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Emperor Xianwen of Northern Wei ((北)魏獻文帝) (c. August 454 – 20 July 476 [4]), personal name Tuoba Hong, Xianbei name Didouyin (第豆胤), courtesy name Wanmin (萬民), was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China.
Tuoba Hong was Emperor Xianwen's oldest son. His mother, Consort Li, was the daughter of Li Hui, a mid-level official at the time, who was a brother of Emperor Xianwen's mother. Empress Dowager Feng, following Tuoba Hong's birth, ended her regency and returned power to Emperor Xianwen, while spending her time raising Tuoba Hong.
Northern Wei ordered Xianbei family names that were two-to-three syllables to be shortened to one-to-two syllables, converting them to Han names. Later historians, including Wei Shou, the author of the official history of Northern Wei, Book of Wei, found shortened Han-style names to be easier to write about, and therefore used post-496 family names even where pre-496 events involving Northern ...
He was succeeded by his 11-year-old son Tuoba Hong (454–476) the Crown Prince, as Emperor Xianwen, and Empress Feng was honored as empress dowager. Two days later, as according to Northern Wei custom, Emperor Wencheng's personal possessions were burned—and while the ceremony was conducted, Empress Feng, in sadness, jumped into the fire.
In 465, Tuoba Jun died and was succeeded by Tuoba Hong, posthumously Emperor Xianwen of Northern Wei. Under his reign, Northern Wei invaded the Liu Song dynasty and Qingzhou and Jizhou (冀州) (north Jiangsu). [15] In 471, Tuoba Hong abdicated in favor of Yuan Hong, posthumously Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei. [15]
These are the emperors of the Chinese/Xianbei Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) and its branch successor states Eastern Wei (534-550) and Western Wei (535-556). Pages in category "Northern Wei emperors" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Wei (/ w eɪ /), known in historiography as the Western Wei (Chinese: 西魏; pinyin: Xī Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties , it ruled the western part of northern China from 535 to 557.
Empress Feng [1] (fl.490s), also known as Empress Xiaowenfei (孝文废皇后, literally "(Emperor) Xiaowen's Deposed Empress), was an empress of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty. She was Emperor Xiaowen 's first empress.