favorite concubine of emperor Minghuang

Yang Yuhuan

Yang Yuhuan (June 22, 719 - July 15, 756) was named Taizhen. During the Tang Dynasty, empress dowager, court musician, dancer, one of the four beauties in ancient China, pursued the title of the daughter of Yang Xuanyan, the Duke of Qi, and the cousin of Yang Guozhong, the prime minister.

He is good at singing and dancing and has a good command of temperament. He married Li Mao, the king of longevity, and became a concubine in the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740). He was ordered to become a nun. Later Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered Yang Yuhuan to return to the secular life. He joined the palace and was officially canonized as a concubine.

In the 15th year of Tianbao (756), after an Lushan launched a rebellion, he followed Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji of Tang Dynasty to exile in Shu, passing through Mawei post, where the soldiers mutinied and died with hatred.

Life of the characters

The imperial concubine is favored

Yang Yuhuan was born on June 22nd of the lunar calendar in the seventh year of Kaiyuan (719). Yang Wang, the grandfather of Gao, was the Minister of Shangzhu state and the Ministry of officials in the Sui Dynasty. He was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. His father, Yang Xuanyan, once served as the governor of Shuzhou. His uncle, Yang Xuanxuan, once served as the Tucao of Henan Prefecture. Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood in Shuzhou.

In the 17th year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, about 10 years old, died of his father and was fostered in the third uncle Yang Xuanxuan's family in Luoyang.

Yang Yuhuan's natural beauty and superior educational environment make her have a certain degree of cultural accomplishment, graceful personality, proficient in temperament, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa. In Bai Juyi's song of everlasting regret, it is described as: natural beauty is hard to give up, once selected in the king's side.

In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, held a wedding in Luoyang. Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend. Li Mao, the younger brother of Princess Xianyi, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At the request of Wu huifei, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty issued an imperial edict to appoint her as Princess Shou. After marriage, they were very affectionate.

In the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737), Wu huifei died. Li Mao's mother, Wu huifei, was Xuanzong's favorite concubine, and her courteous treatment in the palace was equal to that of the queen. Xuanzong was depressed. At that time, there were thousands of back palaces. Some people said that Yang Yuhuan was "beautiful and suitable for the imperial court". So Xuanzong called Yang into the back palaces.

In October of the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), in the name of praying for the blessing of Empress Dowager Dou, the mother of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he wrote that Yang became a nun and became a female Taoist, with the Taoist name of "Taizhen".

In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), after Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty made Wei zhaoxun's daughter as Princess Shou, he made Yang Yuhuan as his concubine. Since Emperor Xuanzong abolished the queen, she has never been made again. Therefore, Princess Yang is equivalent to the queen.

Xuanzong wrote the song of rainbow and feather. When he summoned Yang Guifei, he asked the musicians to play the new music. He gave Yang a gold hairpin and put it on her temples. Xuanzong said to the people in the back palace, "if I get the imperial concubine Yang, I will get the most treasure." (Volume 3 of the secret notes of ancient and modern palaces), copying the new song "get the treasure", which shows that I am very lucky. At that time, there was no new empress in the palace, and all the people in the palace called Yang "Niangzi", who was in the second place. Zheng chujiao tells a story that after Yang Yuhuan became the imperial concubine of Jin Dynasty, a white parrot on the tribute of Lingnan was able to imitate human language. Xuanzong and Yang Guifei liked it very much and called it "snowflake girl", while the left and right sides of the palace called it "snowflake mother".

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered his ci ministers to teach them poems. After several times, the white parrot could chant and make people love it. Xuanzong and Yang Guifei play chess. If the game is unfavorable to Xuanzong, the eunuch of the servant cries "xueyiniang" for fear that Xuanzong will lose the game. The parrot flies into the board and pats its wings. Later, the lovely "snow dress mother" was pecked to death by the eagle. Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were very sad and buried it in the imperial court, known as "parrot grave". Xuanzong still cherishes the pet white parrot so much, let alone his love for Yang Guifei.

The Yang family is in power

Yang Guifei's eldest sister is the wife of Korea, her third sister is the wife of Guo State, and her eighth sister is the wife of Qin state. One hundred thousand yuan each month. Guo Guo's wife ranked third. She was born beautiful, and she was not fake. Zhang Hu's poem "two pieces of Ji Ling Tai · two" satirizes it: "the lady of Guo State accepted the Lord's kindness and rode into the palace gate in pingming. But I don't like the color of the powder, and I'm looking forward to the supremacy. "

Because Yang Guifei was highly favored, her brothers all gave gifts to senior officials, even her distant brother Yang Zhao, who used to be a villain. Because he was good at planning and raising money, Xuanzong gambled with Yang's sisters, which made Yang Zhao calculate the gambling accounts, named Guozhong, and worked as a branch doctor for more than ten positions, manipulating the government. Xuanzong was lucky to be in HuaQingChi. He took the five Yang families as his retinue. Each family had a team and wore the same color clothes. The five families had a team and were colorful. Along the way dropped jewelry everywhere, glittering, its luxury. The Yang family married two princesses and two princesses. Xuanzong also personally wrote and wrote steles for the Yang family.

