Sui and Tang · Exemplary Woman

Lady Yang 楊氏

Yang

Attested AD 814 - AD 820

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Yang was an Exemplary Woman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 820 元和十五年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 255
AD 814 to AD 817 至元濟時
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 244, 253

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Dong Changling (董昌齡)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 240, 242

Career and standing

Grand Mistress of Beiping Commandery 北平郡太君
AD 820 元和十五年 · Granted
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 255

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Dong Changling (董昌齡) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 244, 246-248

Events and relationships

Emerged unharmed
Survival · Survivor · At Cai 蔡
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 254
Imprisoned
Imprisonment · Prisoner · With Wu Yuanji (吳元濟)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 253
Relation Teacher of · Person Dong Changling (董昌齡)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 242, 244, 251

Assessments and attributes

Assessment forceful clarity and chaste righteousness · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Li Xun (李遜)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 255

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 240

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 6 passages

董昌齡母楊氏。 Dong Changling's mother, Lady Yang.

楊氏潛誡曰：「逆順之理，成敗可知，汝宜圖之。」 Lady Yang secretly admonished him, "The principles of loyalty and rebellion, of success and failure, are plain—you must plan accordingly."

楊氏復誡曰：「逆黨欺天，天所不福。 Lady Yang admonished him again, "The rebels defy Heaven; Heaven will not bless them.

元濟囚楊氏，欲殺之，而止者數矣。 Yuanji imprisoned Lady Yang and wished to kill her, but was stopped several times.

蔡平，楊氏幸無恙。 When Cai was pacified, Lady Yang fortunately emerged unharmed.

元和十五年，陳許節度使李遜疏楊氏之強明節義以聞，乃封北平郡太君。 In the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, Military Governor Li Xun of Chenxu memorialized Lady Yang's wisdom and moral integrity; she was enfeoffed as Grand Mistress of Beiping Commandery.