Yang Guifei's tomb is on the Mawei slope on the north side of Ximenwai Highway in Mawei Town, Xingping County. Mawei slope is named after the legend that Mawei, a native of A Jin, built a city here. The scale of this tomb is already very large. According to the inscriptions in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, * * * covers an area of 17 mu, with a gatehouse, three halls, three houses and several cloisters, and the walls are engraved with poems written by literati in previous dynasties. Due to the age, the cemetery was destroyed, especially in the "ten-year turmoil", which was completely destroyed and became a ruin. 198 1 year, basically restored to its original appearance. At present, the cemetery covers an area of about 3,000 square meters, the tomb is about 3 meters high and surrounded by bricks.

The mystery of the death of imperial concubine Maweipo.

Yang Guifei (7 19-756), whose real name is Yuhuan, was born in Huayin, Hongnong, and later moved to Yongle County, Pucheng (now Ruicheng, Shanxi). She was praised as a great beauty in ancient China because of her sweet voice and good singing and dancing. Yang Yuhuan was originally the first18th son of Li Longji, the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, who was the wife of Li Mao, the longevity king. In the 24th year of Kaiyuan (736), after the death of Wu Huifei, the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong, a minister told Tang Xuanzong that Yang Yuhuan was a beauty. Xuanzong was very happy after seeing her and wanted to be a princess. According to the custom of the Tang Dynasty, a married woman must become a monk or a monk for a period of time before she can remarry. Therefore, Yang Yuhuan became a monk first, and then was called into the palace from the Taoist temple. Tianbao four years, conferring the imperial concubine. Since Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he has been indulging in debauchery, singing and dancing all day long, regardless of state affairs, resulting in the situation that Yang, Li and other Han traitors are in power.

In the 15th year of Tianbao (755), An Shi Rebellion broke out. In June of the following year, the rebels occupied Tongguan, and Tang Xuanzong fled in a hurry. On June 13, they fled to Majipo, and the Sixth Army refused to send troops. The entourage led by Chen, a right-wing general, protested, killed Yang and forced Xuanzong to hang himself. Xuanzong was forced to order eunuch Gao Lishi to hang Yang Yuhuan on the pear tree in front of the Buddhist temple with three feet of white silk. Yang Yuhuan died at the age of 38. Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow: "People in the army are already motionless, and those who step under horseshoes are like moths and eyebrows." That's what it means.

The death of Yang Guifei Ma Yupo has been confirmed by official history books such as Supplement to National History, Old Tang Book, New Tang Book, Old Tang Book and Zi Jian. So are some stories and legends. In the first year of Yuanhe (806), Bai Juyi was appointed as the magistrate of Zhouzhi County. One day, he and his good friend Chen Hong visited Xianyou Temple and talked about the love tragedy between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. They were deeply moved. So Bai Juyi wrote Song of Eternal Sorrow, and Chen Hong wrote Song of Eternal Sorrow. Historian Chen Hong recorded the deaths of Yang Guifei and Ma Yupo in this way: After Yang was executed, "the meaning of the left and right was not fast." Ask. Those who dared to speak at that time, please fill the world with imperial concubine. I know it's inevitable, but I can't bear to watch it die. I hid my face and led away. In desperation, he died under the ruler group. "

In this regard, some famous Japanese scholars have no objection. For example, Jing Shangjing's Biography of Yang Guifei holds this view.

