Is her real name Yuhuan?
What's the name of the famous Yang Guifei? This is an interesting question.
Neither the Old Tang Book nor the New Tang Book is recorded, nor is it clearly recorded in Zi Tong Zhi Jian. The legend of Song of Eternal Sorrow only says that she is Yang Xuanyan's daughter. In the ninth year of the Tang Dynasty (855), that is, about 100 years after the death of Yang Guifei, Zheng Chuhui's Miscellanies of Ming Taizu first mentioned: "Yang Guifei's small character Yuhuan". Later generations still use it today. There are different views on this. Qin Shihuang said in Jin Yang Men Shi Hua: "The jade slave is too small." Zheng Chuhui and Zheng Bi are both Tang Dynasty people, living in the same era, and both are Jinshi, so their statements have credible reasons. Of course, it is also possible that both names belong to Yang, one is his real name and the other is his nickname.
No matter what Yang Guifei's name is, the old man named Li Longji likes it. He is really an old man. When we first met in the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), Yang was only 22 years old and he was 56 years old. He is always older, but he is the emperor, so he can do whatever he wants. He not only doesn't care what her name is, but also doesn't care whether she is married or not, and doesn't even consider that she is married to her own son. As long as he likes it, he must take it.
When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty took a fancy to Yang Yuhuan, she had been married to Li Mao, the birthday girl, for almost five years. Hu Feng prevailed in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and it seems common for Lao Zi to rob his son and daughter-in-law. "Everyone is equal before love", so there is no guardian crying to give the emperor the idea of "human relations". But this is not a glorious thing after all. In order to explain to the world, Tang Xuanzong did some work on the table. For example, first, under the banner of filial piety, she was ordered to be a female Taoist priest, saying that she would recommend good news to her mother Dou Taihou, giving her the name "Too True" and letting Yang Yuhuan move out of Shouwangfu and live in Taizhen Palace. This is also to avoid people's eyes and ears and cheat. After five years' efforts, Xuanzong first solemnly fulfilled his "father's duty", betrothed Wei's daughter to the birthday girl Wang Li Mao as a princess, and then eagerly welcomed Yang back to the palace and officially conferred him as the imperial concubine. Yang Yuhuan is not only beautiful, good at singing and dancing, but also smart and considerate. He is simply the emperor's intimate "little cotton-padded jacket", and Xuanzong naturally likes it. Soon, Yang Yuhuan devoted himself to the harem, making it "and the powder and paint of the Sixth Palace fade to nothing". At that time, the palace called her madam, and all the treatments (etiquette regulations) were also queen-level.