Xuanzong was a wise king in the early days of his reign, but a bad king in the later period. When he first ascended the throne, he made great efforts to restore the career of Emperor Taizong. He can use people and train. He selected talented officials from Beijing to serve as governors and secretaries in other places, and selected outstanding officials from local governors and secretaries to hold important positions in Beijing, making the selection and transfer of officials inside and outside Beijing a system. He flatly replaced the incompetent officials. In 7 16, he personally re-examined the county magistrate selected by the official department in the palace and sent more than 40 incompetent people home. At the beginning of his reign, he appointed Yao Chong, Song Jing, Zhang,,, Han Xiu and Zhang Jiuling as prime ministers. These people have their own strengths. Yao Chong strives for political communication, and Song Jing is committed to the rule of law. Zhang said that he advocated Wen Zhi, Li and Du Si 'an paid attention to frugality, and Han Xiu and Zhang Jiuling spoke frankly, all of which were sages. Deal with North Korean affairs in an orderly way. Among them, Yao Chong contributed the most. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty recalled him to Beijing and made him Prime Minister. He put forward ten conditions, such as agreeing to benevolent government, stopping the war, prohibiting the emperor and eunuchs from interfering in political affairs, and allowing ministers to remonstrate. When Yao Chong became prime minister, he suppressed the strongmen, cut down monks and nuns, reduced the number of monasteries, overcame natural disasters, helped Xuanzong rectify state affairs, and strictly rewarded and punished them, thus reversing the chaotic situation in Zhongzong period, and was called "time-saving prime minister".
During this period, Xuanzong was able to coachable again, and Prime Minister Han Xiu and Xiao Song * * * were in charge of state affairs. Han Xiu was honest, and when he saw that Xuanzong was wrong, he always called a spade a spade and argued. On the contrary, Xiao Song always obeyed Xuanzong. Once, Xuanzong looked in the mirror and looked glum. The eunuchs around said, "Your majesty has lost weight since Han Xiu became a photographer. Why not fire him? " Xuanzong said seriously: "Although I lost some weight, everyone in the world must have gained weight. Xiao Song came to play with things and blindly obeyed me. After he left, I felt uneasy. Sleep is also very stable. I use Han Xiu to govern the country, not for me alone. " Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was able to employ talents, encourage production and reform abuses, which made the Tang Dynasty politically stable, the national strength strong, the people rich and the country strong, and the economy and culture developed to Xiangfeng. Among them, Tang poetry was the most praised by later generations, while famous poets Gao Shi, Cen Can and Wang Wei, especially Li Bai and Du Fu, all lived in the Kaiyuan era. Other arts such as music, painting and sculpture have also made remarkable achievements. History is called "the flourishing age of Kaiyuan".
However, after these achievements, Xuanzong thought that the world was at peace, and his own business gradually disappeared, becoming extravagant and pursuing a happy life. He turned a deaf ear to the minister's advice, but was disgusted with it, so he used people who obeyed his will. When Xuanzong was 6 1 year-old, he fell in love with his daughter-in-law's birthday princess and became an imperial concubine in the palace. His two brothers became officials and his three sisters became wives of Han, Guo and Qin respectively. Her distant cousin Yang (formerly known as Yang Zhao) also soared by nepotism. Xuanzong spent all day having fun with Yang Guifei, too lazy to go to court, and tried his best to satisfy her extravagant hopes.
Xuanzong made great contributions to the development of music, dance and opera in China. He has loved musicals since he was a child. Once, his grandmother Wu Zetian held a grand banquet, and he performed "The Immortal Daughter" in public, which was applauded by ministers. He made friends with Taoist artists, studied French music hard and got a wonderful melody. During his stay in Wang Ping, he founded a three-music troupe. Shortly after he proclaimed himself emperor, he established a drama activity center and chose Liyuan as the location of this center. Therefore, traditional opera artists have always respected Xuanzong as the ancestor of the pear garden.
