Secret History of the Tang Dynasty: Why Concubine Yang was infertile every night

"It is hard to give up on natural beauty. Once you choose it, you will be on the side of the king. Looking back, you will be charming with a smile. The pink and white in the sixth palace have no color." Yang Yuhuan's beauty is probably irresistible to anyone. And the reason why she was favored by the emperor may be the key to her infertility.

The reasons why Li Longji fell in love with Yang Yuhuan can be roughly divided into three types, among which beauty is the number one reason Bai Juyi tried to prove.

His testimony revolved around many aspects of beauty: beauty (face like hibiscus, eyebrows like willow leaves), beautiful skin (skin as white and delicate as "congealed fat"), charm (when she tactfully curls her eyebrows and looks back with a smile) At that time, the pink and white flowers in the Sixth Palace all lost their color), the gait (the wind blows the fairy mantles and flutters, like dancing with colorful feathers), the crying posture (the jade face is lonely and full of tears, the pear blossoms bring rain in spring, etc.) and so on.

Due to Bai Juyi's rendering, Yang Yuhuan was confirmed as one of the four beauties in China. This position is something that almost no one can shake. As a result, "the spring night is as short as the sun rises, and the king will not go to court early from now on", "there are three thousand beauties in the harem, and three thousand people are pampered in one body".

So, is Yang Guifei favored just because she is beautiful? This makes people suspicious, because the emperors of any dynasty have no shortage of beautiful women, not to mention that men themselves have a psychology of liking the new and hating the old, so why does Li Longji dote on her alone? This is also related to Yang Guifei's plump body.

It has been recorded that Concubine Yang would be panting and sweating after walking a few steps because she was fat. And this fatness is one of the reasons why the emperor likes her. At that time, Li Longji was already in his 60s. During the day, he was engaged in creating the aesthetics of singing and dancing, and at night, he used his concubine's plump body to warm up.

Although there is Huaqing Pool to warm up and bathe, Yuhuan's body is the best thing for an old man to keep out the cold. She was like a warm mattress, gently wrapping the old man's skinny body. She was the emperor's most personal hot spring, undulating and flowing slightly around him. The old man slept peacefully beside her, like a baby who was free from the world.

And this may be the reason for Concubine Yang's infertility. Concubine Yang was infertile as early as when she was Princess Shou. At that time, she and her husband were both in their youth and had strong fertility, but she still did not get pregnant and give birth to a child. From a medical point of view, for a woman who is too fat, the signal her body receives is equivalent to her taking contraceptive pills, and her ovaries will automatically stop ovulation.