Yang Guifei

Tang dynasty imperial consort (719–756)

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Lived 719–756, aged 37China

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Rank in China
#225
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Era
719–756
Aged 37

Summary

Updated 2026-06-09

She was the emperor's obsession — one of the Four Beauties of ancient China, a concubine who held the highest rank at court until soldiers blamed her family for the empire's collapse and forced her death on a roadside in 756.

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Yang Yuhuan was born in 719 and became the beloved consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang in his later years, rising to the rank of guifei — the highest position for imperial consorts. She briefly took the Taoist nun name Taizhen before entering the palace. When the An Lushan Rebellion erupted, the emperor and his entourage fled Chang'an for Chengdu, but at Mawei Station the imperial guards mutinied under Chen Xuanli's leadership. They blamed the dynasty's decline on her family, especially her cousin Yang Guozhong, and demanded her execution. Xuanzong gave in and ordered his attendant Gao Lishi t…

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