Concubine Yang’s name is Yang Yuhuan.
Yang Yuhuan's name is not mentioned in the "Old Book of Tang" and "New Book of Tang", and there is no clear record in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian". "The Story of Everlasting Sorrow" only says that she is "Yang Xuanyan's daughter".
In the ninth year of Tang Dazhong (855), about 100 years after the death of Concubine Yang, it was mentioned for the first time in the "Miscellaneous Records of the Ming Emperor" compiled by Zheng Chuhui: "Concubine Yang's small-character Yuhuan" ". Later generations still use it today. The three names of Concubine Yang, "Yu Nu", "Yu Niang" and "Yu Huan" are real.
The terms slave, mother, and ring are all foils to Yang Guifei’s name in different periods. Yunu was her nickname when she was a child; Yuniang was her honorific before she was canonized; Yuhuan was the joking name people gave her after she was conferred as a noble concubine and gained weight. Concubine Yang's real name should be "Yang Yu".
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Yang Yuhuan was born in the sixth lunar month of the seventh year of Kaiyuan (719) into the Yang Yuhuan eunuch family. His great-great-grandfather Yang Wang was the Shangzhu Kingdom of the Sui Dynasty. , Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was killed by Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty; his father Yang Xuanyan once served as the secretary of Shuzhou; his uncle Yang Xuanxuan once served as the local cao of Henan Prefecture, and Yang Yuhuan spent his childhood in Shuzhou.
In the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, when Yang Yuhuan was about 10 years old, his father died and he was fostered in the home of his third uncle Yang Xuanxuan in Luoyang. Yang Yuhuan's natural beauty and superior educational environment gave her a certain degree of cultural accomplishment, a gentle personality, proficiency in music, singing and dancing, and playing the pipa.
In Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Regret", it is described as: It is difficult to give up natural beauty, and once chosen to be on the side of the king. In July of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, daughter of Tang Xuanzong, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was also invited to attend.
Princess Xianyi's younger brother, Prince Shou Li Hao, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At the request of Concubine Wu Hui, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict to appoint her as Princess Shou. After marriage, the two were very loving.
Concubine Wu Hui passed away in the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan (737). Li Mao's mother, Concubine Wu Hui, was Xuanzong's most beloved concubine, and her courtesy in the palace was equal to that of a queen.
Xuanzong was depressed because of this. At that time, there were thousands of people in the harem, but there was no one to care about. Someone said that Yang Yuhuan was "good in appearance and good enough to serve as a court", so Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned Yang into the harem.
In October of the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan (740), in the name of praying for blessings from Xuanzong’s mother, Queen Mother Dou, Yang was ordered to become a female Taoist priest, with the Taoist name "Taizhen".
In the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty appointed Wei Zhaoxun’s daughter as Princess Shou, and then appointed Yang Yuhuan as his imperial concubine. Equivalent to a queen.
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