"Huang Huang" originally refers to Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. This refers to Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. The literary creations of Tang people often refer to Tang as Han.

Excerpt:

The emperor of Han Dynasty paid great attention to beauty and wanted to overwhelm the country, and he could not get it for many years.

There is a daughter in the Yang family who has just grown up. She is raised in a boudoir and no one knows her.

It’s hard to give up on natural beauty. Once you choose it, you will be on the side of the king.

Translation:

Tang Minghuang preferred beauty. After becoming the emperor, he had been looking for beauties for many years, but found nothing. The Yang family has a daughter who has just grown up. She is very beautiful and she is raised in a boudoir. Outsiders do not know her beauty. Naturally beautiful and charming, it was difficult for her to be buried in the world, and it didn't take long for her to become a concubine of Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty.

Source: "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty

Extended information:

In "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" there is the desire for love, the love of life, and the longing for a prosperous age. Nostalgic. Therefore, the persistence of the "sentimental" theme in "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is also a manifestation of respect for the ontology of human life. After the Anshi Rebellion, sentimental emotions permeated the entire Dali period. Bai Juyi's "sentimental" poems are a continuation of the Dali style of poetry, but they are not only sentimental and loss, but also describe the "changes" of life, separation and death.

After Zhenyuan and Yuanhe, the scholars of the Tang Dynasty woke up from the suffering and sinking, walked out of the haze of emotions, and reflected on the shortness of the prosperous age. Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is the poetic condensation of this sentimental emotion. .