Yang Yuhuan - Biography

Yin Tao version of Yang Guifei Yang Yuhuan was born in a family of eunuchs, great-grandfather Yang Wang was the Sui Dynasty's Shangzhu State, the Ministry of Shangshu, the early Tang Dynasty was killed by Li Shimin, father Yang Xuanyan, is the Shuzhou Sihu, uncle Yang Xuanqi once served as Tucao in Henan Province, Yang Yuhuan's childhood was spent in Sichuan, about 10 years old, her father died, she fostered in Luoyang's third uncle Yang Xuanqi's family. When she was 17 years old, Concubine Wu Hui chose Princess Shou in Luoyang and picked her. She has the beauty of the city and the country, is naturally beautiful, proficient in music, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa.

In July of the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Tang Xuanzong, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend. Princess Xianyang's younger brother Shouwang Li Mao fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight, and Tang Xuanzong issued an edict at the request of Concubine Wu Hui to appoint her as Princess Shou. After marriage, the two were unusually sweet.

On the seventh day of December in the twenty-fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Concubine Wu Hui, who was favored by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, died of illness, and Xuanzong was depressed. Under the recommendation of his confidant eunuch Gao Lishi, Tang Xuanzong set his sights on Yang Yuhuan, a daughter-in-law similar to Concubine Wu Hui.

In October of the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, who had been married to Li Mao for five years, left Shouwang's Mansion and came to Lishan, when she was only 22 years old, and Xuanzong was 56 years old.

In the fourth year of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong canonized Wei Zhaoxun's daughter as Princess Shou, and then canonized Yang Yuhuan as a concubine. Since Yang Guifei entered the palace, she has followed the feudal court system, but she does not intervene in the struggle for power, and is favored by Xuanzong in every way with her charming and docile and outstanding musical talent.

In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755 AD), Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong made An Lushan rebel in the name of opposing Yang Guozhong, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chang'an. In the following year, Tang Xuanzong fled to Shuzhong with Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong, and when he passed through Ma Weiyi (now west of Xingping City, Shaanxi), the generals of the forbidden army unanimously demanded that Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong be executed. Tang Xuanzong said that the country should be punished, but the concubine was not guilty, and wanted to pardon Yang Yuhuan, but the forbidden army thought that the concubine was a disaster for the country, and the Anshi Rebellion was caused by the concubine. After accepting Gao Lishi's advice, Tang Xuanzong had to give Yang Guifei to death in order to protect himself. This is the allusion of Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred" in "The Six Armies Are Helpless, Like a Moth Eyebrows and Horses Dying", and finally Yang Guifei was given a white silk and hanged herself under the pear tree in the Buddhist hall at the age of 38, while Yang Guozhong died under the blade of the chaotic soldiers. Xuanzong returned to the palace after the Anshi Rebellion was pacified, and sent people to find Yang Guifei's body, but he did not find it. [