree came from the palace, naming Yang Yuhuan into an incomparably honorable Princess Shou.
The beautiful woman is matched with the prince, and the two live a fairytale life entangled, thinking that it is a picture that is too beautiful to be unwanted.
Concubine Wu
However, the fairy tale world does not allow outsiders to break in, otherwise it is easy to change. Three years later, Li Mao's mother, Concubine Wu Huifei, died, and the death of this Concubine Wu huifei directly changed the state of life and the direction of fate of Tang Xuanzong, Li Mao, and Yang Yuhuan.
Because Concubine Wu Huifei was Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine before she was born, in the days when she was with her, Tang Xuanzong always felt full of vitality, and now that she was gone, Tang Xuanzong was suddenly extremely uncomfortable, why was this day so lonely?
Looking at Tang Xuanzong, who had been frowning all day and thinking about tea and dinner, Gao Lishi, the first loyal eunuch of the ages, was in pain. How can this be good? You can't let Your Majesty be so depressed, otherwise the people of Datang will point to my spine and say that I have not taken good care of our great leader.
The sympathetic Colliers has come to his own conclusion through many observations, how does our Majesty look like a lost love? It is said that starting a new relationship is the best way to forget an old relationship, so the slave family will find him a few more beautiful women to try? However, no matter how many beautiful women he selected from the harem and the people to relieve Tang Xuanzong's worries, Tang Xuanzong could not find the feeling, driving the top version of the car, and then driving the low version of the car, it will indeed lack a little feeling.
The relationship between Colliers and Yang Yuhuan is extraordinary
It is also worthwhile for Li Mao to be blessed to be consumed by Yang Yuhuan, a big beauty. Just when Gao Lishi couldn't find a suitable beautiful woman to make Tang Xuanzong smile again, Gao Lishi met Yang Yuhuan! Wow, I see pity! Even I, the eunuch, felt incredibly beautiful when he saw it, and the emperor would certainly be satisfied when he saw it.
Gao Lishi's action power was quite strong, and he thought about it, and immediately recommended Princess Shou to Tang Xuanzong Yang Yuhuan.
Tang Xuanzong also hesitated in his heart at that time, why did this turn around and turn to his daughter-in-law? Doesn't that seem like a big impact, right? But when I looked at The swear look of GaoLishi, I was still very curious in my heart, how beautiful was my daughter-in-law? How could colliers recommend it to himself so unabashedly?
Therefore, Tang Xuanzong made up his mind to meet his daughter-in-law for a while. If it is not a dish you like, you can return it to your son; if it is really your favorite dish, it is not indispensable for your son Li Mao to perform filial piety once.
Tang Xuanzong chose a suitable opportunity to summon his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan, and at first sight, he was shocked. Such a good cabbage, how can a pig like Li Mao be arched? Is such a goddess something that ordinary people like Wu'er can blaspheme? She must personally protect her and love her!
Colliers' eyes rolled and he immediately said: I understand! I know it all! Immediately began to arrange for Yang Yuhuan to enter the palace.
Although the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was relatively civilized, this matter was really a bit too ruined. An emperor and a father who so blatantly occupy their daughter-in-law are a bit unable to say anything! Datang's face must be taken care of, and he can't just stand bare ass under the sun and ignore it, he must think of a euphemistic routine!
Have difficulties, find seniors! Tang Xuanzong took a seat and thought of a clever trick from his grandfather Li Zhi: imitating Li Zhi's trick against Wu Zetian in the past, first made Yang Yuhuan a Taoist priest, and then let her return to the vulgar, this time, Yang Yuhuan will not become a masterless person, can he be included in the harem at any time?
The idea decided the way out, and with such an idea, the rest of the operation was a piece of cake for Tang Xuanzong. In the name of "praying for the empress dowager's blessing", he first wrote yang Yuhuan as a female Taoist priest with the Title of "Taizhen", and successfully dissolved the conjugal relationship between Yang Yuhuan and Li Mao, the King of Shou.
Li Mao, the King of Shou, expressed great sorrow: Father Emperor, how can you let my concubine become a Taoist priest? Why don't you choose your own concubine to pray for the empress dowager? But in this way, he could only mutter, thinking of his dead brothers, he could only obey him, the decisive father emperor.
During Yang Yuhuan's cultivation in the palace as a Taoist monk, without the shackles of ethics and morality, Tang Xuanzong finally couldn't help but secretly communicate with Yang Yuhuan, and later reached the point of glue like lacquer.
With the nourishment of Yang Yuhuan, Tang Xuanzong instantly rejuvenated with youthful vitality, radiant and boundless vitality. Because Yang Yuhuan is not only beautiful and moving, but also has a common hobby with him, both are theater lovers. The two are in the harem, you compose lyrics, I compose music, you dance and I sing, and I live a happy poetic and wine year, and grow up together on the road of "Pear Garden Ancestor".
