Lady Zhang (Lü Shao's Wife)
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Lady Zhang (張氏, personal name unknown; 386–400) was the wife of
Lü Shao Lü Shao (; died 400), courtesy name Yongye (永業), also known by his posthumous name as the Prince Yin of Later Liang (後涼隱王), was briefly the second ruler of the Di-led Later Liang dynasty of China, ruling as its Heavenly King. He wa ...
(Prince Yin), who briefly reigned (less than a month) as
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of the
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/ Di state Later Liang. Very little is known about her, but she was described as virtuous. Her age is known at the time of her husband's death (around the new year 400, when he was described as less than 20 years old and she was 13) by suicide, as he was threatened by the troops of his brother Lü Zuan (Emperor Ling), who overthrew him and took over as emperor. After Lü Shao's death, she became a
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nun. Later, either during Lü Zuan's reign or the succeeding reign of his cousin Lü Long, Lü Long wanted to take her as a wife or a
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; she refused, and committed suicide by jumping off a tower.


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Book of Jin The ''Book of Jin'' is an official Chinese historical text covering the history of the Jin dynasty (266–420), Jin dynasty from 266 to 420. It was compiled in 648 by a number of officials commissioned by the imperial court of the Tang dynasty, ...
'', vols. 96, vol. 122. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Lady Later Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms) Buddhists 386 births 400s deaths Chinese Buddhist nuns 5th-century Buddhist nuns Buddhist martyrs Suicides in Later Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms) Youth suicides