Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Eunuch

Deng Changyang 鄧長顒

Attested AD 570 - AD 576

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Deng Changyang was an eunuch.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 570 to AD 576 Houzhu reign
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 9, passage 113
AD 570 to AD 576 武平
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 50, passage 216

Key source chapters

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 9 Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50 Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles 1 passage

Events and relationships

Confined Empress Dowager Hu
Political · Jailer · With Empress Hu (胡皇后)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 9, passage 113

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 9Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

帝詐云鄴中有急，彎弓緾槊，馳入南城，令鄧長顒幽太后北宮，仍有敕內外諸親一不得與太后相見。 The emperor feigned an emergency in Ye, strung his bow and wrapped his spear, galloped into the southern city, and ordered Deng Changyang to confine the Empress Dowager in the Northern Palace, with an edict forbidding all kin, near or distant, from seeing her.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 1 passage

世祖時有曹文摽、鄧長顒輩，亦有至儀同食幹者，唯長顒武平中任參宰相，干預朝權。 Under Shizu, Cao Wenbiao and Deng Changyang rose high; only Changyang in Wuping shared in governing.