Empress Dowager Xu, the Glossary
Empress Dowager Xu (personal name unknown) (died 926), honored as Empress Dowager Shunsheng during the reign of her son Wang Yan (né Wang Zongyan), known as Consort Xu with the imperial consort rank Xianfei (徐賢妃) during the reign of her husband Wang Jian (Emperor Gaozu), was an empress dowager of the Chinese Former Shu dynasty.[1]
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34 relations: Chang'an, Chen Jingxuan, Chengdu, Concubinage, Crown prince, Deyang, Empress dowager, Empress Zhou (Former Shu), Eunuch, Former Shu, Gansu, Guo Chongtao, Jiedushi, Later Liang (Five Dynasties), Later Tang, Li Cunxu, Li Jiji, Li Siyuan, Luoyang, Meishan, Mount Qingcheng, Sichuan, Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms, Tang Daoxi, Tang dynasty, Tianshui, Wang Jian (Former Shu), Wang Yuanying, Wang Zongbi, Wang Zongyan, Wei Zhaodu, Zhang Ge, Zhu Youqian, Zizhi Tongjian.
- 926 deaths
- Executed Later Tang people
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms empresses dowager
- Former Shu poets
- Later Tang poets
- People executed by Later Tang
- People from Southwest China
Chang'an
Chang'an is the traditional name of Xi'an.
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Chen Jingxuan
Chen Jingxuan (陳敬瑄) (d. April 26, 893Academia Sinica.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 259.) was a general of the Tang dynasty of China, who came to control Xichuan Circuit (西川), headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan by virtue of his being an older brother of the eunuch Tian Lingzi, who controlled the court of Emperor Xizong during most of Emperor Xizong's reign. Empress Dowager Xu and Chen Jingxuan are 9th-century births.
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Chengdu
Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.
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Concubinage
Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.
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Crown prince
A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.
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Deyang
Deyang is a prefecture-level city of Sichuan province, China.
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Empress dowager
Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese monarch in the Chinese cultural sphere.
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Empress Zhou (Former Shu)
Empress Zhou (周皇后, personal name unknown) (died October 1, 918Academia Sinica.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 270.), formally (as her posthumous name) Empress Shunde, known as Empress Zhaosheng in her lifetime, was an empress of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu, as the wife of Former Shu's first emperor Wang Jian. Empress Dowager Xu and empress Zhou (Former Shu) are 9th-century births.
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Eunuch
A eunuch is a male who has been castrated.
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Former Shu
Great Shu (p), known in historiography as the Former Shu (p) or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.
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Guo Chongtao
Guo Chongtao (died February 20, 926Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 274.Academia Sinica.), courtesy name Anshi (安時), formally the Duke of Zhao Commandery (趙郡公), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Later Tang dynasty and its predecessor state, the Former Jin. Empress Dowager Xu and Guo Chongtao are 926 deaths, 9th-century births, Executed Later Tang people and people executed by Later Tang.
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Jiedushi
The jiedushi (Old Turkic: Tarduş) or jiedu, was a regional military governor in China; the title was established in the Tang dynasty and abolished in the Yuan dynasty.
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Later Liang (Five Dynasties)
Liang, known in historiography as the Later Liang (1 June 907 – 19 November 923) or the Zhu Liang, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Later Tang
Tang, known in historiography as the Later Tang, was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China and the second of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history.
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Li Cunxu
Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang, personal name Li Cunxu, nickname Yazi (亞子), stage name Li Tianxia (李天下), was the second ruling prince of the Former Jin dynasty (r. 908–923) who later became the founding emperor of the Later Tang dynasty (r. 923–926) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Empress Dowager Xu and li Cunxu are 926 deaths.
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Li Jiji
Li Jiji (李繼岌) (died May 28, 926Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 275.Academia Sinica.), formally the Prince of Wei (魏王), nickname Hege (和哥), was an imperial prince of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Tang. Empress Dowager Xu and Li Jiji are 926 deaths.
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Li Siyuan
Li Siyuan (李嗣源, later changed to Li Dan (李亶)) (10 October 867 – 15 December 933), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Mingzong of Tang (唐明宗), was the second emperor of the Later Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 926 until his death.
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Luoyang
Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province.
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Meishan
Meishan (Sichuanese Pinyin: Mi2san1; local pronunciation), formerly known as Meizhou (眉州) or Qingzhou (青州), is a prefecture-level city with 2,955,219 inhabitants as of 2020 census whom 1,232,648 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 2 urban districts of Dongpo and Pengshan.
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Mount Qingcheng
Mount Qingcheng is a sacred Taoist mountain in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms
The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms, also known by its Chinese title Shiguo Chunqiu, is a history of the Ten Kingdoms that existed in southern China after the fall of the Tang dynasty and before the reunification of China proper by the Song dynasty.
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Tang Daoxi
Tang Daoxi (唐道襲) (died August 21, 913Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 268..) was an official and general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu. Empress Dowager Xu and Tang Daoxi are 9th-century births.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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Tianshui
Tianshui is a prefecture-level city in Gansu province, China, and is the province's second-largest city (behind the provincial capital Lanzhou).
