Zuo Zhaoyi, of the Lü clan (闾左昭仪; ) was the consort of

Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei ((北)魏太武帝, 408 – 11 March 452), personal name Tuoba Tao (拓拔燾), Xianbei name Büri (佛貍), was the third Emperor of China, emperor of China's Northern Wei dynasty. He was generally regarded as a capa ...

. 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), posthumous name Prince Yin of Nan'an (南安隱王), Xianbei name Kebozhen (可博真; "''The Gatekeeper''"), was briefly an emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty. He was placed on the t ...

, who was briefly Emperor of

Northern Wei Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei ( zh, c=北魏, p=Běi Wèi), Tuoba Wei ( zh, c=拓跋魏, p=Tuòbá Wèi), Yuan Wei ( zh, c=元魏, p=Yuán Wèi) and Later Wei ( zh, t=後魏, p=Hòu Wèi), was an Dynasties of China, impe ...

Biography

In 434 Emperor Taiwu gave Princess Xihai in marriage to Wuti Khan, and took in turn Wuti's sister Lu Zuo Zhaoyi as his wife. Lu Zuo Zhaoyi bore the emperor

, Prince Yin of Nan'an and briefly Emperor of

. She was born into the Rouran royal family, the daughter of Khan Datan, and the sister of

Wuti WUTI (1150 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a talk format. Licensed to Utica, New York, United States, the station, established in 1948 as WRUN, was last owned by Leatherstocking Media Group, Inc., and simulcast with WFBL in Syracuse until ...

. In 452, the eunuch

Zong Ai Zong Ai (? - 31 October 452) was a eunuch who briefly came to great power in the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty in 452 after assassinating Emperor Taiwu and making his son Tuoba Yu emperor. Biography Little is known about Zong's caree ...

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 ''The Princess Weiyoung'' () is a 2016 Chinese television series starring Tiffany Tang in the title role, alongside Luo Jin, Vanness Wu, Mao Xiaotong and Li Xin'ai. Adapted from the novel ''The Concubine's Daughter is Poisonous'' by Qin Jian, i ...

''.

Sources

* * Book of Wei, Biographies of the sixth Taiwu and the fifth king of Nan'an.

References

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