Five Dynasties · Consort

Lady of Cultivated Virtue Yang 淑妃楊氏

Yang

Died AD 936

Passages
21
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Lady of Cultivated Virtue Yang as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 21 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Lady of Cultivated Virtue Yang 淑妃楊氏 Yang
Title Imperial Consort Shu 淑妃 Shūfēi
Personal name Imperial Consort Shu of the Yang clan 淑妃楊氏 Shūfēi Yáng shì
Title Lady of Cultivated Virtue 淑妃 shufei
Alternate name Lady Yang 楊夫人
Title Lady Yang 楊夫人 Yáng fūrén
Personal name Yang 楊氏 Yang
Surname Yang Yáng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: Taiyuan outskirts / 太原之近郊 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
  • Place: Taiyuan / 太原 · Source Date: Text: 晉天福末 · Western Year: AD 944

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 廣順元年九月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 951
  • Source Date: Text: 顯德元年夏 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 954
  • Source Date: Text: 天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
  • Source Date: Text: 廣順元年九月 · Western Year: AD 951
  • Source Date: Text: 晉天福末 · Western Year: AD 944
  • Source Date: Text: 顯德元年 · Western Year: AD 954

Family

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  • Sibling of Yang Tingzhang (楊廷璋)
    Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Subject Relative Age: younger
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: younger brother · Object Role: elder sister · Subject Relative Age: younger
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder sister · Object Role: younger brother · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Child of Yang Hongyu (楊洪裕)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Spouse of Shi Guangfu (石光輔)
    Kinship Term: married / 嫁 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended
    Union Category: marriage
    Kinship Term: married / 嫁 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: widowed
    Union Category: marriage
  • Child of Mother of Lady Yang (淑妃楊氏之母)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
  • Spouse of Guo Wei (郭威)
    Kinship Term: successor wife / 繼室 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Union Type: successor marriage after Chai
    Union Category: marriage
    Kinship Term: successor wife / 繼室 · Union Category: primary-marriage
    Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

  • Label: Lady of Cultivated Virtue / 淑妃 · Action: posthumously-granted · Source Date: Text: 廣順元年九月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 951
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:121:s0050
  • Title: Imperial Consort Shu / 淑妃 · Action: posthumously-installed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順元年九月 · Western Year: AD 951
  • Status: widow · Action: became
  • Status: selected-for-beauty · Action: entered-zhao-palace
  • Status: displaced · Action: wandered-among-people

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 12 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 19Volume 19: Taizu of Later Zhou's Family · 9 passages