A few years ago, a TV series "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV, which was based on the history of the destruction of Southern Chen, the establishment of the Sui Dynasty until the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang. When the TV was broadcast, Xiaobian was too busy to watch. Later, xiaobian still looked at it roughly. What surprised xiaobian was that the heroine "Ruyi Princess", as the daughter of the Sui Emperor, actually had a vigorous love affair with Tang Taizong. Prior to this, Xiaobian had never known that Tang Taizong had a concubine who was the daughter of the Sui Emperor. After all, Xiaobian thinks that Tang Taizong married a former dynasty princess is a bit unlikely, right? But then I thought about it carefully, and li and Yang were also in-laws (Tang Gaozu's mother Li Yuan and Empress Wen of Sui went out of the lonely family together), and it was not completely impossible. So Xiaobian went to check the information. It was actually found by xiaobian, and Tang Taizong did have a "Yang Concubine". Xiaobian thinks this may be the prototype of "Ruyi Princess". After that, Xiaobian consulted many materials, and the historical materials about this "Yang Concubine" in history can be said to be very small, and Xiaobian spent a lot of effort to finally piece together some of The history of Yang Fei. Today, Xiaobian will share these with you.
▲Li Shimin stills
In the TV series, Ruyi is a concubine princess born to the Empress of the Sui Dynasty, but in the historical records, there is no record that Empress Xiao had a daughter married to Li Shimin, so Xiaobian guessed that Concubine Yang should be the daughter of a concubine. There is no record of The year of Yang Fei's birth and death in the historical records, which is temporarily unknown. Of course, these should not be too important, the point is that she is the daughter of the Sui Emperor is enough. However, there is no specific record of whether she had a title during the Sui Dynasty Emperor and why she was sealed. (Many of the princess titles of this period are not recorded) So there is not much information about the birth of Yang Concubine. However, Xiaobian speculated that Yang Fei's birth should be the child born by the Sui Emperor in his earlier years.
According to records, Princess Yang was pregnant with two children in her lifetime, Li Ke, the third son of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Li Yan, the sixth son. Li Ke was born in 619 (the second year of the Sui Dynasty), and it was inferred from this that Concubine Yang was supposed to be a child before the Sui Emperor ascended the throne and possibly even before she was made crown prince. In addition, there is no specific record in history about when Yang Fei married Tang Taizong. Xiao Bian deduced that it should be at the time of the fall of the Sui in 618, because before that, Li Shimin had already married the empress dowager, and the princess of the Sui Dynasty should not marry someone as a concubine, right? Moreover, in 617, Li Shimin and his father Li Yuan formally rebelled against the Sui. Casually, the time when Princess Yang was most likely to marry Li Shimin should be after the demise of the years, when the Sui Dynasty imperial family took turns to coerce Yu Wenhua and Dou Jiande and scattered. And this time also happens to be right with Li Ke's birth.
▲ Princess Ruyi and the Sui Emperor stills
Regarding the title of Yang Concubine, there is no specific record in the historical data so far, according to inference. It should be one of the four concubines of Tang Taizong's harem, but which one is "noble, shu, virtuous, and concubine". It is no longer available. Some people speculate that it may be "Lady Shu", but Tang Taizong also had a noble concubine surnamed Yang at that time (possibly posthumously), who gave birth to thirteen sons Li Fu, so Lady Shu may also be this "Yang Concubine". According to another view, Yang Fei died early and was posthumously honored as a concubine, so the title may be any of the four. There was more than one "Yang Concubine" in the harem of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which made it more difficult to verify the historical data that was not recorded much about it. Therefore, the title of Yang Fei also involves the question of when she died.
▲ Li Shimin and Princess Ruyi stills
Regarding the time of Yang Fei's death, the only inference that it should be before 650 AD. In this year, Princess Yang's son Li Ke was killed because he was implicated in the rebellion of Fang's widow. It is recorded that Li Ke's affair even implicated his half-brother Li Yan, and it is reasonable to say that Yang Concubine, who was a mother, could not have been unaffected, but there is no record of Yang Concubine at this time in history. Therefore, it is inferred that Concubine Yang should have died before 650. However, it is also possible that whether the harem was implicated was not recorded. In addition, there is no specific record in history of where Yang Fei was buried after her death, and it can only be said that if there is nothing, it should be buried with Tang Taizong Zhaoling. Of course, it is only a conjecture. To date, no tombs or related epitaph documents have been unearthed.
▲Ruyi Princess stills
The above is the introduction and inference that Xiaobian can do for everyone. There are very few historical records about her, only in the records of Emperor Taizong's heirs, there are only a few words in the records of her birth mother. In addition, there is a simple record in the record of her son Li Ke. What Xiaobian can say is already a lot of effort, do you have any other information about Yang Fei?
bibliography:
Old Book of Tang