After a long time, Tang Xuanzong felt that the highest performance of loving a woman was to give her the fame she wanted, so he began to handle this matter again.
First of all, as far as Yang Yuhuai's case is concerned, Tang Xuanzong still feels a little sorry for Li Mao's unfortunate child, since he robbed your wife for his father, then find you another wife, which is also a little compensation for his father! Therefore, in 745, Wei Zhaoxun's daughter was made princess of Shou, which was an explanation for Li Mao.
At the same time, Tang Xuanzong felt that father and son should be happy together, and good things should be a pair, and after Li Mao's marriage, he appointed Yang Yuhuan, who was already a vulgar person, as a noble concubine. Because Emperor Xuanzong of Tang deposed Empress Wang for the sake of Concubine Wu Huifei, he never established a queen, so Yang Yuhuai's position in the palace at this time was equivalent to that of an empress.
Yang Yuhuan turned gorgeously into the world-famous Yang Guifei. This year, she was 26 years old, less than 12 years before she flew up the branches and turned into a phoenix and entered the royal family, and it was less than 12 years before she finally broke her soul.
Analysis of the emotional logic between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan
After Yang Yuhuan became Yang Guifei, "the six palaces have no color, and the king does not have an early dynasty from now on", she almost monopolized Tang Xuanzong's rain and open air grace, and Tang Xuanzong was almost obedient to her. Even if Yang Guifei later messed around in the palace with his righteous son An Lushan, Tang Xuanzong only turned a blind eye.
Moreover, the entire Yang family also ascended to heaven because of Yang Yuhuan, and her eldest sister was named Lady of Korea, the third sister was named Lady Of Yuguo, and the eighth sister was named Lady of Qin. Of course, the most famous is his distant brother Yang Guozhong, who eventually became the prime minister of power and opposition. But after Yang Guozhong, who had climbed up by nepotism, had great power in his hands, he brought the ugliness of the little people to the fullest, greed, narrow-mindedness, incompetence, and violence, and finally forced An Lushan onto the road of rebellion. This is a postscript!
Bai Juyi wrote this degree of favor of Yang Guifei into a poem: "Sisters and brothers are all in the land, and poor and glorious people are born of portals; so that the hearts of the parents of the world will not be born again again, and men and women will not be born again." ”
It can be seen from this that Tang Xuanzong's favor for Yang Yuhuan is incomparable, and he is willing to spend the cost and the price. But does this really prove that the love between the two is pure and sincere?
In fact, how can the love and love of the Imperial Family be so simple and pure? The love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan seems to be vigorous and sweet, the two for love, regardless of fame, regardless of others, husband singing women, you and me, especially Tang Xuanzong made it as if he loved beauty and did not love Jiangshan, and he did not move from now on. In fact, they are all people who love themselves more!
Let's first analyze Tang Xuanzong's psychological logic!
Tang Xuanzong spent most of his previous life in the longitudinal and horizontal and Wenzhi martial arts, creating a "Kaiyuan Shengshi" comparable to the "rule of Zhenguan", and was a typical successful person. This kind of person who stands at the peak of life and looks down on all sentient beings is easy to be cold at a high place, easy to bend high and low, and easy to be high to paranoia. That is, it is easy to be lonely and empty and cold.
If Tang Xuanzong really indulged in carnal love just to dispel loneliness, with his status and conditions, he could have been a king from now on. But on the contrary, Tang Xuanzong was still a person with a heart for a long time, such as his deep love for Wu Huifei. For the sake of Concubine Wu, he was even willing to kill his son! When Concubine Wu died, he felt that the sky had changed color in an instant.
In fact, the more successful people and mature men like Tang Xuanzong, the more they are partial to spiritual needs in the choice of life partners, and they are more eager to find partners with similar interests, common topics, and spiritual resonance. Therefore, for Concubine Wu Huifei, even though she was from the Wu clan, Tang Xuanzong still gave all his favor to this confidant without regret.
Wu Huifei left him prematurely, causing him to lose his spiritual peace, so he had to find a soul mate to replace him.
Yang Yuhuan is gentle and understanding, and versatile, proficient in music, dance, musical instruments, and poetry, just like Tang Xuanzong is seamless. Two people together can do what they like and take what they need, which is the fundamental reason why the two are combined.
Of course, this is not to say that the combination between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan is fresh and unconventional. In fact, a person's spiritual resonance appeal is the most hungry pursuit.
Purely physically, Tang Xuanzong actually did not rely heavily on Yang Guifei, for example, Tang Xuanzong specially set up a profession called "Flower and Bird Messenger", which was responsible for collecting folk beauties for him to enter the palace. Because of these lace incidents, Yang Guifei repeatedly ate Tang Xuanzong's vinegar and played a small role, and was expelled from the palace by Tang Xuanzong twice.
