Yang Yuhuan was born in an official family. His great-grandfather Wang Yang was an official in the Sui Dynasty. He was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. His father, Yang Xuanyan, is the minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and his uncle, Xuan, is a native of Cao, Henan. Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood in Sichuan. His father died around the age of 65,438+00, and his third uncle announced that he was placed in Luoyang.
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.
Wu Huifei died in the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737). Li Mao's mother, Wu Huifei, was the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and she was treated as a queen in the palace. Xuanzong was unhappy for this. At that time, the harem Qian Qian was absolutely meaningless. Some people suggested that "the courtyards should be full of manners", and Xuanzong called Yang into the harem.
In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), in the name of Dou Taihou, the mother of Xuanzong, she wrote a letter to Yang, asking her to become a female Taoist, and signed it "too true".
In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made Wei's daughter longevity a princess, and then became a noble lady. Since Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty abolished the king and queen, Yang Guifei is equivalent to the queen.
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty said that the imperial concubine was innocent and should be pardoned, but the imperial soldiers all thought that the imperial concubine was the beauty of the country. The Anshi Rebellion was caused by the imperial concubine. Without punishing her, it would be difficult to comfort the morale of the army, boost morale and continue to surround the emperor. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty accepted Gao Lishi's suggestion and had to give Yang a gift to protect himself.
In the end, Yang Guifei was given a white silk and hanged under a pear tree in a Buddhist temple at the age of 38. This is the allusion in Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Sorrow": "A soldier in the army will be embarrassed if he doesn't move." After the Anshi Rebellion was put down, Xuanzong returned to the palace and sent someone to look for Yang Guifei's body, but he didn't find it.
Extended information anecdotes and allusions
1, Yuhuan is ashamed of flowers
There is a small and exquisite flower, whose compound leaves are like hibiscus branches, bit by bit symmetrical, like bird feathers. This plant is decorated with several small red flowers and looks like bayberry. When people point with their hands, its pinnate leaflets will close quickly and its petiole will droop slowly, just like a girl who is so shy because of her purity and simplicity, so people call it "mimosa".
Legend has it that when Yang Yuhuan first entered the palace, he was sad all day because he couldn't see the king. Once, she and the ladies-in-waiting went to the palace to enjoy flowers, and accidentally met the mimosa, and the leaves of the grass immediately rolled up. Ladies-in-waiting all say that this is the beauty of Yang Yuhuan, which makes the flowers and plants feel ashamed and ashamed. Tang Xuanzong heard that there was a "flower-bashing beauty" in the palace, and immediately summoned her and made her the imperial concubine.
Since then, "shame on flowers" has become Yang Guifei's nickname. Mimosa is ashamed to see people because of plant electricity. At the base of the leaf habitat of mimosa, there is a layer of parenchyma called "leaf mattress", which is usually filled with enough water. When the leaves are stimulated, the water in parenchyma cells immediately flows to the upper and both sides under the instruction of plant electricity.
With the increase of leaf weight, the phenomenon of leaf closure and petiole drooping appears. Mimosa plants are slender and delicate. In order to survive, it has formed this special ability to adapt to the environment through long-term natural selection.
2. The princess smiled
Yang Guifei, the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, has the beauty of the whole country, is born with beauty, is proficient in temperament, can sing and dance, and is good at playing pipa. So Tang Xuanzong loved her very much.
In order to please Yang Guifei, every litchi season, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was over 10,000 people, always assigned a special person to transport fresh litchi with dew from Sichuan (some people say Guangdong and Fujian) through Wuli or Shili post stations.
The enjoyment in the palace is extremely luxurious. The more rare and delicious it is, the more rare it is, and the more tribute it needs. In addition to litchi, there is also a kind of wine named court royal wine by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. The water used for brewing is the morning dew on the mountain. This wine has the unique geographical advantage of developing agriculture in Sichuan, and the brewed wine is mellow, clear but not light, strong but not bright!
"When riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knows that it is litchi." At that time, when Yang Guifei tasted litchi in Huaqing Palace, it was a touching scene. Tang Xuanzong often used this wine to drink. In Tang Xuanzong's eyes, Yang Guifei was, of course, "If she just turned her head and smiled, there would be hundreds of spells, and the six palaces would be wiped out."