He is an outstanding monarch who started the prosperous times of Kaiyuan era on the back of Zhenguan rule, and is also a well-known beauty who dedicated himself to his country. Their love played a sad and beautiful movement that attracted worldwide attention in the history of China! From "husband and wife relationship" to "husband and wife hand in hand", they have suffered tens of millions of tons of moral condemnation; From the love in prosperous times to the "* * * adversity" in troubled times, the imperial concubine was branded as a false name and branded as a "disaster"; From Huaqingchi Hot Spring to Maweipo, we witnessed the helplessness of the king ... Their stories touched us too much! In my opinion, "We want two birds to fly in the sky with the same wing and grow together on the earth, two branches of a tree ..." What a romantic oath! If only Tang Xuanzong was just an ordinary people! Then the story between him and Yang Yuhuan may really be more infectious than Liang Zhu! Unfortunately, history has arranged for them to bear too much public opinion! "And this endless sadness will last forever." Probably, it is not only the resentment of the dead imperial concubine, but also the resentment of Xuanzong and the imperial concubine who was in the royal family at that time. These two kinds of hate are intertwined. Xuanzong hated that he couldn't save the imperial concubine and made her a scapegoat. I hate why I am the king, just be a husband and wife who have no worries about food and clothing! The entanglement of hate and hate naturally has no date to stop!
A Song of Eternal Sorrow has achieved Bai Juyi's position as a "master of orthodox poetry" in the poetry circle, and at the same time it has made objective evidence for that love history about the king. And in this historical fact described by Bai Juyi, how does he view this extremely special love?
"The emperor of China, eager to shake the beauty of an empire, has been in office for many years, looking for it, but never found it." In the official history, Tang Xuanzong also said that he really loved beauty. Here, the Han emperor is used as a metaphor for Xuanzong, and the literary world in the Tang Dynasty uses Han emperor as the current monarch. The whole poem is actually about the fact that after the establishment of a great cause by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, because of the peace of the country and people and the peace of the world, Xuanzong could only lazily turn over the turnover on the reading desk one day. Life in the palace is full of endless feasts. Xuanzong gradually felt that time was like water, and life was too short to accommodate too much happiness. Besides, he was vaguely lonely, so hedonistic life entered his world.
Huaqingchi met without warning. Yang Yuhuan, is that the daughter-in-law of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and the concubine of the palace master? However, this ordinary royal festival has fundamentally changed its nature because of Yang's singing and dancing. Her brilliance burned Xuanzong's eyes. Now that Wu Huifei is dead, the loneliness of the king needs a woman to fill it! Therefore, Xuanzong took away his son's daughter-in-law without hesitation, and finally took back the beauty and gave Yang Yuhuan a flood of love. He knocked on the Jie drum and she danced in the dress; When she moved, the clouds of her hair, the petals of her cheeks, the golden ripples of her crown, he and the emperor, from then on, gave up his early hearing. In modern terms, two people talk about our love when the whole world doesn't exist! Xuanzong almost put all his thoughts on pleasing Yang: conferring her the title of imperial concubine, and even wanted to make her the queen, but the opposition was too fierce to achieve it. Xuanzong also let Yang Guifei's family, everyone, be an official and have the right to the world.
The melody of feather color was shocked by the drums of Yuyang. An Lushan corrected Hu and went straight to Chang 'an to kill him. Border towns have fallen. "The Forbidden City, a nine-story palace, is hidden in the dust, and thousands of horses and chariots are heading southwest." Imperial hegemony, which is regarded as unshakable for generations, will soon be reduced to ashes after the fire. Xuanzong and Yang Guifei want to escape to Sichuan, and take the same car on the way. After spying on the military situation, Chen and Gao Lishi came back with the resentment of the whole army. They have killed Yang and demanded the execution of Yang Guifei. The imperial concubine knows that one person must die now, and this person can only be her!
"But when she thanked him, her eyes shone with love, because his body and voice were strange to her since they parted." From then on, there was only one loyal Gao Lishi around. Cold room, lonely emperor father. I still remember the oath of the Palace of Eternal Life: "We hope to fly in heaven, two birds grow together on the earth with one wing, two branches of a tree." Xuanzong now loves the imperial concubine in another world on earth, and the imperial concubine probably misses this husband who also dotes on her! Of course, yin and yang are too far apart, so I can only sigh: "The earth endures, and the sky endures;" One day both will end, and this endless sorrow will continue forever! "
This is the story told by Bai Juyi in Song of Eternal Sorrow. There are actually many virtual things in it. For example, "keeping in the inner room, no one knows her" is Bai Juyi's taboo here. The date and place of "the seventh day of July, in the Palace of Eternal Life" here are fictitious. Whether history is a fact or not, in the country of poetry, sometimes it has to give way to art!