A poem from the palace of Huaqing
Chang'an looks back at the piles of embroidery, the top of the mountain opens a thousand gates one after another. The first time I rode the red dust, the princess laughed, and no one knew it was Lychee.
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This poem describes the story of Emperor Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. According to the legend, Yang Guifei liked to eat lychee, and when she heard that the lychee in Hainan was better than the lychee in Sichuan, she pampered Emperor Tang Xuanzong by wanting to eat lychee from Hainan. However, at that time, transportation was inconvenient, and Hainan was thousands of miles away from Chang'an, so the lychee would rot if it was transported slowly. So, Tang Xuanzong in order to win a smile Yang Guifei, order fast horses day and night will be sent to Hainan's lychee Changan, the road exhausted how many horses, soldiers flow how much sweat, but for the princess a smile, this move can be "Beacon play Zhuhou" a spell. This sentence is spicy and harsh to depict the Tang Xuanzong desultory life, it is vividly displayed in front of our eyes.