Yang Guifei was born in Rongzhou, an official family. His great-grandfather, Wang Yang, was a prime minister of the Sui Dynasty and was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. His father, Yang Xuanyan, was a minister of Shu, and Shuxuan was a Cao in Henan province. Yang Yuhuan spent her childhood in Sichuan. When she was about ten years old, her father died. She was adopted by her third uncle in Yang Xuan Luoyang. She later moved to Yongle. When asked where Yang Guifei was from, some say Rongxian, Guangxi, some say Sichuan, and some say Yongle, Shanxi.
Because of the story of Yang Guifei, Xi the city is more feminized. Huaqing Pond must be seen. Not to see Yang bathing, but to see Yang bathing. We don't have the eyes of Tang Xuanzong. We can only see the remains of a beautiful woman and a few green stones between the mountains and rivers. The Begonia Soup is Yang Guifei's specialty bath. It is a two-story stone table shaped like a blooming begonia. When the spring chill bathed us, Yang could never have imagined that a few years later, it would attract countless onlookers. She couldn't see us, and we couldn't see her. It was all thanks to Bai Juyi's Song of Long Hate: "The song warmed and smoothed the milky crystals of her skin" as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes. We were late, so we had to face the dried up Begonia Pond and imagine the emptiness like Bai Juyi. Can not be closer to the beauty, but one step closer to the poet. While singing an elegy for the beauty of the river and mountains, I wondered if Bai Juyi had really come to this place. I believe he came here. I believe I am standing where Bai Juyi stood.
Bigger than the "Begonia Soup" was the "Lotus Soup," a special bath for Emperor Tang Xuanzong. Tang Xuanzong Tianbao six years, expanding the northern foot of Mount Li Huaqing Palace, Tang Jing for the pool, around the mountain to build the palace, the palace built around the dale city. The Qing Palace became the capital, or winter palace. Every October, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei and civil and military officials in Huaqing Palace for the winter, and returned to Chang'an in April of the following year. They used nearly half of their love, as we hope to fly in heaven, two birds in one, growing together on earth, two branches of one tree. At the Huaqing Palace.
However, Emperor Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were not the first patrons of the Lishan hot springs. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, the then emperor built pavilions here, a forbidden place. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Bao wrote a monograph called "Wen Tangming", praising the health benefits of the hot springs and calling it "Huaqingju Lao". This is also the origin of the name of Huaqing Pond. Emperor Qin Shi Huang liked to soak in the hot springs, and built a room and pool made of stone, called "Li Shan Tang". Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty rebuilt it and planted pine and cypress trees around it. Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty also liked this place and ordered Yan Lide to contract for the construction of "Tangquan Palace". They are all passers-by. When we think of Huaqing Pond, the first thing that comes to mind is Emperor Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. Could this be the power of love? Love can make a place poetic for a long time. The Li Palace towers above the clouds, and the breeze carries magical notes floating in all directions. The music of strings and bamboo flutes, the slow dance of light songs, the emperor's eyes could never keep their eyes on her" To this day, we still think of Yang Guifei as the mistress of the Huaqing Pond. Her shadow is everywhere. In the city where the Terracotta Warriors were excavated, we don't want history to become cold, but we also want to find a subtle warmth from the cold history. While the Terracotta Warriors are hard, Yang Guifei's love is soft. As Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Hatred" says, hate is not a hatred of beauty, but a complaint against tragedy and fate itself. When this endless sadness lasts forever, it means that we are engraved in our bones, that is the pain of lovesickness between heaven and earth. Hua Qing Chi, a sweet hot spring affluent country, has a bitter fruit that keeps cutting.
Yang Guifei was born in the sixth year of the Kaiyuan era. Because her father, Yang Xuan Yan, worked as a secretary in the Zhou Shu Senate, the world thought Yang Yuhuan was born in Sichuan, but she actually came from Yongle, Zhoupu. 18-year-old Yang Yuhuan was originally the princess of Li Mao, the 18th son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. She was attracted to the 51-year-old eunuch, Emperor Xuanzong. This is how the Song of Long Hate began. Huachi was the climax of the love between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei. This fairy tale love story ended at Mawei Slope. In June of the 15th year of Tang Tianbao, due to the outbreak of the An Shi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong fled with Yang Guifei. As soon as he arrived at Mawei Slope, the guards, enraged, killed his cousin, Yang, then the prime minister, and coerced him into ordering a hanging. Yang Yuhuan died at the age of 38. She made Maxipo famous.
