Noble Consort Ding Lingguang (丁令光)

Overview

The translated histories identify Noble Consort Ding Lingguang as a consort. This record brings together 20 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Noble Consort Ding Lingguang	丁令光	Dīng Lìngguāng
Surname	Ding	丁	Dīng
Personal name	Ding Lingguang	丁令光	Dīng Lìngguāng
Title	Empress Dowager Mu	穆太后	Mù Tàihòu
Title	Honored Person	貴人	Guìrén
Given	Lingguang	令光	Lìngguāng
Posthumous name	Mu	穆	Mù
Title	Noble Consort	貴嬪	Guìpín
Title	Noble Consort Ding	丁貴嬪

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
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Roles

Consort

Life and dates

Death

Place: Eastern Palace Cloud-Approach Hall (bier) / 東宮臨雲殿 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通七年十一月庚辰 · Western Year: AD 526
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Age

Age: 14 · Reckoning: sui · Context: when taken by Gaozu
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Age: 42 · Reckoning: sui
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天監元年五月 · Western Year: AD 502
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Source Date: Text: 天監元年八月 · Western Year: AD 502
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Source Date: Text: 太宗卽位 · Western Year: AD 549
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Source Date: Text: 普通七年十一月庚辰 · Western Year: AD 526
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Source Date: Text: 高祖臨州 · Western Year: AD 498
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Family

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Child of Ding Zhongqian (丁仲遷)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Taizong (太宗)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Parent of Xiao Tong (蕭統)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Gaozu (高祖)
Kinship Term: noble consort / 貴嬪 · Union Category: secondary-marriage

Career and standing

Label: Mu / 穆 · Action: posthumously-titled
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Title: Noble Consort / 貴嬪 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天監元年八月 · Western Year: AD 502
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Title: Empress Dowager Mu / 穆太后 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Title: Honored Person / 貴人 · Action: proposed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天監元年五月 · Western Year: AD 502
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Status: ritual-parity-with-crown-prince · Action: granted
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Places and affiliations

Place: Qiao; family long at Xiangyang / 譙國；世居襄陽
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Place: Fancheng / 樊城 · Relation: born-at
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Place: Xianyang Palace / 顯陽殿 · Relation: resided-at
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Learning and skills

Belief: Buddhism / 佛教 · Relation: adherent-of
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Skill: Buddhist sutra interpretation / 經義
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Works and attributed material

Work: Vimalakirti Sutra / 淨名經 · Relation: studied
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Events and relationships

Kind: omen · Role: subject · Action: birth-divine-light-and-purple-mist
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Kind: omen · Role: subject · Action: sweet-dew-at-precepts
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Relation: served · Person Id: Empress Xi Hui (郗徽)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: admirable virtue filling the six palaces · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: kind, forgiving, frugal, not receiving private kin petitions · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Kind: physical-description · Statement: born with red mole on left arm that later vanished
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