Excerpts from the original text:
The emperor of China, eager to shake the beauty of an empire, has been in office for many years, searching and never finding it. Until a child of the Yang family grew up in the inner room, almost before she grew up, and no one knew her.
However, due to the gift of heaven and no concealment, it was finally elected royal one day. If she just turned her head and smiled, there were a hundred spells, and the powder and paint of six palaces disappeared without a trace.
Translation:
Tang likes beautiful women, but he has been unable to find them for years. The Yang family has a daughter who has just grown up and has been kept in the boudoir. Nobody else knows.
Born beautiful, she was easily noticed by the emperor and was chosen as a concubine. She looked back and smiled, especially charming, and no one in the harem could match her.
Extended data:
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".
The whole article is divided into three parts:
From the beginning to "breaking the tune of rainbow skirt and feather coat" is the first part. The poet described the love life of Tang and Yang Guifei in 32 sentences, and described the 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.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-eternal sorrow