Empress Xiaohui (Ming dynasty)
| Empress Xiaohui Hiếu huệ hoàng hậu | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||
| Empress Dowager of theMing Dynasty | |||||
| Reign | 1521-1522 | ||||
| Successor | Empress Dowager Xiaoding | ||||
| Born | ? Changhua, Hangzhou | ||||
| Died | 5 December 1522 | ||||
| Burial | Maoling Mausoleum,Changping District,Beijing | ||||
| Spouse | Chenghua Emperor | ||||
| Issue |
| ||||
| |||||
| Clan | Shao ( thiệu ) | ||||
| Father | Shao Lin, Earl of Changhua ( xương hóa bá thiệu lâm ) | ||||
| Mother | Lady Yang ( dương thị ) | ||||
Empress Xiaohui( hiếu huệ hoàng hậu; d. 5 December 1522), of the Shao clan, was a consort of theChenghua Emperor.
Life[edit]
Official history does not record the year of her birth. The ancestors of the Shao family were wealthy, and Lady Shao received a good education. For an unknown reason, her father Shao Lin lost his fortune overnight. He had to sell his daughter to theeunuchguardingHangzhou.Seeing Lady Shao's beauty, the eunuch brought her to the palace.[1]In the fourth year of Tianshun (1460), Lady Shao was selected to serve.[2]
In the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), seventeen-year-old princeZhu Jianshensucceeded to the throne as theChenghua Emperor.After training incalligraphyand literature, Lady Shao was presented as a gift to the emperor.[3]How Lady Shao became his concubine remains unknown. Legends say that one night, Lady Shao recited a poem under the moon and was heard by the emperor.
In the 12th year of Chenghua (1476), Lady Shao gave birth to Zhu Youyan, Prince of Xin. Later that year, Lady Shao was granted the title Consort Chen.[4]In the fourteenth year of Chenghua (1478), she birthed her second son, Zhu Youlin, Prince Hui of Xin. In the seventeenth year of Chenghua (1481), Consort Chen gave birth to her final child, Zhu Youyun, Prince Jing of Yong.
Titles[edit]
- During the reign of theZhengtong Emperor(r. 1435–1449)
- Lady Shao ( thiệu thị; from an unknown date)
- During the reign of the Chenghua Emperor (r. 1464–1487):
- Concubine ( tần; after 1464)
- Consort Chen ( thần phi; from 1476)
- Noble Consort ( quý phi; from 1487)
- During the reign of theJiajing Emperor(r. 1521–1567):
- Empress dowager ( hoàng thái hậu; from 1521)
- Empress Dowager Shou'an ( thọ an hoàng thái hậu; from 1522)
- Empress Dowager Xiaohui Kangsu Wenren Yishun Xietian Yousheng( hiếu huệ khang túc ôn nhân ý thuận hiệp thiên hữu thánh hoàng thái hậu; from 1522)
- Grand Empress Dowager Xiaohui Kangsu Wenren Yishun Xietian Yousheng( hiếu huệ khang túc ôn nhân ý thuận hiệp thiên hữu thánh thái hoàng thái hậu; from 1528)
- Empress Xiaohui Kangsu Wenren Yishun Xietian Yousheng( hiếu huệ khang túc ôn nhân ý thuận hiệp thiên hữu thánh hoàng hậu; from 1536)
Descendants[edit]
As a concubine:
- Zhu Youyuan,Prince of Xing ( hưng vương chu hữu nguyên; 22 July 1476 – 13 July 1519), the Chengua Emperor's fourth son
As Noble Consort:
- Zhu Youlun, Prince Hui of Qi ( kỳ huệ vương chu hữu 棆; 12 November 1478 – 2 December 1501), the Chenghua Emperor's fifth son
- Zhu Youyun, Prince Jing of Yong ( ung tĩnh vương chu hữu vân; 29 June 1481 – 17 January 1507), the Chenghua Emperor's eighth son
Zhu Youyuanwas the biological father of Zhu Houcong, theJiajing Emperor.When Zhu Houcong became emperor, Consort Chen was old and blind.[5]In the first year of Jiajing, he honoured Lady Shao as Empress Dowager Shou'an. The next year, she died and was posthumously awarded the title Empress Xiaohui.
References[edit]
- ^Bắc kinh văn sử tư liêu tinh tuyển: Thạch cảnh sơn quyển(in Chinese). Bắc kinh xuất bản xã. p. 237.
- ^Nghiêm tung 《 linh sơn đường tập 》 quyển 36 《 đại minh truy phong phụng thiên dực vận thôi thành tuyên lực võ thần đặc tiến vinh lộc đại phu xương hóa bá thiệu công thần đạo bi 》《 quốc triều hiến trưng lục / quyển chi tam 》
- ^Minh: Cảnh sơn đích vãn phong.p. 4.
- ^《 hương diễm tùng thư 》 thập lục tập quyển tứ minh cung từ: Hưng vương tác tư thân thi thượng phi, phi đáp chi.
- ^Ngu vân quốc (2014).Cung hoa tịch mịch hồng: Tế thuyết trung quốc hậu cung.Liêu ninh nhân dân xuất bản xã. p. 212.ISBN978-7205078584.
- Ngu vân quốc (2014).Cung hoa tịch mịch hồng: Tế thuyết trung quốc hậu cung.Liêu ninh nhân dân xuất bản xã.ISBN978-7205078584.
- Keith McMahon (2016).Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing.Rowman & Littlefield.ISBN978-1442255029.
- Bắc kinh văn sử tư liêu tinh tuyển: Thạch cảnh sơn quyển.Bắc kinh xuất bản xã. 2006.ISBN7200065366.
- Hạ duy trung (2004).Minh: Cảnh sơn đích vãn phong.Thiểm tây sư phạm đại học xuất bản xã.ISBN7561330820.