However, some people think that Yang Guifei did not die in Maweipo, but eventually became a female Taoist. For example, in the late 1920s, Yu Pingbo published "The Song of Eternal Sorrow" and "The Doubt of the Song of Eternal Sorrow" in the No.2 issue of Volume 20 of Novel Monthly, arguing that Yang Guifei did not die in Maweipo, and the beauty of a moth who died in front of the horse was another person, probably in another bag. Because Xuanzong returned to the DPRK to rebury the imperial concubine, it was "from the soil around Maweipo that there was still that memory and that depression." Where is her jade-white face? " No body of the imperial concubine was found. Later, he sent an alchemist to look for "the green void above and the yellow spring below, but he didn't find the one he was looking for in either place", which meant that Yang Guifei was still alive. The so-called "the imperial concubine lives in the fairy mountain on the sea" is a setback. He believes that according to Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, Yang Guifei was exiled to a female Taoist temple. In the Tang Dynasty, the Taoist temple for women was a brothel for prostitutes, that is to say, Yang Guifei became a prostitute. In recent years, someone has written an article to further elaborate this view. In addition, among Japanese folks, it is said that Yang Guifei was not hanged at that time, but fled to Japan with the help of Gao Lishi. Yang Guifei went from Yangzhou to Japan, and was sent by Japanese deputy envoy Fujiwara to protect her. After Yang Guifei went to Japan, she also helped Jiao Qian quell the imperial coup. Now there is a Yang Guifei Temple in Kyoto, Japan. There is a cherry tree in it, which was listed as planted by Yang Guifei that year. Japan also has the imperial concubine's landing place, the imperial concubine's tomb and other relics. 1963, a Japanese TV station once broadcast a message that a girl claimed to be a descendant of Yang Guifei and took out historical relics as evidence.

Yang Guifei Yi Guanzhong

It is generally believed that the present tomb of Yang Guifei is the cenotaph of Yang Guifei. According to "Biography of Empresses in the New Tang Dynasty", when Xuanzong came back from Chengdu, he once "sent envoys from China to bury him in a coffin". The stone tablet in front of Yang Guifei's tomb records that after Xuanzong returned to Chang 'an, he missed her day and night, often crying and playing Liangzhou Ci written by Yang Guifei before his death. In the second year of Zhide (757), he secretly sent someone to Maweipo to rebury Yang Yuhuan. But at that time, "the dead body has melted, and the perfume bag still exists." It is said that only sachets and shoes and socks are buried in Yang Guifei's tomb now. According to legend, when Yang Guifei hanged herself, a sock fell to the ground and was picked up by a local youth named Liu. When people heard about it, they rushed to watch it. Mother Liu used to sell water for a living in the town. She charged everyone who looked at socks and charged a lot of money. When Xuanzong sent someone to Maweipo to rebury Yang Guifei, he learned about it and bought socks back with a large sum of money and buried them in the tomb.

Yang Guifei was born beautiful, both beautiful and white. People think that after her death, her essence will not go away. Since she was buried here, the earth color of the grave has been dyed white by her skin. People call this soil "imperial concubine powder". If you add a little to the perfume powder for women, it will make the skin more * * *; If there is a mole on your face, you can remove it with a brush. People often come to the tomb to rob the soil, so that the tomb is getting smaller and smaller. In the 1930s, graves had to be protected by masonry. It is said that Japanese women will bring a bag of loess back from the cemetery after paying homage.

Poems of imperial concubines' tombs in past dynasties

Probably because there are few emperors' warm and sincere love in history, the love story between Yang Guifei and Tang Dynasty has always been praised by ancient literati. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, it has also become an important material for literary creation, and the burial place of Yang Guifei in Maweipo has also become the object that literati often recite.

There are three cloisters around the tomb, inlaid with more than 30 inscriptions written by famous people in past dynasties. For example, Luo Yin, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote that Tang Xizong fled the chaos and returned to Chang 'an after the chaos and peace: "The willow trees of the horse are green, I saw Luan, and I was lucky to return to Shu." Ah Huan should have something to say in the spring, so don't feel more guilty about Yang Fei this time. "Lin Zexu relegated to Yili Road, where the poems are too real. First, he said, "If the Sixth Army is stationed in the army, I am willing to die for the king. A moth puts out a fire and raises her eyebrows, and the world will be reborn as a human being. Zhao Changling in the Qing Dynasty said in a poem: "If you don't believe in the new Lushan Mountain in Qujiang, Yuyang drum shakes Qin Guan. The curse is king, why blame Yuhuan for dumping the country? "Most of these inscriptions express people's deep sympathy for Yang Guifei. They are literary masterpieces and calligraphy treasures, and they are precious materials for studying the social and historical situation of Yang Yuhuan and Tang Dynasty.