Yang Guifei's ending:
Yang Yuhuan, one of the four beauties in ancient China. In the history of China, no woman is more romantic and legendary than Yang Guifei's story. What is the ending of such a legendary woman's life?
Yang Yuhuan (7 19-756) was born in Chengdu, Shu County (now Chengdu, Sichuan Province), and his ancestral home was Yongle, Zhou Pu. She was first the princess of Li Mao, the longevity king, and then the imperial concubine of Li Longji, the father of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
On June 14th, the 15th year of Tianbao (756), he went into exile in Shu, passing through Ant Post, and the imperial army mutinied. At the age of 37, Yang Guifei hanged herself. Yang Guifei was born beautiful, the first beauty in Tang Dynasty, and one of the four beauties in ancient China. "It's a shame to spend the moon closed, and it's a shame to sink fish and fall wild geese", among which "flower shame" is Yang Guifei.
Yang Yuhuan is a descendant of the imperial clan of the Sui Dynasty and the grandson of the fifth Yang who was killed in the early Tang Dynasty.
Du Fu has a poem "Mourning for the Head": "Where are those perfect eyes and that pearl-like tooth? A blood-stained soul has no home and nowhere to go. A clear wave flowed eastward, crossing the Diaolou Mountain Path, and there was no news. People, be merciful, make a wish with tears, and the waters and Cao Jiang will always be! " Bai Juyi described her as "warm and smooth her creamy skin". "As long as she turns her head and smiles, there will be a hundred kinds of magic, and all the powder and pigments in the Sixth Palace will go up in smoke".
Famous smile
Tang Xuanzong's favorite concubine: Yang Guifei, who has the beauty of the whole country, is born beautiful, proficient in temperament, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing pipa. That Tang Xuanzong doted on her!
In order to win the favor of Yang Guifei, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was more than 10,000 people, delivered fresh litchi with dew from Sichuan (some people say Guangdong and Fujian) through a post station every five or ten miles during the litchi season. The enjoyment in the palace is extremely luxurious. The more rare and delicious it is, the more rare it is, and the more tribute it needs. In addition to litchi, there is also a kind of wine named court royal wine by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. The water used for brewing is the morning dew on the mountain. This wine has the unique geographical advantage of developing agriculture in Sichuan, and the brewed wine is mellow, clear but not light, strong but not bright!
"When riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knows that it is litchi." At that time, when Yang Guifei tasted litchi in Huaqing Palace, it was a touching scene. Tang Xuanzong often drank this kind of wine. In Tang Xuanzong's mind, of course, Yang Guifei was "as long as she turned to smile, there would be a hundred spells, and the powder and paint in the sixth palace would go up in smoke". Since then, there has been this famous smile in this history. "Huaqing sings and dresses drunk, and the imperial concubine laughs and drinks dew"! The wine that entered the court as a tribute was also named: dew smile.
Shame on flowers allusions
There is a small and exquisite flower, whose compound leaves are like hibiscus branches, bit by bit symmetrical, like bird feathers. This plant is decorated with several small red flowers and looks like bayberry. When people point with their hands, its pinnate leaflets will close quickly and its petiole will droop slowly, just like a girl who is so shy because of her purity and simplicity, so people call it "mimosa". Legend has it that when Yang Yuhuan first entered the palace, he was sad all day because he couldn't see the king. Once, she and the ladies-in-waiting went to the palace to enjoy flowers, and accidentally met the mimosa, and the leaves of the grass immediately rolled up. Ladies-in-waiting all say that this is the beauty of Yang Yuhuan, which makes the flowers and plants feel ashamed and ashamed. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty heard that there was a "beauty who was ashamed of flowers" in the palace, and immediately summoned her and made her the imperial concubine. Since then, "shame on flowers" has become Yang Guifei's nickname. Mimosa is ashamed to see people because of plant electricity. At the base of the leaf habitat of mimosa, there is a layer of parenchyma called "leaf mattress", which is usually filled with enough water. When the leaves are stimulated, the water in parenchyma cells immediately flows to the upper and both sides under the instruction of plant electricity. With the increase of leaf weight, the phenomenon of leaf closure and petiole drooping appears. Mimosa plants are slender and delicate. In order to survive, it has formed this special ability to adapt to the environment through long-term natural selection.
