Mystery of whereabouts
During the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty fled to Mayi Post, and the sergeant mutinied and killed Yang. Yang was furious and forced Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to kill Yang Guifei. Xuanzong was helpless and ordered Gao Lishi to commit suicide for her. Finally, he was strangled under the pear tree in front of the Buddhist temple in the posthouse at the age of 38. Legend has it that a shoe on Yang Guifei's foot was lost when transporting the corpse, and was picked up by an old woman. Passers-by had to pay 100 yuan to borrow it, and the old lady made a fortune.
Some people say that Yang Yuhuan may have died in a Buddhist temple. The Biography of Yang Guifei in Old Tang Dynasty records that after the imperial generals Chen and others killed Yang and his son, they thought that "the thief was still there" and demanded that Yang Guifei be killed again to avoid future troubles. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to bid farewell to the imperial concubine and "hang the Buddhist temple". "Zi Tongzhi Jijiantang" records that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered eunuch Gao Lishi to take Yang Guifei to the Buddhist temple and hang her. Tang Shi Bu records that Gao Lishi hanged Yang Guifei under the pear tree in the Buddhist temple. Chen Hong's Song of Eternal Sorrow records that Emperor Xuanzong knew that Yang Guifei was bound to die, but he couldn't bear to see her die, so he led the people away, "turned around hastily and died under the ruler group". The Biography of Yue Shi Yang Taizhen records that when Tang Xuanzong bid farewell to Yang Guifei, he "prayed for Buddha's respect". Gao Lishi hanged the imperial concubine under the pear tree in front of the Buddhist temple. Mr. Chen Yinque pointed out in the Manuscript of Bai Yuan's Poems: "It can be noted that Yue Shi said that the princess was hanged under a pear tree, probably influenced by the phrase" Spring rain is like a pear blossom "in Xiangshan (Bai Juyi). It's ridiculous to go. " The statement in Le Shi comes from an addendum to Tang Shi, and Li Zhao's statement is probably influenced by Song of Eternal Sorrow.
Yang Guifei may also die in the army. This theory is mainly found in the descriptions in some Tang poems. Du Fu wrote a poem "Mourning for the Head" in Chang 'an, which was occupied by An Lushan in the second year of Zhide (AD 757), including "Where are the perfect eyes and the pearly teeth?" A blood-stained soul has no home and nowhere to go, which implies that Yang Guifei was not hanged at Mawei Post, because hanging will not cause bloodshed. Poems such as "I ask you not to wash lotus blood again" and "I have too much blood and my horseshoe is exhausted" in Li Yi's seven sentences "Crossing the Horse Nest" and "Two Poems Crossing the Horse Nest" also reflect the scene that Yang Guifei was killed by the rebels and died by the sword. Du Mu's Thirty Rhymes of Huaqing Palace is full of blood and scattered feathers. Zhang has "Huaqing Palace and Sheren" and "Blood Buried Concubine"; Poems such as "Ma Yi Tie" say that "there is no evidence that the soul disappears, and the grass is sad when the blood is buried", and it is also believed that Yang Guifei's blood spilled on Ma Yi Tie, and she was not killed by shackles.
There are other possibilities for Yang Guifei's death. For example, some people say that she died of swallowing gold. This statement is only found in Liu Yuxi's poem Ma Wei Xing. Liu's poem once wrote: "The green field helps the wind, Huang Chen rides on a horse, and the roadside boy is noble." The tomb is three or four feet high. But I asked Li's middle-aged children, and they all said that they were lucky in Shu, lucky in the military, and the son of heaven gave up the demon Ji. The princes crouched on the door screen, and the nobles held the emperor's clothes, with low eyes and beautiful weather. Why do you drink gold chips? Mu Ying has worn apricot Dan all his life, and the color is really the same. " Judging from this poem, Yang Guifei died of swallowing gold. Mr. Chen Yinque was curious about this statement and made textual research in Bai Yuan's poems and notes. Chen suspects that Liu Shi's theory that "the nobles drink gold scraps" comes from the mouth of "Li", so it is different from other people's statements. But Chen Ye did not rule out the possibility that Yang Guifei swallowed gold before being hanged, so the word "Li" came from this.
