To say that the youngest empress in ancient times should be the empress shangguan girl of the Han Zhao Emperor, when she was six years old, she was made the empress mother of the world, but her fate was not very good. Although you are the empress and the niece of the auxiliary chancellor General Huo Guang, it is reasonable to say that such a life is simply the biggest winner in life. But fate is more than Shun, when the Shangguan girl was fifteen years old, the emperor's husband died, and in the blink of an eye, she was still a child and became the empress dowager. Moreover, he had no children, not even her husband, Emperor Han Zhao, nor even a child. Although the Shangguan girl was a widow, the later emperors respected her, and Emperor Xuan of Han honored her as the empress dowager, and lived in Changle Palace to enjoy her old age, living until the age of fifty-two, and finally buried with Emperor Zhao of Han in Pingling.
Stills of Sima Lingji
Another minor empress who was somewhat similar to shangguan's encounter was in northern Zhou during the Northern and Southern Dynasties hundreds of years later, and she was Sima Lingji, the empress dowager of the Northern Zhou Jing Emperor Yuwen Xian. Sima Lingji was from Wen County, Hanoi, and yes, her ancestors were Sima Shi, the founder of the Jin Dynasty, and a descendant of Sima Mo, the King of Nanyang. His father Sima Quenan was also a personal figure, and Sima Quenan was Sima Ziru, the chief strategist of the Eastern Wei chancellor Gao Huan. Because Gao Huan was very important to Sima Ziru, he married his daughter to his son Sima Ziru, and later gave birth to Sima Lingji.
Sima Huan had good luck since he was called Gao Huan's son-in-law, and Gao Huan's son Gao Yang deposed the Eastern Wei Emperor in 550 and established the Northern Qi Dynasty. In this way, Sima Que became a relative of the emperor and a horse master. However, the good times did not last long, and Gao Yang was later moody and uneasy about the clan, and Sima Que was falsely accused of colluding with the clan to rebel. Sima Wasanda was afraid of suffering, so he fled with his family to Northern Zhou. Although the way to flee to Northern Zhou was arduous, but was sent by the Northern Zhou ruler Yuwen Hu to send troops to meet him, Sima Quenan's family was taken care of by Yuwen Hu, who not only made him a great general, but also gave him the title of Duke of Xingyang, which can be regarded as a bitter and happy.
Sima Lingji was born after his father settled in Northern Zhou, perhaps his youngest child, so Sima Quenan especially liked this child. He named the child "LingJi" because he was full of expectations for her, and also for her to be able to live a happy and happy life in the future.
Sima Yunan lived in the Northern Zhou Dynasty for many years, until 579 (the first year of the elephant), when the 21-year-old Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor Yuwen Yun did not know which tendon was wrong, and despite the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, he actually passed the throne to the seven-year-old crown prince Yuwen Yan (Emperor Jing). He became the Emperor Taishang himself, and also proclaimed himself emperor of Tianyuan, he was happy and happy, but it was definitely not a good thing for the country. Although Yuwen Yun was absurd, he was very concerned about his son's marriage, and after even consideration, he chose Sima Lingji, who was about the same age as his son Yuwen Yan, as empress. The marriage between Emperor Xuan of Zhou and Sima Quenan actually had another meaning, that is, to resist the Guanlong military aristocratic clique headed by Yang Jian, especially his foreign relative Yang Jian himself.
Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor Yuwen Zan stills
Sima Lingji was born into a noble family, his father was a famous and prestigious family, and his mother was a Princess of Northern Qi, and it was suitable to match his son Yuwen Yan, and Yuwen Yun was also satisfied with his little daughter-in-law. Two children less than ten years old were so confused and beautifully married, a dragon robe plus body, a phoenix crown Xia Shuai, the whole country celebrated, this is how many people can not envy, especially Sima Lingji became the object of envy of women all over the world, Sima Que difficulty and transformed into a legitimate state of northern Zhou.
However, the good times did not last long, and the Northern Zhou Xuan Emperor Yuwen Yun died after serving as emperor for a year, and the power fell into the hands of the chancellor Yang Jian, the Duke of Suiguo. Yang Jian's desire for power has been arrogant for a long time, but he can find an opportunity, and after taking power, Yang Jian wielded a butcher knife at yuwen Zongmu, and the foreign relatives were not happy. Yang Jian was the former governor of the state, Sima Que was the current state zhang, and the two state governors did not deal with it, mainly because Sima Que was afraid of his own suffering. Therefore, he secretly joined forces with Wei Chiyi, who had a heavy army, to plot to get rid of the powerful minister Yang Jian and explain the "Qing Jun's side" for his son-in-law Yuwen. However, the result was very helpless, and Sima Que and Wei Chi were not Yang Jian's opponents.
