Because Tang Xuanzong loved Yang Guifei, he naturally tried his best to satisfy her preferences. Eat litchi, and eat fresh litchi-this important issue has also been put on the table. At that time, the distance from Lingnan, which was rich in litchi, to Chang 'an was more than 2 100 kilometers.
Litchi is not easy to preserve. In the Tang Dynasty without modern means of transportation, it was very difficult to transport litchi from the south to Chang 'an by flying horse. However, in order to please Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty made people ride fast horses and transported litchi from Lingnan for seven days and seven nights to Chang 'an from thousands of miles away for Yang Guifei to enjoy.
Extended information Yang Yuhuan was born in an official family in early June of the seventh year of Kaiyuan (7 19). His great grandfather, Wang Yang, was a minister of the Sui Dynasty and was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty. Father Yang Xuanyan was a manager in Zhou Shu; Uncle Yun, originally from Cao, Henan, spent his childhood.
In the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, who was about 10 years old, was fostered in his uncle Hsuan Yang's home. ?
Yang Yuhuan's natural beauty and superior educational environment make her have a certain cultural accomplishment, graceful personality, proficient in temperament, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa. In Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, there is such a description: God-given grace, undisguised, was finally elected to the royal family one day.
In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend. Li Mao, the younger brother of Princess Xianyi, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At the request of Wu Huifei, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote a letter asking her to be the shroud princess of that year. After the marriage, the two were very loving.
Wu Huifei died in the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737). Li Mao's mother, Wu Huifei, was the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and she was treated as a queen in the palace. Xuanzong was unhappy for this. At that time, the harem Qian Qian was absolutely meaningless. Some people suggested that "all manners should fill the courtyard", and Xuanzong called Yang into the harem? .
In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), in the name of Dou Taihou, the mother of Xuanzong, she wrote a letter to Yang, asking her to become a female Taoist, and signed it "too true".
In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made Wei's daughter Shou as a concubine, and then became an imperial concubine? Xuanzong abolished the king and queen, so Yang Guifei was equivalent to the queen.
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