Drunken beauty
She claimed that "as long as she turned to smile, there would be a hundred spells, and the powder and paint in the sixth house would disappear without a trace" and "but his love for 3,000 people was concentrated in one body", but she once fell out of favor and drowned her sorrows with wine. After being drunk, she got carried away and became bohemian.
The day before, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made an appointment with Yang Guifei and ordered him to hold a banquet in Baihua Pavilion to enjoy flowers and drink together. The next day, Yang Guifei first went to Baihua Pavilion and prepared a royal banquet for the coachman. It was getting late at that time, and Tang Xuanzong did not arrive. It's too late, too late. However, suddenly someone reported that the emperor had been lucky in Jiang Fei Palace, and Yang Guifei was bored to death when she heard the news. Yang Guifei is naturally narrow-minded, jealous and particularly flattering, and women are most likely to react when they are angry. Therefore, 10,000 kinds of feelings are hard to get rid of for a while, and they get drunk after three glasses of wine. Chun Qing was so excited that he couldn't help laughing. So he got carried away, became bohemian, got drunk frequently with eunuchs Gao Lishi and Peilishi, and made lewd courtship, which was the beginning of his return to the palace.
Died in Maweipo
In the 14th year of Tianbao (AD 755), Fan Yang, Pinglu and Hedong engaged in an Anshi Rebellion in the name of Jun Qing and Anti-Yang Guo Zhong, and the soldiers directed at Chang 'an. The following year, when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty fled with Yang Guifei and Yang to (now Chengdu, Sichuan) and passed through Mayi Post (now the west of Xingping City, Shaanxi Province), the imperial sergeant led by Chen unanimously demanded the execution of Yang and Yang Guifei, then defected and killed Yang with a knife.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty said that the imperial concubine was innocent and should be pardoned, but the imperial soldiers all thought that the imperial concubine was the beauty of the country. The Anshi Rebellion was caused by the imperial concubine. Without punishing her, it would be difficult to comfort the morale of the army, boost morale and continue to surround the emperor. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty accepted Gao Lishi's suggestion and had to give Yang a gift to protect himself. In the end, Yang Guifei was given a white silk and hanged under a pear tree in a Buddhist temple at the age of 38. This is the allusion in Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Sorrow": "A soldier in the army will be embarrassed if he doesn't move."
After the Anshi Rebellion was put down, Xuanzong returned to the palace and sent someone to look for Yang Guifei's body, but he didn't find it.
Die in a Buddhist temple
Some people say that Yang Yuhuan may have died in a Buddhist temple. The Biography of Yang Guifei in Old Tang Dynasty records that after the imperial generals Chen and others killed Yang and his son, they thought that "the thief was still there" and demanded that Yang Guifei be killed again to avoid future troubles. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to bid farewell to the imperial concubine and "hang the Buddhist temple". "Zi Tongzhi Jijiantang" records that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered eunuch Gao Lishi to take Yang Guifei to the Buddhist temple and hang her. Tang Shi Bu records that Gao Lishi hanged Yang Guifei under the pear tree in the Buddhist temple. Chen Hong's Song of Eternal Sorrow records that Emperor Xuanzong knew that Yang Guifei was bound to die, but he couldn't bear to see her die, so he led the people away, "turned around hastily and died under the ruler group". The Biography of Yue Shi Yang Taizhen records that when Tang Xuanzong bid farewell to Yang Guifei, he "prayed for Buddha's respect". Gao Lishi hanged the imperial concubine under the pear tree in front of the Buddhist temple. Mr. Chen Yinque pointed out in the Manuscript of Bai Yuan's Poems: "It can be noted that Yue Shi said that the princess was hanged under a pear tree, probably influenced by the phrase" Spring rain is like a pear blossom "in Xiangshan (Bai Juyi). It's ridiculous to go. " The statement in Le Shi comes from an addendum to Tang Shi, and Li Zhao's statement is probably influenced by Song of Eternal Sorrow.
