Friends who have watched The Legend of Zhen_ are deeply impressed by the "Jinghong Dance" in it. That wonderful dance is mesmerizing. The "Dance of the Shock" in the TV series is actually the imagination of modern dancers, and the real "Dance of the Shock" in history has long been lost. The person who created the "Jinghong Dance" was not the Qing Dynasty, but Jiang Caiping, a talented woman from the Tang Dynasty.
Speaking of Jiang Caiping's story, I have to tell you several other famous figures in the history of the Tang Dynasty. One is Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong.
Li Longji was born in Luoyang, the sacred capital, in 685 AD and reigned from 712 to 756. The longest reigning emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Dan, the third son of Tang Ruizong, his temple name was Xuanzong, also known as Tang Huangming, because his posthumous title was "Da Ming Xiaodi".
When Li Longji ascended the throne, he appointed sages such as Yao Chong and Song Jing, and worked hard to create a "new century prosperity" in the history of the Tang Dynasty. He can become a wise monarch. After creating a prosperous age, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty gradually became satisfied and indulged in pleasure.
Li Longji is versatile, intellectual, good at calligraphy, and handsome in appearance. She is the only male god in a woman's mind.
Due to this innate condition, it is difficult for Li Longji to become a romantic son. The story of him and Concubine Yang fascinated the world. In fact, before Yang Yuhuan, Li Longji loved two women. The first one is Concubine Wu Hui.
Concubine Wu Hui, Wu Zetian’s grandniece, was protected by Wu Zetian because of her father’s early death and grew up in the palace. After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne, the Wu family became favored. In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong abolished the king and queen and made Wu his concubine. Because the entire court was extremely disgusted with the Wu clan, Wu was never sealed. Although he does not have the status of a queen, he enjoys the treatment of a queen in the palace.
Concubine Wu Hui was as calculating as her aunt Wu Zetian. Before Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty favored Zhao, Huangfu Deyi, and Liu Cairen, they gave birth to Prince Li Ying, King E, and King Guang Li Cong respectively. After Concubine Wu Hui became favored, the three concubines fell out of favor one after another. Therefore, the three brothers Li Ying, Li Yao and Li Cong often complained that their mother was not favored. Concubine Wu Hui slandered her many times in front of Xuanzong. For some reason, Li Longji demoted Prince Li Ying, King of Hubei Li Yao, and King Guang Li Cong to common people and killed them, and renamed them Prince Li Cong. The third son was loyal to the emperor.
After framing the three queens, Concubine Wu Hui saw their ghosts many times, so she was afraid of getting sick and could not afford to get seriously ill. Asking wizards to work at night, re-burying people, and even burying the executed people together, all to no avail. Finally, Concubine Hui died of illness at the age of 38.
Concubine Wu Hui died of illness, and Xuanzong was uneasy day and night. Although there are many beauties in the harem, none of them can satisfy him.
After the death of Concubine Wu Hui, in order to help Li Longji get over the pain of lovesickness, the eunuch Gao Lishi went from Huguang to Guangdong to hold a beauty contest for Xuanzong. After Gao Lishi arrived in Putian, Fujian, he discovered that there was a beautiful and talented woman in the Putian Jiang family, so he paid a lot of money to hire her and wanted to bring her sixteen-year-old daughter back to Chang'an.
The woman seduced by Gao Lishi is Jiang Caiping.
Jiang Caiping was born into a scholarly family. Her father, Jiang Zhongxun, was a scholar when he was young. Later, when he failed many exams, he became a doctor. Jiang Xun had this baby girl when he was in his 30s, so he loved her very much. He named her after Caiping, a poem written in Zhao Nanli in the Book of Songs, to express his expectations for his daughter.
Cai Ping has been very smart since she was a child. Her father taught her to read and recite poetry since she was a child. At the age of nine, he was able to recite the Book of Songs and two poems by Zhou Nan, which recorded the deeds of Queen Zhou Wen and his concubine in the Zhaonan year. At the age of fourteen, she was good at poetry and poetry. She was a talented girl from the Jin Dynasty named Xie Daoyun. Mei Fei knew chess, piano, books and paintings well. When she is in her prime, she will grow into a beautiful woman with a slender waist. She doesn't like elegance, light clothing, elegant clothes, and knows how to read and be polite. She is a peerless beauty with both talent and beauty.
Ping’s early understanding
Gao Lishi has discovered that Jiang Caiping likes plum blossoms. After returning to Luoyang, Lao Gao specially held a banquet deep in the plum forest and invited Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to visit here. Jiang Caiping of Meilin played plum blossoms for Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and danced with great joy.
Tang Xuanzong regarded Concubine Mei as a treasure and bestowed his luck on the concubine. Her name was Concubine Mei. He ordered people to plant various plum trees in his palace, and personally inscribed the balcony in the courtyard as "Plum Pavilion" and the small pavilion among the flowers as "Mei Ting". Concubine Mei's love for Mei led the emperor to call her "Mei Jing" and she was doted on for a while.
