Wife of Yang Xingmi (楊行密妻)

Overview

Wife of Yang Xingmi was a consort and Sister of Zhu Yanshou.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 904 天祐初
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 89, 104

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Zhu Yanshou (朱延壽)
elder sister 姊 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passages 104-105
Spouse of Yang Xingmi (楊行密)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 17, passage 104

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 17Volume 17 Book of Later Liang 17: Biographies 7: Cheng Rui, Du Hong, Tian Yun, Zhao Kuangning, Zhang Ji, Lei Man · 5 passages

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〈（《新唐書》：行密妻，延壽姊也，遣辯士召延壽。 (The 《New Book of Tang》 says Xingmi's wife was Yanshou's sister and sent a persuader to call him.

疑不肯赴，姊遣婢報，故延壽疾走揚州。）〉 Warned by his sister's maid, Yanshou galloped to Yangzhou.)〉

〈（《五代史補》：楊行密據淮南，以妻弟朱氏眾謂之朱三郎者，行密署為泗州防禦使。 (The 《Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties》 says Xingmi made his brother-in-law Zhu, called Third Master Zhu, defense commissioner of Sizhou.

朱氏聞之，信而少懈馳，行密度其計必中，謂妻曰：「吾不幸臨老兩目如此，男女輩幼，苟不諱，則國家為他人所有。 Zhu believed the blindness and relaxed his guard; Xingmi, sure his ruse had worked, told his wife: "I am old and blind, the children young—if we do not act, our realm will pass to another.

妻以為然，遽發使述其意而召之。 She agreed and sent envoys to summon him.