Yang Pu

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Emperor Rui of Yang Wu
楊吳睿帝
Emperor of Wu
ReignNovember 29, 927[1][2] – November 10, 937[3][1]
PredecessorProclaimed the emperor
SuccessorDynasty abolished
RegentXu Zhigao
Prince of Wu
ReignJuly 7, 920[1][4] – November 29, 927
PredecessorYang Longyan
SuccessorProclaimed the emperor
RegentXu Wen
Born900[5]
DiedJanuary 21, 939 (Aged 38-39) [5][3][1][6]
Burial
Ping Mausoleum (平陵; presumptively in modern Yizheng, Jiangsu)
Full name
Era dates
Wǔyì (武義) 921–922 (inherited from Yang Longyan)
Shùnyì (順義) 921–927
Qiánzhēn (乾貞) 927–929
Dàhé (大和) 929–935
Tiānzuò (天祚) 935–937
Regnal name
Emperor Gaoshang Sixuan Honggu Rang (高尚思玄弘古讓皇帝)
Posthumous name
Emperor Rui (睿皇帝, "intelligent")
HouseYang
DynastyYang Wu

Yang Pu (Chinese: 楊溥; 900 – January 21, 939), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Rui of Yang Wu (楊吳睿帝),[a] was the last ruler of China's Yang Wu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the only one that claimed the title of emperor. During his reign, the state was in effective control of the regents Xu Wen and Xu Wen's adoptive son and successor Xu Zhigao (Li Bian). In 938, Xu Zhigao forced Yang Pu to yield the throne to him. Xu Zhigao then established the Southern Tang dynasty.

  1. ^ a b c d Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar Converter.
  2. ^ Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 276.
  3. ^ a b Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 281.
  4. ^ Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 271.
  5. ^ a b New History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 61.
  6. ^ The Zizhi Tongjian gave the death date of Yang Pu as the xinchou (辛丑) day (in the sexagenary cycle dating method) of the 11th lunar month of 938; however, such a day did not actually exist. The New History of the Five Dynasties gave Yang Pu's death as being in the 12th month (but gave no day), which did have a xinchou day. The modern Chinese historian Bo Yang, in his Bo Yang Edition of the Zizhi Tongjian, thus gave Yang Pu's death as being in the 12th month. See Bo Yang Edition of the Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 69 [938].


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