The four beauties of ancient times, the appearance of shy flowers, the skin of fat and snow, the state of beauty, proficient in music, able to sing and dance are her; graceful and luxurious, imperial love, red face and water, miserable and tragic death is also her. These keywords are set in Yang Yuhuan and roughly summarize her life.
From the aesthetic and extravagant imperial love of "riding a red dust concubine laughing, no one knows that it is a lychee" to being given death by Tang Xuanzong, who loved beauty and loved the country more, to die in Ma Songpo, and finally made this timeless good story that was praised and praised by countless literati rioters tear off the mask of hypocrisy, revealing the true face of ugliness and breaking the fantasies of countless romantics.
Although the history of Zhengyi without exception records that Yang Guifei died in Ma Songpo, there is always another theory about the life and death of this legendary woman who has never had a second person in eternity.
That is, although Tang Xuanzong was more distressed about Li Jiajiangshan, he did not want to disappoint Yang Guifei in the end, so he secretly arranged for Yang Guifei to move flowers and pickles to escape, and eventually went to Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan until his old age.
Yang Yuhuan was originally an ordinary official woman who was fostered in a relative's house, who loved music and song, composed music and danced, but was seen by the Shou King at the time in a wedding because of her natural beauty and beautiful appearance and Gu Pansheng's charm in the beautiful palace feast, so she became the Princess Shou at the age of 15.
If things develop here, it is a beautiful story of a prince and a princess living happily together - a young girl who has just blossomed in love marries a prince with a noble status and similar interests, and lives a low-key life in glory and wealth.
However, after the death of King Shou's mother, Concubine Wu Huifei, Tang Xuanzong, who had long coveted Yang Yuhuan's posture and talent, finally could not hold back, and under the idea of emptiness and the emperor of the world, he plotted a plan to turn Princess Shou into his own concubine.
Tang Xuanzong cleverly used the saying that renunciation is rebirth, first ordered Yang Yuhuan to become a monk, and then ordered him to turn the princess into a concubine in such a routine.
Here you may see the romantic side of Tang Xuanzong, for love can disregard his own and the royal family's face, withstand the pressure of many public opinions, and ignore the father-son relationship with King Shou, but it also proves the selfishness and ruthlessness of the emperor.
Tang Xuanzong was as proficient in music as Yang Yuhuan, and since Yang Yuhuan became a monk, he often visited in various names. Even if Yang Yuhuan had resisted the matter of entering the palace and becoming a concubine, it eventually turned into gratitude for the thoughts that Tang Xuanzong had spent on herself, and she believed in his affection and promise.
After entering the palace, Yang Yuhuan and Tang Xuanzong you and I nong, Xuanzong personally composed music for her, she danced for Xuanzong, just to get her a bright smile Xuanzong did not hesitate to work hard and hurt the people and thousands of miles to run to death a few horses to send her favorite lychees. How can such a pair of imperial relatives not be envied, sigh.
However, the emperor drunkenly dreamed of gentle township, regardless of state affairs and people's livelihood, coupled with the ascension of a person to the heavens, Yang Yuhuan's favor caused the yang family's foreign relatives to become more and more powerful, and even the matter of usurping the royal family's identity appeared. These have caused a lot of dissatisfaction, hiding his daily changes.
Due to the increasingly serious shortcomings of some of the late Tang Dynasty, coupled with the gradual loss of a sense of crisis in the late Tang Xuanzong period, as well as the arrogance of Yang's foreign relatives and some misdeeds to allow people with hearts to take advantage of it, finally in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan launched a rebellion in the name of "Qing Jun's side".
Tang Xuanzong fled to Sichuan with Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong, and marched to Ma Songpo, and the generals and generals in the army believed that it was because of Yang Guozhong's involvement that everyone could not return home and endure the turmoil and displacement brought about by the war, so they all hoped to get rid of Yang Guozhong to vent their dissatisfaction and inspire the army.
Chen Xuanli first killed Yang Guozhong with a knife, and later forced Xuanzong to execute Yang Guifei to stabilize the hearts of his generals. At first, Emperor Xuanzong was very reluctant and interceded for Yang Guifei's exoneration.
Helplessly, the undead soldiers of the noble concubines would be worried about being punished by the counterattack in the future, and the soldiers had no intention of compromise, and Xuanzong weighed the advantages and disadvantages and the situation at that time, and finally decided to give Yang Guifei death.
Zheng Shi, without exception, acknowledged that Yang Guifei's soul had broken Ma Songpo, but there were different versions of how to die.
However, a niche theory contrary to the mainstream voice has been widely circulated in later generations, that is, Tang Xuanzong finally used a trick to steal the day for the sake of his own righteousness and affection, and successfully saved Yang Guifei, who eventually arrived in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and settled in Japan to be reborn until old age.
It would be too arbitrary to say that Yang Guifei was reborn in Japan, because the story of Yang Guifei is widely circulated in Japan, and some people have always claimed to be the descendants of Yang Guifei, such as the famous Japanese star Keiko Yamaguchi.
Moreover, there are still many cultural relics and attractions with the mark of Yang Guifei in Japan, and the story of Yang Guifei and Tang Xuanzong has also been widely praised by some people.
Some Japanese scholars have even clearly recorded in their writings the incident of Yang Guifei coming to Japan from Ma Songpo, and the abbot of the Japanese Second Noble Temple also said in his own book that Yang Guifei was finally buried at the temple, and became pregnant and gave birth to a child in Japan, and was worshipped as the local "son-sending Guanyin".
There are also wild history records that there is only one sachet and no bones in Yang Guifei's tomb, and there are also versions of Yang Guifei's eastward crossing to Japan in film and television dramas.
But why did Yang Guifei travel east to Japan instead of other peninsular countries? Perhaps because during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the largest number of people from Japan came to China to study, and the glory of the prosperous empire and the advanced political culture and economic prosperity made Japan at that time envious, so they preferred to have some kind of connection with the powerful Tang Dynasty.
Coupled with the fact that Yang Guifei's classics in the writers and ink writers are unique in the world, some scholars who studied the advanced culture of the Tang Dynasty were naturally influenced by the literary works and artistic creations of the time, and brought these back to Japan, which in turn caused the story of Yang Guifei to circulate in Japan.
Judging from the subjective feelings of Yang Guifei's claim that she did not die in Ma Songpo but was rescued and escorted to Japan by Emperor Xuanzong, this statement itself contains people's yearning for beautiful love.
People are more willing to believe that there is true love in the human world, and they are reluctant to believe that the stereotype of the emperor's thin affection has not been rewritten on Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, coupled with the hype of literati such as Bai Juyi in literary creation, people choose to believe that although this is insignificant, it is by no means an impossible ending.
Historical truth is often cold, the controversy over the mystery of Yang Guifei's life and death contains objective history and subjective emotional value choices, and the special identity and the danger of the objective situation at that time make all this more confusing.
Compared with the cruel sayings such as the most ruthless imperial family and the ancient emperor's desperation, perhaps people are more willing to believe that Yang Guifei has crossed japan, and believe that this one in ten thousand may preserve the fantasy of the legendary perfect luxury love in their hearts.
Just like Bai Juyi in the movie "The Legend of the Cat Demon", everyone just wants to believe what they are willing to believe in their hearts.
In the end, it is not a very glorious thing to attach the rise and fall of an empire to a woman, and perhaps the naïve and romantic 15-year-old girl could not have imagined her final end.