The Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang saw very few children in the historical records, a total of four men and two women. As one of Yang Guang's few children, Princess Yang should have had no worries about food and clothing in her childhood, and received a good education from the royal family.
The historical record of who Yang Fei's birth mother is is not recorded, there will be many possibilities, and there is no conclusion. Some people believe that it was born to the high-ranking concubines of the Sui Emperor, some people believe that they were born of ordinary concubines, and a small number of people believe that they were born to Empress Xiao, and there is a lot of controversy. As for whether to be promoted to a princess, whether to marry, and how to be titled, there is no documentation, and there is no conclusive conclusion. According to the imperial system, the emperor generally granted the title of princess and the golden book by the emperor, and the title of princess meant economic (food) and political independence. Subsequently, the emperor would choose a horse lieutenant among the sons of the nobles throughout the country to marry, often with obvious political implications and signals. What is certain is that Concubine Yang is Yang Guang's biological daughter, not the daughter of any clan. In the historical materials, only the word "imperial daughter" can be clearly recorded to be the emperor's own daughter, and other clan daughters are not eligible to be called imperial daughters, which is also the basic historical material for historians to determine the identity of Yang Concubine.
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In May of the thirteenth year of Daye (617), Li Yuan, the Duke of Taiyuan and the Duke of Tang, raised an army at Jinyang, and in November occupied Chang'an, proclaiming Yang You, the grandson of the Sui Emperor, as emperor, changing Yuan Yining, that is, Emperor Gong of Sui, and Honoring Yang Guang as Emperor Taishang. Li Yuan served as the Grand Chancellor and was enfeoffed as the King of Tang. After the destruction of Daxing City, the trajectory of Yang Fei's life changed completely, from an imperial daughter to an imperial aunt, if she was crowned as a princess. But even so, Princess Yang's status as an imperial aunt did not last long, and in March of the second year of Yining (618), the Sui Emperor was hanged by the chancellor Yu Wenhua and Jiangsu. In May of the same year, Li Yuan usurped the title of Emperor of Sui, gave the state the title of Tang, deposed Yang You as the Duke of Guoguo, and lived idly in Chang'an, where he was killed in May of the following year. The Sui Dynasty wanted to completely overthrow the country and declare its demise, and the state was founded for a total of thirty-eight years.
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Li Yuanshi was called Tang Gaozu. Changed to Yuan Wude, the capital was still set at Chang'an. Subsequently, Li Yuan's eldest son Li Jiancheng was made crown prince, the second son Li Shimin was made the King of Qin, the third son Li Xuanba died early, and the fourth son Li Yuanji was made the King of Qi. Princess Yang was completely reduced from the dignity of the emperor's daughter to the daughter of the subjugated country. After the murder of the Sui Emperor, Yang Fei's brother King Qi and the thirteen-year-old King Zhao were tragically killed by Yu Wenhua and his rebels, and countless relatives died, and now they are buried with Emperor Zhao under the Wu Gongtai. Princess Yang's maternal concubine Xiao Hou and her sister Princess Nanyang and other clan relatives were imprisoned with Yu Wenhua and went north, Dou Jiande defeated Yu Wenhua and later, Xiao Hou was welcomed to the Turks by Princess Yicheng, and later established Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of the Sui Emperor, as the King of Sui, and the Princess of Nanyang returned to Chang'an. In the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan, Tang Taizong Li Shimin defeated the Turkic army, and Xiao Hou returned to Chang'an with the Chuanguo Jade Seal.
Princess Yang's sister Princess Nanyang was born in the sixth year of Kai Huang, and in the fourteenth year of Kai Huang, she was only thirty-two years old when the Sui Dynasty fell. Princess Yang, who had been the daughter of the emperor, somehow suddenly married Li Shimin, the second son of Tang Gaozu, who had been crowned King of Qin at that time. Many people speculate that the two belong to a political marriage, and some people think that the two were old acquaintances, but there is no historical record. The typical door valve politics of the Sui and Tang dynasties made the clans frequently form political alliances through marriage, and they were intertwined with each other, and Princess Yang and Li Shimin, the King of Qin, were typical cousins in terms of blood relations, and Yang Fei's grandmother Empress Sui wenwen and Li Shimin's grandmother, Empress Tang Yuanzhen (posthumously), were the seventh and fourth daughters of Dugu Xin, respectively. The two daughters were the mothers of the Sui Emperor Yang Guang and Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, so Yang Fei could be called Li Shimin's cousins, and the combination of the two not only enriched the foundation of the Li Yuan family politically from the blood, so Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Yang Fei's sons Li Ke and Li Yan inherited the orthodox royal bloodline of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and also integrated the genes of the Houzhou Gate Valve Du Lonely Family, called Tianhuang Guiguan.
