Concubine Yang finally committed suicide in Maweiyi.
In 755 AD, Anlu Mountain rebelled in the name of the Qing emperor, and the Japanese invaded Chang'an. The next year, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty took Concubine Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong to Sichuan and began to flee. After passing Maweiyi At that time, Chen Xuanli, the imperial guard who protected Tang Xuanzong, and other officers and soldiers had been asking Tang Xuanzong to execute Yang Guozhong and Yang Guifei and killed Yang Guozhong.
Tang Xuanzong told Chen Xuanli that Yang Guozhong had brought trouble to the government, but that Concubine Yang was not at fault. He wanted to pardon Concubine Yang, but the sergeants and soldiers of the imperial army thought that Concubine Yang was a beauty. The reason why An Lushan rebelled was because of Concubine Yang. However, if he did not kill Concubine Yang, he would not be able to boost the morale of the army and continue to surround Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to listen to the advice of the eunuch Gao Lishi, and gave Yang Guifei a white silk and ordered Yang Guifei to commit suicide under the plum tree in the Buddhist hall. In order to protect the emperor, Yang Guifei listened to the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzong committed suicide under a pear tree at the age of thirty-eight. Extended information
Yang Yuhuan was born into a family of eunuchs in the early sixth month of the lunar calendar in the seventh year of Kaiyuan (719). His great-great-grandfather Yang Wang was the Shangzhu State and Official Minister of the Sui Dynasty. He was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. His father, Yang Xuanyan, once served as the chief minister of Shuzhou; his uncle, Yang Xuanxuan, once served as the local cao of Henan Prefecture. Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood in Shuzhou. In the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, when Yang Yuhuan was about 10 years old, his father died and he was fostered in the home of his third uncle Yang Xuanxuan in Luoyang.
Yang Yuhuan's natural beauty and superior educational environment gave her a certain degree of cultural accomplishment, a gentle personality, proficiency in music, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa. It is described in Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" as follows: It is difficult to abandon natural beauty, and once it is chosen to be on the side of the king.
In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, daughter of Tang Xuanzong, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend. Princess Xianyi's younger brother, Prince Shou Li Hao, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At the request of Concubine Wu Hui, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict to appoint her as Princess Shou. After marriage, the two were very loving.
Concubine Wu Hui passed away in the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan (737). Li Mao's mother, Concubine Wu Hui, was Xuanzong's most favored concubine, and her courtesy in the palace was equal to that of a queen. Xuanzong was depressed because of this. At that time, there were thousands of people in the harem, but there was no one to care about. Some people said that Yang Yuhuan was "good in appearance and good enough to serve as a court", so Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned the Yang family into the harem.
In October of the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan (740), in the name of praying for blessings from Xuanzong’s mother, Queen Mother Dou, Yang was ordered to become a female Taoist priest, with the Taoist name "Taizhen".
In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty appointed Wei Zhaoxun’s daughter as Princess Shou, and then appointed Yang Yuhuan as his imperial concubine. Equivalent to a queen.
In the fifteenth year of Tianbao (756), Anlushan launched a rebellion. He followed Li Longji out of Chang'an from Yanqiu Gate and went into exile in Shu. They passed by Mawei Station. 15th), died in the rebellion in Maweiyi.
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