Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Consort

Zhang Lihua 張麗華

Died AD 589

Passages: 12
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Lihua as a consort. This record brings together 12 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	Zhang Lihua	張麗華	Zhang Lihua
Given	Lihua	麗華	Lihua
Title	Noble Consort Zhang	張貴妃
Title	Precious Consort Zhang	張貴妃
Surname	Zhang	張
Personal name	Zhang Lihua	張麗華	Zhang Lihua

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
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Roles

Consort

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded and displayed · Place: middle bridge over Qingxi / 青溪中橋 · Authority Person Id: Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隋軍陷臺城 · Western Year: AD 589
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 後主即位 · Western Year: AD 582
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Source Date: Text: 隋軍陷臺城 · Western Year: AD 589
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Family

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Spouse of the Last Emperor (後主)
Kinship Term: appointed noble consort / 拜为贵妃 · Union Category: secondary-marriage
Parent of Crown Prince Shen (太子深)
Kinship Term: gave birth to / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: father-and-elder-brothers · Count: 2 · Label: father and elder brothers / 父兄
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Career and standing

Label: beheaded / 斬 · Action: executed · Authority Person Id: Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝)
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Chen / 陳 · Relation: associated-with
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Learning and skills

Skill: remembering memorials / 條疏 · Level: renowned
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Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: hid-in-well · Other Person Id: the Last Emperor (後主) · Place: Taicheng / 臺城
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Assessments and attributes

Kind: physical-description · Statement: hair seven feet long, black as lacquer, mirror-bright
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References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses and Consorts · 12 passages

後主沈皇后張貴妃 Last Emperor Empress Shen; Noble Consort Zhang

後主遇后既薄，而張貴妃寵傾後宮，後宮之政嵭歸之，后澹然未嘗有所忌怨。 The Last Emperor treated the empress coldly, while Noble Consort Zhang dominated the harem in favor and all inner-palace affairs passed to her. The empress remained calm and never showed jealousy or resentment.

後主貴妃張麗華 Last Emperor Noble Consort Zhang Lihua

後主張貴妃名麗華，兵家女也。 Noble Consort Zhang of the Last Emperor, named Lihua, was the daughter of a military household.

史臣侍中鄭國公魏徵考覽記書，參詳故老，云後主初即位，以始興王叔陵之亂，被傷臥于承香閣下，時諸姬嵭不得進，唯張貴妃侍焉。 The historiographer, palace attendant and Duke of Zheng, Wei Zheng, examined the records and consulted elders and wrote: When the Last Emperor first succeeded, he was wounded in the disorder of Prince of Shixing Shuling and lay ill below the Hall of Accepting Fragrance; none of the palace women could enter—only Noble Consort Zhang attended him.

後主自居臨春閣，張貴妃居結綺閣，龔、孔二貴嬪居望仙閣，嵭復道交相往來。 The Last Emperor lived in the Linchun Pavilion, Precious Consort Zhang in the Jieqi Pavilion, and Honored Consorts Gong and Kong in the Wangxian Pavilion, with skyways connecting them for constant visits.

後主每引賓客對貴妃等遊宴，則使諸貴人及女學士與狎客共賦新詩，互相贈答，採其尤豔麗者以為曲詞，被以新聲，選宮女有容色者以千百數，令習而哥之，[8]分部迭進，持以相樂。 Whenever the Last Emperor feasted with guests and the Precious Consort, he had the ladies and female academicians join familiar companions in new verse, trading lines; the finest were set as lyrics to new music, and hundreds or thousands of comely palace women were drilled to sing them—[8] sections took turns performing for the revel.

其曲有玉樹後庭花、臨春樂等，大指所歸，皆美張貴妃、孔貴嬪之容色也。 Tunes such as "Jade Tree, Rear-Court Blossom" and "Linchun Joy" chiefly praised the beauty of Precious Consort Zhang and Honored Consort Kong.

而張貴妃髮長七尺，鬒黑如漆，其光可鑒。 Precious Consort Zhang's hair was seven feet long, black as lacquer and bright enough to mirror one's face.

是時，後主怠於政事，百司啟奏，嵭因宦者蔡脫兒、李善度進請，[9]後主置張貴妃於膝上共決之。 The Last Emperor had grown slack in rule; memorials from every office came only through eunuchs Cai Tuo'er and Li Shandu—[9] and he set Precious Consort Zhang on his knee to decide them with him.

李、蔡所不能記者，貴妃嵭為條疏，無所遺脫。 What Li and Cai forgot, the Precious Consort would lay out in clear lists without omission.

而後宮之家，不遵法度，有挂於理者，但求哀於貴妃，貴妃則令李、蔡先啟其事，而後從容為言之。 Inner-palace families who broke the law would beg the Precious Consort's mercy; she had Li and Cai raise the case first, then spoke for them at leisure.