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Lady Su was a Family Member.
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Book of Song, Chapter 63Volume 63 Biographies 23: Wang Hua, Wang Tanshou, Yin Jingren, Shen Yanzhi · 4 passages
太祖所生章太后早亡，上奉太后所生蘇氏甚謹。
The future Emperor Wen's birth mother, Empress Zhang, had died young, and the emperor served Su, a kinswoman of the empress dowager, with great care.
六年，蘇氏卒，車駕親往臨哭，下詔曰：「朕夙罹偏罰，情事兼常，每思有以光隆懿戚，少申罔極之懷。
In the sixth year Lady Su died. The emperor went in person to mourn at her bier and issued an edict: "From early on I have suffered the partial bereavement of losing a parent, and my feelings go beyond the ordinary. I have long wished to honor a worthy kinswoman and give some small expression to boundless grief.
蘇夫人奄至傾殂，情禮莫寄，追思遠恨，與事而深，日月有期，將卜窀穸，便欲粗依《春秋》以貴之義，式遵二漢推恩之典。
Lady Su has suddenly passed away, and I have nowhere to place my feeling or ritual duty. The more I recall old grief, the deeper it grows with this event. The day of burial draws near, and I wish roughly to follow the Spring and Autumn principle of honoring by rank and to take as model the Han practice of extending favor.
蘇夫人階緣戚屬，情以事深，寒泉之思，實感聖懷，明詔爰發，詢求厥中。
Lady Su stands only a step removed in kinship, yet feeling runs deep because of the matter; the thought of cold springs truly moves Your Majesty's heart. Your enlightened edict seeks counsel for the proper course.