How to evaluate the love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei?

The legendary love story between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei is almost a household name in China. Scholars in the history of China have written many famous works on this subject, and Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow is an example. Indeed, Tang Xuanzong's "There are three thousand concubines in the harem, three thousand beautiful women, and three thousand pampered in one" and Yang Guifei's mutual affection are unique among the emperors in China. In the 25th year of Kaiyuan (737), after the death of Wu Huifei, the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong was unhappy all day. There are thousands of people in the harem, and none of them likes it. The most intimate Gao Lishi knew God's will, so she went to the outer palace to look for it. In Shouwangfu, he saw the beautiful face and incomparable beauty of Princess Yang Yuhuan and immediately reported to Xuanzong. In October of the 28th year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong sent someone to take Yang Yuhuan to Lintong Hot Spring Palace. At first glance, he is really gorgeous, good at singing and dancing, and intelligent, especially pandering. Xuanzong was so sad that he opened his mouth He has married a daughter-in-law, and regardless of any old man, the heart of propriety, justice and shame no longer exists. First of all, Yang Yuhuan was awarded the title of "Too Real" and benefited from the harem. At that time, Tang Xuanzong was 56 years old and Yang Yuhuan was just 22 years old. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty married Yang Yuhuan, a long-lived princess, which was undoubtedly a scandal in which his father took away his son and daughter-in-law. However, for an emperor who rules the world, having everything he loves is a piece of cake. It is precisely because the emperor also wants to flaunt "benevolence, righteousness and morality" that he has to avoid some suspicions. So, after five years, in August of the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Yang Taizhen was canonized as a imperial concubine. From then on, Xuanzong left all the other concubines in the harem aside, looked at Yang Guifei every day, and was inseparable, taking her with him at the official banquet and at the court ceremony. In order to please Yang Guifei, Xuanzong made resplendent craftsmen for her, reaching 700 people, and also opened a hot spring bath for her in Huaqing Pool of Lishan Mountain. Guifei was born in Sichuan and loves litchi. In order to please the imperial concubine, Xuanzong sent people from Fuzhou, Sichuan, thousands of miles away to send them around the clock with post horses. When it was shipped to Chang 'an, the color and taste remained unchanged. In short, since I got Yang Guifei, the love in Xuanzong's heart has been taken up by the Guifei, just as the Song of Eternal Sorrow said: "Waste all his time on her, feast and have fun, his mistress in spring, his tyrant in the night; Jindian is dressed up all night, and Louyu feast is as drunk as spring. " Xuanzong was so obsessed with the imperial concubine that her beauty was of course one reason. But more importantly, I'm afraid there are similar interests. Xuanzong is a gifted scholar who is obsessed with music. He is proficient in temperament and has achieved great success. The imperial concubine is not only good at singing and dancing, but also has a special talent in understanding music. This is obviously an important factor for her to become a confidant of Tang Xuanzong in his later years. When Xuanzong summoned the imperial concubine for the first time in the hot spring palace, he played his favorite work "Colorful Feathers". Yang Guifei seems to have an innate feeling and immediately danced like a fairy, which made Tang Xuanzong very happy. Later, Xuanzong often asked the imperial concubine to dance "colorful feathers". He personally played drums and accompanied her. It can be said that the most common form of Xuanzong and Guifei together is singing and dancing music. However, Tang Xuanzong was an emperor after all. He can monopolize Yang Guifei, but he won't let Yang Guifei monopolize himself. However, the imperial concubine is not deeply involved in the world, and it is inevitable that she will be jealous for a while. Twice, she made the old emperor angry and immediately drove her back to her mother's house to disobey orders. But Xuanzong loved the imperial concubine in his heart, so he instigated her to recall every time. When the imperial concubine was sent out of the palace for the second time, she cried like a crybaby, and Xuanzong was too worried about tea and rice, and his face was full of sadness all day. Gao Lishi saw through Xuanzong's mind, so he asked the imperial banquet and empresses to apologize. When the imperial concubine saw Gao Lishi coming, she sadly cut off a lock of hair and asked Gao Lishi to show her "loyalty". Xuanzong saw things and thought, and went back for the second time. From then on, Xuanzong and the imperial concubine loved each other, and they were inseparable. Legend has it that one year in the Palace of Eternal Life in Huaqing Palace, on July 7th, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei avoided the crowd and looked up at the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Both of them bowed down and swore: "Life is hard in this world. May we grow old together and be husband and wife forever!"! After this life, there will be an afterlife! " Bai Juyi, a poet, wrote an immortal poem: "How we wish two birds could be one, fly in the sky, live and grow together on the earth, and have two branches in one tree." Indeed, this kind of affection between Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei is rare among emperors of past dynasties. The marriage of any feudal emperor should be branded with feudal politics. With Yang Yuhuan's favor, Yang Fei's brother was appointed as Hou Baixiang, and the three sisters were also appointed as the wives of the princess, so they were powerful and belonged to the son of heaven. In particular, Yang Guifei's cousin, Yang, was promoted to the position of Prime Minister, occupying more than 40 posts, taking charge of state affairs and doing many evils. The Tang Dynasty became the Xanadu of the Yang family. This led to the political corruption in the Tang Dynasty, the disaster of consorts and the tragic ending of Yang Guifei. In the 14th year of Tianbao (755), in November, An Lushan, our border city envoy, and Shi Siming, our general, led an army of 6.5438+0.5 million to attack Chang 'an in the name of attacking Yang, and the "Anshi Rebellion" finally broke out. When the news came, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was frightened. He and Yang, with their imperial concubine sisters and some princes, their attendants and ministers, quietly opened the door of Bei Gong and went west to Shu County (now Sichuan). When I went to the ant station west of Xingping, Shaanxi Province, the imperial guards who followed the guards suddenly mutinied. They killed Yang first, and then surrounded the post house where Tang Xuanzong lived, demanding that Tang Xuanzong hand over the imperial concubine. At this time, Tang Xuanzong, who was in a trance, remembered his love with the imperial concubine for more than ten years and made a vow of eternal love, unwilling to hand over the imperial concubine! However, in the face of these unsheathed soldiers, Xuanzong knew that the tide was gone and could not save his beloved princess. However, he couldn't bear to let the imperial concubine be slaughtered by the public. After he and the imperial concubine wept bitterly, they gave her three feet of white silk and asked Gao Lishi to take her away and hang her on a pear tree in front of a Buddhist temple. The imperial concubine was only 38 years old at that time. Tang Xuanzong was extremely sad about the death of the imperial concubine. "The emperor can't save her, he can only cover his face and look back at the blood and tears." . Since then, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty spent more than a year in Chengdu or on the way to escape, and was unhappy all day long, thinking of the imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan. After recovering Chang 'an, Xuanzong returned to Beijing. Everywhere he went, he was touched by the scene and still deeply missed the imperial concubine. He specially had a portrait of the imperial concubine painted and hung in the temple to watch it day and night. I'm afraid this "till death do us part" love was completely buried in his political tragedy. At this time, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was filled with remorse and finally died of depression on April 5, the first year of Baoying (762). As the Song of Eternal Sorrow said, "The earth will last forever, and the sky will last forever; One day, both will end, and this endless sorrow will last forever. " The corrupt political situation caused by Yang Guifei's love in the late Tang Xuanzong period led to another consort disaster in China history, which should be flogged. However, the sincere and single-minded love story between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei has become an eternal story and has been widely sympathized by people in later generations, which is understandable. Sad beauty