Princess Le'an (), also Princess Lanling () (fl. 530s), was the consort of the
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 ...
khagan
Yujiulü Anluochen. She was born into the imperial house of the
Eastern Wei dynasty
Wei (), known in historiography as the Eastern Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty. One of the Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period, the Eastern We ...
and was a descendant of
Tuoba Yulü of the
Dai dynasty and of Empress Pingwen. She was the sister of
Yuan Zhi
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He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in B ...
, also ''Chang shanwang yuan ming'' (常山王元鸣).
Biography
Princess Lanling was a native of
Luoyang County,
Henan (now east of
Luoyang,
Henan Province), a descendant of
Tuoba Yulü. She was the sister of
Yuan Zhi
Yuan Zhi (born in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a Chinese male volleyball player. He is part of the China men's national volleyball team and won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games.
He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in B ...
, or ''Chang shanwang yuan ming'' (常山王元鸣).
She was married to
Anluochen, the khan of the Rourans, the son of
Anagui. A thousand horses were sent from Rouran to the Emperor of
Eastern Wei,
Xiaojing, asking for the hand of the princess who, following her marriage with Anluochen, adopted the royal name of Princess Lanling (兰陵公主). In view of the importance of an alliance with the Rouran,
Gao Huan personally presided the collection of the dowry and led the princess and her retinue to Rouran.
[《北史/卷98》“四年，阿那瑰請以其孫女號鄰和公主妻齊神武第九子長廣公湛，靜帝詔為婚焉。阿那瑰遣其吐豆登鬱久閭譬掘、俊利莫何遊大刀送女於晉陽。武定四年，阿那瑰有愛女，號為公主，以齊神武威德日盛，又請致之，靜帝聞而詔神武納之。阿那瑰遣其吐豆發鬱久閭汗拔姻姬等送女於晉陽。自此東魏邊塞無事，至於武定末，使貢相尋。”]
References
Sources
* ''
Book of Wei
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'', ·蠕蠕传.
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