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Main Cast: Tao Yin, Anthony Wong, Sai Fei He, Qiaoqiao Jin, Luo Yong Wang, Xuan Ye, and Jinjiang Xu
Type: Drama
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Introduction to the Secret History of Yang Guifei:
In history, no woman's story is as rich in romance as that of Yang Guifei. As a young girl, she was enamored with the poet Li Bai; growing up, she was forced to marry Prince Shou; with the emperor's favor, the princess gradually became an imperial concubine; striving in the palace, the concubine stood out and became the favored consort among three thousand beauties; her relationship with Emperor Xuanzong ended tragically at Mawei Slope but she supposedly resurrected and sailed to Japan. Yang Guifei’s beauty, love affairs, and mysterious “death” form an unspeakable, unclear, and endless ancient secret history.
Prince Shou, the poet Li Bai, and Emperor Xuanzong, these three supermen's competition for Yang Yuhuan forms the most touching climax of this drama. Yuhuan was an orphan when young and fortunately met Li Bai, they fell in love and wanted to get married. However, Li Bai roamed around the world, living without a fixed place, while Yuhuan suffered from displacement and sought a stable life. The conflict between emotion and reason made them unable to take the crucial step. But their entangled emotions lasted for life. To save her adoptive father, Yuhuan married Prince Shou. Emperor Xuanzong regarded Yuhuan as the greatest treasure in the world. In order to make "princess" his own "imperial concubine", he did not hesitate to face the great taboo of incest, making Yuhuan go through four years as Princess Shou and five years as Consort Taizhen. The only purpose was to let Yuhuan surpass the threshold of "incest" and fall into his arms. One day, peonies were in full bloom, Yuhuan went out to appreciate flowers, and Emperor Xuanzong specially prepared a peony banquet for Yuhuan. Li Bai came to help celebrate, and Prince Shou, who hated due to love, secretly hid a dagger. Li Bai mistakenly thought that Yuhuan had given herself to Emperor Xuanzong, lost control of his emotions, and drunkenly wrote three chapters of "Qingpingyue", mocking Yuhuan as "Zhao Feiyan". And Prince Shou secretly entered with a knife to assassinate Yuhuan, it was Emperor Xuanzong who sacrificed himself to take the blow. Yuhuan finally felt Emperor Xuanzong's burning true feelings. This prolonged quadrilateral battle was Yuhuan's psychological war to find true love. She overcame herself and found true love.
During Emperor Xuanzong's reign, the favored consort was equivalent to the empress. Mei Fei, who entered the palace early, intended to become the mistress of the harem; the newly arrived Yuhuan had no hope of mastering the harem. Mei Fei viewed Yuhuan as a fatal threat to Emperor Xuanzong's coronation of the empress. She secretly placed a stone tablet inscribed with "Yang flower blooms, Li flower falls" in the harem, trying to confuse Emperor Xuanzong and drive Yuhuan out of the palace. She tampered with the polo game, trying to throw Yuhuan off her horse to death. She bribed the imperial physician to turn the medicine for keeping the fetus into poison, trying to poison Yuhuan. When Yuhuan learned all this after narrowly escaping death several times, she decided to retreat. On the tenth mission of Japanese envoys to Tang, they wanted to return to Japan with the high monk Jianzhen. Emperor Xuanzong and Yuhuan rehearsed the "Feather Dress and Rainbow Skirt Dance" to see off the Japanese envoys. Unexpectedly, on the grand occasion that day, Emperor Xuanzong could not find Yuhuan, which was very embarrassing. Instead, Yuhuan carried many baked Hu cakes from the imperial kitchen as a farewell gift for the Japanese envoys. Emperor Xuanzong was a prosperous ruler, yet Yuhuan acted like a common housewife in diplomatic occasions, greatly losing face for Emperor Xuanzong. Suddenly, the Japanese envoy returned, offering the Hu cake Yuhuan sent as "Lady Cake", revering it as a god. It turned out that the ship carrying the Japanese envoy sank, and if it weren't for the Hu cake Yuhuan sent, they would have starved to death. Emperor Xuanzong finally appreciated Yuhuan's kindness and thoughtfulness, which were the virtues that the mistress of the harem should possess. At Yuhuan's request, the side queen ceremony was held in the Pear Garden, marrying in a folk manner, becoming a timeless legend. Mei Fei's repeated plots to harm Yuhuan eventually failed, and she left the palace in disgrace. Although saved from drowning, she went mad. Facing the thrilling, you-die-I-live palace struggle, a woman without any support and without using any conspiracy tricks finally became the mistress of the harem, which was unprecedented in history, almost a utopian legend of the ancient Chinese palace history.
