What Yebai said caught us off guard.

The Yang family has a woman who has just grown up, and she is raised in the deep palace and no one knows it?

Even those who are not familiar with poetry must have heard these two lines of poetry.

These two sentences are from Bai Juyi's long hatred song, the whole poem vividly narrates the love tragedy between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, Bai Juyi borrowed historical figures and legends to create a moving story that whirls and turns.

The poem reproduces the poignant love between the two through the artistic image it creates, which has infected readers for thousands of years and has had a profound impact on many literary works in later generations.

But we're not academics, and that's not what we're going to think about.

The so-called Yang Guifei is Yang Yuhuan, it is rumored that she has a graceful personality, a rich posture, is good at singing and dancing, knows music and rhythm, and was even rated as one of the four beauties in ancient China.

But before Yang Yuhuan really became Tang Xuanzong's Yang Guifei, she was actually the princess of Tang Xuanzong's son Shouwang Li Mao, that is to say, she was actually Tang Xuanzong's daughter-in-law, and Tang Xuanzong snatched her from his son through improper means.

In July of the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan, Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan fell in love at first sight, under the repeated requests of Concubine Wu Hui, Tang Xuanzong issued an edict to set Yang Yuhuan as the princess of Shou, after marriage, Li Mao and Yang Yuhuan were both sweet and abnormal, at this time Tang Xuanzong only knew that there was such a person, but he had not seen it.

It wasn't until five years later that Tang Xuanzong really saw Yang Yuhuan, and at first sight, he was deeply fascinated by Yang Yuhuan's appearance and began his own plans.

Tang Xuanzong first designed a superficial article, he waved the banner of filial piety, saying that he wanted to recommend blessings to his mother, the Empress Dowager Dou, and ordered Yang Yuhuan to become a Taoist priest and give the Taoist name Taizhen, and ordered Yang Yuhuan to move out of Shouwang's Mansion and live in Taizhen Palace.

Subsequently, he married the daughter of the minister Wei Zhaoxun to Shouwang Li Mao and set up as a concubine, in order to appease the Shouwang, to Tianbao four years, Yang Yuhuan's precept period expired, Tang Xuanzong issued an edict to let Yang Yuhuan return to the vulgar and enter the palace, officially canonized as a concubine, became Yang Guifei.

And because Xuanzong has not been established since the abolition of the queen, Yang Guifei is equivalent to the queen in the real sense.

No one knows the process until the fifteenth year of Tianbao, after the rebellion in An Lushan, Yang Yuhuan followed Tang Xuanzong Li Longji into exile in Shuzhong, passing through Ma Weiyi when the soldiers mutinied, the six armies did not send, Tang Xuanzong hated it to death, and a generation of red faces and incense disappeared.

Throughout Yang Yuhuan's life, no matter how you look at it, it is a sad story, and what kind of connection will she have with the events of that year?

For some reason, when Yang Yuhuan was mentioned, Chunting's expression was extremely lonely, and he could only be explained to us by Yebai.

"You also know that Yang Yuhuan has different opinions about her in later generations, some people praise her poignant love with Tang Xuanzong, thinking that she is a good woman, and the Anshi Rebellion has nothing to do with it, but some people say that she is the root of the Anshi Rebellion, and she is a disaster for the country."

"And the story I want to tell you today is different from all the records for thousands of years, in this story, Yang Yuhuan is not one of the four beauties in the legend, but a woman who has been blinded by hatred."

He seemed to deliberately avoid Chunting, and after taking two steps to the side, he asked Yi He and me in a low voice.

"Tell me, when you mention Yang Yuhuan, what is your first impression in your heart?"

What is your first impression of Yang Yuhuan?

A thousand years have passed, things are not people, and our impression of this legendary character seems to come from Bai Juyi's long hatred song.

Could it be that the Hall of Eternal Life on July 7, which describes the two people's mountain alliance and sea oath, when no one whispered in the middle of the night?

Or is it to describe Tang Xuanzong's extremely pampered smile at the Hongchen concubine, no one knows that it is a lychee?

Of course, it may also be the most classic sentence that describes her beauty, that is, looking back and smiling, the six palaces have no color?

Yebai shook his head.

"You also know that Yang Yuhuan was named one of the four beauties of ancient China, which is not a random comment by later generations, but has a corresponding story."

"The so-called sinking fish and falling geese are shy of the moon, in which the sinking fish is talking about the Xi Shi Huansha, the falling geese refer to Zhaojun out of the plug, and the closing of the moon is to tell the sable cicada to worship the moon, and Yang Yuhuan is the one who represents the shy flower."

Hearing this, Yi He showed an expression of sudden realization.

"The concubine is drunk, and she looks at the flowers after drinking, and the seniors are talking about the drunkenness of the concubine!"

Yebai nodded, acknowledging his guess.

"That's right, there have indeed been cases of drunkenness of concubines in history, but the essence of this incident is completely different from what later generations understand."

Hearing Yebai say this, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Although Yang Yuhuan was called by Bai Juyi as looking back and smiling, the six palaces have no color, and she has truly achieved a collection of three thousand favors, but she has also used wine to kill her sorrows because she fell out of favor for a while, and she forgot about it when she was drunk.

Legend has it that one day, Tang Xuanzong met with Yang Guifei and ordered him to set up a banquet in the Baihua Pavilion to enjoy the flowers and drink together, and Yang Yuhuan was very happy in his heart.

But the next day, when Yang Guifei rushed to the Baihua Pavilion to prepare the imperial feast and wait for the car, Tang Xuanzong's car was delayed, and someone came to report that the emperor had come to the palace of Concubine Jiang, and Yang Guifei was so annoyed when she heard the news that she had to pour herself a drink.

A woman's psychology is the most likely to change when she is resentful, and Yang Guifei's heart is difficult to dispel all kinds of sorrow for a while, and she is drunk after three glasses of wine, and she can't help but laugh in the spring, so she forgets about it, and frequently makes all kinds of drunkenness with the two eunuchs of Gaolishi and Peilishi, until she is drunk, she returns to the palace suddenly.

And when he was drunk, Yang Yuhuan inadvertently touched the mimosa, and the leaves of the grass immediately rolled up, and the palace maids said that this was Yang Yuhuan's beauty, which made the flowers and plants ashamed of themselves and couldn't raise their heads.

So, the people at that time recorded this incident, and Yang Yuhuan has since had the nickname of the shy flower, and is ranked with the moon phase of the sinking fish and the geese, and is known as the four beauties of China.

Although I am no stranger to this story, after thinking about it, I did not find any connection between this woman's sad story and the rise and fall of the dynasty.

In desperation, I had to look at Chunting, slowly tell him the story in my head, and wait for his response.

"You're half right."

After Yebai heard what was in my mouth, he looked noncommittal again, nodded and shook his head, his tone meaningful.

"At the beginning, there was indeed a matter of this concubine getting drunk and watching flowers after drinking, and people at the time also praised Yang Yuhuan's beauty with this, but the world didn't know that the reason why Yang Yuhuan was so sad was not because Tang Xuanzong couldn't move, but for another reason."