Yang Yuhuan and the Song of Everlasting Regret
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In the seventh year of Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 719), Yang Yuhuan, a peerless beauty of the [Tang Dynasty], was born in Xishu. Twenty-one years later, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty met Yang Yuhuan for the first time at the Lishan Hot Spring Palace and was impressed by her beauty, beauty, and leisurely manner. He immediately became a female Taoist priest and lived in Taizhen Palace. In the fourth year of Tianbao (AD 745), Yuhuan was conferred as a noble concubine. From then on, a tragic love story between an emperor and his concubine took place in Chinese history. It is actually an episode in the process of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. It is so sad and touching, but also contains profound historical lessons. No matter what people throughout the ages say, they all agree that Yang Guifei is a model of female beauty in Chinese history, just as the rich and gorgeous peonies embody the aesthetic concepts of the Tang people.
Concubine Yang’s ancestral home was Huayin, Hongnong (Huayin, Shaanxi), and later moved to Puzhou (Yongji, Shanxi). His ancestors were all high-ranking officials, and his great-grandfather Ling Ben also served as the governor of Jinzhou. After that, the family declined. His father Xuan Yan was appointed as the chief minister of Shu Prefecture and joined the army. Shuzhou is located in Western Shu and has jurisdiction over the four counties of Jinyuan, Qingcheng, Xinjin and Tangxing. The prefecture governs Jinyuan County, which is now Chongzhou City in Sichuan Province. Si Hu joined the army, an assistant official in charge of households in the state, and was a junior official. Yang Xuanyan served in Shuzhou around the early years of Kaiyuan. There are records in historical documents that the imperial concubine's "father Xuanyan, was the sihu of Shuzhou", but only "Yang Taizhen's Biography" written by the Song Dynasty Beginner's Music History mentioned the birthplace of the imperial concubine in detail: "Father Xuanyan was the sihu of Shuzhou. The imperial concubine Born in Shu, he accidentally fell into the pool, which was later called Luofei Pool. The pool was in front of Daojiang County. "[Tang Dynasty] Daojiang County is now Juyuan Town, Dujiangyan City, adjacent to Shuzhou. The ruins of Luofei Pond in front of Daojiang County still exist in Daojiang Village, Juyuan Town, Dujiangyan City today. The pool is round and small, covering an area of ??more than 1 mu. Surrounded by fertile farmland and golden rice; there is a roll of trees called "water melon" by the locals beside the pool. The grass is like smoke, green and green, and the scenery is beautiful. The imperial concubine liked to play by the pool when she was a child, and accidentally fell into this pool, so this small pool became famous. Yang Shen, a later literati, wrote a poem:
The concubine's room is filled with lotus and jade, her gentleness is close to Baiyun Township.
The light covers three thousand hectares of color world and moistens the first soup in Huaqing.
Wang Peixun also wrote a poem:
When you enter the water and the pool is full of pearls, you first learn how to wash away the fat with jade liquid.
Begonia is not broken and the east wind is soft, but when Huaqing comes out of the bath?
Poets all thought that this little girl was given a bath in the hot spring of Huaqing Palace, and there seemed to be signs of her first blessing. There is a Yang family courtyard near Luofei Pond. According to legend, it was where Yuhuan lived at that time, and it was called "Yang Fei's House". It can be speculated that Yang Fei's house was the residence where Yang Xuanyan was employed in Shuzhou, and Yuhuan must have been born here. Thousands of miles of fertile land, the plains of western Sichuan are rich in products and beautiful scenery, and the beauty is beautiful. It took an unknown amount of time to create a peerless beauty. There may be a mysterious cultural reason for this.
Approximately, Yang Xuanyan died in Shuzhou when his daughter was only a few years old, so she was known as "the concubine died early in history". His uncle, Cao Yang Xuanjio, a scholar in Henan Prefecture (Luoyang, Henan), adopted Yuhuan. She received a good education in this new environment, and she was already well-established at the age of seventeen. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734 AD), she was selected as the concubine of Emperor Xuanzong's son, King Shou. The arrangement of fate was particularly clever. In the end, Yuhuan became Xuanzong's noble concubine because she was "naturally beautiful and could not give up on herself. She once chose the king's side." She gained the true love of the emperor who founded the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty changed from political enlightenment to mediocrity and debauchery, the Tang Dynasty turned from its prosperity to decline, the Anshi Rebellion spread, and the royal family fled to Shu. If all these major social responsibilities were borne by Yang Guifei, it would be too exaggerated and very unfair. Fair enough. Yang Guifei does not have the qualities of a talented and ambitious politician like Wu Zetian. She only pursues love and vanity like ordinary women, and strives to enjoy the happiness of life. In June of the fifteenth year of Tianbao (AD 756), the royal family and their entourage took refuge in Shu. When passing through Mawei Station, the Sixth Army did not send out troops. Although the eunuch Gao Lishi said that "the imperial concubine is innocent," the situation forced Xuanzong to order Gao Lishi to The imperial concubine was hanged in the Buddhist hall. It's a pity that she was only thirty-eight years old, and her beauty has faded away. After Xuanzong entered Shu, he couldn't help but miss the imperial concubine painfully. Later, the scholar Yang Shen wondered whether Xuanzong knew that there was still the ruins of Luofei Pond in Sichuan when he saw the moon in his palace. He said: "I don't know that on the night when he saw the moon in his palace, Meng Fanghun was by the water?" It is possible that Xuanzong did not know that there was a Luofei Pond in Sichuan. If he knew about Luo Fei Pond, maybe he would go to mourn her, rather than go to heaven and earth to find her soul.
Concubine Yang never returned to the place of her birth after she left Shuzhong when she was young. Is she really a "trouble", a "beautiful creature" or a "temptress"? A hundred years later, when war broke out at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty led the royal family to Shu for refuge like Xuanzong. When he returned to Maweipo, he felt inspired and wrote a poem:
Mawei willows and willows are green, and Luan Yu is lucky to see him again. Return to Shu.
Ah Huan under the spring should have said: This time I will not offend Concubine Yang.
Xizong had already expressed the injustice and hatred of the wronged soul on behalf of Concubine Yang.
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