Bo Juyi's The Song of Unending Sorrow describes the love of Emperor Xuanzong toward, for 10 points, what ancient Chinese beauty?
When thinking about this character, another character would gaze at the Moon and make facial expressions that revealed his "broken heart." This character's countenance is described as "sad" since her face is "crisscrossed with tears / like a pear blossom bathed in springtime rain." She tries to gaze into the heaven to see her own homeland, but only sees "dust and mist." A priest visits the "blue beyond" and the "yellow springs" beneath the Earth in search of this character, but finds her in a tower on a mountain that rose "exquisitely through the vibrant clouds." This character is skilled at performing the dance of rainbow skirts and feather robes. She breaks a golden hairpin and places it in a box to give to her lover at the end a poem in which ministers put her to death. Bo Juyi's The Song of Unending Sorrow describes the love of Emperor Xuanzong toward, for 10 points, what ancient Chinese beauty?
When thinking about this character, another character would gaze at the Moon and make facial expressions that revealed his "broken heart.
Yang Guifei