Yang Yuhuan was Li Longji’s favorite concubine, but she never gave birth to a child for Li Longji. Why is that? Some people say it’s because Yang Yuhuan has no fertility, but this is also possible, after all, infertility also existed in ancient times, and it’s difficult to cure it with medical skills at that time. And at that time, Yang Yuhuan’s body was slightly overweight, which would have had some impact to some extent. However, this did not prevent Yang Yuhuan from becoming one of the Four Great Beauties of ancient times, as having beauty was enough.
Among the four beauties in China, only Yang Guifei Yang Yuhuan is a special case where being fat is considered beautiful. The story of Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji is depicted particularly beautifully in Bai Juyi’s Song of Everlasting Sorrow, and Yang Yuhuan’s stunning appearance is praised by literati, just like a poem that Li Bai once wrote for Yang Yuhuan, praising her astonishing beauty.
Yang Yuhuan’s beauty should be relatively elegant and luxurious, unlike Zhao Feiyan’s frail beauty, but has a grand national mother style with elegance and dignity as the eye-catching point. For the Tang Dynasty, which valued weight as beauty, Yang Yuhuan was definitely the best beauty. So the small topic we’re going to discuss today is, since Yang Yuhuan is so beautiful and loved by Li Longji, why doesn’t she have children?
Many people may think that Li Longji may have been a bit old when he was with Yang Yuhuan, and it may not be easy for him to conceive. However, Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji’s son, Shouwang Li Mao, had a marriage before. At that time, Li Mao was about the same age as Yang Yuhuan, and Shouwang Li Mao had a pregnant concubine who had children.
So the problem with Yang Yuhuan and Li Mao not having a child should still be with Yang Yuhuan, not Li Mao. After Yang Yuhuan married Li Longji at that time, due to Li Longji’s advanced age and Yang Yuhuan’s relatively overweight body, she may not have been very healthy, so she never got pregnant. It’s actually quite regrettable to talk about it now.