More than a decade ago, I went to Xi and spent a morning at Huaqing Pond, but I still wanted more. I rushed to Mawei Town, Xingping City, to once again take the route of Yang Guifei's last escape. Outside the west gate of Mawei Town is the tomb of Yang Guifei. On both sides of the tomb are inscriptions written by celebrities of all times after they visited the place. I took out my notebook and copied a few songs, some of which were very interesting.
Tang Xi Zong's poem "Mawei in Shu Jing's happiness": "Mawei willow green, yi yi green. He also saw that he was lucky to return to Shu." In spring, a_ worth a sentence, this time Hugh is guilty of Yang Jian."
After the Opium War, Lin Zexu, who was exiled to Ili, asked the tomb of Guifei in Shaanxi, "No matter where the six armies are stationed, Guifei will die for the king. Throw out the Emei soldiers and the world is reborn."
He's poem was widely circulated in the Qing Dynasty: "The neon dress is shocking, and the king loses his claim. The Tanabata Union must not forget this. The ox wants to marry Li." The implication is that I would rather be the weaving maiden of the ox than the noble consort of Yongjun.
Yang Guifei may have been hated at the time, but later generations felt more and more sympathy for her. After all, she was just a woman who became a scapegoat in the war. Objectively speaking, because of her tragic death, it stopped people from protesting and eased the responsibility of a country's monarch. Preserving the kingdom or trying to become beautiful? For the fallen Tang Xuanzong, it was a dilemma. At the crossroads of Masipo, he had to make a choice. He could only choose this way. Sea vows can't stand the test of life and death. Whenever he thought of Yang Guifei after that fiasco, Tang Xuanzong must have had a weak heart. "Judging from the soil around Mawei Slope, there is no place for Jade to die when buried underneath. And the ruler and the lord, when their eyes would meet, wept under their tunics as they rode, loosening the reins, slowly eastward, back to the capital." He was alone, and he had the heart to go to the Huaqingchi Hot Springs? Farewell forever, the lotus of Lake Taiyue, the willows of Weiyang Palace. Can you think of any other beauty than petals like her face and willow leaves like her eyebrows? Can you stop crying? Tang Xuanzong was in tears when he hated the hot springs of Huaqing Pond.
In fact, Tang Xuanzong fled for his life in Sichuan and occupied An Lushan in Chang'an. A fire burned the Huaqing Palace in its heyday to ashes. Even when Tang Xuanzong returned to Huaqing Palace after the fighting subsided, he had to face the ruins alone. It was once a place of tenderness for him, but in the end it became a place of sadness.
People nowadays only know Huaqing Pond as Yang Guifei's love hall, but they don't know that it is related to another famous woman. That was Empress Dowager Cixi. In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu, the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered the capital, and Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu also embarked on the road of escape and hid in Xi'an. After taking refuge in Xi'an, Cixi forgot her wounds before she had healed. Accustomed to prosperity, she ordered the reconstruction of the Huaqingchi Gardens on the model of the Sheng Tang Dynasty. Today, most of the buildings in Huaqingchi were built in Cixi. The architectural style not only maintains the style of the Tang Dynasty, but the names of many of the buildings also continue into the Tang Dynasty. This gate, for example, is still called Jinyang Gate. After entering the gate and passing through the palace-like building of Shaoyang Hall, and then through three east gates, there is the courtyard of Huaqing Pond, which was originally built on the mountain. There is a lotus pond in the center of the courtyard, in which a lotus flower is planted. Describes the lotus flower in Taiyuechi County. Does it refer to the flowers in this pool? When I came here, the flowers were still in full bloom, but not from the Tang Dynasty.