Song, Liao, and Jin · Princess

Princess of Xu 徐國長公主

Xu guo zhang gongzhu

c. AD 1085 - AD 1115

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Histories
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Overview

Princess of Xu was a princess.

IdentityHistorical · Female

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Posthumous name Grand Imperial Princess Xianjing 賢靜長帝姬 Xianjing chang diji

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment filial in nursing her mother; would not present medicine or food unless prepared by her own hand · Mode historian-judgment
  • Assessment observed every propriety of a daughter-in-law; received guests with full ritual and did not gossip · Mode historian-judgment
  • Assessment plain aspirations; avoided lavish dress and ornaments; restrained seasonal merrymaking · Mode historian-judgment
  • wailed until she fainted repeatedly when her mother's illness became critical
    Filial conduct

Source notes

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 248Volume 248 Biographies 7: Princesses, Dachang Princess of the State of Qin, Six Daughters of Taizu, Two Daughters of Zhenzong, Thirteen Daughters of Renzong, Four Daughters of Yingzong, Ten Daughters of Shenzong, Four Daughters of Zhezong, Thirty Three Daughters of Huizong, Two Daughters of Xiaozong, Three Daughters of Guangzong, Daughter of Weihui Xianwang, Daughter of Ningzong, Daughter of Lizong · 4 passages