The ancients often used the Mandarin duck as a symbol of a good marriage, which means one life and one couple. But the fuller the ideal, the easier it is to correspond to the bony reality. The ancients prayed for a happy marriage, prayed that they met a person who could raise a case and share a white head, but it was always a polygamous marriage system. Looking back at the anecdotes of the past, there are many love stories, and happy men also have them, but it is much more difficult to find out which woman is the true love of which one, and they are happy for a lifetime. Who is the true love of Emperor Tang Dynasty, Empress Shen and Empress Dugu, this is a living example.
Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty, whose original name was Li Li, was the eldest son of Emperor Suzong of Tang. In the year of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Heng was already forty-five years old, and Li Yu was nearly thirty years old. Therefore, these princes and grandchildren had their own families before the turmoil. In fact, as early as the last year of the New Century, Li Yu was rewarded with the Shen clan who first entered the palace as a son of the Liang family. In the first year of Tianbao (742), the two had a son, the future Tang Dezong Li Shi.
Li Yu and Shen Shi, can be described as a young couple, grew up together all the way. Although Li Yu did not marry Shen when he was crown prince, he had his first child with Shen at the age of sixteen. Therefore, whether it is "mother and son" or similar to "first love plot", Shen's position in Li Yu's heart is almost doomed and irreplaceable.
After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, as Tang Xuanzong escaped from Chang'an, these princes and nobles and their wives and concubines and children also fled. In the chaos, those like Shen Shi, who still had time to escape, became prisoners of traitors. According to the Old Book of Tang, during this period, the Shen clan was imprisoned by rebels in the Eastern Capital Luoyang. It was not until Li Yu and Guo Ziyi's army personally recaptured Luoyang that the two were reunited in the turmoil.
However, at this time, the world was undecided, Li Yu needed to march north, and could not take Shen Shi with him, so he still left her in Luoyang. As a result, shortly after Li Yu left, Luoyang once again fell into the hands of the rebels. By the time the officers and troops recaptured Luoyang, the Shen clan had been heard from and their lives and deaths were uncertain.
For more than ten years after that, Li Yu had been sending people to search for people everywhere, hoping to find Shen Shi. But Providence tricked people, and the messengers sent out wave after wave, or there was no news.
In the ninth year of Tianbao (750), the Dugu clan became Li Yu's concubine. Cui Shi was once a regular wife, a typical jealous woman, who was very dissatisfied with this new concubine and targeted everywhere.
Such a plot is also the "negative teaching material" that is often found in palace fight dramas. At first, Li Yu was still more or less worried about the face of Cui's mother's family, especially Cui's aunt Yang Guifei, and did not let this wife be too embarrassed. However, with the decline of the Cui family in the Anshi Rebellion, Li Yu and the wife also tore their faces. Soon after Cui's illness died, Li Yu's "white moonlight" Shen Shi was no longer around, and the Dugu clan naturally "occupied" Li Yu.
Li Yu is also very fond of the two children of the Dugu clan, and his daughter Princess Huayang has a very high emotional intelligence, knows how to observe words and colors, and is specifically selected for his father to play what he likes. Therefore, Li Yu looked at this daughter very well, even to the point of coddling.
With the full cooperation of the dugu mother and daughter, all three of them occupied an extremely heavy weight in Li Yu's heart. So much so that in the third year of the Gregorian calendar (768), Li Yu established Dugu Shi as a noble concubine without an empress. When Princess Huayang died in the ninth year of the Gregorian calendar (774), he was overly sad and did not go to the court for several days.
And Li Yu also did a great thing for the Dugu clan that was comparable to sending envoys to find the Shen clan for more than ten years--he was reluctant to bury him for three years after his death, and he kept the coffin of the Dugu clan in the palace, and personally ordered the Dugu clan to be posthumously named Empress Zhenyi.
Shen was later posthumously honored as Empress Ruizhen, but her posthumously honored not by Li Yu, but by her great-grandson Tang Xianzong. After her son Li Shi succeeded to the throne, she was only honored as empress dowager. Therefore, judging from the importance of Li Yu himself, DuGushi is definitely true love.
In fact, just as Su Shi still wrote many years after the death of his original wife, "Ten years of life and death are vague, do not think, unforgettable". Su Shi also had a wife at this time, to say that he did not love his current wife? No. But is it necessary to say that he loves his current wife and not his deceased wife? Then he would not have written this poem "Jiang Chengzi". Shen and Dugu, who met Li Yu at different stages. If he did not love, the young Li Yu would not have given birth to his first child with Shen. If he didn't love, the mature Li Yu wouldn't be so reluctant to leave the Dugu Clan one step ahead of him.
No one stipulates that a man with "three wives and four concubines" in ancient times cannot fall in love with two different women in his lifetime, and these two women appear at different times. Li Yu has been searching for the Shen family for more than ten years, perhaps there is an element of royal fame in this, but the friendship that existed in the past will not be denied. Li Yu's exclusive favor of the Dugu clan may have the sake of Princess Huayang, and the coffin of the Dugu clan may have the reason of the alchemist's words, but it is also true that the exclusive favor of several years is also a fact.
Feelings are things that cannot be said clearly and inexplicably, no matter who Li Yu loves, as long as they love me, it is a beautiful conversation. Therefore, if the single is not successful, then the comrade must work hard for himself.