First time out of the palace

In July of Tianbao's fifth year, because of Yang Guifei's indulgence, she offended Xuanzong and was sent back to her mother's home by Xuanzong. After the imperial concubine came out of the palace, Xuanzong didn't eat, so Gao Lishi had to call her back. Official history records: "Volume 51 of the old book of the Tang Dynasty" records that "in July of the fifth year, the imperial concubine sent back to Yang's house with a slight reprimand" and "in the ninth year of Tianbao, the imperial concubine returned to waidi after disobedience". "New Tang book" volume 76 records: it day, imperial concubine to punish return to the first, than in the Chee, the emperor is not royal food, cannu around. In order to test the emperor's will, Gao Lishi offered his account in the palace and sent his imperial concubine to the imperial palace with more than a hundred cars. The Emperor gave him imperial food. Li Shi knows that the emperor's order is the night. Please call the imperial concubine to return it and enter the gate of anxingfang. When the imperial concubine saw the emperor, she gave thanks to the emperor. The emperor was relieved, and Fu Wei Liang wo. "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" records: the imperial concubine is not inferior with jealousy and shrewdness. She is angry and ordered to return. " These official histories did not give a positive and detailed description of the process of this incident, and said with one voice that it was Yang Guifei who was sent back to her mother's home because she made a mistake and offended Xuanzong. The reason recorded in Zizhitongjian is "jealous and not inferior". What happened is still unknown. According to Kaiyuan zhuanxinji, a unofficial history, the imperial concubine of Taizhen was often envious and flattered, some words invaded her, and she was very angry. "The imperial concubine of Taizhen was often envious and flattered, some words invaded her, and she was very angry, so she called the powerful men to send them back to her home.

It is not difficult to see that the charge of Yang Guifei's expulsion this time is "jealousy and ferocity". Many people guess that the person Yang Guifei envies is another concubine of Tang Xuanzong, Mei Fei. According to the Song Dynasty's biography of Mei Fei, "Mei Fei's name is Jiang Caiping, who entered the palace 19 years earlier than Yang Guifei. At that time, Emperor Xuanzong's favorite concubine Wu huifei passed away, and Emperor Xuanzong was disappointed. Eunuch Gao Lishi suggested that she should take part in the national beauty pageant. When Gao Lishi came to Fujian, he saw Jiang Caiping and was astonished. So he took her back to the palace and dedicated her to Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. " Jiang Caiping is not only beautiful, but also gentle and elegant, and soon captured the heart of Xuanzong. Jiang Caiping has been fond of elegance since she was a child. She also likes plum blossom, which is also elegant. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named her Mei Fei and planted a plum forest for her in the back palace. When the plum blossoms were in full bloom, the imperial concubine of Xuanzong came here to enjoy the flowers and recite poems. Later, Tang Xuanzong met Yang Yuhuan again, so he was fascinated by her charm. Because they were good at music, they soon became bosom friends. Tang Xuanzong in every possible way to get the jade ring, then day by day with Yang Fei together, soon forget Mei Fei. Mei Fei was good at poetry and Fu. One day, she wrote a song "a pearl of Dendrobium", which was sent to Xuanzong. When Xuanzong saw the poem, he thought of the scene when he was with Mei Fei in the past. So she was called to the West Pavilion of Cuihua to talk about the past. Unexpectedly, this matter was discovered by Yang Guifei. She was jealous and humiliated Xuanzong and Mei Fei. After all, Li Longji was the emperor. How could he let her teach her such a lesson? In a rage, he ordered her to be sent back to her mother's home.

The story has been heard in history. But in history, no matter the old Tang book, the new Tang book, or Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, there is no record of Mei Fei. Secondly, the content of the books about Mei Fei that we see is derived from the biography of Mei Fei. However, there is no author of "the biography of Mei Fei" (some people think it was written by Cao Ye of Tang Dynasty, but there is no evidence.) The transcriber did not know who the author was, only that he was a member of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. The biography of Mei Fei is the first work to record Mei Fei's life and events. All other records about Mei Fei are later than this article, and most of them are reprints of this article, or added the legend part. Thirdly, there are several words in the biography of Mei Fei, which are worth noting: "those who draw beautiful pictures in this world are called Mei Fei. They generally speak about the people of Tang and Ming Dynasties, but they are not as detailed as they are." It means that in today's (Song Dynasty) beauty paintings, people only generally say that she was born in the Tang and Ming Dynasties, but they don't know much about her life experience. Therefore, in a brief history of Chinese novels, Mr. Lu Xun said: "the biography of Mei Fei is not written by anyone. It is said that there were people who named Mei Mei Mei as Mei Fei at that time. Because of this biography.... ". Zheng Zhenduo, a serious scholar, also denied the existence of Mei Fei. Finally, the historical records of Tang Dynasty show that there is no record of Gao Lishi's going to Fujian and Guangdong for beauty pageant. According to the biography of Mei Fei, the eastern palace of Shangyang, where Mei Fei was demoted, is located in Luoyang, the eastern capital. It is hundreds of miles away from Chang'an, and there is no West Pavilion of Cuihua hall in Luoyang. Why did Tang Xuanzong summon Mei Fei at night? When Yang Guifei found out, how could Mei Fei go back to the eastern palace.

During the period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a special occupation called "flower and bird envoy", which was in charge of collecting beauties from the people to enrich the harem. Tang Xuanzong was a romantic emperor. He was tired of playing with Yang Guifei all day, so he called these women on his back. Yang Guifei was jealous and had a big fight with Xuanzong. Xuanzong was also angry, and the concubine took charge of the emperor's private life. It's really ridiculous. So, in a fit of anger, he ordered to "drive back.". Yang Guifei was sent back to her mother's house. As soon as the imperial concubine left, Tang Xuanzong suddenly felt empty in his heart and soon regretted it. That night, taking advantage of the night, Tang Xuanzong sent the imperial guards to take the imperial concubine back from the Yang family.

After some twists and turns, their feelings quickly warmed up. no

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