Five Dynasties · Consort of Wang Yanhan

Lady Cui 崔氏

Cuī

Died AD 925

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Cui was a consort of Wang Yanhan.

Life and dates

Death

AD 925 to AD 926 同光四年前後
Cause Illness attributed to haunting
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 36

Attested activity

AD 925 to AD 926 延翰在位
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 68, passages 33, 36

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Wang Yanhan (王延翰)
wife 妻
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 33

Events and relationships

Tortured and killed concubines
Legal · Perpetrator · Count 84
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 35

Assessments and attributes

Assessment homely, unchaste, and fiercely jealous · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 68, passages 33, 35

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68: Hereditary House of Min · 3 passages

延翰為人長大，美皙如玉，其妻崔氏陋而淫，延翰不能制。 Yanhan was tall and handsome, with skin fair as jade. His wife Lady Cui was homely and unchaste, and he could not restrain her.

崔氏性妒，良家子之美者，輒幽之別室，系以大械，刻木為人手以擊頰，又以鐵錐刺之，一歲中死者八十四人。 Lady Cui was fiercely jealous. Whenever a concubine from a respectable family was beautiful, Cui locked her in a side room, bound her in heavy irons, had a wooden hand carved to slap her face, and stabbed her with iron spikes. Within a single year eighty-four women died at her hands.

崔氏後病，見以為祟而卒。 Lady Cui later fell ill, believed she was haunted by their spirits, and died.