Since then, there has been this famous smile in this history. "Huaqing sings and dresses drunk, and the imperial concubine laughs and drinks dew"! The wine that entered the court as a tribute was also named: dew smile.
3. The imperial concubine is drunk.
She claimed that "as long as she turned her head and smiled, there would be a hundred kinds of spells, and the makeup of the sixth palace would go up in smoke", "but his favor for 3,000 years was concentrated in one body", but she also made an appointment with Yang Guifei on the first day of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and ordered him to hold a banquet in Baihua Pavilion to enjoy flowers and drink together. The next day, Yang Guifei first went to Baihua Pavilion and prepared a royal banquet for the coachman. It was getting late at that time, and Tang Xuanzong did not arrive.
It's too late, too late. However, suddenly someone reported that the emperor had been lucky in Jiang Fei Palace, and Yang Guifei was bored to death when she heard the news. Yang Guifei is naturally narrow-minded, jealous and particularly flattering, and women are most likely to react when they are angry.
Therefore, 10,000 kinds of feelings are hard to get rid of for a while, and they get drunk after three glasses of wine. Chun Qing was so excited that he couldn't help laughing. So he got carried away, became bohemian, got drunk frequently with eunuchs Gao Lishi and Peilishi, and made lewd courtship, which was the beginning of his return to the palace.
4, beauty tips
One of the secrets: abandon heavy makeup, pay attention to light makeup and light scanning, and show the natural beauty of the human body. Cosmetics in the Tang Dynasty were mainly made of lead and mercury. If it is used for a long time, it will be chronically poisoned, leaving brown spots on the face and aging the skin. During her five or six years as a female Taoist, Yang Yuhuan stayed away from heavy makeup and was not harmed by lead and mercury. Later, she abandoned heavy makeup and pursued light makeup.
The second secret: the power of flapping wings in hot springs. The Tang Dynasty inherited the custom of the Northern Dynasty and established the Hot Spring Palace. Huaqingchi is the most famous. According to legend, hot springs have the effect of ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics. Today, the medical community has realized that minerals such as sulfur in hot springs and springs can treat skin diseases.
The Song of Eternal Sorrow wrote: "It was early spring. They let her bathe in a pure pool to warm and smooth her creamy skin. Because she was tired, a maid lifted her up. When the first emperor noticed her, he chose her as his bride. " When Yang Guifei soaks in hot springs, she often soaks peony bark, mulberry leaves and nettles in water, which can calm nerves, promote skin regeneration and make skin smooth and delicate.
In A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu wrote a poem saying that "bathing is too real to make a shadow". When taking a bath, Yang Guifei pats the whole body, especially the facial skin, stimulates the whole body acupuncture points and promotes blood circulation, thus achieving the beauty effect of strengthening skin function.
The third secret: Yang Taizhen's ruby green is a mixture of peony bark, almond, talc and calomel. It is said that applying it for ten days and looking like a ruby is one of the secret recipes of beauty in Sichuan, and even Empress Dowager Cixi uses it every day.
The almonds in this recipe are rich in bitter almond oil, which has a special effect on moisturizing the skin. Calomel inhibits bacteria and smoothes the orifices. They "can benefit the know-how of furuncle and clear the know-how of drowning". The combination of the three drugs has the functions of decontamination, moistening skin and forcing hair to be clear, completely avoiding the harm of lead and mercury in traditional beauty products.
The fourth secret: eat litchi, eat ginseng, and ask your pet for health care and beauty. Everyone knows that Yang Guifei likes litchi. Du Muyou said in a poem: "Looking back at Chang 'an, there are piles of embroideries, and the top of the mountain opens a thousand times. "Riding the world of mortals and laughing, who knows that it is litchi."
In order to vote for Yang Guifei, Xuanzong ordered the post stations to quickly transport litchi from Fujian and Guangdong to Chang 'an, which cost a lot of manpower and financial resources, just for Yang Guifei to have fun. Litchi, one of the tropical fruits in South China, is nutritious, sweet and nontoxic. Eating lychee for a long time will benefit the heart and spleen, nourish the liver and blood, and benefit the popularity.
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