Sui and Tang · Consort

Yang Guifei 楊貴妃

Attested AD 745 - AD 756

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Guifei was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 745 to AD 756 楊貴妃生日
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 22, passage 79

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (唐玄宗)
precious consort 貴妃 · Secondary marriage
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 22, passage 79

Places and affiliations

At Hall of Long Life 長生殿 · Relation Celebrated at
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 22, passage 79

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 22Volume 22 Treatises 12: Rites and Music 12 · 1 passage

帝幸驪山，楊貴妃生日，命小部張樂長生殿，因奏新曲，未有名，會南方進荔枝，因名曰《荔枝香》。 At Mount Li on Yang Guifei's birthday the small bureau performed a new, unnamed work in the Hall of Long Life; southern lychees arrived that day, so the piece became "Lychee Fragrance."