Yang Guifei bathed An Lushan, and Tang Xuanzong was overjoyed and rewarded her
In the Daming Palace in Chang'an, where the Tang Dynasty Tianbao was ten years old, a 48-year-old man was celebrating his "washing three" celebration. I saw a plump and beautiful ** bathing and wrapping him, this man's weight exceeded 300 pounds, his fat belly drooped above the knees, and several palace maids and eunuchs supported his belly together to tie the belt.
Then, with great effort, they carried him onto a colourful palanquin, which drew laughter everywhere he went. The master of the palace, 66-year-old Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, was attracted by this commotion, what tricks are his most beloved generals and favorite women playing?
The palace maid explained that this was the ritual of Yang Guifei to wash An Lushan for three days according to the tradition of baptism on the third day of the baby's birth. Li Longji laughed from ear to ear, and immediately ordered to give the concubine "money for washing children", and rewarded her and An Lushan again.
This farce spread all over Chang'an City and became a private conversation and joke. According to historical records, after An Lushan recognized Yang Guifei as his mother, he often entered and exited the palace freely, had intimate relations with Yang Guifei, and stayed up all night, which caused the scandal of Tang Xuanzong wearing a cuckold on his head.
Why did An Lushan recognize Yang Guifei, who could be his daughter, as his mother? And why was Tang Xuanzong willing to risk being greened to let An Lushan and Yang Guifei establish such a close relationship?
Is there anything hidden in this?
1) Recognize your godmother and worship your godmother? In ancient and modern China and foreign countries, such a phenomenon is not uncommon, such as the Three Kingdoms period Lu Bu recognized Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo as his father-in-law, the Five Dynasties period Shi Jingjiao recognized Yelu Deguang as the "child emperor", and the folk also have a popular custom of worshipping relatives.
However, it is indeed rare to recognize a 16-year-old godmother like An Lushan. According to historical records, in the middle of Tianbao, An Lushan took the initiative to ask Emperor Xuanzong to recognize Yang Guifei as his stepmother in the process of entering the dynasty.
Li Longji not only did not feel that it was inappropriate, but was very happy, and even disregarded the traditional Confucian etiquette and secular vision, and approved this godfather.
After recognizing his stepmother, An Lushan took the Hu people's traditional "mother first and then father" as his code of conduct, and every time he entered the court to see Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, he would worship his mother first, and then his father.
This made Li Longji feel very appreciative, so he trusted and pampered him even more. Even when there was an affair between him and Yang Guifei in the palace, Li Longji chose to believe him.
It is worth mentioning that this fornication scandal also gave birth to the first underwear in the history of our country - the belly pocket. According to the record of "The Origin of Things", when An Lushan and Yang Guifei were messing around in the palace, An Lushan accidentally scratched Yang Guifei.
In order to avoid being discovered by Tang Xuanzong, Yang Guifei casually picked up a piece of silk cloth to wrap her chest, which became the origin of the belly pocket in later generations.
Although later generations have speculated about An Lushan's fornication with Yang Guifei, there is no historical record. And he got some attention on the matter of "three-day washing" and recognizing his mother-in-law, but other rumors were mostly added by later generations, and their credibility was not high.
Considering the large number of eyes and ears in the palace at that time, as well as the large number of political enemies of An Lushan, it was impossible for him to risk leaving a handle for the enemy. Not to mention, he recognized his stepmother not out of covetousness or whim, but his way to make his fortune.
In fact,"Dry kiss"It's his tried and tested magic weapon. An Lushan was a Hu man who lost his father when he was a teenager, and his mother remarried a Turkic family surnamed An, so that he had his own surname An.
Although he is powerful and has a big waist and a round waist, he did not get ahead before the age of 30 and often engaged in petty theft.
When An Lushan was about to be executed for stealing cattle and sheep**, he loudly defended: "Don't you want to appoint me to destroy foreign enemies?" Why do you want to kill me? ”
His bravery and talent left a deep impression on Zhang Shouqi in Youzhou Jiedu, and Zhang Shouqi asked him to make meritorious contributions and serve in the military camp. An Lushan showed amazing combat talent, made many achievements on the battlefield, and was adopted by Zhang Shouqi as his adopted son and became his deputy.
In order to expand his power, An Lushan actively won the hearts of the people, adopted more than 8,000 godsons of ethnic minorities, and cultivated them to become his diehards. This tactic of his accumulated the core strength for his later rebellion.
After he assumed Zhang Shouqi's position, he actively promoted the strategy of recognizing relatives, focusing on the hottest woman in the Tang Dynasty - Yang Guifei. Everyone around Yang Guifei, whether noble or low, has gained a noble status, and those who offend Yang Guifei, even the emperor's own daughter, will be punished.
