Lady Bu (died 238), personal name Bu Lianshi, was a concubine of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of the state of Eastern Wu in the

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period of China. She has posthumously been honoured as an empress by Sun Quan. She is also known as Empress Bu.

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Lady Bu was from Huaiyin County (), Linhuai Commandery (), which is in present-day

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. She was born sometime in the late Eastern Han dynasty. She was a relative of Bu Zhi. When she was young, her mother brought her from Huaiyin to Lujiang Commandery (; around present-day Anqing, Anhui). In 199, Lujiang was conquered by the warlord Sun Ce, who controlled the territories in the Jiangdong region (also called Wu, covering present-day southeastern China), after which Lady Bu moved from Lujiang to Jiangdong. In Jiangdong, Lady Bu was noticed by Sun Ce's younger brother, Sun Quan, for her beauty and she became Sun Quan's concubine. Sun Quan favoured her the most among all his wives. She bore Sun Quan two daughters: Sun Luban and

Sun Luyu Sun Luyu (died 255), courtesy name Xiaohu, was an imperial princess of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. She was the younger daughter of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of Wu, and his concubine Bu Lianshi. She is ...

. Lady Bu was known to be very accepting towards Sun Quan's other wives and she did not show any signs of jealousy towards them. As such, she remained in her husband's favour in the long term. In 229, when Sun Quan declared himself emperor and established the state of Eastern Wu, he wanted to install Lady Bu as the empress even though his subjects nominated Lady Xu to be the empress instead. Sun Quan eventually agreed to his subjects' suggestion. Despite so, in the following ten years or so, the imperial family and everyone in the palace referred to Lady Bu as the Empress. Lady Bu died in 238 and was posthumously honoured as an empress by Sun Quan. She was interred in the Jiang Mausoleum (; at the Purple Mountain,

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).() ''Sanguozhi'' vol. 50. Lady Bu's personal name was not recorded in her biography in the '' Records of the Three Kingdoms'' (''Sanguozhi''), the authoritative source for the history of the

period. However, the ''Jiankang Shilu'' mentioned that her personal name was "Lianshi", hence she was also known as "Bu Lianshi".( seventh installment of Koei's ''Dynasty Warriors'' video game series. She is referred to as "Lian Shi" in the game.

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* Chen Shou, Chen, Shou (3rd century). '' Records of the Three Kingdoms'' (''Sanguozhi''). * Xu, Song ( 8th century). ''Jiankang Shilu'' (). {{DEFAULTSORT:Bu, Lady People of Eastern Wu Year of birth unknown 238 deaths Chinese imperial consorts People from Huai'an Family of Sun Quan Eastern Wu posthumous empresses

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