Yang Yuhuan, 18 years old, was originally the princess of Li Mao, the eighteenth son of Xuanzong, and was married as a concubine by her father-in-law Xuanzong, who was 5 1 year old. That's how Song of Eternal Sorrow began. Huaqingchi is the love between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. This fairy-tale love story ended in Maweipo. In June of the 15th year of Tang Tianbao (AD 756), due to the outbreak of "An Shi Rebellion", Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty fled with Yang Guifei. As soon as he arrived at Majipo, the guards angrily killed his cousin, then prime minister Yang, and forced Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to order the hanging. Yang Yuhuan died at the age of 38. She made Ma Dongpo famous.
Because of the story of Yang Guifei, the city of Xi 'an is a little more feminine. Huaqingchi must see it. Not to see Yang Guifei take a bath, but to see where Yang Guifei takes a bath. We don't have the vision of Tang Xuanzong. We can only look at the remains of beauty, a few blue tiles between the residual mountains and water. "Begonia soup" is a special bath water for Yang Guifei. It is a two-story table, made of stone and shaped like a blooming begonia flower. When the cold spring bathes people, Yang Guifei never imagined that after a few years, there will be an endless stream of onlookers. She can't see us, and neither can we. This is all due to Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow: "It warms and smoothes the glittering and translucent skin of her ..." It seems that he witnessed it with his own eyes. We came even later, and we could only imagine it out of thin air in front of the dried-up Haitang pool like Bai Juyi. I can't be closer to beauty, but I am a few steps closer to the poet. When I sang an elegy to Jiangshan beauty, I wondered if Bai Juyi really came to this place. I believe that he has been here. I believe in myself and stand where Bai Juyi stood.
Bigger than "Haitang Soup" is "Lotus Soup", a pool dedicated to bathing by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. In the sixth year of Tianbao (AD 747), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty expanded Huaqing Palace at the northern foot of Mount Li, regarded Tangjing as a pool, arranged palaces around the mountain, and built Luocheng around the palace. Huaqing Palace became the capital, or the Winter Palace. Every October, Tang Xuanzong went to Huaqing Palace for the winter with Yang Guifei and officials, and returned to Chang 'an in April the following year. They like that we want to fly in heaven, two birds are one and grow together on the earth, two branches of a tree. And they spent nearly half their time in Huaqing Palace.
However, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were not the first customers of Lishan Hot Spring. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, the then emperor built pavilions here and enclosed them as forbidden areas. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Bo specially wrote Wen Tang Ming, praising the health and beauty function of hot springs, saying that it was "Huaqing to stay old". This is also the origin of Huaqingchi's name. Qin Shihuang loved to soak in hot springs and built a stone pool named "Lishantang". Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty rebuilt and planted pines and cypresses around. Emperor Taizong also took a fancy to this place and ordered Yan Lide to be the contractor to build the "Tangquan Palace" ... They were all passers-by. Speaking of Huaqing Pool, the first thing that comes to mind is Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. Maybe this is the power of love? Love can make a place poetic for a long time.
"... the high rose plum palace, entering the blue clouds, and the wide breeze carrying magical notes. Soft songs and slow dances, string and bamboo music, the emperor's eyes will never stare at her ... "Until today, we still think that Yang Guifei is the hostess of Huaqingchi. Her shadow is everywhere. In this city where the Terracotta Warriors have been excavated, we don't want the history to be cold, but we also expect to find a faint warmth from the history of a heart of stone. Terracotta Warriors and Horses confront hard, but Yang Guifei's love is soft-hearted. Just as the so-called hate in Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow is not a hate for beauty, but an indictment of tragedy and fate itself. And this endless sadness always means each other's unforgettable feelings, as well as the suffering of acacia separated from heaven and earth. Huaqingchi, a sweet town with rich hot springs, is a bitter fruit.
Today, people only know that Huaqingchi is Yang Guifei's love palace, but they don't know that it is also related to another celebrity. That's Empress Dowager Cixi. In AD 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu also fled to xi 'an. After Cixi took refuge in Xi 'an, she forgot the pain before the wound healed. Accustomed to splendor, she craved pleasure and ordered the reconstruction of Huaqingchi Garden according to the model of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Today, most of the buildings in Huaqingchi were built by Cixi. They not only retained the style of the Tang Dynasty in architectural style, but also extended the names of many buildings. For example, the city gate is now called Jinyang Gate. After entering the door, it passes through Shaoyang Hall, a palace-style building, and then passes through Sandongmen, which is the courtyard of Huaqingchi House built on the mountain.
There is an old pavilion next to Huaqing Pool, which is said to be the place where Yang Guifei dried her hair after bathing. It is called the Blow-drying Pavilion. I can't find it today.
In the middle of the yard is a lotus pond with a lotus pavilion. The hibiscus flower depicted in Song of Eternal Sorrow refers to the flower in this pond, right? In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian's poem "A Journey to the Hot Spring Palace" aims at its meaning: "On October 1st, when the Emperor comes, the bluefly will be dustless on the royal road. There are different soups in front of the palace, each with white jade hibiscus. "