Others think that Yang Guifei didn't die in Mayi post, but lived among the people. In On Poetry, Mr. Yu Pingbo made textual research on Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow and Chen Hong's Biography of Song of Eternal Sorrow. He thinks that Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow and Chen Hong's Biography of Eternal Sorrow have different original meanings. If "Long Hate" is the title of the article, it is enough to write it to Ma Wei. Why should we assume that Lin Qiong Taoist and Jade Princess are too real? The reason why Job was so, Yu Xiansheng thought that Yang Guifei didn't die in Ma Yi Yi Yi. At that time, the six armies mutinied, the imperial concubine was robbed and the women entrusted the land. This poem clearly shows that Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty could not be saved, so the imperial edict of granting death contained in the official history would not have existed at that time. Chen Hong's "Song of Eternal Sorrow" said "make people take it away", which means that Yang Guifei was taken away by an emissary and hid in a far away place. Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow says that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty will rebury Yang Guifei when he returns to Luanhe River. The result is "that memory, that pain." Where is her white face? It is in the middle of the mud under Mawei slope, and even the bones can't be found, further confirming that the imperial concubine didn't die in Maweigang. It is worth noting that when Chen Hong wrote Song of Eternal Sorrow, he pointed out that "Xuanzong Biography exists for people who know the world" for fear that future generations would be unknown. As for those who are "unknown to the world", today there is a Song of Eternal Sorrow, which obviously implies that Yang Guifei is not dead.
There is a strange saying that Yang Guifei went to America. Wei Juxian, a scholar in Taiwan Province Province, claimed in his book China Discovered America that he had verified that Yang Guifei did not die in Mayi, but was taken to distant America.
There is also a saying that Yang Guifei fled to Japan, and there is a view in Japanese folk and academic circles: at that time, a maid was hanged in the linen post. General Chen cherishes the beauty of the imperial concubine and can't bear to kill her, so he conspired with Gao Lishi to replace her death with a maid. Under the escort of Chen's cronies, Yang Guifei fled south, set sail near Shanghai today, drifted to Kuchi, Japan, and spent the rest of her life in Japan. There are also various sayings in Japan. There is a saying that the deceased was a double maid, and the military commander Chen and Gao Lishi conspired to use a maid instead. Gao Lishi transported the body of the imperial concubine by car, and Chen was the one who examined the body, which made the plan successful. Yang Guifei, on the other hand, went south under the escort of Chen's cronies. Today, she set sail near Shanghai and arrived in Lukouchi, Japan.
There is a tomb of Yang Guifei in the hometown of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. 1963, a Japanese girl showed her family tree to the TV audience, saying that she was a descendant of Yang Guifei. Yamaguchi Momoe, a famous Japanese movie star, also claimed to be a descendant of Yang Guifei.
As can be seen from the above, with the passage of time, the legends about the death of Yang Guifei have become more and more vivid, and there is a saying that these legends are getting farther and farther away from historical facts. According to this statement, Yang Guifei will die at the Mayi Post Station. According to the Biography of Gao Lishi, Yang Guifei died because of "sitting for a while". In other words, the soldiers of the Sixth Army hated Yang and implicated Yang Guifei. This is the point of view of Gao Dui. Because the biography was written according to his dictation, judging from the situation of the Mayiyi incident, Yang Guifei had to die. After the slaughter, the body was transported from the Buddhist temple to the post office and placed in the yard. Also call Chen He and other soldiers in to have a look. Yang Guifei did die in Mayi, and the old and new historical books such as The Book of the Tang Dynasty and As a Mirror are very clear, as are the miscellaneous notes of the Tang Dynasty such as Biography of Gao Lishi, Supplement to Tang Shi, Miscellaneous Notes of Ming Di and Deeds of An Lushan.
