Words about Beauty (4)

羞花 shying flower, it means her beauty make the flower shy, so the flower close its petals (in Chinese term ‘shy’ could be transitive verb)

The girl lived in Tang Dynasty (618-907AD), it was the most prosperous period of China, in the west, the Silk Road lead the merchants traded with Ancient Persia. In the south, the Chinese monk 陈玄装 walked to India and studied there for 14 years.

Below was a tower built in Tang Dynasty:

For the east, Japan sent a diplomatic corps to China to learn Chinese culture and since then the Japanese had a writing system.

Below is the model of their boat:

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Yet all of this was disappeared when the emperor fell in love with a girl 33 years younger than him.

Below was the palace of Tang Dynasty:

And:

Hand writing of that emperor:

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A minority leader 安禄山, is conspiracy for a rebellion. He honour the girl as his adoptive mother in order to approach the emperor, despite the girl was 16 years younger than him. Later his plan was succeed, the rebellion occupied more than half of the China. When the emperor bring the girl flee to an inner land of the country, his guards mutinied their appeal was simple and clear: to kill the girl otherwise they would be a revolt. Because, without the girl, 安禄山may not gain grace of the emperor.

Below is the road that the emperor escaped from capital city:

And:

 The emperor could not save the girl and the guards forced the girl hanging herself from a beam. That girl was 杨玉环

Picture was drew at that time, we may learn their aesthetic standard, especially the eyebrow. It was called moth’s eyebrow.

Below was her bathroom:

The Japanese people seemed love her more than Chinese did, they made a story telling that as there were so many Japanese diplomatic corps in Chinese, some of them saved the girl and escorted her to Japan. They had two proves to support their story, the first one was that they found a tomb of this girl at Japan (the red spot).

This is the statue on her tomb in Japan:

The second prove was that in the poem of a famous poet at that time, telling that after the girl, dead the emperor was missing her very much. One day a Taoist priest went to see him and told that he had seen the girl in Japan and the girl told him a secret story that only the emperor and the girl knew.