Lu Lingxuan (陸令萱)

Overview

Lu Lingxuan was a consort and Courtier.

IdentityHistorical · Female

Roles

Found in

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Dame Lu	陸媼	Lu Ao

Life and dates

Death

suicide 自殺
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 128

Attested activity

AD 565 to AD 565 天統初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 119
AD 565 to AD 577 後主寵時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 215
AD 570 武平元年前後
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 33, passages 144-145
AD 565 to AD 571 武成崩後至誅琅邪王
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 181, 184, 189
AD 565 to AD 577 齊後主時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 29, passage 113

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Mu Tipo (穆提婆)
her son 其子
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 181; Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 117
Parent of He Shikai (和士開)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 33, passage 145
Kin of Empress Mu (穆后)
taken as foster mother 養之為母 · Foster parentage
raised her as mother 養之為母 · Foster parentage
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 122
Sibling of Sida (悉達)
younger brother 弟 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 182
Sibling of Younger Sister of Lu Lingxuan
younger sister 女弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 29, passage 113
Sibling of Wife of Sima Zirui (子瑞妻)
younger sister 妹 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 215

Kinship Role descendants · Count 0 · Negated true · all killed; no surviving count given — using zero surviving
Uncertain · Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 128

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Applied
Executed · Scope descendants great and small 子孫大小
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 128

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 215
Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 181

Events and relationships

Meddled in court affairs
AD 565 to AD 571 武成崩後至誅琅邪王 · Political · Actor
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 181
Won favor
AD 565 to AD 577 後主時 · Political · Favorite · With Later Sovereign (後主)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 215
Relation Favorite of · Person Later Sovereign (後主)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 215

References in the histories

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History

13 passages

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 18Volume 18 Biographies 10: Sun Teng; Gao Longzhi; Sima Ziru · 1 passage

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子瑞妻，令萱之妹，及令萱得寵於後主，重贈子瑞懷州剌史，諸子亦並居顯職。 Zirui’s wife was Lu Lingxuan’s younger sister. Once Lingxuan won the Later Sovereign’s favor, Zirui was again posthumously appointed Governor of Huaizhou, and all his sons rose to eminent posts.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 29Volume 29 Biographies 21: Li Hun; Zi Zhan; Hun Dihui; Zuzi Gongxu; Li Yu; Di Jin; Zu Dixiao; Zheng Shuzu; Zi Yuande · 1 passage

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韞與陸令萱女弟私通，令萱奏授太子舍人。 Yun carried on with Lu Lingxuan's younger sister; Lingxuan memorialized and had him made crown prince attendant.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 1 passage

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之才於和士開、陸令萱母子曲盡卑狎，二家苦疾，救護百端。 Toward He Shikai and Lu Lingxuan, mother and son, Zhicai was utterly obsequious and familiar; when the two households fell gravely ill he contrived a hundred ways to save them.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 31: Cui Jishu; Zu Ting · 4 passages

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是時陸令萱外干朝政，其子穆提婆愛幸。 Lu Lingxuan then meddled in court affairs from outside, and her son Mu Tipo stood in favor.

珽乃遺陸媼弟悉達書曰：「趙彥深心腹深沈，欲行伊、霍事，儀同姊弟豈得平安，何不早用智士耶？」 Ting sent a letter to Dame Lu's younger brother Sida: "Zhao Yanshen's heart runs deep and hidden. He means to play Yi Yin and Huo Guang—the lady's brother and sister, how will they stay safe? Why not take a clever man into counsel early?"

與陸媼言於帝曰：「襄、宣、昭三帝，其子皆不得立，今至尊猶在帝位者，實由祖孝徵。 With Dame Lu he told the emperor, "Of Emperors Xiang, Xuan, and Zhao, not one son could take the throne. That the Present Sovereign still sits there is truly Zu Xiaozheng's doing.

和士開死後，仍說陸媼出彥深，以珽為侍中。 After He Shikai died, Ting again urged Dame Lu to remove Yanshen and was made attendant-in-ordinary.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 6 passages