Historically, the private relationship between Yang Guifei and An Lushan has always been a controversial topic. There are many speculations and depictions of this in folk history, while others firmly deny this claim, believing that it is just nonsense made up by historians to disparage Yang Yuhuan.
So, which side is more persuasive? According to Mr. Lu Xun, this incident may not be what it appears to be.
The love affair between Yang Yuhuan and An Lushan is a hot topic in various literary works, such as "The Biography of Yang Taizhen", "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao", "The Deeds of Lushan", "Romance of Tang History" and "Wutong Rain", etc., which have been greatly exaggerated, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Among them, the most romantic is mentioned in "Romance of Tang History", An Lushan and Yang Yuhuan have been in love for more than a year, and Lushan even scratched Yang Yuhuan's chest. In order to cover up her wounds in front of Tang Xuanzong, she created an underwear called "Hezi".
Yang Guifei once bathed her godson An Lushan, who was more than 20 years older than herself, and this behavior was known as "Guifei's three-day washing of Lu'er" at that time. Sima Guang also mentioned this incident in "Zizhi Tongjian", and wrote that Yang Yuhuan wrapped An Lushan in swaddling clothes and let the palace maids carry them in and out, and Li Longji also went to ** in person.
Some people suspect that Sima Guang deliberately smeared Yang Yuhuan in order to compile the "Zizhi Tongjian" into a good textbook for educating the emperor, and did not hesitate to requisition the wild history. But the veracity of this incident remains to be confirmed.
The Qing Dynasty's "Imperial Approval of the Past Dynasties" clearly pointed out that the matter of the concubine's washing of Lushan was based on some unreliable information and could not be fully trusted. At the same time, the New Tang Dynasty Book and the Old Tang Book do not record this incident, which makes its authenticity even more doubtful.
However, Mr. Lu Xun, as a ** family, did not question the authenticity of the story of "Guifei Xiluer", but based on the premise that Yang Yuhuan and An Lushan did have a private relationship, he and Yu Daren and others went deep into another possibility of the love tragedy between Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji.
In Lu Xun's opinion, Yang Yuhuan did have an affair with An Lushan, but Li Longji did not fully trust them as the legend suggests, but gradually saw their relationship.
However, due to his ingenuity, he has remained silent, only to grow colder and colder inside.
After the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong fled to Shuzhong with Yang Yuhuan and his court. However, at Ma Weiyi, the soldiers of the forbidden army mutinied, killed Yang Guozhong, and forced Xuanzong to kill Yang Yuhuan.
If Tang Xuanzong still has some nostalgia for Yang Yuhuan, then with his throne, he is fully capable of stopping the actions of the soldiers and preserving Yang Yuhuan's life. Lu Xun even boldly speculated that perhaps it was Tang Xuanzong who instructed the soldiers to force Yang Yuhuan to death.
In"On the seventh day of the seventh month, the temple of eternal life", Tang Xuanzong only mentioned the agreement in the afterlife, indicating that he was very dissatisfied with Yang Yuhuan's disobedience and derailment, as if expressing: "Our love in this life has ended, if there is fate, it is not impossible to meet again in the next life!" ”