Everyone must have heard of Yang Guifei's beauty, and the great poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty once praised: "A smile is beautiful, and the six palaces have no color." As one of the four beauties that make people inferior to delicate flowers, we are always curious about her beauty.
However, since no portrait of Yang Guifei has survived, her beauty remains a mystery to this day. Recently, experts have successfully restored the portrait of Yang Guifei through in-depth study of various historical documents and the use of modern image processing technology, which has amazed many netizens.
Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's beloved Concubine Wu Hui died, and he was depressed day by day, unable to concentrate on political affairs. In order to solve the king's worries, his henchman Gao Lishi began to look for beauties from all over the world to fill the harem.
However, although there are many beauties in the harem, none of them can make Tang Xuanzong Li Longji tempted. In desperation, Gao Lishi personally went out of the palace to look for it, and finally met Yang Yuhuan in Shouwang's Mansion.
Seeing her peerless appearance, Gao Lishi immediately recommended to Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, thinking that she was "very qualified and should be filled with court".
In October of the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji fell in love with Yang Yuhuan, and saw that she was plump and delicate, her eyes were flowing, and she could sing and dance, which could be called both talent and beauty. So, he decided to send Yang Yuhuan to the Taoist temple for cultivation on the grounds of praying for blessings, and then include her in the palace five years later.
After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, he instantly became the focus of attention. Because she had a plump figure and skin like snow, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji gave her Huaqing Pond near Lishan and renamed it Huaqing Palace.
Every time he would take Yang Yuhuan to Huaqing Palace, while drinking and listening to music, he would appreciate the beauty of her bathing, which can really be described as: "There are 3,000 beauties in the harem, and Yuhuan is the only one who spoils Yuhuan."
However, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's obsession with Yang Yuhuan is not just her beauty.
Among the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's **talent is dominant**. He has been obsessed with ** since he was a child, and he can not only compose lyrics and music, but also sing and dance. And Yang Yuhuan is an expert in pipa, good at dancing in the Western Regions, which is just in line with the ** taste of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji.
According to ancient records, when Tang Xuanzong Li Longji met Yang Yuhuan for the first time, he improvised his own masterpiece "Ni Dress and Feather Song", and Yang Yuhuan danced without thinking about it with his talent, which made Tang Xuanzong Li Longji very happy, and his love for Yang Yuhuan was further deepened.
Therefore, the attendants in the court can often see Tang Xuanzong Li Longji holding a drum and playing, Yang Yuhuan turning Hu Xuan dance steps, and the two playing musical instruments together, singing and dancing, day and night.
It turned out that Yang Yuhuan lived in Shudi, and the lychees in June every year were a godsend delicacy for her. In order to let Yang Yuhuan eat the freshest lychees in the palace, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji did not hesitate to send people to fly all the way to escort the lychees from Guangxi to the capital.
In order to ensure the freshness of the lychees, countless horses and soldiers are often exhausted in the escort.
Therefore, some people say that the lychees in Yang Yuhuan's mouth contain countless lives and hard work. Although it costs a lot of manpower and financial resources to deliver lychees every year, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji still ordered a large number of people to go to Guangxi to get lychees every year in order to win Yang Yuhuan's smile.
This act actually laid the groundwork for the decline of the Tang Dynasty. And Yang Yuhuan's special features are not limited to this. In order to highlight his lofty status and be worthy of his unparalleled beauty, Tang Xuanzong specially commissioned hundreds of craftsmen to tailor clothes and jewelry for Yang Yuhuan.
Each garment is meticulously crafted, with intricate patterns stretching from the hem to the cuffs. Each piece of jewellery is also ingenious, exquisite and ingenious.
Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's love for Yang Yuhuan is deeply rooted in his heart. When Yang Yuhuan provoked him and was sent home, even after a few hours, he still couldn't forget it, and sent his henchman Gao Lishi to send her daily necessities, loading a full hundred carts.
In the evening, he couldn't wait to take Yang Yuhuan back to the palace. With the elevation of Yang Yuhuan's status, her family also enjoyed the same glory and wealth. In August of the fourth year of Tianbao, Yang Yuhuan was officially named a concubine, and her father and uncle also got ** Houlu, and her sister and cousin and other five people also got the mansion and prominent status in the capital.
In the same year, Yang Yuhuan's elder brother Yang Guozhong was appreciated and reused by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji by virtue of his relationship with her clan, and it took only six years to become a prime minister.
The power and luxurious life of the Yang family are remarkable. Their mansions are extravagant and cost tens of millions. As long as they like a certain place, they will not hesitate to tear down the house and rebuild it.
Their power is not only reflected in luxurious mansions, but also in the marriage of royal families. The Yang sisters were in full swing at that time, and many royal families needed to pass through them if they wanted to cling, and even the princess seemed insignificant in front of them.