Exactly when Princess Yang married into the Qin Dynasty can be speculated according to the basic time of birth of her son Li Ke. Li Ke was born in the second year of Tang Wude, the same year as his eldest son Li Chengqian. Princess Yang was to enter the Palace of Qin at the latest in the first year of Wu De, that is, when Tang was asked by Sui Chan to change to Yuan Wude. As for the identity in which she married into the Qin Dynasty, it is not known. At present, most people tend to think that marrying into the Qin Royal Palace as the eldest princess (Emperor Gu Yue DaChang Princess, Imperial Sister Yue Chang Princess, Imperial Daughter Yue Princess) may be smaller, but after May of the first year of Wu De's first year, she was married to the Qin Wangfu as a relative of the Duke of Qin, and her rank is unknown. According to the tombstone of the Yan clan after he was hired into the palace, he was called a nobleman (according to the Tang system, the widow is generally the title of the prince with a grade side room, and the title of the Yan clan is puzzling and the reason is unknown), which should be equivalent to it. Logically, The trajectory of Yang Fei's life should be stable from now on, and she will silently sink into the long river of history as a side room of the Qin King.
Perhaps it was a cycle of cause and effect, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan sent Li Shimin to conquer the four sides and suppress the masses of heroes from all sides, and Li Shimin's credit was too great, which aroused the vigilance of the crown prince Li Jiancheng. Li Shimin, the King of Qin, already had the heart to win the concubine, and the various factions fought to the death. On the fourth day of June in the ninth year of Tang Wude, Li Shimin, who had made meritorious achievements in the four-sided conquest, brazenly launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the Qi king Li Yuanji were killed. On the eighth day of the first month, Gaozu Li Yuan made Li Shimin crown prince, and on August 8, Li Shimin ascended the throne in the Eastern Palace, and Li Yuan abdicated as Emperor Taishang. Li Shimin was later known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, who was later known as the Sage of the Ages, and changed his name to Yuan Zhenguan (627-649) the following year. If Princess Yang is alive, less than ten years after she left Daxing Palace, she followed her husband Li Shimin back into the former imperial palace, and the home at that time was also the home of today, which has to be said to be the paradox of history.
At this point, Princess Yang disappeared from the historical records, and the burial place after her death is unknown. As a daughter of the fallen emperor who was born in the imperial palace, grew up in the imperial palace, and married into the imperial palace, her father was controversial as the king of the fallen country, and her son Li Ke was praised by Shi Chen in the Book of Tang as "the sons of Emperor Taizong, the most virtuous of Wu Wang Ke and Pu Wang Tai." Li Ke was promoted as a candidate for Li Chu because he was praised by Tang Taizong, who knew that he was a "kind of self" of Yingguo, threatening the interests of a specific group and becoming a victim of political struggle.
Princess Yang's honor and disgrace were inseparable from her lifelong associations with her father Emperor Sui and her husband Emperor Taizong of Tang, and her son Li Ke the Prince of Wu and Li Yan the Prince of Shu. Although she guaranteed the glory of the first and the future, and also experienced the historical process of the overthrow of the Sui Dynasty and the rise of the Tang Dynasty, whether she went with the flow or the waves of her life, her experience as an imperial concubine after her first time as an imperial daughter will leave the infinite reverie of future generations, and it will be even more lamentable with the tragic fate of her sons King Wu and King Shu. Many years later, Empress Wu Zetian of Tang Gaozong proclaimed herself emperor and changed the name of the country to Zhou, and the prophecy of the heroine Wu Wang after the third generation of Tang became a reality, and the descendants of the Li family were almost wiped out, but Li Ke's patriarch flourished and lived with the Tang Dynasty, which is also a relief of history.