Died in the rebel army.
Yang Guifei may also die in the army. This theory is mainly found in the descriptions in some Tang poems. Du Fu wrote a poem "Mourning for the Head" in Chang 'an, which was occupied by An Lushan in the second year of Zhide (AD 757), including "Where are the perfect eyes and the pearly teeth?" A blood-stained soul has no home and nowhere to go ",suggesting that Yang Guifei was not hanged in the Ma Yi post, because hanging will not cause bloodshed. Poems such as "I ask you not to wash lotus blood again" and "I have too much blood and my horseshoe is exhausted" in Li Yi's seven sentences "Crossing the Horse Nest" and "Two Poems Crossing the Horse Nest" also reflect the scene that Yang Guifei was killed by the rebels and died by the sword. Du Mu's Thirty Rhymes of Huaqing Palace is full of blood and scattered feathers. Zhang has "Huaqing Palace and Sheren" and "Blood Buried Concubine"; Poems such as "Ma Yi Tie" say that "there is no evidence that the soul disappears, and the grass is sad when the blood is buried", and it is also believed that Yang Guifei's blood spilled on Ma Yi Tie, and she was not killed by shackles.
Swallow gold and die
There are other possibilities for Yang Guifei's death. For example, some people say that she died of swallowing gold. This statement is only found in Liu Yuxi's poem Ma Wei Xing. Liu's poem once wrote: "The green field helps the wind, Huang Chen rides on a horse, and the roadside boy is noble." The tomb is three or four feet high. But I asked Li's middle-aged children, and they all said that they were lucky in Shu, lucky in the military, and the son of heaven gave up the demon Ji. The princes crouched on the door screen, and the nobles held the emperor's clothes, with low eyes and beautiful weather. Why do you drink gold chips? Mu Ying has worn apricot Dan all his life, and the color is really the same. " Judging from this poem, Yang Guifei died of swallowing gold. Mr. Chen Yinque was curious about this statement and made textual research in Bai Yuan's poems and notes. Chen suspects that Liu Shi's theory that "the nobles drink gold scraps" comes from the mouth of "Li", so it is different from other people's statements. But Chen Ye did not rule out the possibility that Yang Guifei swallowed gold before being hanged, so the word "Li" came from this.
According to the old Tang Book, after Yang and others were killed, the Sixth Army was not scattered, and Xuanzong sent (Gao) Lux to ask, saying that "the thief is still there", referring to the imperial concubine. Lux played again, but the emperor didn't get it (as a last resort), so he wrote to the princess and hanged himself in the Buddhist temple. At the age of thirty-eight, he was buried beside the road in Yixi.
The emperor returned from Shu, made a visit, and was buried again. Li Yi, assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, said: "The officers and men of Longwu killed the loyalty of the country to make it dangerous." I'm going to rebury my late princess, for fear that the soldiers will be afraid, and the funeral is not feasible. "Stop here. In the imperial edict, the envoy was reburied in another place. When the first boil was wrapped in a purple mattress, the skin was rotten, but the sachet was still there. The officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs offered sacrifices, and the emperor looked very sad, making it look like a different temple, watching it day and night. (Old Tang Book, Volume 51, Biography of Yang Guifei)
Yang Guifei hanged herself in the Buddhist temple. Chen and the guards' generals watched the process, confirmed that Yang Guifei was dead, and then came out to explain to the guards that "it took a long time to get the soldiers away (it took a long time for the assembled soldiers to disperse and return to the team)". At that time, Yang Guifei was buried by the road on the west side of the station, and her body was wrapped in purple bedding. Later, when Xuanzong ordered the envoy to be reburied, it was already one year and six months after Yang Guifei died. At this time, I found that "the skin is rotten and the sachet is still there."
The records in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty are roughly the same as those in the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, so it can be seen that Yang Guifei really died in Maweipo. Legend has it that the imperial concubine is not dead, which may be just a good wish.