"My family has a daughter who has just grown up" comes from "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" written by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
1. Author: Bai Juyi (772-846), whose courtesy name was Letian, also known as Xiangshan Jushi, and also Mr. Zuiyin. His ancestral home was Taiyuan. He moved to Xiagui when his great-grandfather was around. He was born in Xinzheng, Henan. He was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty.
2. Excerpts from the original text:
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty paid great attention to beauty and wanted to overwhelm the country, and he could not get it for many years. There is a daughter in the Yang family who has just grown up. She is raised in a boudoir and no one knows her.
It’s hard to give up on natural beauty. Once you choose it, you will be on the side of the king. Looking back and smiling, the sixth palace has no color.
In the cold spring, you can bathe in Huaqing Pool, and the hot spring water will wash away the fat. The waiter helped her weakly, and it was the beginning of her new grace.
The flowers on the temples are swaying with golden steps, and the hibiscus tent warms the spring night. The spring night is short and the sun is high, and from now on the king will not go to court early.
There is no leisure for Cheng Huan to serve banquets, and he spends all his time traveling from spring to night. There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and three thousand people love her.
The golden house is made up to serve as a charming servant at night, and the jade house is drunk and spring after the banquet. Sisters and brothers are all from the earth, poor and glorious.
This makes the hearts of parents all over the world not to be reborn as boys but to be reborn as girls. The blue clouds are rising from the heights of Li Palace, and the wind of fairy music can be heard everywhere.
Slow singing, slow dancing, silk and bamboo, the emperor can't see enough. Yuyang's flying dragon stirs the earth, shocking the colorful clothes and feathers.
3. Translation: Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty preferred beauty. After becoming the emperor, he had been looking for beauties for many years, but found nothing. There was a daughter of the Yang family who had just grown up. She was very beautiful and she was raised in a boudoir. Outsiders did not know her beauty. Naturally beautiful and charming, it was difficult for her to be buried in the world, and it didn't take long for her to become a concubine of Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty. When she looked back and smiled, she was full of charm and charm; all the concubines in the Sixth Palace were overshadowed. When the spring was cold, the emperor sent her to Huaqing Pool to bathe. The warm spring water washed her skin like gelatin. The maid supported her, and Pingting was as weak as a hibiscus emerging from the water, and she began to gain favor from the emperor. His hair on the temples is like clouds, his face is like flowers, and he wears a golden walking stick on his head. Spend the spring night with the emperor in the warm hibiscus tent. Deep love only hates the short night in spring, sleeping until the sun rises high. The king was deeply in love with his children and his gentle country, and never went to court again. Accepting your pleasure and serving you your drink, I am so busy that I have no time to spare. In the spring, he traveled with the emperor, and in the evening, he slept with him every night. There were no less than three thousand concubines in the harem, but she was the only one who enjoyed the emperor's favor. Dressing up in the golden house, coquettishly staying with the king every night; drinking and feasting in the jade tower, drunkenness adds a bit of charm. Her brothers and sisters were all ennobled by her, and the Yang family's lintel was so glorious that it was enviable. As a result, parents all over the world changed their minds and favored daughters over sons. The Yuyu Qiong Tower in Huaqing Palace on Lishan Mountain towers into the clouds, and fairy music floats in all directions wherever the breeze passes. The singing and dancing are often in time, and the orchestral melody is vivid. The king watches it all day long, but never tires of it. The war drums of the Yuyang rebellion were deafening, and the music of colorful clothes and feathers stopped playing in the palace.
4. Writing background: In the first year of Yuanhe of Emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty (806), Bai Juyi was appointed as the county captain of Yuxi (now Zhouzhi County, Xi'an City). One day, I visited Xianyou Temple near Maweiyi with my friends Chen Hong and Wang Zhifu, and talked about Li Longji and Yang Guifei. Wang Zhifu believes that outstanding things like this will disappear over time if they are not heavily processed and polished. He encouraged Bai Juyi: "Lots of happiness are deeper than poetry and more than love. How about singing it?" So Bai Juyi wrote this long poem. Chen Hong also wrote a legendary novel "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow".