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Story 68: Tang Minghuang and Yang Yuhuan Folktales

Tang Minghuang and Yang Yuhuan

Author: Anonymous

Scene 1: Confirmation of love and canonization

Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, was good at martial arts and martial arts, and was proficient in music. He has been in office for more than 20 years and has worked hard. He is very happy that the wind outside the Great Wall is clear and the people are worth three cents. The world is peaceful and peaceful, which is better than that of Zhenguan.

So he changed the reign name from Kaiyuan to Tianbao, and played songs and feasted every day, which comforted him throughout his life. During the palace banquet, he discovered that Yang Yuhuan, who was dancing in colorful clothes and feathers, not only had the appearance of a country, but also had a high artistic talent, so he made her his concubine.

Scene 2: An Yang’s feud

Yang Yuhuan’s sworn brother Yang Guozhong was also reused and gradually rose to the position of left prime minister. He was good at managing money, but he also took bribes. The careerist An Lushan tried to replace the right prime minister Li Linfu after his death, but was blocked by Yang Guozhong. The two turned against each other and attacked each other.

Scene 3: Bathing in Huaqing Pool

Li Longji never went to court in the morning, and he and Yang Yuhuan traveled and entertained every day. Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and they go for an outing in Lishan Mountain. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty granted him a bath in Huaqing Pool. The unique hot spring water of this place washed away Yang Yuhuan’s folk fat and gave him an aristocratic atmosphere.

Scene 4: An Lushan recognizes his godmother

Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji often studied the music in the palace, and the luan and the phoenix sang in harmony. The two of them went to practice in the performing arts troupe founded by Li Longji. The pear orchard is full of pear trees and pear blossoms are in full bloom. Liyuan disciples performed various dances, military dramas, and jiaoduan dramas for the emperor and his concubines. The clown actor who tells jokes often has sarcastic remarks.

Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Yang Guifei, didn’t care about etiquette. It turned out that Yang Yuhuan was born in a pedagogy and also had a career in a pear garden. She felt lucky to have met a close friend like Tang Minghuang, and was impressed by Tang Minghuang’s achievements in creating a pear garden and developing art. She took the lead in bowing down, and all the Liyuan disciples followed suit. Under the pear tree, they recognized Li Longji as the founder of Liyuan.

An Lushan had studied dancing. He rushed to the Liyuan while Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang were having fun, and performed his famous Hu Xuan dance, which won the favor and admiration of the emperor and his empress. An Lushan seized a compliment from the imperial concubine and lost no time in recognizing Yang Yuhuan as his godmother; with the encouragement of Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty, Yang Yuhuan passively recognized this adopted son.

Scene 5: The imperial concubine is drunk

Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty had three palaces and six courtyards, and occasionally visited other concubines. On this day, Yang Yuhuan and Tang Minghuang made an appointment to have a banquet at Baihua Pavilion. Unexpectedly, Tang Minghuang drove to Mei Fei in the West Palace on the way, and Yang Yuhuan had to drink alone in Baihua Pavilion. He got very drunk and vented his depression and dissatisfaction while drunk. Inspired by the eunuch, he cut off a strand of black silk and asked Gao Lishi to send it to Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty to express his feelings.

Scene 6: Palace of Eternal Life

Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty received Concubine Yang’s black hair and went to visit the concubine especially. It was the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and Yang Yuhuan went to the Palace of Eternal Life to pray for the moon. She held the moon in a golden basin with both hands and confided her longing for Emperor Tang Ming and her pursuit of purity and eternal love.

Emperor Tang Ming rushed to the Palace of Eternal Life and heard behind Yang Yuhuan that he was greatly moved. So the two got back together and swore an oath to heaven. When fresh lychees from Lingnan arrived, Yang Yuhuan smiled even more.

Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty played the Jie drum at the lychee banquet and performed his unique skills for Yang Yuhuan. Yang Yuhuan also reciprocated with his own new pan dance. Unexpectedly, great joy brings sorrow, and the scouting horse comes to retaliate. An Lushan, who was named the Yuyang Jiedushi, rebelled, and the soldiers were attacking Chang’an. The lychee feast kills the scenery and makes people panic.

Scene 7: Maweipo

Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty was forced to flee Chang’an with Concubine Yang under the protection of the Royal Forest Army, and went south to Xishu, stationing at Maweiyi on the way. Chen Yuanli, the commander of the Royal Forest Army, killed Yang Guozhong, and a dispute broke out between Tang Minghuang, Yang Guifei, and Chen Yuanli. The next day, the Sixth Army did not send out troops and shouted wildly to kill Concubine Yang.

Emperor Tang Ming held an emergency consultation with Chen Yuanli, resolutely defending Yang Guifei on the issue of responsibility for the war, and resisting the soldiers who wanted to break into the concubine’s camp.

All this was witnessed by Yang Yuhuan. At the critical moment when Chen Yuanli could not control the situation and endangered the emperor’s life, Yang Yuhuan stepped forward and accepted Bai Ling as the scapegoat for the Anshi Rebellion. She bid farewell to Tang Minghuang, and her only request was to bury her under a pear tree. She died in exchange for the Imperial Guards to move on.

Scene 8: The Welcoming Image and the Crying Image

A few years later, the Anshi Rebellion subsided, but the Tang Dynasty began to decline from prosperity, and history experienced a major turning point.

Li Longji stepped down and made the prince emperor. After losing the power of the emperor, humanity returned to him, and love became more chaste. He misses Yang Yuhuan day and night, reflects on his debauchery and his past mistakes, and laments that he cannot have both in life.

With his spiritual thoughts, he searched for the ghost of Yang Yuhuan but could not find it, so he invited Concubine Yang’s portrait to be sacrificed. He burst into tears, confused as to who was going to go. In a daze, he arrived at the Moon Palace and knocked on Yang Yuhuan’s door knocker.

Scene 9: Reunion in Wonderland

Yang Yuhuan is like Chang’e, dressed up to welcome her. The two of them are in heaven, and their relationship on earth will last forever.