From sexual love to romantic love, and finally achieving true love —— the three-part symphony of Li and Yang's love is the most captivating emotional chapter in the secret history of the favored consort. There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and it is natural for the emperor to transfer his affection. The third sister of the favored consort, Lady Guoguo, lightly swept her eyebrows, beautiful like peach blossoms, Emperor Xuanzong secretly consorted with her, causing discord with the favored consort, and eventually expelled her from the palace. Emperor Xuanzong was old and did not indulge in sexual pleasures often. Lady Guoguo, in order to consolidate her favor, resorted to extreme measures, causing Emperor Xuanzong to lose his yang energy and nearly die. Enraged, Emperor Xuanzong ordered the extermination of Lady Guoguo's family. To save her family ties, the favored consort convinced Emperor Xuanzong with reason and emotion, saving Lady Guoguo from annihilation and regaining his exclusive favor. After this incident, the favored consort was emotionally hurt, but with the emperor's authority, even though she was the empress, she still had to endure humiliation. In the history of gender relations, devotion is just an ideal. Between the ups and downs of Emperor Xuanzong's and the favored consort's love, saying that Yuhuan always remained focused on him is not entirely true. In fact, in the forbidden love affair between Xie Amian and the Korean general Gao Xianzhi, which was not tolerated by the palace rules, the favored consort saw the ideal devotion. Therefore, the favored consort quietly sponsored the illicit affair between Gao Xianzhi and Xie Amian, both as an understanding of transcendent love and as an investment in the devotion she couldn't obtain herself. But during her eleven years in the palace, despite various twists and turns, she ultimately made Emperor Xuanzong devoted to her alone, becoming a timeless legend in the history of the inner palace. Bai Juyi's "Song of Eternal Sorrow" testifies to this: "A glance and a smile creates a hundred graces, leaving six palaces pale in comparison. Spring nights are short as the sun rises high, from then on the emperor does not rise early." This is sexual love. "Serving joyfully without rest, spring follows spring and night follows night. Three thousand beauties in the rear palace, all the emperor's favor concentrated on one person." This is exclusive favor. "On the seventh day of the seventh month in the Hall of Everlasting Life, whispers in the dead of night. In heaven, we wish to be birds flying wing to wing; on earth, branches intertwined forever." This is true love, truly sublimated love.
The historical trace of Yang Guifei's supposed resurrection after her death at Mawei Slope and her sailing to Japan is the most mysterious final chapter in the secret history of the favored consort. The drums of rebellion echoed from YuYang. An Lushan rebelled under the pretext of "punishing Guo Zhong and clearing the emperor's side." Emperor Xuanzong led the palace westward to escape, triggering a mutiny at Mawei Slope where the favored consort was forced to hang herself. Japanese envoys dug up her grave to rescue her, bringing her back to life, and she followed them to sail east to Japan. Emperor Xuanzong and the favored consort yearned for each other from afar, with vast skies and boundless seas, making it difficult to reunite. However, in the six years before Emperor Xuanzong's death, the favored consort and Emperor Xuanzong made arduous efforts to meet again, finally achieving the mystical "Penglai Meeting." In the fairyland, Emperor Xuanzong walked forward, searching and seeking, suddenly seeing the favored consort appear in the mist calling her long-thought-of "Third Brother." Emperor Xuanzong stumbled forward, calling out "Yuhuan," falling to his death, while the favored consort suddenly transformed into the jade statue carved by Emperor Xuanzong's own hands. That jade statue is still enshrined in the Choshuji Temple in Ochimachi, Japan, lifelike and receiving abundant incense offerings.
Yang Guifei was not Zhao Feiyan, serving in the palace as the most beautiful woman in the world; Yang Guifei was not Wu Zetian, ruling the Great Tang Dynasty with beauty and conspiracy; Yang Guifei was not Empress Dowager Cixi, wielding unprecedented ambition to rule behind the curtain. Yang Guifei was Yang Guifei, above her beauty was true emotion, and above her power was kindness. This drama dismisses the argument of scholars that "beauty brings disaster" and restores Yang Guifei's original face, inviting the audience to enjoy and gain a timeless legend that has been sung to this day.
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