Li Qing (8th century–775), known as Li Mao (李瑁) from 725 and honored title Prince of Shou (壽王) was a prince of the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dyn ...

. He was the 18th son of Emperor Xuanzong and his favorite

concubine Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between a man and a woman in which the couple does not want, or cannot enter into a full marriage. Concubinage and marriage are often regarded as similar but mutually exclusive. Concubi ...

Consort Wu.

Family

*Father:

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (; 8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was the seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, reigning from 712 to 756 CE. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. In the early ...

*Mother:

Empress Zhenshun Consort Wu, imperial consort rank ''Huifei'' (武惠妃) (d. 737), posthumously Empress Zhenshun (貞順皇后, literally "the virtuous and serene empress"), was an imperial consort of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor ...

, of the Wu clan (貞順皇后武氏; 699–737) Consorts and issue: * Consort Yang, of the Yang clan of Hongnong (弘農楊氏; 719–756), personal name Yuhuan (楊玉環) *Consort Wei, of the Wei clan of Jingzhao (京兆韦氏), 3rd daughter of general Wei Zhaoxun (韦昭训) *Unknown: **Li Ai, Prince of Deyang (德陽郡王李僾), first son **Li Bei, Prince of Jiyang (济陽郡王李伓), second son **Li Zhan, Prince of Guangyang (广陽郡王李偡), third son **Li Kang, Duke of Xue (薛国公李伉), fourth son **Li Jie (李傑), fifth son **Sixth daughter **Li Yingxuan (李应玄), 22nd daughter

Biography

Li Mao (德陽郡王李僾), was the son of

and his favorite consort, Consort Wu. In 733, Li Mao married the beautiful

Yang Yuhuan Yang Yuhuan (; 26 June, 719 – 15 July 756Volume 218 of ''Zizhi Tongjian'' recorded that Yang was killed on the ''bingshen'' day of the 6th month of the 1st year of the Zhide era of Tang Suzong's reign. This date corresponds to 15 Jul 756 on t ...

(楊玉環), daughter of Yang Xuanyan (楊玄琰) who was then the census official of Shu Prefecture (now 蜀州, in modern

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

). After his mother's death, Yang Yuhuan came into Xuanzong's favor and the emperor decided to take her as his consort. However, since Princess Yang was already the wife of his son, Emperor Xuanzong stealthily arranged for her to become a Taoist nun with the tonsured name Taizhen in order to prevent criticisms that would affect his plan of making her his

. Yang then stayed for a brief while as a Taoist nun in the palace itself, before Emperor Xuanzong made her an imperial consort after bestowing his son Li Mao a new wife. Yang henceforth became the favorite consort of the emperor like Consort Wu before.

Ancestry

References

* ''

New Book of Tang The ''New Book of Tang'', generally translated as the "New History of the Tang" or "New Tang History", is a work of official history covering the Tang dynasty in ten volumes and 225 chapters. The work was compiled by a team of scholars of the So ...

'', vol. 76 * ''

Old Book of Tang The ''Old Book of Tang'', or simply the ''Book of Tang'', is the first classic historical work about the Tang dynasty, comprising 200 chapters, and is one of the Twenty-Four Histories. Originally compiled during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdo ...

'', vol. 107 and New Book of Tang, vol. 82.

Notes

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