Tang Xuanzong's dependence on Yang Guifei was spiritual, for example, after driving Yang Guifei out of the palace twice, he always couldn't stand it after two days, and he always felt uncomfortable, uncomfortable, and unaccustomed, so he casually found a reason to take Yang Guifei back.
In short, For Tang Xuanzong, Yang Guifei is a very effective psychotropic drug, and if she does not speak well, it is a spiritual substitute that Tang Xuanzong cannot do without his hands.
Let's analyze Yang Yuhuan again.
On the surface, Yang Yuhuan was able to ascend to the heavens in one step because she was good-looking, and it was The heavens rewarded her with food! But in fact, what is so simple? There are so many good-looking people, and I haven't seen a few people who can climb all the way like Yang Yuhuan!
If we take a closer look at Yang Yuhuan's life course, we will find many unusual details. The famous male dick Si Bai Juyi always said that Yang Yuhuan is "born beautiful and difficult to give up", which is actually not right at all! Because Yang Yuhuan has never "abandoned himself", why is it "difficult to give up"? It is as if Yang Yuhuan's final grace is involuntary, in fact, she has always been taking the initiative to attack. Saying that she is "born beautiful and difficult to give up" is really a bit of a sense of being decent and standing.
Since she was a child, Yang Guifei has made full use of her advantages and talents, excellent appearance, and the art of song and dance, which is completely to build herself as a social flower or a star, and what she wants behind her is nothing more than marrying a good family (selling for a good price).
Look again, why would she, who usually can't get out of the door, coincidentally attend the princess's wedding at the age of 15? Was it the princess who invited the unknown her to get married? Unlikely! Most likely, she and her family feel that the time is ripe, a rare opportunity to show their faces and test the market at such a grand event!
Looking at it again, the princess's wedding is actually a large-scale social scene, people say more, less will not be too little, and they are all men and women with certain conditions. Why did Yang Yuhuan happen to meet Li Mao, the King of Shou, and quickly make him fall in love with him at first sight and not marry her? Two people with very different identities need to create a kind of "chance encounter" and quickly make each other obsessed with themselves, which requires a certain technical content.
Looking at it again, when she got what she wanted to become Princess Shou, how did she get into Tang Xuanzong's eyes? When Tang Xuanzong took a fancy to her, why didn't she even have the slightest attitude of refusal? Isn't she very affectionate with Li Mao? Even if she had to compromise under the threat of power, why didn't she have even the slightest sadness after she left her original loving husband? Singing with my father-in-law every day.
Many historical appearances do not stand up to scrutiny. Most of us only see the beautiful love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan that has been sung through the ages, but we have never thought that in fact, behind these beautiful things are hidden more flies and dogs.
Logically and essentially, I prefer to see the love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan as a transaction that each takes what he needs, so it is very reasonable that Tang Xuanzong later abandoned the car to protect the marshal in Ma Songpo and killed Yang Yuhuai.
Tang Xuanzong forcibly married Yang Yuhuan behind
Tang Xuanzong's forcible marriage to Yang Yuhuan is, on the surface, a plunder of resources by power, no different from those stupid children on the street who robbed the people's women! But if you look closely, there are still some detailed differences.
First of all, the identity of the participants in the matter has a certain particularity, Yang Yuhuan was born into a famous family, Tang Xuanzong's father and son are noble as royalty, and their identity determines that this kind of hegemonic behavior cannot be naked, commonly known as gluttony, and it is also necessary to pay attention to eating.
From a hierarchical point of view, this is a more advanced game!
Yang Yuhuan belongs to the typical investor, she regards herself as a strange commodity, and regards the Li Tang royal family and princes and nobles as the capital market; while Li Mao's father and son are the capital parties that control the market.
The market is always controlled by capital! Therefore, Yang Yuhuan was purchased by Li Mao as he wished! If that's the end of the matter, it may not be a satisfactory deal.
However, the capital market is ever changing, there will always be a bigger capital side in the mood, when Tang Xuanzong's capital hand reached out to Yang Yuhuan, Li Mao had no way to resist, Yang Yuhuan also had no intention of refusing, and the absurd thing of the daughter-in-law remarrying her father-in-law happened along the way.
However, the relationship between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan's mother-in-law was a small embarrassment, and it was not necessary to say anything about the civilized atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and did not pay attention to these etiquettes, righteousness, and shame. We must always believe that no one who has the conditions to stand and do things is really willing to kneel and do things; but no one who has the ability to eat food gracefully into the stomach, no one wants to use his hands and feet and use the ground without paying attention to eating!
Man is born to pay attention to his face, unless the temptation he faces exceeds the importance of his face. Look at the series of ingenious and obscure details behind Tang Xuanzong's strong marriage to Yang Yuhuan.