Being recognized by Yang Guifei is like a pig riding the wind, and he can easily soar to officialdom. Therefore, An Lushan understands very well that if you want to succeed in officialdom, you must curry favor with Yang Guifei.
In the sixth year of Tianbao, the 44-year-old An Lushan confessed his stepmother to the 28-year-old Yang Guifei, a traditional performing art of the chaotic Tang Dynasty royal family. For An Lushan, the greater the age gap, the greater the political effect of recognizing his stepmother, and the trust he gained from Tang Xuanzong was more and more consolidated.
The reason is that although the age difference between the two is a generation, in terms of seniority and the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, Tang Xuanzong is the father of An Lushan, and Yang Guifei, even if she is young, has an insurmountable difference from An Lushan.
Therefore, An Lushan's loyalty to Yang Guifei is equivalent to loyalty to Xuanzong himself, and the emperor himself trusted An Lushan more because of this behavior.
Tang Dynasty Jiedu Envoy Situation Map) Xuanzong ignored the opposition and granted An Lushan Hedong Jiedu Envoy, so that he held the military and political power of the three regions and became the strongest border town general in the Tang Dynasty. An Lushan's act of recognizing his stepmother was not uncommon in the Tang Dynasty.
In the open and chaotic Tang Dynasty, royal ethics were often subverted, for example, Yang Yuhuan was a typical example of a daughter-in-law and a father-in-law. Even far away in the Wu Zetian period, in order to preserve the glory and wealth, the princess took the initiative to offer a male favorite, recognized Wu Zetian as her godmother, changed her surname to Wu, and survived Wu Zetian's killing.
If An Lushan's affiliation with Yang Guifei was motivated by political considerations, then why did Yang Guifei agree to be his godmother?
In feudal society, having no heirs was a big threat to harem concubines. Yang Guifei was favored by Tang Xuanzong for three thousand, but she never gave birth to an heir.
Xuanzong is not infertile, and Yang Guifei herself may have infertility problems. In this case, Yang Guifei needs to marry to stabilize her position and the wealth of her family, so that after the death of the old emperor, someone can support her.
Therefore, Yang Guifei and An Lushan formed a dry relationship.
Yang Guifei and Xuanzong not only have a deep love, but also a common passion for dance. The reason why she was able to occupy a place in the emperor's heart was not only because of her beauty, but also closely related to their artistic resonance in dance, drama and **.
They collaborated on the creation of "Dance of the Ni Clothes and Feathers", a work of artistic achievement that can be compared with the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu. "There are Taizhen Wailu Mountain, and the two of them are the most capable of nonsense. ”
In addition to Yang Yuhuan's singing and dancing talent, An Lushan's dancing skills are also unmatched. Although he weighs more than 300 pounds, due to his talent for Hu Ren dancing, he can flip and move like a wind, and can be called "the most flexible fat man in the Tang Dynasty".
Yang Guifei and An Lushan: A Political Deal Under the Pretext of Singing and Dancing Yang Guifei and An Lushan's marriage seems to be for the sake of learning dance skills, but behind it is a political transaction.
Tang Xuanzong was obsessed with singing and dancing, turning a blind eye to the two of them studying dance essentials late at night, and even added new dance steps taught by An Lushan to the new repertoire. This delicate balance depended on Tang Xuanzong's lifespan, and once he died, everything for Yang and An would be shattered.
However, An Lushan did not do it on a whim, but had long been prepared for a preventive attack. He knew the danger he was about to face, so he deliberately embarrassed the crown prince when he entered the court to show that he was loyal to the emperor.
But this made the crown prince Li Heng very unhappy, and repeatedly reported that An Lushan was preparing to rebel. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan finally rebelled, triggering an eight-year Anshi Rebellion.
This political bargain, which was used as an excuse for singing and dancing, ended in tragedy. Both Yang Guifei and An Lushan were forced to accept the cruel reality, and the death of Tang Xuanzong brought irreparable damage to the entire imperial court.
Rather than wait for the enemy to attack the city, launch a surprise attack while the emperor still trusts him and is defenseless. As expected, the An Lushan rebels were like a bamboo, the imperial court was defeated in successive battles, and lost the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang in a year, and Tang Xuanzong fled Chang'an in a hurry with Yang Guifei.
Then came the well-known Ma Weipo Change. The angry soldiers turned their anger to Yang Guifei's family and forced Tang Xuanzong to kill them, and the first beauty of the Tang Dynasty passed away.
Ma Weipo) imagined that Yang Guifei would look back on the experience of recognizing her relatives before she died, what was her mood?