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Wang Jian (Former Shu)
Wang Jian (847 – July 11, 918), courtesy name Guangtu (光圖), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Former Shu (前蜀高祖), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Former Shu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Wang Yuanying
Wang Yuanying (892Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms (十國春秋),.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 266. – August 13, 913Academia Sinica.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 268.), courtesy name Changmei (昌美), né Wang Zongyi (王宗懿), named Wang Yuantan (王元坦) from 910 to 912, was a crown prince of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Former Shu state, during most of the reign of his father, the founding emperor Wang Jian (Emperor Taizu).
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Wang Zongbi
Wang Zongbi (died 28 December 925)Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 274. Empress Dowager Xu and Wang Zongbi are 9th-century births, Executed Later Tang people and people executed by Later Tang.
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Wang Zongyan
Wang Yan (899–926), né Wang Zongyan (王宗衍), courtesy name Huayuan (化源), also known in historiography as Houzhu of Former Shu (前蜀後主; "last lord of Former Shu"), later posthumously created the Duke of Shunzheng (順正公) by the Later Tang dynasty, was the second and final emperor of China's Former Shu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Empress Dowager Xu and Wang Zongyan are 926 deaths, Executed Later Tang people, former Shu poets and people executed by Later Tang.
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Wei Zhaodu
Wei Zhaodu (韋昭度) (died June 4, 895Academia Sinica.Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 260.), courtesy name Zhengji (正紀), formally the Duke of Qi (岐公), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Xizong and Emperor Xizong's brother Emperor Zhaozong. Empress Dowager Xu and Wei Zhaodu are 9th-century births.
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Zhang Ge
Zhang Ge (張格), courtesy name Chengzhi (承之), nickname Yishi (義師), was a politician of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu, serving two stints as chancellor. Empress Dowager Xu and Zhang Ge are 9th-century births.
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Zhu Youqian
Zhu Youqian (died March 9, 926Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 274..), né Zhu Jian (朱簡), known as Li Jilin (李繼麟) from 923 to 926, courtesy name Deguang (德光), formally the Prince of Xiping (西平王), was a Chinese military general, monarch, politician, and warlord of the late Chinese dynasty Tang dynasty and the first two dynasties of the subsequent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Later Liang and Later Tang, ruling Huguo Circuit (護國, headquartered in modern Yuncheng, Shanxi) during most of that time. Empress Dowager Xu and Zhu Youqian are 926 deaths, 9th-century births, Executed Later Tang people and people executed by Later Tang.
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Zizhi Tongjian
The Zizhi Tongjian (1084) is a chronicle published during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) that provides a record of Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD, covering 16 dynasties and spanning almost 1400 years.
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See also
926 deaths
- Abaoji
- Alogobotur
- Athelm
- Aymar I of Angoulême
- Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
- Eaghra Poprigh mac Saorghus
- Empress Dowager Xu
- Empress Liu (Li Cunxu's wife)
- Guo Chongtao
- Jin Feishan
- Kang Yanxiao
- Kong Qian
- Li Cunxu
- Li Jiji
- Li Shunxian
- Pelagius of Córdoba
- Ralph I of the Vexin
- Wang Zongyan
- Wiborada
- William II, Duke of Aquitaine
- Yuan Xingqin
- Zhang Quanyi
- Zhu Youqian
Executed Later Tang people
- An Chonghui
- Doulu Ge
- Duan Ning
- Empress Dowager Xu
- Empress Kong
- Empress Liu (Li Cunxu's wife)
- Feng Yun (Later Tang)
- Guo Chongtao
- Jin Feishan
- Kang Yanxiao
- Kong Qian
- Li Conghou
- Li Congrong
- Li Jitao
- Li Shunxian
- Li Zhen (Later Liang)
- Meng Hanqiong
- Ren Huan
- Wang Sitong
- Wang Zongbi
- Wang Zongyan
- Wei Yue
- Yelü Bei
- Yuan Xingqin
- Zhu Youqian
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms empresses dowager
- Empress Dowager Huang
- Empress Dowager Li (Later Shu)
- Empress Dowager Wang (Yang Wu)
- Empress Dowager Xu
- Empress Li (Later Han)
Former Shu poets
- Empress Dowager Xu
- Gu Xiong
- Li Shunxian
- Mao Wenxi
- Wang Zongyan
- Wei Zhuang
Later Tang poets
- Empress Dowager Xu
- He Ning
- Li Congrong
- Li Tao (Five Dynasties)
- Mao Wenxi
- Sang Weihan
- Wang Sitong
- Yelü Bei
- Zhao Yanshou
People executed by Later Tang
- An Chonghui
- Doulu Ge
- Duan Ning
- Empress Dowager Xu
- Empress Kong
- Empress Liu (Li Cunxu's wife)
- Feng Yun (Later Tang)
- Guo Chongtao
- Jin Feishan
- Kang Yanxiao
- Kong Qian
- Li Conghou
- Li Congrong
- Li Jitao
- Li Shunxian
- Li Zhen (Later Liang)
- Meng Hanqiong
- Ren Huan
- Wang Sitong
- Wang Yanzhang
- Wang Zongbi
- Wang Zongyan
- Wei Yue
- Yelü Bei
- Yuan Xingqin
- Zhu Youqian
People from Southwest China
- Empress Dowager Xu
- Liang Lingzan