In the Tang Dynasty, where obesity was the beauty, how much did Yang Guifei weigh?

In the Tang Dynasty, where obesity was the beauty, how much did Yang Guifei weigh?

As we all know, there are four beauties in the ancient history of our country: sinking fish and falling geese, closing the moon and feeling ashamed of flowers. So Yang Yuhuan, one of the four beauties, is the fattest of the four.

The beauty of fatness began in the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, the politics was stable, the economy was prosperous, and the people's material living standard was high. Under such conditions, women's body shape and weight are naturally overweight, which has become a common phenomenon and is called "broad-minded and obese". The scale of opening to the outside world and foreign exchanges in the Tang Dynasty reached its peak in feudal times. The opening of the Silk Road and the beautiful girls from the western countries can make people in the Tang Dynasty feel refreshed and shine at the moment! Members of the royal family, who belong to the surname of "Li" among ethnic minorities, were born in Xianbei nationality in the north and are also tall and strong. Because the northern minorities at that time grew up eating mutton, beef and goat's milk, the royal family naturally felt that being fat meant looking good! Based on this background, it has become a trend to take fat as beauty.

Du Fu's poem "Remembering the Past Years" praised: "Recalling the prosperous time of Kaiyuan in those days, there were still hundreds of small towns. Rice is fat and white, and public and private warehouses are rich. There are no wolves and tigers on the road in Kyushu, which is a good day for long-distance travel ... "

Looking back at the prosperous time of Kaiyuan, the population of thousands of families in the city, the bumper harvest of agriculture and the warehouses for storing rice grains were all piled up. The society is peaceful and stable, people travel safely and smoothly, and handicrafts and commerce are developed. Look at the prosperity of the country. Even rice is so fat that it makes people grow fat.

As for how fat Yang Guifei is, there is no specific height and weight record in history, and there is no portrait left. Su Dongpo once wrote a poem:

The title of the poem is "Sun Shen's Poem of Seeking a Wonderful Pavilion for Ink", which reads, "Ling Du's storytelling is expensive, thin and hard, and this theory is not what I think. Short, long, fat and thin have their own states. Who dares to hate Yuhuan Yan Fei? "

Su Dongpo compared Zhao Yanfei of the Han Dynasty to Yang Yuhuan of the Tang Dynasty. Calligraphy has its own posture, whether it is long or short, fat or thin. Yuhuan is fat and thin. Which one doesn't look good? In the history books, it seems that you are fat and Zhao is thin. Yang Yuhuan was actually the favorite concubine of Li Mao, the son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, but was later canonized as an imperial concubine by her father. From then on, the world called her Yang Guifei. Even if Yang Yuhuan's weight is not recorded, we can infer the description of Yang Guifei from Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow.

The song of everlasting regret wrote:

Until there was a child of Yang's family, who had not yet grown up and was raised in the inner room, no one recognized him. "。

However, due to the gift of heaven and no concealment, it was finally elected royal one day.

If she just turned her head and smiled, there were a hundred spells, and the powder and paint of six palaces disappeared without a trace.

It was early spring. They let her bathe in a pure pool to warm and smooth her creamy skin. "

It can be seen that Yang Guifei, a famous lady who was loved by 3,000 concubines in the harem, was really as obese as later generations speculated, so how could she make Tang Xuanzong "abandon his early dynasty with the emperor"? If it is misinformation, what is her real weight?

Obviously, the "fat" in the "beauty is fat" here is not the fat of glistening in our imagination. In the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty, all beautiful women were plump and magnificent. Yang Guifei has a good cultural and artistic accomplishment, graceful personality, good singing and dancing, and good playing the pipa, which is in line with the taste of Tang Xuanzong.

In this way, a dancer who can be called Tang Dynasty is not too fat, is she? Yang Guifei's original "Dancing in Dresses and Feathers" is intoxicating. Yang Guifei practiced dancing since childhood, and her figure should be very symmetrical. The poet Du Fu once witnessed her elegant demeanour from a distance, and wrote a poem praising "open-minded, aloof and sweet, sincere, with soft skin and fine bones", which is more straightforward and true than Bai Juyi's description in Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Modern archaeologists have calculated that Yang Guifei is about 1.65 meters tall and weighs about 65 kilograms according to the records of historical records, the description of poets and the rules of choosing concubines in the Tang Dynasty, and she is described as "the goddess of chubby circles" by popular words in entertainment circles.