Throughout the ages, no matter which dynasty, the topic of love has always been widely circulated, and many literary works have come to celebrate love, but there are more tragedies that end. So today I will take you into the Tang Dynasty period between Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, the love story between them...
How did Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan meet?
Li Longji has been very intelligent and sensitive since he was a child, and his appearance is also beautiful, and he is very popular with Wu Zetian. During the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji was the longest-reigning emperor. And Yang Yuhuan, after the birth of her parents have passed away, she has also been labeled as a "close relative". In 735 AD, the 17-year-old Yang Yuhuan married Li Mao, the king of Shou, who was the son of Li Longji, and the king of Shou also liked Yang Yuhuan, which also showed that Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan were actually a daughter-in-law relationship, but they did not expect that the two of them walked together, and the tragedy of the Anshi Rebellion occurred.
According to historical records, Li Longji, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was a very careful person, and there were 38 wives. But it was normal for the emperor. The women he likes don't say that they are full of country, but they are all beautiful.
In 754 AD, the Zhonghe Festival, the people in Chang'an City would come out on this day, especially the women, because it was difficult to have a chance to go out on weekdays, Emperor Tang Ming was very angry, and put on civilian clothes and brought a few internal servants to go out to Qingqing. That is, this time out of the palace let him meet Yang Yuhuan, when Li Longji saw Yang Yuhuan, the whole person was stunned, he sent the little eunuch around him to inquire about Yang Yuhuan's background, when Li Longji learned that Yang Yuhuan was his daughter-in-law, he could not help but be a little disappointed. But after returning to the palace, Li Longji was also obsessed with her, in order to get Yang Yuhuan, Li Longji also ordered Yang Yuhuan to become a female Taoist, following the example of Tang Gaozong's method of marrying Wu Zetian at that time, Li Longji's horizontal knife to seize love, his son Li Mao was helpless no matter how unwilling he was in his heart, and he did not dare to offend the authority of the Son of Heaven. Li Longji also found another princess for him in order to comfort Li Mao. Later, Yang Yuhuan went to the Taoist Temple, and in less than four months, he was accepted into the palace by Li Longji and was also named a noble concubine.....
Why was Tang Xuanzong confused by Yang Yuhuan?
After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, it can be said that three thousand favors were in one, and Li Longji not only loved Yang Yuhuan, but also rewarded the Yang family, so that the Yang family would enjoy wealth and nobility from then on. Since the two are together, the feelings have become sweeter and sweeter, and they get along like husband and wife.
Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan
Although Yang Guifei's body shape is a bit fat, she is also called fat by posterity, that is, she has a beautiful face and can sing and dance. Known as one of the four great beauties of ancient times. In fact, in ancient times, the saying of "fat is beautiful" was not very reliable, because the ancients did not have superior conditions for diet and nutrition at that time. Most people should be relatively low and thin, so yang Yuhuan is a fat person There is a misunderstanding in judgment, and she is a noble concubine, can not lose her manners, her weight can not exceed 130 pounds, according to this statement, Yang Yuhuan is now known as the slightly fat little sister. At that time, there was a saying that described Tang Xuanzong's fascination with Yang Guifei as "from now on the king will not be early in the dynasty".
How did Tang Xuanzong spoil Yang Guifei?
Yang Yuhuan loves to eat lychees, and everyone should hear about it. Don't look at it as just a fruit, but from it you can highlight Li Longji's love for Yang Yuhuan. The poet Du Mu also described the incident of Yang Guifei eating lychees for this purpose, and what we call "concubines laughing" lychees came from this way.
According to historical records, Yang Yuhuan was a native of the Shu kingdom, so he loved to eat lychees. At that time, lychees were still very rare fruits, and it was very difficult to preserve and grow, but the noble concubines loved to eat, and Tang Xuanzong did not make it color. Chang'an did not produce lychees, so Tang Xuanzong used the entire imperial court to order people to quickly get fresh lychees from Sichuan to bring back, and because so many good horses and officials died of exhaustion on the way.
Later, in an accident, Yang Guifei ate lychees from Lingnan, which made her like it more. Then the problem also came, Lingnan to Chang'an can be described as quite far away, according to the current road to convert more than 2100 kilometers, not to mention the ancient times, fast horse transmission also takes about ten days and a half months. Even apples have to rot, not to mention the demanding lychees, and a careless bump can crack and become hairy. Even so, the noble concubine wanted to eat, Li Longji waved a big hand, and the lychee became a tribute. Think about how the Tang Dynasty made Yang Guifei eat fresh lychees at that time. He also ate it for 16 years, and Li Longji also spoiled her for 16 years.
Why didn't the pampered Yang Yuhuan have children?
Some people say that Yang Yuhuan may be infertile herself, because she has not been pregnant in the three years she has been married to Li Mao, the king of Shou, and some people speculate that her infertility may have a lot to do with her fatness, because it is also scientifically reasonable for fat people not to have strong fertility. The problem of fat has just been said, in fact, it is a misunderstanding, because she is favored, so many people think that Tang Xuanzong likes fat, in fact, it is not, because at that time Tang Xuanzong still liked Wu Huifei, Wu Huifei was not mentioned fat in historical records. Besides, in order to please Tang Xuanzong at that time, Yang Guifei could not allow herself to be fat. It can be seen that this is not the reason.
There is also a theory that Tang Xuanzong was old, he was 60 years old when he married Yang Yuhuan, and people of this age had basically lost their fertility, and there were also proofs that Tang Xuanzong and other concubines had no children. Of course, he did not spoil other concubines much, but it was also true that he was infertile. The third is that because Yang Yuhuan tried his best to welcome Tang Xuanzong, so his body was no longer good, Tang Xuanzong liked to watch dancing, yang Yuhuan in order to express himself, he worked the dance, excellence. Her "Neon Dress Feather Song" has also become an excellent masterpiece in human history. Therefore, it is likely that dancing damaged the body, resulting in inability to have children.
She only wanted to please Tang Xuanzong in her life, and did not have any political brains, at that time Tang Xuanzong did not make an empress, if she wanted to work hard, it would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but history did not show that she had fought for it. Although he has been favored for many years, he has no status support, and eventually the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and she became a victim...
So what was the real cause of Yang Yuhuan's death?
There are many theories about the cause of Yang Guifei's death, Yang Guifei was condemned as a sinner for eternity after the decline of the Tang Dynasty, and the world blamed her for confusing the emperor, and the reason why she would be accused by the world can only be said to be that she loved the wrong person. The so-called red face disaster water, is the world's perception that good-looking women will harm men, disasters to the country and mountains. But at the beginning, Yang Yuhuan's marriage was not Li Longji, but Li Mao. Since following Li Longji, Yang Yuhuan's fate has also changed, even if he has received thousands of favors, when the national disaster comes, Li Longji still chose Jiangshan and gave up on her.
The courtiers also asked the emperor to execute Yang Yuhuan, but who knows, her generation of women, also only want to get their own love, did not do anything wrong, but the emperor in order to protect himself, gave Yang Guifei a white silk, there is also a saying of her tragic death. However, according to the research of historians, the real cause of Yang Yuhuan's death is likely to be hacked to death by the rebel army, and the bones are difficult to find, not the emperor's death. The reason why it will be recorded as a white silk that the emperor gave to Yang Yuhuan is also to leave a beautiful image for the world, and I don't want people to see her awkward side. Yang Yuhuan, a generation of talented women, one of the four beauties. She died in misery, but the history books should also be the most perfect record of her.