The 80-year-old Zhang Xi 'an was already full of white hair, and the bride was a young beauty in bud. They hit it off when they visited the church. This eternal romance naturally became a topic that people talked about at that time. Su Dongpo is a friend of Zhang Xian. Su Dongpo is very humorous. Knowing this, he gave Zhang Xian a poem that day. The poem says: eighteen brides and eighty lang, with white hair and red makeup. Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia. There was a time when it was a story.
Su Dongpo is a brilliant and knowledgeable genius. His poem, which seems to be full of ridicule, also contains an allusion, which is included in the third sentence of the poem, "Two nights in the quilt". This allusion comes from Su Dongpo's idiom "Yuanyang Bei", and behind this idiom, there is a little-known love story, which tells the story of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.
Xuanzong was a very special emperor in the Tang Dynasty, because he was a contradictory emperor. When he was young, he was a wise SHEN WOO, a wise monarch who made great efforts to govern, appointed talents and humbled coachable. He created "Kaiyuan Shi Sheng" and pushed the Tang Dynasty to the most brilliant peak. However, after decades in power, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty became complacent, took a passive position in politics, and was partial to his followers, especially after he met Yang Yuhuan, a stunning beauty, and even became a favorite of 3,000 people. Since then, the emperor gave up his early hearings, which eventually led to the "An Shi Rebellion", and the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty is gone forever.
Tang Xuanzong's merits and demerits have their own conclusions, and their relationship with us. Today, I mainly talk about his relationship with Yang Guifei and the idiom "Yuanyang has a quilt". According to historical records such as "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao" and "The Book of Old Tang Dynasty", Yang Guifei's real name is Yang Yuhuan, which is naturally charming, but Yang Yuhuan was originally the concubine of Li Mao, the biological son of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Wu Huifei. Wu Huifei was the favorite concubine in the first half of Tang Xuanzong's life. After Wu Huifei's death, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty lived in great pain until he met Yang Yuhuan who looked like Wu Huifei.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty thought that God was compensating himself, so he decided to let Yang Yuhuan leave his son Li Mao, the longevity king, and become a female Taoist, nicknamed "Yang Taizhen". After a while, he took Yang Yuhuan to the palace to serve himself and made him Yang Guifei. As for Li Mao, the longevity king, Tang Xuanzong found him a wife to make compensation. After having Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was very happy and refreshed, as if he had returned to his boyhood. Tang Xuanzong loved Yang Guifei so much that he couldn't wait to give her the whole Datang. Yang Guifei's family also gained fame and fortune, and Yang Guifei's cousin, Yang, has more than 40 jobs and has become the current prime minister.
As for Yang Guifei herself, she is naturally luxurious and has whatever she wants. She wanted to sing and dance, and Tang Xuanzong personally played music to accompany her. Want to eat litchi, Tang Xuanzong sent someone to send it all the way; Want to soak in hot springs, Tang Xuanzong immediately expanded Huaqing Palace. In a word, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty really reached the realm of "crossing mountains and rivers and laughing only for Bomei people". One year, on the fifth day of May, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei spent the summer in Xingqingchi. They sat in the shade of the bedstead, watching and chatting. At this time, several maids leaned against the railing and crowded over to see the two people in the pool. A waterfowl (a kind of mandarin duck) is playing in the water.
Seeing this, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty held Yang Guifei in his arms and showed off to the ladies-in-waiting, saying, "Do you envy the people in the water? Hey, but? Where is it comparable to me and the imperial concubine? " (The emperor held the imperial concubine in his tent, called her to the palace and said, "Are you love the water? Come on, beat me like a mandarin duck? " ) Tang Xuanzong casually said a word, recorded by historians, spread to the Song Dynasty, and was used by Su Dongpo to ridicule Zhang Xian in his poems. Now it has become a famous idiom to describe the love between husband and wife.