2013-2014 School of Chinese Research Student Seminar

楊貴妃（719-756），號太真，為唐玄宗的寵妃。楊貴妃以貌美而聞名於世，被譽為中國四大美人之一。她生活在唐代最繁盛的時期，在安史之亂中的馬嵬事變中被賜死，去世時僅三十八歲。楊貴妃短暫的一生為人所惋惜，世人透過創作把她由歷史的領域帶進了文學，令她的文學生命永垂不朽。文學作品往往為作者個人感情和時代意識的反映，故本演講將分析明代楊貴妃的文學形象，以期窺探明代的價值觀和社會風氣，亦藉此探討其形象如何影響後世的李楊文學創作。

Imperial Consort Yang (719-756) was the most favored imperial consort of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Yang was famous for her beauty, and was known as one of the “four great beauties” in China. She lived in the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, but was killed in the Ma-Wei Incident at the age of thirty-eight. People were sorry for her short life span and thus made her literary life immortal. Literary works often reflected the authors’ personal feelings and their social consciousness. Through an analysis of Yang’s literary image during the Ming Dynasty, this talk aims to better understand the social values of that time, and to explore the influence Yang’s literary image of the Ming Dynasty had on the “Li-Yang literature” of the following centuries.