Allusion: Yang Guifei, the concubine at that time, liked eating litchi in Lingnan very much, but it was difficult to keep fresh litchi in Lingnan. In order to eat fresh litchi, people had to be sent to the palace, so eating litchi exhausted many horses, just to win the favor of a concubine.
"When riding a princess in the world of mortals, no one knew it was litchi." It means that when riding a car, the smoke rolled and the princess smiled, and no one knew that the south sent litchi fresh fruit.
source: three quatrains crossing the Qing palace by du mu, a writer in the Tang dynasty. Extended information
This poem, through the typical event of sending litchi, lashed out at the luxurious and dissolute lives of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, with a subtle artistic effect, exquisite and well-known.
The first sentence describes the scenery of Mount Li where Huaqing Palace is located. The poet writes from the perspective of "looking back" in Chang 'an, just like a cinematographer, he first shows a broad and far-reaching panorama of Mount Li in front of the audience: lush trees, lush flowers and plants, palaces and castles standing among them, just like a beautiful group. "Embroidery piles" not only refers to the East Embroidery Ridge and the West Embroidery Ridge on both sides of Mount Li, but also describes the beauty of Mount Li.
Yang Yuhuan was born in an official family at the beginning of June in the seventh year of Kaiyuan (719), and his great-grandfather Yang Wang was an official in the Sui Dynasty and was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. Father, Yang Xuanyan, once served as a manager in Shuzhou; Uncle Hsuan Yang Yun used to be a native Cao in Henan Province, and Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood in Shuzhou.
in the seventeenth year of kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, who was about 1 years old, was placed in foster care with his third uncle, Hsuan Yang. ?
Yang Yuhuan's natural beauty and superior educational environment make her have a certain cultural accomplishment, graceful personality, proficient in temperament, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa. In Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, it is described as: but with graces granted by heaven and not to be concealed, at last one day was chosen for the imperial household.
In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was invited to attend. Li Mao, the younger brother of Princess Xianyi, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At the request of Wu Huifei, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote a letter to make her Princess Shouyi that year. After the marriage, the two were very loving.
Wu Huifei died in the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737). Wu Huifei, Li Mao's mother, was Xuanzong's favorite concubine, and her courtesies in the palace were equal to those of the empress. Xuanzong was unhappy because of this. At that time, there were thousands of harem, and there was no meaning. Someone suggested that Yang Yuhuan was "graceful in appearance, and should be filled with courtyards", so Xuanzong called Yang into the harem.
In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (74), in the name of praying for Dou Taihou, Xuanzong's mother, Yang wrote a letter to become a female Taoist? The road number is "too true".
In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), after Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made Wei Zhaoxun's daughter Princess Shou, he made Yang Yuhuan the imperial concubine. Since Emperor Xuanzong abolished the queen, there has been no queen, so Yang Guifei is equivalent to the queen.
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