Queen Zhou the Elder
Zhou Ehuang (周娥皇) (c. 936 – 8 December 964[3]), posthumously named Queen[1] Zhaohui (昭惠國后), was a queen consort of imperial China's short-lived Southern Tang state during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Her husband was Li Yu, Southern Tang's third and last ruler.
Zhou Ehuang | |||||||||
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Queen Zhaohui of (Southern) Tang | |||||||||
queen[1] consort of Southern Tang | |||||||||
Tenure | 961–964 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Empress Zhong, mother-in-law | ||||||||
Successor | Queen Zhou the Younger, sister | ||||||||
Born | 936 or early 937 likely modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu | ||||||||
Died | 8 December 964 modern Nanjing, Jiangsu | ||||||||
Burial | 14 February 965[2] Yi Mausoleum (懿陵), suspected to be the site discovered in 2010 in modern Jiangning District, Nanjing, Jiangsu | ||||||||
Spouse | Li Yu | ||||||||
Issue Detail | Li Zhongyu 李仲寓, 958-994; Li Zhongxuan 李仲宣, 961-964, sons | ||||||||
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Father | Zhou Zong |
She is best known as Queen Zhou the Elder (大周后) to distinguish from her younger sister Queen Zhou the Younger whom Li Yu married after her death. A musical genius and pipa virtuoso, she is suspected to be the subject of many of Li Yu's enduring love poems.
Notes and references
- Her title guohou (國后; literally "kingdom's consort") is frequently translated in English-language literature as "empress". This translation does not differentiate between her title and her mother-in-law Empress Zhong's title of huanghou (皇后; literally "empire's consort", or "empress"). In 959, in order to end invasions by the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Southern Tang ruler Li Jing (Zhou Ehuang's father-in-law) relinquished all imperial trappings, including his claim as an emperor. From that point, Southern Tang became a nominal vassal state of the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Song Dynasty which succeeded Later Zhou in 960, and the terminologies used reflected this relationship.
- Shiguo Chunqiu, ch. 17.
- Shiguo Chunqiu, ch. 18.
Sources
- (in Chinese) Wu Renchen (1669). Shiguo Chunqiu (十國春秋) [Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms].
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