As the name implies, Mei Fei is elegant, beautiful and lovely. His real name is Jiang and his ancestral home is Fujian. When I was nine years old, I would recite The Book of Songs, Nan Zhou and Calling for the South and say to my father, "As a girl, I want to be a good wife of a country." Seeing that her daughter had such a wish since she was a child, her father named her "Cai Ping". At the age of fifteen, Cai Ping was chosen by Gao Lishi and sent to the palace. At that time, there were nearly 40,000 concubines in the palace, all wearing heavy makeup and ordinary ornaments. The arrival of Cai Ping seems to have brought a breeze to the palace. She is gentle and elegant, light makeup, relaxed and happy. The most rare thing is that Cai Ping is not only beautiful in appearance, but also brilliant in literary talent, good at musical instruments and good at singing and dancing. She especially likes plum blossoms. Plum trees can be seen everywhere around her residence. When the flowers bloom, she lingers and forgets herself. Xuanzong sympathized with her infatuation with flowers and called her "Mei Fei". During this period, Mei Fei enjoyed Xuanzong's love almost alone. Although the other concubines at the funeral were very unhappy, they all felt that they were not as good as Mei Fei.
However, the good times did not last long. As Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, Mei Fei was gradually left out. Yang Yuhuan and Mei Fei are both peerless beauties, but their temperaments are quite different. Mei Fei is petite and gentle, and Yuhuan is plump and charming. With his intelligence, Yang Yuhuan tried his best to create music by singing, dancing, playing pipa and rock music. He quickly established 3000 favorites, which made Don Huang Ming fall at his feet. Yang Yuhuan is spoiled. Once, the emperor recalled the days when he lived with Mei Fei. He secretly sent a trusted eunuch to Mei Fei at night. He didn't dare to light a lamp in the dark for fear of being discovered by the imperial concubine. That night, Xuanzong and Mei Fei fell in love, exchanged views, and unconsciously missed the early dynasty. Knowing this, Yang Yuhuan was jealous and went directly to the emperor's residence to make a scene. According to the eunuch, the emperor panicked, and Mei Fei, hiding behind the curtain, had to quietly walk back to his exiled Shang Yang East Palace.
Mei Fei, who was left out in the cold, was very lonely. He has never seen an envoy send plum blossoms before, but he often sees local envoys send fruits to the imperial concubine, and he can't help crying. She asked Gao Lishi to find a talented poet to write a sincere poem for himself, like Sima Xiangru's "Dragon Gate Fu", to awaken the emperor's feelings about Japanese life. However, Gao Lishi insisted on attaching himself to the powerful Yang family and hastily refused to "have no one to write". In desperation, Mei Fei wrote a novel Dong Bin, the Last Tower of Hope, describing himself as a lonely plum. He can only think of his constant feelings with the king in his dreams. After the building was introduced to the emperor, I hope the emperor can be moved by it every day and the two can get back together. However, all she wanted was a string of pearls that the emperor gave to Mei Fei. Desperate Mei Fei has no intention of dressing up. She wrote a poem: "Liu Mei hasn't painted for a long time, and her makeup is as red as tears. Nagato naturally has no clothes. Why does Pearl do this?
In this way, with the charm of Yang Guifei, Tang occasionally thought of this. But I'm always afraid of making the imperial concubine angry, and I can't do anything. It was not until the death of Yang Guifei in the Anshi Rebellion that Emperor Xuanzong returned to Chang 'an and began to look around for the whereabouts of Mei Fei. Some people say that she may have been living in exile during the war. Tang Xuanzong immediately sent a letter. If anyone finds Mei Fei, he will get a high reward, and his officials will be promoted to three levels, and a million dollars will be awarded.
One day, Xuanzong dreamed that Mei Fei was crying and said that he was buried under the plum tree. He jumped up and immediately ordered someone to dig. Finally, Mei Fei's body was found under the plum tree beside the hot spring pool. He was horrified to find obvious knife marks under his ribs. Whether Mei Fei, who was left unattended, committed suicide in despair or died by the sword of mutinous soldiers or others, is unknown. Since then, with the reburial of Mei Fei's body, another eternal mystery has been left to future generations forever. The princess surprised the emperor and became his favorite princess. However, Tang Xuanzong was not a loyal man. After Mei Fei fell from grace, he lived a miserable life and was unhappy all day. Finally died in vain. It's a pity that such a talented beauty has come to this step.