Empress Dowager Dugu Jialuo (544 – September 15, 602), a native of Luoyang, Henan, was the daughter of Dugu Xin, a duke of The Northern Zhou Dynasty and an important member of the Guanlong clique, and a mother of the Qinghe Cui clan. At the age of fourteen, she married Yang Jian, the eldest son of the general Yang Zhongzhi. In the same year, his father was killed in a failed political battle, the family road declined, and her husband was also suspected by the powerful. Lonely Garo maintains a low-key and humble style in order to eliminate the misfortune of her husband; At the time of the zhou and Sui dynasties, he personally exhorted Yang to firmly establish a sui plan; Later, she was the Princess of Sui and the Queen of Sui; The founding of the Sui Dynasty was an empress. The Dugu Empress was deeply involved in the politics of the dynasty, and maintained a strong influence on Emperor Wen of Sui throughout her life, and was indispensable to the rule of Emperor Kai, and the empress dowager was honored as the "Second Saint" in the palace. In his later years, he led the dismissal of the prime minister and the abolition of Prince Yi, which caused controversy and evaluation in the field of historiography. Emperor Wen of Sui and the empress were in love with each other, "swearing that there would be no children born out of nowhere", and had a total of ten children. Empress Renshou died in August of the second year of Renshou and reigned for twenty-two years. Emperor Wen of Sui could not forget his feelings, and superstitious empress ascended to the bodhisattva miaoshan and personally sent her to the funeral; He also built the world's most prosperous Buddhist temple to pray for the queen's blessing, and before dying, he hoped to meet his beloved wife "with his soul and meet with the local people". In July of the fourth year of Renshou, Emperor Wen died of illness, and in October the empress dowager was buried in Tailing, and the empress dowager was known as "Literature". The second son was Yang Guang, the Sui Emperor.
Empress Dowager Jialuo of Sui wendi was an outstanding female politician who lived during the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty in China, and was the core figure of the political system of the Sui WenDi Dynasty. With the active participation and assistance of the empress, Emperor Wen of Sui's Northern Turkic And Southern Ping Chen Dynasty unified China, making society stable, the country rich and strong, and the turbulent division of nearly four hundred years in the political, economic, cultural and other aspects of the gradual integration and development of the north and south, thus opening the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Lone Garo is not only remarkable in his political behavior, but also a historical figure with a distinct personality. She not only had the heroic charm and boldness of a humble woman, but also the elegance, wisdom and tenderness of the daughter of the Han family, and the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian could be described as obedient and infatuated with her for life. Husband and wife have five sons and five daughters, and one mother and one sibling; Cohabitation and cohabitation; Accompanied by day and night, deep affection, the six palaces are illusory all year round. After the death of the Dugu Empress, Emperor Wen of Sui suddenly lost the focus of his life and died less than two years later. Before his death, Emperor Wen of Sui still hoped to be reunited with his wife in the underground eternal world. Life and death go hand in hand, husband and wife love, nothing more than this, Sui Wendi and the Lone Empress can be described as creating a miracle of ancient Chinese imperial harem life.
Fate is set for three lives
In the first year of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557 AD), Dugu Xin took a fancy to yang Jianxiang, the eldest son of his old friend Yang Zhong, who had a strange appearance and extraordinary temperament, so he married the fourteen-year-old Dugu Jialuo to him. Yang Jian was seventeen years old, and his nickname was "Na Luo Yan", which means Vajra Lux. He has a deep and calm personality, with a wooden appearance and an atmosphere on the inside, because he grew up in the monastery since he was a child, he has developed a distinctive and majestic style. It was a marriage of nobles and relatives.
The young Lang Yang Jian had just entered the career at this time, and he had to be a beautiful person, and he was full of ambition and wanted to make a difference, but fate made a big joke with him. On the eve of Yang Jian's and Jia Luo's marriage, in October of the third year of Emperor Gong of Western Wei (556 AD), Yuwen Tai, the actual founder of Western Wei and Northern Zhou and the core cohesive figure of the Guanlong clique, died, and his nephew Yuwen Hu assisted him. Under his leadership, the Yuwen family replaced the Western Wei Yuan regime, and the political attitude was inclined to the Western Wei and the high-ranking duguxin took a delicate position.
After the marriage of the young couple for more than a month, Dugu Xin and the Northern Zhou power minister Yuwen Hu failed to commit suicide, the power dispersed, the wife and children were also implicated and exiled to Shudi for many years, the Du Lonely family withdrew from the power center, and the family declined. Because the Yang family refused to rely on Yuwen Hu, coupled with this relationship with Duguxin's marriage, Yang Jian was unfortunately killed by Chiyu, and he was highly suspected, and for eight consecutive years he could not be promoted in situ, and even worried about his life from time to time.
The cruel shadow of the political struggle did not affect the feelings of the young couple. The marriage with Yang Jian allowed Dugu Jia Luo to retain her aristocratic status and avoid the crime of exile, and the shadow of the great changes in the family door made her husband love and pity her even more. Young men and women are in love with each other, and they have the common ideal of making contributions. When the love is strong, the couple swears that they will not have a son of another birth, meet each other, and never change their hearts. Yang Jian and his wife have given birth to five sons and five daughters, and have walked through the storms of life for nearly fifty years hand in hand. In the turbulent years of Yang Jian's life, his beloved wife Jia Luo has always been his closest lover, confidant, think tank and spiritual pillar.
Politics continues to fully display its secretive and dark side in front of Yang Jian and his wife. Yuwen Hu seized power, deposed Emperor Xiaomin, and poisoned Emperor Ming, and his cold gaze from time to time focused on the Yang family's ship, which seemed to be unstable, which was really frightening. Yang Jian and his wife had to encourage each other and discuss countermeasures in order to escape Yuwen Hu's suspicious gaze, and Jia Luo had always maintained a low-key and humble style, trying to eliminate disasters for her husband.
