The maid helped her, and she was as soft and graceful as a hibiscus, so she began to get the favor of the emperor.
Source: everlasting regret
Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. With the help of historical figures and legends, poets have created touching stories and reproduced the truth of real life through their own artistic images, which have infected readers for thousands of years. The theme of this poem is "Song of Eternal Sorrow". This poem has had a far-reaching influence on many literary works in later generations.
In this narrative poem, the author describes the love tragedy of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei in the Anshi Rebellion with refined language, beautiful images, narration and lyricism: their love was destroyed by their own rebellion, and they were endlessly eating the bitter fruit of this spirit. Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei are both historical figures. Poets do not stick to history, but rely on a little shadow of history.
According to the legend of people at that time, the singing of the neighborhood became a tortuous and touching story, which was described and sung in a reciprocating and touching artistic form. Because the stories and characters in the poem are artistic, and they are the complex and true reappearance of people in reality, they can ripple in the hearts of readers in past dynasties.
The whole article is divided into three parts: the first part is from the beginning to "and the tune of rainbow skirt and feather coat is broken" The poet wrote the love life of Tang and Yang Guifei in 32 sentences, describing the situation of famine and chaos in the country and the outbreak of Anshi rebellion. The second part, from "Forbidden City, nine-story palace, looming in the dust" to "but no beloved soul visited his dream", contains 42 sentences, in which Yang Guifei was killed in the Mayiyi mutiny and Tang Xuanzong's thoughts after that; "There lived a Taoist in Lingqiong, and he was a guest in heaven" is the last part of this poem, which tells the story of the Taoist who helped Tang Xuanzong find Yang Guifei in Xianshan.