The story is embellished, however, in that Yang Guifei is portrayed as a peasant woman who is selected to marry the emperor.
#YANG GUIFEI SERIES#
The source is a television series based off of the love story of Yang Guifei and Emperor Xuanzong. Beijing Jingdu Century Cultural Development. The Legend of Yang Guifei (Yang Guifei Mishi). I used the source as an example of how Yang Guifei is represented as nothing more than a beauty to later generations. After Xuanzong stands her up for their date, she proceeds to spend the night drinking and becomes drunk. The Drunken Concubine is a Peking Opera about Yang Guifei.
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Peking Opera: Drunken Concubine (Guifei Zuijiu). It also plays into Yang Guifei’s beauty representation as Yang is portrayed by Fan Bingbing, a popular Chinese actress renowned for beauty. The film is heavily overdramatized and focuses on the love story. Lady of the Dynasty (Wángcháo de Nǚrén Yáng Guìfēi) is A film about the great love between Yang Guifei and Xuanzong. As you can see from the clip below, the show is highly entertaining, but the focus is more on emphasizing Yang Guifei’s beauty and love than anything else. Once again, the plot strays from the history, portraying Yang Guifei as a peasant woman who is selected to marry the emperor. For example, The Legend of Yang Guifei (Yang Guifei Mishi) is a 2010 Chinese historical-fiction, costume television drama that is loosely based off of the story of Yang Guifei and Xuanzong. Oftentimes, the story is presented as entertainment for modern Chinese audiences emphasizing themes of beauty, love and tragedy, allowing historical accuracy to fade in importance. The Drunken Concubine helps to add to the legacy of Yang Guifei as one of the four great beauties.įinally, Yang Guifei is a popular figure for revival in film and television. There is no substance in the character and no regard throughout the opera for the history behind the story. The Opera is an example of Yang Guifei’s representation as nothing more than a beauty. The actor is extremely made up to look beautiful and is renowned for his ability to portray her disappointment and the flaunting of her beauty.
When he stands her up, she proceeds to spend the night drinking alcohol and thus getting intoxicated. The story follows one night in which she supposed to have dinner with the Emperor. Bai Juyi mixes the historical storyline with nature analogies that emphasize her beauty and details on their happy life as a couple, demonstrating how as early as 807 CE Yang Guifei was represented as a perfect beauty and one half of a great love affair.Īnother more modern representation of Yang Guifei, the Peking Opera The Drunken Concubine ( Guifei Zuijiu), presents Yang Guifei as a simple woman, who holds no substance beyond her beauty. The poem focuses heavily on the grandness of their love, and has been described as the most famous account of doomed love in Chinese history (Mair 478). Written in early 807 CE (about 50 years after her death) the poem was originally accompanied by a historically accurate recollection of the events, but now the poem is often read and recited alone. One of the earliest representations of Yang Guifei, the “Song of Lasting Regret” by Bai Juyi, demonstrates how Yang Guifei was represented in literature as depicting ideal beauty, and her tragedy was made to symbolize deep love.
In this section I will examine her representation through four examples. Many times the representations fall into the trap of deciding that by means of her sexuality alone Yang Guifei was able to destroy the peace in the Tang dynasty. These representations tend to focus on Yang Guifei’s immense beauty and the “great love” between her and Xuanzong instead of the history of the story.
#YANG GUIFEI TV#
In addition to visual artwork, of which there are examples on the “Gender and Sexuality” page, writers and directors have represented Yang Guifei in poems, plays, Operas, films and TV Shows. Yang Guifei’s story was a popular topic for reimagination starting from the Tang dynasty and continuing into modern times.
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