Yang Jian stills
Wei Chiyi was killed, and Sima Ran quickly and fled to Southern Chen, where he was able to escape several times and was also capable. He ran fast and safely, but his daughter Sima Lingji could not run in the palace, she was hurt, almost killed, fortunately there was a person to help. This person was Sima Lingji's mother-in-law, the empress dowager Yang Lihua. Speaking of Yang Lihua is absolutely awe-inspiring, she is a chaste and martyr, but also a good mother. Yang Lihua was the daughter of Yang Jian and the Dugu Empress, and was the sister of Yang Guang, who later married Yuwen Yun, the Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhou, but Yuwen Yun was jealous of Yang Jian's authority and often angered Yang Lihua. Yang Lihua was not a little childlike, but very tolerant, he only gave birth to one daughter and no son, and after Yuwen Yun's death, he regarded the Jing Emperor Yuwen as his own, and always cared about protecting him.
Northern Zhou Jing Emperor Yuwen expounded stills
His father could not find Sima to eliminate the difficulties and ran to the harem to clean up his daughter Sima Lingji, at this time Yang Jian was already a powerful courtier who invaded the government and the opposition. Even if Sima Lingji gui was made empress, it was useless, she was a little girl less than ten years old, she did not know what sinister it was, nor did she know that her fate was in the hands of others, and this person was still her nominal foreign. It was easy for Yang Jian to clean her up, but Empress Dowager Yang Lihua would never allow Yang Jian to be rude to the little empress, so she blocked in front of the little empress, pointing at her father and saying that if she dared to move the empress, she would kill me first. Yang Jian had no choice but to give up, but that didn't mean that Yang Jian let her go, and in the blink of an eye, Sima Lingji was deposed as a shu person and sent to the cold palace. Sima Lingji was also pitiful, and the seven- and eight-year-old child became the empress of the mother's world without knowing what was going on, and only two years later became a prisoner of the order, which was too dramatic. Women in the patriarchal world, even in the world of motherhood, sometimes can't help themselves, especially the losing side.
Yang Lihua stills
"Northern History, Vol. XIV, Liechuan No. 2, Empress Dowager Houxia": Empress Sima of Jing, empress dowager, daughter of Zhu Guo and Duke Xingyang. In February of the first year of the elephant, Emperor Xuan was enfeoffed as emperor, and in July he was made empress dowager. In September of the following year, Emperor Wen of Sui succeeded his father Ben Chen and became a Shuren after his depose. Later, he married Li Dan, the assassin of Sui Sizhou, and Zhenguan chu still existed.
There are so many records of Sima Lingji in the history books, probably because she is not prominent enough, but the ending is not bad, and later married, still healthy and long-lived, living to the Zhenguan era. Her husband, Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou, was not so lucky, and after only two years as emperor, he was usurped by his grandfather Yang Jian, and suddenly died a year later. A teenage child suddenly died violently who would rest, this is cut down and rooted, probably because Sima Lingji is only a teenage child, and is also an empress who was deposed as a Shuren and beaten into the cold palace, there is no threat to the newly established Sui Dynasty, so she escaped the disaster.
Although there are not many records of Sima Lingji in the later history books, the ending is quite perfect, and the history books only record that her husband was Li Dan, the Assassin of Sizhou of the Sui Dynasty, and there is no record of whether they had children, but Sima Lingji lived until the early days of Li Shimin's ascension to the throne in the Tang Dynasty. The Sui Dynasty Sizhou was not a small official position, and Sizhou was originally an official office set up during the period when Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei was preparing to move the capital to Luoyang, and the seat of government was in Luoyang, which was continued by the Sui Dynasty. It should be similar to the Lieutenant Silu of the Han Dynasty, belonging to the two thousand Dan high-ranking officials, and may also be similar to the later Zhilu Governor.
Li Dan is also not recorded in the history books, but it can be speculated that Li Dan is likely to be from the Li clan of Longxi, which is the most noble clan of door valves, otherwise it would not have been possible to achieve the Sui Dynasty Sizhou Assassination History. Sima Lingji married him is also a doorman, not to mention that he married Li Dan as his wife, and the status of his wife was very noble in ancient times, especially the famous and prestigious families. With Sima Lingji's noble status, presumably Li Dan would not treat her badly, and even very loving.
How old did Sima Lingji live? In the first year of the elephant, that is, in 579 AD, she married the seven-year-old Zhou Jingdi, and the two should be about the same age. Until the early zhenguan period (627 is the first year of zhenguan), it was still alive, from 579 to 627, it was forty-nine years, plus the age of seven or eight when she became empress, that is to say, it was fifty-six or seven years old in the first year of Zhenguan. The book records that "Zhenguan still exists at the beginning", which should be over sixty years old, and in ancient times, sixty years old was the old man of huajia.
Sima Lingji has experienced ups and downs, even bloody rain, the country is broken, the family is destroyed, and she has become an abandoned woman, but she has not stopped, as long as she lives, there is still hope. Although her life is not a song or a tear, she also experienced great ups and downs in her youth, but fortunately, when she grew up, she married a good family and died, which is also the luck of misfortune.