Talk:Yang Guifei

Move "Yang Guifei" to "Yang guifei"
Guifei is not a given name, according to Basic rules for Hanyu Pinyin Orthography (GB/T 16159-1996), it should be written in lower case. Yao Ziyuan 13:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * However, it's always treated like a given name in modern writing. Moved back to Yang Guifei. &mdash;Lowellian (reply) 21:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Her birth name is Yang Yuhuan. Guifei is a title.

Move to Consort Yang Yuhuan
I am probably going to expand the article this coming week. I'd like to propose that the article be moved to Consort Yang Yuhuan as part of it, to conform with, for example, Consort Xiao (Gaozong) and Consort Wu (Xuanzong). --Nlu (talk) 21:31, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think this is a good move. Yang Guifei is overwhelmingly known by this name, both in China and surrounding countries.  I know you're doing this to conform with the other articles, but I think Yang Guifei and her name has a much larger cultural presence to justify the exception. o (talk) 14:56, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose I did not agree the move, Consort Yang Yuhuan seems was invented by yourself, Yang Guifei is the most common name, or Yang Yuhuan is far better than Consort Yang Yuhuan. Chinese seems didnot say 楊玉環妃( they may say 楊貴妃，楊妃 )--Keyi 20:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Google search 21,600 v.s. 2,470, I'll move it back.--Keyi

Consorts Yang
The use of the term "Consort Yang" is ambiguous, since Xuanzong had more than one Consort Yang. Besides Yang Guifei, there was another famous Consort Yang, Yang Guipin (posthumously, Empress Yuanxian), mother of Emperor Suzong. Yang Guifei is popular in English works; however, if a translation were desired, "Yang Guifei" means Chief Consort Yang, or something like that. Dcattell (talk) 20:56, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Correct Dates/Age if possible
Yang Guifei's birthdate is given as 719. The date of her marriage to Li Mao is given as 733, which would make her either 13 or 14. However, the next sentence states that she was 16 at the time of her marriage. Is it known which of these dates/ages is correct? NeutronSoup (talk) 19:50, 15 February 2011 (UTC)


 * This is probably due to the discrepancy in dynastic Chinese age reckoning. Rather than advancing your age on your birthday, your age was incremented on the Lunar New Year. So for instance if you were born the day before the New Year, then the next day you would be 1 year old. Since the calendar date of the Lunar New Year changes, it's possible the date of the next New Year falls before your calendar birth date, meaning you could be considered 2 years old after only, say, 355 days of life. 172.9.203.161 (talk) 17:40, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

"Full and fleshy figure"?
I find the following sentence from the article a bit confusing: "Yang was known for having a full and fleshy figure, which was a much sought-after quality at the time, but must not be viewed in the modern context of someone who is overweight" (my italics).

What is the author trying to say here? That she would be considered overweight by modern standards, but not by her contemporaries? Or that she was curvaceous rather than overweight? Or something else entirely that I'm just missing?Maitreya (talk) 11:40, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

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