Colliers
First of all, let's talk about the matchmaker Gao Lishi, Gao Lishi is bent on Tang Xuanzong, which is correct. But this did not mean that as long as he was for Tang Xuanzong, he would dare to do anything! unbelief? If you are a close confidant of your boss, when you introduce your boss to Xiao San, do you dare to introduce your boss's daughter-in-law to your boss?
There are several uncertainties in between: First, are you not sure whether your boss values you more or his son more? Second, you can't guarantee that your boss can accept such a ridiculous arrangement? Third, if one party can't accept it, and they are furious, can you be sure that you can protect yourself?
Therefore, the reason why Gao Lishi blatantly introduced Yang Yuhuan to Tang Xuanzong was absolutely unlikely to be his unilateral behavior alone, according to Yang Yuhuan's later relationship with Gao Lishi, it was very likely that yang Yuhuan himself acquiesced or implied.
Li Mao didn't have much expression from beginning to end, it was nothing more than resignation, so he didn't comment on him too much!
Then there is the heroine of the incident, Yang Yuhuan, this big beauty is definitely not so pure in appearance, and her silly white and sweet personality can basically be pretended.
In the process of her father-in-law Tang Xuanzong wanting to take her for herself, she did not have the slightest resistance, did not have a trace of defense, and just threw herself into Tang Xuanzong's arms, and also showed a state of extreme enjoyment, which was not in line with people's common sense.
Knowing that others want to plot against themselves, but also showing no refusal and non-resistance, this is a kind of cooperation in itself! The point is that this person is still his father-in-law, the people are noble as the emperor, you can not face, is it true that a woman like Yang Yuhuan does not care about such incest? It can only show that Yang Yuhuan is essentially a person who climbs the dragon and has no bottom line.
Tang Xuanzong
Finally, talking about Tang Xuanzong, many people say that Tang Xuanzong is an old cow eating tender grass, that is, coveting beauty, liking the new and tired of the old, in fact, this statement is relatively one-sided.
As mentioned earlier, Tang Xuanzong's carnal desire for Yang Yuhuan was not strong, and in the final analysis, it was a kind of psychological loneliness of the successful person.
A mature man, after being particularly successful, is usually difficult to easily like an ordinary woman, after all, the ups and downs and warblers and swallows he has experienced all his life have already made him look down on these vulgar needs.
But the successful person himself also has a prejudice, that is, once he looks at something or a person, he will definitely find ways to get it, because only by getting what others can't get, he will feel that his success has a sense of superiority and authority.
The reason why Tang Xuanzong wanted to risk the world's great disobedience to marry Yang Yuhuan was first, because Yang Yuhuan really had an appetite for himself in all aspects; second, he was a kind of arrogant psychology of a successful person. As for how much he loved Yang Yuhuan, in fact, it was not necessarily, when Ma Songpo changed, he said that abandoning her would abandon her.
In summary, the unrequited love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan is not a pure love, but a derivative of power politics. Behind it is full of human nature intertwined with "the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit".
summary
China's feudal society is a patriarchal society, women are mostly only vassals of men, so women are inherently unsuitable for involvement in power struggles, China's thousands of years of history, in addition to Mi Yue, Lü Yan, Wu Zetian, Cixi and a few other political strong women, how many women can retreat in the political struggle?
There are many people like Yang Yuhuan, looking forward to relying on their own excellent conditions to rely on men who hold power and achieve a life of unlimited scenery, in fact, this is a road of no return.
Because once the power you rely on loosens, cracks, and struggles appear, as an appendage, women are often vulnerable to victimization. Power, this thing, what you can rely on and what you can have, are two different things, in other words, what is said at the moment, others give you money to spend and your own money to spend are two different things.
Yang Yuhuan was greatly favored by Tang Xuanzong for a while, but in the end she was killed by Tang Xuanzong "reluctantly" in the change of Ma Songpo, which fully shows that Yang Yuhuan has never really mastered her own destiny, and the people she is attached to have never been truly reliable.
Some friends will say that Yang Yuhuan has seen all the prosperity in his life, even if he dies, it is worth it! But a person's sadness is not because of how high she flies and how much she sees the glitz of the world; but whether he is safe or not. Is there a choice? Do you have the ability and opportunity to protect the people or things you care about? Can you really be respected and cherished? Yang Yuhuan obviously didn't!
Of course, Yang Yuhuan's life choice was also strange in the environment of that era, although it was not worthy of admiration, but there was no need to deliberately criticize. After all, women at the time, there were no more options. Life without choice is usually pathetic.
Zhang Guorong's "The True Biography of Ah Fei" said: There is a kind of bird in the world, it has no feet, and it can only fly in the sky all the time. It can only land once in a lifetime, and that's when it dies. This sentence is actually a good description of Yang Guifei or Yang Guifei, because from the beginning of her choice to make friends with the powerful, her life has no way back to go, and her foothold is her death point.