Zhaoyi, of the Lü clan (闾左昭仪; ) was the consort of
Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei. She was the descendant of Rouran and was born into the ruling Rouran clan. She was the mother of
Tuoba Yu
Tuoba Yu (拓拔余) (died 29 October 452''bingwu'' (1st) day of the 10th month of the 2nd year of the ''Zhengping'' era, per volume 4 (part 2) of ''Book of Wei''), formally Prince Yin of Nan'an (南安隱王), Xianbei name Kebozhen (可博真), wa ...
, who was briefly Emperor of
Northern Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei (), Yuan Wei () and Later Wei (), was founded by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of the Northern and Southern dynasties#Northern dynasties, Northern dynasties ...
.
Biography
In 434
Emperor Taiwu gave
Princess Xihai
Princess Xihai () (fl. 434) was a consort of the Yujiulü Wuti, Qilian Khan of the Rouran Khaganate. She was born into the imperial clan of the Northern Wei, and was a cousin or sister of the Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, Emperor Taiwu.
Biograph ...
in marriage to
Wuti Khan, and took in turn Wuti's sister Lu Zuo Zhaoyi as his wife.
Lu Zuo Zhaoyi bore the emperor
Tuoba Yu
Tuoba Yu (拓拔余) (died 29 October 452''bingwu'' (1st) day of the 10th month of the 2nd year of the ''Zhengping'' era, per volume 4 (part 2) of ''Book of Wei''), formally Prince Yin of Nan'an (南安隱王), Xianbei name Kebozhen (可博真), wa ...
, Prince Yin of Nan'an and briefly Emperor of
Northern Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei (), Yuan Wei () and Later Wei (), was founded by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of the Northern and Southern dynasties#Northern dynasties, Northern dynasties ...
. She was born into the
Rouran royal family, the daughter of
Khan Datan, and the sister of
Wuti. In 452, the eunuch
Zong Ai Zong Ai (; ? - 31 October 452''wushen'' day of the 10th month of the 29th year of the ''Yuanjia'' era, per volume 126 of ''Zizhi Tongjian'') was a eunuch who briefly came to great power in the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty in 452 after as ...
killed Emperor Taiwu and put Taiwu's son Tuoba Yu on the throne; he then killed Tuoba Yu as well. The other officials overthrew Zong and put Emperor Taiwu's grandson Tuoba Jun (son of
Tuoba Huang
Tuoba Huang (拓拔晃) (428 – July 29, 451''wuchen day'' of the 6th month of the 1st year of the ''Zhengping'' era, per Emperor Gongzong's biography in ''Book of Wei''), Xianbei name Tianzhen (天真), formally Crown Prince Jingmu (景穆太子 ...
the Crown Prince, who predeceased him) on the throne as
Emperor Wencheng. Wencheng was the son of Empress Gong, or
Consort Yujiulü (郁久閭椒房), also from the Yujiulü clan.
In popular culture
*Portrayed by Ding Ziling in the 2016 TV series ''
The Princess Weiyoung''.
Sources
*
Book of Wei
The ''Book of Wei'', also known by its Chinese name as the ''Wei Shu'', is a classic Chinese historical text compiled by Wei Shou from 551 to 554, and is an important text describing the history of the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei from 386 to 5 ...
, Biography No. 91,
Rouran
The Rouran Khaganate, also Juan-Juan Khaganate (), was a tribal confederation and later state founded by a people of Proto-Mongolic Donghu origin.*Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (2000)"Ji 姬 and Jiang 姜: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organizati ...
.
* Book of Wei, Biographies of the sixth Taiwu and the fifth king of Nan'an.
References
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5th-century Chinese women
5th-century Chinese people
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