For nineteen years, Concubine Mei has been the only favorite in the harem. When she was favored, she did not take advantage of Tang Taizong's love for her to harm other concubines and harm the country and people. Instead, she showed justice and consideration.
It is human nature to like the new and dislike the old, not to mention the confused Tang and Huangming. Li Longji, who gradually lost interest in Concubine Mei, was told that his son Li Mao's concubine Yang Yuhuan was beautiful and regardless of etiquette and shame, he forced his daughter-in-law into the palace as a noble concubine.
Tang Xuanzong, a romantic old man, was obedient to Yang Yuhuan. He tried his best to please the new beauty. In order to cater to her love for clothes, more than 700 people dedicated to serving the imperial concubine made her clothes. In order to let her eat her favorite lychees, Xuanzong also ordered the opening of a thousand-mile tribute road from Lingnan to the capital Chang'an, so that the lychees could be quickly transported to Chang'an by fast horses in time, because the lychees would go bad within five days after being picked.
After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, Concubine Mei's situation became very embarrassing. Because Yang Yuhuan was jealous, she prevented Li Longji from seeing all women. Of course, the key target of prevention is Li Lang's former pet, Mei Fei.
After Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, everything in Jiang Caiping's life changed. She suddenly lost Xuanzong's favor and was demoted to the cold palace by Yang Yuhuan's design, living alone in Yangdong Palace. Yang Yuhuan was simply Jiang Caiping's nemesis. She never expected that this woman who was supposed to be her daughter-in-law had been driven to a dead end step by step, leaving no trace of her life.
She wanted Gao Lishi to help her find someone who could write poems to arouse the friendship between Xuanzong and her, but Gao Lishi was too busy at the time to ask the Yang family to help. So frustrated, Mei Fei could only write on her own, hoping to reconcile with Xuanzong. However, when she presented Lou Dongbin to Xuanzong, she was rewarded with a string of pearls. Mei Fei was desperate and she completely gave up on Xuanzong. She wrote a poem and returned it to Xuanzong with pearls.
Since marrying Concubine Yang, Emperor Xuanzong's extravagant style has become more and more intense under her influence. In order to please the emperor, ministers, nobles, and clan members voted for the concubine one after another. As a result, everyone who pleased her was promoted to official positions, which stimulated more bureaucrats and nobles to fawn over each other and compete for delicious food and precious jewelry.
Thanks to his cousin's relationship, Yang rose to the highest position and became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Concubine Yang's sisters also benefited. The eldest sister's name is Mrs. Chosun, the third sister's name is Mrs. Guo Guo, and the eighth sister's name is Mrs. Guo Qin. Other brothers were also rewarded and became high officials in the court.
Under Yang's dictatorship, the entire Tang Dynasty began to fall into chaos, which eventually led to the "Anshi Rebellion".
At dawn on June 13, the first year of De, Xuanzong only took Yang Guifei’s sister, prince, princess, grandson, Yang, Wei, Wei, Chen and their close eunuchs and palace servants to go to Yan. Qiu Men escapes. Princesses, lords, and those who nurtured their grandchildren, including Concubine Mei, who was trapped in the cold palace, all abandoned it. On this day, all the officials did not know that the emperor had escaped.
After Tang Xuanzong returned to Beijing, he sent people to search for Concubine Mei, and finally found her body in the well of Shangdong Palace. In order to maintain her innocence, Mei Fei had herself thrown into a well with white silk.
The news of Concubine Mei's death spread back to Putian. The villagers remembered her fondly and built Pukou Palace to commemorate her and commemorate her forever.
According to legend, Concubine Mei's father was frustrated by Tang Xuanzong's abandonment of relatives and friends. He realized that Concubine Mei had been left out in the East Palace of Shang Yang for more than ten years. Later, news came that Concubine Mei had been rescued in the chaos. Tang Xuanzong immediately issued an edict to the whole country: Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Concubine Mei should report it immediately and be rewarded heavily; those who are escorted to Beijing will be rewarded by six officials and receive millions of dollars. After many twists and turns, Wang Guangping finally got the news about Concubine Mei. Guang Wangfeng sent someone to the palace to greet Concubine Mei ceremoniously. Xuanzong pulled Mei Fei and said, "I am always alienated by Mei Qing, and I can't bear it.
Therefore, offering pearls is not heartless; when it’s time to recall the past, how could you leave me? "So Concubine Mei stayed in Xingqing Palace and relived his dream with Xuanzong.
There was a popular saying in Beijing at that time: "Huayang has been blown away by the east wind, but the plum calyx can leave its fragrance in the evening. "That is to say, after Yang Guifei became famous for a while, she finally disappeared into the jade in Maweipo. The neglected Concubine Mei once again won your favor in Xingqing Palace.
These may be just people A beautiful wish. Later generations commemorated this virtuous concubine and built a shrine for her. After her death, Concubine Mei was regarded as "one of the twelve female flower gods, the plum blossom goddess".