Fortunately, due to the grim living environment situation in Northern Zhou, there were Turkic harassment and invasion in the north, Northern Qi tigers in the east, and Southern Qi in the south taking advantage of the fire and robbery, Yang Jian's father Yang Zhongxiao was brave and good at war, and had always held a considerable position in Northern Zhou. Yang Jian's two younger brothers also married the Yuwen imperial family, the second brother Yang Zhen married Yuwen Tai's nephew Wei Chi, and the third brother Yang Hui married Princess Shunyang, the sister of Emperor Wu of Zhou. Yang Jian and his wife were temporarily saved under the wings of their father's big tree.
The grief is extreme
At midnight on August 24, 602, the second year of Sui Renshou (602 AD), the Dugu Empress died in the Yong'an Palace, which was devastating to the twilight Emperor Wen of Sui, and her death marked the end of her grand era. The empress died at the age of fifty-nine, "over fifty years old is not called death", and the social conditions at that time were not low life expectancy. However, at the age of sixty-two, Emperor Wen of Sui, who had been married to her for forty-five years, was still like a hot-blooded and impulsive teenager in love, indulging in the pursuit of his beloved wife, and the depth of his affection and the pain of his love were really unbearable to read.
Perhaps from the beginning of the empress's illness, Emperor Wen of Sui had already lost his soul and was well known to everyone. The empress had just died, and Lang Wang Shao, who was very good at grasping the intentions of the emperor, immediately wrote to comfort Emperor Wen, saying: The empress is a saintly benevolent Guanyin Bodhisattva, and her death is only in the greeting of the gods and Buddhas of the heavens. After Emperor Wen of Sui read it, he was "sad and joyful." Another Tianzhu monk also claimed that the empress was welcomed by the gods and Buddhas to the Pure Land of Amitabha in the West, and emperor Wen of Sui, who was mixed with sorrow and joy, gave more than 2,000 pieces of gifts in excitement. This amount of reward is generally only available to those who have died and who have made great merits in loyalty and righteousness. What a deep affection would it take for him to foolishly anesthetize himself with such nonsense.
The high standard of the funeral of the Dugu Empress was unusually rare: the empress funeral was personally responsible for the Sui Dynasty Shangshu Zuo servant (that is, the prime minister) Yang Su. Yang Su not only had to make overall arrangements for the funeral, but as the prime minister, he actually took people and horses to the sun and rain, and personally went to the wilderness to find a blessed land for the empress. Not only that, when choosing a good address to build a mountain mausoleum for the empress, Yang Su also always insisted on being on the front line, doing everything himself and working hard, and even Emperor Wen of Sui was touched by him. Emperor Wen of Sui later wrote in an edict in recognition of Yang Su that Yang Su's merits in finding the empress's visit to the mountains and doing the aftermath were more important than his exploits in the southern expedition to the north and the pacification of Rong Dingkou. Yang Su was a major force in the unification of the whole country by Pingchen, and then moved to various parts of Jiangnan for more than two years to suppress the rebellion, and attacked the Turks several times in the last years of the Kai Emperor. That is to say, in the eyes of Emperor Wen of Sui, the empress was equivalent to his life achievements.
The empress's funeral history books do not record details, but from the scales and half claws revealed in the Buddhist texts, it is conceivable that the funeral was grand. According to records such as the "Biography of the Continuing High Monk", "the funeral of the sacrifice is greatly manifested." After the empress's death, Emperor Wen of Sui summoned more than fifty senior monks and masters into the palace, held a grand festival in the palace for 7749 days to surpass the empress's soul, and then preached the "Pure Name Sutra" (that is, the "Vimal Sutra"), and the crown prince Yang Guang personally attended the lecture, and the great masters who participated were "masters of the four seas, a leader for a while". According to the "Biography of the Continuing High Monk", there are good power, standing body, wisdom detachment, huihai and so on. In addition, the Han king Yang Yu brought back the high monk Zhi Nian from Jinyang, and made himself a benefactor and ran the Dharma ceremony for his mother. The Tiantai Guoqing Temple in Yangzhou also held a ceremony to pray for Empress Daxing, and Emperor Wen of Sui generously rewarded her.
According to the interpretation of the Book of Yi Zhou in the Book of Yizhou, the devotees are: wisdom and wisdom, wisdom and wisdom, virtuous and virtuous, and wise. In October of the same year, Emperor Wen of Sui made another rather shocking move: in his later years, he was superstitious and 62 years old, and decided to personally mourn his wife. The warlock Xiao Ji advised and admonished: "According to the Book of Yin and Yang, the emperor's funeral this year is not good for himself." Emperor Wen of Sui ignored it. In his twilight, he braved the cold to personally travel hundreds of miles to send his beloved wife to the Tailing Cemetery. When he brought back his 14-year-old bride Garo, she has since become part of his flesh and blood, and now that yin and yang are separated, he has to accompany his beloved Garo on the last journey of his life.
In July of the fourth year of Renshou, Emperor Wen of Sui died of illness, and in October the empress dowager buried Tailing. During the Daye period, the Sui Emperor prayed for his parents' blessings at the Tailing Li Temple. The Tombs are located in Wangshang Village, Wuquan Town, SanqiYuan, Yangling District, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, and the mausoleum still exists today. After archaeological exploration, it was confirmed that Tailing was indeed a "different cave with the same tomb" as recorded in the literature, that is, the empress dowager each had an independent burial chamber, located under the same seal. This shows that the ceremonial system also pays attention to family relations when honoring the queen status of "one person below one person and above ten thousand people".
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