The folklore that Yang Guifei came back from the dead reflects people's sympathy and nostalgia for her. Soldiers of the "Sixth Army" demanded the execution of Yang Guifei on the grounds that "the curse is still there". If people insist on this view, then Yang Guifei will be regarded as a compliment, or a bad woman like da ji, and there can be no praise except the condemnation of the world. Even if she is the representative of stunning beauty in the world, or the representative of female beauty in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there will be no pity and forgiveness in people's potential consciousness. The whole problem is that Yang Guifei is not actually the source of the Anshi Rebellion. Gao Lishi once said that "the imperial concubine is sincere and innocent", which is not without one-sidedness, but there is no doubt that the imperial concubine is not the culprit. After the Anshi Rebellion, people began to reflect, sum up the historical experience of Tianbao Rebellion, and finally realized the truth of history. Folklore has its own fair judgment, and the praise and criticism of historical figures are often objective. Yang Guifei's death was not only her own fault, but also a victim. As a result, people fantasize that Yang Guifei, who is really dead, can be resurrected and have infinite memories.
Catalogers firmly believe that with the new archaeological discoveries, from the perspective of scientific and technological development, the mystery of Yang Guifei's whereabouts will be closer and closer to historical facts. According to the fourth and third volumes of Quantang Wen edited by Xu Zizhen in the Tang Dynasty and the article Inscription in Puning County, Rongzhou, Feiyang, it is not surprising that Yang Yuhuan should have at least three native places. The first native place is Yangwai Village, Shili Township, Rong County, where my biological father Yang Wei was born. The second native place is the ancestral home of the adoptive father Yang Kang, who works in the military department of Yeongju Prefecture. The third native place is Yang Yan, and the adoptive father is the governor of Yeongju Prefecture. Yang Yan was originally from Huayin, Hongnong, Shaanxi, and later moved to Yongle, Zhou Pu, Shaanxi.
In 2004, with the completion of the rescue archaeological excavation of Gao Lishi's tomb, a great eunuch of the Tang Dynasty, located in Shanxi Village, Baonan Township, pucheng county, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, it was verified that Gao Lishi's real name was Feng, and he was from Panzhou (now Gaozhou, Guangdong Province) in 14 prefecture under the jurisdiction of Rongzhou Prefecture. He was sent to the palace at an early age and was given a high surname. When studying the epitaph of Gao Lishi's life, experts found unexpectedly that the litchi that was sent to the palace by Yima for Yang Guifei was a kind of high-quality and early-maturing litchi named "White Poppy" from the hometown of Gao Lishi and Yang Yuhuan. Gao Lishi and Yang Yuhuan are both prefects of Yeongju, and Gao Lishi's hometown of Panzhou is only100km away from his hometown of Puning County, Yeongju, Yang Yuhuan. This new archaeological discovery verifies the long-standing controversy about the origin of litchi in Princess Riding with a Smile in the Red Dust. This new archaeological discovery also proves from another side that there are two ancient literature secretaries in the Second Palace of Yugutomachi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, which records the local legend about Yang Guifei: Chen, a military commander, could not bear to kill her because of her beauty, so he plotted to replace her with a maid in Gao Lishi, while Yang Guifei was escorted to Sichuan by Chen's cronies and sailed to Shanghai near the Yangtze River, drifting to Yugutomachi, Japan. Because Gao Lishi and Yang Yuhuan are fellow villagers, and they have close contacts in the palace, knowing Yang Yuhuan's life experience, Gao Lishi once asserted that "the imperial concubine is innocent". The only safe and reliable route for Chen and Gao Lishi to help escape is to flee to Sichuan in the south, take a boat along the Yangtze River to Shanghai and drift overseas.