In the imperial court, Yang Guozhong is the most sought after object. Any ** who wants to be promoted will line up to give him silver taels to avoid being left behind by others. The Yang family's life was extremely extravagant, and even attracted the imitation of the noble families in the capital.
As the old saying goes, "A gun shoots a bird." "Because of their high-profile behavior, they have attracted many jealous people, and it is inevitable that they will fall into the trap. However, just a decade later, the world has changed dramatically.
The prosperity of the prosperous era is gone, and the rule of Kaiyuan can only be found in the picture scroll of history. Tang Xuanzong Li Longji worked hard in the early days, and the people lived peacefully. However, in his later years, he fell into the quagmire of pleasure, no longer diligent in government, appointed ministers, Li Linfu formed a party for personal gain, and Yang Guozhong was powerful.
An Lushan rode the wind and waves, and the Tang Dynasty building will fall.
In the twentieth year of Kaiyuan, Zhang Shouqi served as the festival of Youzhou, and happened to capture An Lushan when he was stealing sheep. However, because An Lushan had successfully captured a prisoner alive, Zhang Shouqi instead promoted him to deputy general and accepted him as a righteous son.
In the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, An Lushan served as the Pinglu soldier and horse envoy, in order to stabilize his position, he gave rich gifts to all levels, which was favored by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji.
This made his ambitions swelling day by day. In the first year of Tianbao, An Lushan was promoted to the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, ** Yushi Zhongcheng, who was able to participate in the discussion in the court, and his power gradually increased.
Since then, An Lushan's career has been smooth sailing, his status has become higher and higher, and he even worships his favorite concubine Yang Yuhuan as his stepmother, and his power is deep into the court.
In November of the 14th year of Tianbao, An Lushan and Shi Siming launched a rebellion under the pretext of killing Yang Guozhong. Since then, the Anshi Rebellion has officially begun. Soon, An Lushan led his army to break through Tongguan, and Tang Xuanzong Li Longji and the Yang family fled in a hurry.
On June 14, they encamped in Maweipo, the day of the famous Ma Wei Mutiny. On this day, the soldiers suddenly rebelled, pointing at Yang Guozhong, believing that his luxurious life had led to An Lushan's uprising.
As a result, Yang Guozhong was "dismembered defenselessly, and his head was picked up at gunpoint outside the post gate."
In order to calm the morale of the army, Gao Lishi made a proposal to Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, suggesting that the Yang family should be completely liquidated, including Yang Yuhuan. Although Tang Xuanzong was heartbroken by this, he realized that the turmoil of the situation could get out of control, so he could only reluctantly agree to the execution of Yang Yuhuan.
As a result, the once glorious Yang family fell. Now, let's go back and look at the Anshi Rebellion. Although the Yang family was wiped out, the Anshi Rebellion did not end there.
In fact, the crusade against Yang Guozhong was just a seemingly legitimate reason for his rebellion.
An Lushan was cunning and ambitious by nature, and after attacking Luoyang, he was aroused by the magnificent sight of the imperial palace to become emperor. However, he had a tyrannical temperament and became increasingly blind, and was killed by his own son in the second year of his reign.
The Anshi Rebellion, which lasted for eight years, caused the people to suffer and make their lives miserable. It was not until the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne and appointed Li Shi, the king of Yong, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, that he successfully recovered Luoyang and quelled the turmoil.
The outcome of Yang Yuhuan is still inconclusive. One said that she was killed by angry soldiers in the Ma Wei mutiny. But there are also two different legends: one is that there is a thousand-year-old tomb in Hongmei Village, Sichuan Province, with the word "Yang" engraved on the tombstone, but no other identity symbol; The second is that late at night on the day of Ma Wei's mutiny, Tang Xuanzong sent people up the mountain to look for Yang Yuhuan's body, but only found a sachet, and her body was nowhere to be found.
There is a saying that after Ma Wei's mutiny, Tang Xuanzong let Yang Yuhuan commit suicide in the Buddhist hall in order to stabilize the army's morale, so a generation of beauties died of incense. Another theory is that Yang Yuhuan did not really die in the Ma Wei Mutiny, but was helped by Tang Xuanzong and quietly fled to Japan and began a life of incognito.
Today, there is a village called "Jiutsu" in Japan, which is still known as "the hometown of Yang Guifei".
Yang Yuhuan's life course is full of ups and downs. She first lived in the palace as Princess Shou, and later was chosen by the emperor because of her beauty and became a favored concubine above 10,000 people.
She not only lived a life of fine clothes and food, but also made her family prosperous. However, she was overthrown after only ten years. This shows that even if you have unparalleled beauty, you can't indulge yourself because of this, and you should even be more cautious, because beauty can not only be used as a ** to protect yourself, but also become a sharp knife to stab yourself at any time.